Sure John Thanks, and as far as knowing Ralph Trotto I have to say no not as an adult, although Lonnie had friends sometimes that would come down to the boat, but I was just a kid. Sadly I didn’t pay much attention to the grown ups to much except Lonnie because I thought he looked cool. He looked like he dose on the hills of Indiana album, and he reminded me of Grizzly Adams a little bit, so when I would come up to him he would ask me what song he would like me to play for me. One time I told him Miss American Pie, I think it’s called the day the music died. I remember singing it with him it was so cool I thought it was cool that he could just play songs people would ask him to play. I can recall a time my dad and I were talking about knowing anybody famous and he said hell yeh dam it boy, don’t you remember Lonnie, and I said Lonnie from down at the boat? he said yeh you’d sit in his lap when you were little and me and my dad lol, I said in amazement Lonnie’s famous, now remember I’m a kid that went through my teens starting to listen to Ozzy Osborne and Ronnie James Dio, and Led Zeppelin. Now at this time I’m about thirty something and I thought to myself he is kidding me, because he seemed (Lonnie) so down to earth I just thought he was friends of the family or an Eagles member. lol So I went to work one day after my dad and I talked and I ask a few older co-workers about Lonnie and they were surprised I knew him. They said you knew him? and I told them yeh I’ve sat in his lap before, and Tom my co-worker he’s about 60 or so said is this the Lonnie that you told me about a few years back? and I said yes, and he said I didn’t know it was Lonnie Mack. We laughed about it, and Jim my supervisor at the time, brought in a few of his albums and then I was surprised. I told them I never realized who he was until my dad told me. And I’m glad my dad and I talked about it, because it would have taken until the 1990′s until I would have figured it out when I started listening to Stevie Ray Vaughan and herd that he liked Lonnie Mack a lot, (another sad thing discovering Stevie after his death) but then again I probably wouldn’t have connect the dots, because Lonnie always had his acoustic guitar with him when he was down at the harbor. I didn’t even know he could play like he dose (whit an electric) on those albums I have, he is super bad in a very great way. He use to play a lot of stuff people asked him to play and that was stuff like John Denver Arlo Guthrie I think, like I said I didn’t pay to much attention and wish I did.

John Berg, Seattle area