“I was recording stuff with my dad when I was like five, six years old. I played with him on tour. I'd gone with him to Japan in '91, played some gigs, did a couple shows at the Albert Hall.”
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I never really saw my dad around when the Iron Maiden and the AC/DC were playing. But he knew what I was doing. I was just absorbing music. So he just kind of left me to my own devices.
When my dad toured in '91, I think my first gig properly was the Tokyo Dome, 50, 000 people indoors. That was pretty scary. I was 12, or 13.
My dad used to say to me, 'You look more like me than I do.'
You can' t help being a musician because you've grown up with music, yet being one means being compared to your dad and being slated for it. But I really don't have the ambitions of most people going into the industry.
