to ‘em. Allen was more of a driving bass player. O’teil is more of a finesse bass player, and when he comes out of the pocket sometimes he loses the feel. The tune is pumping-book, boom, book- like a train coming at you. And Oteil will come out of the pocket and play these jazz licks. You lose the pop of the thing. It changes. But he comes right back and it goes again.
Willie Perkins and Red Dog.
more just sounded good too. Look at that Fill- more East album. That’s one of the best live ones ever laid down.
It’s always been in my top two albums ever. That and Derek & The Dominos Layla record. It’s amazing to me the Allman Brothers don’t get anymore recognition than they get. They al- ways come up with some band who had a hit single 30 years ago. You would think that the band that had the best live album to this day would get more air play, but they just don’t for some reason. They play it a little on the classic rock stations, but you don’t ever hear ‘em on the tube unless we do something wrong.
MTV covered it when Dickey was fired. That’s what they love, man. It just broke my heart though. Not to take anything away from Warren. Warren is good too. But I still say you could tale Gregg and Butchie, Jaimoe and Dickey and have a show. Just the four of them would give you one kick ass show. You could sit up there and trip for three or four hours. Them guys are masters.
What did you think of the band during the days of Woody and Haynes? I liked it. I mean, the difference between Allen and Oteil, is Allen would stay in the pocket more, and his flair outs had a little more drive
Were you close to Allen Woody? Oh yeah. You pretty much accept everyone when they come into the band. It’s a brother- hood. Unfortunately, the business thing doesn’t allow that to go to deep. But there is an ac- knowledgement of “hey man, we were brothers of the road for a while here.” Yeah, I respected Allen a lot. I loved him man, loved him. It broke my heart that he had to pass away.
Which brings us to Joe Dan Petty. Oh man. That’s a tough one. Me and Joe Dan was truly the odd couple. It was like people used to say, they’re just like a married couple, leave ‘em alone. Joe Dan would want the room cold, I’d want the room hot. He’d want to watch Discovery and I’d want to watch the news. We had all of those things like that back and forth, but yet we had a big bond between us. We were room mates for 28 years so obviously we had something there. He was just a great person though. Joe Dan was a little more subdued than I am. He was a little more slower, I’m a little more hyper. We were just a great match. One kept the other in check. Probably more so Joe Dan keeping me in check. (Laughs)
It was very cool to see you portrayed by name in Cameron Crowe’s movie Almost Famous. How did you feel about that? It felt great! Duane used to say when he’d go out onstage and hear the applause it was music to his ears. That was music to my ears. Me and Dickey kind of took Cameron under our wing back when he first came out to write about us. I can remember Cameron wanting to go over and talk to Gregg or Dickey, they’d be talking to somebody else, and he’d be wanting to inter- view them. I’d tell him to wait until the time
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