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Alright. Here we are in West Rhode Island.
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My name is Mark H and welcome to
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Mark H Harmonic party.
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We are sitting in the basement of the
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K ba.
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Yes we are. In
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in Rhode Island, and this is mister Greg
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founding member of room full of Blues.
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And
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I've been wanting to speak to him for
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quite some time. So,
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Greg is is the original tenor player,
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And also,
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vocalist,
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and now you play Guitar as well. Right?
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I have. Yeah. For the last.
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I don't know.
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34 numbers 30 years Yeah. 30 years. So
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we're just gonna talk about
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Greg's beginnings and in music and and
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I interviewed John Necklace. I interviewed Duke boulevard,
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and
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I think you're the first horn besides. Terry
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Hank that I've interviewed. U. You know, Terry.
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I'm sure. I don't know him personal. Right.
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But you know as we. We you know.
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Yeah. Right. And I'm sure you guys got
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a lot of similar,
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idol that you listen to. We may. Yeah.
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Very I wouldn't be surprised.
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So anyway,
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as I recall, I'm going on memory here,
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but as I recall, you and Duke
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were...
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Both in the band and in room 4
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blues in 19 68. Is that correct?
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Or was it 70?
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I... Well, yeah. I was in
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Duke and I had played together before room
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full, you know, rock and roll band. All
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day. Alright. And
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and then when he started
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room full,
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Ice I went off
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with my own and roll band. I didn't
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wanna... I didn't join them then, but a
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couple years late. I think it was 67
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or 68.
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I was the heart player in whatever version
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of the band he had at that point.
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And I'm not even sure it was called
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blue. I don't think it was. Yeah. No.
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I don't think it was... I I'm that
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last person you should ask that hits the
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true history of anything. Ask.
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I know you're the last first.
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Because everyone has another different version know the
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way I remember. Right. No. I know. I'm
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like that too. I have to have comparisons.
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Yeah.
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Comparing
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opinions on things.
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This. The
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the first time you ever played here at
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the Nick bottle was 60 years ago. God.
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It was a wedding. That's amazing. I was
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13 years old.
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13. Yep. Oh my goodness.
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That's crazy. Well what what got you started
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on the horn? How'd did you get started
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on Sa for?
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I I always like the sound of tenor,
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and, you know, when I was in the
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fifties, I would hear stuff on the radio
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with a tenor on it, and
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I like that sound. So I I always
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wanted to...
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I I just had that sound in my
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head. Yeah. And... But the by the time
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I was old enough. I didn't know who
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was playing and Had the stuff I was
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hearing. Mh. But by the time I was
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old enough they were gone. You know, the
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beatles were here and the rolling stones and
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everything ready. That's... So I just use this,
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you know, sporadically,
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is
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still kinda how I use it.
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Yeah. Well, who would who would you say
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you found out
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about after a while, like, that you had
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been listening to without knowing who they were?
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Lester young. Could you own yeah Lester young
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Coleman hawkins Illinois Chi cat aren't
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G m and sonny s. So you heard
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all those guys early on didn't know who
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they were. Well, I don't... I may have.
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I I didn't figure out who they were
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until I joined room full for flight I
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was 19 years old. I see. And that's
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when... The the horn version of room full
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came into being
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and it was 2 horns the first year,
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Rich and I, Rich Lat ty and myself,
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And I, I played Harmonic and that being
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man twos. Really? Yeah. I had no idea.
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I had to let it go, man. I
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had no idea. Here at my lips.
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These guys are nuts. Yeah. We are, man.
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We like like like Dave Myers said, we
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just kinda blow brains out throughout our Harmonic.
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If you could do it without your whoops
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bleeding. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. I remember the the
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hard sheets to swell remotely when you get
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too much saliva,
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They would try start to swell and you'd
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be cutting your lips all up. Yeah. Yeah.
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That's what happened to me. I I didn't
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know why, but it
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that did you start singing right away? Or
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I saying, you know, I started a band
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when I was 13. U. You know, I
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had an alto,
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but I sang all was song. Lungs and,
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you know, I just...
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You know, I was the leader of the
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band. Right. And
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that's... I think that's kinda goes with being
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the leader. You know. Right. Right. Yeah.
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And, I had a, you know, a great
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teenage,
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you know,
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hood or whatever Teenage should, Yep. And it
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was
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it was it was amazing. It was, like,
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you know, we we always had more, you,
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I was in school. I I was in
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junior high. Mh.
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At towards the end of junior high when
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I started the first band
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stayed that way all through high school,
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played in the summertime down the beach down
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this.
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Every night. Yeah. And
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it was...
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I used to really feel like I'm... You
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know, I felt more like a star
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Did yeah? Yeah. I was like yeah. I
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didn't know as a teenager. Right. Whatever. I.
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I could see that. I could totally see
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that. Yeah. And you ever since then, it's
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been like,
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more humbling than know.
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That's great. And And you know, people love
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it. People say they like, you know, they
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they love what I do, and I say,
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you don't know who I listen to. Right.
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You're telling me that right now. You know?
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Right. And, you know, I accept the the
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the compliments, but but I can't do
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the guys who I aspire, you know, to.
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I I can do what they do. Yeah.
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Right. I try.
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Yeah. And and what's weird is that we're
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such a... It's we're such a tiny little
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sliver of everything.
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You what I mean?
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I mean, the musicians like that are end
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of the genre we're into Such a tiny
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little sliver. And then you have an even
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tin or sliver of the grades
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that were, you know,
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I I'd I can't argue with that
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in this area, nobody ever even...
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Maybe someone knew about that music, but
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when I decided to join room forward when
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I was 19, and I
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I was leaving my rock and old band,
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that it was making, you know, was all
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re. To. Right. But there was no market
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for room for here and Right. For what
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we did. Yeah. I just knew I wanted
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to play with duke because he was Yeah.
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So good. Yeah.
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What kind of gauge were you guys able
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to get in the early was are.
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It's
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I was booking the band too. Mh. That's
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I used to take a phone book
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from a different town And go to a
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different town. Every... Day, look in the phone
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book,
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look up bars and, you know, places that
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might have music,
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go in there with a tape day and
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that's how we got gigs. And else that's
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isn't not amazing that you could go in
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with a tape,
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and get gigs. Yeah. That's like an amazing
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thing. And it it was it's so different
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now. It's, yeah sad, and it's good and
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but it's sad at the same time. And
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there's no middle ground anymore. There's nothing there's
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there's nothing.
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There's everything and this right there's really 1
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between. I don't know you do. No. I
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don't know how I do I do either.
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I I love to play, I'm happy when
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I play. Right. If 1 person likes what
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I do,
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that's all I need... Mh, you know, I
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I'm I'm... Because I'm not selling to the
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masses.
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Right anywhere.
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So I've I've willing to accept
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and, you know, I'm 73 years old. So
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Mh.
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I'm not.
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Now expecting any You're younger than duke. Is
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that right? Yeah. Yep. Duke 75.
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Right. Okay. I think it'll be 76 this
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year or something Yeah.
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So when did Doug James join? Was he
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Oh, 71. Okay. Yeah. 70 the the late
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summer of 71.
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Okay. That's Duke could left the band, going
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to Maine,
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taking his cover, you know, Dung Is off.
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Right come back and he would he became
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the duke. Right he was honey beer before
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that. He was
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He was always the best the
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you know, even when I met him when...
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He was 13.
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He was great. So you were, like, 11
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when you at?
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I was 13. He was 15. He was.
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Right. He moved into this town.
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Mh. And he walked up to me. I
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was playing at the Y C. They had
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a teenage thing on Friday night. Mh.
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And he sent to me after we played
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the set, and I didn't know. I mean,
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he said, what's your favorite songs?
