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Interview with tokio hotel Lyndsay: Please tell our readers a little history behind the band. How did you get started in music? How did you meet each other? Tom: Bill and I were involved in music since we were kids. My step-dad, who plays in a rock band himself and owns a music school, gave me a guitar and I started to try and play. (Laughs) I was preety sure that the hottest women go for the guitar player- so it was meant to be my instrument! Bill: I always wanted to sing and started when i was 6. I wrote my first songs when i was about 9. Gustav:Whenever i heard music I started drumming with my fingers, I did that all the time. When i was 6 I started to take lessons and got my first drum set. Georg:I was about 12. Some of my friends wanted to start a band and they were looking for a bass player. i thought that was preety cool and thats why i started to play the bass. Tom: Bill and I started playing live shows in clubs from early on too. It was just the two of us- I played the guitar and Bill sang and played the keyboard. One night we played in a club called Groninger Bad where Georg and Gustav, who knew each other from music school, watched from the audience. Georg: (Laughing) It was obvious that these two guys needed some help, so we talked to them after their gig. Tom: (Laughing) Yeah, they actually begged us to join the band- that's how we got together Tom: We all were! Lyndsay: Who are some of your main influences musically? Tom: We all listen to very different music. I listen to mostly German Hip Hop. Bill likes a lot of stuff like Nena, Placebo, Green day and Coldplay. Georg likes Oasis and Fall Out Boyy and Gustav is more into hard stuff like Metallica. We always wanted to find out own style, and original sound to represent Tokio Hotel; we never wanted to sound like another band. And since our taste in music differs so much you could say that the Tokio Hotel sound is our common ground when it comes to music.
