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[N] Well, John Sebastian, thanks a lot.
That was great.
Really enjoyed that.
Well, it's fun to be back on your show.
Thanks.
All right.
Well, let's see.
That's right.
You helped us out before, but this is new, all out.
Jug music.
The Jug Band, yes.
The J Band.
And you got into
weren't you getting into Jug music back with the Spoonfuls?
Were you guys getting into it then?
You know, it's funny.
The same thing has happened with this band that happened with the Spoonful.
We started out saying, OK, we're going to play the Jug Band [G] Bible.
There's 30 [Bb] tunes or so, and those were what we were going to do.
Well, sure enough, you start to run out of material real fast, and so you start to [Db] struggle.
[N] And Jimmy and I, of course, I know that your listeners don't all know that Jimmy was in my band before he was in your band.
Stolen away.
That's right.
It's true.
It's true.
You know, that's right.
So he and I have started writing songs, and the thing kind of did the same thing.
It's become sort of a hybrid now.
Now, what is Jug music?
I mean, where does it come from?
Is it an American tradition?
What are we talking about?
It really came about during the industrial period in the United States,
the first time that large quantities of people would be in the same factory making cigarettes or [Ab] making
You know, Raleigh [E]-Durham was a place in Memphis.
They sort of grew up spontaneously around the fact that a number of blues men would come to [Eb] town,
and it was easier to work as a group than it [Bb] was getting hired as single blues guys.
And so these bands were very often slightly loose in nature.
They were not really that kind of highly tuned machine that bluegrass bands evolved into.
It was a kind of a loose form.
But the Jug itself, I was surprised, because the only place I'd seen someone use a Jug before was that Hillbilly band at Disneyland.
One of those bears is using a Jug, and I was wondering, like
You know what I'm talking about?
And I always was wondering, like, is that something
You know, sometimes you have this, like, cartoon image of people using a Jug, but it's actually a real instrument.
It's actually
It really is.
It's doing the bass lines?
It's a real instrument in the hands of Fritz Richman, who is our Jug player.
There [N] is
I don't know
that
many people nowadays make it sound that good.
Yeah.
But it is
No, he's really doing a lot.
Seriously.
And I came by, I was watching you guys in rehearsal a couple hours [Eb] ago, and I was really listening close,
and I was wondering, what is it exactly?
Is he [B] laying down bass notes, or?
He is laying down notes, yeah, absolutely.
He plays in tune.
It's a revelation.
Yeah.
It really is.
He plays washtub just as good.
[E] Now, is it just a common Jug he's using, or do you need, like, a
Do you need just a special Jug and a special washtub?
Really, Fritz should be telling you this, because he can do, like, two hours on this, but it is essentially a ceramic Jug.
It's very simple.
I've seen him play everything from Clorox bottles, you know, to [Bb] antiques.
He just goes to the junkyard and comes away with a whole orchestra.
That's right.
That's really impressive.
I know that
[Abm] Just something I wanted to talk to you about very quickly was Woodstock.
I know you were [N] at Woodstock.
Yes, it's true.
Way back there.
Now, what did you actually perform at Woodstock?
Was you playing Jug music then, or?
I played by myself.
I had basically just kind of gone on my own for my first year and had been playing little clubs and, you know, 100 people at a time, and then there was Woodstock.
Now, was that
Do you have a distinct memory of that, or does that just seem like a dream, the whole thing?
No, I remember it very well.
It was the most exciting performance as far as an audience that I'd ever been part of.
Yeah, you're fabulous.
I think for people of my generation, we don't exactly
When we've seen the pictures, I've seen the films, and I just sometimes, you know, I look at that and I wonder, what did it really feel like to be there?
Was it just a surreal experience?
Well, there were sort of misinterpretations at the time.
The media was saying, hey, it's mud, it's drugs, it's squalor.
And I remember for the first few days, I went on talk shows and explained, no, we're having a good time.
That's really
That's all it is.
But you were still covered in mud.
It was an accident, though.
This is the thing that's hard to focus on nowadays, is that it was an accident.
The fact that those
I was standing next to the two guys that put on that show.
The moment that somebody comes up and says, [B] the fence just went down in the fourth quadrant.
[Eb] Right.
Two [Ab] guys looked at each other, and finally the one guy says, I guess it's a free festival.
And it was at that point that the festival became a magical [Eb] experience.
That [Gb] doesn't happen anymore, I don't [Abm] think.
It's a bygone [N] era.
Yeah, but I'm going to be real happy to get ten times my normal fee and play all summer for anybody that wants to relive the experience.
All right.
Well, listen, thank you.
Really, thank you very much for coming.
You're all free to leave.
That's all right.
Okay, we're going to be right back.
[E] We'll see you in just a moment.
Talk about it.
[A]
That was great.
Really enjoyed that.
