Coming up in bars and clubs, I would play anything that had a $20 bill attached to it. I did 'Like a Virgin' in a bar one time for a hundred bucks.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are so many little places I want to play, sometimes weird places I think would be fun to play... a bar that's half full.
My breakdancing crew used to go to the mall and squat a piece of cardboard there; we had our jam box, and I'd spin on my head and make about forty bucks a day, which was pretty good back then. I was only 14 years old, so I would chase the girls around the mall and eat some pizza and have some change left over.
Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.
I went to college a little bit, and that didn't work out, and I didn't finish. So, I would play in bars until I ran out of money, and then I'd get a real job.
First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl.
I dress up as a middle-aged prostitute and do a game show.
In 1972 through '74, right before we hit it big, we were hauling our own equipment into the club and setting up and playing for, I don't know, a hundred bucks a night.
My dad bought me a guitar and people would ask me to play.
I spent money, I slept with women around the league, but I always kept my mind on the game.
Then I got a gig with an older friend who had the equipment and he played in this bar. They would bring me in the bar through the backdoor and I would DJ in the back room most of the night. Then they'd take me out the backdoor, so I was never really in the bar.