13 QUESTION METHOD: MARC COPELY
Described as "...a working-class hero of stadium-sized potential", Marc Copely has been sowing new seeds as a guitarist, songwriter, and producer since the age of 19. The Worcester, MA born talent was shaped and bred on the blues, launching his professional career by performing with legends like B.B. King, James Montgomery, and James Cotton. His energetic and soulful performances in multiple genres have been commanding attention ever since, electrifying audiences across the globe.

1. Which was the first record you bought with your own money?
Jimi Hendrix — Axis: Bold As Love — on cassette.

2. Which was the last record you bought with your own money?
Little Feat — Little Feat — on iTunes.

3. What was the first solo you learned from a record — and can you still play it?
Aerosmith’s “Train Kept a Rollin’” — the Joe Perry solo. I don’t think I can still rock that one. However, I do know that you can go see The Joe Perry Project featuring Joe Perry, and he may do it.

4. Which recording of your own (or as a sideman) are you most proud of, and why?
I guess that would be my new record, Harp & Plow, because for me it was about getting over the disappointments I faced on my first record and its release. It’s about getting on with things, you know?

5. What's the difference between playing live and playing in a studio?
The difference for me is the energy you feel on a live show from the audience. The studio is a different, more microscopic energy, which I also dig.

6. What's the difference between a good gig and a bad gig?
How my shirt looks.

7. What's the difference between a good guitar and a bad guitar?
Good guitars are possessed.

8. You play electric and acoustic. Do you approach the two differently?
Hmmm. I don’t think it’s that different. I play acoustic at home most of the time, so that seems to be my main approach and it just translates over to electric. Maybe? 

9. Do you sound more like yourself on acoustic or electric?
I think it's the same with both, even though I'm usually trying to sound like someone I admire.

10. Do you sound like yourself on other people's guitars?
I do — and it’s frustrating. I’m always hoping for that magical day when I pick up a Selmer and sound like Django.

11. Which living artist would you like to collaborate with, and why?
Oh man, there are so many. If I had to choose one — do a film with Godard or Gus Van Sant or something? Keith Richards.

12. Which dead artist (music, or other arts) would you like to have collaborated with, and why?
Luis Buñuel.

13. What's your latest project about?
Playingmusic with amazing folks who I admire as musicians and as people. Learning and having fun doing so.