THE BOOK OF DALE GEORGE LYTLE

Testing: one, two, three, four, fi ve, six, seven, eight, nine, ten “Ahhh, it really started, it all really started in 1969. I got a’ guitar for Christmas and my mom dropped me off at the A.C.C.; went to a Grand Funk Concert in the Anaheim Convention Center; saw Grand Funk and Mark Farner and was sold from there - they broke out windows and there was a riot and they were sold out, and when they hit the stage it was like nothing I had ever experienced or seen, in my life. And it was something in my life I could not go without doing my- self.” “I picked up a guitar, which I never put down. And once I picked it up, I played twelve hours a day. Never putting it down for a moment at friend’s house’s. Sitting around in little black- light rooms, with their little black- light parties; and they would be there smoking pot and I would be running scales and writing songs and playing guitar. And, I don’t, I don’t know - might off smoked some pot too, I’m not real sure...” “But yeah, got that fi rst guitar at twelve years old and never put it down. It was because of Grand Funk Railroad and Mark Farner...” Grand Funk Railroad? “Yep, Grand Funk Railroad; ‘I’m Your Captain,’ and ‘Inside Looking Out,” -”I’m sitting here lonely like a broken man, served my time - doing the best I can - the walls and bars they surround me - but their’s no sympathy.” Yep, it was Mark Farner then also Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin. I really got into them and liked their music - and Elvis Presley. Between them and on and on between the great bands. Gawd, the Rolling Stones.” What do you think of Keith Richards? “He is a fabulous hook- writer; guitar player. Incredable hook, -hook- writer. “Jumping Jack Flash,’ is one of the most famous Rock n’ Roll guitar- hook that is one of the fi rst licks a guitarist would play. Led Zeppelin’s “Rock n’ Roll” song - is also probably another riff any fi rst guitarist play’s. And the Stones ‘Sticky Fingers Album’ to ‘Wild Horses,’ they all wrote some incredable music.” . I always liked Angie myself. [singing] “Angie, Annnnnnnngie! Oh, yeah, great song. And ‘Wild Horses.’ All that phenomenal stuff . Yeah it was all about playing in garage’s. Getting a drummer, the excitement; and the feeling of writing new song’s. Th at we’re your own, I was one never to really copy songs. I was never really one to sit down and learn copy songs. Th at wasn’t my fortay. Th at wasn’t my speciality. It wasn’t what I enjoyed, it didn’t excite me. I didn’t feel any accomplishments. Any, any, I got no satisfaction out of playing something somebody else wrote. I wanted to create something on my own.” So, you wanted creativity. “Yeah, you know...” You wanted to be a Beethoven. “Yeah, I wanted to invent. I wanted, I wanted to invent something. Writing a new song was inventing something. It was an invention. Wow! Th is came from my soul. Th is came from within. You, know, this wasn’t something somebody else wrote.” It was the gift God gave you. “Correct. It came from within. I tried to make them always hooky - real hooky. Not something that just somebody, anybody would write. I always made sure they were something unique, diff erent and stoodout like nothing else. Like ‘Jumping Jack Flash’ or like ‘Whole Lotta Love.’ You know I got “Keeper of the Gate” and “Nasty Girls,” and “You Want Me to Love You,” “Chivarly,” and “Th under.” And the second album, “Moving to Slow, Moving to Fast.” Th at’s all from Angeles and going into Kore with “A Little Bit Faster,” and “Th e Band Play’s On.” Kore is in the planning stages and working on a song right now for Ford to see if we can get a mid-west type commercial; Spring 2012. Such as; driving through the wheatfi elds with a long- hair girl driving. “Down the Road,” would be a perfect song for that.” “Music is such a wonderful thing, like your’ writing and poetry. Makes you feel good.”