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The original guys in the band had been brought up on nothing but rhythm & blues.

Now, rhythm & blues branches out into about four different categories the way

we grew up with it. There was the ooh-wah ballad, you know, with the high

falsetto and the grunting bass and all that stuff. That type. There’s a Chicago

blues type with the harmonica and, you know, and the funky-ness.

There was a Texas type with a, you know. .. rock, uh, Bobby, uh, «Blue»

Bland type thing. And then there was the hard drive type James Brown shit.

And offshoots of the, uh. .. of each one of those, like in the ooh-wah

classification you’ve got the uptempo singers where the. .. like Hank Ballard

and the Midnighters and the Royales. They had a different type of a thing

Uh. .. all the other guys in the group grew up with just that and had no

knowledge whatsoever of any kind of classical music, uh, or serious music, the.

.. uh, above and beyond Mozart or, uh, Beethoven or, you know,

standard concert hall, uh. .. warhorses. And even that, they didn’t give a

shit about and they weren’t interested at all in folk music. And, uh. ..

so I had quite a bit of trouble in the beginning, eh. .. just making them

aware that there were other kinds of music that we could be playing.

To top it off, we were in a, uh. .. very sterile area. We. ..

we kept getting fired because we’d playing anything other than «Wooly Bully»

or, uh. .. you know. .. uh, «Twist and Shout» or the rest of that stuff.

We’d lost job after job

Interviewer:

When. .. when is this that you’re talking about exactly?

FZ:

Two years ago

Interviewer:

In '65?

FZ:

Yeah. And, uh. .. so it was. .. it was rough keeping it together because

there’s lots of times that, uh. .. the guys wanted to quit, I mean,

everybody’s quit at least 200 times. So. .. we finally got a chance to come

into L.A. and the reason we stood out from the bands in Los Angeles, you know,

why we would attract any attention at all at that point. .. 'cuz, uh,

we were working out in the sticks, this whole thing was developing out, uh,

away from any, uh. .. you know, any urban civilization. We were really,

you know, just out there with the Okies

And we got to town, we expected to find all kinds of, you know. ..

uh, all the bands gotta be really far-out. Well, they weren’t, they were

bullshit and they had no balls, you know, they weren’t funky, they weren’t, uh,

tasteful, they weren’t nothin'. They were just, you know, plastic, folk-rock,

teenage puker bands. And they were making a lot of bread. And we came on the

scene. .. and, uh, we were loud and we were coarse and we were strange and if

anybody in the audience ever gave us any trouble, we’d tell 'em to fuck off.

And. .. we made our reputation doing it that way

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