“I USED to go the Troubadour; I started singing on open-mic night on Monday nights. It was a place we could sneak into – we knew the guy on the back door, so we’d spend a lot of time there. I started hanging out with Roger and Gene, and we’d sing together. I was just a folkieof a sudden I’m in a band. Roger and Gene were singing these songs that Gene had written after he’d listened to The Beatles. Roger could figure out how to play them in a Beatle-ish fashion and then I sat down with them and started singing harmonies. It was completely organic. Gene had no clue what the rules were, so he would just do it in a way that somebody else hadn’t thought of. Roger was so smart. He was the moving force behind that band, he created the arrangements for the songs.
