Remember Chris Sligh?

We certainly do. He made last season entertaining any time he opened his mouth for a song or a one-liner. TV Guide caught up with this crazy-haired talent during the American Idols Tour recently...

TV Guide: Where have you been skateboarding?
Chris: Just all over. Like, up to the old market here in Omaha, and back down to the hotel. It was a lot of fun. My legs are tired.

TV Guide: Are you a big skater? Do you do that at home, too?
Chris: I used to. I think the last time I skateboarded I was 16 or 17. I used to do a lot of half-pipe stuff.

TV Guide: Did your wife get worried when you told her you bought a new board?
Chris: No. She was just like, "How much did you spend?" I was like, "It was only $120. Come on!"

TV Guide: You should take her out with you next time.
Chris: Yeah. I'm going to pick her up and skateboard while I'm holding her. That won't scare her at all!

TV Guide: You could go on America's Got Talent with that trick.
Chris: I actually thought about going on America's Got Talent this year but the auditions happened too early.

TV Guide: Did you really think about it?
Chris: No. I don't feel like I want to whore myself out to another reality show. But my cousin was actually on America's Got Talent. He made the top 10. He was the guy that did the female impersonations with the dummy. We're a talented family, I'll tell you that much right now. [Laughs] We've got ventriloquists and OK singers. It's pretty awesome.

TV Guide: I heard you have a whole recording studio on tour with you. Is that true?
Chris: I do. I take it around with me mostly just to annoy everyone else. No, I'm working on demos and writing some songs and everything like that. I'm writing some songs for Phil [Stacey]'s album and I'm obviously writing songs for my album. It's going really, really well. I've written some stuff that I'm really excited about and getting ready for when we're actually allowed to record again.

TV Guide: You have to wait to record again?
Chris: We can record demos but we can't record for real until after the tour is over.

TV Guide: What kind of music have you been writing?
Chris: The record deal that I'm going to be signing, I'm going to make a pop-rock record. I hate comparing it to anything but, just to give people a reference, I'd kind of say later U2 — like "All That You Can't Leave Behind" — and stuff, like, that meets The Killers. I guess the best way to put it is I'm a big fan of emotional music that uses layers and very rhythmic stuff to put across the emotion. U2 is my favorite band of all time, so I guess it's definitely pretty U2 influenced.

TV Guide: That sounds really cool.
Chris: Yeah. I wish I [had still been on Idol] to meet them. Everybody gives me a hard time because, at the beginning of the season, they always ask you, "Is there anybody that you'd like to meet?" I said, "There's only two people where I would freak out. Bono and Paul McCartney." Paul McCartney, of course, was originally supposed to do the British Invasion week, then he backed out, and I was kind of disappointed about that. Then I got voted off and then we find out that Bono is going to be on the show!

TV Guide: Did you think about hanging out all night backstage to meet him?
Chris: I didn't know, and plus I was doing some interviews and stuff so I couldn't make it out to L.A. If I had known earlier, I probably would have come out to L.A. just so I could meet Bono.

TV Guide: You should ask the producers to make that up to you.
Chris: I know! But they don't really care about me because I came in 10th place.

TV Guide: Tenth out of thousands and thousands of people doesn't seem too shabby.
Chris: That's true. But they still don't care about me. [Laughs] [On tour] they're like, "OK, Blake Lewis and Jordin Sparks, what kind of Pop-Tarts do you want?" and they take the good flavors. Then they're like, "OK, Chris. You get the French toast."

TV Guide: You get the ones with no frosting.
Chris: Yeah. I'm like, "Gosh, guys. Come on! I came in 10th place out of thousands." But they're like, "You were 10th." They don't really do that, by the way.

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