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I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.
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Sometimes you work with somebody you've never heard of because you just feel like working.
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I loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won't See Me from Rubber Soul.
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If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.
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I'm playing 10 feet from Mike Campbell every night. I look across the stage, there's Howie. Tom's in the middle and we're playing all this stuff I love. It's great.
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Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.
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I don't know about five guys against the world. It's more like five guys against these three chords, and we're gonna wrestle 'em down no matter what it takes.
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Besides, I'm fairly incompetent. I can't play that fast.
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We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you without trying to tell you what to do.
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Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.
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I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.
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Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.
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Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.
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