Oh, I was a wild child! I had the piano talkin' and walkin'

pdf scan (6 pages/8MB) from Playboy 1987, original version of the piece in this collection

When I was in Baltimore [at the Royal Theater], the girls would take off their –people didn't call them panties then, they called them drawers- and throw them on the stage. It was very terrible, but at the time, we didn't know better. All the girls would want to come in the room and you'd let them in and they'd never leave! I was shocked! Girl groupies, boy groupies, dog groupies, cat groupies! She would say, 'Give me a pillow' and I'd say, 'My God, ain't she going home?' And they'd stay for a week!"

 pdf (225 pages/1MB) with thanks to the original sharer

not exactly a great book (opens with quotes from Christgau & Marcus etc) but some good stuff

Huey “Piano” Smith hated Little Richard’s frenetic, one-key approach: “Almost everybody plays music — hit on the piano and go ‘BUNGA! BUNGA! BUNGA!’,” Smith grouses in the Specialty book. “I guess since they started callin’ that playin’ the piano, that’s when he became a pianist. But I played on the session before he became a piano player.”