short tico interview in the guardian (UK)
 

http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/...287819,00.html

MY LIFE IN SHOPPING

What's the worst thing you've ever bought?

A Volkswagen 411. I'd be on my way to a gig and it would die. I'd have to flag people down and offer them jewellery to take me there. That was in my struggling-musician days, before we formed Bon Jovi.

Have you spent a lot of money on music over the years?

I'm always adding to my percussion collection. I have a storehouse of sounds. The strangest is a wooden thing that you pound and it sounds like an army marching. I've used it on a lot of records.

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What about other people's music? Do you buy much?

I get a lot of bits and pieces from the iTunes Store for my iPod.

What do you get?

I like Latin music, which makes sense as I'm Cuban. I love Cachao - he was the bass player who invented the Mambo. He was amazing.

What is the best thing you have ever bought?

My son's first drum set. He's four now, but he was two when I got it for him. We jam together.

Does he ever go shopping with you?

I take him to FAO Schwarz, which is a huge toy store in New York. He just goes there to play - it's not about shopping for him.

Do you have a favourite shopping memory?

Buying a piece of art from Héctor Sapia in South America. I went to his studio and he had a piece on the wall he said he couldn't finish. I told him I'd buy it if he ever did. Two years later, it arrived in the post.

· Tico's baby range, Rock Star Baby, is available exclusively at Harrods.

Random questions. Thanks for this. He sounds like such a cool dad.

no worries, glad you liked it.

it is pretty random isn't it?

Like father, like son. Who knows in 20 years, he could be in a big rock band like his father. :D

Or REPLACING his father. Dun dun duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun.

By then they will all need replacing though, so it'll be a completely new band, so nobody will really be replacing anybody. Ya digg?

You never know! He could be like Jason Bonham filling in for his dad on a reunion tour :rolleyes:

The only thing I'm digging is a hole in the ground for your body.

:O

That's all I WOULD say, because I'm lost for words, but it won't let me, cause it sucks.

Yeah that 10 letter limit thing annoys me. I would complain but people would complain about me complaining.