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 was rooming with Jimmy Bowen at the time, doing some gigs, then I went back to New Orleans and played there in '62.

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

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

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

I think my favorite album was probably Realization.

Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick.