But I always loved songs with great lyrics.

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• Johnny Rivers:

  About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck.

• Johnny Rivers:

  I loved playing and I was actually working two jobs.

• Johnny Rivers:

  I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drum

• Johnny Rivers:

  In early '57, I bought a Fender Telecaster.

• Johnny Rivers:

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

• Johnny Rivers:

  The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender.

• Johnny Rivers:

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

• Johnny Rivers:

  After that initial success, every chance we got we'd hire that remote recording truck and just reco

• Johnny Rivers:

  What I really remember is that people camped out everywhere, and the fact everybody expected it mig

• Johnny Rivers:

  Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick.