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

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

I think my favorite album was probably Realization.

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.

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.