In 1964 or 1965, I was playing with this funny, new thing that my dad had bought, which is called a tape recorder. I know it’s cliché, but it was actually Eric. What blues artists first captured your attention? But I don’t remember what I listened to until until I started hearing some blues in the mid-Sixties. He had his own little dance band and they played the holiday camps. In fact, we didn’t really have any music on at all in the house now that I think about it. But I didn’t really have any musical heroes as a child. When I was in my early teens, I started to like people like Cliff Richard and the Shadows. “You’re dredging up memories,” he says, “that were almost lost to the mists of time.” We phoned up White at his home in Petersfield, England, to hear his whole saga, going all the way back to his earliest days on the British blues circuit. I thought it would just be three weeks, but that short tour turned into 13 years.” “‘It would nice if you were in the band.’ I agreed to do it since it seemed like a nice chance to get out to America and do some shows. “Roger phoned me up and he said, ‘I’m only doing this little tour, just three weeks,'” the guitarist recalls. Simply put, there was no other guitarist on earth (short of David Gilmour) more qualified for the job. He stuck around for the 1980 Wall tour and Waters brought him back for his own 1990 Wall show in Berlin. Their history goes all the way back to 1976 when White joined Pink Floyd as a live member for the Animals tour. When Roger Waters put a band together for his 1999 In the Flesh comeback tour, bringing guitarist Snowy White into the mix was a no-brainer. This edition features guitarist Terence “Snowy” White. Here, these artists tell their complete stories, giving an up-close look at life on music’s A list. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades.
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