My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.
I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell.
I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.
From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home.
Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.
I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting.