Ten years, all those bands and all those records and all, that all happened over about a ten-year period.
That was a lot. One book I’ve been working on, it’s got a whole discogra- phy of everything that was recorded there and it was just an amazing amount of stuff. You know, it had great bands, great songs, just a great sound. It had Phil Walden to pro- mote it, book it, sell it and the album covers were wonderful.
Oh yeah. The album covers were just as important as the music was.
Oh, I loved that, yeah. And you could just go in a record store some- where and just pick up the album and just look at the cover. The cover sometimes would sell it, you know.
Yeah, especially, I was always hoping it a gatefold or a poster, you know? Everything about those records and that time period was just a magic time. It was just magic. That’s about all I can attribute it to. Pure magic.
I miss all of that. You know, you go and can pick up a CD and it ain’t the same. Especially since we’ve gotten older and our eyes have gotten weaker and at the same time, they made the CD art smaller. That’s kind of bass -akwards, you know? Yeah it is. And most people if they even buy it, it’s a download now, you don’t even get to see the small pictures.
I know! I know! I can’t stand that at all cuz I love covers. Yeah. I want to hold it in my hand. You know.
Me too, me too. A friend of mine called me this morning, said “yeah, I just bought your CD.” That’s my Red Hot CD, you know He said, “You know, I downloaded it.” I said, “Oh shit. “ I said, “Man, you should’ve bought a hard cover ‘cuz there was a collage of all the musicians and there was a lot of thought went into just the cover of that thing.”
The CD sounds a lot better than the MP3, too. I mean, you know it does. It’s clearer. I’d like to have that “Red Hot” on vinyl. When you gonna put that out? Ah, hell. Well, it’ll have to sell more than it’s selling. To me, the collage, just the inner col- lage fold out with all of the pictures it’s worth buying just to see all them – the people.
Well, I like it too. I was tickled that a friend of mine got their photograph used in there, Peggy Peck took that pic- ture of you. Oh yeah. Yeah.
That was a good picture. I love that picture. I was gald that I was able to put photo credit for Peggy on it. At first I didn’t think I was going to get to because I thought it was going to wind up being too small but then they wound up being able to use it. I was quite happy. But anyway, this was a big breakout, this record meant a lot to me. All the times that I’ve played, all the key- board playing I’ve done on like, the Tuckers and all the stuff. You know, when I played, I always called it “playing in the cracks” you know, just a fill-in, you know, and with them, I’d hear ‘em live, I’d go out to hear ‘em live and they’d just knock me out and I’d hear ‘em in the studio and it just was lacking in some way and you couldn’t see the enthusiasm and you couldn’t hear it, it just wasn’t there. And so that’s why I figured, you know, maybe I’ll
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