As many of you know. I started touring in the late sixties. People who have met my children still come up to me and say “how did you raise such great kids, you must have been a good father”. I joke with them and say “the reason they turned out so good is because I …
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A while back an artist contacted me about moving to Nashville so he had a better chance of making it musically. Although I live here and love the music vibe, I reminded him, that I was raised in Kansas and some of my close friends in the business made it just fine from those wind …
The Wrecking Crew Hal Blaine,Tommy Tedesco,Carol Kaye,Glen Campbell,Leon Russell, Don Randi,Joe Osborn,Earl Palmer,Larry Knechtel,Billy Strange, Plas Johnson,Al Casey,Bill Pitman,James Burton,Barney Kessel,Jim Gordon,Dr. John,Steve Douglas,Jerry Cole,Mike Deasy,Ray Pohlman,Al De Lory,Howard Roberts,Chuck Berghofer,Jim Horn,Lyle Ritz,Julius Wechter,Louis Shelton,Mike Melvoin,Nino Tempo,Jay Migliori,Ollie Mitchell,Michel Rubini,Max Bennett,René Hall,Tony Terran,Jimmy Bond, Red Callender,Bill Aken,Dick Hyde,Gene Cipriano,Chuck Findley, Bud Brisbois,Gary L. Coleman,Lou Blackburn,Lew …
Did you every have one of those days when everything is going south ? Years ago we were in Nigeria doing a festival that had over 100,000 fans to see Usher and a riot broke out. For about an hour it felt like we were in a war zone, several people were killed next to our stage, …
I remember as a teenager when we graduated from a van and u-haul trailer to a tour bus, we really thought we had arrived: bunks with TV’s our own state room, refrigerator, and best of all, our own driver. We no longer had to risk our lives driving in the middle of the night after …