How would you define a kind of music played by VANILLA – progressive rock, Rhythm Blues or?..
We called it psychedelic symphonic rock. – What style you feel more comfortable to play – blues, jazz, hard’n’heavy? Hard’n’heavy because I have been doing that more than Jazz or blues. I find blues too boring. I like heavy progressive stuff like “Guitar Zeus”. You can go to my site and listen to some “Guitar Zeus” stuff. It is cool stuff with cool time signatures and really good songs. – Do you feel after all these years you should be primarily associated with VANILLA? No. People know me from all different parts of my career. – Wasn’t it funny for you to hear early DEEP PURPLE which were heavily influenced by FUDGE? Yes, it was funny. They were the first band to make it that was influenced by VANILLA FUDGE. Many came after them… – I read two opposite opinions. One is that Jeff Beck broke up VANILLA and the second one is that it was you and Bogert who split THE JEFF BECK GROUP. What is your opinion? Well, after the Jeff Beck “Truth” and “Beck-Ola” albums came out me and Tim wanted to