that s all right, mama, just any way you do that s all right that s all right the very first rock n roll record i bought was by elvis presley. my playing the drums was sort of an organic process. i began by beating on my school books with my fingers and with pencils. i would beat out little cadences. i used to drive my classmates crazy doing that. i think one day somebody said to me, i think my friend, richard, he said, why don t you just start playing the drums? i managed to cobble together a drum kit from old drums that i found stashed in the back of the band hall at high school. then one day my mom said, come on, get in the car. and she drove me to a town about an hour and a half away called sulfur springs, texas, to mccay music company. to my surprise, she bought me a set of red sparkle drums that i still have today. so i have to give my parents a lot of credit. they bought me that drum kit even though they couldn t really afford it.
song. we were going to have a band together. he was going to get rid of his other guys and i was going to be his bass player. it didn t work out. my mom found me smoking pot with a friend of mine in somebody s basement. and she called up seger s manager punch andrews and said, just a minute, not so fast. in the years leading up to the great depression, my dad had to quit school after the eighth grade. he had to go home and work in the fields with his brother and sister to help support the family. his fondest wish, in fact, his life s goal, was that i would go to college. every saturday night he would bring home seven quarters and we d put them in the piggy bank. when those quarters amounted to $100, he d take me to the bank, and we d buy a savings bond, united states savings bond, and put that away for my college education. so between what my dad had saved and between what i was making
the first band i was in was a band with my high school buddy richard bowden and another high school friend, jerry serat. we played dixie land music. nobody sang. we just played music. i went to a high school party and there were four kids who were freshmen in high school who were playing. i was a junior and i had a couple beers that night and said hey, do you know satisfaction ? because i can sing it. so i became the lead singer of the subterraneans. i played in the subterraneans for a while. then i played in another band called the mushrooms. i can t get no the most important thing that happened to me when i was in detroit was i met dbob seger. i m going to tell my tale come on he took me under his wing.
so here comes this song, take it cnn. well, i m a-running down the road trying to loosen my load i got seven women on my mind, four that want to own me, two that want to stone me, one says she s a friend of mine take it easy, take it easy don t let the sound of your own wheels drive your crazy lighten up while you still can, don t even try to understand just find a place to play your hand, take it easy jackson had this song called take it easy. he couldn t finish the song.