I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time.

I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it.

I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs.

My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.

About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck.

I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time.

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.