As far as I know, no tapes exist from my years at 'T.J.'s.' I wish they did.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We never heard of tape. Everything was live, live, live.
I'm a big fan of the American Tapes label. But that's very hard to keep a grip on that because you blink your eyes and they've released three records, all of which are limited edition, all sold at one show. So you have to follow in drips and drops on eBay, which I do.
But I think the record will actually come from tapes that are not yet recorded.
There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes.
I've got tapes that I'm so thankful that my father made - old reel-to-reel tapes. I've got a ton of those things at home. He kept those like fine diamonds, I mean he kept them, you know, in a box and was very, very careful of them, you know.
We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers.
They do put my films on TV from time to time. I don't go out of my way to watch them. But I'm now made to tape them for my daughter so that when she's old enough she can say, 'Hey, that's Daddy.'
There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.
You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history.
These tapes have been found, which were taken from the desk and various bootlegs. At the time we never got to hear them, they didn't seem to be available or they just got put to one side.