5-10-15-20: Converge's Kurt Ballou  Tom Breihan on January 7,
2010 at 08:00 a.m.  5-10-15-20: Converge's Kurt Ballou  Welcome
to 5-10-15-20, where we talk to artists about the music they
loved at five-year interval points in their lives. Maybe we'll
get a detailed roadmap of how their tastes and passions helped
make them who they are. Maybe we'll just learn that they really
liked hearing the "3-2-1 Contact" theme song over and over when
they were kids. Either way, it'll be fun.  For this edition, we
spoke with Converge guitarist and metal producer extraordinaire
Kurt Ballou, 35.  The theme music for "The Great Space Coaster"
"The Great Space Coaster" was a PBS show I was into. I don't
think "The A-Team" was out yet. I was really into the "A-Team"
theme song, but I was probably like seven when I started
watching that.  Led Zeppelin: "Immigrant Song"  I was really
into whatever my neighbor's brother was listening to. He was
mostly into classic rock, and I don't think I discerned much of
a difference between th