John Popper

In New Jersey, Princeton.

Oh, really?

I was born in Cleveland and moved to Stanford, Connecticut.

Did like elementary and middle school there and then high school and moved to Princeton.

The harmonica, how do you find that and at what age?

The Blues Brothers.

Oh, makes sense.

I wanted to be a comedian.

I wanted to be... I'm not quite good... I'm good enough to get that I'm not funny enough to be a comedian.

Mm-hmm.

You know, I'm what you call one of them connoisseurs.

An aficionado, if you will.

And you wanted to be a comedian.

Well, the Blues Brothers were taking music and comedy and putting it together.

Yeah, it was Saturday Night Live.

I watched Saturday Night Live, and then I saw the Blues Brothers, and just something clicked about that harmonica, and I really wanted one.

And it took me... I think I was about...

14 when I got my first one and really started playing it when I was 16.

That movie, to me, one of the best movies ever because, first off...

No, that movie could never and would never be made again.