Chess Quote by Jeff Beck

It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good…

— Pete Townshend

It was more about getting together with other musicians and playing live. I needed to suss out a full set [for the Last Summer…

— Eleanor Friedberger

And for it to make the statement the way that it did, for 'Controlled Chaos' to debut in the Top 10 of the iTunes…

— Nita Strauss

We once played Strathclyde University's student union where they had a crash barrier in front of the stage. I thought that was a little…

— Sam Lloyd

There was a conflict - the actual putting together of the reality of the situation didn't seem to gel. I'd been doing kind of…

— Van Morrison

I did whole Latin albums and it was like Beatlemania for me in the Latin world, the screaming girls, not being able to leave…

— Jose Feliciano

When I joined the band I was coming largely from an improvising background, and the idea of a fluid rhythm that was really coherent…

— John Dieterich

It's all very hazy to me now. I'm glad I made it through that stage. It got a little dicey. There were some drugs…

— Neil Young

At some of the venues, the audience was so loud we could hardly hear what was happening on stage, which kind of threw us…

— Roger Andrew Taylor

When they played, it wasn't music. It was the sound of chaos. I knew it was the sound of chaos because you could hear…

— Lewis Black

We could easily have made 'Arise II' and plenty of fans would have been happy, and we probably would have been OK with that,…

— Max Cavalera

There's something about the rawness of the live thing, there's no rhythm guitars behind the solo, nothing other than what you hear the people…

— Chad Smith