John Popper
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I go get a Butterfield live album.
I mean, people don't understand how ignorant I actually am about, you know, who musicians are and like the names of people.
I would be calling you Alan if I hadn't been watching you a lot.
Sure.
And I get a Paul Butterfield album, and he's amazing.
And I go to kiss the album.
It's a double album, and I actually dropped it on the floor.
It was the live album.
But I learned drifting and drifting on the second disc by heart.
Every day I would wake up and play that thing.
Butterfield was playing a bunch of Elmore James tunes.
This got me back into the old blues stuff.
So from Elmore James, I learned Muddy Waters.
I learned...
John Lee Hooker.
And this eventually led me to Jimi Hendrix.
And when I heard Voodoo Child, the long version with Stevie Winwood, that's when I was no longer interested in comedy.
And from there, it was all about music.
And how many hours a day would you say you played music?
That's the thing.