Interview with Rod Bernard (cont.):

00:10 - Rod says he wishes he would've stayed performing Country Music in the 50s;
01:45 - Leaving Mercury Records;
03:30 - The Shondells - Rod was working with Skip Stewart in the early 60s at KVOL and decided to start the band with Warren Storm;
04:10 - The Shondells started playing Saturday nights at the Southern Club; Talks about other local gigs they'd play;
06:20 - Country Music comeback - Rod mentions loving George Jones, Merle Haggard, Elvis, Tom Jones;
07:10 - Going to Graceland;
11:00 - Trading tapes with George Cline;
12:00 - Rod met Hank Williams when he played at the Opelousas High School gymnasium - got autographs from the band;
14:00 - Rod saw a doctor giving Hank shots during the show - didn't realize at the time that they were drugs;
15:50 - Rod tells a story about playing Chuck Berry's guitar and took his guitar pick;
16:20 - Performing with Jerry Lee Lewis in Corpus Christi, TX;
18:10 - Jerry Lee's band used Rod's band's instruments for a show in California without their permission. Kenny "Gill" Guillot didn't want anyone to touch his guitar, Jerry Lee wanted to fight him after the show;
20:20 - Rod says he and Jerry Lee became friends but once he started having drug issues, they became distant;
21:10 - Shows with James Brown in California;
21:55 - Tour with Frankie Avalon;
29:15 - Jerry Lee's advice - crooks in the record business;
30:50 - Rod's version of "Colinda;"
34:40 - Arbee Records;
35:20 - Swamp Pop Term;

37:05 - Interview with Roy Perkins:
37:10 - Shane talking about his thesis work, interview recording issues;
38:20 - Started playing piano at 7 years old. Early musical influences were old blues musicians;
38:50 - A family friend would sell them old records out of jukeboxes for cheap;
39:50 - Boogie woogie style - He loved the piano parts and started playing his grandmother's piano by ear;
40:40 - Born April 26 1935;
41:30 - Private Cecil Gant, Tommy Dorsey;
43:25 - Buying old rhythm and blues records in New Orleans;
44:00 - "Lordy Miss Claudie;" Fats Domino's piano part on that recording inspired Roy;