I tended to lean towards the guys who both sang and played, such as Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, Steve Wariner... And at the other end of the spectrum, I had Eric Clapton in a rock and blues sense, jazz guys such as Tal Farlow and Les Paul... Then Chet Atkins-type stuff.
My guitar is a mutation between a classic Fender Stratocaster guitar, which I played for years, and a Gibson solid-body like an SG or a Les Paul. It contains all sounds of the basic classic rock n' roll guitars. It does what I want it to do.
Kids like classic rock, and so do adults.
I'm big fan of soulful music - classic rock with a folk-ish twist.
I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.
Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity.
The reason it has lasted for 30 years is for one reason and one reason only: Classic Rock radio.
I like a lot of old-school R&B, soul, and classic rock.
I listen to a lot of Pink Floyd, the Doors, Elton John, Sabbath, Metallica, GN'R, Megadeth - just classic rock, classic metal stuff.
I wanna write a classic metal record, a classic rock record, in 2013.
Over time, I've loved jazz, Miles Davis and Chet Baker, then Janis and Jimi and Creedence, then classic rock.
'Classic rock' is never a label that we've given ourselves - it's one of the many labels that's been imposed on us.
But my everyday music is classic rock. It's what I relate to the most and where my heart is.
I probably have the most versatile playlist in the world, from country to rap to classic rock to classical.
I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.
When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands.
I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.
Pope Francis has aimed a blow at what the whole hierarchical system is built on: a graded system with the higher clergy in the skyboxes, the devoted religious in festival seating, as they say of the crowds at rock concerts, and, on the bottom, the laity in standing room only.
Looking back on the production of 'Nevermind,' I'm embarrassed by it now. It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.
I was in a vintage pub rock band called Clover in the 1970s.
