We Made Our Reputation Doing It That Way...
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(FZ:) "The story of the ... the music of "The Mothers" are the ... story of the ... a combination of what I knew about music from my studies ... plus ... the musical capabilities of the players of the group as I found them. Y'know, what shed, eh, somewhere along the line I had to teach them a lot of what they did not know about music. I started out playin' Rhythm 'n' Blues when I was 'bout fourteen or fifteen years old in San Diego ... and ah ... I was playing nothing but Blues 'till I was eighteen and we ... no, I was really hawking and I st-started out playing drums with a band, 'n' I got tired of listenin' others' guitar solos ... took up the guitar 'n' started playin' lead right away ... an' I ... spent ah ... the early part of my musical teen childhood doin' the same thing that most of the ... ah ... ah, white blues bands are ... y'know pulling down heavy bread for, but in those days it was, jus'y'know, it was the underground music ... ah ... the unpopular underground music, because the kids ... ah then ... wanted to hear ... ah ... ya'know, sweeter, easier stuff. They didn't go for hard, screaming blues or Chicago weirdness.
Nobody knew who the Howlin' Wolf was 'n' ... Muddy Waters, what the fuck is that? ... and ah ... so I grew up on that stuff but simultaneously buying ... ah ... classical albums ... and ah going to libraries and study music. I had albums of Stravinsky and Varèse and Webern. And Bartok. I never bought anything else, I never bought any Beethoven or ... ah ... Mozart or anythin' like that I don't liked the way it sounded, it was too weak.
So, hm, eventually I started hearing a little folk music, I didn't like most of the commercial folk music that was around. My taste in folk music was ... ah ... sea shanties ... and ah ... uh ... Middle Eastern stuff, I like Indian music, I like ... ah ... Arab music.
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