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♪ Please allow me to introduce myself ♪
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♪ I'm a man of wealth and taste ♪
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I heard about...
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this is just about Chuck Leavell
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when he's working
with the Altman Brothers.
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The thing about Chuck is that
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he is always playing a melody.
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He's always playing a lyrical idea.
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And you really are
hard-pressed to find a guy
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who can play with the honky-tonk, R&B,
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blues bass that he has,
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but also this incredibly
melodic take on stuff.
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You just don't find it.
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Morning, darling.
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Good morning!
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We slept a little late last night,
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must have been all that
traveling we've been doing.
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All right.
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- Want some breakfast?
- Yes.
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- All right.
- Breakfast is good.
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My very secret ingredient.
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I don't like people to
know about. It's bacon.
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How about a frittata
this morning, Miss Rose?
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- That would be great!
- All right.
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This kitchen used to
end about right here.
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It was teeny tiny and it must have
been about, oh, 15 years or so ago.
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We just took this whole
section of the house off,
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and we used our own wood,
Charlane Plantation pine.
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When I had the tour of the
offices of Capricorn Records,
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the doors open and there's
two gorgeous women.
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This black woman named Carolyn Brown.
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That was Phil's assistant.
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And my future wife to be, Rose Lane,
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White at the time, who
was working for Frank.
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I was the first person you saw
when you walked in the front door.
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Phil and Frank were so wild,
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and you know, back then there
were a lot of drugs involved.
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And they can remember,
you know, from hour to hour
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what was really going on sometimes.
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Rose Lane had set up
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a... the first... one of the very first,
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um, simulcasts in the country.
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I had 11 radio stations that we got
to hook up across the United States
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to do live in New Orleans
with the Altman Brothers Band.
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Some of the folks that
knew Rose Lane said,
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"Listen, you got to come down, you
were responsible for setting this up.
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You got to come to the show."
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So some of the roadies drove her down
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in her car, and she arrives there
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and we had a dinner
that night for the band.
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I finally got up the courage
to ask her out for a date,
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and bottom line is we've
been together ever since.
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Rose Lane says I have a job security
here because on a place like this,
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there's chores to be done,
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there's unexpected
things that might happen.
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And you get a weather event
and then you all of a sudden
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you got to be picking up trees
off the ground and saw them up.
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Everybody likes Chuck.
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He's just a human being that
you'd think doesn't exist anymore.
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He's the kind of guy that makes
you feel bad about yourself.
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And you'd think it'd be the opposite,
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a guy like Chuck makes you feel great.
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He makes me feel bad because
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a self-taught tree farmer,
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a beautiful musician,
beautiful human being,
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when you look at the list of what
he's got going on at any given moment,
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it makes you think, "Well,
I laid on my ass till noon",
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and then I went in a do a couple
of scenes and then went home
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and watched sports and went to bed.
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♪ You'll get no answer from me ♪
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I see the male goose out there,
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so that means a female
is nesting somewhere.
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There is no such thing
as a day-to-day basis,
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because Chuck and I are all over the
place all the time. This is home base.
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And so I think that whenever
we get here it's like, "Oh."
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It'sthe Late Show with David Letterman!
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Sitting in with the band right
over there, Chuck Leavell,
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ladies and gentlemen.
Chuck, nice to see you.
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Well, he's just this, uh,
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rootsy guy from the South who came up...
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in the relatively early
days of rock and roll, '60s,
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and has been at the top
of his game all these years,
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and he can play, you know,
session in Memphis, Tennessee
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or Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and then
he can play in front of 40,000 people
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with the Rolling Stones.
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And I have a feeling, to him
it's all the same, it's all music.
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One of my favorite musicians
of all time is going to sit in
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and play with us tonight.
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The guy's albums I listened to, uh,
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listen to him and play on
everything for many, many years.
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Uh, he was, in a lot of ways,
the soundtrack of my youth.
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From everybody from The
Altman Brothers to Rolling Stone,
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Mr. Chuck Leavell is here on keyboard.
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Kick us off, Chuck.
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♪ Last Sunday morning
the sunshine felt like rain ♪
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♪ And the week before
they all seemed the same ♪
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♪ With the help of God and
true friends I've come to realize ♪
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♪ I still have two strong legs
and wings to make me fly ♪
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♪ So I ain't wasting time no more ♪
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♪ 'Cause time goes by like
hurricanes, and faster things ♪
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My band who's pretty, pretty,
you know, confident bunch
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and I did not exactly tell them to the
first time he was going to sit in with us.
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One of our mainly guitar players
used to be in The Black Crowes,
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The Doors, The Stones
and so it was funny to watch
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them fall all over their fucking sense
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at Chuck Leavell walking on the stage.
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I mean, like the goddamn
king had walked out.
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♪ ...much faster things ♪
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♪ And you don't need
no gypsy to tell you why ♪
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♪ You can't let one
precious day to slip by ♪
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♪ Well, you look inside yourself ♪
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♪ If you don't see what you want ♪
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♪ Maybe sometimes then you don't ♪
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♪ But you leave your mind
alone and just get high ♪
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In that world, it was
kind of a funny story
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to see these professional
musicians, seasoned,
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played the arenas, played for everybody
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just lay down their swords,
you know, in front of Chuck.
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Thank you!
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I loved this, it was fun. It was fun.
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Oh, man, good old H&H.
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Let's go back. Say hey to Drew.
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- Hey, man! How you doing, bud?
- Doing good.
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Beautiful morning to make
biscuits at 5:30 in the morning.
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- Is that what you were doing?
- That's what we've been doing today.
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We're rock and rolling here in the H&H.
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Well, I'm ready for one of them biscuits.
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Sounds good, we'll
get you one real quick.
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We'll go sit down.
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Mama Louise, Louise Hudson used to
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feed us when we were hungry
and didn't have no money.
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And she'd say, "Well, honey, you just
come on in, you can pay me when you can,"
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or "if you ain't got no money,
just don't worry about it.
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We're going to feed you, ain't
nobody going to go hungry."
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We'd order, and there
was five or six of us,
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and we'd order one plate of food
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and we'd split it up with each, you know,
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we'd split up and Mama H.
Caught us doing it and she,
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you know, I can't
imitate her voice, but...
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"My goodness, you boys.
You can't be eating like this."
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And she'd bring us all... she said,
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"You guys hit the big time,
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you can pay me back later."
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And she'd bring us food.
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And I love it, you know, she used to
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charge you according to whether
she likes you or not, you know?
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Somebody was aggressive or she
didn't like, it'd be, "Okay, ten dollars."
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And if it was some of
us, and "Well, $2.50."
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- Same... same dish, it didn't matter.
- Same dish.
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Hey, Mama, it's Chuck.
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- How you doing, darling?
- I'm okay, baby. How are you?
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Oh, I'm doing great. So good to see you.
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- Good to see you.
- Rose Lane.
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- So pretty, as always.
- Yeah.
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I'm so glad to catch you here.
That's wonderful. Thank you.
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- You take care, man.
- Okay. Great to see you all.
