This interview was a lot of fun!  He kept the interview lighthearted throughout and made it a lot of fun!

Question:
"Birth date?"

Chace:
"My birthday is 5/27...I wonder if it's a good idea to tell them how old I am..." laughs, "I was born in '64..."

Question:
"City you reside in?"

Chace:
"West St. Paul, MN"

Question:
"Marital status/family?"

Chace:
"I'm married but, if I keep acting up I'll probably be divorced," smiles, "If I buy any more ferrets.  We have a ferret now...  And we have four children, eleven, six, four and sixteen months."

Question:
"Favorite color?"

Chace:
"My favorite color...  I guess I'd have to go with blue..."

Question:
"Favorite food?"

Chace:
"I really like seafood.  I know that's terrible, but seafood's probably one of my favorite foods.  And pizza, of course."

Myself:
"Especially at the moment..." laughing.

Chace:
"At the moment pizza's really good," laughs, "Seeing as we haven't paid the bill yet."

Question:
"Favorite drink?  Alcoholic and/or non-alcoholic."

Chace:
"My favorite alcoholic drink is Bacardi Coke.  I also love red wine.  My favorite non-alcoholic drink was Pepsi Light and they don't make it anymore.  They made it about fifteen years ago, Pepsi made it, with lemon.  And then they took it off the market just because I think they knew I liked it."

Question:
"Favorite movie?"

Chace:
"My favorite movie has to be 'Stripes' because I saw it fifteen times.  I'm not a movie watcher, but I thought it was the funniest damned movie in the whole world."

Question:
"Favorite band?"

Chace:
"That is a tough one.  My favorite group is Boston.  I also like Def Leppard."

Question:
"Favorite song?"

Chace:
"I was really big on 'Mary Had A Little Lamb.'  But," smiles, "after that one...I don't know.  I'm a really tough person with favorites.  I like everything, so I'll have to get back to you on that one..."

Question:
"Day job?"

Chace:
"Oh, my God, we don't have enough tape!" laughs, "My day job, boy did you goof now.  I work with children at the elementary school.  I do carpentry work, and I do lawn maintenance for the school district, and I help my wife with the kids."

Question:
"Hobbies?"

Chace:
"Well, I like to play sports, pretty much all of them, but I really like fast pitch softball.  My favorite thing is playing with my kids.  I love to do that the most.  I like doing stuff at the house and in the yard, doing projects, fences, that kind of stuff.  Building things, things like that.  Sports is my biggest hobby and the thing I like to do most is be with my kids."

Question:
"What's your favorite thing about entertaining?"

Chace:
"My favorite thing would be the fact that I make people laugh or I make them happy.  I make them feel good about whatever they may have going on.  So, if I can make people happy and make them excited to come see me, then I'm just as excited to be out there for them.  That's real important to me, that when people come to my shows, they're coming to see me and want to have a good time and that they know that when they do come they will."

Question:
"What's your least favorite thing about entertaining?"

Chace:
"Tearing down the gear.  That's about it, when you've got to break down and you're all miserable, and it's 1:30 in the morning, and you've got to load all that crap up.  That would be it."

Question:
"What's your most memorable moment on stage?"

Chace:
"This goes back to when I was in theater.  I was in seventh grade and I was in Oliver Twist.  I was Oliver.  I remember singing 'Where is Love' and, I was on the front of the stage and I was looking out, and there were people actually crying.  Because, hopefully it wasn't my singing, they felt that emotion that I was portraying.  There were many people in those front three rows, I could only see that far with the lights, that were actually crying.  That made me feel good, from a standpoint that I was getting something across.  I was doing it right.  I could move somebody that much.  That's the most memorable thing that I felt I've done on stage."

Question:
"What's your most memorable moment off stage, music related?"

Chace:
"I guess it's really not one moment, but it's the same incident.  It recurs.  It's the one where I have people come up to me and figure out who I am, off stage.  They're kind of giddy and don't know what to say, because it's me.  But it's just me though.  I'm not really anybody.  They think that highly of what I do.  They get that excited over, and kids get that excited over, thinking that there's somebody that's, I don't know, a superstar, or whatever they perceive it as, and I get to be it.  You know, that makes me proud.  I do something right and that I give somebody that...feeling.  It makes me feel really good."

Question:
"Who are your musical influences?"

