Everybody else is laying out, so you have to hear the guitar solo. It will never get played on the radio, right? If you listen to the solo, I arranged it in such a way that when I came in there’s really not a lot going on – except for me and Aynsley. "His point was, he came in with a stop watch and the guitar solo was too long. "I remember arguing over the guitar solo with our manager at that time," Chaquico said in a separate 2012 talk. Finally, I thought: 'As crazy as this is, and as unlikely as it would be that this would work, there’s something there.' Where they were coming from, and where I was then, it was a meeting of styles that created something original." We had several meetings, and couple of jam sessions. But I was flattered to get the call, and I at least owed them the courtesy of going over there and seeing what’s up. "I’m thinking, based on my influences and where I was coming from at that point in time: 'How in the world is this going to fit?' I had recently left the Elvin Bishop Band, which was all about the blues and soul music and R&B and country and every other kind of roots or organic music you could think of. I was down in Miami with Bill Szymczyk (of Eagles fame) producing, and that’s when I got the call from the Jefferson Starship," Thomas admitted in 2013. "I had just left the Elvin Bishop Band, and I was preparing to do a solo album.
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