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When I first started playing the piano...
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my mom played, she was not a professional
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or a teacher or anything, but
she played for family enjoyment.
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We had a little spinet
piano in the house,
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and, you see, I was
the baby of the family.
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My brother is 14 years my elder,
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and my sister is about
five years older than me.
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So often times, it would be
me and Mom in the house.
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She would say things like, "Well",
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Chuck, what do you
think it would sound like?
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If, uh, if there was a
huge storm outside,
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you know, and I'd rumble
down for the thunder
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and then do some
lightning strikes up here.
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"What do you think it would
sound like if you hit a home run?"
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She instilled that in me,
and music has always been
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more about emotions
and colors and feelings
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than it is about notes and chords.
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♪ Well, I've got to run
to keep from hiding ♪
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♪ And I'm bound to keep on riding ♪
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♪ And I've got one more silver dollar ♪
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♪ But I'm not gonna
let them catch me, no ♪
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♪ Not gonna let them
catch the midnight rider ♪
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♪ I don't own the clothes I'm wearing ♪
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♪ And the road goes on forever ♪
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♪ I've got one more silver dollar ♪
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♪ But I'm not gonna
let them catch me, no ♪
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♪ Not gonna let them
catch the midnight rider ♪
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Here we are at The Big House.
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It's now a museum for
the Altman Brothers Band.
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Now when I first came to making
the guys who were living here,
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uh, most of them anyway,
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we used to come, visit
and have jam sessions here.
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And through all the years,
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it has become a museum,
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there's a lot of memorabilia
here from the Altman Brothers.
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So come on in, let's look.
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On our first trip to London,
we played at Knebworth Park.
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- Yeah?
- In outside of London.
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It would have been
in '73, I think, right?
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- Mahavishnu Orchestra.
- Yeah.
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No one had been outside
of the United States.
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Yeah, that was our first trip.
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Here's a great one from Winterland.
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I love those Bill Graham
posters, they were always so cool.
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This is what we used to call
"the get out of jail free concert."
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It was a free concert for the
quality of life in Macon, Georgia.
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And we gave money to
the jail, gave money to
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several different charities
throughout the city.
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And if anybody got in
trouble, we could just say,
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"Hey, don't forget we did this gig now."
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I wanted to play with anybody that had
anything to do with the Altman Brothers.
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I don't care who says they're the biggest
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Altman Brothers fan,
they're wrong, I was.
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After Duane had had this tragic
motorcycle accident in 1971,
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band went out as a five-piece with
no replacement, very gutsy thing to do.
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Well, I think all of us
were wondering what
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was going to happen after Duane passed.
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You know, and it was just a revelation.
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It was just... they picked up where
just went to a slightly different road
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and just as authentic and just as great.
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So they called in Chuck,
and all the Altman Brothers
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were sitting in Phil's office,
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and Chuck comes in, you know,
sweet little boy and everything.
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And Carol and I are going, "Okay,
he's fixing to get a big boost in life."
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Being asked to join the
Altman Brothers was like
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catapulting 20 steps above
where I was before, you know?
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They were already popular, they had
already had gold and platinum records
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with At Fillmore East.
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Limousines, private
planes, stadium shows,
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you know, in 1973 we were playing
in RFK Stadium, JFK Stadium.
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It was, you know, it was
a big leap, a big leap.
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And I tried to keep my
head screwed on straight.
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Chuck came in and, man, it was a,
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I mean, it just slipped
the band up, you know,
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it's just what we needed.
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With Brothers and Sisters came out
and Chuck was featured prominently on it,
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all of a sudden, it was...
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a little more sophisticated,
they had dealt with the, uh,
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the loss of Duane and Barry, and
moved on in a way that was really amazing.
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He was such an obvious
choice after you hear him.
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You would think because
I've been... there always been
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known for having two guitars
playing harmony, getting that stuff in.
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You would think, "Well, why didn't
you put another guitar player in?"
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But Chuck filled the bill totally and
completely. He made up for anything
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it was missing by not
having another guitar player.
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Unlike other bands, I would always
write an instrumental for the album.
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And I didn't have one
for Brothers and Sisters.
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I said, "Well, we don't need
to do this on every record."
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And Walden then
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said, you know, you know, "You
need to get to write an instrumental."
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Well, history of the song is Dickey
was listening to Django Reinhardt,
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Gypsy guitar player from the '30s,
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uh, at his home, and he had a daughter
at the time, a little toddler, Jessica,
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and he was watching her at play.
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And Django has these really
bouncy rhythms, you know?
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So Dickey sort of, you know,
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puts that in the wheels and starts
playing this rhythm guitar part.
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He played me like what
Duane would normally play,
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you know, on the roads piano.
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"Jessica" is I think Dickey
Bette's masterpiece,
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but without Chuck's
contribution to it, uh,
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it wouldn't have the impact
that it had on all of us.
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You know, Chuck just
outdid himself on that one.
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That's... that's one
of his finest moments.
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I love this blue piano, way cool.
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And since we're here at The Big House,
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and the memories are flooding back,
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we'll do a little bit of this.
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Piano solo in "Jessica"
is one of the greatest
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pieces of music I've
ever heard in my life.
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Because Chuck made...
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You have the song, "Jessica"
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and then when it gets Chuck's turn,
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he plays another song within the song.
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This guy in school
grabbed me and he said,
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and he was an older guy, and I
don't know why he didn't know me,
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but he grabbed me, he said, "Hey, man,
you need... you listen to shitty music.
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I need to play you something,"
and he played me "Jessica."
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And it changed my life.
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Brothers and Sisters
is still to this day,
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the biggest selling record that
the Altman Brothers have ever had.
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And '73-'74 we're touring,
playing these stadiums is fantastic.
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Jimmy Carter is elected
governor of Georgia.
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He does very well for the state,
and really cool guy, you know?
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He's got a persona and he's charismatic.
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And then one day, we get...
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We're recording Dickey
Bette's solo record,
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Highway Call, first solo record,
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and we get notified that
Carter's going to come down.
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And we expected, "Okay,
he's going to come down, and
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shake hands and take a picture
and he'll be here for 20 minutes, right?"
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Well, he comes in, we're recording,
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and he listens intently,
we meet in and you know,
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he starts asking really great questions
about the state of the music business
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and stays for, like,
two and a half hours.
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I was fascinated with
it. Not only the first time
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I've ever been in a
recording studio and...
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And the Altman Brothers
were on the way up.
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He decides to run for president.
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And the Brothers had
been very successful.
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And I think this was the first year
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they had the thing where the
government would match the funds
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that were raised otherwise.
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So what we did is we gave,
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we played these shows
for him, and the thing was
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we'd raise $500,000, and the
government would have to match it.
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Lo and behold, he gets
elected president, you know?
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And, man, did he work for it?
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I don't know if people remember this,
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but he was getting two,
three hours sleep a night,
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going from city to city campaigning,
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talking to people, listening to people.
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And that's one thing about
Carter, he's a great listener.
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He's been here at Charlane.
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We've hunted a couple of times together.
