Eaton:
My early influence, even though I was raised around
country music and, and listened to a lot of country music, was primarily
Dixieland because the country bands at that time, if you'll remember, didn't
have a, a drum, Grand Ole Opry people I guess they banned drums on the Grand
Ole Opry but, ah, so I listened to a lot of Dixieland and big band things to
influence me. And then as the stringed instruments came along with Elvis
and, and, ah, the, ah, beat that he was putting down, we came in with that
with, ah, you know with the drums and a heavier back beat and, and this type
of thing. And, ah, I think one of the things that, ah, maybe separated me
from the, ah, from the shuffle rhythms that they were playing on country
music when they did start putting a drummer to it was that they would play a
lick that would go something like [plays] to do the shuffle beat which never
was my thing. And I would play one that, [plays] which wound up, ah, I guess
getting me a lot of session jobs and also creating, adding to what was
already happening here in Memphis. So from there, you know, I guess we came
to the studio and that's when I met Roland and I was still in high school.
We were, we were coming down and doing a few things and, ah, I think Roland
was playing with Billy Riley and, ah, I had been down auditioning with, ah,
with a group that I was playing with. And that's really how we got to know
each other. So, ah, ah, from there on…