Was Bela Fleck in the band then?
Bela wasn’t in the band then. It was Sam Bush, Courtney Johnson, Curtis Burch, and John Cowan on bass. I toured with those guys two years. We went to Australia and around the world. People in Australia walked in, and they didn’t see any drums, and they started looking weird. They just kind of sat there and watched us for the first couple of songs. The new wavers got up and started jumping around, doing that funny little pogo dance.There were mixed reviews. We were playing with The Amazing Rhythm Aces. I think they actually liked them better. (Laughs) It was quite a different kind of show than what they were expecting. Another favorite of ours is Edgar Winter. I know you’ve done a lot of work with him. Your thoughts on Edgar both as a musician and as a person? Edgar is a music master. You talk about different genres, he’s the real article. I don’t think that many people know that there was a series of records done in Las Vegas style . David Lee Roth did one, and Edgar played on it. He p
