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I remember gettin' out of the Army
and tryin' to get something together.
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Then I was playin' in different groups
all around the States and Canada.
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Playing behind people most of the time.
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A lot of mornings we were right down here
on Jefferson Street.
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We lived over top
of Joyce's House of Glamour.
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A lot of times I'd get him up mornings
to go for breakfast.
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Knock on his door, door'd be open.
He's lying there in the same clothes...
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...he wore the night before
with his guitar on his stomach.
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I started travelin'. I went to New York
and won first place...
:16:56
... in the Apollo Amateur Contest.
:16:58
You know, $25. I played some shows
with Ike and Tina Turner.
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I played with King Curtis and Joey Dee.
:17:06
This group came up and brought me
back to Atlanta, Georgia...
:17:10
... where I met Little Richard
and began playing with him.
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He was a star. When I got him,
he was a star!
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Sly told you that everybody is a star!
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Problem is, some people
haven't been put in the dipper...
:17:23
...and poured back on the world.
That's what the answer is.
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That's the answer.
You got to be placed into the dipper...
:17:31
...and poured back down on the world
and then men will see your good works...
:17:35
...and glorify God Jehovah.
:17:38
The stories and things he used to tell me,
I started goin' for him.
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Really diggin' him and likin' him
more than...
:17:44
...I was liking the fact
that he was a cutie-pie with a guitar.
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The in-thing at the time.
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They were just getting to be the thing...
:17:52
...like with the processes fallin' in your face
when you're playin', you know.
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Well, he wasn't
the average process wearer.
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We got our own little crib, you know.
It was sardines and crackers on and off.