Yeah, and left handed too, with the guitar upside down playing. So after Bill, we left the  stand, and I said I got to get myself together. I said because we're going to have some  good people coming in here. So then one night a guy named Jim Mahenza came in and he  heard me play. So he says "how would you like to go to Louisville, Kentucky and play in  a club with me there? " I said "I don't know. " He said "well it would be a quartet -- horn,  bass, piano and drums. " I said "okay, I'll give it a try. " I went in this club and we played for about two weeks. About three days before it was time for us to close the engagement, Basie and his group walked in. He stopped at the door back there and he listened, and I was walking behind Jim Mahenza playing bass, you know down the aisles we'd go. So he asked his manager to come over and talk to me and he wanted me to join his band you know. So I didn't know what to do then. I figured big time. But Nat King Cole had called me. He wanted me to take Joe Comfort's place. Because Joe was leaving. So he sent an admirer to come join the band. And let's see who else? Johnny Johanna? He was a singer.  He used to come to my house and he'd sit down and write songs. And so he had sent and admired and to join his band. Now here comes Basie. So I told him I got to go back to Nashville first, and I'll let you know later. As soon as I get back in Nashville, two days later he called me on the phone, Basie did, from Chicago. He says "I sent you a ticket, you've got a ticket on the way. Meet me in Chicago. " Now I'm stumped and I said I don't know, I owe all these guys money. So I talked to a few of the guys in the clubs and they said "well what you do, go with Basie, you'll get more experience. " They said "we're going to miss you but I think it'd be a good deal for you. " So I went with Basie. I met him in Chicago. I go to Chicago and I go to a place called the Southway Hotel, and I was sitting in the lobby waiting all day for Basie to show up. I didn't think about getting a room or anything, I waited in case I was in the wrong place. I was right from Nashville, you know, down South. So I sat there, until about, oh it must have been about nine o'clock at night. And in walks Clark Terry. Clark Terry, he looked at me, I see Clark Terry with his big old flugelhorn you know. The big wide shoulders, the overcoat, and these draped pants that they used to wear at that time, and a hat. I looked and I said, now wait a minute. I'm going to get in some other kind of company. And he said "man get your room. You get a room. We don't know when Basie'll show up. " I said "I thought we were going to start work. " And he said "no, no, we'll wait for Basie. " So I go and get a room. I think we waited about three days before Basie showed up. Basie showed up, and he came in boy looking like he'd been partying for days.