else. It has a certain garage thing going on.
I loved that whole documentary. To see Otis Redding, it was great. He had the best back up band of all time. Booker T. and the MGs.
Kooper with Steve Martin and John Belushi- Wild and Crazxy Guys!
maybe we should have somebody on the other side of the stage so there would always be live music going on.” He said, “No, I have to deal with everything on stage and I don’t want to have a band up there.” That decision that he made still goes on today. So just a little thing like that was something that had never hap- pened before. There had never been a show where there was a 20 minute or half hour change over between bands. So that was one thing that we had to deal with and that was the first time that had ever happened. His name was Chip Monk and it is a tribute to him. It still goes on today some 40 years later. It was a good decision on his part. That thing that I did there at Monterey was a jam ses- sion, we didn’t even rehearse. That is pretty obvious by the visual. (Laughs) They came to me and said we want to use this in the special edition DVD. I felt it was totally embarrassing and my wife said, “Use it, you look great!” So I said, “Alright, I’ll buy that.” That is the only reason I let them use it, because it is embar- rassing. It’s more humorous than anything
Let me ask you this. Now that you have Black Coffee out what are your imme- diate plans? I am between booking agents and I have not been able to book a tour. That is another thing that is tough nowadays is to get a book- ing agent. Now I have to let the record talk for me. So if the record makes a little noise or something, then I will probably be able to get a booking agent, otherwise I don’t know what I will do. I spent many years booking myself, so I could do that, but I can’t rise above the first level like that way, so I will just play it by ear.
Well, not to blow wind up your skirt or anything like that, the CD is really fab- ulous and all it is going to take is get- ting the right people to hear it. Let them play it on that new - fangled satel- lite radio. They are playing it on XM now. They are playing "Going, Going, Gone." Lots of people have sent me e-mails that they heard it. I have not heard about Sirius yet. Maybe because they don’t subscribe. I got three different e- mails in the past three days, from different people that heard it on XM. These are people that are waiting to buy it and are wanting to get it when it comes out. •
For more on Kooper, we highly recommend his book Backstage Passes & Backstabbing Bastards.
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