Each week, I'd walk to his house at the corner of 91st and Luella carrying my guitar. He'd teach me new Jazz guitar techniques. You've Got a Lovely Daughter during a television appearance, I think on the Ed Sullivan Show. That's what I wanted to learn. That's what he said I didn't need to take lessons to play.
Real guitar is a little more sophisticated and it takes real talent.
That other stuff is easy. Easy or not, that's what was popular. Quintos had me enter a Music Competition held at Jones Commercial High school in the Loop and made me play a song called Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding. I won first place. It happened that it was one of my first and very few encounters I had with Black kids.