I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly.
I don't understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound. Finding ways to use the same guitar people have been using for 50 years to make sounds that no one has heard before is truly what gets me off.
I like the studio because it's delicate; you're working for sound. I like the garage because chopping up lumps of steel is the exact opposite of delicate. The garage is a more dangerous place though. I've never almost been crushed by a guitar, but I can't say the same about one of my Corvettes.
I play the way I do because it allows me to come up with the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?
I was really small when jazz broke through in England and I can still remember sneaking off to the living room to listen to it on the radio - much to my parent's disapproval.
Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.
He is # 14 on the Rolling Stone's List of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.
In 1965, He joined the Yardbirds, a British rock band.
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