What’s the dumbest question you’ve ever been asked?
BH: There was this one girl. She had to be about 19 and she was from Mississippi and dumb as a board. Gregg Allman and I were being interviewed by her for a school newspaper the same day. She thought I was Gregg and she asked me what it was like being with Cher. So I entered in to a 20-minute dissertation on what it was like to be with Cher. I don’t know Cher. But I had to do it, you know?
JAMBASE: And what did you tell her?
BH: Oh, that me and Cher met in Kansas on a train. That we both like fudge. That she told me she had all the original Robert Johnson records. The girl didn’t know who Robert Johnson was so there was that. That we went to Bolivia together and went to meet shamans in Ecuador. Our guy for Warner Bros. at the time read this and said he laughed so hard that he cried.
Priceless! 
Thanks for the link.
Now I must find that lost interview.
Blooby
Hophead (anybody seen him?) told a story of how he and Bruce were at a Braves game - sitting behind home plate. Some TV/journalist mistook Col. Bruce for someone else and starting asking him questions. Bruce took off on some wild tale that involved someone being buried underneath 2nd base. Hophead said the look on the interviewers face was priceless!
Among his many talents, Bruce is one of the all time great storytellers 
There is a whole series of videos on YouTube with Bruce spinning wild yarns about Atlanta history. Here is one where he talks about Babe Ruth hitting the world's longest home run and the real source of the Fountain of Youth....
And there is this priceless clip called "Colonel Bruce Hampton Interviews The Interviewer"....
I share the Colonels nostalgia for Ponce De Leon Park. I actually have vague and distantly hazy memories of it. I've been told that my dad took me to a game there, but I would've only been about 2 years old so I don't remember that. I do remember driving past it before it was razed.
Historically, the University of Alabama played both Georgia and Georgia Tech there in the early 1900s. I believe Auburn played one of those schools there, too.
I've heard variations on the tale of Babe Ruth's 753 mile homer. I've also heard that story attached to Birmingham's Rickwood Field which also lies next to a railroad. (Rickwood Field - officially America's oldest standing, still in use park - look it up).
One of these days, I'm going to muster up the courage to introduce myself and start a conversation with Col. Bruce. I've come close a few times ... for some reason, he intimidates me! 😉
