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UNDER STARTER'S ORDERS
UNDER STARTER'S ORDERS

single time we play I give it everything I've got. as hard as me in the field that I'm in. I know doing if I had not picked up a six string and
It really is all laid on the line. I'm not saying I how cynical that sounds, but I really mean it started playing."
want our music to move people, I just want it to quite humbly because if I died tomorrow I would With Jack having already commenting that
change people's mood when they listen to it be quite happy on my deathbed knowing I'd if he died tomorrow he would be happy on his
and for it to help make them feel happy. And given everything to the last people who saw me deathbed knowing he'd given everything to the
from my point of view, it's a combination of play.” last people who saw him play, we ask Jack how
making sure everything goes right at the gig It will have no doubt come to your attention he’d like to spend his last day on earth. After a
and that everything works well, not just at the that Jack's priorities for the band and as an in- few seconds to collect his thoughts, he tells us
gig, but just musically as a whole, and that dividual are somewhat similar, and so we ask about his recent meeting with his childhood gui-
everyone in the band is happy and getting on. about the things he cares about when he's not tar hero.
Giving it everything I've got, laying it all on the Jack, the guitarist in Piston. But this question "When I met Billy Duffy from The Cult, the
line and giving everything I have to give is really only helps to reveal just how important the guy who inspired me to play guitar, that day
important to me. It's one of those things where band and his music really is to him. "It really is only came about because he had seen some
I want to end every gig feeling that if I was to just music for me. My whole life is centred of the stuff we'd been putting out. People some-
never play another gig again that I could walk around my guitar playing," he tells us. "I get up times think these old school rock stars are a bit
away knowing I had done that and I was happy at 7.45am and go to bed at 3.45am most days out of touch with social media and they aren't
with what I have just done. I care so passion- and everything is music. For me, it represents really on the ball but I tell you, that man is! He
ately about everything that I do. I really don't having a great time and connecting with people is very sharp, which is why he's had such a
believe I have ever found anyone who works and I honestly don't know what I would be great career. He's very well aware of what is

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