Albert Lee on Ritchie Blackmore, Eddie Van Halen and his five years with Eric Clapton: “He fired his whole band twice, but I managed to survive”

“I've always played what I wanted to play and fortunately for me, I've always played with artists whose music I liked, so I really fitted in at the time,” Albert Lee tells Guitar Player .

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