I loved playing and I was actually working two jobs.
From Johnny Rivers
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.
The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender.
I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it.
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.
What I really remember is that people camped out everywhere, and the fact everybody expected it might turn into a big nightmare with all sorts of hassles because back in those days everybody was smoking pot and taking acid.
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.
One of the first groups we signed was the Fifth Dimension.
I think my favorite album was probably Realization.
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