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I got in a group down in Merced, we cut an album, or we cut a single actually, for Challenge Records.
The band was called The Brogues.
Good fucking band.
Really good band.
The band came apart and then I moved back up to San Francisco and that's when I ran into John.
I was living in this chick's basement and he came over to see me because the chick I
was staying with had seen him at a club and that's when everybody was trying to get in
a band, looking for musicians.
He came over to see me and his car broke down and he stayed there for four or five days.
That's kind of how the band started.
David was in jail then for smoking pot and so was Dino.
We just started playing in the basement and then we got a gig doing a rock and roll version
of the Star Spangled Banner for the committee for Howard Hessman because that was the height
of being just totally like sticking it in your face was to do a rock and roll version
of the Star Spangled Banner, which is what they wanted.
So that's what we did.
I think they paid us like $150 and a half a kilo of reefer.
We took the money and we moved all together on a houseboat and had enough dope to get
us through the winter.
We kind of like never really seriously considered being stars or actually playing that game at all.
I mean we were perfectly happy to just like smoke dope and go play in Fillmore and Avalon.
Nobody had aspirations to be like big time.
I mean I already had been, you know the gig I started out in the casinos, if I could get
that back now.
Jesus man, I had it made man.
This was like 1960, 61.
I was making about 500 bucks a week.
I had a 51 Buick Roadmaster convertible, canary yellow with black leather interior and a black
top and chrome wire wheels.
I had 26 year old showgirls.
I had a tailor that made my suits.
I mean you know I had it made.
You know, [N] you had to dress up and I had a guy that just gave me clothes to wear.
I was a young good looking kid and I wore clothes good and so I was doted on man.
I was making a lot of money and then all of a sudden bam I went to prison.
It was over.
If I could get that back now, I would have thrown away all the San Francisco shit for it.
I'd still be there.
I mean look at Wayne Newton.
With those early days like it, play at the Matrix, you play at
It was just really crazy man.
A lot of drugs, a lot of people stoned.
I mean just unbelievable.
It's like hard to describe.
It's like the Avalon especially [F] was just loose man.
I mean it was like we would play the Avalon one weekend and Fillmore the next and then
the Avalon and the [N] Fillmore.
You know I mean that's what we did.
We'd go into town every weekend and play one of those other, sometimes it'd be longstorm performance hall.
We never went out of town.
I mean sometimes Modesto or San Jose or something like that.
But we stayed in town until 67.
The Monterey Pop Festival happened and then all of a sudden everything just blew up.
Everybody got a record deal and you know and then we lasted for another year.
We were all Virgos, which is odd too.
We were all the same birth sign.
We had two birthdays.
John and David were born on the same day and me and the drummer, we were born on the same day.
But we were, me and the drummer were born on the same day, same year, same hospital.
You know which is really bizarre.
So we had all these people hanging around us that were like astrologers and magicians
and you know occultists and stuff.
So we kind of had that whole atmosphere of mysterious shit going on.
For us, we took LSD and played music.
We did.
Now Paul Cantner says nobody can take LSD and play.
And he claims that Jefferson Airplane never [D] did that.
And they [N] probably didn't.
But we did.
It was an integral part of what we did.
I mean we took acid and played together.
A lot of acid.
That was part of our whole ceremony.
I left a group Halloween night, October 1968 because I was strung out on speed.
I had to quit and I couldn't do it anymore.
Exactly a year later, Halloween night in 69, we played a gig with Quiksilver.
Me and Dino.
And then they said they had three shows and they were going to go to Hawaii.
Would we go too?
I said I didn't want to do it.
Dino said we need to do it because we need to get in a band.
So I said alright.
So we ended up in Hawaii and they had Nicky playing with them then.
And then they said we got to do an album, let's do an album.
And Dino said well if we do an album we got to do it in Hawaii.
Which was a real stupid move.
Of course we had a lot of fun but we spent about two months over there.
Big house.
Everybody had a convertible.
We had a helicopter.
We had a sailboat.
We had everything man.
And it cost us so much money that it took right after that David left the band.
John left the band with Nicky and went to CBS.
Everybody kept blaming me for making John leave the band.
I kept saying I didn't make him leave.
I mean how, I wasn't even in the band.
I mean how do you have a band and hire two guys to come in and do a record with you.
And then because you don't like them you leave the band and give it to them.
I mean that doesn't make any sense.
John got a deal with CBS for Copperhead.
My feeling about his playing was that when we did The Fool on the first album we did.
The solo he played on that song was the best I ever heard him play.
He actually accomplished his style and everything all came together at one point.
Where it was in tune and it
The band was called The Brogues.
Good fucking band.
Really good band.
The band came apart and then I moved back up to San Francisco and that's when I ran into John.
