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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."
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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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"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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"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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