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We played together for so long and we got to the point where our styles blended together. Even today, sometimes I'll hear our records and I'm... →
Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to learn the top 40 'cause most of the music was... →
But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician... →
When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a... →
You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play... →
Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
I hate that expression, 'fusion.' What it means to me is this movement where nothing ever really fused.
I was a little ahead of him but that didn't matter after awhile.
Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a... →
As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and we learned how to play... →
If you put this in the context of Detroit in '64 or '65, the economy was booming. Everybody had jobs and there was a whole nightclub culture... →
It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was to play the solos. But he... →
When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the... →