me and how much fun it is to play
now. At the time, that record sold
nearly 2 million copies, but I hated
it. They practically had to put a
gun to my head to do it.
I get a real hoot playing “Come
On Get Happy”. I do it quite differently, but it just makes people
smile. It really makes them happy.
When you reach an audience and
you know you’ve had an impact
on them, it’s a beautiful thing.
But I also play some stuff people
wouldn’t expect because I saw
Hendrix live, I saw Cream. I’ll do
some B.B. King. I have a very lush
and deep connection with some
of my musical heroes. John Lennon became a friend of mine and
I played a few times with him. I
played once with Paul McCartney.
Those are the guys who inspired
me to pick up an electric guitar
and start playing and I still think
that was the best band that ever
lived.
I just think I was so blessed to
have this plethora of remarkable
talent around me that I soaked
it up like a sponge as a kid and
as a neophyte. Within 5 years, I
had recorded hundreds of songs
and had written a 'V