I tend to think of the organ as part of the rhythm section, rather than a frontline voice.
New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.
When I started out, even though you had your rhythm section, they were big horn sections, strings, live people laying on every part of the floor in the studio waiting for their chance to get on that one little track.
And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.
I don't want to be a lead player. I don't want to shred and play fast licks. I just want to be the best rhythm section ever.
An important part of being in a band is the rhythm section.
My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.
If you don't have a good rhythm section, your band is toast; you're a bar band. Good rhythm section, you've got a chance to get out of the bar.
I had the house rhythm section at a club called the Sundown in Hartford. Stan Getz came up and played with us.
It's always been my dream to have a monster rhythm section that's just all groove and pocket.
