Wet Willie, Hydra, The Marshall Tucker Band, Tommy Talton and Bobby Whitlock.
We just recently celebrated what would have been the birthday of Col. Bruce Hamp- ton. He and I had become good friends. I just want to ask you to speak about Bruce. It’s strange, because, growing up in New Jersey, I was one of the few people who actually bought the no- torious Hampton Grease Band dou- ble LP in 1970 & used to listen to it all the time. Little did I know that years later I’d be working with him. Bruce was a regular member of our monthly “ATL Music Lunch Club” get-togethers, and we had so much fun I was afraid the restaurant folks would ask us to leave. Bruce had us in stitches. He used to kid me about the fact that although we were born in the same year, I was older than he was. Besides music, we’d also talk about baseball and politics and Bruce always had some obscure baseball player or factoid he’d quiz us on. Officially, I worked with him on all the Late Bronze Age albums he did for Landslide, plus the Aquarium Rescue Unit al- bums for Capricorn. Once when the Unit was in NYC on tour with Widespread Panic, I even accompanied him over to NBC Studios for a guest sit-in he did with G.E. Smith and the “Saturday Night Live” band.
What are some of your fondest memo- ries of your Capricorn days? Being on the road with all the acts on the label, especially The Allman Brothers, Mar- shall Tucker, Delbert McClinton, Stillwater, Bobby Whitlock, Dixie Dregs & Elvin Bishop. Being in the dressing room with the MTB as they worked on new songs they would eventu- ally record. Hanging out in the Capricorn Stu- dio with so many of our artists as they
Gregg Allman and Mark, 2013.
recorded all these amazing albums. Going to Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Inauguration, and of course, all the BBQ events.
Tell us about your first post Capricorn venture, Mark Pucci Associates and tell us about your best-known clients dur- ing that time. - A partial Mark Pucci Associates client list over those years included Dave Alvin, Julie and Buddy Miller, Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Bill Kirchen, Redd Volkaert, Rev. Billy C. Wirtz, Delbert McClinton, Charlie Musselwhite, Roy Buchanan, Michelle Shocked, Tinsley Ellis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, Guadalcanal Diary, Billy Joe Shaver, 10,000 Maniacs, Peter Case, Jerry Reed, Billy Joe Royal, Jerry Reed, The Atlanta Rhythm Sec- tion, Geoff Muldaur, Eric Johnson, Chuck Prophet, Earl King, Hubert Sumlin, Webb Wilder, Ronnie Earl, Robert Ward, Joe Louis Walker, Gary Stewart, Snooks Eaglin and Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets featur- ing Sam Myers. During this period, we han-
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