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Sabbath”, “The Best Of Led Zeppelin”, “The Best Of Cream”. Everything that you could
want to educate someone in the early kind of rock music. And that was it. From that
point on, I wanted to be a rock star. There you go.

BiTS: Did that inspire you to start playing the guitar then?

AD: Yes, 100%. I still have my first handbook called the Black Sabbath Handbook,
again from him and that was kind of the moment where I was thinking, yes this is

my instrument. Then many a weird and wonderful turn later and you end up here.
There was a massive period of jazz fusion whilst I was at uni. A great period of funk
when I was in my late teens, and obviously the blues was one of my big foundational

moments when I first started to look
into that at around what, 11-12-ish?
Something like that.

BiTS: András, before we go any
further, let me ask you about your
name. Do you pronounce the last

name ‘dro-pa’ or ‘dropper’?

AD: So it's ‘dropper’. It is Hungarian,
but I think the origins of the surname

are Czech, in some form.

BiTS: Okay. When I first came across
you, I thought it sounds as though you

come from somewhere in South
America, I think.

AD: Oh well, you know what, I'll take

that as a compliment. Thank you very
much. I wish I was that interesting [laughs].

BiTS: Okay, let's get back to the music. So you decided that you wanted to be a rock

star, and what was the first guitar that you got yourself?

AD: Well, the first guitar that I got was a little three-quarter thing which was
absolutely rubbish. My parents, a year later, realised that well, you can't actually tell

over the phone but I'm 6’2”, so I was massive as a kid and this little guitar was
ridiculous. So they got me a Yamaha, I think it was an F310 or something, which is

like the bog-standard acoustic, but I've had that guitar since I was eight-years-old
and I still have it to this day.

BiTS: All of them are hard to play and and with an action was far too high [chuckles].

AD: Yeah, pretty much [chuckles]. But you know what, you learn, don't you? You

just get used to it, and I stand by this idea that your first guitar should be, excuse my