Larry Sager of ESQ discusses leaving Detroit at age 18 for San Francisco; writing songs and performing in his teens; working with Donald Baldwin, a songwriter for the Temptations; recording songs today that he wrote as a teen; his experience with "cooking" old tapes to recover old sessions; the difference between a successful recording session today versus in the "old days"; working with world renowned producer Sylvia Massey; and how the band acquired the name "ESQ". [...]