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And I said instantly, reel and rock and
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roll over Bay beethoven and around and around.
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And then he said, have you ever heard
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a chuck Berry.
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And I said I said no.
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That's funny.
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That is funny. I go to the beatles
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the rolling stones and the Dave Clark 5.
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That is so funny. So I my favorite
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songs on being unbeknownst to me. We're all
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very sorry. That is so funny.
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Yeah. That's great. And, so that's how I
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met duke. Yeah. That's great.
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So,
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who are the... So so besides, like those
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slack or all starts or the first blues
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songs you can think of this you were
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into.
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I had...
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When I was started to spark floor.
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You know, there was... They used to be
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record clubs. Like... Right. I remember though she
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got Columbia record club. Yeah. And I remember
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I ordered the the best of muddy waters.
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Okay. You know, that I love that cover.
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You know. Right. Yeah. Right. And
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this... It's it's a compilation of from the
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other records, I think
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Big Walter was on there. A little Walter
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was on there. I I don't... I don't
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even know who the and it was. Right.
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And the first time I heard
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a harmonic.
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I didn't know what it was. I Right.
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I thought it was home I went. Oh,
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really. Yeah. I thought it was a Sa
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phone.
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Yeah when I first heard. The only thing
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I could think of is like, you know
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what is that? You know, it's a
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So that's...
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Yeah. I still love that record. Oh, man.
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Tell me about it's heavy. Yeah. It's a
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very heavy record.
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So
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so you you played in the early room.
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You said you played both Harmonic and Sa
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in it.
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In 19 68 in 19 70 to 19
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71, and I played
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played this rich rich and I were in
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the band,
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2 sacks. Right. And I was still playing
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Harmonic. I had played before that. I was
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in the band
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once before I joined, you know, kind of
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permanently. Mh. And and then I went back
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to my rock and roll thing. I remember
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playing,
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you knew Haven in Connecticut it was
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I don't know if it was
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it was cold. Mh. And I'm playing the.
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If my nose is running Oh, man. And
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I got a big snack.
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That's when you gave it up. I said
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this ain't for me. Yeah. I don't blame
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me. That sounds horrible. Yeah.
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I can't imagine.
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So what what were your... Your first recording
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was on...
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Was that a round or? What label was
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that first 1.
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Room, the room full 1. Yeah.
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We made a couple of 40 fives oh
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to the room tone label. We own label
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Right. And
that wasn't berries label. Was it
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very broad?
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No. No. But that wouldn't be... That was
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the blueberry bear or something?
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Oh, yeah. I remember that guy. Yeah I
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I wasn't in the band. I think that
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was black cat maybe or... Okay. Yeah man.
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Right. Right Right. Right. Right.
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Yeah. Because Barry Barry and Fran both knew
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my friend Barry Broad. He was having 1
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of the manager you know Barry. I know
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very really well. He did the first first
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record on me in 19
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79.
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Cool. Yeah.
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Tree of hope records.
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He said a... You still around? How are
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you died, man.
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Yeah. Think he moved to Michigan or something
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or. I don't know he lived in San
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Francisco when I account. But I remember he
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moved
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somewhere else he he ended up Marrying, I
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think a
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lady from some other some country in Asia,
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I think. Something I'm not sure.
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First, he had a a Asian wife and
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then they divorced,
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and then I don't know who he married
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after that. I'm not sure Yeah. I I
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didn't know I mean, I knew him you
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know, we we were friendly with each other
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But that he was in providence would, you
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know, do they all live together. Yeah. Him
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finance and and and I wasn't in the
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band then and said. Yeah. I was down
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here. Right.
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So,
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you were in the band from
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from 70
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19 70 until what what date
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In 2 that been for almost 20 years.
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25 years. 25 years yeah. It wasn't it
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was April of 19 94.
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Right? So
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month before my birthday.
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It would have been...
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You know, I think it was 02:25
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years. So that's a really long time.
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Well, I've been out of the band for
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over 30 for over 30 years
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okay.
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Now at 1 point did something happen with
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your voice where you lost your voice or
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something? I had polyps and and oh, yeah,
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Polyps. Yeah I was tearing my. Self pieces
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with the Right. What I was trying to
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do with that band and Right. You know,
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I just haven't got the chops for that.
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Now did you ever take vocal lessons?
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I did after. Afterwards. Yeah. Right... That's the
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kind of thing Yeah. I still, I'm not...
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You know, my voice is when it's there.
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I'm really happy. Right. You know, I people
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like my singing. Right. But I'm not really
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a singer.
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Like, I'm not... I can't get out there
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every night and do it. For the 500
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nights, 300 nights a year. Right. Right. I
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don't know how Guys do that. But it
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seems like your voice is really
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your voices has really come along over the
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years and developed into something.
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Well, there's a little bit closer
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I have,
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you know, I I really try.
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You know, I'm I, I think I have
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it 1 day. I all I know exactly
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what I'm doing. Then I started singing and
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I said, what happened? You know, I I
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knew what I was doing well. There's a
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lot of variables we're singing to tell me
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the air,
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how dry the air or how human
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the air is.
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Yeah. Rest is a huge part of it.
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Yeah. There's just so many so many elements
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that go into it.
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So how long was Curtis in the band?
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He was only in the band for, like,
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Curtis So was only better than what a
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year to half.
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After
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I had my operation, they were using,
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Keith done. Oh, okay.
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And I said, right.
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When they said we wanna get Keith, I
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said, well, if we're gonna get a singer
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we should kind of... And not that Keith
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wasn't great at what he did, really. I
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just didn't hear him the same way, the
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kind of thing that we were
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well, at that time. I hit too chicago,
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maybe.
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Yeah. I... Well, he knew more about what
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he was doing than I
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I probably
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probably should have known Right. Better. But I
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said, well, let's pretend we... Were starting from
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scratch. I... I'm not gonna be the singer
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anymore.
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So who is there? And I I knew
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about Curtis and... Right. And I knew that
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he could do anything pretty much. And Yeah.
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But you know, he wasn't
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over his demons you haven't
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I remember
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I was there.
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Duke left in what year when he left
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for Robert Gordon, what year was at?
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Who's the late seventies. Right
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I I think it was 79
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or 70 navy was... Okay.
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Came in. Oh, I didn't know that. We
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were we were playing here
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after Duke Left, it was like thanksgiving or
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something and Stevie.
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We had never been here before. So we
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had Stevie open for us I like, wow.
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Was with him,
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and I remember we paid Stevie 30 dollars
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to a 1 course
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altogether.
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Oh, I bet
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that won't help to pay his dues. You
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know? Right. Well, yeah. That's that's reality. Yeah.
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Right. Yeah. Well, that was very embarrassing when
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I say that knowledge.
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So did she jump ship with his thing
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and go right to you you guys?
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She did. Just
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at night, she up and left. She joined
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and all of Stevie said, well, he said,
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Good luck. I had her. No you.
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And then she went back to text texas.
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It's says as you way last that long.
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Yeah. She was great and we did all
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this stuff that we should recorded with her.
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But if she wouldn't stay for 1 extra
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day. School michael
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good. I... She knows that I'm still mad
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at it. Yeah. Yeah. For that. Now did
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you work with her after that? You know?
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Well, I was with Tum, yeah, and Jim.
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Right That's right. That's right. What am I
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talking about? Yeah. You were Jimmy for a
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long time. Well,
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Jimmy. He had me on a lot of
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his records
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and
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he always would call me when he was
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making a record, and I'd do 1 song
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or 2 tucson. Mh. And it was it
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was a good setup. And then,
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when he started,
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you know,
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what the Tilt World van became, which is
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more of a straight ahead, you know, getting
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obscure
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country blue songs and turning them into blue
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songs and stuff like that.
