Kenne Highland

I met drummer Gary Torok in June ’74. We got together and jammed on Uriah Heep and Santana. Me, him, and his younger brother Peter on bass played my high school in January ’75. “Ready Eddie” is truly about Stenson Eddie Flowers coz he “loves that Southern bop.” The chords are “Brown Sugar” (’71) and Ten Years After’s “Choo Choo Mama” (’72). Let’s say “Ready Eddie” is Nixon-era rock. I met fanzine writer Scott Duhamel August ’74, so I musta said, “Have your poems set to my music.” Wrote “Juvenile…