You might be able to get a certain sound, and in the studio you certainly look at things under a microscope a lot more. You might hear more warmth out of a thicker string gauge. But in the practical world, like with us, we're playing An Evening With... so it's three hours of music, and our music is pretty challenging as far as the technical aspect. And I found after awhile that I was killing myself.

I'm a hopeless tone chaser!I love it and get into the whole thing.

Now that we're established and we have a history we know that we can expect people to show up and to have a good time.

If someone is feeling out of sorts or detached it's a great time to bring them in and restate why we are here and what we are trying to do.

As far as bands doing that in a way where they think they're going to fight the government, the only people they're really hurting is the fans.

Obviously the best way to retain the most profit is to not give any of it away. That's something that you certainly learn through the years.

With the Road King amp, you're able to switch power tubes and speakers and do all these different things. And I didn't want to have five different heads in my rack. And there's something about, when you do the type of setup that I have, unless you have a dedicated amp to a dedicated speaker and you're actually switching, you have to use the same power section of the main head that you're using.