>> as i recall the interview, you said that you were unhappy about the costumes and you didn't like being so outfitted and being so put together and managed, right? >> oh, we weren't managed, we we were mismanaged to hell, and we had a guy who was giving us, getting us the worst possible deals, and putting us in the worst situations, but he was running around making his own deals, and i'm sure making money while we were out and the road pound i pounding away, and trying to get, you know, trying to preach the word of the blues to people. >> yes, because you -- >> and we found that -- yeah? >> sorry to cut you, but you were more, and you wanted to do mus music. and you said that you were influenced by soul music and r&b and jazz and american artists and especially the black artists here, and do you think that in many ways people were trying to sort of make you homogeneous,