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

Well, everybody faces the fact there really aren't many records stores around to just go and browse. Maybe browse online, yet that tactile feel of flipping through a stack of vinyl remains one of life's simple pleasures.

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.

Did Muddy Waters play an acoustic? Well of course he did. But did he turn his back on being able to plug it in and play louder? No, he plugged in and turned it up and got miles and miles ahead of the game in one fateful act of just plugging in.

Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.

Every once in awhile I'll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?

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