It changed my life big time. I learned a lot about the business with Luther. The ins and outs, how to run a show, how to avoid the carrot. If you get to the meat of it and they start doing the backstroke, something's wrong. Luther was leery of big time record companies and he was good at keeping control of his own thing.
Music is all about emotion.
My favorite time was in '80 or '81 with Memphis Slim. Right before he died he did a thing at the Arts Palace in Montreal. He usually played solo, but he wanted a drummer to come in and play with him on this particular thing. There was Junior Wells, Buddy Guy, us, Big Mama Thornton and Memphis Slim. He was a real classy man and real classy player.