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I visited Charlane Plantation,
and met Rose Lane, his wife,
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uh, after we had lunch together
before we went quail hunting.
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And Chuck went in and played the piano
and we all gather around and listen to him
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play a good song and so forth.
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So we've been friends for a long time.
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This meeting goes down during
this turmoil with the Allmans,
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and the only people who showed
up were me and Jay and Lamar.
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And we kind of... we said, "We know
what's happening. The band's breaking up."
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Uh, we can either go our separate ways,
or maybe we can build on what we started.
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So that's what we decided to do.
And that was the birth of Sea Level.
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So, I think it was '76 or
'77 the record came out.
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It was just the name
of the band, Sea Level.
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When we got the first Sea Level album,
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we thought it must be because,
"Okay, we get it, Sea Level, Chuck..."
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See, we didn't know how
you said Chuck's name.
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We just knew he was on the
inside cover of Brothers and Sisters.
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My family is always
pronounced my name "level."
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You know, my cousins are all
Leavell, my sister is Judy Leavell.
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My brother is Billy Leavell.
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When I began to get
a little bit of notoriety
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and do interviews with
radio stations and such,
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it was always, "Oh, we have Chuck
Leavell here," Chuck Leavell, you know,
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and I finally... I actually preferred
that pronunciation anyway.
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And then we found out it's "Leavell,"
and we were really happy about that,
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because "Chuck Level" doesn't
sound as cool as "Chuck Leavell."
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The best opening gig
was opening for Sea Level
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at a place in Virginia Beach
called the Rogues Gallery.
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When growing up here,
playing at the Rogues Gallery
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was sort of the
Valhalla, it was the ideal.
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So we played the opening act
thing and had to split right out
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and go play our gig, this
is right down the road.
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Just maybe ten blocks down the road.
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We're playing away and all of
a sudden, I see Chuck Leavell
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walks in, he was a guy
I'd admired for a while.
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And he comes up to me and says,
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"You motherfucker."
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So that was, I mean,
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what a beautiful moment for me.
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From that "motherfucker"
moment, we became fast friends,
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and exchanged numbers.
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And I went to visit him,
my future wife at the time,
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Kathy Hornsby and I
went on a trip down south.
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And we stopped in Dry Ridge, Georgia,
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spent the night with Chuck and
Rose Lane, and just had a great time.
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Sea Level t-shirt from our third record,
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which is called On The Edge.
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There's my old buddy, Lamar Williams.
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Here is a poster from a Sea Level show.
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It was a great club in Atlanta,
called Moonshadow Saloon.
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And you know, we had
good success, I mean,
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we were selling 250-300
thousand records per.
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We did, I think five records
over that many years.
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And by the time 1980 came,
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the wheels were falling
off of that one as well.
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And we all realize it was time to
move on and do different things.
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Our producer George Drakoulias...
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came in one day near the
end of the record and said,
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"We have Chuck Leavell."
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Yeah. I was like, "What do you mean?"
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He's like, "Now we... he's
coming up to play on the session."
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You know, and I was just
like, "You have to be kidding."
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You know, I mean, even back then it was
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like having a royal
presence in the studio.
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The energy was unmistakable.
It was like, "Wow, man, these..."
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These Cats are, they're there, you
know, they're doing this from the heart.
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They want you on at least one,
maybe two songs," I said, "Oh, okay."
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So this was right before I'm leaving for
a Stones rehearsal, I think the next day.
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And took everything we
were doing that, you know,
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that we felt what strong and the best,
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and it elevated it to
another... to another thing.
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"And this is a hit, man. It's great.
You know, can you put organ on it?"
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"Sure, sure. I'll put some organ on it."
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"You know what? We got another tune
here. It might sound good if you do that."
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"Okay." "So do that..."
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"And you put some organ
on that too." "Okay, I'll do it."
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So this goes on, and
the next thing I know,
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I'm on just about the whole record.
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I think I'm on seven or eight songs.
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I do also remember that it
was a Saturday or Sunday,
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and the regular office staff
of the studio at the time,
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no one was manning the desks in fact.
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My father when he was on ABC-Paramount
Records, he was a folk singer, and...
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his guitar for all those years
was a 1953 Martin D-28.
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And I just always remember
we were so excited,
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we were in the control
room, we were listening.
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And I just happened to open
the door to go in the hallway
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and this guy is, like,
walking out of the front
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with that guitar and another guitar case.
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They were stealing them.
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And Chuck is there the
whole time, you know?
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00:26:48,524 --> 00:26:50,859
But we instantly, like, you know,
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00:26:50,943 --> 00:26:52,986
fight or flight, we jumped
and chased the guy,
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he drops the guitars right
outside the door where he is...
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00:26:56,406 --> 00:26:58,951
But that happened that day too,
the only... like, one of the only times
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anyone tried to steal from us was
the day Chuck came to the studio.
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00:27:02,996 --> 00:27:06,208
My mom and dad were there and
it was like what a glamorous lame.
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Somewhere around the
age of 15, the desire to
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be on a record came into play.
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00:27:13,340 --> 00:27:15,884
Muscle Shoals, of course
was the big hot spot.
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00:27:15,968 --> 00:27:18,554
I mean, those, you know,
this is where the pros were.
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They were making records for
Aretha Franklin, for Wilson Pickett.
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You know, Rolling Stones
went there, Bob Dylan...
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Uh, you know, so many great artists
started recording in Muscle Shoals.
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Like I hear Clarence
Carter in the background.
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Man, I'm telling you, this door,
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I used to come here,
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literally when I was 15 and 16 years old,
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with such a small
building and there's just
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not a lot of room to hang out in there.
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So, you know, out there there'll
be a recording session going on
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and my friend Marlon Green, uh,
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engineered quite a lot here
and so Marlon would say,
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"We'll just come and hang out, you
know, you can sit in the parking lot
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or walk around or whatever
and then when we take a break,
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I'll see if I can get you in, you know."
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00:28:04,808 --> 00:28:07,477
And so here's where I
would be, right here...
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waiting for that door to open.
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00:28:10,731 --> 00:28:13,775
And when it would, I was scared to death,
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00:28:13,859 --> 00:28:18,155
but, you know, I wanted
so badly to play on a record.
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So I'll go inside that door,
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Marlon would say, "Hey,
man, come on," and you know,
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00:28:23,452 --> 00:28:27,581
and I'd see if I could sit at the
piano or just meet somebody,
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or anything I could do to be heard
and hopefully get a little action.
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00:28:34,171 --> 00:28:35,923
Let's see if it's open.
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00:28:36,006 --> 00:28:37,883
Oh!
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Oh, man.
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00:28:41,220 --> 00:28:45,599
At the time, this was like a spaceship.
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00:28:45,682 --> 00:28:48,199
And now it's quite antiquated, but it's
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still very functional,
no doubt about that.
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00:28:51,146 --> 00:28:54,066
The first record I played
on was in Muscle Shoals.
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00:28:54,149 --> 00:28:58,362
It wasn't at Muscle Shoals
Sound, it was a different studio.