Well, it's fun to be back on your show.
Thanks.
All right.
Well, let's see.
That's right.
You helped us out before, but this is new, all out.
Jug music.
The Jug Band, yes.
The J Band.
And you got into
weren't you getting into Jug music back with the Spoonfuls?
Were you guys getting into it then?
You know, it's funny.
The same thing has happened with this band that happened with the Spoonful.
We started out saying, OK, we're going to play the Jug Band [G] Bible.
There's 30 [Bb] tunes or so, and those were what we were going to do.
Well, sure enough, you start to run out of material real fast, and so you start to [Db] struggle.
[N] And Jimmy and I, of course, I know that your listeners don't all know that Jimmy was in my band before he was in your band.
Stolen away.
That's right.
It's true.
It's true.
You know, that's right.
So he and I have started writing songs, and the thing kind of did the same thing.
It's become sort of a hybrid now.
Now, what is Jug music?
I mean, where does it come from?
Is it an American tradition?
What are we talking about?
It really came about during the industrial period in the United States,
the first time that large quantities of people would be in the same factory making cigarettes or [Ab] making
You know, Raleigh [E]-Durham was a place in Memphis.
They sort of grew up spontaneously around the fact that a number of blues men would come to [Eb] town,
and it was easier to work as a group than it [Bb] was getting hired as single blues guys.
And so these bands were very often slightly loose in nature.
They were not really that kind of highly tuned machine that bluegrass bands evolved into.
It was a kind of a loose form.
But the Jug itself, I was surprised, because the only place I'd seen someone use a Jug before was that Hillbilly band at Disneyland.
One of those bears is using a Jug, and I was wondering, like
You know what I'm talking about?
And I always was wondering, like, is that something
You know, sometimes you have this, like, cartoon image of people using a Jug, but it's actually a real instrument.
It's actually
It really is.
It's doing the bass lines?
It's a real instrument in the hands of Fritz Richman, who is our Jug player.
There [N] is
I don't know
that
many people nowadays make it sound that good.
Yeah.
But it is
No, he's really doing a lot.
Seriously.
And I came by, I was watching you guys in rehearsal a couple hours [Eb] ago, and I was really listening close,
and I was wondering, what is it exactly?
Is he [B] laying down bass notes, or?
He is laying down notes, yeah, absolutely.
He plays in tune.
It's a revelation.
Yeah.
It really is.
He plays washtub just as good.
[E] Now, is it just a common Jug he's using, or do you need, like, a
Do you need just a special Jug and a special washtub?
Really, Fritz should be telling you this, because he can do, like, two hours on this, but it is essentially a ceramic Jug.
It's very simple.
I've seen him play everything from Clorox bottles, you know, to [Bb] antiques.
He just goes to the junkyard and comes away with a whole orchestra.
That's right.
That's really impressive.
I know that
[Abm] Just something I wanted to talk to you about very quickly was Woodstock.
I know you were [N] at Woodstock.
Yes, it's true.
Way back there.
Now, what did you actually perform at Woodstock?
Was you playing Jug music then, or?
I played by myself.
I had basically just kind of gone on my own for my first year and had been playing little clubs and, you know, 100 people at a time, and then there was Woodstock.
Now, was that
Do you have a distinct memory of that, or does that just seem like a dream, the whole thing?
No, I remember it very well.
It was the most exciting performance as far as an audience that I'd ever been part of.
Yeah, you're fabulous.
I think for people of my generation, we don't exactly
When we've seen the pictures, I've seen the films, and I just sometimes, you know, I look at that and I wonder, what did it really feel like to be there?
Was it just a surreal experience?
Well, there were sort of misinterpretations at the time.
The media was saying, hey, it's mud, it's drugs, it's squalor.
And I remember for the first few days, I went on talk shows and explained, no, we're having a good time.
That's really
That's all it is.
But you were still covered in mud.
It was an accident, though.
This is the thing that's hard to focus on nowadays, is that it was an accident.
The fact that those
I was standing next to the two guys that put on that show.
The moment that somebody comes up and says, [B] the fence just went down in the fourth quadrant.
[Eb] Right.
Two [Ab] guys looked at each other, and finally the one guy says, I guess it's a free festival.
And it was at that point that the festival became a magical [Eb] experience.
That [Gb] doesn't happen anymore, I don't [Abm] think.
It's a bygone [N] era.
Yeah, but I'm going to be real happy to get ten times my normal fee and play all summer for anybody that wants to relive the experience.
All right.
Well, listen, thank you.
Really, thank you very much for coming.
You're all free to leave.
That's all right.
Okay, we're going to be right back.
[E] We'll see you in just a moment.
Talk about it.
[A]
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_ _ [N] _ _ _ _ Well, John Sebastian, thanks a lot.
That was great.
Really enjoyed that.
