Dan's Licks

Matt tells the story about when Dan was learning to play the guitar, when Dan was about thirteen and Matt was sixteen. Dan would play the guitar in the mornings before school and pick it up as soon as he got home, playing sometimes late into the night. Matt remembers lying in bed one night when Dan was trying to get an Eric Clapton riff down, it may have been from one of the Cream albums. Dan would play a tape of the riff and then try to play it himself. Matt said, “I heard the Clapton tape, then I heard Dan, then I heard the Clapton tape, then I heard Dan, then I heard the Clapton tape, then I heard the Clapton tape, then I heard the Clapton tape…and I knew he’d got it and we could both go to sleep.”