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Here Is How This College the Biggest Gig in the City, at the Time, Junior Came Into That Role LITTLE RICHARD R.I.P. Is It Time To RENEW? Just Want To Subscribe? Call Today & Choose Your BONUS CDs! Limited Stock Order Today By Toll Free 1 (855) 872-5837 BLUES MUSIC ONLINE - May20, 2020 - Issue 12 Table Of Contents 06 - LITTLE RICHARD ALWAYS Pay Attention! By Derrick D'Mar Martin 12 - LITTLE RICHARD A Bridge Over Troubled Waters By Don Wilcock 18 - WRITERS' REMEMBER LITTLE RICHARD By Various Writers 24 - CD REVIEW - RORY GALLAGHER 2 CD SET By Hal Horowitz 25 - NEW CD ARRIVALS 29 - NEW MUSIC COMING SOON 30 - MUSIC ON SALE COVER & TOC PHOTOGRAPHY © BILL WASSERZIEHER LITTLE RICHARD ALWAYS Pay Attention! By Derrick D'Mar Martin PHOTOGRAPHY © DERRICK D'MAR MARTIN PHOTOGRAPHY © DERRICK D'MAR MARTIN oday, most blues fans know It was 1995 and I was in my junior year Derrick D’Mar Martin as the at Jackson State University majoring Tacrobatic drummer with Rick in music education. I had sat out for a Estrin and the Nightcats. Others may time after my sophomore year because remember him jumpin’ the kit with the all I really wanted to do was play Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra, and music, make records, and become rich a handful might be familiar with his and famous, you know the drill. work with Chris Gill in the Mississippi I was a member of a really duo D’Mar and Gill. But I’m sure hot band called Infinity which was very, very few know that D’Mar was comprised of myself, Darryl Pete, Little Richard’s drummer for 17 years Tommie “S’VON” Ringo, Gary Scott, beginning in 1995! Everyone who Ezra Brown, and Robert Lampkin. saw Richard’s high-powered, double This unit was amazing! We played drummer band in those years would around town and were cutting out have also seen D’Mar leapin’ and jivin’ teeth as songwriters and producers. with Richard. Here is how this college The biggest gig in the city, at the time, junior came into that role. was the Jubilee Jamn, and man we wanted to get booked on that stage. DERRICK D’MAR MARTIN Linda Jacobs worked for the festival Here is my story of how I became a and helped bring big named acts to member of Little Richard’s band. the festival, one of which was Little Richard. but Linda Jacobs never wavered, she Linda and I were extended family was so supportive and encouraging members, and she really believed in me that it helped ease my nerves a bit. and our band. She offered to help us The next day I went to school to discuss get gigs and offer advice and guidance. this opportunity with my professors. After Little Richard played the festival, Now keep in mind that leaving school she developed a great relationship for a gig was the cardinal sin, but I felt with Little Richard, and they stayed like this was something I had to do. I in touch. One day they were having trusted my teachers, and I wanted to a conversation about his band and hear their input. Once I told them who Richard was saying that he wanted go it was, they all said, “You have to GO! back to having two drummers like he You can’t miss out on this opportunity, did in years past and asked Linda if but just make sure you have a round she knew of a young black drummer trip ticket in case something goes that could fill the seat. Well, wouldn’t wrong.” So with that I was on my way. you know it, she recommended me! On Thursday I arrived at LAX So I’m home one morning, and and Richard’s son Danny met me I get a call from Linda telling me at baggage claim and escorted me that Little Richard was looking for a outside to a stretch limo with Richard drummer, and she gave me a number sitting inside. Man you should have to call to inquire about the audition. seen my face! This was my first official So I called the number expecting to be limo ride! Upon first meeting him, I speaking to a manager or some kind was taken aback by the enormity of of representative, but low and behold, his presence and personality, he was it was Little Richard himself! He a STAR in every sense of the word. He seemed really nice and asked if I had held court on the ride to the hotel and his Specialty Records Greatest Hits told me about himself and his humble record. I told him I didn’t but I could beginnings in Macon, Georgia. We run to the record store to pick it up. arrived at the Hyatt on Sunset in West He said OK go get it then call me back Hollywood, and I checked in. This is after you’ve listened to it. where he lived! Yes, he lived in a hotel I bought the record, listened, full time! He had the three corner and called him back. He asked if I rooms at the end of the third floor. could play this music and, of course, Once we checked in, he took me I said, “Yes sir!”. He said, “OK, I’ll call out for dinner and asked about my you back this afternoon.” This was on family, my life, and so forth. He was a Monday or Tuesday I think. Later sizing me up I guess. I stayed for almost that evening he called back and told a week, but we never talked about me that he had booked me a ticket to music or when I was to audition. He fly to Los Angeles on Thursday. It was took me to a few shows at The House all set. I was excited and a bit afraid Of Blues, I attended church with him, because I didn’t know what to expect, and ran errands. After about a week PHOTOGRAPHY © DERRICK D'MAR MARTIN of this, he said that we were going to So Richard and Roy began to tell go the SIR rehearsal studios for my stories and reminisce. During this time audition. But in what I would come to we were all sitting at our instruments, know as classic Little Richard fashion, and we just started to jam as they we arrived to late to SIR and missed would tell stories about the good old our time and had to reschedule. days. Legendary Upsetters guitarist, Oh yeah, Charles Glenn was Roy Gaines, met us there and, since also there too. He was Richard’s bass we missed our slot, we went to his club player, and he had played with Ozone, on Crenshaw. We went inside and Billy Preston, Sammy Davis Jr. and there was a small stage with a honky Debarge, just to name a few. So we tonk piano, guitar amps, and an old, were just jamning on tunes, playing old drum set, I mean barely it was nothing but the blues. standing. Now I’m not realizing that THIS is everything. my actual audition. I’m super relaxed, He told me that I had to ALWAYS cracking jokes with them and just pay attention and be as focused as a being my crazy self, I mean wide open. laser while on stage. If he ever looked After about an hour or so, around and didn’t make eye contact Richard said, “OK, I’m getting hungry, with me, well let’s just say that the let’s go.” He looked at me and said, conversation after the show was “Baby, that’s great! We open for The not a fun one. Don’t get me wrong, Temptations next week in Cerritos.” it was always in love, or so I grew to Of course, I’m baffled. I asked him understand it later. Richard helped what just happened and Charles me develop a thick skin and focus that shakes my hand and says, “Welcome I would never forget. I even developed to the band!” I stop Richard, and I’m a motto about playing with him, “He like, “But we didn’t play any of your may not always be right, but he is music.” He then turns to me and never wrong.” LOL. It was my job the says, “Baby, you know how to play the have his back no matter what. My job blues, you have a good foot, a strong was to support him and drive this huge back beat, and you love your momma. Rock & Roll machine without second I’ll teach you the rest.” I was blown guessing a thing. And trust me, it took away! He later explained to me that me a while to really own it and be no one could come to his gig knowing confident enough to trust myself as he what he wanted. He would always trusted me. But that’s just it, he trusted have to teach people what he wanted me, and that was and still is one of them to do. My true audition began the biggest votes of confidence ever! I the moment I stepped into the limo. mean this man is an icon, and he took He interacted with me for a week to time to invest in ME. And for that I will be sure I was “teachable.”And this was forever be grateful and I will continue just the beginning of a 17-year ride that to build on all I’ve learned from him. taught me so much about everything.
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