Although we had a pickup (record player) in the house with LPs by the Scorpions, The Beatles and the Kinks even before 1967, the penny dropped for me when I first heard A Hard Road by John Mayall. The guitar sound was magical and the then guitarist Peter Green is to this day my all time hero. At that time, I also began my first attempts on the guitar and of course I wanted to play all those beautiful songs flawlessly as well. Eventually, many drops of sweat later, I succeeded and played in a band that only played songs by John Mayall. Consequently, all the songs from A Hard Road were in the repertoire. For me personally, the LP all has classics. Standouts are the instrumental song The Supernatural, still unmatched, and the other instrumental The StumbleThe basic lineup of this band consisted of: John Mayall vocals/piano/organ/harmonica/5 and 9-string guitars, Peter Green, vocals/solo guitar, John McVie, bass guitar and Ainsley Dunbar, drums. On the LP, some songs were augmented by a horn section. To this day, this record is the basis for my own guitar playing. From this LP I discovered the way back to the traditional American blues around the year 1900 and I studied all the developments and blues styles and eventually ended up back with the British blues, in which John Mayall in various line-ups surely played a leading role. So for me, A Hard Road was the starting point of my journey of discovery into the blues and this journey of discovery is far from over.