I just play to the people I can see. So it's almost like you are playing to the first few rows of the crowd. You can see the faces of the first hundred people, but then it becomes a blur as the crowds disappear over the hill.

I think I'll continue to work as a solo artist.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

So if you see Ten Years After, it's not me anymore. I'm very happy with what I am doing now.

I'd love to change the world, but I don't know what to do

They have decided to tour under the name of Ten Years After which I don't think is very cool. To be honest, they have had to do that as it's the only way they can get any work.

It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up.