Joe Perry's 6-String Bass

[michelej1]

Excerpt from an article about Joe Perry's tour:

http://www.expressandstar.com/2010/0...or-a-uk-debut/

Perry cites two English groups in particular as major influences on his playing – Bad Company and the original Fleetwood Mac, whose song Somebody’s Gonna Get (Their Head Kicked In Tonite) he covers on Have Guitar, Will Travel.

“That’s a song I can remember them playing that when they would come to Boston in the States in the late 60s,” he says.

“Fleetwood Mac has always been an influence on me, and Peter Green’s stuff, that approach to the blues roots but playing rock and roll. All of the people with the English bands were interpreting the American blues and it was so exciting for us suburban kids, we’d never heard anything like that . It was a whole new genre.