and you couldn’t hold hands there - and males were constrained from carrying fe- males books. That’s how conservative it was there. The landlady came over and said that we had to go after about 3-4 months and by that time a lot of our friends from Florida had come over - about 25-30 - and never left. (Laughs) I remember us driving back from New York one night, about a 15-hour drive, and we were all exhausted. I went into my room and there were about three people sleeping in my bed. I woke one of them up and the guy made the mistake of asking me who I was, and I went on a tirade about how that was my bed and he wouldn’t live long if he didn’t get out. The landlady said that we all had to go and we went to get some apart- ments in Macon.
25 people living there and on a nice day we would just sit outside on the porch and play because it was fun for us. We all learned from each other that way. It was just a fun thing to do to get together to play. Sometimes a song would come out of it. Back then it was fun.
I know the Allman’s had a house as well. Yeah, they had a place called Idlewild South. I lived there shortly after the band house broke up. I moved in with Chuck Leavell and Char- lie Hayward and a fellow named Barry Brand- horst after we had those apartments for awhile. Chuck and I began to look for a place to live and coincidentally we got a place’s ad- dress and it turned out to be Idlewild. The brothers had moved out by then and bought some land in another place in Macon. Funny how that hap- pened.
Cowboy: Tommy, Pete and Scott. (Photo Courtesy Tommy Talton)
Tommy sent me a couple of good pic- tures of that old house. One had the Allman’s playing in the front yard for a few people. Oh yeah. It was called the Shedd House. It was some of the Brothers and us, jamming. Duane and Berry came out there and we had
What are a couple of high- lights you recall from the Cowboy days? Well, I think it was 7-8 years that we were together. We got to- gether in ‘69 and broke up in ‘75, but ran until ‘77 with a last ren- dition. The highlights were many. One was the first time we played at the Fillmore East. It was Cowboy’s first time in New York and our road manager was driving our Ford station wagon like a maniac on the way to the
Fillmore to the hotel. And I remember him making a comment about “that’s how every- one drives up there.” We got into a wreck, just a fender bender but we were late by five min- utes and we ran in to get our instruments. Bill Graham is yelling his brains out at us and we were running to get to the stage and play. I remember running down the stairs to the
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