Once again great stuff Alan. That was fun. Of course goes without saying how much I loved the Brothers comments !

Man, these hit the spot --- thanks so much Alan.

I'm struck by how much humility Reese possesses. He has good reason to hold some bitterness or grudges about how his time with the brothers ended, but that's not apparent at all.

Probably helps that he went on to have a great career, though

Yes Gregg said when he arrived in Jacksonville he felt bad the keys player would be let go. Said his brother said he couldn't carry two keyboards, especially with two drummers. Phil Walden was expecting Duane and bass and drums and introduced Duane to Jaimoe. Dickey said when Phil found out there were now six of them, he was expecting all that and asking for 50 thousand dollars of equipment.

Yes Alan you are delivering man! I haven't worked since March 10th. Just a part time 4 hour a day job 5 days a week and nothing in the summer but when you can't go to a barber, a concert, a restaurant etc it is rough. Looking for new things to watch and listen to and read. Thank you for posting these great interviews. Just listening to Andy last night recorded right before the MSG show with The Brothers. I didn't know Dickey had fired him 4 times and took a swing at him. But Andy had wonderful things to say about Dickey and his playing and songs. Except when Dickey came out of retirement recently he wasn't playing well. Yes I saw one of those shows and it was painful. I think they discovered he had had a mild stroke plus was rusty Dickey has nothing to prove. Great albums, lives in a mansion, wealthy, wrote some incredible songs. He deserves to take it easy.

Yeah. Enjoyed the entire interview. Reese is a great player and clearly a very nice guy.

I continue to blab about things circulating about the ABB I began hearing in 1970 when I caught the mushroom virus that year and as a 24 year old, wanted to know all about this band and the members. I got to talk with Berry, Duane a little, Duane was always saying hi and just moving on. Didn't really engaged in conversation with fans. Probably too busy and things on his mind. I've had nice conversations with Dickey, Jaimoe, Butch, Chuck, Warren several times ( once got to introduce my son to Warren and told him was learning to play and Warren shook his hand and asked my son what kind of guitar he had. Allen, Johnny Neal, Red Dog, other roadies, read interviews etc and I'm not sure if much of what I've learned about the ABB is true. Including Gregg hitchhiking from LA to Jacksonville and catching a ride in 1969 with a bass player. To Duane saying anyone here not willing to play in my band will have to fight their way out. I'm going to stop offering my memories of these stories. Many may not be true.

Sure when I asked Dickey who is singing behind Gregg on Revival on Idlewild South and he said " I know it doesn't sound like it but that is everybody in the band" and I said " you mean Butch and Jaimoe too?" And he said " Yeah man everybody. I remember us laughing and clapping our hands when we added that" or when Butch told me it was also all of them doing that chant on Black Hearted Woman on the first album with Berry Oakley cracking up at the end of the chant, that is correct but I don't know about the rest. Just read AlPaul's book and that is likely the true stories.

Much of this is like stories about George Washington.

Blackey, much of it is indeed like stories about George Washington. As such I'm sure there's an element of BS in my book as elsewhere... However, I had the advantage of talking to (almost) everyone for years. I didn't include things that I had good reason to think were not true. The discrepancy about how Gregg got to Jacksonville is probably the greatest and the most funny, really. As Kim said in OWO, "I know Gregg likes to say he hitchhiked from LA but I'm the motherfucker who dropped him off at the airport." But he didn't see him get on the plane....

He has good reason to hold some bitterness or grudges about how his time with the brothers ended, but that's not apparent at all.

True, but... as he told me when I interviewed him for OW and it's in the book, though this is a paraphrase: What are you supposed to say when the guy says his brother is coming to take your spot?

And he says in this interview that reading OW and the reality of the first few years ABB lifestyle made him realize he probably wouldn't have stuck around. Which is pretty interesting, right? Thom Doucette was also very open that he wasn't interested in driving cross country in the back of a van with a bunch of other guys.

Thank you Alan, superb job on these interviews. As a lifelong fanatic of both SRV and the ABB, it's a real treat to hear Reese's perspective. Keep up the good work and stay healthy.

One question, will there be a DVD of The Brothers at MSG?

[Edited on 5/13/2020 by peachlovingman]