about ‘em all the time, man. They’re more of a modern rock band, but they’ve got a lot of Southern sensibilities about ‘em and they’re fairly down-to-earth, very talented guys, man. I love ‘em.
That’s very cool. Well, I tell ya, I guess we gonna go ahead and wrap her up. I could just talk to you all day, you know that. (laughs) Oh we could talk about music all day, you could bring up one band and we would be off and chasing another band, you know…
I could sit around with you or Richard, man, both of y’all are like that. That’s what I love. When I’m talking to Richard, he’s like, “Man, we must be like brothers from different mothers” He was like drawing all these parallels between us. I don’t know how old he is, but he’s pretty close to my age, I think. I’ll be 63 next month. Richard is 61. How old are you?
I’m 59. Yeah, you guys are closer but we’re all the same age group you know.
He was talking about coming to Spar- tanburg years ago when Marshall Tucker Band was at their peak and all this kind of stuff and talking about dif- ferent things in town and I was like, “Wow! It’s a small world!” I love Marshall Tucker. I tell ya, I saw Mar- shall Tucker in 1974, Derby Jam, Louisville, Kentucky. Wet Willie, Charlie Daniels Band and Marshall Tucker and probably the first two celebrity or big-time musicians I ever met were Toy and his brother, Tommy out back. Me and this guy I went with, we said, “Hey, let’s go out back where the buses are, maybe
we’ll meet some of the guys.” Lo and behold, there was Toy Caldwell, sitting out back by himself, and I shook his hand. Of course, I never knew that a few years later that his band would be opening up for the Head- hunters, you don’t ever think about those kinds of things. You just never know where life’s paths may take you, but we were lucky enough, Michael, to grow up in an era, I think the greatest musical… I don’t mean to sound conceited or egotistical, but think about it man, 1964 to mid 70s was such a fertile time for music. I mean, The Beatles, the Stones, the Spoonful, Bob Dylan, Cream, Jimi Hen- drix, Led Zeppelin, Jeff Beck. Then you get into, you know, the Southern Rock thing of the Allman Brothers and Skynyrd, and the offshoots such as Hydra, who I’m still real good friends with them…
Oh yeah, Hydra, Cowboy, Stillwater and all the great Capricorn bands. I still talk to Mike Causey. About every two weeks, we talk, you know.
Yeah, he’s a great guy. And Rob Walker, too. Yeah, whenever he’s around, we get Mike up to play with us, you know.
That’s pretty cool. Yeah, I love all those bands. Southern rockers. I always call ZZ Top a Southern rock band, too. A lot of people don’t… I do too, I’m real good friends with Billy (Gib- bons). Me and Billy have become real close over the years.
Reverend Billy is a monster. He’s the best. Yeah, me and Billy talk shop a lot, you know. As a matter of fact, we’ve got an interest in a little band that you’ll be hearing about out of
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