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OKD: We could pack that big pub. It was huge. We could pack it full. I loved it.
Southampton, we played in Southampton too.

BiTS: Right.

OKD: Isn't that where you are at, or around there?

BiTS: Well, I'm on the south coast certainly. I'm about 40-50 miles from Southampton.

OKD: Yeah, okay well that's still pretty close. I played there a lot. I played in Leeds

and Liverpool and Blackpool. All over.

BiTS: I didn't know that. This is all news to me.

OKD: I have a lot of good friends in England.

BiTS: Have you ever met a guy called Mike Vernon?

OKD: Oh, yeah. See, I know Mike. I wanted to record for his label but there was too
much stuff going on at the time.

BiTS: I think you'd like to know that he passed away a couple of days ago.

OKD: Oh no. I didn't know that. I did like him.

BiTS: He was a huge figure in the blues in this country.

OKD: Yeah, we had plans on recording with him at one time, but we were on the

move. We never stopped moving. I was playing 300 dates a year, and I already had
some little record labels, but I wanted to be on, what was it, Blue Horizon, was one

of the ones he had?

BiTS: Yeah, yeah. That's right.

OKD: Yeah, I wanted to be on that, but it didn't work out, but that's okay, I still liked
him a lot.