forefront in these things you know, like seri- ous, in your face, here it is, kind of guitar. Chuck Berry was always cool cuz Chuck played his own solos in the songs that he wrote and sang so he was kind of like the first triple threat. But Lonnie kind of took it to the next level by being a “hot rod” guitar player… that sang and wrote his own tunes. That’s kind of the way I looked at it. Lonnie was like the click in between Chuck Berry and Eric Clapton and Cream, you know?


Yeah, he was one of the best. Like I was telling you, down in Macon, I had the opportunity to interview him years ago for a British magazine called Mojo and man… I did read that. I read that. That was a great interview, by the way.


Thanks, thanks. Knowing what I know about Lonnie, you re- ally got a good piece of him. That was very ex- cellent.


Yeah, thanks. I had a great time with him. And you know, it has a lot to do with your subject you know, if he or she is willing to talk. Some people just clam up, you know. I remember I was interviewing Leon Russell and he was giving one or two word answers and then he kinda . . . I said something and he just opened up and then he goes, “Well, you passed the test.” And I go, “What?” And he goes, “You passed the test, Michael.” He said, “ I get so many people doing interviews, they haven’t researched, they don’t know anything about my career so I just give these lit- tle stock answers. But you’re wide open now,” he said, “Anything you want to know.” It went on for an hour and a half and he had a lot to say, all the way back to the Shindig program and all that stuff, you know. That was a


good one, too. Anyway, back to you, one thing that I read was that you had actually played with Warren Zevon, right? Well, I played with Warren Zevon’s band, “Z Deluxe.” Here’s how that actually went, I’m kinda glad you brought that up cause I don’t want to ever mislead anybody about this. Here’s what happened… the band I played


with ended up playing with a band called Z Deluxe. They had been a band to themselves around the Los Angeles area and then at that point, they were called Pecos. They got hired, all but the steel player of Pecos got hired to be on Zevon’s tour band in 1982 and toured the US with Zevon in ‘82. In fact, there’s a real good video of ‘em and it’s Gary Larson and Randy Brown and Joe Daniels and a guy named John Wood. John Wood was the, you know, the more prominent of the guitar play- ers. Randy was more the rhythm guy and John played more solo stuff. Well, they came off the road in ’82, you know, with Warren and took a rest for a little bit and there was some sort of falling out between John and the


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