There were some older guitarists on my side of town, and I got to know many of them.

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• Tommy Shaw:

  We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to s

• Tommy Shaw:

  Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for th

• Tommy Shaw:

  You can have fun, but you also have to put on your thinking cap every day.

• Tommy Shaw:

  I've always stuck with Gibsons. I've had Guilds and Fenders, too, but I always wind up going back t

• Tommy Shaw:

  Les Pauls work out real well for me because I'll beat the hell out of them and they'll still work.

• Tommy Shaw:

  I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments.

• Tommy Shaw:

  Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke,

• Tommy Shaw:

  If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me bec

• Tommy Shaw:

  I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or

• Tommy Shaw:

  If music became extinct now, I don't know what I'd be good for.