In the story, Hector describes leaning toward blues when he realized as a youngster that The Rolling Stones, one of his favorite bands, sounded like Muddy Waters. Before long he developed a unique sound that led some less innovative minds to question how to classify his music. They figured he was too much blues for rock 'n' roll and too much rock 'n' roll for blues. With the release of his eleventh self-produced CD on the Ghetto Surf Music label, Hector makes no apologies for not imitating the rest of the pack.

Billy Hector began playing guitar over 40 years ago at the age of nine. His influences include Freddie King, T-Bone Walker, The Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix. A 1974 Stratocaster is this fret-master's main guitar powered by an "an old Bassman". For slide work he uses a Telecaster and a Gibson Firebird.