[since1868]

So hanging out with butch Trucks pretty cool.If it were not for Dicky I think the band would of folded when Duane was killed. What did you think( or perhaps you did not think anything) of Greg Allman?

[scott says]

hey bud---I'm not a huge ABB fan, I do like them though. I'm not BS about my friend Dave...I was fortunate to rent a room in his house when I moved to Marin 16 years ago.He grew up in Jacksonville with the brothers and Butch...he has lps released with them. When Boz Scaggs hit the scene, early 70's they recommended Dave to him for bass player.He honestly was Duanes close friend and they were renting a house in Georgia when he was killed.......I have met a bunch of "stars" going to shows with Dave---the Allmans, Steve Miller , David Lindley.....and thru a mutual friend ,Bob Dylan.
I have met Greg twice...both times he was a little spaced out-if you know what I mean.Dave and Butch are tight....the first time I met him was back in 89,right after the Tiannomen Square incident...it was backstage at a show here in NO.Cal...I was ranting to him and Dickey...Butch response was-"oh. you are one of those political guys"...so I pounded a couple of beers with Dickey and we goofed on each other, telling jokes and stuff.

[the invisib1e hand]

.If it were not for Dicky I think the band would of folded when Duane was killed.

It occurred to me when I learned that Dickey Betts' son is named "Duane," that there must have been something special between the two.