I was 14 and trying out some guitar riffs with my first band. There was an older guy, and throughout one of our songs he said: “That sounds like Gimme Danger from The Stooges– and you sound like James Williamson.” I didn’t know the Stooges back then and was quite pissed off: when you’re 14 …
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