The electric guitar meant that you could have a band with a drummer and a couple of guitars. And that put a lot of horn players out of work.
Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us.
A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals!
The band? No way! There ain't no band. The band is not 'the band' right now. It's just three guys.
We've got an electric organ, a sax, drums, guitar and bass guitar. We sound less like the Beatles than most of the groups.
Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.
I want to talk about my band, you know what I mean? I don't want to talk about other bands.
Plus, I grew up with Steve Cropper. There were so many good guitar players another one wasn't needed. What was needed was a bass.
I've always wanted to have keyboards in the band.
I thought that I wouldn't be able to make it because I'm a girl, but I think it was just a subconscious feeling. Pretty much every gig I went to was a band with four dudes.
I can't get anything out of an orchestra if I have the 10 best guitarists, but I don't have a pianist or a drummer.
When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people.
To me, you had to have a least a couple of ugly guys in the band. That's why Saxon was great.
I started out by myself, but it eventually turned into a trio by the mid-'60s - a conga drum and another guitarist. And that's been mostly what I've worked with most of the time.
