Were you still using that guitar when you began playing progressive rock with Jon Hisemans Colosseum II?
Yeah… When I got that guitar, my place didn’t have a lock on the door, so I used to sleep with it under my bed, and I’d even take it to the movies. Even the case was interesting, because Peter told me that Eric Clapton gave it to him after [Clapton’s] Les Paul had been stolen, so I think I’ve got the case from the guitar that was on the Bluesbreakers album, and I’ve got the guitar that was on A Hard Road. Scary (laughs)! You’ve apparently had an appreciation for vintage guitars throughout your career, because on the cover of The Wild Frontier, you’re holding a natural-finish Gibson ES-5. That’s right; that guitar’s actually for sale in London. I got that guitar from Greg Lake when I played with him. It’s a very nice one. He has quite a selection of old acoustics. Is it fair to say that overall, your career in the ’80s was primarily hard-rock-oriented, while the ’90s were primarily blues-oriented? Yeah, absolutely. I left Lizzy in 1980, and had a band called G-Force, then got into my
