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BiTS: I read on a bio that was sent to me of you, that
you played somehow or other with T-Bone Walker.

DC: Yes, that was an extremely fascinating time. I met
T-Bone from yet another friend of mine in high school

who had phone numbers of a lot of the blues guys
around town because he had gone to shows and got in
touch with them and so I called T-Bone one day and I
said, hey, would you mind if my friend and I came
over? And again I had another friend who played
saxophone in a blues band that we had started up and
T-Bone said, hey, come on by and we went by and then
we stayed in contact with him and we said, hey, would
it be okay to bring our instruments over? And he said,
oh, by all means. So we got to go over and jam with
T-Bone in T-Bone’s house. It was a pretty exciting time
for a 15-year-old kid, I’ll tell you.

BiTS: Yes, I’m sure that was true. At what stage did
you decide that you were really going to make a career
T-Bone in CA, showing his love of horses out of music? How old were you then?

DC: I think it actually was in high school, again as I was
playing in these various bands and it just seemed that people like having me around to play and
again, I just kept digesting new stuff and getting interested in various forms of music, jazz and
rock and blues, of course. And again, I always have a tendency to veer towards the blues, no
matter what style of music I’m playing, I like to throw in my roots there.

BiTS: I’ve read that you went on what I guess must have been your first tour as a professional

musician with Moon Martin? (John David “Moon” Martin who wrote ‘A Bad Case Of Loving You’
later covered by Robert Palmer (Ed))

DC: I did indeed. Actually, well that was my first big tour. I did a little tour with Spike Jones Jr, of
all people [chuckles].

BiTS: Oh, good grief [chuckling]. There’s a name that I haven't heard in years.

DC: Yes, that was quite an experience too. Of course, he played all of his father’s material and all
the sound effects and everything and then a few years later, Moon Martin came up and again,
that was just fantastic tours that we did. We did a few tours over in Europe and of course, across
the States. We had shared the bill with The Police and Blondie and Cheap Trick and Rockpile, if
you know Rockpile. I mean those guys were just fantastic.

BiTS: Has there been any venue that you’ve been playing at where you’ve found yourself thinking,
good grief, this is wonderful. What am I doing here?

DC: I think again, most of the shows that we had done with Moon up until about mid-1978, were
mostly smaller venues. Maybe 2,000 seat or so and then at one point with Cheap Trick, we played
this 6,000 seat arena back in Rhode Island and I just got on stage there and it’s like wow! This is
just amazing being surrounded by all of this and all these people and then about a year later, I
think it was, we played with Cheap Trick. We opened up for Cheap Trick at the Forum which kind
of went full circle because that was where I saw Jimi Hendrix play and then all of a sudden, not
quite ten years later, there I am playing on the same stage and it was just wow, what an experience.