that was one of the worst days of my life. he was at don johnson s house. he partied with terry a lot. he was cleaning his gun and this was a little automatic pistol. donny johnson kind of squawked at him about it s the middle of the night and you haven t slept. don t mess around with your guns. just go to bed. terry said i know what i m doing and apparently terry took the clip out of the gun and showed him there was nothing in the clip. apparently there was a round chim ber. and the gun went off. boom. he died instantly. it was really, really hard news. i didn t believe it.
to donny. donny was late for rehearsal. we finally got ahold of him. what? bull. what do you mean? two words, buddy. you re fired. you bought the shoes because you love them. they re not comfortable. next you have to find shoes that don t put blisters on your face. my playing rhythmically was a lot like terry s. chris had some of the inside guitar stuff. terry was a great rhythm guitar player outside of a great soloist and great singer. there was no leader in the band but in terms of the driving force. replacing terry kath was no easy task. i knew that. everybody else should know it.
in the 70s they sold over 60 million records with an unbroken string of hits like saturday in the park, does anybody know what time it is and if you leave me now. they are continuing that sex sex? they are continuing that success i don t know. it s hard to know who to talk to. they are all stars of the band, right? [ applause ] mole hills never become mountains. it is a democratic organization. there is no front man. everyone has an equal say-so. peter cetera. bobby. danny on drums. chris on guitar. my first day of rehearsing with them i had to go down and hide in the poolhouse because nobody told donny he was out of the band. we had auditioned, unbenouns
he partied with terry a lot. he was cleaning his gun. this was a little automatic pistol. donny johnson kind of squawked at him about it s the middle of the night. you haven t slept. don t clean your guns. don t mess around with the guns. go to bed. terry said, hey, look, man. i know what i m doing. apparently terry took the clip out of the gun, showed him there was nothing the clip. but apparently there was still a round chambered. terry was just the gun went off. boom. died instantly. it was really, really hard news. i didn t believe it.