The music came across the airwaves and suddenly it felt like the world was actually changing…. I knew what I wanted to do: get this band together. I was becoming this very unlikely missionary for a new kind of music. That’s what Jimmy Reed, Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, and Howlin’ Wolf did to me. Elvis, Buddy, Eddie Cochran, Jerry Lee (Lewis), Little Richard, Bo Diddley – it’s what all those cats did to me. I’m only eighteen, and already people ain’t hearin’ this music anymore, and it had lit my life up! Now one way or another I got to keep the flame alive! We were disciples.
