Carnegie Hall (but that's a whole 'nuther chapter). Connell also toured with Bobby Whitlock a few years later - .
We're getting' a crash course here, too- -somebody remind me when to kick in the clutch - Oh, yeah, we've got a reply about one of Duane's guitars from Ray Brand, one of your buddies. Brother Sting Ray Brand! He has one of the only original Coricidan slide bottles that Duane actually used. I've heard those legends about that famous Gibson Les Paul guitar of Duane's and I think I read the same thang somewhere in one of Lanoir Allman's inter- views - Duane used to call Gregg by his mid- dle name when he really wanted to royally piss Gregg off. Especially when Gregg was real depressed and wanted to go to "The Give -Up rock, a legendary place said to be located near Opp, Alabama where people go when they want to give up. Legend has it that there is a big statue of Monty Rock III there and a person goes to that spot and takes off all their clothes and confesses that they want to give up and they make a covenant that they will never try again - and then the person lays down on that cold hard stone, and they lay there until they finally just die and their beaten and broken spirit leaves their listless body. Nevertheless, the first cat's name that
owned Duane's famous Gibson Les Paul was Richard Compton who died in a car crash. Richard was from Decatur, AL, and he was a young musical genius that died too young like so many that I've know. Richard has a brother named Tommy Compton and his nickname is "Crash." He was once a sound engineer back in the early '70s at Capricorn in Macon - in fact, I think he was was hired to replace me when I quit my gig with Crapracorn in '69-- sorry, I could not resist that - truth is, Phil and Blue and everyone in Macon treated me very well - actually, they treated me a whole
lot better than I was treatin' myself at the time. Way too much purple micro-dot and stuff. I know ya'll understand what I'm talkin' about!
Back in my college days, as a freshman - seventeen or eighteen of us - What happened after you left Capricorn? I really left Capricorn because Chuck Leavell and Buck Wilkin and I were under contract to record an album for Liberty Records. It started out to be by our band The American Eagles. We did it at The old Muscle Shoals Sound on Jackson Highway and we brought Norbert Putnam and Jerry Carrigan back home from Nashville to record at MS Sound and play bass and drums on the project. By the time we finished the record, Chuck and I looked at each other and said, This should re- ally be Buck's record and debut solo album." It was only fitting. The record was released as John Buck Wilkin, In Search of Food, Cloth- ing, Shelter and Sex. I love that title, and it was/is a great record ! Buck's mother, Marijohn Wilkin, was a big
part of the Old Nashville Establishment and Buck was really tryin' to break some unspo- ken rules (and some written rules as well). At the time, Buck was sharin' a cold water walk- up flat with Kris Kristofferson and there was definitely revolution in the air when I used to go and visit them - a great period in Nashville around 1969 - in fact, Buck and Kris wrote a great song that we recorded called "Apoca- lypse 1969." We recorded that song at Broad- way Studio which Marlin Greene had designed for Quinn Ivy. We had a whole room of Tuscaloosa musicians on that track, includ- ing Court Pickett, Frank Freidman, Art Shilling, Glen Butts, Lou Mullenix, and, of course, Chuck Leavell - about six or seven guitar players - a massive wall of guitars - back then, Tuscaloosa was producing some of the finest and most creative players that I had ever seen in one spot.
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