I have been influenced as much as I’ve lived. Being from Trinidad, its a different scene, and a different style of music. It’s steel drums and calypso, that's my main influence. I think now that I look back it sets the stage for a wider variety of music in general as opposed to sounding exactly like somebody you say influenced you. I was more influenced by the music that was around, everybody's musical, we played music all day everyday. I use to listen to music a lot and I never really learned any of these songs. I listened to Sly & the Family Stone, Al Green, Otis Redding, James Brown but not learning the stuff. In Trinidad somebody tried to turn me on to this guy named, Jimi Hendrix. Well I couldn't understand it, I didn't like it. When I came to Toronto, a guy made me an offer to learn some Jimi Hendrix material and get into a Jimi tribute band. He guaranteed me a huge amount of money. I thought okay I like that and so I did it. Since then I’ve realized that I’ve been influenced by Jimi, we have a similar soul, a free spirit. As far as influences, back in trinidad you have lots of spare time I would just pick up my guitar, I new I had the music in me. I wanted to write, just develop my fingers and play whatever I hear or feel. That’s what would spark it up or triggers it.

2. What does your live set up consist of?

When I do big shows like outdoor concerts and stuff I like to use a Marshall 4x12 cabinet or two and a 100 watt JCM Marshall head. I cant stand 50 watts, drives me insane. I like my sound to be loud and clean. So you don't have to whack your strings hard and end up breaking them. I have a crybaby vox wah wah, delay, chorus, octave, multi effects pedal. For the clubs and smaller gigs I use a Fender twin100 watt and the same array of pedals. And also, sometimes when I feel a little groggy I use an octaver. Any sound is a good sound if you utilize it wisely. The main thing is don't get scared when you hear strange sounds put them into the mix.

3. Has there been lows & highs of touring?

I really love it . I can’t say its all a high. What I really like about it is that you get into a zone. Knowing that your not gonna be well rested for too long. I get into a zone, no sleep, travel, do interviews, talk to people. It’s all good, its all a high to me. I just look forward to it, talking to people turning them on to what we do. Honestly I can’t really think of times when I’m touring and I’m down.

4. What was it like to record for Warner Brothers and to have your music produced by Arnold Lanni?

It was a great influential and learning process for me because I’ve never recorded my own music before. Warner is like big time, it was a real high. The recording session with Arnold that was a learning process. Me being the green horn and Arnold, he had number one billboard hits. He was at the helm, controlling everything. We locked horns a few times because of things he would say to me, like you will do it my way because I’m the one with the billboard hit, you know nothing. I had to let that fly because you know you try to get by. I learned so much from that guy. The songs that I brought to him, he took my songs and rearranged some things and stuff like that. We never sat down and wrote stuff together. It was all my stuff. He would open up a whole new door that would show me, I knew how to do it but I never did it.

5. You have portrayed Jimi Hendrix in the Monkey movie, “Day Dream Believers” for TMN What was that like?

I did that almost three years ago. It was fun doing the movie. Everybody wants to take a picture with Jimi. I’m a member of ACTRA, have a portfolio and do auditions when in I’m in town but music is the main thing.

6. What kind of feel is your new CD,” True Bliss”? Is there a particular song that you’d like to mention?

I did two CD’s with Warner that had a blues/rock feel. “True Bliss” is really what I want to do, songs from my soul not for radio. There is a couple of heavy, classical, Wild T songs but the feel is mostly playful. Songs about love. The world needs more love. “Heaven Knows How Much I Love You” was written for my eight year old daughter. Unlike past recordings every song has keyboards. Jeff Healey makes a debut appearance on “Just Can’t Get You Out Of My Mind”, its haunting. There is a cover of Carol Pope’s “High School Confidential”, she sings back up vocals and the version is nothing like the original. It’s done in a different way, a much heavier way. Trumpet legend, Guido Basso plays flugle horn & trumpet on the CD as well. The music on “True Bliss” is MLM, that stands for Music Lover’s Music, a new title for music as opposed to R&R.

6. How long is the European “True Bliss” Tour and what do you have planned?

The tour is five weeks. We’re doing clubs in Amsterdam, Germany and Belgium. There are a few festivals. I’ll be playing the Rother Blues Festival in Germany with the Yardbirds and Phil Guy. In Belgium for the PeP 66 Festival with Mick Taylor and Ian Hunter. In August we’re in California for the Fire on the Mountain Blues Festival with Robben Ford.