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And it was for a guy named
Freddie North, R&B singer.
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00:29:02,241 --> 00:29:06,620
And I played organ on this song called,
"Don't Take Her She's All I've Got."
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And it became a hit,
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00:29:08,580 --> 00:29:10,958
you know, and I was 15 at the time.
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00:29:11,041 --> 00:29:13,710
So that was cool. Number
one, "I'm on a record!"
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00:29:13,835 --> 00:29:16,964
That was fantastic. You know, I
can hold it in my hands and look at it.
449
00:29:17,047 --> 00:29:20,092
And it didn't have my name
on it, but I knew I was on it.
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00:29:20,175 --> 00:29:22,302
And it was played on the radio.
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00:29:22,386 --> 00:29:25,180
Fascinating, you know, fantastic.
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00:29:25,264 --> 00:29:30,143
So that just kind of set me off to
say, "That's... I need to be doing this."
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And what I realized was in Muscle
Shoals, number one, I'm 15 years old.
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The older guys have the gigs, you know,
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00:29:36,858 --> 00:29:39,319
there were some great
players in Muscle Shoals.
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00:29:39,403 --> 00:29:42,990
Barry Beckett with the
Swampers at the time,
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00:29:43,073 --> 00:29:45,075
Clayton Ivey, a great player.
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00:29:46,034 --> 00:29:50,080
Chuck to me is really what I
call a really conscientious player.
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00:29:50,163 --> 00:29:53,292
I mean, he's really...
He's really meticulous
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00:29:53,375 --> 00:29:55,002
about what he's playing,
you know what I'm saying?
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00:29:55,085 --> 00:29:57,879
A lot of people are
just... I call them bangers.
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00:29:57,963 --> 00:29:59,715
That's not Chuck. Chuck, I mean,
463
00:29:59,798 --> 00:30:02,548
Chuck knows what he's
going to play for and he plays it.
464
00:30:03,510 --> 00:30:04,594
Now...
465
00:30:05,470 --> 00:30:08,098
as I understand it this
is the original piano
466
00:30:08,181 --> 00:30:11,810
that Barry Beckett played
so often, it's a Yamaha, but...
467
00:30:12,853 --> 00:30:16,565
they used to have it up
against this wall with the lid
468
00:30:16,648 --> 00:30:19,609
facing the wall and then they
would put blankets all over here
469
00:30:19,693 --> 00:30:22,070
so that you could isolate the piano.
470
00:30:22,154 --> 00:30:24,906
It's been a long time since
I had my hands on this.
471
00:30:26,450 --> 00:30:27,451
Let's see.
472
00:30:31,872 --> 00:30:36,543
Here's one the Stones
did right here in this room.
473
00:30:50,807 --> 00:30:53,685
♪ Childhood living ♪
474
00:30:57,522 --> 00:31:00,484
♪ Well, it's easy to do ♪
475
00:31:04,780 --> 00:31:08,033
♪ Those things that you wanted ♪
476
00:31:11,745 --> 00:31:15,832
♪ You know I bought them for you ♪
477
00:31:15,957 --> 00:31:20,545
The truth is I didn't really
record that much here.
478
00:31:20,629 --> 00:31:22,255
I did a little bit, as a matter of fact,
479
00:31:22,339 --> 00:31:25,217
this was one of the records I did here.
480
00:31:25,300 --> 00:31:27,427
There's a short story
that goes along with this.
481
00:31:27,511 --> 00:31:30,597
And the only time I had any
kind of encounter with, uh,
482
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:33,392
with Duane Altman was in this building.
483
00:31:33,475 --> 00:31:36,686
He had come into work on
this record and he played slide,
484
00:31:36,770 --> 00:31:39,523
acoustic slide on "Please Be With Me,"
485
00:31:39,606 --> 00:31:41,691
a Scott Boyer song.
486
00:31:41,775 --> 00:31:44,611
And he's had finished his
session and he had his guitar,
487
00:31:44,694 --> 00:31:48,115
and he was walking out
the studio, I guess to go
488
00:31:48,198 --> 00:31:51,118
catch a plane and I had just come in.
489
00:31:51,201 --> 00:31:53,787
And so it was literally
490
00:31:53,870 --> 00:31:56,248
passing in the hall
like this, and it was like,
491
00:31:56,331 --> 00:31:59,376
"Hey, man, how you doing?"
And that was the extent of it.
492
00:32:13,140 --> 00:32:17,185
Chuck was selected as the
national tree farmer of the year
493
00:32:17,269 --> 00:32:20,355
and people just absolutely
494
00:32:20,439 --> 00:32:22,732
were attracted to Chuck.
495
00:32:22,816 --> 00:32:25,861
Not because he was a Rolling Stone,
496
00:32:25,944 --> 00:32:30,115
or a rock star, but
because you could tell
497
00:32:30,198 --> 00:32:32,659
he was a forest landowner
498
00:32:32,742 --> 00:32:35,620
who really cared about his forest,
499
00:32:35,704 --> 00:32:39,791
his neighbor's forest, a forest
throughout the state of Georgia.
500
00:32:39,875 --> 00:32:42,919
And when you've got
several million tree farmers
501
00:32:43,044 --> 00:32:46,006
that are active in the
American Tree Farm System,
502
00:32:46,089 --> 00:32:48,592
and to be selected
503
00:32:48,675 --> 00:32:52,387
one from all of those is quite an honor.
504
00:32:52,471 --> 00:32:54,931
It's very, very competitive.
505
00:32:55,015 --> 00:32:59,102
Uh, the first time Chuck was elected
Georgia Tree Farmer of the Year,
506
00:33:00,061 --> 00:33:03,190
he didn't make it all the way
to the to the second round.
507
00:33:04,316 --> 00:33:07,027
But you know, he kept at it,
508
00:33:07,110 --> 00:33:09,070
the committee felt strongly
509
00:33:09,154 --> 00:33:12,449
that Chuck was a great candidate.
510
00:33:12,532 --> 00:33:18,079
And so when he and Rosie were
selected as the national winners,
511
00:33:18,163 --> 00:33:20,749
it was a culmination
of several years of work
512
00:33:20,832 --> 00:33:24,753
by the state committee to promote Chuck
513
00:33:24,836 --> 00:33:28,089
as a candidate for National
Tree Farmer of the Year.
514
00:33:28,173 --> 00:33:31,968
I can't stand to see these
trees that die on the stump,
515
00:33:32,093 --> 00:33:34,387
whether lightning strikes, or, uh,
516
00:33:34,471 --> 00:33:37,933
they die naturally, or
something happens to them.
517
00:33:38,016 --> 00:33:41,770
I just can't stand to see
them go to waste, you know,
518
00:33:41,853 --> 00:33:44,147
otherwise, they just sit there and die.
519
00:33:44,231 --> 00:33:47,943
Now, hey, fair enough the woodpecker's
need to get one every now and then
520
00:33:48,026 --> 00:33:50,820
so I can't get every
single one that dies on me,
521
00:33:50,904 --> 00:33:53,907
but I try to get the majority of them.
