LD: I remember sitting with Coco in front of the Apple Barrel on the bench. And he would give me all this great advice that I couldn’t understand [because it was so loud]—like, “What? What was that?” But I knew it was good, and I knew he felt me, you know? So, yeah, that was really sweet.
There weren’t a lot of people [on Frenchmen]. There weren’t nearly as many as there are now, and it was mostly musicians. By the time 2 or 3 a.m. hit, it was just us, and we all migrated to one club, probably the Apple Barrel. We’d all gotten off work, and we all would walk down there, and everybody would sit in. And it would be just us, and that was a beautiful thing.
[Long form interview forthcoming!]
