fill this void over here, there’s a crack here that needs some piano licks in there and sort of like playing with one hand tied behind my back, you know. Try not to do too much with- out it getting into the identity of the band but still is there, you know.
Yeah and just be a part of the band. I said I was a crack player but with this record I tried to get out of the cracks and I’m even coloring outside the lines.
That’s right, that’s right. That’s my life’s motto. In fact, I’m gonna take an opposite approach. Instead of cutting the tracks and then coming in and filling in the piano last, I want to cut the piano first. Because the way we cut this stuff, we cut piano and drums, then we added everything behind the piano. So a friend of mine got a copy of it when it first came out and he said, “Man, yeah, I like “Mess Around” and some of them other tunes.” He said, “I really like it when the piano follows the bass line.” And I said, “Well, I appreciate you lik- ing the record but that’s not how it happened. The bass line is following the piano line.” (Laughs) That’s how it happened. So we cut it with piano and drums and then we went and added the bass and the guitars and so…
Worked out good. That was the approach for this record, you know.
Well what made you decide to do this after all these years, to do this solo record? Well, I just wanted to show that I could play piano. I had never shown it before. I always just played, as I said, “just enough.” And so with it being my own record I could do what in the hell I wanted to do, you know.
Do you play any guitar on that record?
No, it’s all keys.
See, I didn’t know until today that you played guitar. This is the first time I’ve ever heard that you started out as a gui- tar player. That was my first love, was guitar playing.
(Phoro by Peggy Peck)
Ah yeah, makes perfect sense. I might play some guitar one of these days on something but most of my guitar pickin’s is at home these days. My kids kept after me to write a book. I said, “Well, you know- every- body’s written about all that stuff, you know.” I said, “Most of it, I’ve forgotten now any- way.” (Laughs) And the stuff that they’d want to read about I would have to go into witness protection if I wrote it. But they were sort of like they wanted me to leave something be- hind, you know, like a book. And I said, “Well, I’ll cut a CD.” I’m studyin’ and I said, “That’s what I’ll do. I’ll cut a CD.” That’ll be something if I don’t ever cut another one, at least I got one.
Do you have any fond memories or fun stories of recording Red Hot? Well, it was a labor of love, as they say. I can’t remember just . . . it was serious business. Just like when we were cutting the Tucker al-
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