First concert I ever went to was a group called The Yardbirds. Eric Clapton is the lead guitarist.
I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of blues. Deep Purple also started out as a blues band.
The band that changed my life was The Who. It's hard to pick just one album, but if I had to pick the one that really showed me how things could be done, it's 'The Who Sell Out.' They really went to town on that, doing something that no one had ever done before.
For more than 10 years, Daniel Snaith has been playing mad scientist with pop and psychedelic music. As Manitoba, and more recently as Caribou, he's pushed the genres' limits with electronics and studio trickery.
My first two records were influenced by the Beatles and the Beach Boys.
I would love to have played in the '60s. Now that would have been fun.
I listen to oldies but goodies stations, '60s and '70s music.
Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck made me an Anglophile. I listened to English and Irish artists as a kid, and they were way louder, heavier, and faster than the traditional blues that I was listening to.
Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And you had James Taylor and everyone went acoustic and that.
I didn't love Jim Morrison. There was something very reptilian about him. And I didn't care for his singing, but his band! The Doors were fantastic.
When I grew up, I had influences as diverse as Keith Richards, Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix.
Jimi Hendrix came from the blues, like me. We understood each other right away because of that. He was a great blues guitarist.
The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant.
A Jethro Tull album was - along with Cream and Led Zeppelin - one of the first I ever bought.
It was Jimi Hendrix that I first got into when Betty Mabry turned me on to him.
I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.
Prince got some Marvin Gaye and Jimi Hendrix and Sly in him, also, even Little Richard. He's a mixture of all those guys and Duke Ellington.
Tame Impala has two lives. One is the album, which is like a producer, and the other life is like a band: more of a live incarnation where we're basically a covers band for the albums that I produce.
'Europe '72' came out right around the time that I started going to see the Dead, and it had a huge impression on me.
[My favourite song is] "All Along the Watchtower." The Jimi Hendrix cover.
I do get credit for having a California sound to my music, but I don't think people really know what that means - they think the Beach Boys. I'm thinking more like Sunset Strip in the 1960s and stuff like that.
I'm a child of the 70's; influenced mostly by albums that had a wide variety of style.
I am really into '70s music, like The Rolling Stones, The Doors and what not.
I was a big fan of the Rain Parade, Green on Red, X, the Rolling Stones.
I love the Beatles, and when I was very young, I had young parents, so Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles constantly were big influences on my life.
