Black Country Communion Quotes
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The first thing you realise very quickly when you decide to do an acoustic version of an electric song is your solo either becomes either very truncated, very different, or non-existent, because even if you play a clean solo, it's different with the Kryptonite... with the acoustic.
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That's the thing about the blues: It's one thing to hit a note on a guitar. To make it matter is something else altogether.
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If you keep working hard and not take 'no' for an answer, you achieve.
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I've been lucky and very fortunate over the course of my career, and I try to do something good for people every day.
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Doing the acoustic at Carnegie is basically advised because electric music tends to get, let's just say, acoustically unsound.
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Some people don't like me at all. But... whatever. It comes with the territory.
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Nothing I'm doing musically is revolutionary in any way, shape, or form.
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When you play a gig in Poland or Australia, or you play a gig in Toledo, they all clap at the same parts of the show. They're clapping for the solos in the exact same way.
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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.
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I dislike all those cookie-cutter Nashville songs. You know the ones: about tight jeans and pick-up trucks.
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Carnegie was a life-long dream because I was a born New Yorker. I was born in upstate New York, and we've played Radio City, and we've played The Beacon, but Carnegie was this mystical place, you know?
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Greece was a muse. It inspired creativity in magical ways that I can't even begin to understand or explain.
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I don't really do scales... I mean, I play parts of them, but then I bail and start playing parts of other things. The term 'scale' feels very scripted to me because I'm an improv player.
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I have a 1969 Grammer Johnny Cash acoustic guitar, and it's so inspirational.
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It's not enough to play a song: you have to inhabit it.
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John Mayall doesn't get enough credit. He's not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which is a tragedy.
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I think what I do really well is that I can 'chameleon' myself into many styles at a very fast pace, sometimes in the same verse of a song.
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I've never been known as a riff kind of artist.
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I'm an acoustic guitar owner - in the sense that I own them, and they sit at my house, and I never play them.
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I like to be in the room with players that are better than me. That's always a good place to be.
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I feel like I always learn from somebody who can do something better than I can.
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If I feel like things are getting into a routine, I want them to be different. I need to keep improving and keep moving forward.
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I never had this ego where I must write everything. I'm not Bob Dylan.
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I am very proud of my musical growth and contributions to the band in the last four years. I have nothing but positive thoughts and feelings towards John, Mike, James, and John. Jordan Rudess is a friend of mine and a great talent. I wish all of them the very best!