Well, it's fun to be back on your show.
Thanks.
All right.
Well, let's see.
That's right.
You helped us out before, but this is new, all out.
Jug music.
The Jug Band, yes.
The J Band.
And you got into_
weren't you getting into Jug music back with the Spoonfuls?
Were you guys getting into it then?
You know, it's funny.
The same thing has happened with this band that happened with the Spoonful.
We started out saying, OK, we're going to play the Jug Band [G] Bible.
There's 30 [Bb] tunes or so, and those were what we were going to do.
Well, sure enough, you start to run out of material real fast, and so you start to [Db] struggle.
[N] And Jimmy and I, of course, I know that your listeners don't all know that Jimmy was in my band before he was in your band.
Stolen away.
That's right.
It's true.
It's true.
You know, that's right.
So he and I have started writing songs, and the thing kind of did the same thing.
_ It's become sort of a hybrid now.
Now, what is Jug music?
I mean, where does it come from?
Is it an American tradition?
What are we talking about?
It really came about during the industrial period in the United States,
the first time that large quantities of people would be in the same factory making cigarettes or [Ab] making_
You know, Raleigh [E]-Durham was a place in Memphis. _
_ _ They sort of grew up spontaneously around the fact that a number of blues men would come to [Eb] town,
and it was easier to work as a group than it [Bb] was getting hired as single blues guys.
And so these bands were very often slightly loose in nature.
They were not really that kind of _ highly tuned machine that bluegrass bands evolved into.
It was a kind of a loose form.
But the Jug itself, I was surprised, because the only place I'd seen someone use a Jug before was that Hillbilly band at Disneyland.
_ One of those bears is using a Jug, and I was wondering, like_
_ You know what I'm talking about?
And I always was wondering, like, is that something_
You know, sometimes you have this, like, cartoon image of people using a Jug, but it's actually a real instrument.
It's actually_
It really is.
It's doing the bass lines?
It's a real instrument in the hands of Fritz Richman, who is our Jug player.
There [N] is_
I don't know_ _ _ _ _
_that
many people nowadays make it sound that good.
Yeah.
But it is_
No, he's really doing a lot.
Seriously.
And I came by, I was watching you guys in rehearsal a couple hours [Eb] ago, and I was really listening close,
and I was wondering, what is it exactly?
Is he [B] laying down bass notes, or_?
He is laying down notes, yeah, absolutely.
He plays in tune.
It's a revelation.
Yeah.
It really is.
He plays washtub just as good.
[E] Now, is it just a common Jug he's using, or do you need, like, a_
Do you need just a special Jug and a special washtub?
Really, Fritz should be telling you this, because he can do, like, two hours on this, but it is essentially a ceramic Jug.
It's very simple.
I've seen him play everything from _ Clorox bottles, you know, to [Bb] antiques.
He just goes to the junkyard and comes away with a whole orchestra.
That's right.
That's really impressive.
I know that_
[Abm] Just something I wanted to talk to you about very quickly was Woodstock.
I know you were [N] at Woodstock.
Yes, it's true.
Way back there.
Now, what did you actually perform at Woodstock?
Was you playing Jug music then, or_?
I played by myself.
I had basically just kind of gone on my own for my first year and had been playing little clubs and, you know, 100 people at a time, and then there was Woodstock.
Now, was that_
Do you have a distinct memory of that, or does that just seem like a dream, the whole thing?
No, I remember it very well.
It was the most exciting performance as far as an audience that I'd ever been part of.
Yeah, you're fabulous.
I think for people of my generation, we don't exactly_
When we've seen the pictures, I've seen the films, and I just sometimes, you know, I look at that and I wonder, what did it really feel like to be there?
Was it just a surreal experience?
Well, there were sort of misinterpretations at the time.
The media was saying, hey, it's mud, it's drugs, it's squalor.
And I remember for the first few days, I went on talk shows and explained, no, we're having a good time.
That's really_
That's all it is.
But you were still covered in mud.
It was an accident, though.
This is the thing that's hard to focus on nowadays, is that it was an accident.
The fact that those_
I was standing next to the two guys that put on that show.
The moment that somebody comes up and says, [B] _ the fence just went down in the fourth quadrant.
[Eb] Right.
_ Two [Ab] guys looked at each other, and finally the one guy says, I guess it's a free festival.
_ _ And it was at that point that the festival became a magical [Eb] experience.
That [Gb] doesn't happen anymore, I don't [Abm] think.
It's a bygone [N] era.
Yeah, but I'm going to be real happy to get ten times my normal fee and play all summer for anybody that wants to relive the experience.
All right.
Well, listen, thank you.
Really, thank you very much for coming.
You're all free to leave.
That's all right.
Okay, we're going to be right back.
[E] We'll see you in just a moment.
Talk about it.
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _
That was great.
