nobody realizes he was gone except for the fact, I did, I totally realized it. I had my son right next to me and I was like, he’s not breathing, he’s not breathing. I’m looking at him laying right there in front of me and he was running around the stage a second ear- lier, and anybody, no matter how heavy any- body who is running around like that would be breathing heavy and he wasn’t breathing at all. His body was just there and I knew some- thing was very wrong and finally somebody had the where with all to realize it and run on to the stage, but he was gone.
That was very sad, but at the same token, when I wrote about it, knowing Bruce like I did, it was like the perfect. The perfect exit for him. Oh, it was like the classic Greek comedy tragedy of whatever you want to call it.
The fact that it was the encore, and on his 70th birthday and he was sur- rounded by all his friends and he was singing his favorite song. I was like well, what more could you ask for, ya know?. You are right, you are absolutely 100% right. I’ve talked about that for a long time, how many of us can go out being surrounded by family and friends doing exactly what we want to do.
Yeah, Bruce. I’ve written reams of arti- cles about how great he was. My wife who passed away a 4 years ago was a professional astrologer, and when Bruce would come to our house, they would get into these conversations and I might as well just not even be there. In fact, there were times I’d get in the car and leave because they would be talking for 4 or 5 hours about the stars and planets and things being retro- grade and all that stuff that he was so into. I didn’t know anything about it.
He and I would talk about music and movies and stuff like that, and then of course he would get on this sports thing and he knew all the scores of everything, all the stats. And I’m like, “this guy, wow.” I don’t know, have you ever seen people in life that you meet just that unique? Oh sure. I think Duane Allman would have been one, if I had gotten to meet him I would have loved it. But I never got to. I un- derstand that he was a one of a kind guy too. Yeah. For sure, How long you’ve known Willie Perkins?
Oh let’s see. It’s only been about ten years, I guess. We are both authors of Mercer University Press, and now he’s got 2 books out and I have 5 and a 6th one coming out. I just finished writing one about, and with Paul Hornsby, his biography. That is going to be a hoot. Willie and I, they put us together at these things all the time, and boy has he got stories. I’m sure he does.
He’s a hoot and what’s so funny, and he’s always got some good-looking woman hanging around him. Yeah well, so do I actually as a matter of fact.
Well, you go boy! I wanted to see if you would elaborate little bit on the one shot that you spoke of in the book. The one where you took a picture of Dylan talking to Dickey and you said Bob was- n’t very happy with it. Yeah, I can tell you about that. It was 1995, it was the opening of the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland and I was backstage as a guest of the Allman Brothers and I was sitting back there at a table talking to Dickey. Dickey and Bob know each other, Dylan loves
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