I really feel fortunate to have been around then because there have been good and bad years in rock but the best years were '55 to early '61. I got to see Buddy Holly and everybody else.

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.