522
00:33:53,990 --> 00:33:58,745
And have them sawing up in
my brother-in-law, Alton's mill.
523
00:33:58,828 --> 00:34:02,457
We've renovated our own
home using our own lumber.
524
00:34:02,541 --> 00:34:07,379
We're about to build a cabin on a
new piece of property that we're buying.
525
00:34:07,462 --> 00:34:12,551
And so it's going to great use
and there's a story behind it.
526
00:34:12,634 --> 00:34:15,595
You know, this is our
wood. This is our lumber.
527
00:34:22,477 --> 00:34:27,482
♪ Holy Moses I have been removed ♪
528
00:34:29,442 --> 00:34:31,403
♪ I have seen the specter ♪
529
00:34:32,571 --> 00:34:35,574
♪ He has been here too ♪
530
00:34:37,033 --> 00:34:40,328
♪ A distant cousin from down the line ♪
531
00:34:40,412 --> 00:34:43,582
♪ Brand of people who ain't my kind ♪
532
00:34:46,042 --> 00:34:48,670
♪ Holy Moses... ♪
533
00:34:48,753 --> 00:34:53,717
We built upon, there was
a little blue bitty pond there,
534
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:56,094
and that was something that we built out.
535
00:34:57,554 --> 00:34:59,389
Yeah, riding around it is beautiful
536
00:34:59,472 --> 00:35:02,350
and the water is so clear.
537
00:35:03,476 --> 00:35:05,937
Some p... pumped up out of the earth,
538
00:35:06,021 --> 00:35:09,816
we pump it up, and
so it has a lot of chalk,
539
00:35:09,899 --> 00:35:13,987
because there's a lot
of kaolin around here.
540
00:35:14,070 --> 00:35:17,407
So that's why it's aqua blue like that.
541
00:35:21,745 --> 00:35:26,333
And Mac, Mac Rebennack,
Dr. John's real name,
542
00:35:26,416 --> 00:35:31,504
Mac had just recorded
in the right place the LP.
543
00:35:31,588 --> 00:35:34,591
And the hit was of course
right place, wrong time.
544
00:35:35,467 --> 00:35:39,471
And so he needed a band and he
came to Macon and it was suggested,
545
00:35:39,554 --> 00:35:44,225
"Well, you guys, you know, why
don't y'all go audition for Dr. John?"
546
00:35:44,309 --> 00:35:46,436
What Dr. John does it smart? He goes,
547
00:35:46,519 --> 00:35:49,105
"Yeah. I'm going to go be me,
and put his character all over it."
548
00:35:49,189 --> 00:35:52,400
Then he can be sloppy as he
wants, because he's got Chuck there
549
00:35:52,484 --> 00:35:54,319
to make it all solid and strong.
550
00:35:54,402 --> 00:35:57,322
The first night, oh, man,
Mac was all over us going,
551
00:35:57,405 --> 00:36:00,492
"Man, you catch, y'all
ain't got the second line
552
00:36:00,575 --> 00:36:02,786
thing down and y'all
got a long ways to go."
553
00:36:02,869 --> 00:36:04,996
I don't know if this one
works out or not, you know.
554
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,082
And I guess Mac wouldn't
mind me telling the story.
555
00:36:07,165 --> 00:36:12,003
So it was the time Mac was
on the methadone program,
556
00:36:12,087 --> 00:36:15,340
and I think he was also
probably copping on the streets.
557
00:36:15,423 --> 00:36:17,676
Now, I didn't know this, okay?
558
00:36:17,759 --> 00:36:20,387
I was totally unaware of the situation.
559
00:36:20,470 --> 00:36:23,139
All I knew was that I wanted a gig.
560
00:36:23,223 --> 00:36:27,143
After about the third day
of rehearsal and audition,
561
00:36:27,268 --> 00:36:30,021
I went to his hotel room, I said,
"I got to get another whisky,"
562
00:36:30,105 --> 00:36:32,816
we're sitting there for a
while and eventually he says,
563
00:36:32,899 --> 00:36:35,527
"Hey, man, I'll be...
I'll be right back,"
564
00:36:35,610 --> 00:36:37,320
And he goes to the bathroom.
565
00:36:37,404 --> 00:36:40,740
Well, you know, he's gone, like, forever.
566
00:36:40,824 --> 00:36:44,619
And I had no idea what he was
doing, but that's what he was doing.
567
00:36:44,703 --> 00:36:47,163
And I look over to a table,
568
00:36:47,247 --> 00:36:51,918
and I see what looks like a book,
you know, a notebook kind of thing,
569
00:36:52,001 --> 00:36:54,546
and then curiosity gets the best of me.
570
00:36:56,005 --> 00:37:00,552
You know, "He's not here." So,
"Oh, there it is." I turned it over.
571
00:37:00,635 --> 00:37:03,722
Well, the first page, there's my name,
572
00:37:03,805 --> 00:37:05,932
the name of all the Cats in the band,
573
00:37:06,015 --> 00:37:09,102
and there's all these Voodoo
symbols by our names.
574
00:37:09,185 --> 00:37:13,273
Oh, Lord, what is this?
What have I got myself into?
575
00:37:17,193 --> 00:37:19,654
Chuck's a boogie guy,
boogie-woogie player.
576
00:37:19,738 --> 00:37:22,407
He's a rock and roll
player and to do that
577
00:37:22,490 --> 00:37:27,036
like the crazy boogie-woogie masters,
Meade Lux Lewis, Albert Ammons,
578
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:31,499
uh, those... the guys from
the '30s and '40s who did that.
579
00:37:31,583 --> 00:37:34,294
Uh, it's a serious split-brain thing.
580
00:37:34,377 --> 00:37:37,046
You set up a pad on the left hand.
581
00:38:06,242 --> 00:38:10,914
I'm playing very freely
rhythmically in this... in the right hand
582
00:38:10,997 --> 00:38:13,583
while this hopefully is very solid.
583
00:38:13,666 --> 00:38:17,587
What I just played for you
is about six months of work.
584
00:38:17,670 --> 00:38:22,008
To try at least... of hard
work trying to develop that.
585
00:38:36,606 --> 00:38:38,399
It's this... it's a restart.
586
00:38:41,486 --> 00:38:42,654
See? I messed it up.
587
00:38:44,489 --> 00:38:45,740
And I got it right there.
588
00:38:47,992 --> 00:38:51,579
It's just doing it and doing it and
doing it until you get comfortable.
589
00:38:51,663 --> 00:38:55,834
You have to learn how to crawl
before you can walk, before you can run.
590
00:39:17,230 --> 00:39:19,566
It's that, you know...
591
00:39:19,649 --> 00:39:22,527
Where he's playing a bassline
like an octave, you know,
592
00:39:22,610 --> 00:39:25,238
a bassline with one hand.
593
00:39:26,823 --> 00:39:29,701
And all of this blues
stuff with the other hand,
594
00:39:29,784 --> 00:39:34,956
it requires a pretty amazing
amount of independence.