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I mean, I loved his
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original stuff, you know,
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the kind of space stuff. III love that.
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Right.
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But he was just,
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doing Well, you know, he this does where
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he... Where me takes him. Right.
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And he's a great
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guitar player. He... He's the really he's the
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most...
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I hate to say that to the exclusion
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of other people he's the
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He is the
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most original guitar player. I ever heard. I
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agree. He's like, Louie Armstrong to
me. I
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call him Louie, you know. Yeah. Because he
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has a great tone. Yeah. And and he
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doesn't waste any thing and. Right. He uses
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a lot of... Knows was how to not
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show his hand every time,
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which I really admire. Well, he says his
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style and he and he developed that from
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listening to old guys. Yeah. And it he
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turned it into his own things. Right. He's
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the most original. I am agree of anyone
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that I ever heard. I... And he's the
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best rhythm guitar. Boy. Yeah. I mean, not
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that he's not. I love him the waist
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when he solo with. Yeah. He's got so
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much rhythm. Oh, yeah unbelievable. Absolutely.
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Yeah. So I did you did you pick
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up guitar from him at all?
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Did he show you why? No. I... I'm
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I... I'm not teachable. I.
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It's like, I can't dance. You know, somebody...
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My mother used to try to teach me
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to dance. I like, no. But what am
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I doing here? Around? I... I'll step on
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your feet. I can only dance answer the
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mic stand or that was once upon a
538
00:20:26,812 --> 00:20:27,848
time. But do that.
539
00:20:29,122 --> 00:20:30,716
Now so when you were when you were
540
00:20:30,796 --> 00:20:32,708
Jimmy you were in there how long 8
541
00:20:32,708 --> 00:20:33,679
years or some time.
542
00:20:35,036 --> 00:20:35,914
I was there.
543
00:20:37,191 --> 00:20:37,669
No. No.
544
00:20:39,026 --> 00:20:40,782
When I joined the pan, we we had
545
00:20:40,782 --> 00:20:42,710
made a record I used to go down
546
00:20:42,710 --> 00:20:45,096
there for the weekend. We'd record and we'd
547
00:20:45,096 --> 00:20:46,846
play at anton, and I go home with
548
00:20:46,846 --> 00:20:49,152
with a lot great. Oh, care much. Nice.
549
00:20:49,391 --> 00:20:50,916
Yeah. And that was a good set up
550
00:20:50,916 --> 00:20:52,344
for me because I had a day job
551
00:20:52,344 --> 00:20:54,328
back here, and I still had my gigs
552
00:20:54,328 --> 00:20:55,121
around here. Right.
553
00:20:56,470 --> 00:20:58,789
And you know, he's you know, he said
554
00:20:58,789 --> 00:20:59,506
that he wanted...
555
00:20:59,983 --> 00:21:01,893
He didn't wanna do it without me. So
556
00:21:02,052 --> 00:21:02,609
I grew.
557
00:21:03,405 --> 00:21:05,076
I said lied. And I'm gonna... I wanted
558
00:21:05,076 --> 00:21:06,907
to do this man. III did it with
559
00:21:06,907 --> 00:21:07,359
him for
560
00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:09,480
2010
561
00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:10,839
to 2012
562
00:21:10,839 --> 00:21:12,940
and... Okay. And it wasn't,
563
00:21:13,319 --> 00:21:15,240
you know, it's not that it wasn't great.
564
00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:16,140
I just
565
00:21:16,694 --> 00:21:18,692
you know, I had this other thing inside
566
00:21:18,692 --> 00:21:20,690
of me that I wasn't doing anymore. Right.
567
00:21:21,170 --> 00:21:23,567
III wanted to... I had to... Do your
568
00:21:23,567 --> 00:21:26,125
solo stuff it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So... Yeah.
569
00:21:26,459 --> 00:21:27,259
I understood, ma'am.
570
00:21:27,978 --> 00:21:29,896
1 more question before I know you gotta
571
00:21:29,896 --> 00:21:30,455
run. Yep.
572
00:21:31,654 --> 00:21:32,873
When you guys
573
00:21:33,252 --> 00:21:35,330
did that record with the tea birds.
574
00:21:36,541 --> 00:21:38,953
I know that stuff didn't get issued
575
00:21:39,489 --> 00:21:42,277
right away someday and all that stuff. Yes.
576
00:21:43,009 --> 00:21:45,004
Yeah. I don't know. III was know what
577
00:21:45,004 --> 00:21:46,201
the story was on that?
578
00:21:47,637 --> 00:21:49,712
Kim wanted to be got it. We the
579
00:21:49,712 --> 00:21:52,195
the the the kind of the running joke
580
00:21:52,195 --> 00:21:53,786
about room and in the ti birds and.
581
00:21:54,104 --> 00:21:56,729
Right. Kim wanted to be that the room
582
00:21:56,729 --> 00:21:56,888
full,
583
00:21:57,619 --> 00:21:58,971
and we wanted it to be the t.
584
00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:03,899
Answers. We ruined each other. Okay. Alright. See
585
00:22:03,899 --> 00:22:06,761
you guys kinda ruined camera. Okay. That's interesting.
586
00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:08,846
And it's great stuff. Man.
587
00:22:10,121 --> 00:22:13,625
Yeah. It's saying really great. They never didn't
588
00:22:13,625 --> 00:22:16,268
get issued till fairly recently as I. Call.
589
00:22:16,667 --> 00:22:18,260
I don't even I haven't have yet heard
590
00:22:18,260 --> 00:22:19,694
it. I think it's like, a boot leg
591
00:22:19,694 --> 00:22:21,607
that's out there. Something. It's got roll roll
592
00:22:21,607 --> 00:22:23,678
roll on. Yeah. I think it's got someday
593
00:22:23,678 --> 00:22:25,591
like shape, but I love my... You know,
594
00:22:25,670 --> 00:22:27,914
it's rate song. Yeah. And he did the
595
00:22:27,914 --> 00:22:28,869
hell out of smiley.
596
00:22:29,665 --> 00:22:32,531
He could really sync smiling. Yeah. Better just
597
00:22:32,531 --> 00:22:35,579
about anybody. That Alright. So I'm back here
598
00:22:35,579 --> 00:22:38,380
with Greg Pickle we're rest West Rhode Island.
599
00:22:38,779 --> 00:22:40,460
1 of the biggest venues she'd did with
600
00:22:40,539 --> 00:22:41,819
Client Eye left doing.
601
00:22:42,872 --> 00:22:44,857
We did the crossroads thing,
602
00:22:45,572
--> 00:22:47,082
Chicago. That's... Yeah.
603
00:22:47,797 --> 00:22:49,783
That's pretty big. I was like, 30000.
604
00:22:50,339 --> 00:22:50,736
Wow.
605
00:22:51,625 --> 00:22:53,372
Yeah that was the biggest crowd I ever
606
00:22:53,372 --> 00:22:56,231
played in front of it. Yeah. Once it's
607
00:22:56,231 --> 00:22:58,693
like surreal. I bet it is surreal. Yeah.
608
00:22:59,090 --> 00:23:00,043
I didn't think so.
609
00:23:01,014 --> 00:23:03,571
And, I do this up there. Let's right.
610
00:23:04,450 --> 00:23:05,408
Just close your eyes.
611
00:23:07,246 --> 00:23:09,895
I like little rooms. Yeah. I hear you.
612
00:23:10,134 --> 00:23:11,192
Build rooms. What
613
00:23:11,569 --> 00:23:12,845
I don't know about you, but I've always
614
00:23:12,845 --> 00:23:14,998
kinda felt, like small rooms are really the
615
00:23:14,998 --> 00:23:17,644
key to what blues feels comfortable in. But
616
00:23:17,644 --> 00:23:20,275
it really comes right down to. Yeah. I
617
00:23:20,275 --> 00:23:22,131
guess, yeah. Compared to
618
00:23:22,747 --> 00:23:25,060
guns and roses, it it makes more sense.
