The young Doucette turned out to be a guitar prodigy. The house band for the night is calling itself (appropriately) the "Jerriatrics." There will also be guitar maestro Bill Dillon, sax player Sonny Del-Rio, Earl Johnson of Moxy, Tim Gibbons and Dave Rave of The Shakers, and horn player Carlo DiBattista of Vehicle and Powerhouse.
There will be Graham Thorpe and Al Rees from Doucette's first band The Reefers, as well as Georgie Fab and Jack Pedler from his second band Buxton Kastle. "I was thinking about that in my studio in Vancouver when it came to me: 'Gee, that would be a good line for a song.'"ĭoucette, now 64, has been living in the Vancouver area for more than 40 years, but he still has plenty of friends in Hamilton and many will be joining him on stage for a giant jam session Thursday, March 10, at the Bay City Music Hall. Well, dad broke into the room and said 'Mama, let him play.'
He was asleep in the other room when mum and I started raising our voices. "At the time, Dad worked at Stelco on shift. I said, "Mom, I know my lesson, back off, give me some space here.' "I was about eight and my mother, being the staunch Catholic that she was, always wanted me to put down the guitar and stick to the books," recalls Doucette. The song was recorded in 1977 at Mushroom Studios in Vancouver, but it had its origins right here in Hamilton, near Parkdale and Main in a modest bungalow on Eastvale Place, where Doucette was raised.Īs a matter of fact, some of the song's lyrics came directly from the mouth of Doucette's father, who gave him his first guitar at the very young age of six. If you're of a certain age, you'll probably remember a guitar-powered rock song called "Mama Let Him Play" by Jerry Doucette.įor a while, back in the late '70s, it seemed you couldn't turn on the radio without hearing it. He's just a baby!" – From "Mama Let Him Play" by Jerry Doucette He's too young for the blues he's still inside his first pair of shoes. "Mama let that boy play some rock 'n' roll, jazz is much too crazy, he can play it when he's old.
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