I think my favorite album was probably Realization.
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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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I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time.
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The first time I went to New York, I met Alan Freed.
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Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because that's where all the publishers were.
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Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music.
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My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.
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When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.