Ken Hensley Quotes

I'm a big fan of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac.

I've always been the first to admit that Jimi was a very big influence on my early stuff.

The old Fleetwood Mac was much better; they did some beautiful and, to my mind, very authentic blues. Chicken Shack did pretty well in Europe, but after I left, it was over.

I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly good gig.

First concert I ever went to was a group called The Yardbirds. Eric Clapton is the lead guitarist.

I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.

Man, don't get me started on Pat Travers. That dude writes killer blues rock and roll riffs.

British blues was my favorite music, and it still is.

If it wasn't for guys like Gary Moore, I wouldn't exist. He not only proved that the blues could rock but it could draw a crowd as well. All of which made a huge impression on me.

Lonnie Donegan and the folk movement were responsible for a lot of the spread of the blues in England. The group Them with Van Morrison was a big influence on me, too, as were The Stones; The Yardbirds, John Mayall, and the other British blues pioneers.

Lonnie was ahead of his time, but at the same time he was right in there with Albert Collins's Cool Sounds.

The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.

I would say seeing the original Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page at the old Fillmore was a pretty powerful influence on me.

I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.

I would love to play Jimi Hendrix.

I was a big J. Geils fan, a Steppenwolf fan and a Savoy Brown fan.

Eric Clapton is my dream guitarist.

Hendrix was big in England. We all became good friends and I am still in touch with Noel Redding.

The Stones were more dangerous than other bands of the Sixties. It looked like they had more fun than the Beatles - like they stayed up later.

I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot.

Paul Butterfield and I had a band together at one point.

I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.

Fleetwood Mac are more like a folk-rock band.

Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy.

It's an often-asked question, 'Why did all these spotty white English boys suddenly start playing blues in the '60s?' It was recognized as this kind of vibrant music and when I first started playing in a blues band I just wanted to bring it to a wider public who hadn't really heard it.