I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn’t have any drums.
I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.
You know, there’s a big lie in this business. The lie is that it’s okay to go out in flames. But that doesn’t do anybody much good. I may be wrong, but I think Hendrix was trying to come around.
So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I’d try it too.
Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don’t make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn’t death.
I play as many different things – piano, sax and harp parts – as I can at once. Whatever I can fit, whenever I need to.
All the Strats have personalities of their own and feel completely different.
To be honest with you, I’m not sure what a pop tune is. I’m sure if I hear it on the radio, I’d say that’s pop or this or that. But, really, what I pay attention to the most is just music that moves me. It’s all at least a root-type music instead of a formula.
Even though there’s reasons to try things that may or may not work, it’s still a real intimate way to finish the song with everybody right there in the band just locked in.
If you hit the front end on the right-hand side you could turn that one on by itself and if you hit on the left-hand side you could turn it on and off. And in the middle it was like serious overdrive.
I was taught to think the next week or month or year will only get better than it is today. So I just keep waiting to see how great it will get!
Jazz changes and all. But I don’t know the names of what it is I’m doing.
My baby she’s a long and lean, you mess with her you see a man get mean.
I love my baby like the finest wine, I’ll stick with her until the end of time.
God it’s good to be here walkin together, my friend.
The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put ’58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks.
I’ve put my life back together, but it’s all a growing process and that’s neat, too, because if you stop growing, what good is it musically? So that is what I am looking forward to – growing. In some ways, I felt stagnant in my life and it showed.
The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you’re up there bigger than life. People idolize you.
Lots of times I’ll play lead and rhythm together.
I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn’t death.