Southern Rock and write about it and everything, that one TV show from Macon, Georgia in ‘73. That just did it. So, the way that all transpired. Here’s one of the first bands that were thrown at me to pro- duce and this was the third time around for them and it just happened just perfect for the band and for me, too. With that band becom- ing such a big hit.
You did all the albums for them after that, I mean all the ones until they went to Warner Brothers, right? Yes.
Oh yeah. All the good stuff. I can’t remember how many there were, there were about five or six. So all of the sudden, after that first album with them I was no longer Paul Hornsby, the studio piano player, I was Capricorn producer Paul Hornsb!. I fig- ured, well, you know. I never had any desire to be a producer, never had any ambition, you know. A lot of people grow up and think “boy, some day I wanna be a record pro- ducer.” I never even gave that a thought. I wanted to grow up and be one of the Beatles. (Buffalo laughs) You know? I wanted to be in a famous band or something.
You know, it’s funny, I’ve heard a simi- lar story from Billy Bob Thornton. He’s like – people are like “Did you want to be an actor growing up?” “Hell no!” he said, “I wanted to be a drummer!” Never even thought about acting until he and his buddy went to Hollywood to be screenwriters. Never know which road is gonna happen, you know, it’s like…
It’s crazy. Who was it? Yogi Bera that said, when you come to a crossroad in life, take it. (Laughing)
Yeah. Exactly. What a great quote that
was. I was just reading a book about him. Are there a lot of his quotes in there?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I just read
one about Ty Cobb, too. He was some- thing else. Of course, Ty Cobb was mean. He was?
Yeah, real mean. What are just a cou- ple of your fondest memories of your time there at Capricorn? Certainly I know there’s a lot of high points but when you immediately think about Capricorn, what comes to mind. I think, obviously I think about a lot of hard work.
Yeah. And it’s like - it makes me want to sit back and relax a little bit. I mean, we put some hard ass work in down there. All that tran- spired in a period of about only ten years. You think about the Capricorn legacy and all those great records and great bands and all that and nowadays, now that I’m an old codger, ten years just seems like a few days to me.
It does to me too. That was a whole career for a lot of people. Ten years. And Phil Walden reminded me one time, he said, “You know, Little Richard…” he said, “his whole body of work that he’s re- membered for was recorded over an eighteen month period.”
Wow! Look at Duane Allman’s career. How, how many years… he was in the Allman Brothers, what, like two or three years? Yeah, that’s about it, so, you know.
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