I was living in this chick's basement and he came over to see me because the chick I
was staying with had seen him at a club and that's when everybody was trying to get in
a band, looking for musicians.
He came over to see me and his car broke down and he stayed there for four or five days.
That's kind of how the band started.
David was in jail then for smoking pot and so was Dino.
We just started playing in the basement and then we got a gig doing a rock and roll version
of the Star Spangled Banner for the committee for Howard Hessman because that was the height
of being just totally like sticking it in your face was to do a rock and roll version
of the Star Spangled Banner, which is what they wanted.
So that's what we did.
I think they paid us like $150 and a half a kilo of reefer.
We took the money and we moved all together on a houseboat and had enough dope to get
us through the winter.
We kind of like never really seriously considered being stars or actually playing that game at all.
I mean we were perfectly happy to just like smoke dope and go play in Fillmore and Avalon.
Nobody had aspirations to be like big time.
I mean I already had been, you know the gig I started out in the casinos, if I could get
that back now.
Jesus man, I had it made man.
This was like 1960, 61.
I was making about 500 bucks a week.
I had a 51 Buick Roadmaster convertible, canary yellow with black leather interior and a black
top and chrome wire wheels.
I had 26 year old showgirls.
I had a tailor that made my suits.
I mean you know I had it made.
You know, [N] you had to dress up and I had a guy that just gave me clothes to wear.
I was a young good looking kid and I wore clothes good and so I was doted on man.
I was making a lot of money and then all of a sudden bam I went to prison.
It was over.
If I could get that back now, I would have thrown away all the San Francisco shit for it.
I'd still be there.
I mean look at Wayne Newton.
With those early days like it, play at the Matrix, you play at
It was just really crazy man.
A lot of drugs, a lot of people stoned.
I mean just unbelievable.
It's like hard to describe.
It's like the Avalon especially [F] was just loose man.
I mean it was like we would play the Avalon one weekend and Fillmore the next and then
the Avalon and the [N] Fillmore.
You know I mean that's what we did.
We'd go into town every weekend and play one of those other, sometimes it'd be longstorm performance hall.
We never went out of town.
I mean sometimes Modesto or San Jose or something like that.
But we stayed in town until 67.
The Monterey Pop Festival happened and then all of a sudden everything just blew up.
Everybody got a record deal and you know and then we lasted for another year.
We were all Virgos, which is odd too.
We were all the same birth sign.
We had two birthdays.
John and David were born on the same day and me and the drummer, we were born on the same day.
But we were, me and the drummer were born on the same day, same year, same hospital.
You know which is really bizarre.
So we had all these people hanging around us that were like astrologers and magicians
and you know occultists and stuff.
So we kind of had that whole atmosphere of mysterious shit going on.
For us, we took LSD and played music.
We did.
Now Paul Cantner says nobody can take LSD and play.
And he claims that Jefferson Airplane never [D] did that.
And they [N] probably didn't.
But we did.
It was an integral part of what we did.
I mean we took acid and played together.
A lot of acid.
That was part of our whole ceremony.
I left a group Halloween night, October 1968 because I was strung out on speed.
I had to quit and I couldn't do it anymore.
Exactly a year later, Halloween night in 69, we played a gig with Quiksilver.
Me and Dino.
And then they said they had three shows and they were going to go to Hawaii.
Would we go too?
I said I didn't want to do it.
Dino said we need to do it because we need to get in a band.
So I said alright.
So we ended up in Hawaii and they had Nicky playing with them then.
And then they said we got to do an album, let's do an album.
And Dino said well if we do an album we got to do it in Hawaii.
Which was a real stupid move.
Of course we had a lot of fun but we spent about two months over there.
Big house.
Everybody had a convertible.
We had a helicopter.
We had a sailboat.
We had everything man.
And it cost us so much money that it took right after that David left the band.
John left the band with Nicky and went to CBS.
Everybody kept blaming me for making John leave the band.
I kept saying I didn't make him leave.
I mean how, I wasn't even in the band.
I mean how do you have a band and hire two guys to come in and do a record with you.
And then because you don't like them you leave the band and give it to them.
I mean that doesn't make any sense.
John got a deal with CBS for Copperhead.
My feeling about his playing was that when we did The Fool on the first album we did.
The solo he played on that song was the best I ever heard him play.
He actually accomplished his style and everything all came together at one point.
Where it was in tune and it
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_ I got in a group down in Merced, _ we cut an album, or we cut a single actually, _ _ _ for Challenge Records.
The band was called The Brogues.
_ _ Good fucking band.
Really good band.
The band came apart and then I moved back up to San Francisco and that's when I ran into John.
I was living in this chick's basement and he came over _ to _ see me _ _ _ because the chick I
was staying with had seen him at a club and that's when everybody was trying to get in
a band, looking for musicians.
