“The way he plays the guitar and I’ve talked to him for years about this, I’ve told him, ‘The way you go out and play the guitar, you should go out and sit down and play it and the piano on your set.’
He used to do it in hotels-he’d sit down and play the piano. When Gregg sits down by himself and plays the piano and sings, with nothing but that, it is one of the most incredible things you’ll ever hear-it has so much feeling and beauty to it.
There’s only two or three other people I’ve seen do it like that. I’ve seen Aretha Franklin do it live, I’ve seen Ray Charles do it live.
When Gregg does it, it’s in that kind of class. They become the band. They become the orchestra, because the piano is the orchestra and it carries all the feelings that they are trying to get out of it. They are the drummer, they are the bass player, they are the everything. So, it strips it down to their pure selves, their essence-it’s them.” Jaimoe ca. 1997 📷️Kossover/Gregg and Chank Middleton