stopped and said something like ‘what is this tough shit? I thought we had Snipe and fish”. That’s when I reminded him he was eating the ‘coon. I thought it was pretty funny at the time since he said he wouldn’t eat the damned ‘coon. Well, I don’t know if that story is worth
telling to folks but it was one of Butch’s favorite times (mine too) and he always reminded me when we would meet again after many years.”
-Buddy Thornton, Capricorn Records, Allman Brothers Band Sound Construc- tion and Engineering
mas and I’ve still got it.”
- Paul Hornsby, Capricorn Records Producer
"The moment has come for all of us to gather for a great tribute for a true legend, Mr. Butch Trucks . Thank God his music will live on for- ever! Rest in peace.”
- Doug Gray, The Marshall Tucker Band “Butch was a driving force of the Allman
Brothers Band, both on and off the stage. His energy powered the group to the highest per- formance levels, and his passion for music was a glue that helped hold the band together for 45 years. He was indeed a freight train, and a keeper of the flame until the end.”
-John Lynskey, Musicologist, Writer & former Editor at Hittin’ The Note Magazine
“I got to thinking about when we first came here Butch and I were buddies and in fact, there was all those guys and their band and there was our studio guys and we were just all one extended family with no money and very malnourished. No money to do anything with and nothing to do if we’d of had money, I reckon and we used to sit around and play board games a lot and there was a game called “Risk.”
I never had played it and Butch intro-
duced us to it and me and Butch both played that game a lot and Butch would play like his manhood was at stake. You know the object is to take over the world and that was the perfect game for Butch. And it must have been for me, too, I must have had a similar personality in some ways to Butch but Butch always wanted to take over the world you know and so that Christmas, he gave me a Risk game for Christ-
“ I will never forget the Beacon Run of 2009, the 40th anniversary of the Brothers. I had just done my second interview with Butch and he was very excited about the system he had put in place called Moogis, a multi-camera streaming service whereby a fan could subscribe to watch- ing a live feed from the Beacon one night or for the entire run. Butch and I agreed it would be fun for me to review the shows each night as if I was in the audience, while watching from my computer at home. He gave me a free subscrip- tion and it was a blast! He loved the reviews too. The music world lost a good one. ”
-Michael Buffalo Smith
Donations and remembrances in Butch’s name may be made to The Big House Museum in Macon, Georgia.
www.thebighousemuseum.com
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