619
00:23:25,778 --> 00:23:27,708
More Right. Exactly.
620
00:23:28,266 --> 00:23:30,980
Because you got the intimate connection with with
621
00:23:30,980 --> 00:23:32,895
the crowd. I've always had a hard time
622
00:23:32,895 --> 00:23:34,970
when people are far away, you know,
623
00:23:35,623 --> 00:23:37,771
And there's that big gap between the stage
624
00:23:37,771 --> 00:23:39,920
and the audience. Yeah. I don't like the
625
00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:42,307
stage being too high. Right. I want it
626
00:23:42,307 --> 00:23:45,506
low, you know, bag. And mean, the people
627
00:23:45,506 --> 00:23:47,258
there. I wanna... I like to see the
628
00:23:47,258 --> 00:23:50,285
people. Right. And there's something about the sound
629
00:23:50,285 --> 00:23:51,263
that you'd get
630
00:23:51,639 --> 00:23:53,471
in a small room. It's so different than
631
00:23:53,471 --> 00:23:55,099
big stages. I mean generally,
632
00:23:55,870 --> 00:23:57,697
you know, that's where you're gonna find your
633
00:23:57,697 --> 00:23:58,889
business. Go figure,
634
00:23:59,445 --> 00:24:00,422
yeah, music
635
00:24:01,049 --> 00:24:03,603
in the music business don't really matter. No.
636
00:24:04,162 --> 00:24:06,955
2 totally different animals right think. So the
637
00:24:06,955 --> 00:24:09,051
other thing I wanted to get into is
638
00:24:09,762 --> 00:24:12,146
my favorite album that you did, which is
639
00:24:12,146 --> 00:24:12,544
the
640
00:24:13,100 --> 00:24:16,041
heavy juice cell. Yeah. And that's an album
641
00:24:16,120 --> 00:24:17,630
Might just wore that thing out.
642
00:24:19,236 --> 00:24:21,543
Yeah. It's a great record I... It's...
643
00:24:23,055 --> 00:24:24,328
When That your first soul?
644
00:24:25,203 --> 00:24:25,521
Yes.
645
00:24:26,172 --> 00:24:26,330
Okay.
646
00:24:27,045 --> 00:24:28,076
When I did that,
647
00:24:28,950 --> 00:24:30,854
it was, like, okay. I could've have had
648
00:24:30,854 --> 00:24:32,680
different guests on it. I could've have, you
649
00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:32,838
know,
650
00:24:33,809 --> 00:24:35,725
and Ron, he was in the band or...
651
00:24:36,443 --> 00:24:38,221
But when I thought about the music
652
00:24:39,078 --> 00:24:40,675
that I really wanted to do,
653
00:24:41,393 --> 00:24:43,204
I just said who's the... What's
654
00:24:44,118 --> 00:24:46,026
what's the best man to do this stuff
655
00:24:46,185 --> 00:24:46,685
And
656
00:24:47,616 --> 00:24:49,762
in my mind, it was the old original
657
00:24:49,762 --> 00:24:52,249
room guys. Right. And me being
658
00:24:52,638 --> 00:24:54,328
for the first time actually
659
00:24:55,336 --> 00:24:58,670
using them as my band. Right. Right. And
660
00:24:58,670 --> 00:24:59,805
that's why the album
661
00:25:00,274 --> 00:25:02,188
I I believe that's why it came out
662
00:25:02,188 --> 00:25:04,581
the way it did. Because yes. It's focused
663
00:25:04,581 --> 00:25:05,081
on
664
00:25:05,458 --> 00:25:08,648
1 thing and and everybody played their asses
665
00:25:08,648 --> 00:25:09,148
or
666
00:25:10,099 --> 00:25:12,740
it's a phenomenal record, now. And it's all
667
00:25:12,740 --> 00:25:14,500
instrumental. That's the other thing I forgot to
668
00:25:14,500 --> 00:25:16,419
mention is it's is a couple of that
669
00:25:16,500 --> 00:25:18,019
I think that I did hide with it.
670
00:25:18,339 --> 00:25:18,660
I did,
671
00:25:19,794 --> 00:25:21,628
couple of things on them, baby. I'm going.
672
00:25:21,787 --> 00:25:24,259
I think a handle hammond and insisted on
673
00:25:24,259 --> 00:25:26,572
it. And. I didn't wanna do any. That
674
00:25:26,572 --> 00:25:28,007
baby. I got... A baby I'm gone as
675
00:25:28,007 --> 00:25:30,010
a great 1. And I I gotta say
676
00:25:30,010 --> 00:25:31,757
there's... There... You know, it's funny. I mean,
677
00:25:32,153 --> 00:25:34,059
with most people, it's kinda like there's certain
678
00:25:34,059 --> 00:25:36,575
numbers that just totally fits your style. And
679
00:25:36,932 --> 00:25:38,842
Hey. How was Hammond to work because I
680
00:25:38,842 --> 00:25:40,513
talked to Helen all the time. Oh,
681
00:25:41,547 --> 00:25:43,138
Scott, We're talking about it at Black top
682
00:25:43,138 --> 00:25:45,309
records. He he was fantastic.
683
00:25:45,779 --> 00:25:47,772
Pretty much stayed out of the way.
684
00:25:48,331 --> 00:25:50,186
But, you know, everyone was,
685
00:25:50,643 --> 00:25:53,274
you know, conscious of him being there and
686
00:25:53,274 --> 00:25:54,173
mh. And
687
00:25:54,884 --> 00:25:57,539
the van just did it, you know, when
688
00:25:57,597 --> 00:25:59,113
we just knocked it off. Yeah.
689
00:26:00,310 --> 00:26:03,437
It was the 2 2 sessions. But kinda
690
00:26:03,437 --> 00:26:05,134
your owed to all the
691
00:26:05,512 --> 00:26:07,028
original influences this that?
692
00:26:07,666 -->
00:26:11,268
Yeah. It's absolutely young rib. Price suck. Yeah.
693
00:26:11,665 --> 00:26:14,367
III was... When I do those those homage,
694
00:26:15,003 --> 00:26:16,592
you know, my wife next 1 after that,
695
00:26:16,751 --> 00:26:19,135
this sack like it was homage and
696
00:26:19,708 --> 00:26:21,084
That was all instrumental.
697
00:26:21,460 --> 00:26:22,916
Right. And it was the same
698
00:26:23,452 --> 00:26:24,965
continuation of that only and it was with
699
00:26:24,965 --> 00:26:26,160
the core cortez. Right.
700
00:26:26,893 --> 00:26:28,648
Well, it's a killer man. And you shot
701
00:26:28,648 --> 00:26:30,723
a great last night too sick, man, now.
702
00:26:30,962 --> 00:26:32,558
Yeah. It felt good. It's easy to play
703
00:26:32,558 --> 00:26:33,915
with guys who can play. Yeah.
704
00:26:34,566 --> 00:26:36,395
Because I only know 3 notes. Like I
705
00:26:36,395 --> 00:26:38,701
had the same 3 notes to get razor
706
00:26:38,701 --> 00:26:39,519
low 3
707
00:26:40,451 --> 00:26:42,439
and make more than any other Sa plan
708
00:26:42,439 --> 00:26:42,916
per note.
709
00:26:45,001 --> 00:26:45,320
Yeah.
