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Lee Rocker Quotes

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I started on the cello, playing classical music as a little kid, when I was about 7 years old. Both my parents are classical musicians. My dad is the solo clarinet for the New York Philharmonic, and he's a professor at Juliard School of Music. So, I grew up on opera, and the real start of music - not going back to Elvis, but going back to the 1600s. I did that until about age 12 or 13. At that point, I was listening to rock and roll and loved it, like any kid, and at a certain point it wasn't too cool to be carrying a cello to school. You don't get laid too much with that, you know! (laughs). So I picked up an electric bass, and always loved roots music, played in blues bands and cover bands, high school bands throughout the 70s. From the electric bass, I got an upright bass and around age 14 I was doing both. Eventually, I got rid of the electric one and went exclusively to stand-up bass. We started the Cats in 1978, we were all high school friends, playing around Long Island, and getting into [New York] city at places like Max's Kansas City, CBGB's, and we kicked around New York.
Lee Rocker

The band actually broke up twice. We had the band together from 1978 to 1984, and part of it was the grind of being on the road for years on end, and that eat up everything - our personal lives, everything. We had a good run there, from '78 to '84, and we broke up at that point sort of for musical things and just being burnt out. At that point, I did 2 records with Phantom, Rocker, and Slick - Slick was David Bowie's guitar player, and he played with John Lennon on Double Fantasy, and is a great, talented player; and we did that with Jim [Phantom] from the Cats. And Brian [Setzer] went off and did 2 solo records as well. I guess we each did 2 records. And then we re-formed in '88, and went to '92. Really, it's like, we're friends, we grew up together, we've known each other probably since we were 10 or 11 years old, and we spent a lot of years in a car sitting next to each other, or a plane, or a train, and working together, and it really just seemed like time to do some different things. I'm real happy doing what I'm doing, and Brian is, and so is Jim. We talk, we're friends, but it's a relationship that kind of ran its course in a way, you know? 
Lee Rocker



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