need to. If they haven’t read it, they need to get it. I’m real pleased that it’s been in continuous hard cover print since 2006, so I guess you could say it’s been somewhat of a suc- cess, and I still run into people who aren’t aware of it or haven’t read it. It’s still doing well. I highly recommend it. As I should since I wrote it. (Laughs)
WIllie talks with Gregg Allman at a Georgia Music Hall of Fame event. (Hiittin The Note)
“Send me a plane ticket and have a check and I’ll be there.”
Oh yeah. No doubt. That’s one cat that I would have given anything to have met him but I just wasn’t at the right place at the right time or the right age group or anything. I was a little bit younger. I mean, I got into the Allman Brothers in high school, you know. I first heard them in ‘72, but at that time I was like a freshman or sophomore in high school. I never knew that years later I’d be writing about all this stuff but, I mean, I love it, I love it more than anything, I really do. In my first book I tell a lot personal stuff about Duane and bunking with him on the road. I mean, he was just a one in a lifetime guy as well as being an artist, he was just an amazing person - he was just an amazing man.
No doubt. Well speaking of your first book, it was called No Saints, No Sav- iors. Folks can still get that. And they
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I’ll do you one better, I’ll recommend it too, and I didn’t even write it! But I like Willie Perkins and I like the book a lot. Here’s an idea… for any- body who hasn’t read it,
give us a little give one or two little sto- ries about some of the exploits that you talk about in the book. Some of those stories were funny and some were not so funny, if you know what I mean. But it’s easy to read. and any fan of the Allman Brothers Band or even the music business for that matter, they’re going to love it. I just wanted to put you on the spot and see if you could share something. Well, one of my favorite stories is my first day on the job, and you’ve gotta imagine now, I was a straight, short-haired, looking cat. I’d worked for the trust company of Georgia Bank in Atlanta, but I’d known and met the band through a mutual friend, Twiggs Lyn- don, who was the original road manager and he ran into some legal problems and he was going to be away from the band, but he’d al- ways told ‘em, “If anything happens to me, y’all hire Willie.” And I was just overjoyed to get the call and met the band and Duane told me personally, he said, “Now we’re a bunch of crazy you-know-whats and I don’t know if
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