Music Quote by William Bell

There is a whole era hiding in that offhand "really wild". William Bell isn’t delivering a polished anecdote; he’s dropping a lived-in memory fragment, the kind musicians trade when they’re mapping where a scene actually happened. The Plantation Inn and The Del Rios function like insider coordinates: if you know, you know. If you don’t, the names still do the work of making the story feel textured, local, and slightly mythic.

The intent reads as validation and provenance. Bell is situating himself in a particular circuit of labor: working gigs, backing acts, learning the room. "We worked over at that place" emphasizes employment, not glamour. It’s a reminder that music history is often built less on genius moments than on schedules, venues, and whoever was on the bill that week.

The subtext of "wild" is where the cultural heat is. It could mean rowdy crowds, late nights, hustling, racial tension, sexual politics, booze, danger, or the charged freedom of a segregated nightlife ecosystem where the rules bent after dark. The phrase is conveniently elastic, a respectful dodge that hints at chaos without testifying. That vagueness is its own rhetoric: it protects people, preserves mystique, and lets the listener project their own version of "wild."

Contextually, it frames creativity as communal and place-based. Bell isn’t claiming the spotlight; he’s pointing to a venue and a band as the engines of experience. The line preserves the oral-history truth that scenes don’t get archived cleanly; they survive as shorthand, delivered with a grin you can almost hear.