I never will forget that. I never played anything with just a real fatback beat. The Tucker band played a show once where Kenny Loggins was opening, we were in the middle, and Fleetwood Mac was closing.
The first time I ever heard them was in the same club that we played at with Wet Willie. Warren Haynes, and Allen Woody, as well as producers, engineers, roadies and fans to create a tribute to Macon, Georgia’s greatest rock and roll export. I’m trying!” I was a nervous wreck.
I guess that comes from playing swing. Robin, our monitor man, will raise the volume on the toms.
I’m 26 and George is 33 now. And there we were playing with The Allman Brothers Band. I’m sure Paul and I were talking from our homes. He said ‘Play louder!
All these long contracts. Because everything we would have worked for would’ve been in vain. Usually, I’ll always have the bass drum and the snare drum in the monitor.
I’ve heard Tris Imboden play with Kenny Loggins since he first joined the band. Paul T. Riddle, the original drummer for the Marshall Tucker Band, has given the place a homey feel – you don’t even realize you’re in a “portable” once inside.
Then we’d bring the chicks on and vamp everything on and off.
Doug sang in the school choir, but that was about the end of his formal training. He influenced me more than any other person on this planet outside my parents. We played about an hour of instrumentals like “Norwegian Wood”, like the way Buddy’s big band used to do it.
He’s 14. They were just great people. And it’s always been that way.
“I’m proud the music holds up,” he says of the canon. It just gets you out of the straight-ahead bag. Although my idea never got off the ground, I do have my taped conversations with Paul T. Riddle circa 1982. I think that would’ve been lost and it wouldn’t have been real anymore.At the supper club, there was a show band.
We were sitting in that office and they were wooing us, of course.
The sandy-haired percussive whiz turns on lights and straightens furniture, moving briskly around the studio where he teaches year-round drum lessons to elementary, middle and high school students.Riddle also notes that bassist Tommy Caldwell was “by far the leader of the band. Paul T. Riddle I got into Alan Dawson because my dad took me to a jazz festival in Charlotte when I was in the eighth grade. Jimmy and Jack Hall just loved the band. I had the pleasure of seeing him play with Firefall. This is a “must read!” - Paul Hornsby (Record Producer, Keyboardist, founding member of Hourglass with Duane and Gregg Allman)186 W Main Street, Spartanburg , SC 29306Author Michael Buffalo Smith personally spoke with former Allman Brothers members including Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts, Butch Trucks.
It had basically all the songs that were on our first album.