"The Likes of Which I'd Never Seen"

"'These were southern guys, nice folks, quiet, and Otis would be up there in the dressing room while the band was warming the audience up. He'd get his tie on, then put his coat on. One of the other musicians came up and Otis said, "Hey man, you catch your groove?" And he said "Yeah, I caught a groove." And Otis said, "Well, I guess I'll go down." He was totally casual, because he'd done this 1,000 times. I thought, "That's neat—and now he's going to go down and fire up this band like a locomotive and get it going.["]'"

In the Los Angeles Times, Randy Lewis interviews Ry Cooder about Otis Redding's 1966 concerts at the Whisky a Go Go.