part was, when the cops came and knocked the door down, they had a little pile of cocaine on the table next to the bed, and Sandy started dumping all the coke into the rug which was a shag carpet.


Gregg Allman (Sidney Smith Photo)


when they got busted in New Orleans in the summer of ‘72 and the NOPD busted down the doors of the hotel room after the band got back from playing at the City Park Stadium in New Orleans, and Dickey, who can fight as well as he can play guitar, did not recognize them as being cops, because they came in in plain clothes, he thought someone was just trying to get into their room. He put up a fight and ended up with a billy club to the face, un- fortunately.


Yeah, he had that scar under his eye, that you pointed out in the book. Yeah. Well, they ended up spending the night in jail and all, but in spite of that, the next day Gregg and Dickey went out to the park and played a free concert with a local group. they just sat in after spending the night in jail. These guys just never stopped playing, they were totally dedicated to their fans. The funny


One of the people you photographed was Jimmy Carter, I’ve always liked this guy and I just wonder if when you took pictures did you get to meet him and what were your thoughts on him? Oh yeah, I first met him in the Capricorn Records office. By this time I was living in Macon and Jimmy Carter was running for Governor. I mean he was the Governor of Georgia and I don’t know if he had an- nounced for President yet, but he was meet- ing with Phil Walden, I guess about the whole possibility of Allman Brothers and Capricorn endorsing him and all that stuff, but I was called over to Capricorn’s office and was told that the Governor of Georgia was going to be there and so could I shoot some pictures, document it. And that is what I did. I met him briefly and talked with him, it was- n’t one of these intimate conversations or anything like that, but he was a great guy. I liked him a lot.


One of the guys that I got to be really good friends with over the years was Col. Bruce Hampton. You shot pictures at the Fox Theater on his 70th birthday. I was suppose to be at that thing, he had me tickets on the front row and I went into the hospital and wasn’t able to go and in a way I am sad, but in an- other way, I am glad I didn’t witness his dying onstage. I have pictures of that nobody has ever seen. I’ve got the whole thing. I was right in front of the stage and I’ve got the whole damn thing. I’ve never put those photos out but I’ve got everything, you know. Him going down, him being carried off the stage, him laying there on stage when everybody else is playing and


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