Complex sentence: By the age of 18, he started to join a number of new wave bands and would gig regularly, but his infatuation for pre-war acoustic blues continued to develop, which led to a chance encounter with Jeffrey Lee Pierce from The Gun Club.
Split into simpler sentences: By the age of 18, he started to join a number of new wave bands and would gig regularly. But his infatuation for pre-war acoustic blues continued to develop and led to a chance encounter with Jeffrey Lee Pierce from The Gun Club.