Mr. Griffin. How did you happen to quit?
Mr. Aycox. Well, things weren’t going right out there. I couldn’t get along with the band. He had told me to do one thing, and the guy that was playing there before I was, but we were playing mechanical all night. He would never say anything to the artists and tell them we will be here again and what time we would open. Mr. Ruby came out on Sunday and would drill us, and he wouldn’t want us to play mechanical all night.
Mr. Griffin. What do you mean by mechanical?
Mr. Aycox. That is playing and not singing.
Mr. Griffin. He wanted you to put on a little performance?
Mr. Aycox. That’s right, and tell some kind of jokes, plug for the club. So this guy was the pianoplayer with the band before I started, and when the other band left, he stayed and taken over the band.
Mr. Griffin. Did you replace the Joe Johnson band?
Mr. Aycox. That’s right.
Mr. Griffin. What was the name of the band that you were in?
Mr. Aycox. I don’t really know what the name of this band was. I played with Leonard Wood. He was the band leader.