To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better.

I mean, what 16-year-old is going to listen to Doc Watson?

Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying, because I get to write all these big charts and all this crazy music.

... so much of what we do now started in 1954 at Sun Records in Memphis Tennessee ... those guys were inventing that stuff (Rock & Roll) ... you can really tell on some tracks ... they were actually afraid at times of what they were playing. But Rock & Roll definitely didn't come before that time; it started right there

People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys.

I thought it would be cool to take flat-picking and put it in overdrive. I thought it would bend the ear.

My D'Angelico is a jazz archtop guitar. That guitar was made for Glenn Miller's guitar player in 1939. It's a '39 D'Angelico New Yorker.