The Brothers with Red Dog pose for a picture with a gas station attendant after filling up the Winn Bag.
work and play ball. Now, I just play golf. Now I can’t do my union job because I’m not sup- posed to lift anything over twenty pounds.
After reading your book, I came to feel that in the beginning you guys in the road crew were pretty much treated as equals by the band. Y’all were like broth- ers. Do you feel like it’s still that way today? Nah. No, no. It’s changed. It’s a business thing now. Like the new bands coming out today. Everything is so business oriented. In the ‘70’s you had free style music. You had great music. The visual thing was not the important thing. The important thing was the music. The hippies just stood up there and played. Nowadays everything is just so business oriented. You au- dition for the gig, and Disney puts out a band like In Sync or Backstreet Boys, one of them
groups. You don’t have that camaraderie. Everybody is expendable these days. Let’s say the bond is there, it’s still busi- ness. In my case, with Gregg, Butch, Dickey and Jaimoe, right? There’s a bond there that has been estab- lished over 33 years. So you can’t just push that aside. But yet, it’s still business oriented. You can’t just forget it and say, “Let’s get rid of him.” Like the thing with Dickey.
I was going to ask you about that. What really happened there? Well, I’ll put it this way, in a nut shell. It’s just 33 years of being together, right? And things going down. And finally it all just comes to the surface. You couldn’t say this happened or that hap- pened. You know what I mean? It’s 33 years. And like back in the early ‘70’s, Gregg’s thing with Scooter wasn’t the most popular thing in the world either. It’s just a marriage,
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