He came over to see me and his car broke down and he stayed there for four or five days. _
That's kind of how the band started.
_ David was in jail then for smoking pot and so was Dino.
_ _ _ _ _ We just started playing in the basement and then we got a gig doing _ a rock and roll version
of the Star Spangled Banner for the committee for _ _ _ Howard Hessman because that was the height
of being just totally like _ _ _ _ sticking it in your face was to do a rock and roll version
of the Star Spangled Banner, which is what they wanted.
So that's what we did.
I think they paid us like _ $150 _ and a half a kilo of reefer.
_ _ _ _ We took the money and we moved all together on a houseboat and had enough dope to get
us through the winter. _ _ _
We kind of like never really seriously _ considered being stars _ _ or actually playing that game at all.
I mean we were perfectly happy to just like smoke dope and go play in Fillmore and Avalon.
Nobody had aspirations to be like big time.
I mean I already had been, you know the gig I started out in the casinos, if I could get
that back now. _
Jesus man, I had it made man.
This was like 1960, 61.
_ I was making about 500 bucks a week. _ _ _ _
I had a _ 51 Buick Roadmaster convertible, canary yellow with black leather interior and a black
top and chrome wire wheels.
I had 26 year old _ showgirls.
_ I had a tailor _ that made my suits.
I mean you know I had it made.
You know, _ [N] you had to dress up and I had a guy that just gave me clothes to wear.
I was a young good looking kid and I wore clothes good and so I was doted on man.
I was making a lot of money and then all of a sudden bam I went to prison.
It was over.
If I could get that back now, I would have thrown away all the San Francisco shit for it.
I'd still be there.
_ _ I mean look at Wayne Newton.
_ _ With _ _ _ those early days like it, play at the Matrix, you play _ at_
It was just really crazy man.
A lot of drugs, a lot of people stoned.
I mean just unbelievable.
It's like hard to describe.
_ _ It's like the Avalon especially _ [F] was just loose man.
I mean it was like _ we would play the Avalon one weekend and Fillmore the next and then
the Avalon and the [N] Fillmore.
You know I mean that's what we did.
We'd go into town every weekend and play one of those other, _ sometimes it'd be longstorm performance hall.
We never went out of town.
I mean sometimes Modesto or San Jose or something like that.
But we stayed in town until 67.
_ _ The Monterey Pop Festival happened and then all of a sudden everything just blew up.
Everybody got a record deal _ and you know and then we lasted for another year.
We were all Virgos, which is odd too.
We were all the same birth sign.
We had two birthdays.
John and David were born on the same day and me and the drummer, we were born on the same day.
But we were, me and the drummer were born on the same day, same year, same hospital.
You know which is really bizarre.
So we had all these people hanging around us that were like _ _ _ astrologers and magicians
and you know occultists and stuff.
So we kind of had that whole atmosphere of mysterious shit going on.
For us, we took LSD and played music. _
_ We did.
Now Paul Cantner says nobody can take LSD and play. _ _
And he claims that _ Jefferson Airplane never [D] did that.
_ And they [N] probably didn't. _
But we did.
It was an integral part of what we did.
I mean we took acid and played together.
A lot of acid.
_ That was part of our whole ceremony.
I left a group Halloween night, October 1968 because _ I was strung out on speed. _
I had to quit and I couldn't do it anymore.
Exactly a year later, Halloween night in 69, _ we played a gig with Quiksilver.
_ Me and Dino.
_ _ _ And then they said they had three shows and they were going to go to Hawaii.
Would we go too?
I said I didn't want to do it.
Dino said we need to do it because we need to get in a band.
_ So I said alright.
So we ended up in Hawaii _ and they had Nicky playing with them then.
And then they said we got to do an album, let's do an album.
And Dino said well if we do an album we got to do it in Hawaii.
_ Which was a real stupid move.
Of course we had a lot of fun but we spent about two months over there.
Big house.
Everybody had a _ convertible. _
We had a helicopter.
_ We had _ _ a sailboat.
We had everything man.
And it cost us so much money that it took _ right after that David left the band.
John left the band with Nicky and went to CBS.
Everybody kept blaming me for making John leave the band.
I kept saying I didn't make him leave.
I mean how, I wasn't even in the band.
I mean how do you have a band and hire two guys to come in and do a record with you.
And then because you don't like them you leave the band and give it to them.
I mean that doesn't make any sense.
_ John got a deal with CBS for Copperhead.
My feeling about his playing was that when we did The Fool on the first album we did.
The solo he played on that song was the best I ever heard him play.
He actually accomplished his style and everything all came together at one point.
Where it was in tune _ and it
The band was called The Brogues.
_ _ Good fucking band.
Really good band.
The band came apart and then I moved back up to San Francisco and that's when I ran into John.
