“Not much! I didn’t do very well in school. But I never dreamed that I would end up doing this for a living.”Īside from a life in music, what were you cut out for? I was really into Bob Dylan at that time, and then I heard some blues. At first I was just a fan, until about ’66 when some friends of mine started playing some songs by The Byrds. I never saw myself being up on the stage. It wasn’t something that I ever thought was going to happen – it was just so out of reach to me. That would be like saying, ‘Well, I think I’ll be an astronaut!’ or thinking I could be a brain surgeon. But I really didn’t think about that as a career or anything. And then I saw The Beatles on TV, so I started playing their songs on my guitar. “Somewhere along the way I picked up a guitar and started playing along with songs for the fun of it. I loved those guys.”Īt what point did you make the connection between listening to music and possibly playing it for a living? It was mostly just background music that I was hearing at first, but then there were a couple of artists on there who stood out to me artists such as The Everly Brothers and Roy Orbison, Ike and Tina Turner. What effect did rock’n’roll first have on you?
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