American - Musician | March 17, 1944 -
But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush.
John Sebastian
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Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister.
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You have to remember now, I was not being terribly successful at going solo.
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When I left the band I said Look, I am ready to move on. I was interested in playing with some of the other people that I had bee a studio musician with.
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Well, I did a harmonica instruction tape for Homespun tapes.
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To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists.
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The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea.
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Now, I was the Summer Concert guy. I played every Summer concert there was.
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My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18 that was an early equivalent of educational television, a Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show.
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My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.
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It might be thematic work. It might be theatrical. I enjoy that kind of work.
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In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.
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