[It's a format that intrigued the 71-year-old Mayall, who is especially interested in hearing Ford and the Bluesbreakers.] Robben Ford is one of my favorites, ... He's a great guitar player who doesn't sound like anyone else. |
Check out the albums, ... Check out the live performances. That's the reality of it all. Music is such an energizing thing. |
I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show. It's the most level commentary you can find. You have to laugh, because it's all so true. It's the closest thing to a counterculture. |
I write songs about real things, ... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really. |
It's a great honor, |
It's on everybody's mind, really, |
They're steppingstones, markers to whatever's going on in your life, at that moment, ... There's no pain in any of them. They're memories and recollections of time we spent together as musicians, and the stories that were going on at the time. They're diaries, really. They all have pleasant memories. |
what came from Manchester; Stevie Winwood and Spencer Davis were the Birmingham contingent and then from the North we had The Animals, Eric Burdon -- and further up north was the Alex Harvey Band from Scotland. We all converged on London, we all had our own different styles, and it just became the London melting pot, really. |