Johnny Rivers

“I learned some chords and I started watching anybody I could, once I really got into it.”

“The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender.”

“Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick.”

“One of the first groups we signed was the Fifth Dimension.”

“I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I.”

“In 1965, Gibson made the red one I use now, and a black one, which was the first black 335 they ever made.”