 I got it into music through parents, there was always a lot of music in the house from the Beatles and the Kinks, to Elvis, to Purcell, to Puccini. I kind of absorbed it in and it's never really, well it's never gone away. I can't imagine a world without music. I've got just the basic 50 watt head. I love the power thing, where you can sort of decrease and increase power. I love that, you've got effects loops and all that type of thing on there, but I just go straight in the front. One clean, one dirty, telecaster, blend it together. For me the black stars have just got clarity and punch and power and it doesn't matter really how you, what situation you're using them in, how big the club is or the arena or wherever, it's suitable for everything. My mother would like everybody to think that I was going to be an ornithologist because I do like feathered birds and again I look like a tattoo murderer look but I do like to be out in the field with a pair of binoculars. My father was a histologist, I do have a memory of wanting to follow him but then when I was 13 I got an electric guitar. Ever since I left school when I was 16 I've played in one band or another and when I was 19 I kind of enjoyed a professional band albeit it was a piece for me and went to America. I've always wanted to do this. I can't actually physically remember ever wanting to do anything else apart from being a musician. The main reason I switched to black star was that first and foremost it was a British manufacturer. From the amps being great and very solid and dependable, road worthy that was probably the major factor in changing the black star. As soon as I heard the amps I just knew they got what we needed, what I needed. If somebody was starting out and asked me for advice I think I would probably say to get the best instrument possible to start with. Basically if a guitar is difficult to play it's hard enough to master it and learn how to remember everything in the first place. I would say just get the best instrument you can so that it's as easy as possible to fret. Good guitar, keep it in tune, play it as much as you can. To be honest with you I wouldn't say that I've got a particular regime or thing for warming up. We used to drink rum and blackcurrant. The rum will open your mouth and the blackcurrant will cut your throat. This is what I've been told. Of course the other thing is if you drink enough of them you don't care whether you sound very good on us. The future, okay. Do you want to cliché or keep on keeping on? We're of a certain vintage. A couple of the guys in the band are in the mid 60s now and you've talked with them in the 21 in their heads because we still enjoy it. We still feel we've got plenty to say and people still like to come and hear us saying those things and doing those things. So just keep going, simple as.