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Also known as: Doc.

Age: 25.

Band: Echo & Drake (echoanddrake.com). Next gig: Nov. 10 at The Space with Magdyn Osh, Spider and This Frontier Needs Heroes.

Music style: Indie rock; think early Radiohead meets U2 with a dash of folk.

Armed with: The voice of an angel and the guitar of a blood-thirsty Viking overlord.

Wishes he had: A cello, a Steinway grand piano and a huge stone castle to play them in.

First record bought: Ace of Base, The Sign. No, I'm not ashamed, thank you very much.

First concert: Everclear at the Webster Theater.

Best show seen at the New Haven Coliseum: The only show I ever saw there was Creed, though I experience crippling pangs of regret over the fact that I didn't see a better band there.

Listening to: The High Dials, A New Devotion, War of the Wakening Phantoms and Moon Country; Neko Case, Middle Cyclone; Andrew Bird, Armchair Apocrypha and Radiohead, In Rainbows.

While cleaning: U2. I wonder how Bono would feel about that?

Song that changed his life: Oasis, "Wonderwall." It was the first song I played in front of a live audience (people other than my immediate family).

Inspired his first notes: My father played acoustic guitar all the time when I was growing up. During the winter we would get a good fire going and I would ask him to play "Tangerine Puppet" by Donovan. The finger picking in that song cast a spell on me. I watched the fingers of his right hand in awe and thought, "I wish I could do that!" When I was about 13, I started sneakily playing his guitar while he took his morning shower before work. One day he caught me making hideous noises with the thing and asked if I wanted to learn some chords.

Game he always wins: Name That Poet.

Game he always loses: Name That Celebrity.

Buy him a drink: A dark, hearty beer.

Last thing he chugged: A dark, hearty beer.

Reading: Robert McLiam Wilson, Eureka Street.

On TV: "Family Guy"; "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"; "30 Rock" and "The Office."

Favorite Web sites: The unofficial Radiohead site greenplastic.com and my friend Jenna's music blog, pulpandcircumstance.blogspot.com.

Films: Snatch, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Enemy at the Gates, The Bourne Identity, Hocus Pocus and many others.

Under his bed: Monsters, duh!

Join another local band for a day: Poor Pluto.

Most memorable local shows: Shadowgraphs at Toad's Place absolutely blew me away. Mighty Purple also put on an great show. I wish they played more often. I had some amazing nights sharing the stage with Oak Soldier and Poor Pluto. We just finished supporting The High Dials on their recent tour of New England — it was a dream come true.

Also found: Playing ice hockey, reading, walking around old New England towns, discussing the merits of various reverbs with our guitarist Rich DeVito and thinking about how I should be writing more songs.

If he were a pizza, the toppings would be: Hockey pucks, Cinnamon Toast Crunch and reverb.