Bad experience with an electrician

Troggs music contains drum fills? And they’re considered a garage band! ;-

For those who are interested, Robben cites Mike Bloomfield as his first role model (like he, every musician I knew had their world change upon hearing the first album by The Paul Butterfield Blues Band). His second Eric Clapton (we didn't know Eric was on about half of the Yardbirds For You Love album---the other half being Jeff Beck of course, so it was Clapton's playing on John Mayall's first album that caught our attention), his third Hendrix.

What, no Albert or Freddie King?! 

The version I heard of the joke posted by @ieales goes:

Q: "What do you call an unemployed drummer?"

A: "A drummer."

Both are very hurtful ;-) .

Today I watched a number of videos on YouTube of interviews with and instructional talks by guitarist Robben Ford. In them he describes himself as self-taught (good teacher ;-), and freely "confesses" he doesn’t read musical notation. He’s done pretty well for an illiterate.

When Robben and his two brothers left Ukiah California (in a band named The Charles Ford Band, in honor of their father), they stopped in San Jose, moving into a rental house near the corner of Stevens Creek Blvd. and Saratoga-Sunnyvale Road. The bassist of my senior year high school band snagged the bass gig in the Ford Band, and I saw them live many times.

All the guitarists in San Jose had their abilities put into perspective when they saw Robben play. Seeing and hearing a talent like Robben is a humbling experience. He don’t need no sheet music! It didn’t stop him from getting work with Joni Mitchell, Miles Davis, and George Harrison (another non-reader who did pretty well for himself).