lead singer with a back-up band.
Right, yeah. And that was approached. In fact, the first album we did, they went and picked out some demos and cut some stuff and they had horns and black chick singers behind him and kind of a Motown-sounding band, you know.
Didn’t they want him to be out front singing?
it but we had played that song through two or three different bands. But we were a Southern Rock band. So, that didn’t work as well though and so Duane wasn’t getting the re- spect he needed and thought he deserved. He was hard to please. You couldn’t control Duane. He was the most headstrong person I ever saw, you couldn’t tell him what to do and most of us, you know, we just had that “good ol’ boy” attitude, we were just young twenties and here we were in Hollywood, you know, Who, from Alabama or Florida or something, wouldn’t want to all of a sudden be living in Holly- wood? What kind of dream is that, you know? So whatever they suggested we do, we jumped for it, you know. Whatever they wanted to do in the studio, you know none of us really had studio experience so.
Hourglass.
Oh yeah. They wanted him to hold a mike, get out from behind the keyboard, come out and hold a mike and have a back-up band, you know. Like a “soul review” or something. And I mean, you know, they just couldn’t see what we were doing, what we were. We were pretty much what you’d expect the Allman Brothers Band to sound like, you know. We had five pieces and doing a lot of the tunes the Brothers became famous for, you know. We started doing “Statesboro Blues” and Duane had picked up slide by this time and that was the first song he ever played slide on. and we were doing that just like the Brothers later did it. We were doing “Stormy Monday Blues” which became a Brothers standard. A lot of people to this day think that they wrote
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Well they wanted to change the sound. Liberty kinda wanted y’all to go in a whole different direction, didn’t they? Yaah, they wanted a soul singer
with a back-up band. And about the first gig we played out there was sort of a showcase where we played in front of the guy that was going to produce our stuff, and they had talked Gregg into holding a mike and walking out on a runway, and I remember the song was a “A Change is Gonna Come” by Sam Cooke, and of course, Gregg can sing that song into the ground. I mean, we could just kill that song. So Gregg steps away from the keyboard player and he’s holding the mike and I guess they were expecting him to be Tom Jones and he walks out on that runway and he must have got out about a good ten feet out in front of the band and out of the
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