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So back in the mid seventies..uh.. |
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I'm..uh..stopped touring for a while. |
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And of course I was 20 years old, I think in 1975. |
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Pretty scary thought, isn't it? |
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Anyway, um, I moved to the Big Smoke, I moved to Sydney |
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Because I wanted to have a career and get experience playing in recording studios. |
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And I wanted to learn, I was so hungry for knowledge, as I always have been. |
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And um...so I..auditioned and I got work. |
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The only..the only downside to what I was doing was that I was refused to few jobs. |
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Because I couldn't read music and I still don't. |
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Uh, unfortunately, I'd love to be able to |
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but I'm too busy playing it to learn how to read it off paper. |
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So..So anyway, it hasn't hindered me that much. |
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(Clapping...) |
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But I started, I've always been interested in songs. You know |
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I've never just, you know...thought about playing the guitar. |
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And....and you know, uh...trying to appeal to guitar players. |
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I've never ever thought that way. |
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I've always loved songs and singers and songwriters. |
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And I was always interested in song writing. |
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So...um...I always got book to play solos |
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because my solos for some reason seem to speak to people. |
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And that was a wonderful thing. |
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But I got a call one day from a producer of a television show. |
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And he said, well, we're going to go to air with this TV show, |
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but we're not happy with the music. |
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Do you think you could come up with something? |
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And I said, well, let me see a little bit of the program. |
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So I had look at the pilot of the show. |
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And I loved it. And I said "When do you need this?" |
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And he goes, "two o'clock". I said ok! |
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So I went out of the car, I got my acoustic guitar. |
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And I said, leave me alone for 10 minutes. |
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And I wrote this song. |
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Anyway, he came back in a bit of a hurry |
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and he was carrying on his shoulder a reel to reel tape recorder and a microphone. |
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And he said, are you ready? Let me hear it. So I played it for him. |
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And he said, oh! It's exactly what we're looking for. He said, let's go ! |
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And he turned the thing on..on the record and held the microphone up to my guitar in his office. |
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And that's what was on television for about 14 years. |
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So having said that, I thought tonight that I might play it acoustically |
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just for the mic to get that authentic sound for you. |
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Here it is, Countrywide. |
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As Chet would say "As the composer intended" |
