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Well, I did a harmonica instruction tape for Homespun tapes.
John Sebastian / Singer-Songwriter
Instruction
Tape
Harmonica
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My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.
John Sebastian / Singer-Songwriter
Father
Mother
Musician
Classical
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The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea.
John Sebastian / Singer-Songwriter
Band
Ideas
Jugs
Exactly
Exactly What
Jug
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Now, I was the Summer Concert guy. I played every Summer concert there was.
John Sebastian / Singer-Songwriter
Summer
Concert
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You have to remember now, I was not being terribly successful at going solo.
John Sebastian / Singer-Songwriter
Remember
Solo
Successful
Terribly
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It might be thematic work. It might be theatrical. I enjoy that kind of work.
John Sebastian / Singer-Songwriter
Theatrical
Thematic
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I certainly hear the Trombones Unlimited version of "Daydream" in a lot of elevators.
John Sebastian / Singer-Songwriter
Daydreaming
Elevators
Unlimited
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I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians.
John Sebastian / Singer-Songwriter
Musician
Past
Thinking
Strength Good Me
Musicians
Stands
Stead
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In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.
John Sebastian / Singer-Songwriter
Copying
Knows
Musician
In Other Words
Musicians
Spoonful
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Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister.
John Sebastian / Singer-Songwriter
Girl
Sister
Distracted
Kissing
Older Sister
Sometimes
Dig
Older
Moment
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When I left the band I said Look, I am ready to move on. I was interested in playing with some of the other people that I had bee a studio musician with.
John Sebastian / Singer-Songwriter
Band
Musician
Ready
I Am Look People
Bee
Interested
Move On
Studio
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I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.
John Sebastian / Singer-Songwriter
Song
Style
Ten
Theme
Trying
Onto
Pushed
Record Company
Suddenly
Theme Song
Top Ten
Wildly
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My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18, that was an early equivalent of educational television. Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show.
John Sebastian / Singer-Songwriter
Art
Educational
Father
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My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18 that was an early equivalent of educational television, a Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show.
John Sebastian / Singer-Songwriter
Afternoon
Educational
Invited
Sunday
Variety
Equivalent
Sunday Afternoon
Television Show
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First of all, I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the come, that you do have to end up in one of these musical centers, some way, to be viable, saleable and so on.
John Sebastian / Singer-Songwriter
Musical
Centers
First Of All
Particularly
Viable
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First of all I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the comeback that you do have to end up in one of these musical centers somewhere to be viable, salable and so on.
John Sebastian / Singer-Songwriter
Musical
Musician
Thinking
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But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush.
John Sebastian / Singer-Songwriter
Clothes
Couple
Guitar
Woodstock
Guitars
Manager
Member
Toothbrush
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I'm seeing and hearing lots of B to B instruments, and everybody isn't, you know, using them... a lot of these guys are trying to do it on conventional guitars, although that has its own sound, and maybe its okay.
John Sebastian / Singer-Songwriter
Conventional
Guitar
Guy
Instruments
Okay
Trying
Lots
Guitars
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Geez, I wish I could tell you I had a whole bunch of '80s hair bands, you know something you really wouldn't expect, but I don't know that the music police would be that surprised, because most of the stuff that I am influenced by is in evidence in the music.
John Sebastian / Singer-Songwriter
Bunch
Evidence
Hair
Police
Stuff
Wish
Expect
Geez
Influenced
Surprised
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To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists.
John Sebastian / Singer-Songwriter
Manage
Ownership
Publishing
Businessmen
Error
Extent
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