710
00:26:45,878 --> 00:26:47,952
But I... You know, let's talk about a
711
00:26:47,952 --> 00:26:49,946
little bit about some of the, I I
712
00:26:49,946 --> 00:26:52,418
love... Always love hearing worse stories about, like,
713
00:26:52,577 --> 00:26:54,821
room falling down. Like that. And now do
714
00:26:54,821 --> 00:26:56,593
you get port on their port?
715
00:26:57,285 --> 00:26:59,033
We asked them if he wanted to join
716
00:26:59,033 --> 00:27:01,154
and and he did. And It's,
717
00:27:02,385 --> 00:27:03,758
you know, he was always
718
00:27:05,004 --> 00:27:08,099
great. And he he didn't, you know, he
719
00:27:08,099 --> 00:27:10,907
he was just a real player. Yeah. And
720
00:27:10,907 --> 00:27:13,005
he was okay being in a man with
721
00:27:13,065 --> 00:27:15,222
being in a book meal. Book mobile with
722
00:27:15,222 --> 00:27:16,201
a bunch of young
723
00:27:18,824 --> 00:27:20,649
he used to say again. You'll get yours
724
00:27:20,649 --> 00:27:21,308
someday date.
725
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:24,380
And and he was right. But he he
726
00:27:24,380 --> 00:27:25,888
retired at 65.
727
00:27:26,859 --> 00:27:28,457
He joined the band. I think when he
728
00:27:28,457 --> 00:27:28,957
was
729
00:27:29,656 --> 00:27:30,556
in his fifties,
730
00:27:31,414 --> 00:27:32,314
and and,
731
00:27:33,013 --> 00:27:34,531
you know, he was the old guy in
732
00:27:34,531 --> 00:27:36,265
the band. Right. I think
733
00:27:36,942 --> 00:27:40,768
65 is when you retire. Right. Right. Alright.
734
00:27:41,326 --> 00:27:44,137
So he he he had he left and,
735
00:27:45,247 --> 00:27:47,960
yeah. It wasn't the same after pork left.
736
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:50,774
And then and then did you hire Ronnie
737
00:27:50,833 --> 00:27:51,732
straight out of
738
00:27:52,602 --> 00:27:53,557
Duke departure?
739
00:27:54,352 --> 00:27:54,671
Yes.
740
00:27:56,023 --> 00:27:58,887
Ronnie Ronnie called me up and told me
741
00:27:58,887 --> 00:28:01,443
that he was interested, and that I was
742
00:28:01,443 --> 00:28:03,665
interested too. Yeah. And I I... That's the...
743
00:28:04,142 --> 00:28:06,444
I never... We never talked about Ronnie yesterday,
744
00:28:06,603 --> 00:28:07,055
and
745
00:28:07,491 --> 00:28:10,189
I did want say that when I compare
746
00:28:10,189 --> 00:28:11,062
the 3 guys,
747
00:28:12,173 --> 00:28:13,229
you, do
748
00:28:14,474 --> 00:28:15,451
ronnie, and
749
00:28:15,997 --> 00:28:16,394
Jimmy.
750
00:28:16,871 --> 00:28:18,642
Mh. Duke was the encyclopedia.
751
00:28:19,174 --> 00:28:22,828
Oh, god. Jimmy was the inventor and and
752
00:28:22,987 --> 00:28:23,963
Ronnie was
753
00:28:24,674 --> 00:28:26,515
played 1 note you knew who he was.
754
00:28:26,914 --> 00:28:28,855
Right. It looks like hell
755
00:28:29,315 --> 00:28:32,055
Hansen got the quality. Yeah. And
756
00:28:32,690 --> 00:28:33,089
you know,
757
00:28:34,450 --> 00:28:35,329
it's all needed.
758
00:28:36,450 --> 00:28:37,890
Like like that. No. Right.
759
00:28:38,929 --> 00:28:40,929
Well, I saw... I mean, I never saw
760
00:28:40,929 --> 00:28:43,016
the bandwidth do. I only saw you guys
761
00:28:43,016 --> 00:28:43,572
would grind.
762
00:28:44,604 --> 00:28:46,033
I think every time I saw you guys.
763
00:28:46,272 --> 00:28:48,280
You know, we never went on the road,
764
00:28:49,051 --> 00:28:51,607
extensively until after duke left. Right.
765
00:28:53,995 --> 00:28:55,746
But I heard well, we're were talking about
766
00:28:55,746 --> 00:28:57,257
the t birds and you guys,
767
00:28:57,815 --> 00:29:00,317
and I heard that those guys were instrumental
768
00:29:00,373 --> 00:29:02,064
kinda getting you guys out on
769
00:29:02,438 --> 00:29:04,344
on the road in terms of playing in
770
00:29:04,344 --> 00:29:06,488
in Texas and places like that.
771
00:29:07,538 --> 00:29:10,109
I went through about California or not, but
772
00:29:10,247 --> 00:29:11,761
I I don't think you guys came out
773
00:29:11,761 --> 00:29:14,470
to California would good did you? No. Yeah.
774
00:29:15,444 --> 00:29:17,382
I went to my mailbox
775
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:21,618
at the post office in Bradford Rhode Island
776
00:29:22,237 --> 00:29:23,855
1 day and there was a postcard
777
00:29:24,807 --> 00:29:26,799
And it was nothing written on it. Was
778
00:29:26,799 --> 00:29:29,029
this his guy on the front, standing out
779
00:29:29,029 --> 00:29:31,180
in the field with a long beard. It
780
00:29:31,180 --> 00:29:33,515
was was Billy Gibbons. I didn't know I
781
00:29:33,515 --> 00:29:35,674
didn't even know who he was. Right. Right.
782
00:29:36,154 --> 00:29:36,654
And
783
00:29:37,035 --> 00:29:39,048
there was nothing written on the card. So
784
00:29:39,128 --> 00:29:40,722
I I just who the hell is the
785
00:29:40,722 --> 00:29:41,360
this. Yeah.
786
00:29:42,635 --> 00:29:44,229
And he was the guy who brought us
787
00:29:44,229 --> 00:29:46,380
to taxes for the first. Billy Gibbons. Yeah.
788
00:29:46,714 --> 00:29:47,615
We played it
789
00:29:47,994 --> 00:29:49,194
disco in Houston,
790
00:29:50,154 --> 00:29:52,335
that he rented out or something. And
791
00:29:53,994 --> 00:29:55,115
did he get people there?
792
00:29:55,848 --> 00:29:58,709
It it it was ridiculous. He... Basically, we
793
00:29:58,709 --> 00:30:00,457
were there because he wanted to year us.
794
00:30:03,254 --> 00:30:05,571
That's kinda like Mick Ja kinda shit in
795
00:30:05,571 --> 00:30:05,651
it.
796
00:30:06,690 --> 00:30:09,428
I've never experienced Mick. Yeah Been
797
00:30:09,806 --> 00:30:11,658
you know, we got to play with. Count
798
00:30:11,658 --> 00:30:13,570
base on the on the bill lot with
799
00:30:13,570 --> 00:30:16,380
count base. Yeah. Few... Yeah. We played Rose
800
00:30:16,518 --> 00:30:18,999
ballroom room right opening for the how basic.
801
00:30:19,395 --> 00:30:21,322
Ron was on ted with.
802
00:30:21,852 --> 00:30:24,151
Yeah. A gray on t bone and lot.
803
00:30:24,388 --> 00:30:26,627
You know, it it was how that's the
804
00:30:26,627 --> 00:30:28,622
kind of stuff the... Right. And when when
805
00:30:28,622 --> 00:30:30,616
we played with Queen ed vincent and we
806
00:30:30,616 --> 00:30:32,792
got backing him up, and
807
00:30:33,423 --> 00:30:35,971
Jim jimmy witherspoon his phone. Yeah. With big
808
00:30:36,051 --> 00:30:37,564
Joe. You yeah, Big Joe,
809
00:30:38,679 --> 00:30:41,249
but the the real... The 1 that really
810
00:30:42,039 --> 00:30:44,272
we mesh with the vest. We were backing
811
00:30:44,272 --> 00:30:46,347
those guys up and right. You know, it
812
00:30:46,347 --> 00:30:48,660
was the same style of music. Mh.
