Scofield looks back on his ’80s music—and his time spent with Davis—fondly. “It looks funny to us now, because of the fashion and some of the synth sounds,” says Scofield. “And Miles was actually bigger than a rock star; that’s my theory- -that rock stars kowtowed to Miles. A rock star’s just a rock star; this was Miles Davis, man, the giant of modern music who was playing the rock star role. When Miles played, people like Jack Nicholson and Bob Dylan and Mick Jagger would kowtow to him. He was the number-one guy, period, culturally, in music. I remember the Montreux gigs [soon to be released on DVD] as being especially good for us. Miles at that point—sometimes he wouldn’t play; he had a social life that was happening, going to rock star parties and stuff, and I don’t think he played that much. But when we went out on tour, he really got his chops up. And for Montreux, we’d been playing a couple weeks.” Read the full interview
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