“Dylan asked, ‘What’s the least amount of notes you can play?’ I said, ‘I could play one.’ He goes, ‘Do that’”: Fred Tackett compares his gigs with Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, and Bob Seger, and recalls his friendship with Lowell George

Fred Tackett.

Fred Tackett has played guitar on albums by Jackson Brown, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, and Fleetwood Mac – but his inspiration is hardly mired in classic rock alone.

“I think of what a funky saxophone player would play,” he tells Guitar World. “It always just kills me.”