About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck.

After that initial success, every chance we got we'd hire that remote recording truck and just record stuff at the Whisky because it was so inexpensive.

Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because that's where all the publishers were.

But I always loved songs with great lyrics.

Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music.

I loved playing and I was actually working two jobs.

I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs.

I think my favorite album was probably Realization.

I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I.

I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time.

The first time I went to New York, I met Alan Freed.

Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick.

When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.

The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game.

The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender.