John Lee Hooker -- it's deep, deep music. B.B. King used to say, "We're gonna get really funky now -- we're gonna take music to the alley." And John Lee Hooker said, "Why take it to the alley? Why don't you go over to the swamp?" It's like the devil and God playing together. To most people, it's one or the other, but to me and John Lee Hooker, it's all one.
I was reading that the synthesizer and the electric guitar are still the most modern instruments. And the electric guitar still beats up the synthesizer because synthesizers are trying to sound like guitars. And it don't matter who it is: They'll never sound like a guitar, even if they sample it till your eyeballs fall out. You're just not gonna re-create that. It's like John Lee Hooker says: "It's in you, and it's gotta come out."
