It's a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.

Water doesn't hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you're fine.

It's important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.

One springs to mind: one of our very first gigs in a small East Texas town was not well promoted. At least, that was our conclusion. After the band loaded in and the curtain opened, we realized there was exactly one paying customer in the audience. We kind of made the best of it playing through the first set, took a break and bought him a Coke and then went on to perform for the remainder of the night. It wasn't exactly a catastrophe but it certainly stands as legendary.

Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree.

Brian Eno and Robert Fripp's foray into some artful excursions into some ethereal electric experiments. There was a lot curious activities emerging in London, Amsterdam, and Berlin back then developing some fiercely fuzzy of synth-like effects way outside the norm which really blew the lid off things.

In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.