on it. Basically we were looking around with different real estate guys that were calling me up cause they knew we had a little money in the bank at that time. So they were trying to sell me a motel and all this commercial real estate but basically the band wanted to look at some raw land located out in the country to eventually live on.
JW Who did you buy the land from that the farm was located on? WP We bought it from a guy named Duke Rogero. We went to see the property he had for sale. We drove out in the country and then went down this dirt road that turned off onto another dirt road that eventually went to the property. The first time we walked out there as I remember it was like a fairy land wonder- land. It was so beautiful! It was just huge. I can't remember the exact acreage but I would guess that it was between 100 and 200 at least. Not too long ago, I found the original map of the platte of the land the farm was lo- cated on. It's in the archives now. Before we bought it we chartered an airplane at the Macon airport and flew over the land to take a look at it. It was just an incredible place.
JW What did you end up building on the property? WP Dickey built his own house there. Butch had a trailer out there as well. There was a farmhouse and some outbuildings already there when we first bought it. There was also a big pond. The land was bought in the band's name as a partnership called "Brothers Farms." The band owned it as a partnership since that was how it was legally set up at the time. The band was legally a partnership at that time before they ultimately became a corporation. The plan was that everybody in- cluding the road crew was going to get their separate plots of land and build houses out there. Just basically have our own Broth- ersville. That was a pretty complicated con- cept in terms of how would you deed out the
property. For example would I build a house on property that somebody else owned? We never quite figured out how we were going to do that. Eventually the band sold it back to the same guy we bought it from. They sold it back as a result of the band breaking up and the families going their separate ways with people living in different places. Dickey even- tually decided to move back to Florida. But it was a beautiful place and we had a lot of fun out there. The picture for the album Brothers and Sisters was taken out at the farm and as far as I remember it was in December of 1972. After we took the Brothers and Sisters photo on the back porch for the inside cover, the band and crew walked down from the house into the pasture to have another photo taken. It was in fact Twiggs idea to take a picture for a promotional postcard, which this shot was used for. I still have a quantity of these origi- nal 6" x 9" promotional postcards available. They are for sale through Monogram Market- ing.
Duane takes a nap. He always had a book and a guitar within reach.
JW Eric Clapton called Duane "the best guitarist in the world." What is your opinion on this? WP Well, I'll quote Duane. I can remember him telling all of us " Hey, as good as you think I am, there is some guy that nobody has
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