The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.
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I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands.
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To me, the positive thing about it was we were pulling out these old influences like the Velvet Underground and the Stooges that were gone.
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I had been brainwashed by my parents and society that to be a musician was unacceptable but by then I finally decided to at least give it a try.
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My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.
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