- Nov 07, 2020
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- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
So if you see Ten Years After, it's not me anymore. I'm very happy with what I am doing now.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
It wasn't until the movie came out that it all changed for us. Some people say it was the start of Ten Years After, but in another way, it was the beginning of the end.
- Big Band
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly good gig.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'll continue to work as a solo artist.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.
- Hill
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just play to the people I can see. So it's almost like you are playing to the first few rows of the crowd. You can see the faces of the first hundred people, but then it becomes a blur as the crowds disappear over the hill.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He paid me a huge compliment when he told me that he was thinking of doing something similar himself!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever known, but in spite of that fame, he was such a nice and friendly guy.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in those days we thought we could change the world.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them all - Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Ralph Willis, Lonnie Johnson, Brownie McGhee and the three Kings, B.B., Albert and Freddie. Jazz-wise, I listened to Django, Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Strangely enough, I wasn't into fast guitarists. I preferred Peter Green's subtle touch. I saw him with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers at the Marquee Club in London and was very impressed. He was the only guitarist I've ever seen to turn the volume control on his guitar down during a solo.
- Players
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- Nov 07, 2020
My all-time favorite rock and roll players were Scotty Moore, Chuck Berry and Franny Beecher, and I listened to the country playing of Merle Travis.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been much more of a guitar picker, but I began to feel forced into a position of being the epitome of a rock & roll guitarist. Originally, TYA wanted to make it without having to compromise to pop. It worked for a while, but after five or six years, the fun went out of it for me; a lot of the music went out of it.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was always playing this ethnic blues stuff around the house, and both my parents played. Then one day my father brought home Big Bill Broonzy, and there he was sitting in our living room playing, and blues was in my heart from the time I was 12 years old.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
It wasn't very satisfying playing the big arenas, but it was good as far as a paycheck. But the sound was terrible, especially in hockey arenas - the sound would go on for 30 seconds after we quit playing.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always been something I've been searching for - freedom. It's a very relative thing. It means different things to different people.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I strongly encourage listening to the radio to hear something you haven't heard before. It's a very healthy thing to do. It's strange: unless you reload your iPods every couple of weeks, you're listening to and recycling the same music all of the time. I'm serious. Listen to your radio station.
- Grabbed
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the beauty of creativity. It comes from the ether. I like to think, sometimes, it's like I haven't written it, it's more like I just reached up and grabbed it from somewhere. That song, 'Song of the Red Rock Mountain,' is one of them. I recorded it and thought, 'Where did that come from?'
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
We used to play the underground clubs like the UFO, and Middle Earth, and they were great because they would have on things like a poet, string quartets, and then a rock band! It was kinda cool!
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020