British Blues Quotes

First concert I ever went to was a group called The Yardbirds. Eric Clapton is the lead guitarist.

When I was a kid, we didn't have any blues stations. I never heard Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters or any of those people until the Stones had come along, and I took it upon myself to find out who these people were that they were covering.

I probably owe as much to Jeff Beck as I do to Son House with connections to the blues.

British blues was my favorite music, and it still is.

I was a big J. Geils fan, a Steppenwolf fan and a Savoy Brown fan.

I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly good gig.

I'm a big fan of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac.

Lonnie Donegan and the folk movement were responsible for a lot of the spread of the blues in England. The group Them with Van Morrison was a big influence on me, too, as were The Stones; The Yardbirds, John Mayall, and the other British blues pioneers.

I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.

The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.

The old Fleetwood Mac was much better; they did some beautiful and, to my mind, very authentic blues. Chicken Shack did pretty well in Europe, but after I left, it was over.

I actually never knew Peter Green but I do respect his early work very much.

John Mayall doesn't get enough credit. He's not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which is a tragedy.