I was living in this chick's basement and he came over _ to _ see me _ _ _ because the chick I
was staying with had seen him at a club and that's when everybody was trying to get in
a band, looking for musicians.
He came over to see me and his car broke down and he stayed there for four or five days. _
That's kind of how the band started.
_ David was in jail then for smoking pot and so was Dino.
_ _ _ _ _ We just started playing in the basement and then we got a gig doing _ a rock and roll version
of the Star Spangled Banner for the committee for _ _ _ Howard Hessman because that was the height
of being just totally like _ _ _ _ sticking it in your face was to do a rock and roll version
of the Star Spangled Banner, which is what they wanted.
So that's what we did.
I think they paid us like _ $150 _ and a half a kilo of reefer.
_ _ _ _ We took the money and we moved all together on a houseboat and had enough dope to get
us through the winter. _ _ _
We kind of like never really seriously _ considered being stars _ _ or actually playing that game at all.
I mean we were perfectly happy to just like smoke dope and go play in Fillmore and Avalon.
Nobody had aspirations to be like big time.
I mean I already had been, you know the gig I started out in the casinos, if I could get
that back now. _
Jesus man, I had it made man.
This was like 1960, 61.
_ I was making about 500 bucks a week. _ _ _ _
I had a _ 51 Buick Roadmaster convertible, canary yellow with black leather interior and a black
top and chrome wire wheels.
I had 26 year old _ showgirls.
_ I had a tailor _ that made my suits.
I mean you know I had it made.
You know, _ [N] you had to dress up and I had a guy that just gave me clothes to wear.
I was a young good looking kid and I wore clothes good and so I was doted on man.
I was making a lot of money and then all of a sudden bam I went to prison.
It was over.
If I could get that back now, I would have thrown away all the San Francisco shit for it.
I'd still be there.
_ _ I mean look at Wayne Newton.
_ _ With _ _ _ those early days like it, play at the Matrix, you play _ at_
It was just really crazy man.
A lot of drugs, a lot of people stoned.
I mean just unbelievable.
It's like hard to describe.
_ _ It's like the Avalon especially _ [F] was just loose man.
I mean it was like _ we would play the Avalon one weekend and Fillmore the next and then
the Avalon and the [N] Fillmore.
You know I mean that's what we did.
We'd go into town every weekend and play one of those other, _ sometimes it'd be longstorm performance hall.
We never went out of town.
I mean sometimes Modesto or San Jose or something like that.
But we stayed in town until 67.
_ _ The Monterey Pop Festival happened and then all of a sudden everything just blew up.
Everybody got a record deal _ and you know and then we lasted for another year.
We were all Virgos, which is odd too.
We were all the same birth sign.
We had two birthdays.
John and David were born on the same day and me and the drummer, we were born on the same day.
But we were, me and the drummer were born on the same day, same year, same hospital.
You know which is really bizarre.
So we had all these people hanging around us that were like _ _ _ astrologers and magicians
and you know occultists and stuff.
So we kind of had that whole atmosphere of mysterious shit going on.
For us, we took LSD and played music. _
_ We did.
Now Paul Cantner says nobody can take LSD and play. _ _
And he claims that _ Jefferson Airplane never [D] did that.
_ And they [N] probably didn't. _
But we did.
It was an integral part of what we did.
I mean we took acid and played together.
A lot of acid.
_ That was part of our whole ceremony.
I left a group Halloween night, October 1968 because _ I was strung out on speed. _
I had to quit and I couldn't do it anymore.
Exactly a year later, Halloween night in 69, _ we played a gig with Quiksilver.
_ Me and Dino.
_ _ _ And then they said they had three shows and they were going to go to Hawaii.
Would we go too?
I said I didn't want to do it.
Dino said we need to do it because we need to get in a band.
_ So I said alright.
So we ended up in Hawaii _ and they had Nicky playing with them then.
And then they said we got to do an album, let's do an album.
And Dino said well if we do an album we got to do it in Hawaii.
_ Which was a real stupid move.
Of course we had a lot of fun but we spent about two months over there.
Big house.
Everybody had a _ convertible. _
We had a helicopter.
_ We had _ _ a sailboat.
We had everything man.
And it cost us so much money that it took _ right after that David left the band.
John left the band with Nicky and went to CBS.
Everybody kept blaming me for making John leave the band.
I kept saying I didn't make him leave.
I mean how, I wasn't even in the band.
I mean how do you have a band and hire two guys to come in and do a record with you.
And then because you don't like them you leave the band and give it to them.
I mean that doesn't make any sense.
_ John got a deal with CBS for Copperhead.
My feeling about his playing was that when we did The Fool on the first album we did.
The solo he played on that song was the best I ever heard him play.
He actually accomplished his style and everything all came together at one point.
Where it was in tune _ and it