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it deserves at the moment and, you know, it could be an easy fix, but we won't go into that.

We're dealing with my record at the moment.

FD: We won't go into that, now as that's probably a conversation over a cup of coffee in
Carlton, perhaps.

JC: I think so, yeah.

FD: Joe Camilleri, with the Black Sorrows band now, it's a well-oiled machine, I would
suggest that, having played together for a long time, it must make it easy when you're doing
such a massive tour that you're in the middle of now to know that you've got musicians
that have got your back and vice versa.

JC: Well, it's true. You know, I've always been a great believer that you've got to be friends.
You've got to want to be there. You've got to
take control of that, and that's how it works,
and that's when it works at its best. When
you can be disgruntled for a number of
things, it's not necessarily about music;
sometimes it's about the conditions and
things like that. So you have this feeling that
when you're playing music, it's about the
music, and I think that's why the band that I

have at the moment has been with me for a
long time. Some have gone and some have
come back, and it's more stable now than it
ever was before.

FD: And Joe, with 40 plus years, if I could ask
you, what would be one of your major
highlights in your career, whether it's Little
Joey Vincent, The Revelators, The Black
Sorrows, What’s one of your major highlights
for you personally?

JC: Well, Frank, you know, my bar was very low. All I wanted to do was play in New York
and meet Ray Charles, and oh, that was a high moment.

JC: And meet some of the greats that you fantasize as a record fan, as a record-buying
person that would spend all his money on the wax, and kind of not be a musician, just be a
music fan, you know, and there was plenty of us then, it was kind of mysterious. You know,
there wasn’t this is how you play this, or this is how you do that, you know, so I'm trying
to answer the question in a different way. It's, of course, wonderful moments, you know,
getting on the plane for the first time to go to England, and playing in London, and then

flying to America, and then going to the Montreux Jazz Festival.

JC: Where, you know, the same bill, the night we were on the night before Van Morrison
and BB King, and meeting these people, and pinching yourself, and running around, when
I had more blood in my veins, jumping up and down on the bed, and doing some, you know,
dumb stuff, because I'm a music fan. You know, I was an accidental musician, you know,
and all of a sudden I'm sucked up in this world, you know.