![]() We used to play ‘Wild Thing,’ and then Hendrix came out with his version of it, so we thought, ‘Well, let’s move over and pick another one of their songs,’ because we liked the stuff they were doing. The music of John Coltrane, and Sonny Rollins, Albert Ayler, and then trying to make a connection between what I was trying to do with the electric guitar coming from Chuck Berry to move forward to what Albert Ayler was doing with the saxophone seemed like the logical next step.” And then the influence of the counterculture and marijuana and LSD was considerable and kind of opened my mind up to different ways of approaching music and then ultimately exposed me to the free jazz movement. I wanted to write my own songs and play concerts like my idols, like the Who and the Rolling Stones. We were encouraged to learn songs that were played on the radio so that we could get steady employment in bars. The decision to not be a cover band exclusively was a turning point for us. “Well, I’d say it took major turns at a few different points. It was thrilling and terrifying at the same time.” These were streets that I grew up on and was raised and went to school, and these neighborhoods I knew all my life and now the entire order of daily life was turned upside down. ![]() ![]() It was like a World War II army movie where you’re hearing all this in the background except it was real. “The air was full of smoke and sirens and gunfire. ![]()
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