BRAD WHITFORD

guitarist with rock band Aerosmith

“I listened to a lot of my brother’s records, and he was huge into the Kingsmen, so I thought they were pretty cool, too.

“But one of the very first records that I bought is kind of funny. I forget how old I was, but it was a Mamas & the Papas album, the one where they’re in the bathtub.

“I think it was a mail-order record.”