35 Quotes by Johnny Rivers



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    It was a trio - Eddie Rubin was playing drums, Joe Osborn on bass. And that's when we got approached on the idea of the Whisky A Go-Go.

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    I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it.

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    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.

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    I learned some chords and I started watching anybody I could, once I really got into it.

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    In 1965, Gibson made the red one I use now, and a black one, which was the first black 335 they ever made.

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