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But I always loved songs with great lyrics.
My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.
I think my favorite album was probably Realization.
The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game.
The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender.
If you're going to get into music, you've got to learn the 12-bar blues.
Beware of pretty faces that you find, a pretty face can hide an evil mind.
About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck.
Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick.
I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs.
I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it.
That rich guy you've been seeing, must have put you down. Welcome back baby, to the poor side of town.
One thing will lead to another and somebody will come up with a riff or a line or something we build from.
I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time.
I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I.
I was rooming with Jimmy Bowen at the time, doing some gigs, then I went back to New Orleans and played there in '62.
All summer long we spent dancin' in the sand, and the jukebox kept on playing Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music.
When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.
I took care of myself. Basically I'm a vegetarian, I run every day, I exercise. I kind of control my living habits. I try to get a good night's sleep every night, I don't stay up all night and do all that stuff.
What I really remember is that people camped out everywhere, and the fact everybody expected it might turn into a big nightmare with all sorts of hassles because back in those days everybody was smoking pot and taking acid.