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Dixon, some really funny things that I learned. I didn't know he was so close to him because also
that the kind of blues he was playing wasn't really in my world. I was more like the urban blues.
I was more into the urban, electric guitar blues, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells and Otis Rush and
all these guys. But then he said, yeah, yeah, you know he's playing at the school tonight? I think
you should come and bring your guitar because he knew I had this blues foundation.

At the time, as I said, my plan was to be the Danish Carlos Santana [laughing]. But plans never
work somehow. If you make plans,
somebody else will come along and change
the plans, and that's exactly what happened
that night. I went there and I had a talk with
Jack, and we decided that they would play a
couple of songs and then I could come up
and play a few songs with them. I did that
and when we started the song, Jack had his
back to me because he was playing on the
upright piano at the end of the stage if you
can picture that, and I was standing behind
him.

We started playing and it was like when I
started hitting some notes, his arms fell
down [laughs]. He stopped playing and his
arms fell down, and he turned his head, and
he looked at me and he was smiling and then
said, come on, yeah. And then every time I
wanted to go down, he said no, no, no, no.

You play, you play some more. Then after
the concert, I drove him to the hotel, and he
invited me to play with him at some other
venues while he was in Denmark at the time.
You know he was living in Hanover, right?

BiTS: Yeah.

KL: In Germany at the time. Then in 79, he
came to Denmark quite a few times, and
every time he asked for me to be on there.

BiTS: How lovely.

KL: Yeah, it was fantastic. It was so
unexpected, and I was just enjoying it
because I thought that was just that. So I was just enjoying it. Every time we played, I enjoyed it
because I thought it was the last time I would play with him because I had other plans, and I
didn't know he needed me. I mean, the first time in 79, I made a little combo that was backing
him and that made sense. But then we had two gigs which would be our thing in the future, but
I didn't know that, and the first time we did that I was thinking, what the fuck am I doing here,
because he's playing everything? He don't need me. What do you want me to play? Because he
was so much blues on that piano, and his vocalist was fantastic. But then at the beginning of 80,
he called me and wanted me to come with him on tour in France, and I hardly hadn't been out
of Denmark at the time [chuckles], so that was very unexpected.