The requests started coming in from other prisoners all over the United States. And then the word got around. So I always wanted to record that, you know, to record a show because of the reaction I got. It was far and above anything I had ever had in my life, the complete explosion of noise and reaction that they gave me with every song. So then I came back the next year and played the prison again, the New Year's Day show, came back again a third year and did the show.
People like head trauma. They love knockouts. The crowd is silent, silent, silent. . . and then a knockout happens, and everyone goes native. There would be far fewer knockouts without the gloves.