Because my name is Zak and my guitar makes small children cry.

All the time...you can't play when you're dead.

It's much easier to hear bad music.

Ha. Not playing this kind of music.

I'm Zak, blah blah blah blah (----insert lots of boring self-aggrandizing bullshit here----), you can hear me do other kinds of stuff with and , I've recorded with a whole mess of other people, I hate music - it ruined my life. Just kiddin. It ruined my life but I still don't really hate it.

All the great country blues artists of the 20's and 30's, old American punk rock like the Ramones, Dickies, Dead Kennedys, pre-Rollins era Black Flag, Bad Brains, Septic Death, the Feederz, etc etc etc, electric blues guys like Robert Nighthawk, Elmore James, Hound Dog Taylor, J.B. Hutto, 60s garage punk and surf instrumentals, Western Swing, real country like Joe Maphis and Jimmy Bryant, the one and only link Wray, Duke Ellington, Bix Beiderbecke, Fletcher Henderson, King Benny Nawahii, the Legendary Stardust Cowboy, Hasil Adkins, Andre Williams, Randy Holden, the Hunger, Cliff Gallup, Scotty Moore, and David Allan Coe.

I use a guitar, a thumpick and a fingerpick, a bottleneck, and my stomping foot.