Gregg Allman, Frank, Rhino Rhinehardt, Phil Walden and Dick Wooley at Capricorn.


the bills, he began booking bands and eventu- ally landed a gig heading up Chappell Music Publishing and later Chess Music, prior to be- coming European Managing Director of At- lantic Records. Frankie met my mom in 1963, when he was still, as he would later say, “be- tween being a hustler and a starving actor”, at his coffee shop in London; it was love at first site, although the relationship would not be consummated for several more years. While my parents backgrounds were completely dif- ferent, they complimented each other per- fectly--my mother, perhaps, giving Frankie some polish and understated sophistication, and him keeping it real; their relationship was a testament of their good taste in each other and I was very lucky to have both of them as my parents and role model.


How old were you during the Capri- corn years? My father came to Macon first, I believe,


sometime late summer or early fall of 1969. My mother and I took a boat to America in December. I was 6 and remember being very


disappointed, looking through my binoculars, to not see cowboys and Indians as we ap- proached the Manhattan skyline…But to an- swer your question, I was 6 through sixteen during the Capricorn years, if we count the end of 1979 as the end date.


What are your fondest memories of Capricorn? of Macon? I would have to say going to the Capricorn


office over school holidays. I loved hanging out in my father’s office; he listened to demo tapes and new Capricorn acts through a reel- to-reel. I enjoyed watching and listening to him on the phone with his wonderful theatri- cal hand movements and expressions, cajol- ing and entertaining others over the phone while getting business done. My father had a very charismatic and larger-than life person- ality and, as a kid, found it fascinating how he conducted business with such verve and ex- citement. He made work never seem like work, but fun.


What was Phil Walden like?


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