thank you good afternoon i'm sitting here and i'm very proud to introduce the legendary jewelry to my lad well george you know  there's a lot of things that i want to ask you and you know we have very minimal time so i must get started here so i'm going to start off on the top here i'm looking at this picture that i'm going to to move over here to my left and it's a very amazing picture because this was in seattle at parker's right if i'm not mistaken yes now you know i want to set the record straight and people tend to run from the truth but i know that it was very odd to see an african american over or a person of color playing with an all white band because of you know some of the things some of the prejudice that was going on here in seattle that people don't want to discuss and talk about but kind of i want to hit on that and i want you to tell me about the union and things like that and how it was set up and how you as a person of color was able to to kind of break in the bear and come through the barrios ok this picture here is forty five a record with such a political device around the city that i noticed you know and no one wants to come forth and talk about it discuss it so you know i find it to be really really appalling in seattle there's there's so much so much talent and so much going on but you very seldom see people of color all right i can understand that  and i think it really brought a lot of unity to people and i went to that club and answers right and wow that's amazing because i mean you know when i think back that far i mean i was not one of the places that actually you know you could actually look at and say ok i recognize them for having  even back then during that time to be able to have that kind of chord nation and to be able to do both it's very powerful you know people realize that i need to be able to sit on an instrument like the drums and a lso express yourself not only from the drums but to to be able to sing and to play like that and be soft enough to be two two two t much more that it went together yeah you know i mean i've i've my brother and buddy were pretty tight when i came to california i was i guess i'll  minute ago about your diversity i see here where you play with the job brazil and the floyd stand for big band and you also played with the job brazil ensemble period i mean down it  up where is this this is this is actually during the time of the penthouse right she tell me about that whole experience here that i'm looking at these names down there that was most your opportunity to play behind some of the greatest drummers lead in the world yeah i see the names down and not only that i learned i talked to them i when i played it i was very lucky very fortunate t me turned away or scared me and i sit there and there's a lot of pain and watching him as he actually need all this stuff you know and then i said to myself you friend i had to come up and john jack did my thing you know with my hand and beside that here i am playing and all of a sudden i see the waitress comes up with a tray with glasses on it and i was another one and i want to try and get as much in as i possibly can next he managed to get me so i want to talk about this picture here i'm assuming it leads up to this record we wrote when you can say no just say you gotta go ok now i need this tune this great songs for what's happening now so these are the somebody that they've had several groups along just like you and one i was a before you left to let me make this quick one of the ones that may be at was with  want to go travel you know this man deserves more than he kidding oh yeah i'm understand is there is is a hard worker i remember when he used to do somersaults and clear out they would never know that that this is where it all started for jimi jimi just took it further yet another nothing and you have to remember shorty had the mark five and jimmy had and everybody has a start yeah there are about a well we can get one more picture in here and this young man here grew up right down on television you were watching an interview with the legendary george griffin and my name is gary hammond they call me jubal gary and boy we just ran out of time here thank you