“Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry the punk bands from England or Sweden or Chicago or Los Angeles” RecordsRocksBandAreasEnglandAlbumsStoresLos AngelesChicagoMailPunkPunk RockSwedenRecord Stores Author:Dave Grohl
“I got that first record out, it came out in '47... Then my name began to ring around. I began to take over. From that point, I tell you, Chicago was in my hand, all the more time that those guys had to listen to me.” FirstsHandsGuyNamesRecordsRingsMore TimeChicagoListen To Me Author:Muddy Waters
“I was not a great student at the University of Chicago. I think that is - the record will bare me out. But I spent a lot of time reading history, sociology, psychology - reading everything except what I was supposed to read for class the next day.” ThinkingReadingNextClassPsychologyRecordsStudentsUniversityChicagoNext DaySociologyReading History Author:Bernie Sanders
“I think my first impression (of Bix Beiderbecke) was the lasting one. I remember very clearly thinking, 'Where, what planet, did this guy come from? Is he from outer space?' I'd never heard anything like the way he played-not in Chicago, no place. The tone-he had this wonderful, ringing cornet tone. He could have played in a symphony orchestra with that tone. But also the intervals he played, the figures-whatever the hell he did. There was a refinement about his playing. You know, in those days I played a little trumpet, and I could play all the solos from his records, by heart.” ThinkingKnowsWayFirstsHeartLittlesPlayRememberGuySpaceHellRecordsWonderfulHeardFiguresPlanetsImpressionToneLastingChicagoSoloThis GuyOrchestraSymphonyTrumpetsIntervalsRefinementOuter SpaceFirst ImpressionSymphony Orchestras Author:Benny Goodman