Yes and for two reasons: one, I couldn`t find anything to imitate at the time, and secondly because what I heard on the radio didn`t bear any resemblance to what I wanted to hear on the guitar.
Yeah I do and I don`t mind, in fact that is one of the real encouraging things about this whole career of mine is that there are tunes I wrote almost thirty years ago that I will still play in front of an audience and I still like the old tunes.
When the audience is awful you can still have a great night and people will walk out thinking they had a great time even though there was loads of loudmouths and the sound was terrible.