LARRY McCRAY:
First time I met Junior Wells, I met Junior Wells in the Checkerboard Lounge. Vince Agwada...introduced me to Junior. He said, "Junior, I want you to meet Larry McCray." And he looked at me, up and down, both sides like that. He say, "Can he play?" They said, "Yeah, he can play." "Big fat muthafucka better be able to play." And then he just cracked up, he fell out laughing, he gave me a big hug and shook my hand. He was the nicest guy in the world. I really did dig him a lot. He was cool people. I love Junior Wells, he a good guy...
Junior was always a very candid fellow, and he didn't pull no punches, he didn't pretend for anybody to be different than what he was all the time...I seen 'im one day in Buddy Guy's Legends and he was gettin' down a little bit, you know, usin' a few swear words and stuff in his music. At the end of the song he looked real serious and he put his head down and he say, "I notice a lot of women people in here, and I know I cuss," he say, "Yeah, I cuss, I say some bad words and everything, and I'm real sorry about that--but if you don't like it, git yer BIG GOD DAMN ASS UP OUTA HERE RIGHT NOW!"
...He always recognized you, and he always acknowledged you as bein' an individual and bein' a fellow musician, and that was really cool on his part, because a lot of the senior musicians...that are out there, been out there for a while, they aren't very friendly and aren't very cordial with the new guys that's comin' on tryin' to make it. But he was very nice, and I always did have a lot of respect for him for that reason.
I better not go no further because it get very uncensored! (9/15/98 AE)
First time I met Junior Wells, I met Junior Wells in the Checkerboard Lounge. Vince Agwada...introduced me to Junior. He said, "Junior, I want you to meet Larry McCray." And he looked at me, up and down, both sides like that. He say, "Can he play?" They said, "Yeah, he can play." "Big fat muthafucka better be able to play." And then he just cracked up, he fell out laughing, he gave me a big hug and shook my hand. He was the nicest guy in the world. I really did dig him a lot. He was cool people. I love Junior Wells, he a good guy...
Junior was always a very candid fellow, and he didn't pull no punches, he didn't pretend for anybody to be different than what he was all the time...I seen 'im one day in Buddy Guy's Legends and he was gettin' down a little bit, you know, usin' a few swear words and stuff in his music. At the end of the song he looked real serious and he put his head down and he say, "I notice a lot of women people in here, and I know I cuss," he say, "Yeah, I cuss, I say some bad words and everything, and I'm real sorry about that--but if you don't like it, git yer BIG GOD DAMN ASS UP OUTA HERE RIGHT NOW!"
...He always recognized you, and he always acknowledged you as bein' an individual and bein' a fellow musician, and that was really cool on his part, because a lot of the senior musicians...that are out there, been out there for a while, they aren't very friendly and aren't very cordial with the new guys that's comin' on tryin' to make it. But he was very nice, and I always did have a lot of respect for him for that reason.
I better not go no further because it get very uncensored! (9/15/98 AE)