in 1976 I had just released the red album. I was playing one of my first concerts in Seattle Washington supporting that record with the song RED being the single. The next morning, I was checking out of the hotel and John pruner the man in these photos, stopped me and asked for an autograph on the newspaper review of the concert. he asked me to sign it. "the Red Rocker" that was the beginning of being the Red Rocker. John became maybe the first redhead before the fans became redheads. He followed me around the country showing up everywhere. I got to know him well.