Group Shot Jim with Aerosmith in Mansfield
Bonnie Raitt With Jim Belushi and the Blues Brothers opening House Of Blues Casino in Atlantic City July 10 2005 I've been honored several times to play with Les Paul.  This time at the New Iridium in NYMe and Ron Wood at his gallery opening in Boston when the Stones played Fenway Park. Just behind me on the right- Barry Goudreau from the group BostonReel Blues Fest fundraiser with Steve Paul, Jon Butcher, and Matt Woodburn First Reel Blues Fest with Shirley Lewis, James Cotton, Jim Belushi.  Jim was GREAT. Marty Richards drums, David Hull bass.James Cotton, my oldest friend in the business, we go back almost 40 years when he started teaching me.
Les Paul has me play jug with him after we find out we both started in a jug band! Rock and Roll golf team!  Skunk Baxter (Doobies, Steely Dan ) Ric's son, Bill Johnson, me, Ric Neilson (Cheap Trick )World's most dangerous wedding band!  The Vanderhoop wedding. James Taylor, Dan Aykroyd, Hugh Taylor and, off camera, Kate Taylor.  LB bass. Taking Gregg out fishing in the early eighties. Deborah Coleman, monster player. Otis Clay in the Peabody in Memphis.  He sat in with the East Coast Funkbusters - my band with Alex Taylor, Dan Aykroyd, Paul Shafer, Larry Bader and others -  years before.
Johnny Winter and Chris FitzWith Roomful of Blues and La Verne Baker at the Newport Blues Festival With Buddy Guy K.D. Bell steals my moves - or am I stealing his?New England Jam Band - Eighties - Roger Earl ( Foghat), Jon Butcher, Fran Sheehan  (Boston), and Charlie Farren Had a beer with Bill Weld on his back porch in Cambridge.  Next thing you know I'm doing his Inaugural.  I put Steven Tyler and Tom Hamilton in the band!

 

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