595
00:39:35,039 --> 00:39:38,293
♪ Come on along you can lose your lead ♪
596
00:39:38,376 --> 00:39:42,338
♪ Down the road, down the
road down the road apiece ♪
597
00:39:42,463 --> 00:39:44,757
♪ Come on along you can lose your lead ♪
598
00:39:44,841 --> 00:39:48,887
♪ Down the road, down the
road down the road apiece ♪
599
00:39:48,970 --> 00:39:51,639
♪ Come on along you can lose your lead ♪
600
00:39:51,723 --> 00:39:55,143
♪ Down the road, down the
road down the road apiece ♪
601
00:40:02,150 --> 00:40:03,276
Thank y'all!
602
00:40:14,662 --> 00:40:17,089
It was time to do
"Run-Around" and our producers
603
00:40:17,131 --> 00:40:19,292
wanted to add some
keyboard and so did we.
604
00:40:19,375 --> 00:40:23,004
And when they mention Chuck
Leavell, we were very excited.
605
00:40:23,087 --> 00:40:25,089
It's like, "Wow! That guy? Yeah!
606
00:40:25,173 --> 00:40:28,509
I like listen to him growing
up all my life. Let's get him."
607
00:40:28,593 --> 00:40:32,138
And he showed up and it was
exactly as we thought, you know,
608
00:40:32,221 --> 00:40:34,390
he just sailed right through it.
609
00:40:34,515 --> 00:40:36,559
When you say Chuck Leavell,
610
00:40:36,643 --> 00:40:40,647
it's like, I don't know, being in 'Nam
and hearing the choppers coming.
611
00:40:40,730 --> 00:40:44,817
It's... it's a reassuring feeling, it's
you know that it's going to be good.
612
00:40:44,901 --> 00:40:47,654
We've never done the song as well since.
613
00:40:49,864 --> 00:40:54,535
Brendan O'Brien had become this
mega producer for these grunge bands
614
00:40:54,619 --> 00:40:58,122
out of Seattle and
Portland and that area,
615
00:40:58,206 --> 00:41:01,417
and he had engineered
The Black Crowes record
616
00:41:01,501 --> 00:41:03,252
and gone on to be this famous producer.
617
00:41:03,336 --> 00:41:07,757
And so he had come
across the band, Train,
618
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:10,969
and he calls me up and he says,
619
00:41:11,052 --> 00:41:13,972
"Hey, man, are you in town?" I
said, "What... where in town?"
620
00:41:14,055 --> 00:41:15,323
And he said, "You at home?" I said,
621
00:41:15,365 --> 00:41:16,975
"Yeah," and he said,
"Well, I'm in Atlanta,
622
00:41:17,058 --> 00:41:20,186
and I've got this band
trying that I'm producing
623
00:41:20,269 --> 00:41:25,316
and they have a song that the
record company believes is a big hit,
624
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:27,694
"and there's a significant
piano part on it."
625
00:41:27,777 --> 00:41:30,279
And Brendan's a great musician, he said,
626
00:41:30,363 --> 00:41:33,032
"You know, I could do it,
but I'd feel more comfortable
627
00:41:33,116 --> 00:41:35,224
if I had somebody that
I can depend on like
628
00:41:35,266 --> 00:41:37,516
you," and I said,
"Sure, yeah, I'll do that."
629
00:41:38,371 --> 00:41:41,749
You know, I mean, you know,
really just watching Chuck in that room
630
00:41:41,833 --> 00:41:44,252
behind glass playing the piano
631
00:41:44,335 --> 00:41:46,879
and just kind of looking around like,
632
00:41:46,963 --> 00:41:51,592
"That was easy," you know,
and he just played it one time.
633
00:41:51,676 --> 00:41:54,262
You know, we probably asked him
to play it a couple more just for fun.
634
00:41:54,345 --> 00:41:58,683
But he's like a guy who listens
to it and it takes him one time.
635
00:41:58,766 --> 00:42:01,102
Well, look at what he
did with "Drops of Jupiter,"
636
00:42:01,185 --> 00:42:04,063
and which is a wonderful
song, a wonderful record,
637
00:42:04,147 --> 00:42:06,399
but without that piano...
638
00:42:06,482 --> 00:42:08,359
It turned out really, really well.
639
00:42:08,443 --> 00:42:11,154
It's a lovely song, -Drops of Jupiter.-
640
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:19,787
A player like Chuck can
make or break a recording.
641
00:42:19,871 --> 00:42:21,998
He could be the most
important person in the room,
642
00:42:22,081 --> 00:42:24,834
but he makes everybody feel
like they belong there with him.
643
00:42:24,917 --> 00:42:26,377
Chuck's that kind of guy.
644
00:42:27,754 --> 00:42:31,591
I think it shows what
kind of person that he is
645
00:42:31,674 --> 00:42:33,801
in the first five minutes you meet him.
646
00:42:35,261 --> 00:42:38,264
I knew about his
playing before I met him,
647
00:42:38,347 --> 00:42:41,184
and then in all these
decades since he's just
648
00:42:41,267 --> 00:42:45,480
shown himself to be an exemplary
human being as well as a musician.
649
00:42:46,773 --> 00:42:49,355
It doesn't surprise me that he would take
650
00:42:49,397 --> 00:42:52,278
the time to really
nurture his relationships.
651
00:42:52,361 --> 00:42:56,866
And thank goodness, as he says, he
got lucky and picked the right person,
652
00:42:56,949 --> 00:43:00,599
and she picked the right guy, but it
takes a lot of work in this business.
653
00:43:09,545 --> 00:43:11,506
We did a little movie that
nobody ever saw called
654
00:43:11,589 --> 00:43:13,489
Jayne Mansfield's Car down in Georgia.
655
00:43:14,133 --> 00:43:16,928
And Chuck couldn't
believe, he kept thanking me.
656
00:43:17,011 --> 00:43:19,013
"Oh, I can't believe you put me
in a scene with Robert Duvall."
657
00:43:19,097 --> 00:43:22,600
He had a couple of lines with
Duvall, you know, in a barber shop.
658
00:43:23,768 --> 00:43:27,355
Goddamn Tate Scott. The
whole damn bunch is Yankees
659
00:43:27,438 --> 00:43:29,592
got nothing running
through their veins but
660
00:43:29,634 --> 00:43:31,984
Cincinnati blood from
Ohio. They're from Ohio.
661
00:43:32,068 --> 00:43:35,518
You ought to have to be from
here to run for office, the way I see it.
662
00:43:37,365 --> 00:43:40,034
Well, they've been here
some 40-odd years though, Jim.
663
00:43:40,118 --> 00:43:41,786
I don't give a shit!
664
00:43:41,869 --> 00:43:43,246
He doesn't freeze up.
665
00:43:43,329 --> 00:43:45,289
He doesn't show off.
666
00:43:45,373 --> 00:43:49,585
You know, he's a rare
animal. I think he's a...
667
00:43:49,669 --> 00:43:53,923
He maybe... if there's a rock and
roll unicorn, it's probably Chuck.
668
00:43:57,051 --> 00:43:59,428
'81, Rose Lane inherits...
