It's hard to solo when you're walking around, especially when you're in Michael Jackson's presence. There are easier things in life to do.
I've been playing electric guitar since I was 11, and I love the blues.
Taking a solo on a tune is always a little bit scary.
I think a solo moves forward the way a song does, because it's reflective of the chords that I'm considering as I'm soloing, and at the same time I'm going as much out on a limb as Frank Zappa used to, in terms of just going crazy on the instrument.
As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.
Soloing was pretty easy for me because it was probably the first thing I've ever done.
If you're playing with a number of people, there are all sorts of textures, all kinds of possibilities you can get into. So why just play a theme together and then take solos?
I can't see us getting into, like, long solos.
I am the Great White Buffalo and I play an American-made Gibson guitar that can blow your head clean off at 100 paces.
I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.
I always use my Les Paul. I have a Hamer as well. I use a Tele and an Esquire - once in a while, I will use a Strat, and I never use any pedals... except for in my car.
I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.
People's association with improvisation means one person playing an endless stream of notes over something, and it doesn't have to be.
If I'm soloing, I usually try to start with a theme, which will often stem from the blues.
I really consider myself more of a rhythm guitarist than a soloist.
In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.
When I was young, I had one of those Yamaha drum machines, and I used to practice to that quite a bit, just to practice soloing and being in time and completing all my phrases.
The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.
I always thought of myself as more of a rhythm player than a big soloist.
I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.
I've always liked the electric guitar better. Even though the acoustic can be a very sexy and mysterious instrument, I can go to way more places with an electric.
I like being able to do dueling leads, and it's fun to be able to shred.
I've always loved big riffs and chunky guitars.
I just play blues for fun.
I'm always playing guitar.
