Shut Up, Be Happy. Obey All Orders

From The Beginning, There Was So Much Pressure In The Early San Francisco Punk Scene For Everyone To Be Different Than Everyone Else, To Flaunt Your Intelligence And Insights Instead Of Every Band Sounding Alike, Like What Plagues Punk Music In Particular Today.

Heavy Metal Is The Most Conservative Of All Loud Music. Let's Face It, Not Even A Gym Teacher Could Get As Many People To Dress Alike.

In 1965, My Father Was Just Twirling The Dial Of The Radio To Find Something That Would Make Me Go To Sleep, And As Soon As I Heard Rock And Roll There Was No Stopping Me. It Was During The Height Of Beatlemania And The British Invasion, But I Gravitated Toward The Harder, Heavier Music Going On Then, You Know, The Early Rolling Stones, The Good Rolling Stones, And Paul Revere And The Raiders, Who Don't Get The Credit They Deserve For Spearheading The American '60s Garage Sound.

For Every Prohibition You Create, You Also Create An Underground.

I Got Turned On To Rock Music Almost By Mistake When I Was Seven Years Old.