669
00:44:00,429 --> 00:44:03,057
this thousand acres from her grandmother.
670
00:44:03,141 --> 00:44:07,186
The phone's not really
ringing for session work.
671
00:44:07,270 --> 00:44:09,272
I'm a little despondent about that.
672
00:44:09,355 --> 00:44:13,025
But at the same time, I'm
interested in this land thing,
673
00:44:13,109 --> 00:44:16,070
you know, and I'm started on
this journey learning about it,
674
00:44:16,154 --> 00:44:17,780
and was really fascinated with it.
675
00:44:17,864 --> 00:44:20,324
And I come home one day,
676
00:44:20,408 --> 00:44:23,119
kind of venting to Rose Lane saying,
677
00:44:23,202 --> 00:44:27,081
"You know, I'm always going to play music,
but phones not really ringing that much,
678
00:44:27,165 --> 00:44:31,544
um, this trio I'm with is okay,
but it's not really going anywhere."
679
00:44:31,627 --> 00:44:34,630
Capricorn had pretty
much folded by that time,
680
00:44:34,714 --> 00:44:37,758
so that went out the back door.
681
00:44:37,842 --> 00:44:41,637
And Bill Graham's office called
682
00:44:41,721 --> 00:44:45,766
and there's this guy,
Mick Nubble, and he said,
683
00:44:45,850 --> 00:44:49,478
"Was Chuck there?" And I said, "No,
he's not here for the moment, you know."
684
00:44:49,562 --> 00:44:54,942
Then he says, "Well, Bill
wanted to have an audition
685
00:44:55,026 --> 00:44:57,862
for Chuck with the Rolling Stones."
686
00:44:57,945 --> 00:45:02,074
So Chuck comes in, he's, you
know, kind of downtrodden a little bit,
687
00:45:02,158 --> 00:45:05,536
because he's not... life isn't
going the way he wanted it to.
688
00:45:05,620 --> 00:45:09,290
He said, "I'm just going to not do my
piano, I'm just going to have a farm.
689
00:45:09,373 --> 00:45:12,168
We're going to live out here on the
farm, everything is going to be great."
690
00:45:12,251 --> 00:45:14,405
And I'm like going,
"Not... you know, we're
691
00:45:14,447 --> 00:45:16,797
not really... it's not
going to be like that."
692
00:45:16,881 --> 00:45:19,634
At the end of all this, she looks at me
693
00:45:19,717 --> 00:45:22,470
and she says, "Well, that's really
interesting, Chuck, but guess what?
694
00:45:22,553 --> 00:45:24,680
The Rolling Stones called you today."
695
00:45:24,764 --> 00:45:27,558
And he told me that wouldn't funny,
696
00:45:27,642 --> 00:45:30,061
that was a joke I was playing on him
697
00:45:30,144 --> 00:45:32,188
just because he was depressed.
698
00:45:32,271 --> 00:45:35,399
And I said, "No, there's
the phone number,"
699
00:45:35,483 --> 00:45:39,153
um, you might want to call
Bill Graham's office and see.
700
00:45:39,237 --> 00:45:41,447
So the next morning, he was on a plane.
701
00:45:42,615 --> 00:45:45,743
And The Allmans were like
his favorite band, you know.
702
00:45:46,661 --> 00:45:50,456
And then he came back home and he...
703
00:45:51,415 --> 00:45:56,671
he was sat down in the chair and he
just started crying, you know, he really,
704
00:45:56,754 --> 00:45:58,965
he said, "I didn't get the job."
705
00:45:59,048 --> 00:46:01,008
Steve calls me and he says,
706
00:46:01,092 --> 00:46:04,011
"Chuck, the guys love you,
you know, you did great,
707
00:46:04,095 --> 00:46:06,264
but they're going to
stay with Ian McLagan,
708
00:46:06,347 --> 00:46:08,516
McLagan had done the previous tour."
709
00:46:09,475 --> 00:46:13,187
And the summer of '82 tour,
710
00:46:13,271 --> 00:46:14,981
they hired Chuck to play.
711
00:46:15,064 --> 00:46:17,108
That was a life-changer,
yeah, it really was.
712
00:46:17,191 --> 00:46:19,193
And I love Bill, you
know, back in the day
713
00:46:19,277 --> 00:46:22,196
with the Altman Brothers Band,
we had so many good times.
714
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:24,573
He was very helpful to me with Sea Level.
715
00:46:24,657 --> 00:46:26,742
We did a lot of concerts for Bill.
716
00:46:26,867 --> 00:46:30,830
And he was just this incredible
personality, charismatic,
717
00:46:30,913 --> 00:46:33,666
loved music and a great businessman.
718
00:46:33,749 --> 00:46:37,545
You know, he kind of forged
the way for the music business,
719
00:46:37,628 --> 00:46:40,214
especially live music business.
720
00:46:46,345 --> 00:46:49,682
All right, guys, I come
bearing gifts. Here.
721
00:46:51,392 --> 00:46:52,893
- Yeah, thank you.
- Yeah, man.
722
00:46:52,977 --> 00:46:54,520
Very, very much.
723
00:46:54,603 --> 00:46:57,732
Oh, yeah. Okay. You get
a picture? Sure. Come on.
724
00:46:59,942 --> 00:47:02,200
Thanks a lot. See you
guys. Tomorrow, right?
725
00:47:02,242 --> 00:47:02,592
Yeah!
726
00:47:06,157 --> 00:47:08,784
Let's go to, uh, let's try Trocadéro.
727
00:47:11,537 --> 00:47:16,334
The first time I came to Paris was
728
00:47:16,417 --> 00:47:18,544
in 1982 with the Stones.
729
00:47:19,420 --> 00:47:23,090
And we played the Stade De France,
730
00:47:23,174 --> 00:47:26,302
and Rose Lane couldn't be with
me because she was giving birth!
731
00:47:28,220 --> 00:47:31,220
It's hard to be here when you're
giving birth somewhere else.
732
00:47:32,558 --> 00:47:36,687
No, but it was '82 and
then came back in '83
733
00:47:36,771 --> 00:47:41,275
to record the Undercover record.
734
00:47:41,359 --> 00:47:46,364
And we're here for, gosh, two and
a half, three months or something.
735
00:47:46,447 --> 00:47:51,660
And then again in '85
recording the Dirty Work record.
736
00:47:51,744 --> 00:47:55,539
And then I think there was a
gap until we toured again in 1990
737
00:47:55,623 --> 00:47:57,833
with the Steel Wheels Tour we came here.
738
00:47:57,917 --> 00:48:03,464
It's not like he wasn't already
in bands bigger than at that time.
739
00:48:03,547 --> 00:48:06,258
It was just a lifetime statement.
740
00:48:06,342 --> 00:48:11,555
The Rolling Stones are actually
created by a keyboard player,
741
00:48:11,639 --> 00:48:13,724
by a piano player called Ian Stewart.
742
00:48:15,017 --> 00:48:16,917
And he's the one that put us together.
