This is a bonus outtake from my interview with George Hurley of Minutemen and Firehose.

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So what was the stuff that you were listening to and playing along with?

Well, the stuff I was listening to and playing along with, well, Rush had started coming

onto the scene. But I was, before that, I was listening to Robin Trower, BTO, Fogad,

a lot of Jimmy Hendrix, I love Jimmy Hendricks yeah did you relate to

Mitch Mitchell in the same way you related to Keith Moon yeah in fact I was when when

Jimmy Hendricks played with Buddy Miles God I felt like it was betrayed you know

because because Mitch was just the drummer for Jimmy.

Right.

You know, and that I didn't really care for the Bunny Miles and Jimmy thing.

You know, it was more straight-ahead rock thing.

I just liked Mitch Mitch better.

I liked his playing better.

I don't know for some reason.

But I, well, about the same time that punk rock came

in, I also, like I said, I was getting into jazz music for some crazy reason. And I started going to

the lighthouse in Hermosa Beach, which is a really old jazz venue. And I saw

some really amazing musicians there, Max Roach and all kinds of guys. And that made sense to you

right away, what Max was doing? Well, I couldn't, I couldn't, I can't even play some of that

stuff that those musicians played. I call them magicians because it was just

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