Name: Kenneth James Laubbacher
Age: 81 [Editor’s note: this is inaccurate]
Hometown: San Diego, CA
Job: Director Of Artist Relations
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First Record: The Adams Family soundtrack
Last Record: Angel Olsen – Half Way Home
Next Record: I’m an impulse buyer. Live by the seat of my pants.
First Concert: Blink, Goldfinger, Mxpx
Last Concert: Spirit Family Reunion house party – Funnest sing-alongs with the best people.
Next Concert: Tom Odell, Cillie Barnes at the Troubadour
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Top Three Songs (Now):
02. The Barr Brothers – “Beggar In The Morning”
Top Three Songs (Ever):
01. Peter & The Wolf – “The Fall”
02. Crosby, Stills, Nash – “Helplessly Hoping”
03. Filth – “Violence As A Solution”
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Bands You’ve Played In: Broadside, Drats, Shift, Swindle, Alpha Males, The Patty Hearst Sleepover, Joel P. West, Traffique
Songwriter Crush: Cillie Barnes
Song To Dance To: “ABC” – The Jackson Five (impossible not to dance when that song is on)
Song To Cry To: “I Found A Reason” – Cat Power + “Medicine” – Daughter (I could list a million)
Song You Hate To Love: I just love to love songs that I love. I’m not embarrassed of loving them.
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Life Soundtrack:
Mumford & Sons – “Timshel”
Nate Henn // 1985 – 2010 from INVISIBLE CHILDREN on Vimeo.
This song will be forever connected to my experience with Invisible Children and the friendships I’ve made here. In particular, one of the hardest things we ever went through as a family was when Nate Henn died in a terrorist attack in Kampala in 2010. Nate lived his life with a joyous determination to love the people around him and with a deep appreciation of those magical moments that make us enthusiastically exclaim, “What is life?” This song is about the choices we make and will always remind me of the incredible choice that Nate made to live for others. This song reminds me of him and inspires me to love stronger.
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