RL: Suddenly Dee Anthony, who was managing us at the time, said, 'You've got to go to the site now - they want you up on stage!' Oh gosh, okay. JC: I’ve heard similar horror stories from other bands. Janis was in there with a bunch of people, so the chance of getting sleep was nil. The only thing they had was a day room shared with other bands. We had just arrived at what became Tranquility Base – the Holiday Inn in Bethel - and were going to get some sleep because we had flown in from St. RL: We were told we had to get to the stage to play in the afternoon. JC: Just getting to Woodstock in 1969, even for the musicians, logistically was a mess, right? Later, of course, it was shooting up the charts, so I’ve been hearing it quite a bit. My daughter threw Pharrell Williams at me. It’s the kids, isn’t it? They go out on weekends and dance. RL: I don’t know about Kanye West, but Gaga is obviously a produced product. JC: What about some recent pop - this crop of say, Kanye West and Lady Gaga? Are they the real deals? Singer/songwriter David Bowie in 2009 at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. To me he was the chameleon, always ringing in the changes. We were all brought up through the Marquee. I knew him really as Davy Jones because he used to play at the Marquee Club under that name. We were introduced and he was very, very pleasant. I walked into our publisher’s office at Chrysalis in whatever year it was, and he was sitting there. He hadn’t had Space Oddity as a hit yet, but he had recorded it. JC: Did you ever meet the late David Bowie? It was the period before he got fat, early seventies. When I first met him, we used to play Blue Moon of Kentucky. RL: He was very fast, as you know, and the press tagged him with “speed fingers.” It was very difficult for him to live that down when he didn’t play something fast. JC: With some of the other great guitarists of the period - Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page - how does Alvin fit in? well, according to Ten Years After drummer Ric Lee. The late guitarist Alvin Lee, whom the press dubbed 'speed fingers,' was a great country picker as. He was a very smart businessman, and used to stay out of the politics. RL: In a funny sort of way, the abrasion between the three of us - Alvin, Leo and me - worked, made the music the edge. JC: Do you think that social distance made for better music like say, the personal tension between Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce in Cream? There was a great respect musically, but a bit of distance socially – that's best way to put it. We would sometimes go head to head on that. Also sometimes he could be really awkward not wanting to do things that to me seemed obvious to be good for our careers in the band. It’s not a lot of fun smoking pot on your own, whereas you can go to a bar and drink a beer by yourself. He was very heavily into pot smoking, and I was heavily into drinking beer. Ric Lee: We had great respect for each other as musicians, but we didn’t socialize much. Jim Clash: How did you and Alvin Lee get along?

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