ries of that were Ted Nugent, Billy Joel, so many.
Wow … Yeah a lot of variety. It was a huge event. Early on it was the Southern bands, then it blossomed into something more widespread.
Yeah. One thing that I use to talk a lot to DruLombar about was “the South- ern brotherhood.” It appears to me that there aren’t many like you, and I would say you and Charlie Daniels are the two that I have observed who con- tinue to pay tribute to fallen brothers with ongoing mentions to the Cald- wells, Ronnie VanZant, all the people that we’ve lost. I just want to ask you, how important do you think it is for you guys to pay homage to the ones that came before that are no longer with us? Well, those people were part of the landscape when the Outlaws dream was realized and came true. You have to remember, like in the lyrics of “Overnight From Athens” how many years we struggled to become a part of what that was. You know. “Singing from that bar room stage, we watched our message come of age that we’ve been fighting for since we were seventeen.” There was a good eight years struggle in trying to get somewhere and when you finally got there all the people around you, whether it was Tommy Caldwell, or Toy or whether it was Charlie Daniels, or Ronnie VanZant or Allen Collins, the list was short but really meaningful and these were people that were there with you in the middle of your dream come true, and so it became like the Southern bands against the world. You know, the Eagles were doing very well in California and Loggins and Messina were doing well and there we were trying to perpet- uate the southern culture and the southern musical personality under the umbrella and the influence and the creative sort of scope of
the Allman Brothers. Which, Ya know, they sort of created that personality that we all loved, and he brotherhood and Red Dog and Twiggs and Calahan and all these people, ya know it was like the road crew was cool and one of them, Joe Dan Petty, had his own band called Grinderswitch. It was just a really great cultural moment ,and so we tried to emulate that in our own way, we just, for a lack of a better word, imitated the Allman Brothers and how they went about doing what they did. The Tucker band was very grown up and very buttoned up and admirable and Skynyrd was tough and scrappy and having huge suc- cess and Charlie Daniels was having signifi- cant success. We are just happy to be a part of it and the Outlaws were great. The Outlaws could go out on stage every night and bring the heat man, I mean turn up, they could put a whooping on ya and so we made a name for ourselves making a memorable impression as a special guest star on a show. To the point where the headliners were like ah, sure okay guys, I see how it is.
(Laughing) Y’all trying to get over and get up on us are ya? When they went out they played hard and we were gonna play just as hard. •
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