You have to remember the band played from 1960 to 1965, every night. You get into a rut playing nightclubs every night, and you didn't want to run it into the ground.
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I was never much of a club guy. Even when I was in New York in the early eighties, I never was once in Studio 54. It was too noisy. My version of those years mostly took place at my house.
I used to go to Bourbon Street when I was a kid and there would be club after club after club of people who were around when the music started. I mean these are legendary, maybe not so well known, but legendary musicians.
Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band.
When I used to play nightclubs, you had to play Top 40 or favorite oldies that maybe people could relate to.
Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.
I have played lots of clubs since I was 14, but I always did my own music.
When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15.
If you put this in the context of Detroit in '64 or '65, the economy was booming. Everybody had jobs and there was a whole nightclub culture where bands could work.
I was in one bar band from 1965 to '69, then I was in another one from 1970 to '79 - a 9-year bar band!
I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.