I Don't Feel I Have To Top

The Element Of Change Has Been The Thing, Really. We Put Out The First One, Then The Second... Then A Third Lp Totally Different From Them. It's The Reason We Were Able To Keep It Together.

There's So Many Different Styles And Facets Of The 360-degree Musical Sphere To Listen To. From Tribal To Classical Music, It's All There. If The Bottom Was To Sag Out Of That, For God's Sake, Help Us All.

There's A Certain Standard In Classical Music That Allows The Application Of The Term "genius," But You're Treading On Thin Ice If You Start Applying It To Rock & Rollers.

I Played Guitar All My Life, All The Way Through The Yardbirds, But I Knew That For Me This Was Going To Be A Guitar Vehicle, Because That's What I Wanted It To Be.

There's A Very Old Recording Maxim That Goes, 'distance Makes Depth.' I've Used That A Hell Of A Lot-whether It's Tracking Guitars Or The Whole Band. People Are Used To Close-miking Amps, But I'd Have A Mic Out Around The Back, As Well, And Then Balance The Two. Also, You Shouldn't Have To Use Eq In The Studio If The Instruments Sound Right. You Should Be Able To Get The Right Tones Simply With The Science Of Microphone Placement.