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.
- Johnny Rivers
Fact, Big, Everybody, Pot
Jack and I usually get together and sit around in the afternoons and start throwing ideas around.
- Johnny Rivers
Get Together, Get, Throwing, Jack
The first time I went to New York, I met Alan Freed.
- Johnny Rivers
New York, New, First Time, Alan
Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because that's where all the publishers were.
- Johnny Rivers
Out, Publishing Company, Alan
In early '57, I bought a Fender Telecaster.
- Johnny Rivers
Early, Bought, Fender
The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender.
- Johnny Rivers
Small, Back, Amp, Fender
I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it.
- Johnny Rivers
Through, Joe, Amp, Fender
But I always loved songs with great lyrics.
- Johnny Rivers
Loved, Always, Songs, Lyrics
Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick.
- Johnny Rivers
Everybody, Turned, Even, Disaster
I got to see all these incredible blues players, like Jimmy Reed.
- Johnny Rivers
See, Like, Players, Jimmy
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.
- Johnny Rivers
Work, Other, Record Producer, Jimmy
I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I.
- Johnny Rivers
Night, Eight, Downtown, Drummer
About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck.
- Johnny Rivers
Truck, Some, Months, Whisky
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.
- Johnny Rivers
Chance, Hire, Initial, Whisky
I think my favorite album was probably Realization.
- Johnny Rivers
Think, Album, I Think, Realization
One of the first groups we signed was the Fifth Dimension.
- Johnny Rivers
Groups, Signed, Fifth, Dimension
I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs.
- Johnny Rivers
Think, Sold, Took, Awhile
Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music.
- Johnny Rivers
Talking, Like, About, Hanging
My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.
- Johnny Rivers
Good, First, Really, Gibson
In 1965, Gibson made the red one I use now, and a black one, which was the first black 335 they ever made.
- Johnny Rivers
Made, Use, Which, Gibson
I loved playing and I was actually working two jobs.
- Johnny Rivers
Loved, Jobs, Actually, Loved Playing
The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game.
- Johnny Rivers
Game, New, Ball, Site
I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time.
- Johnny Rivers
Work, Through, Months, Periods
I accepted an offer to do a concert for the reopening of the Mall of Memphis.
- Johnny Rivers
Memphis, Offer, Accepted, Mall
One thing will lead to another and somebody will come up with a riff or a line or something we build from.
- Johnny Rivers
Will, Line, Another, Riff
I learned some chords and I started watching anybody I could, once I really got into it.
- Johnny Rivers
Some, Once, Learned, Chords
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