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I played with King Curtis and Joey Dee.
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This group came up and brought me
back to Atlanta, Georgia...
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... 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...
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...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...
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...and poured back down on the world
and then men will see your good works...
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...and glorify God Jehovah.
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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...
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...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...
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...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.
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And our moms would throw in,
well, my mom would throw in...
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...a good meal here and there, you know.
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She couldn't stand him
because she thought he was a bum.
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She said, "You ain't gonna have
that long-haired nigger in here."
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Then she'd get in front of his face
and she says:
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"Well, Jimi, you just don't understand...
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...Fay's just goin' through a thing."
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"It'll just be a minute.
You shouldn't get involved."
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'Cause he talked to her about little things,
you know.
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We used to go to Palm's Cafe
and places like Small's, the Spotlight...
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...places around 125th Street,
in the Harlem scene, you know.
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He'd tell him he wanted to sit in, right?
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And these old fuddy-duddy,
rough-dried ain't-never-beens...
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...you know, they ain't gonna give him
a break.
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So they just act like
they don't even know that he's there.
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He'd sit there with this kind of look
on his face...