It was just like Howlin' Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of the saddest blues stuff.

Bangs once said of him:

Someday Quine will be recognized for the pivotal figure that he is on his instrument — he is the first guitarist to take the breakthroughs of early Lou Reed and James Williamson and work through them to a new individual vocabulary driven into odd places by obsessive attention to On the Corner-era Miles Davis. Robert Wolfe Quine (December 30 1942 – May 31 2004) was an American guitarist known for his innovative guitar solos. Quine was a nephew of the philosopher W.