Lammer

Most of the stuff I did in the early ’60’s, I wrote it in the late ’50’s. What I was writing in the ’60’s was a lot of songs about being gay. Now I’m not gay, although there ain’t shit wrong with being gay. But we would write a whole bunch of songs about gay people. I’ve still got one of them- “The Two of Us.” Gary U.S. Bonds and I wrote it. And we were writing several songs- we wrote about ten songs like that. It was like, we wrote a lot of songs that I guess we’d have to say was just for our own enjoyment. I hadn’t thought about recording them at that time. We would do songs like, we would do tributes to people who were alive, but we did ‘em like they were dead. We thought this was funny, I know that it’s sick. But we were doing a lot of sick shit. But this was just for our own enjoyment.

Later in the ’60’s, we started writing some acid-type lyrics. But there was no call for it. People’d say, we don’t want this shit. What is this shit? I put one of them on my first album, Total Destruction, a thing called “Dust Your Head Color Red.” I had started writing some songs that nobody, nobody, wanted to record. Including Jerry Williams or Gary Bonds or anybody else in our little circle, or outside our circle. That was another reason Swamp Dogg was right on time when he arrived. ‘Cause he would sing any fucking thing! Swamp Dogg would give it a fucking try.