Raised by wolves in the frigid Siberian forests where I started out playing drums in the local marching band. Picked up the guitar a few months before Woodstock and headed off to the Sorbonne where I studied with Chuck Berry, Keith Richards, Mark Knopfler, Bix Beiderbecke, Jimi Hendrix, Bela Bartok. Charlie Christian, Mezz Mezzrow, T-Bone Walker, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis.