Every Musician Wants To Do

I Remember One Particular Occasion When I Hadn't Played A Solo For, Quite Literally, A Couple Of Months. And I Was Asked To Play A Solo On A Rock & Roll Thing. I Played It And Felt That What I'd Done Was Absolute Crap. I Was So Disgusted With Myself That I Made My Mind Up That I Had To Get Out Of It. It Was Messing Me Right Up.

My Guitar Style Was Developed During That 10-year Period. That's Me. That's The Way I Play, And I Don't Wish To Play Any Other Way. Our Own Individual Identities Are Firmly Stamped On This Album.

The Blues Appealed To Me, But So Did Rock. The Early Rockabilly Guitarists Like Cliff Gallup And Scotty Moore Were Just As Important To Me As The Blues Guitarists.

There's Always Music That Moves Me. It Doesn't Necessarily Mean That It's Within The Parenthesis Of Rock Or Blues, Or Whatever. It's Usually Far More Reaching Than That. It Can Be In Many Different Genres.

But If You Want Me To Knock Kingdom Come, All I Will Say Is That I Heard The Guitarist Said He'd Never Heard My Playing, And I'd Defy Any Guitarist In American Not To Have Heard Led Zeppelin.