COVER STORY
CLASSIC CORNER: BACKTRACK
pass. And he says, “Great, that’s it.” And
I thought man, I don’t know. I was kind
of warming up, but okay. So we listened
and it was pretty rockin’ and everybody
was happy, so that was it. They paid me
and then said, “Listen we have to keep
this quiet because the label is liable to get
very upset if they find out we had another
player in here.” There was some political
stuff going on with the label that I didn’t
know about and I didn’t care to know
about. So I said, “No problem.” I had
ghost played on records before where I’d
been told that, so I was used to hearing
it. It’s a drag.