because as a band leader you don’t have to worry when you say, you know, "I want this to sound like blah, blah, blah. They don’t look at you with blank faces." Make this sound a little bit more like The Ides of March, and less like Blood, Sweat, and Tears. (Laughs) Actually it is more the other way around, more like Blood, Sweat, and Tears.
sell terrier? About three years. It is not an actual Jack, it is crossed with an English Foxhound, so it is not as hyper as the Jack Russell. She is pretty calm.
My boy Taz looks just like that one in the face. My wife took that picture (inside the Black Coffee cd) and I loved it. I felt like people would relate to that dog. She is really smart and her communication skills are really good. Best dog I have ever had.
The inevitable is that I want to talk about Lynyrd Skynrd a little bit. I saw you on the CMT thing the other day and I felt like they did a good job on that. It was like much better than I thought is would be. Of course, VH1 did that Un- civil Wars, that was very nasty.
Kooper with Billy, Ed, Artimus. Allen and Gary of Skynyrd.
I'm sure you've worked around the Muscle Shoals scene, Fame and Muscle Shoals Sound, right? Don’t be too sure, because I have never set foot in there. But I was a big fan and someone sent me a URL to a Muscle Shoals website and there is a great picture of Bobbie Gentry’s butt on there. It just stopped me dead in my tracks. I thought, what a genius photogra- pher. He got right to the bottom of things.(Laughs)
Sounds like Dick Cooper. Well, there you go it had to be a guy named Cooper.(or Kooper) It was the only one in all those pictures that got right down to busi- ness. If he is a friend of yours and I could get a copy of that I would be a happy guy.
How long have you had your Jack Rus-
They don’t know what the fuck they are doing.
It was the Jerry Springer mentality. I was a little worried when CMT called me. But I know a gal in Nashville that cuts my hair real good, so anytime I am offered some- thing there I try to take it so I can go down and get a good haircut.
You say she cuts your hair real good? Yeah, she is great and I do have some friends in Nashville, from when I lived there.
Can you tell me a little bit about how you came to discover this Lynyrd Skyn- ryd Band? I was producing this record down in Atlanta. I came through on tour in Atlanta and I had some friends in The Atlanta Rhythm Section. I knew them when they were called The Candy Men, in the late 60’s. I met them when I lived in New York. We became friends so I called them and told them I was coming
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