From sevita@earthlink.net Fri Jun 18 22:01:43 2004
Subject:Re: Broken Keys-- Sympathizers vs. Admonishers

Gregg Rolie in an interview:"..."Around '69, or so, we did the last
gig of a tour in Passaic, New Jersey. I had a fever of 103, and I was
seeing double. It was really hot, too. Normally I play hard, way
harder than I need to. But on this gig, I played so hard that I went
right through the keyboard of the B-3. I slapped it on one of the
solos; my hand went through the keys. A key was sticking straight up,
and I had to keep playing around it. I got cut somehow, and I was
bleeding all over it. At the end of the show, everyone was just
staring at the B-3. It was covered in blood. They shipped it still
covered with blood! Later, I ran into a friend who had been by Studio
Instrument Rentals when the thing came back to them. Everyone there
was yelling, 'My God! What kind of animal played this?' My friend
said, 'Oh, that was Gregg Rolie.' I always liked that: 'Gregg Rolie
plays like an animal.'"