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This small tour, playing clubs, where the music is best, and where the music was actually written for is not a way to make money.
There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I think that applies to any musician.
There are a lot of songs that I absolutely love what I did.
The whole idea behind the band was to play music that we love.
The Stones used to do that a bit. Sometimes we would pull a song that was ten years old out and put it on the album.
The Stones introduced all these young people to the blues music, and I'm doing the same thing.
The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.
The last ten years have been the best of my life.
The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.
So I was releasing this tension with my solo albums, but I didn't want to play music just for money.
People will say that they never heard any of those songs before but back then, no one had heard the obscure songs the Stones were doing.
Our record was at 98 in the charts when we went so no-one knew us, so people just didn't come to our shows - we'd be in a 10,000 stadium and there'd be 300 people there.
Our first time in America wasn't a very good tour because they didn't know us because we hadn't had a hit record.
My life is really full. I am really enjoying it.
My first record I owned was by Les Paul.
It's like a record, when you make a record and you mix it and it sounds good and then it's mastered and you hear the mastering when it's all been heightened and all that and it sounds better still - it's the same thing with a book.
It's also great to work with people I've known for many years.
It would have been the first time the Beatles and Stones collaborated on stage I suppose. We have played together on record in the past.
It wasn't the be all and end all of my life.
In the Rhythm Kings I get to play smaller venues and to me that is the best part of it.