Ever try to meet people in Vancouver? You'll have better luck getting Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie to suck face than you will convincing someone to talk to you in a bar. So there you stand, wondering "Who are those people I see every time I go to a show?" You're too shy to ask, so we do it for you.

WHO ARE YOU? "Nick Tyzio, aka Tyz. I'm originally from Hamilton, Ontario; rode out here on my Harley a few years ago just to see what it was like and never left."

IN MY 9-TO-5 LIFE I: "Sleep, mostly. I do live sound around town most nights so I don't get to bed until 6 a.m."

IF YOU'RE BUYING, I'LL HAVE: "A double Crown 'n' Coke, please. ( I do like Pepsi better, but that's how to ask for it.) Is there anything else?"

THE BEST SHOW I EVER SAW WAS: "KISS before they took off the makeup. I saw them in Kitchener, Ontario, and I haven't seen a show to beat it yet."

I WISH PEOPLE WOULD SHUT UP ABOUT: "Paying cover to see live bands. It's like everybody out there thinks bands make the kind of money U2 makes. The fact is a lot of bands that play the indie scene get nothing, not a cent. They make some money selling their CDs and merch and, if they're lucky, they'll make enough so they can buy some Kraft Dinner and enough gas to get them to the next gig. These same people who complain about paying cover are only too happy to pay a huge cover at a nightclub to hear some DJ who's been flown in from who knows where to spin some music that came from where? Most of the music you hear DJs play started from an indie artist. So shut up and show your support-buy a CD and a shirt, dammit!"

THE LAST CONCERT T-SHIRT I BOUGHT WAS: "I haven't bought a shirt in a long, long time. As a sound tech I get CDs and merch for free mostly. But if you must know it was Spacehog. I had to get it because it had a glow-in-the-dark alien on it."

IN THE MOVIE OF MY LIFE, I'D BE PLAYED BY: "Mel Gibson. You know: a cool, good-looking, down-to-earth guy with a great sense of humour who shoots straight from the hip. Holy, this sounds like a dating ad. Sorry girls, I'm happily married."

YOUR BEST DESTROYER MOMENT WAS: "At that very same KISS concert in Kitchener during the early '80s. A fight broke out at the end of the show between a well-known Ontario gang that was sitting behind me and these guys who were sitting a couple rows in front of me. They were yelling all sorts of obscenities at each other, and all of a sudden, these steel chairs they were all sitting on started flying over my head, a whole bunch of chairs. I thought that was kinda strange."