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" After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz. "
Blues
Exhausted
After
" By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso. "
Very
Standards
Punk
" By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job. "
Brooklyn
Summer
Job
" Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records. "
Records
Four
Time
" From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home. "
Myself
Never
Play
" I never really followed grunge. "
Never
Followed
Grunge
" I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands. "
Village
Job
Play
" I really feel fortunate to have been around then because there have been good and bad years in rock but the best years were '55 to early '61. I got to see Buddy Holly and everybody else. "
Early
Rock
Good
" I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying. "
Suicide
Horrifying
Pretty
" I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell. "
Stuff
Started
Really
" I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting. "
Generation
You
Think
" It was just like Howlin' Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of the saddest blues stuff. "
Wolf
You
Blues
" I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me. "
Roll
Rock And Roll
Rock
" I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience. "
Lessons
Piano
Early
" Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71. "
Here
Some People
People
" My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to. "
Listening
Started
Through
" Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics. "
Reading
Music
Mathematics
" The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with. "
Stones
Songs
Were
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