RICHARD HELL: We tried to show Dee Dee a song and he was just dying. He would just play bar chords, because that’s all he knew. You only need one finger to play a bar chord. And we’d tell him, “Okay, this is in C.” And he’d start playing, and we’d say, “C.” And he’d say, “Oh! Oh!” And just start playing something else. It was total trial and error. And we’d say, “No. No. No, man, C!” Dee Dee would look up with this quizzical look and move his finger a little bit … We’d shake our heads no and he’d move it a little bit further … He was really funny. He was just like a little puppy dog coming to
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