Johnny Rivers Quotes

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• I got to see all these incredible blues players, like Jimmy Reed.
• My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.
• I learned some chords and I started watching anybody I could, once I really got into it.
• The first time I went to New York, I met Alan Freed.
• But I always loved songs with great lyrics.
• About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck.
• I loved playing and I was actually working two jobs.
• I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I.
• In 1965, Gibson made the red one I use now, and a black one, which was the first black 335 they ever made.
• Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick.
• One of the first groups we signed was the Fifth Dimension.
• I think my favorite album was probably Realization.
• I accepted an offer to do a concert for the reopening of the Mall of Memphis.
• Jack and I usually get together and sit around in the afternoons and start throwing ideas around.
• One thing will lead to another and somebody will come up with a riff or a line or something we build from.
• The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game.
• 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…
• 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…
• I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs.
• I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time.

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