I had just finished touring, opening for Stevie Nicks, when Dave called. It had been a great tour, my first since 1982, and now I was getting songs ready to do When All the Pieces Fit. But I put all that on hold, even though I couldn’t wait to get back to it. Now Dave and I were actually going to play together; we hadn’t done that since the art block stairs in ’62.The fact was that he could have any guitar player in the world come out and play with him and he chose me. He knew that the world was confused as to what I was—I’d first arrived in the US as this guitar player with Humble Pie, but then I had this huge record where, yes, there is great guitar playing on it, but there was this perception out there due to my looks and choice of wardrobe that I had slipped back into the teenybopper mode. Dave saw how the perception of who I really was had changed and knew I wasn’t happy. He gave me a huge gift by taking me around the world, and reintroducing me as the guitar player. I could not and can never thank him enough. That was a huge leg up he gave me, and from that moment on, I started to get my confidence back, and it made a huge difference to me and what was to come.I went to his house when I arrived in Switzerland and the… Click below to read the full story from Esquire
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