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I have a good time doing 'Give Me Back My Man.' Keith Strickland can really fly on the guitar.
I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.
A guitar is a guitar. Whether it was made yesterday or 51 years ago, if it's good, it will stand the test of time.
Most people don't really need to hear a six-minute guitar solo that modulates between five keys and time signatures. What they want is a good song.
When you play a guitar for a long time, you get your hand oils in there; it starts feeling good and behaving, and you just don't want to mess with that.
That gets me upset- you're jamming along, checking out the crowd and having a good time, and then your equipment goes down. You can't just stop the show and say, 'Oh, Jeff's got a guitar problem.'
Sometimes I'll write without the guitar or the piano, but most of the time I'll be playing and just improvising some words. And when I get something that sounds good, a line with a story in it, I'll try and tease it out and figure out where the story is going.