That’s true. Music is a great thing. It’s a privilege to even get to play music, so I’m very happy, you know.
Oh yeah. Well, yeah. I know what you mean. What is success anyway? A lot of people think it’s about money, but not me. I mean, I’ve never made a lot of money, but I’m gonia tell you what, I’ve been one fortunate guy just to meet folks like you and Charlie Starr and the Marshall Tucker Band and all these guys .... I agree.
And, you know, get out, play with them, get to meet ‘em, hang out with ‘em and all this kind of stuff. It’s just been a fun ride. That’s my reward, you know, it’s more important to me than money, ac- tually. Absolutely. I mean, it’s nice to make a living and pay the bills. Do something that you love and actually get paid for it, but there again the monetary side was never what drove me to do it or the idea of being a “star.” I mean, I think anybody would look at the Beatles and go, ‘Wow!’ You’ve got girls screaming at ‘em and all that but it was really for the love of the guitar and the sound that you could get out of it and how you could express what you felt is what really drew me into it. And like you say man, getting to meet your heroes later in life was just something special, you know. Like I got to know John Sebastian and Al, actually, all the Lovin’ Spoonful. Never really got to know any of the Beatles. I met Ringo Starr one time but, you know, later in life, getting to meet these folks and like I say, Marshall Tucker and getting to work along with Toy and those guys- th Headhunters got to do
shows with them - getting to do shows with Lynyrd Skynyrd, actually getting to play with those guys - getting to know some of the All- man Brothers, I mean, gosh man… I’m still that kid back in ’58, listening to radio on AM, picking up all these songs firsthand, so I’m a fan first, then a musician.I love it.
I understand, I mean, I’ve said that when I’ve been interviewed before about my books and stuff, I’m a fan first, that’s the only reason that I can write about all this stuff. Then some- times people will say stuff like, ‘Why don’t you ever write anything nega- tive?’ And I just say, ‘Because I don’t write negatives things.’ I mean, I’m all about the music and the fun and gui- tars and all that. I don’t care about the seedy side. Sure, it’s out there but I don’t care about that. A lot of people, that’s what they want to read about, but not me man. I agree, Michael, I mean, there’s enough neg- ativity in the world. If somebody wants nega- tivity, just go on Facebook, go down through their timeline, you’ll find it!
Yeah. You won’t really find it on my page. I’m not gonna complain on my page, you know… I like to put up videos of folks, you know. Good feelings for me like if I wake up in the morn- ing, I’m thinking about a song by the Spoon- ful or the Beatles or the Byrds or Allman Brothers or B.B. King or whatever, I like to share that.
I do the same thing. You know, and what’s weird is I posted a video by Ron- nie James Dio today. (Laughs) Well, he was great at what he did, you know.
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