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JO: So we did 301 gigs last year and we should do roughly the same this year, if all things go to
plan, you know.

BiTS: Do you have a favourite guitar player for yourself at the moment? Contemporary musician?

JO: There's lots of favourite guitar players,
obviously Bill Kirchen, Redd Volkaert, Danny
Gatton, Albert Lee. More in the Blues vein,
Hubert Sumlin, the early Johnny Guitar Watson

stuff. Junior Watson, Ry Cooder, Elmore James.
Lots of stuff —Mick Green.

BiTS: What about contemporary musicians,
people that are playing today?

JO: I don't know. I don't really listen to anybody
modern.

BiTS: [Laughing] When you're touring with the
band, how do you travel? Have you got a bus, or
you just do it in cars or what?

JO: Well, we've got like a people-carrier car, you
know? But we had a car accident last week and
smashed it up. [Laughing] That’s another story
that is.

BiTS: So you’re keeping very, very busy indeed.
What's your long-term ambition? What do you
want to do in the end, what do you want to
achieve?

JO: Just to keep playing guitar for a living and

not have to do anything else.
BiTS: Have you got hundreds of guitars?

JO: Oh, 50.

BiTS: Oh, wow! Getting on for 100. What’s your favourite type of guitar?

JO: Telecasters. I’m a Telecaster player.

BiTS: Are you now?

JO: Yes.

BiTS: And why Telecasters as opposed to Strats?

JO: Well, I got a couple of Strats. I used to play a Strat, but I just like the twang of Telecaster, you
know.

BiTS: Tell me something about the kind of audiences that you have? Is it mostly middle-aged
people or are you getting youngsters coming along?

JO: Very rare we got anybody young. I mean, I'd like young people to come, and I mean, like
when we do gigs in the Old Duke in Bristol, you get a lot of students and they seem to like it like,