So when I got to be about 13 or 14, I started listening - even though my parents music was way cool - to contemporary hard rock at that time, which was Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Ted Nugent and all that, and that's just where I came from.
We had a really vast music collection and I was raised around rock'n'roll, it's just the way it was.
... that's one of the cool things about going to local bars: seeing what people are doing and jamming with them. I'm a huge advocate of jamming with others; you learn a lot. So I love to go and do that - even if people wipe the stage up with you..
Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion.
I love classical music. It has left a major mark on my playing.