Really enjoyed that.
Well, it's fun to be back on your show.
Thanks.
All right.
Well, let's see.
That's right.
You helped us out before, but this is new, all out.
Jug music.
The Jug Band, yes.
The J Band.
And you got into_
weren't you getting into Jug music back with the Spoonfuls?
Were you guys getting into it then?
You know, it's funny.
The same thing has happened with this band that happened with the Spoonful.
We started out saying, OK, we're going to play the Jug Band [G] Bible.
There's 30 [Bb] tunes or so, and those were what we were going to do.
Well, sure enough, you start to run out of material real fast, and so you start to [Db] struggle.
[N] And Jimmy and I, of course, I know that your listeners don't all know that Jimmy was in my band before he was in your band.
Stolen away.
That's right.
It's true.
It's true.
You know, that's right.
So he and I have started writing songs, and the thing kind of did the same thing.
_ It's become sort of a hybrid now.
Now, what is Jug music?
I mean, where does it come from?
Is it an American tradition?
What are we talking about?
It really came about during the industrial period in the United States,
the first time that large quantities of people would be in the same factory making cigarettes or [Ab] making_
You know, Raleigh [E]-Durham was a place in Memphis. _
_ _ They sort of grew up spontaneously around the fact that a number of blues men would come to [Eb] town,
and it was easier to work as a group than it [Bb] was getting hired as single blues guys.
And so these bands were very often slightly loose in nature.
They were not really that kind of _ highly tuned machine that bluegrass bands evolved into.
It was a kind of a loose form.
But the Jug itself, I was surprised, because the only place I'd seen someone use a Jug before was that Hillbilly band at Disneyland.
_ One of those bears is using a Jug, and I was wondering, like_
_ You know what I'm talking about?
And I always was wondering, like, is that something_
You know, sometimes you have this, like, cartoon image of people using a Jug, but it's actually a real instrument.
It's actually_
It really is.
It's doing the bass lines?
It's a real instrument in the hands of Fritz Richman, who is our Jug player.
There [N] is_
I don't know_ _ _ _ _
_that
many people nowadays make it sound that good.
Yeah.
But it is_
No, he's really doing a lot.
Seriously.
And I came by, I was watching you guys in rehearsal a couple hours [Eb] ago, and I was really listening close,
and I was wondering, what is it exactly?
Is he [B] laying down bass notes, or_?
He is laying down notes, yeah, absolutely.
He plays in tune.
It's a revelation.
Yeah.
It really is.
He plays washtub just as good.
[E] Now, is it just a common Jug he's using, or do you need, like, a_
Do you need just a special Jug and a special washtub?
Really, Fritz should be telling you this, because he can do, like, two hours on this, but it is essentially a ceramic Jug.
It's very simple.
I've seen him play everything from _ Clorox bottles, you know, to [Bb] antiques.
He just goes to the junkyard and comes away with a whole orchestra.
That's right.
That's really impressive.
I know that_
[Abm] Just something I wanted to talk to you about very quickly was Woodstock.
I know you were [N] at Woodstock.
Yes, it's true.
Way back there.
Now, what did you actually perform at Woodstock?
Was you playing Jug music then, or_?
I played by myself.
I had basically just kind of gone on my own for my first year and had been playing little clubs and, you know, 100 people at a time, and then there was Woodstock.
Now, was that_
Do you have a distinct memory of that, or does that just seem like a dream, the whole thing?
No, I remember it very well.
It was the most exciting performance as far as an audience that I'd ever been part of.
Yeah, you're fabulous.
I think for people of my generation, we don't exactly_
When we've seen the pictures, I've seen the films, and I just sometimes, you know, I look at that and I wonder, what did it really feel like to be there?
Was it just a surreal experience?
Well, there were sort of misinterpretations at the time.
The media was saying, hey, it's mud, it's drugs, it's squalor.
And I remember for the first few days, I went on talk shows and explained, no, we're having a good time.
That's really_
That's all it is.
But you were still covered in mud.
It was an accident, though.
This is the thing that's hard to focus on nowadays, is that it was an accident.
The fact that those_
I was standing next to the two guys that put on that show.
The moment that somebody comes up and says, [B] _ the fence just went down in the fourth quadrant.
[Eb] Right.
_ Two [Ab] guys looked at each other, and finally the one guy says, I guess it's a free festival.
_ _ And it was at that point that the festival became a magical [Eb] experience.
That [Gb] doesn't happen anymore, I don't [Abm] think.
It's a bygone [N] era.
Yeah, but I'm going to be real happy to get ten times my normal fee and play all summer for anybody that wants to relive the experience.
All right.
Well, listen, thank you.
Really, thank you very much for coming.
You're all free to leave.
That's all right.
Okay, we're going to be right back.
[E] We'll see you in just a moment.
Talk about it.
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _