Just watch this
the cream team
who da duck is Mel Phillips?
“Mel had a black book with names of kids from all over the country that he would call up if he would be in a specific town and he would ask these kids if they would want to go to the shows. You’d meet kids from every state. I’d go from New York to Philly and he’d have young kids waiting for him, boys, at the shows and he’d get in five, six, seven kids. They’d go to Boston and it would be the same thing and maybe one or two of those kids would come with us or they’d drive with us. It was the same motif he had with me. He’d call parents.
They were always kids from broken homes. Once in a blue moon, you’d hear like a kid who came from a so-called stable environment. Mostly it was kids with a broken home with no father. Just a mother, drunk mother, alcoholic, drug addict, whatever. That’s pretty much the type of kid that Mel was geared toward.”