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Yeah you can’t top that. That’s a hard act to follow.


But you know, the Colonel. . . he used to


sneak in to see James Brown and Otis Red- ding, in Atlanta. . . and he knew so much shit. As crazy, or wacky as people thought that he was, to a large degree, it was the persona that he chose. But he was hard core blues, he knew that shit, he knew the blues records, he could play it and he was good enough to take the blues part out and put it in what Frank Zappa put in it, with the jazz and stuff and make his own stew.


Really. I would dare someone to go through the work of Colonel Bruce Hampton and tell me that he was imitating someone… I dare ‘em!


That's like Zappa or Captain Beefheart. . . when you talk about originality there are just a handful that are like that in my opinion, that are just... when he and I talked, I found it very interest- ing that he was such a film buff. In fact there weren’t many subjects that Colo- nial Bruce talked about that he didn't know a whole bunch about, he would just astound me with things. It was just amazing. I know, like the great things, like his grandfa- ther coached at the University of Georgia. An- other really interesting guy in the book is the film maker James Pondsoldt whose new film stars a couple of people you may have heard of, Tom Hanks and Emma Watson.


Yeah, I heard of ‘em.Tom Hanks is the guy Bosom Buddies (laughing) The James Ponsoldt story, that was a kinda of a buzz. He was from Athens and moved to California, and his films are out there.


I wanted to jump back to when you were talking about Colonial Bruce be-


cause I was going to say something and I got frustrated cause I couldn't re- member what it was that Jimmy Her- ring had said to me one time. In explaining Colonial Bruce Hampton he said, “he’s Colonial Bruce Hampton, He can't play guitar but he can, he can’t sing, but he can, he can't write songs, but he can.” and Jimmy said The first day I met him, we were outside and I said, “Colonial Bruce, what’s the best way for me to get better on guitar?” and Colonial Bruce looked at me and said “You see that tree right there, play that tree.” And Jimmy said “I did my best” and when I finished whipping off this riff and Colonial Bruce said “That sounded just like the tree.” So, some people think that sounds insane, but I think it sounds perfectly normal… Essentially, he’s just saying that “Be Your- self.” Play what you feel. When you look at that tree, play what you feel. A good example us Stanley Booth. Stanley was a black belt and he told me one time, writing is like boxing, if you don’t know what you’re doing, you’re not gonna hurt the other guy, you’re gonna be sleeping on the canvas, so you’d better make sure that you know what you are doing, or you are going to make a fool of yourself. And that gets back to what we were saying, I couldn't really try to convince someone that I played in the major leagues as a baseball pitcher, because any baseball players would say “Ah, that’s bullshit.” So you stick with what you know to be true which is what all these guys have done. Be true to thine self. There’s our Shakespeare theme again.


There ya go, man! Well, I have two more questions, but the first one is a pretty big one. Okay.


Every since I’ve known you, you’ve been talking about this book you are


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