“I first met Dan Toler in Paramus, NJ at the
Capitol Theater where my band, The San- ford/Townsend Band was opening for Dickey Betts and Great Southern,” John Townsend told KUDZOO. “I went out to the mixing board after our set and for the next hour and a half, I must have said, "Who is that guitar player?!" several dozen times. I went back stage to see if I could meet him and he was one of the most welcom- ing and good na- tured people I'd ever met. I knew then that I wanted to work with this remarkable man someday. “About twenty
years later, I went out to see Gregg Allman and Friends at a club in the San Fernando Valley and after hanging out with the band and sit- ting in on a few songs, I was asked by Gregg to join the band. I jumped on the chance to play with Danny and (his brother) Frankie. The first week I was with the band, Danny and I wrote "Novato Moon." We knew we had something really good and got together chance we could while on the road to write more songs. We wrote "Sorry's Not Enough" in a hotel room in Atlanta. I consider both of those songs as two of the best I've ever been involved with. “In the early nineties when the Allman Brothers reunited to begin touring again,
Danny and the rest of the band were pretty much left in the lurch without a gig. So, after that last gig I did with Gregg's band, Danny asked me to come on down to Sarasota and put something together and play. Who in their right mind would turn down a chance to play with the guys? We recorded some won- derful music that later became The Toler/Townsend Band. I can't ex- press in words how much I love and re- spect and will miss my old friend. I know he and Frankie are to- gether again and are kicking it with some Heavenly combo of our old friends who have gone before us. He's the best I've ever played with and I don't know if there will be an- other one come along with his com- bination of good spirit and great mu- sicianship. I'll be seeing you soon
enough, my old friend... With Love." “I nicknamed him ‘Dangerous Dan' because
if you didn't have your game on, he'd set you back on your heels,” Betts said during the March 9th memorial service. “But you know what, he earned it. I didn't do him any favors. He was the best at the time. He earned that spot with me. He deserved that spot. And he covered it.What a guitar player. As far as his diversity and everything, I think he was the best I've ever run across, and I've seen a lot of
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