813
00:30:49,153 --> 00:30:51,622
But Roy Brown was the 1. 0, god.
814
00:30:51,861 --> 00:30:54,648
Yeah. It was like... Yeah. This is the
815
00:30:54,648 --> 00:30:56,161
this is the missing Element.
816
00:30:56,639 --> 00:30:57,356
What we need.
817
00:30:57,849 --> 00:30:59,849
Yeah. And then a few weeks later he
818
00:30:59,849 --> 00:31:00,170
died.
819
00:31:00,650 --> 00:31:01,130
Wow.
820
00:31:01,609 --> 00:31:03,609
Yeah. That's... Yeah. I saw him about a
821
00:31:03,609 --> 00:31:04,570
year before he died.
822
00:31:05,224 --> 00:31:06,984
And I saw him a couple times when
823
00:31:06,984 --> 00:31:08,825
he was so spectacular.
824
00:31:09,305 --> 00:31:11,144
Yeah. And and it was almost like he'd
825
00:31:11,144 --> 00:31:13,970
been, like, you know, in this time capsule.
826
00:31:14,742 --> 00:31:17,684
Yeah. You what? Yeah. And and we were
827
00:31:17,684 --> 00:31:19,354
kind of an in a time capsule too.
828
00:31:19,672 --> 00:31:21,634
You're trying to be in in a time.
829
00:31:23,266 --> 00:31:25,017
And it was a... It really was, like,
830
00:31:25,415 --> 00:31:27,484
we were a band. God, It's a shame
831
00:31:27,484 --> 00:31:28,837
you guys never got to record.
832
00:31:29,887 --> 00:31:31,319
Yeah. That's you know.
833
00:31:32,831 --> 00:31:34,582
There's a lot of shame that happened.
834
00:31:37,143 --> 00:31:38,976
Did you guys play games with stone too?
835
00:31:39,055 --> 00:31:41,684
Did do you mean spell? Yeah. Okay. Yeah.
836
00:31:41,923 --> 00:31:44,871
And and see. We plan at the Blue
837
00:31:44,871 --> 00:31:47,935
note in New York okay with the
838
00:31:48,788 --> 00:31:50,483
Jimmy with a phone and
839
00:31:52,291 --> 00:31:52,871
it was
840
00:31:55,013 --> 00:31:56,922
it might have been Jimmy Mc when I...
841
00:31:57,161 --> 00:31:58,831
There was... There was somebody else on the
842
00:31:58,831 --> 00:32:01,081
bill too really. Right. And it was
843
00:32:01,949 --> 00:32:04,977
it was the day that Benny Goodman had
844
00:32:04,977 --> 00:32:06,252
passed away. Really.
845
00:32:07,845 --> 00:32:09,222
And I remember
846
00:32:09,931 --> 00:32:12,316
you know, getting that stage and, you know,
847
00:32:12,634 --> 00:32:15,099
I I almost said, Benny King instead of
848
00:32:15,099 --> 00:32:16,315
been any good
849
00:32:16,928 --> 00:32:17,428
made
850
00:32:17,738 --> 00:32:20,066
because that the blue was, like, a nasty
851
00:32:20,281 --> 00:32:21,156
and it's so... Yeah.
852
00:32:21,792 --> 00:32:22,928
Absolutely. And
853
00:32:23,620 --> 00:32:25,131
but it was, you know it was great.
854
00:32:25,464 --> 00:32:28,329
Well, the Rose ballroom that's really pretty... Yeah.
855
00:32:28,489 --> 00:32:31,036
That was special to me. That's really special.
856
00:32:31,593 --> 00:32:34,634
We've rubbed shoulders in. We played... We backed
857
00:32:34,634 --> 00:32:35,670
up Helen Hughes.
858
00:32:36,148 --> 00:32:39,198
Wow. You know, And she had Ellis Watkins
859
00:32:39,255 --> 00:32:41,508
with her playing Piano. They're not
860
00:32:41,885 --> 00:32:42,363
flu.
861
00:32:42,761 --> 00:32:43,214
He was
862
00:32:43,810 --> 00:32:45,899
he was amazing piano player and,
863
00:32:47,782 --> 00:32:50,086
you, you know, Joe Turner, we had White
864
00:32:50,165 --> 00:32:52,151
Glen 1 time. You know. Okay. Yeah. I
865
00:32:52,151 --> 00:32:54,234
played with White glove time Yeah. He was
866
00:32:54,234 --> 00:32:56,145
a great guy. You ever play with Lowell?
867
00:32:57,499 --> 00:32:58,534
No. Never did.
868
00:32:59,489 --> 00:33:00,843
Yeah. I get a gig 1 time with
869
00:33:00,922 --> 00:33:01,241
Lowell?
870
00:33:02,685 --> 00:33:05,146
Lloyd glenn and good... Earl good rock and
871
00:33:05,146 --> 00:33:08,082
brown. Mh. Which is pretty incredible. Like something
872
00:33:08,162 --> 00:33:09,608
Malt broke it. String.
873
00:33:10,965 --> 00:33:11,204
Hey.
874
00:33:13,199 --> 00:33:13,699
That.
875
00:33:14,476 --> 00:33:17,521
I broke 4 strings in 1 song. Did.
876
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:19,907
Oh, man I kept on going. That's pretty
877
00:33:19,907 --> 00:33:22,133
good. So you were too strange sam's that
878
00:33:22,133 --> 00:33:22,292
1.
879
00:33:23,961 --> 00:33:25,711
How did the founders come down?
880
00:33:27,717 --> 00:33:28,036
A.
881
00:33:28,754 --> 00:33:30,828
I was because out my spear that whole
882
00:33:30,828 --> 00:33:34,114
thing. Okay. And and just a... What we
883
00:33:34,114 --> 00:33:36,028
should, you know, the time gone by and
884
00:33:36,028 --> 00:33:37,942
we should get together and right do this
885
00:33:37,942 --> 00:33:40,256
thing. And and he was right. But, you
886
00:33:40,256 --> 00:33:42,568
know, everyone was in their own thing at
887
00:33:42,568 --> 00:33:44,419
that point, you know, and it was hard
888
00:33:44,419 --> 00:33:46,576
to... It's hard to get the founders and
889
00:33:46,576 --> 00:33:50,092
then and the founders or... Who... Because everybody's
890
00:33:50,092 --> 00:33:51,710
so busy. Who are the founders
891
00:33:52,024 --> 00:33:52,581
You know, right?
892
00:33:53,456 --> 00:33:54,115
Of the.
893
00:33:54,967 --> 00:33:55,047
Yeah.
894
00:33:55,922 --> 00:33:57,831
A made the name up and or did
895
00:33:57,831 --> 00:33:58,331
in,
896
00:33:59,757 --> 00:34:00,952
were you benjamin, Franklin?
897
00:34:04,141 --> 00:34:05,895
It seems like you guys have had kind
898
00:34:05,895 --> 00:34:06,953
of an inc
899
00:34:08,784 --> 00:34:10,704
relationship off and on for quite a while
900
00:34:10,704 --> 00:34:12,704
in terms of playing on each other's records.
901
00:34:13,905 --> 00:34:14,304
Yes.
902
00:34:14,704 --> 00:34:15,204
And
903
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:17,519
You. You, dupes or...
