KEELAN over
Richard Keelan visited us to tell us what he has been doing since the sad demise of the Misty Wizards.
Keelan: Well, now I’m just interested in playing—well, not just my own tunes, but I’ve been slipping in other people’s too. Like Dylan’s “All Along The Watchtower” and “Hey Jude.” Some of Oscar Brown Jr. There’s some real nice things on the Hair album. What I did “Hey Jude” for was mostly for doing in clubs. Like—what I really dig going on stage for, like, with the Wizards we did all our own material except for—I think, two tunes, but now I find that, to just groove with the audience you should do something that they’re familiar with. I find that the nice thing about being a “folk singer” now is that two years ago you had to play almost all traditional. But now you can go to the 1 artist and maybe play something they (the audience) are not too familiar with, and mention the artist’s name, and they’ll listen in that frame of mind. So it allows you to | get—say—into some of Dylan’s newer stuff—like “All Along the Watchtower” just gassed me. Not j when I heard it, when I read it.
Creem: Do you find you read songs more than you hear them?
