good afternoon welcome to community again it gives me great pleasure to introduce the legendary george griffen to my left well george it's great being here with you and will close the folks here today i feel a miss about jackson street madison union and parts of yesler so george i'm just going to take right off here because you've got all these great pictures here and i'm looking down at some of these folks that i do know one thing that i don't and we you some of this before but i'd like to backtrack a little bit because i'd like for you to go in depth about the scene in seattle oh george in your own words thank you ok we'll start here with this picture here for those of you that are viewing this program here most of you probably know this young man that's in this picture with with george with george griffin here as michael burke's who is now mikail my g if i'm correct so george continue on i mean you know that's just one of the mazing talents along with others that was in seattle in this funny two guys happened to sometimes we have a drummer and he just b m and we come along and everybody would say all here they come and we come on with it so yes he is quite a talent now i want to move on george and i want to talk about again you know talk about just your cd a little bit and these gentlemen here that's in the picture i understand it may be the one on the left here did some of the writing on some of the same thing you were getting from cd baby ok beautiful beautiful now george you know i don't i certainly want to cover as much as i can and this is your show so i want you to be just as open and talk as much as you want you know without me interrupting now but i do want to move forward a little bit now we have the legendary also guitar shorty and i see things and i am very proud and pleased he gave me great pleasure to see him and to twist and shout and to also share some of the history about between short and jim hendrix and how that that furthered jimmy's career and people again that the dead are sad first in the history of seattle you know i'm telling them that this is what was going on and there were some blues players here that i don't know if they won this program that they came along after we all left that had a show and i just want to clear some things up there were very strong blues players as the legendary george griffin who were very diverse so the blues did not just come from people that came from chicago here there were blues musicians and boy could they play so i start all over again i'm looking at the five checks i know dave lewis because i had the opportunity later on of working with dave so just kind of tell me a little bit about that  lewis was was was very was very dressed in harmony and he knew harmony very well you know and you know got to give the guy his props he he understood harmony  theory and what mean a musical melody happened with so you know people don't know that either he saw i'm happy to say that sit and say that about him you know what a great what a great person and it was was there any kind of discrimination was there problems getting jobs just talk about ten minutes that first of our i made sure when we put this group everybody was a part of that movement that we would do it well let me ask you another question what was the difference between here you went to a club owner you thought t and you didn't think you had something to sell him and he agreed to find you this is not happening today you know this is what troubles me with club owners magic word he took chances he not only he not only did he take chances he he decided you know i have to do my part to well listen george it was great talking with you thank you very i'm going to let you have the last say this nice audience and i'll just say thank you for what you feel know there's a lot of material that can be covered there's a lot of things that we have to remember you know and in this business you know friends is come and go and if somebody of bringing back the history of what happened in this city we lose a lot that so thank you