904
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:20,400
Yeah. Sometimes it drives you crawl you thinking
905
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,039
of it. Okay. It's it's like the the
906
00:34:23,039 --> 00:34:24,980
cast of characters in the sense
907
00:34:25,454 --> 00:34:26,328
in this area,
908
00:34:28,631 --> 00:34:30,459
sometimes I say, well, I gotta...
909
00:34:31,015 --> 00:34:33,199
I got wanna get out of it. Right
910
00:34:33,259 --> 00:34:35,177
wait. Right. You know, it's... I mean, I
911
00:34:35,177 --> 00:34:36,935
love... I love those guys and, you know,
912
00:34:37,095 --> 00:34:39,492
Duke because is is the best at what
913
00:34:39,492 --> 00:34:40,632
he does. And
914
00:34:41,251 --> 00:34:41,751
but
915
00:34:42,621 --> 00:34:44,925
I would always... Whenever I play with Duke,
916
00:34:45,481 --> 00:34:48,023
whenever you want duke. That's that's basically how.
917
00:34:48,182 --> 00:34:50,168
Right So it's now I it's still his
918
00:34:50,168 --> 00:34:52,724
being. Yeah. Yeah. Just see this. He's the
919
00:34:52,724 --> 00:34:55,184
guru. He's the he's the guy you're gonna
920
00:34:55,184 --> 00:34:57,644
defer to. Yeah. Yeah. And and then rightly
921
00:34:57,644 --> 00:34:59,390
we saw. Right. Right.
922
00:35:00,834 --> 00:35:02,978
Way. Yeah. Well, god. I mean, you guys
923
00:35:02,978 --> 00:35:04,884
go how many... Go back how many years?
924
00:35:05,916 --> 00:35:07,504
Well, to 1 I
was through to you
925
00:35:07,504 --> 00:35:09,989
it's when I met him. So... Yeah. And
926
00:35:10,539 --> 00:35:12,539
and you're sending me 03:60
927
00:35:12,539 --> 00:35:14,220
years ago. Yeah. Wow.
928
00:35:15,019 --> 00:35:16,140
That's incredible, man.
929
00:35:17,260 --> 00:35:19,434
It's really amazing So what are you got
930
00:35:19,434 --> 00:35:20,954
what are you got going these days? I
931
00:35:20,954 --> 00:35:22,574
mean, are you doing, like, a
932
00:35:23,275 --> 00:35:23,835
still? Or...
933
00:35:25,035 --> 00:35:27,444
Why? I... It was a trio. That's what
934
00:35:27,524 --> 00:35:30,576
I remember trio playing guitar. Yeah. And
935
00:35:32,070 --> 00:35:34,303
my he work player plays great left handed
936
00:35:34,303 --> 00:35:35,260
base. And because.
937
00:35:36,393 --> 00:35:38,311
He's been with me for 25 years.
938
00:35:39,030 --> 00:35:39,590
She itchy.
939
00:35:40,389 --> 00:35:41,209
She she.
940
00:35:41,668 --> 00:35:44,305
Oh. He's from Japan? Yeah. Wow.
941
00:35:45,039 --> 00:35:46,877
But he lives, you know, he's over here.
942
00:35:47,117 --> 00:35:47,676
He Mh.
943
00:35:49,034 --> 00:35:49,534
And
944
00:35:50,152 --> 00:35:52,150
he was fresh out of Berkeley when when
945
00:35:52,230 --> 00:35:54,164
I first time I played with him.
946
00:35:55,444 --> 00:35:56,964
We had a gig in new York City,
947
00:35:57,605 --> 00:35:59,204
and I went up and met
948
00:35:59,844 --> 00:36:01,864
On Friday and the gig was on Saturday
949
00:36:01,924 --> 00:36:03,875
was at Chicago blues and moist
950
00:36:04,331 --> 00:36:06,641
that. Yeah. And I I love playing there.
951
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:08,632
Yeah. That was the great place. I like
952
00:36:08,632 --> 00:36:11,181
to do. And is my favorite Was sofa.
953
00:36:11,994 --> 00:36:12,472
Yeah. Yeah.
954
00:36:14,148 --> 00:36:16,782
And I I dropped my cds off. I
955
00:36:16,782 --> 00:36:18,298
said these are the songs I do. These
956
00:36:18,298 --> 00:36:20,148
are the keys I do them in. See
957
00:36:20,148 --> 00:36:21,024
it tomorrow night.
958
00:36:22,058 --> 00:36:23,571
And he came. And he nailed it.
959
00:36:24,526 --> 00:36:25,026
Wow.
960
00:36:25,481 --> 00:36:28,289
So I was like, wow. We bad same
961
00:36:28,426 --> 00:36:29,302
and he did.
962
00:36:30,271 --> 00:36:33,555
So, yeah. Who's your drummer? Steve Lang,
963
00:36:34,010 --> 00:36:37,846
yee he's Casting as well. Yeah. And they
964
00:36:37,846 --> 00:36:40,559
both teach it vertically these xi and Steve.
965
00:36:41,117 --> 00:36:41,277
Okay.
966
00:36:42,314 --> 00:36:43,692
Steve is excellent
967
00:36:44,004 --> 00:36:46,310
so, you know, he can do anything. So
968
00:36:46,310 --> 00:36:48,298
what's your radius in terms of the gigs
969
00:36:48,298 --> 00:36:49,014
you guys do?
970
00:36:49,968 --> 00:36:52,036
If the gig makes sense, I'll go anywhere?
971
00:36:52,529 --> 00:36:54,286
You know, that's kinda... But Right. I don't...
972
00:36:54,846 --> 00:36:56,763
I can't book it to or... Right. You
973
00:36:56,763 --> 00:36:57,882
know, it's a this notes.
974
00:36:58,521 --> 00:37:00,293
You know, it was so much easier in
975
00:37:00,293 --> 00:37:02,208
the old veins. And you're, you book a
976
00:37:02,208 --> 00:37:04,522
day. Okay. It's a good gig. I know
977
00:37:04,601 --> 00:37:06,517
I can fill in the space is, you
978
00:37:06,517 --> 00:37:08,846
know, but right. That's going away. And sure.
979
00:37:09,085 --> 00:37:11,320
It sure. I, you know, it hasn't completely
980
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:13,714
gone away, but it's close to going. Yeah.
981
00:37:13,874 --> 00:37:16,041
But you... Yeah. I'm like persist and it's
982
00:37:16,041 --> 00:37:17,947
all get out. Yeah. I can tell that.
983
00:37:18,185 --> 00:37:18,344
You,
984
00:37:19,376 --> 00:37:22,473
you gotta be... Yeah. You it's... I can't
985
00:37:22,473 --> 00:37:23,108
see it, you know,
986
00:37:23,918 --> 00:37:25,371
God bless you. It's all.
987
00:37:26,857 --> 00:37:28,525
I mean, to be able to work every
988
00:37:28,525 --> 00:37:30,273
night of the week on a tour still
989
00:37:30,273 --> 00:37:31,544
is kind of a phenomenon.
990
00:37:32,911 --> 00:37:34,425
You know, and and I'm able to do
991
00:37:34,425 --> 00:37:37,133
it somehow. I don't know how, but Well,
992
00:37:37,372 --> 00:37:37,531
yeah.
993
00:37:38,726 --> 00:37:40,876
I'm just... Like I say, it's persistence for
994
00:37:40,876 --> 00:37:43,364
me. Who would have thought that a a
995
00:37:43,364 --> 00:37:44,640
little harmonic. Alright?
996
00:37:46,713 --> 00:37:48,947
Could go so far it makes so much
997
00:37:48,947 --> 00:37:49,744
loud noise.
998
00:37:52,234 --> 00:37:54,234
And may Well, we still love it though,
999
00:37:54,474 --> 00:37:54,795
Don't.
