Big Chief:
"Smokey Johnson, the session's drummer, wore out the inside of this thumb and forefinger from the constant stick work during those takes, conceding, 'Yeah, I was in there bleeding like a goose.'...

"I took two broomsticks and cut the bottoms off and I took these Coke tops," recalls Johnson. "I took a hammer and straightened them out, a bunch of them. I put three on a nail on each nail that I had on these sticks, and I overdubbed them as shakers that you hear back there."

Another curious detail from the session, Quezerque says, was the need to tie Fess' left hand behind his back, "or something of that nature, so he wouldn't use it. He did that all with one hand."