He really hadn’t changed by the time he asked me to do the Rolling Thunder tour with him. I first met Dylan in the early days of The Byrds. That’s where I got the idea for the riff for Eight Miles High.
#ROGER MCGUINN YOUNG TV#
It didn’t have a TV but it had electricity, so we plugged a Fender Amp in there, taped a cassette player on top and listened to John Coltrane and Ravi Shankar. Those Dick Clark tours really weren’t that good to be on, though The Byrds did manage to get our own transportation: a Clark Cortez, which was one of the first medium sized motor homes. I didn’t get involved with, but he was there all the time.
On the bus there was a rolling poker game he always played. The Byrds toured with Bo Diddley as part of Dick Clark’s Caravan Of Stars. When you talked to him he was just a regular guy, but he really played that image of his well.
#ROGER MCGUINN YOUNG HOW TO#
He was a really sharp guy, and knew a lot about how to project an image. He was very clever and artistic, into things like Kurt Weill. We played together at the Whisky but didn’t really get to know each other well then. David Crosby didn’t like him, but I always had a lot of respect for Jim Morrison. He was just on his way down to Dane County for his trial. I met him once on a 747 airplane, when they used to have a bar upstairs. What happened to you?” Elvis just sort of mumbled: “Well, I’m makin’ movies now.” And that was the extent of the meeting. John had said: “Hey, Elvis, you used to make some really great rock’n’roll records. When I asked them later how it was, they told me he was sitting on the arm rest of a couch and had a bass guitar plugged into his stereo. So I waited at the house until they got back.
I asked George if I could tag along, but he said he just didn’t think it would be right. One time I was hanging out at The Beatles’ house in Bel Air when they were invited to go and meet Elvis. I told John Lennon about that and he went: “Aah, yeah!” So that’s where he got the idea for his. Look up at the street lights and move your head around they’re groovy!” So when I got out to LA, I dug out a little pocket money and went to the optometrist’s to have some made up. I was walking down MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village one night, about three in the morning, and Sebastian was walking towards me with these little round shades. In The Byrds, I’d got the idea for wearing granny glasses from John Sebastian. He was kind of dangerous, too, but Paul’s personality mellowed him out. He could be a little mean-spirited, but he was funny. I liked his wit he had a real firecracker humour.
0 kommentar(er)