1000
00:37:55,594 --> 00:37:57,034
I mean, don't we still love play it,
1001
00:37:57,194 --> 00:37:58,795
and that's why I do it. Yeah.
1002
00:37:59,289 --> 00:38:01,356
From it's. I love to love to play.
1003
00:38:01,594 --> 00:38:02,889
And it's not about
1004
00:38:03,820 --> 00:38:06,602
business for me at this point. It's it's
1005
00:38:06,602 --> 00:38:09,244
about playing for people who wanna hear music.
1006
00:38:09,483 --> 00:38:12,110
III wanna still wanna go places and be
1007
00:38:12,110 --> 00:38:14,897
places where people have never heard it before
1008
00:38:14,977 --> 00:38:17,063
And Right. I I feel like I can
1009
00:38:17,063 --> 00:38:19,773
do it. So... Yeah. But I... I'm not
1010
00:38:19,773 --> 00:38:20,490
driven to...
1011
00:38:21,286 --> 00:38:22,800
You know, I have a manager.
1012
00:38:24,011 --> 00:38:26,162
Right. Bonnie told. Bonnie. Yeah. I know, Bonnie.
1013
00:38:26,401 --> 00:38:27,857
And she came back
1014
00:38:28,233 --> 00:38:30,862
a couple years ago and after... I begged
1015
00:38:30,862 --> 00:38:33,583
her for years, you know? Right. Right. Please
1016
00:38:33,583 --> 00:38:35,726
manage you know, Great. But you've been with
1017
00:38:35,726 --> 00:38:38,028
her off on for years. Right? Yeah. After
1018
00:38:38,108 --> 00:38:39,933
I left room full like, 5 doing, you
1019
00:38:39,933 --> 00:38:41,123
know, and 5 each other.
1020
00:38:41,774 --> 00:38:43,152
Yeah. And she's
1021
00:38:43,530 --> 00:38:45,766
I mean, she's amazing. Yeah. That was great.
1022
00:38:46,005 --> 00:38:48,719
Totally amazing. That's great. Alright. Does she have
1023
00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:50,795
many clients? I know Gabe S was with
1024
00:38:50,795 --> 00:38:51,526
it. Yeah.
1025
00:38:52,399 --> 00:38:53,375
I don't think she
1026
00:38:53,828 --> 00:38:55,757
she nurture him and got
1027
00:38:57,797 --> 00:38:57,956
Yeah.
1028
00:38:59,004 --> 00:39:01,393
Right. And I'm kind of, like, unfinished business.
1029
00:39:01,632 --> 00:39:03,862
She... She doesn't like to fail. So Well,
1030
00:39:04,659 --> 00:39:07,048
you know that's great. That's what you need.
1031
00:39:07,447 --> 00:39:08,759
Yeah. I had.
1032
00:39:09,137 --> 00:39:11,771
Does she manage jen book her or mainly
1033
00:39:11,771 --> 00:39:13,288
just manage or how's does that work?
1034
00:39:14,326 --> 00:39:16,582
Does she manage? She you said she manages
1035
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:18,894
you? Because she also booked the jobs for
1036
00:39:18,894 --> 00:39:21,375
you or she she does the follow. I
1037
00:39:21,375 --> 00:39:22,014
have an agent.
1038
00:39:23,295 --> 00:39:23,795
It's
1039
00:39:24,175 --> 00:39:26,903
chip Dent. His name is. Okay. So she
1040
00:39:26,903 --> 00:39:27,403
kinda
1041
00:39:27,855 --> 00:39:30,314
keeps she him. He gets the gains, but
1042
00:39:30,314 --> 00:39:31,901
she makes a match. She makes them out.
1043
00:39:32,059 --> 00:39:33,983
And I got you. Yeah. That's what a
1044
00:39:33,983 --> 00:39:35,179
manager really good see.
1045
00:39:37,014 --> 00:39:40,126
And she's relentless. Well, good. You need that.
1046
00:39:40,619 --> 00:39:43,244
I know. You definitely need that. Us.
1047
00:39:43,881 --> 00:39:45,950
And we had a ball last night. I
1048
00:39:45,950 --> 00:39:47,462
was so glad he came down and play
1049
00:39:47,462 --> 00:39:49,651
with us. Yeah. I mean, it was really
1050
00:39:49,789 --> 00:39:50,608
just great
1051
00:39:50,985 --> 00:39:53,139
listening to you and being up there because
1052
00:39:53,139 --> 00:39:53,617
it was, like,
1053
00:39:55,213 --> 00:39:57,286
everyone's just doing the right thing. You know
1054
00:39:57,286 --> 00:39:58,259
it's like, yeah. It's...
1055
00:39:58,977 --> 00:40:02,031
That makes it so easy that Yeah. Yeah
1056
00:40:02,409 --> 00:40:05,043
I remember when Lou ann maker her for
1057
00:40:05,043 --> 00:40:07,932
a solo record that. Right she left room
1058
00:40:07,932 --> 00:40:09,791
for Jerry We was signed
1059
00:40:10,409 --> 00:40:13,685
to in in in muscle shoulders and right
1060
00:40:13,685 --> 00:40:16,879
glenn fry was the producer. The record. I
1061
00:40:16,879 --> 00:40:17,672
didn't do that.
1062
00:40:18,466 --> 00:40:21,719
She she insisted on them calling me up
1063
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:23,644
to be on the record. Cool do a
1064
00:40:23,644 --> 00:40:25,505
couple of songs. Right? And
1065
00:40:26,204 --> 00:40:27,885
I could tell it wasn't working when I
1066
00:40:27,885 --> 00:40:28,364
got there.
1067
00:40:29,405 --> 00:40:32,613
Blue and Pig. Just be you. I said
1068
00:40:32,693 --> 00:40:34,128
I'm being me win.
1069
00:40:35,085 --> 00:40:38,595
This doesn't swing and at all. Right. Alright?
1070
00:40:39,472 --> 00:40:39,871
It's like,
1071
00:40:40,524 --> 00:40:42,599
and it's... I was over overdo on stuff
1072
00:40:42,599 --> 00:40:44,915
that they had already done. Right. It it
1073
00:40:44,915 --> 00:40:45,574
was like
1074
00:40:47,070 --> 00:40:48,747
say can't... You know, you don't know what
1075
00:40:48,747 --> 00:40:50,359
to do. Right? Right.
1076
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:53,480
So what happened? I mean, did they... I
1077
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:54,859
did some, you know, I played
1078
00:40:55,319 --> 00:40:58,299
did the business good? Yeah. Yeah. And
1079
00:40:58,693 --> 00:40:59,748
I got the play
1080
00:41:00,279 --> 00:41:02,342
sat in with junior walker 1 time at
1081
00:41:02,342 --> 00:41:04,880
the Lone star on 50 second street.
1082
00:41:07,039 --> 00:41:07,539
And
1083
00:41:08,717 --> 00:41:11,193
he was it was so great. And he
1084
00:41:11,193 --> 00:41:12,951
was, you know, he sat in with us
1085
00:41:12,951 --> 00:41:14,664
and he was, like, and
1086
00:41:15,045 --> 00:41:18,325
he was playing, you know, school man. How
1087
00:41:18,325 --> 00:41:20,644
cool. And he was saying. I said man.
1088
00:41:20,885 --> 00:41:22,565
That was so great. He said you great.
1089
00:41:22,885 --> 00:41:24,096
Guys. No you agree.
1090
00:41:25,692 --> 00:41:26,728
No. You're greater.
1091
00:41:28,164 --> 00:41:31,115
He he was what he did. He did
1092
00:41:31,115 --> 00:41:32,550
it better than anybody. Yeah.
1093
00:41:33,347 --> 00:41:33,847
Absolutely.