Cleaning out my closet tonight I found this old 91 Guitar magazine article on Rich. I read back through it and realized that sometimes I forget how cool this cat actually is. Every single thing he says in the interview is Exactly how I feel. Okay, what this interview is all about is, the interviewer has some random songs he/she picked out and plays them for Rich. Rich then tells his opinions about what he hears. Since the interview was too long to type out completely, I picked out some most entertaining ones that I thought most people here would enjoy. And when I came across him sayiing some POSITIVE things about Marc I knew I had to share it. So...for your reading pleasure.... 
Rich Robinson in the Listening Room.

"I'm Loosing You" from Rod Stewart Storyteller.
RICH: Ron Wood is probably one of the coolest guitar players ever. Ron Wood, in the Faces, was one of my alltime favorite guitar players. Once he left to join the Stones, and I love what they did with him in the band, but I thought he was kind of wasted. He didn't rise to the whole Mick Taylor thing. His records were just amazing you know. He's an amazing slide player, totally underrated as far as slide goes. Totally underrated as far as a guitar player goes. This song is like an old Motown song that they redid, and the playing is more rythmically inclined. Its a song instead of little twangy guitars that go real fast, which I can't play. As far as I'm conserned, I think this one song defines rock'n'roll. The same with Keith Richards or Steve Mariott playing in Humble Pie. This song is where I'm comming from, rythmically speaking. They did most of their records live. It used to be live back then, and now it's all studio. A lot of people want you to play 'duplicate the record,' which is not what it's about. The record is for sitting home and listening to. The live show is for going to see something different, and see the people who made this music flex their muscles. Flex their talent a little. The Faces were an amazing live band as were the Stones, as was Humble Pie, the Allman brothers. A lot of that is lost today.

"Honkey Tonk Woman" from a Stones bootleg.
RICH: I've heard so many Stones bootlegs, I've heard every way they can do it. This song represents the coolest backbeat there is. The drum sounds like a slow churning train, which is what it's suppose to sound like. The drum should go in a circular motion like a train. It's Keith's major, huge, bad-ass riffs. I hate that word riffs, 'cause it's so geekey, but whatever he plays is just so cool to me. It just totally cops a feel, right off the beginning, live. When Charlie come in, it's heaven-sent, to my ears at least. What more can you say about that song? I've heard it 18 million times, and each time I just turn it up. The drums are what makes it really cool. And Mick Taylor, 'cause he played on it live in the 70's. In '76 Keith started playing the riff, because I don't think Ron could play it too well. Mick has a style that you can hear miles away. Mick Taylor is one of my all-time favorite guitar players, when he was in the Stones. He can play so many things. He's such an amazing guitar player. Another underrated guitar player. Check him on "Exile, Beggars Banquet, Sticky Fingers, Let It Bleed." They are the four best records of all time. Actually, Brian Jones played on "Beggar's Banquet." I think Mick Taylor played on the reat of them.

"Burning Tree" from Live At Leads.
RICH: They opened for us on a club tour. Marc Ford's an amazing guitar player. He's just very fluid. He knows the guitar backward and forwards. Each solo he plays is so well thought out, and well put together, but it spontaneous at the same time. We used to watch him every night. I think he had the whole groove down. This rendition of "Burning Tree" is cool. It's exactly what they played everynight on tour, so it's a little bit faster. Burning Tree live is better than their record because it captures something. He's amazing on a wah wah pedal. He's got his gig down, which is just playing guitar, and that's what it's about. This is a new band that I actually like. They are one of the best ones. Especially "Live At Leeds" 'cause all those songs on "Live At Leeds" blow the record away. 

"Shelter Me" from Heartbreak station, by Cinderella.
RICH: The song is cool. For a newer band that started out with more metal roots, I think it's a really cool twist. Their last record was pretty good. It was actually a lot better than most albums that came around that time. The guitar playing's really cool. He plays pretty cool slide. When the guitars kick in it doesn't groove. It's on the upbeat, but I guess if it was on the backbeat it would sound like "Let It Bleed." But it's a cool song. I think if they laid back on the beat a little bit, and got a train going, I'd like it even more. It sounds real. It sounds live. There's no souped-up, ridiculous, heavy metal 'metal' guitar sound. It's not a false sound. It just sounds real. That's what I like about it. The song has cool parts. I like the melody, I like his phrasing. The backup singers are cool. They have all the things in place that make it cool to me. The music is the most important thing. What you do with it is how good or bad a record is. I think they tried to do something really cool and that's what I like about it.