Rock and roll and swing never quite mixed. Rock and roll came in and just blew everything out of the water. Big bands were dead.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.
Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.
When I talk about rock n' roll, to me, that goes back to the beginning of the 1950s. Blue suede shoes and sideburns, man. Pink and black coloured clothes. Turn your collar up, comb your hair in ducktails. And the music was cool. It was a whole culture then - a different world.
If rock & roll is dead and gone, man, I am missing out on it.
When I grew up, there was one music: rock n' roll. Somewhere along the line, there was a separation. I don't know why it happened, but it did happen.
Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.
I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.
We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want to be like any of the other bands.
I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.