Johnny Rivers Quotes

• 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.

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• What I really remember is that people camped out everywhere, and the fact everybody expected it might turn into a big nightmare with all sorts of hassles because back in those days everybody was smoking pot and taking acid.

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• The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game.

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• The first time I went to New York, I met Alan Freed.

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

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• One thing will lead to another and somebody will come up with a riff or a line or something we build from

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• One of the first groups we signed was the Fifth Dimension.

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• My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.

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• Jack and I usually get together and sit around in the afternoons and start throwing ideas around.

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• In early ’57, I bought a Fender Telecaster.

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

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

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• I think my favorite album was probably Realization.

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• I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn’t do too many gigs.

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• I loved playing and I was actually working two jobs.

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• I learned some chords and I started watching anybody I could, once I really got into it.

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• I got to see all these incredible blues players, like Jimmy Reed.

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• I accepted an offer to do a concert for the reopening of the Mall of Memphis.

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Johnny Rivers (26)

Birth:	7th November, 1942
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Guitarist, Lyricist, Record Producer, Singer

About

Johnny Rivers was born in New York City, New York, USA. He is an American rock 'n' roll singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer. Rivers charted during the 1960s and 1970s but remains best known for a string of hit singles between 1964 and 1968, among them "Memphis", "Mountain of Love", "The Seventh Son", "Secret Agent Man", "Poor Side of Town", "Baby I Need Your Lovin'", and "Summer Rain". His albums list shown below: Here We à Go Go Again!, In Action, Changes, Golden Hits, Rewind, Realization, Home Grown, L.A. Reggae, Last Boogie in Paris, Borrowed Time, Your First and Last Love, That's Rock ‚N' Roll, and You're the One.

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