personalties. larry: i ve enjoyed every minute of it. really? larry: yeah, 50 years went by like yesterday. i remember the first day i started. but this is about you. so artie shore, he stopped playing at age 53, and i asked him why and he said, he had nothing more to say. do you ever feel that way? for as long as there s life, for as long as we have things happening in the world, for as long as people haven t been able to work it out, for as long as people are not trying to work it out, for as long as there s crime and destruction, hate, bigotry, for as long as there is a spirit that does not have love in it, i will always have something to say. do you ever sing what ray charles used to sing? do you ever sing america ? i haven t sang the song. i like the song. larry: you ought to sing
he said no, no, no, this is a song i said i m telling you, this is a good way to do it. he said okay, if i m wrong, you know, i ll buy you dinner. if i m right, you buy me a car. no. but anyway, i said, i m telling you, i feel it. larry: well, you put your own stamp on it, though. yeah, i just felt that that was the way to do it. it was a song that was really i mean, in both ways, obviously. it s a great song. i think part of a great song is that you re able to do various interpretations of that song. larry: yeah. and so that song done like that, to me it felt like what i could relate to at 17, 18 years old. larry: play us to the break. we ve got to go to break here. be my tunesmith. you ll sing with me? come on, let s go. for once in my life i have someone who needs me someone i ve needed so long
wonder. what a career. you toured with the rolling stones back in 1972. i was going to ask, what was that like backstage? what was that like? it was interesting. we had a lot of fun. a lot of what i wrote for talking book, the album that was very successful problem around that time i wrote on that tour. superstition i wrote on a day off while on the tour with the stones. i mean, we had a good time. we really did. larry: did you like their music? i think we went to the playboy was it the larry: playboy probably. playboy mansion. we went to the playboy mansion in chicago. and at that time, stupid me, i
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play. the amount of beats. the bars that you play. the song ends. so that s how it happens today. now larry: the machine can write the note? yeah, there s a machine that can write. through the computer and software it can be written out. larry: are you always thinking of music? are you always sort of writing in your head? i can t say that i m always writing in my head, but i do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. and what i do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. but when i feel that i don t have a song i just say, god, please give me another song. and i just am quiet and it happens. it s just amazing. larry: like? like larry: play something.