A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you.

Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation.

What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port to another.

There was a lot of stuff happening in Havana that was being heard and appreciated by New Orleans musicians because of this situation. And vice versa.

I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds.

A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you.

Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69.