At the age of 8, he saw the performance of the Beatles at The Ed Sullivan Show, became fanatically interested in the work of the Liverpool band, and learned to play guitar.

Two years later, he traded a worn-out Beatles disc for a new album by the Rolling Stones and increased his involvement in rock music.

This aired on March 16, 1984, where the group energetically performed a new composition "True Men Don’t Kill Coyotes", and the already proven concert number "Get Up and Jump".

[6] He subsequently collaborated with Bob Dylan in Knocked Out Loaded,[1] funk musician George Clinton in R&B Skeletons in the Closet,[7] as well as Feargal Sharkey and Peter Case.

[9] Anthony Kiedis, the lead vocalist of Red Hot Chili Peppers, wrote in his 2004 autobiography, Scar Tissue, that the band understood its relationship with Sherman to be transient because he did not possess "a punk-rock pedigree".

[14] Red Hot Chili Peppers' bassist Flea would post his own personal tribute to Sherman on Instagram nearly a month later, saying that while their relationship was "complicated", he cited Sherman as an influence on his music and his life saying he "played the most wicked guitar part on our song 'Mommy Where’s Daddy', a thing that influenced the way I heard rhythm forever.