With good timing and great guitar riffs, the trio capitalized on newly-discovered synthesizer sounds, sexy cars, sexier women and their own roadhouse look (cheap sunglasses, outlandish twirling guitars and two of the 20th century’s most famous beards) to pioneer merging music and video. He formed the Blues Agency in the mid ’80s, and continues to tour and record with his other bands, the White Flames and the Snowy White Blues Project, which in 2009 released their first album, In Our Time of Living. BG: When I was 12, I started the attack on my parents to get an electric guitar instead of drums and sure enough, Christmas Day—I’d turned 13 on December 16th, and nine days later—lo and behold there was a guitar and a Fender amp.