Butch Trucks

Musician

1947-05-11 – 2017-01-24

American drummer and founding member of the Allman Brothers Band, known for his role in shaping Southern rock rhythm and improvisational live performance. He performed with the band for decades and influenced generations of rock drummers.

Quotes by Butch Trucks

One that really caught me was Joe Morello. He was the first drummer I ever saw that could do a roll with one hand. He would turn his hand over and use his fingertips to get the stick bouncing. He could sit there with his right hand doing stuff on the cymbals and tom-toms while he was doing a roll with his left on the snare drum.
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Sometimes you're gonna jump off a cliff and land flat on your face. Then you just get up and go again. But sometimes you dive off the cliff and start soaring with the eagles, and that's when you find new music, places that you've never been before.
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Johnny Winter doesn't know the word 'subtlety.' But it works, it works.
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Country's cool if you like that kind of thing, but it doesn't have the complexity or - what's the word? - subtlety.
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Phil Walden had complete faith in us, and I'll respect him forever for that. I think he sunk about $150,000 in us. He was close to bankruptcy a lot of the time, and Atlantic kept telling him we didn't have a chance.
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Eric Clapton has earned all of our respect. He is the greatest. He opened the doors for us. Without Cream, there is no Allman Brothers.
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I remember somebody came in with Chicago Transit Authority, and we listened to it one time.
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Once we started headlining at the Fillmore East, we were free to play all night, at least for the second set. 'Whipping Post' could get lengthy.
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To be honest, I don't listen to much music! I've been so engrossed in it my whole life that when I drive around in my car, I'll listen to college lectures on philosophy and literature and world history, things like that, to kind of catch up on the college experience I missed.
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