People look for a messiah all the time. And everybody is just busy doing their own thing, trying to learn how to play the music.
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I stand back, sometimes, behind the rhythm section, so I don't physically look like the leader. I don't like that concept too much.
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Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode.
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