The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.

Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.

Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.

The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.

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.

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.