![]() ![]() "He was sitting down out there in the studio all by himself, looking quite forlorn. I guess in his heyday, he'd almost always cut live. "He came down to the studio to listen to the track, and said, 'Where's the band?' At first, he felt a bit strange about overdubbing. His son is standing behind me making signs like, 'Dad! This guy's in a big group,' because Junior had no idea who we were. The real fan in me comes out, and I start stutterin 'ah ah ah.you don't know how much your music has meant to me.' I just completely lost it. "Junior walks in and says, 'I hear somebody wants to cut a record.' And I kind of lost it. Then I went backstage-downstairs, actually-to meet him. "I went down and sat through three sets, something I would have done with great pleasure in any event. ![]() "It was just a wild hunch," Jones says now. Walker might play it." Flipping through the pages of the Village Voices, Jones was shocked to discover that Walker was in town to play the Lone Star Cafe that very evening. During sessions in New York for their fourth album, they had recorded a track they agreed might benefit by a saxophone part "like Jr. They'd happily admit to being inspired by Junior's sax playing."īy 1981, Jones' British-American band Foreigner was a multi-platinum monster. You can ask Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, any of those people. A lot of guitar players would steal his sax riffs. "Junior was very highly respected in music circles. Mick Jones was another englishman who had grown up revering Jr. ![]()
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