Lucas Chris Macfadden, better known as Cut Chemist the turntable guru of the high-profile hip hop crew Jurassic 5, had a feeling Star Wars would rule his childhood the minute he first laid eyes on the triangular silhouette of an Imperial cruiser.

"I saw A New Hope in 1977 at the Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood when I was four years old and remember watching the opening scene with the endless Star Destroyer moving across the screen," Macfadden recalls. "It was bigger than life. A New Hope was the perfect story and the direction was superb. A lot of the film was music and images, like a classical music video, with so much time going by without any dialogue. No other episode in the saga had this quality. Someone once told me that Sir Alec Guinness had 88 lines in the film which is the divine number in India. If that's true that must mean something, right?"

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Cut Chemist Plays Fetch with Chewie

Also check out this clip of Cut Chemist showing off his spinning skills and letting R2-D2 have the last "word" here:
Cut Chemist, DJ Shadow, and DJ Nu-Mark with R2-D2

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Also check out this Star Wars Rocks profile on the San Franicsco indie lads Thee More Shallows here:

When Dee Kesler (singer and guitarist) and Jason Gonzales (drummer and keyboardist) of the indie band Thee More Shallows get together, it's only a matter of time before a Star Wars discussion is in full swing. Die-hard fans at a young age, Kesler and Gonzales have plenty to say about their first original trilogy memories, the toys they loved and the inspiration gleaned from John Williams' dynamic musical score.

"I can remember after seeing the first movie when I was seven that I pretended that I was flying in an X-wing fighter and that the other cars became doomed TIE fighters during my entire ride home," Gonzales recalls.

"Going to see the first movie in the theater is one of the first memories I have, period," Kesler says. "I remember loving it. My second encounter with Star Wars was a bit more traumatic. I apparently started to cry during the 'Star Wars Holiday Special' because Chewie's family looked so freaky."

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Thee More Shallows Talk Music and Hairy Bandmates