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Uh, when I saw the the the interview
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with with Eddie Trunk like week or
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couple weeks ago, when you talk when you
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talked about John Lennon, that was a new
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first thing for me to to to hear.
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Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. I I I didn't
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know that. I didn't know that
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you you you you had clapping on on his
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one of his last songs, and also you were
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the drummer on his last last concert.
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Yeah, yeah. Yeah, what happened was we
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were managed by the Record Plant Studios
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And that's where my band, and we were a
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big band, we had four horn players,
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a nine-piece band, and John used to
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with Jimmy Iovine producing. And Jimmy
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And one night he said, uh, we were
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rehearsing upstairs, can you come down
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for this session? And we went, "Okay."
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So, we all went down. We didn't know it
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was John Lennon. We walked in and we see
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John Lennon, we go, "Oh, wow, John
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You know, we went in the studio and he
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then he put the headphones on, he
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started telling us what he wanted,
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which was cool, listening to John Lennon
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So, he wanted the hand claps and he
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wanted double up on the chorus and Yeah.
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So, we did all that and then we finished
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and he didn't he go, "Wow, where did
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they come from?" You know, so we were
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upstairs rehearsing, they told John
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that's where we rehearse, we're
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managed by the Record Plant Studios and
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So, we weren't real fan boys, we were
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very cool with John. I wish I would ask
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him for his autograph, but I didn't. You
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know, we didn't take any pictures, we
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And then a couple days later he came up
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to the room and started watching us
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Come up and watch us rehearse,
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and I even smoked a joint with him
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and all this stuff, you know. So, then
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he asked us to do a couple of videos
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And then he produced this singer that we
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were the band. We did nine songs.
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And then he asked us to do a live show
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at the New York Hilton
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And we played three songs, Slippin' and
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Slidin', Imagine, and Stand By Me.
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And we were the band.
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And it was an amazing gig. And that I
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found out later was his one of his last
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live shows, if not the last live show.
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and I was all like 16, 17 years old. Had
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to go to school next day. Which year was
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75. So, he So, he didn't play for 5
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years until his death, right? I mean Uh
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I don't think so. I don't think so.
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>> Yeah. I saw I read it in a big magazine
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that said this is John
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and this was his last live performance
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and and he mentioned me, the drummer is
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Vinnie Appice from Black Sabbath.
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So, I didn't know. I went, "Wow!
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I played his last live performance?" Is
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there any any video recording of it or
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or no? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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you got to look up John Lennon Sir Lew
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Sir Lew, L E W, Grade. Yeah. G R A D E.
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Yeah. That's who the tribute was for.
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And look up that and there's pictures,
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there should be a video or two up there
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somewhere. Also, I will I will, of
