Gigs Quote by Johnny Ramistella

I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California…

— Chad Smith

Guitar gigs were everywhere in the '50s, and I started diddling around so I could keep working. Playing honky-tonk, simple stuff. I took a…

— George Benson

I was a studio engineer out in L.A. for about six or seven years, and I played sideman for different people, and played in…

— J. J. Cale

When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be…

— Anonymous

I started off playing by ear, and being around a bunch of musicians and playing in the streets and in the different parades and,…

— Troy Andrews

After 'Rock Star,' I was definitely doing more high profile gigs. I was playing in Iceland. I was playing in Canada.

— Josh Logan

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

— Steve Lacy

I am a musician by rights, and I played in Asbury Park in the old African Room in the Robert Trent Hotel next to…

— Frank Vincent

I went out on the road when I was 12 years old, playing with the Sullivan Family Gospel Singers. That was the summer of…

— Marty Stuart

A lotta years I was out there on the road pulling one-nighters. Then I got hired to sing in Sam Donahue's band in 1963.…

— Frank Sinatra Jr

I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting…

— Gunther Schuller

I learned so much about playing and touring being on the road and in the studio with Jeff, but I'd always played a lot…

— Kenny G