Chace:
"I've always liked George Strait for his consistency.  He's been doing this a long time.  He's always stayed high on the charts and he's always been very respected within the industry, and with the fans.  That is something that I would like to take to my grave.  If I ever get the opportunity to be a national recording artist,  I'd like to be looked at as somewhat of an ambassador to country music.  Garth did that as well.  I think Garth got in at the perfect time and he did exactly what he should have done.  He took it and ran.  I give him a lot of credit for that.  A lot of people have certain elements, but I think that George Strait kind of put them all in one package.  Chris Ledeux did the same thing.  I had a chance to meet with him, and those two are pretty much out of the same mold.  They're very respected and they've worked very hard, and they lasted.  They're both great individuals."

Question:
"Do you play any instruments?"

Chace:
"Oh, that wouldn't be safe!" laughs, "I started playing the piano in sixth grade and I played for three years.  But after that, ugh, I don't think there's enough money in the world to get me to play an instrument."

Question:
"How long have you been performing?"

Chace:
"I've been performing since I was five.  I started in church, with the church theater.  I went into choirs, church choirs, school choirs, right away.  I was in an acapella band, the barber shop quartets, the barber shop choir, community theater and things like that.  That's pretty much how it started and I just kept on going."

Question:
"How long have you been with this group?"

Chace:
"With this group of individuals we're starting the third year.  As for the band itself, this is it's fifth year, in the making, so to speak.  But this group we're starting our third year, with the same people."

Question:
"How old were you when you first became interested in music?"

Chace:
"I would have to say five, because I was always jumping around the house and singing and wiggling my butt or something." laughs, "But I've always liked to do it.  It was always either singing or sports and if I wasn't doing one, I was pretty much doing the other."

Question:
"Before being with this group, what kind of experience did you have in the entertainment industry, musical or otherwise?"

Chace:
"Well, going back into theater and things like that I, like I said, I've been doing that since I was five.  Pretty much the whole time that I've been around I've always had my fingers in that.  I modeled for a while.  I did a couple infomercials for a company in California.  So, I've always been dabbling in it.  Only in Minnesota has it gone to the level that it's at now."

Question:
"Where's your favorite place to perform?"

Chace:
"Well, in the five years that I have been doing the band thing, Medina has always been a fun place because of the fact that we've opened for some very neat bands.  The stage is always conducive to us.  We have a place now, called 'The Rock' in Maplewood, which is turning out to be one of my favorite places to play.  It's a wonderful stage.  It seats about 500 to 700 people.  I really enjoy playing there."

Question:
"Is there any one thing that your fans don't know about you that you think they should?"

Chace:
"I don't know if they know that I'm doing this for them.  I know that sounds funny, but it's really important that I make it big for them.  My family is, obviously, number one.  But everything about me, comes through them.  I'm just an extension of those people.  Those people out there that think that I just do it, to jump around or whatever, everything that I do, draws from them.  If they're not in a good mood, then I'm not in a good mood.  If they're ready to go, then I'm always ready to go.  But, I think the most important thing is that I have been so driven by my children and my wife, and by those fans. That's very important to me, that they figure that out, or that they know that.  That it's not all about fame and fortune if you go there.  Because to me, it's more about where you came from and the people that supported you for this long.  They deserve something for that and they should not be forgotten.  That old cliché, 'You're going to forget the little people when you're gone.'  I would never do that.  I'm as little as they come and I'm always going to be one of them as well as, they'll be a big part of me."

Question:
"Is there anything else that you want to add?"

Chace:
"I don't know, it's just...I think I deserve a chance in this industry.  Not because I'm trying to do it, but because I think I can make people happy.  I think I'm the right person for the job if somebody wants to get away and be entertained.  Because I know how they feel.  I've been through so much in my life and been through so many emotions, so many different feelings, so many different things that, when somebody says, 'I know how you feel,' that would be me.  I think I do.  I've been through every emotion in this world, one way or another, through deaths or happy, or sad, or, you know, my daughter's situation, with handicaps.  All those different things, separated family, you know, things like that, the heartbreaks and things like that.  I truly believe that I have every element of emotion and I know how it goes.  I can't believe that there's somebody else out there that would know those types of challenges better then me and want to express it.  I think that if somebody gave me the chance, I would make it worth their while."