one, but for the others. We were the house ban for Sheryl [Crow] and Willie [Nelson] and everybody that fell into that category, we wound up being the band. And this l;ast one he did with Keith [Richards].


Do you have a favorite memory from the Crossroads festivals? The Chicago one we loved because of Lou’s Pizza. We ate so much pizza we thought we were going to die! (Laughing) What I remem- ber about that was people would kind of filter in off stage and they had a two story thing where you could go up there, and everybody could watch everybody play. And when Jeff Beck played I noticed that every guitar player was up there watching. Someone saw me looking and they said, “Well. There’s all of us, and then there’s him.” (Both laughing) I love that memory. The respect he was getting, that everybody was watching. The funniest mem- ory of all was in Chicago, and Susan and Derek [Tedeschi & Trucks] were playing and I think Ronnie Wood was playing with Buddy Guy, maybe Johnny Lang, but they were play- ing that Stones song (hums “Miss You”). And I’m there, not a care in the world, just loving it. They finished the song and I’m singing the melody, (singing the melody without words) and Susan walks by and gives me this really shitty look. She thought I was cat calling her.(Both laughing) I jumped up and ran across the stage and I said Susan! Susan! It’s me!Vince! I was just singing the Rolling Stones song! We laughed our heads off at that. I love that memory. So many great memories. Meeting people for the first time. I met Joe Bonamassa for the first time. It’s just great fun to be around that amount of talent. Very remarkable. Like being a kid in a candy store. Truthfully. It’s like, he was a hero of mine when I was a kid, and now we’re friends. I would have never dreamed any of that stuff would ever happen. You’re in your bedroom trying to learn “Sunshine of Your Love” and you say, oh yeah, we’ll jam together some day.


(laughing)


What do you love most about music? I love the emotion. And I know I’m in the mi- nority, but its a comfort, you know? I know not everybody hears it to the lengths and the depths and the spirit that I do.Everything speaks to people in different ways and no one’s right and no one’s wrong. I’ve just al- ways known how emotional it is to me.People say “why are your songs so sad?” I say, be- cause my life is perfect. I don’t go to my music for happiness, I go to my music for melan- choly. I go to my music to be moved and in- spired and to get better. That’s the cool thing, I am almost 60 years old and I am still getting better. I haven’t flipped the other way and lost my mobility or my voice. That’s what’s funny is you spend all of your life climbing this mountain, trying to obtain all of this in- formation, then you get to the top and you find out you don’t need it all, and you start getting rid of some of it. Somebody said one time, “the most important thing is the notes you leave out.”


What are you most proud of in your ca- reer as a musician? I think I stayed level. You’d have to ask friends. You’d have to ask people that had known me for 40 years, but I think that they all, with a straight face would say “he’s the same dude.” My failures didn’t affect me and neither did my successes. I never believed the good things they said about me or the bad. (Laughs) I’m pretty comfortable in my own skin.


After selling millions of records and winning every award there is -twice- what motivates you to keep playing? I guess it’s - I understand the reason why I ever started doing it. I always knew there was no “brass ring.” I just loved it. I didn’t care where I went. To me the success at 19 was paying the rent, not having to get a real job.


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