the old days- I’m starting to feel like my own dad - “back in my day” - but it’s true, you would hear records, like say for instance, Marshall Tucker Band or Charlie Daniels Band, and you’d say “ I just love that” and you’d go see them live and it sound just like the record - you know they might jam on it, and all like that, but it sounded the same. Nowadays, a lot of these artists, bless their hearts, (both laugh) you go to see them live and say “is this the same person??” 'Cause it’s kind of hard to do the auto-tune and all that live.
Yeah you’re right, they can go in the studio and they add all these things on there that they can’t do live. I remember back then discussing that when we would make a record, and say, “wow, we can‘t put that on there, we can’t do this live - so why even bother?”
Right. Speaking of your “John Lennon” song, I’ll tell you what. Today, I found the email address - you know I got to do that interview with Yoko Ono last year- I found her publicist’s info and I’m going to try my best to get them to let me send that song to her. I would be honored to have her hear that song. That’s one thing that was so cool about John Lennon. Somebody in a French inter- view asked me “Why John Lennon, why did- n’t you use Paul McCartney?” And Paul, well he’s still alive, but John was such a rebel. What a great man, what a great voice that would get out there and speak his mind and really worked for what he believed in.
Not only that but the music just went through my mind and - (singing) “What would you do Paul McCartney?” It’d be a little hard to
put in the alliteration. (Laughs) Yeah, (laughs) no that wouldn’t really work.
I love that guitar playing on that song, man.
That was a lot of fun doing that. I couldn’t wait to record that thing. I heard that whole ending in my head. I wanted to have that “I am the Walrus” kind of vibe to it. It was so much fun doing that.
Yeah, some of your harmonies on there sounded kind of Beatle-esque. Oh Yeah
I love it. I understand that on the album you’re not playing all the instru- ments yourself. Yeah, I am. I had my friend, Dr. Jim Rungee come in and play harmonica on “Just Like Abraham” but everything else - I played everything, again. (Ed. Note: he did the same on his first release, Skeletons in the Closet)
I didn’t know you were a drummer, too.
Yeah, you know, growing up I played drums in high school and Tommy and I had the Flat Creek Band together. We had double drums in it and I would play guitar half the night and drums half the night. It was kind of a love. My mom would never let me have a set of drums, but....
Did Flat Creek ever do any recording? Yeah, we’ve got a bunch of stuff that Tommy saved up and they made some CDs and they sell them somewhere. And I have a whole trunk full of reel to reel tapes that Tommy had of old stuff that I need to get transferred over to CD’s.
I’d love to hear some of that. I’m such an archivist.
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