Nick Nolte parties with the Allman Brothers

I was reading the latest in the AV Club's Random Roles series (great read if you love movies), this one with Nick Nolte. It took a turn into Macon with Don Johnson, Dickey Betts, and Gregg Allman. Quick blurb, but damn those guys had fun.
http://www.avclub.com/article/nick-nolte-dropping-acid-and-putting-porno-mags-an-244416
AVC: Don Johnson, and then the two of you were also both in Return To Macon County.
NN: Yeah, which was the very first film of Louis Arkoff, Sam Arkoff’s son. Don said, “We’ve got [director] Richard Compton. You play this role, we can take over the film and make something really good!” [Laughs.] We were doing quite well till Sam Arkoff sent this girl Robin Mattson down to replace Karen Lamm.
They fired Lamm, and all of a sudden this other girl was in the car, and right away she told us how bad we were and that we were badly behaved. So at one point, I… let one go. Silently. Ooh, she just collapsed. She goes, “Oh, geez!” and piles out of the car. [Laughs.] Louis had to go talk to her.
NN: Sam Arkoff knew how to keep things budgeted in the right area. But I knew Donnie, and we picked up one day and went to a little country store in town. Donnie came over to me and said, “You know the guy that was in the store? He wants to ride in the back seat.” I said, “What, that kind of farmer kid?” He said, “Yeah! You know who that is?” I said, “No, but it’s all right if he wants to ride back there.” He said, “That’s Dickey Betts!”
AVC: From the Allman Brothers?
NN: Yeah! So Dickey rode in the back for a few shots. And then we hooked up with the Allman Brothers, and… then I think Donnie hooked up with a commoner’s wife, and then we were all in trouble!
AVC: Well, just the idea of you, Don Johnson, and the Allman Brothers hanging out would seem to spell trouble. Especially in the ’70s.
NN: [Laughs.] Yeah! Gregg [Allman] still looks at me to this day and says [Uncertainly.] “I know you, don’t I?” And I say, “Well, I don’t know, Gregg. I don’t know.” Those were the old days…
[Edited on 10/27/2016 by porkchopbob]

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