Lil’ Darlin’ shouldn’t sound like the first 10 minutes of Saving Private Ryan!
If I’m going to play this instrument (oboe), I want to get to the point where I can be creative on it.
To this day, I don’t know why Thad took a chance on me. He didn’t know me from Adam!
John Belushi told me he was going to make me the most famous trombone player since Jimmy Dorsey. I didn’t have the heart to tell him Jimmy was the saxophone player.
The head went by in about 4 seconds, they pushed me up to the microphone and the rhythm section stopped!
