Everybody in my neighborhood in the '40s, they played pianos. That's how people partied. They didn't try the TV, the radio was OK, records was cool, but when people wanted to party, they got around a piano. My mother played piano, my sister played. I've been around a lot of piano all my life.
Dr. JohnIf we don't be going strong, we're going weak, and we can't afford to go weak. We've got too many problems to do that.
Dr. JohnI started out with the guitar and was a studio musician back in the 50s, and then got shot in my finger.
Dr. JohnIn 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown up with in New Orleans in the 1940s and 1950s. I tried to keep a lot of the little changes that were characteristic of New Orleans, while working my own funknology on piano and guitar.
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