Zoot Horn Rollo Quotes

After being done with Mallard (Rollo's post-Beefheart project), and again getting no money - typical rip-offs and stupidity on my part - I just quit and moved to Oregon. I began teaching myself classical guitar and working on theory in music for seven or eight years. 

But since Mallard and the Magic Band, I�ve been a free player for many years, so that's not unnatural to me. I'm used to being a studio musician when somebody says we need this, we need that, and I plug in and play. And I've been teaching for the past 20-odd years. I've learnt so many different styles, pop songs. I�m used to being an actor and trying to fit in.

Just growing up in Southern California, just north of LA. I was playing surf music before that, and in 1964, after I'd been playing a year, I heard Wolfman Jack on KXERB playing Howlin' Wolf, BB King, everything from slick city blues to some real rural country blues. Those things started becoming a big deal to me. Then the Beefheart band started playing around town covering those songs. The Beatles only lasted a few months for me: I was right into blues.