743
00:48:18,646 --> 00:48:23,818
To join this bad, I
mean, I had to, in 1960,
744
00:48:23,901 --> 00:48:27,279
you have to pass
Stewart's recommendation,
745
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:31,951
and if Stewart didn't like you,
you wouldn't be in the band.
746
00:48:32,034 --> 00:48:34,495
Ian Stewart used to be a man of his own.
747
00:48:34,578 --> 00:48:38,249
He was cut from his
own cloth, and he very...
748
00:48:38,332 --> 00:48:42,086
He wouldn't really
accept any outsiders in.
749
00:48:42,169 --> 00:48:45,047
You know, because he was the
man who played piano his way.
750
00:48:46,465 --> 00:48:49,718
He did respect Chuck. Yeah.
751
00:48:49,802 --> 00:48:51,887
The main thing about Chuck and the Stones
752
00:48:51,971 --> 00:48:54,682
and how this is all happened is that
753
00:48:54,765 --> 00:48:59,186
Chuck's history of where he
came from, where he started
754
00:48:59,270 --> 00:49:03,190
who he played with is quite amazing.
755
00:49:03,274 --> 00:49:08,362
It's like the sudden
royalty of musicianship.
756
00:49:09,572 --> 00:49:12,658
Chuck Leavell sort of
melted into the band.
757
00:49:12,741 --> 00:49:16,287
It wasn't so much a sort
of joining or, you know,
758
00:49:16,370 --> 00:49:18,456
that obvious like, click, click, click.
759
00:49:18,539 --> 00:49:22,126
And suddenly there was Chuck.
760
00:49:22,209 --> 00:49:25,921
Guys like Keith Richards, um,
761
00:49:26,005 --> 00:49:30,301
and the Rolling Stones,
all of them as a band
762
00:49:30,384 --> 00:49:34,805
show other artists what it's like
763
00:49:34,889 --> 00:49:38,392
to transcend your
surroundings at all times.
764
00:49:38,476 --> 00:49:43,564
And float through the universe,
being on some other level,
765
00:49:43,647 --> 00:49:46,442
uh, which is really what
you aspire to as a musician
766
00:49:46,525 --> 00:49:49,570
is some sort of... you want to
get to the "Medicine Man" level.
767
00:49:49,653 --> 00:49:52,948
And Keith Richards is like
full-on "Medicine Man" level.
768
00:49:53,032 --> 00:49:55,868
Keith Richards could smoke
in a hospital, that's what I'd say.
769
00:49:55,951 --> 00:49:59,079
And someone would say, "Oh,
sorry, Mr. Richards, continue."
770
00:49:59,163 --> 00:50:01,081
And Chuck is around that
771
00:50:02,041 --> 00:50:05,419
knows that he has a place in that.
772
00:50:05,503 --> 00:50:08,881
I don't know if I've ever
heard anybody in a room,
773
00:50:08,964 --> 00:50:11,425
you know, with me play the
kind of boogie-woogie piano
774
00:50:11,509 --> 00:50:14,094
that he plays, man. He's amazing at that.
775
00:50:14,178 --> 00:50:16,388
He's doing stuff with the bassline
776
00:50:16,472 --> 00:50:20,059
that with one hand that, you know,
I don't know if I can do with two.
777
00:50:25,189 --> 00:50:28,317
I think the whole thing with the
Altman Brothers, they were about
778
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:32,154
jamming in their... in
their playing, in their music.
779
00:50:32,238 --> 00:50:36,825
They didn't write things down, um,
and The Stones are exactly the same.
780
00:50:36,909 --> 00:50:42,540
So, um, I think this also was good for
Chuck because Chuck was used to that.
781
00:50:42,623 --> 00:50:44,291
I mean, The Stones is a band that,
782
00:50:44,375 --> 00:50:48,003
okay, we do obviously
play a lot of the same songs.
783
00:50:48,087 --> 00:50:49,535
In the rehearsals and I said, "Guys, you
784
00:50:49,577 --> 00:50:51,215
know, the last time I
was with you on tour",
785
00:50:51,298 --> 00:50:54,552
same set every night, you
got this incredible body of work.
786
00:50:54,635 --> 00:50:57,346
You got new songs. We
got to dig, let's dig deep.
787
00:50:57,429 --> 00:51:01,684
And I began, at that time,
taking copious amounts of notes.
788
00:51:01,767 --> 00:51:04,478
I had a notebook and
there's simple songs,
789
00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:07,273
basically, but I wanted
to chart them out.
790
00:51:07,356 --> 00:51:11,652
So I made chord charts for them
just to, you know, have in my mind
791
00:51:11,735 --> 00:51:13,821
where the bridge was,
where the solos were,
792
00:51:13,904 --> 00:51:16,604
was there horns, was there
background vocals, whatever.
793
00:51:17,324 --> 00:51:19,743
Which I kind of go, "Where's
the book, where's the book?"
794
00:51:19,827 --> 00:51:21,787
Chuck, you must have this
one. I remember doing this..."
795
00:51:21,870 --> 00:51:23,247
And then he says, "That
was eight years ago."
796
00:51:23,330 --> 00:51:24,790
I said, "Yeah, but you got the notes."
797
00:51:24,873 --> 00:51:26,834
"Come on." We wanted
to start from scratch.
798
00:51:26,917 --> 00:51:30,588
So we're... Chuck and I go through
the book of all the arrangements
799
00:51:30,671 --> 00:51:32,298
of how we did this song.
800
00:51:32,381 --> 00:51:36,677
And he keeps amazing
notes about what key...
801
00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:39,054
we did each song in, and what city,
802
00:51:39,179 --> 00:51:41,974
what nights, it's like
a... It's like his Bible,
803
00:51:42,057 --> 00:51:44,977
you know, he's like the gatekeeper.
804
00:51:45,894 --> 00:51:47,594
I mean, I know that sounds like...
805
00:51:48,439 --> 00:51:51,734
nothing much maybe, but
to me, it's really important,
806
00:51:51,817 --> 00:51:54,528
because I... otherwise,
every time you do a song,
807
00:51:54,612 --> 00:51:56,363
you start from scratch
about how you did it.
808
00:51:56,447 --> 00:51:59,408
Eventually, they'd given me the moniker
809
00:51:59,491 --> 00:52:01,952
of musical director.
810
00:52:02,036 --> 00:52:05,414
I kind of scoff at that because Mick
and Keith are the musical directors,
811
00:52:05,497 --> 00:52:08,238
but you know, they look
to me from time to time
812
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:11,003
to remind them what the
arrangements might be.
813
00:52:11,086 --> 00:52:13,464
Chuck is maneuvering
through all of that...
814
00:52:14,423 --> 00:52:18,010
giving them structure
without them feeling tethered.
815
00:52:19,345 --> 00:52:21,513
And that's a gift.
816
00:52:21,597 --> 00:52:24,433
As musicians, we have
the ability, in a way,
817
00:52:24,516 --> 00:52:27,519
to become family with people right away.
818
00:52:27,603 --> 00:52:30,731
And Chuck has that also,
you know, sort of very warm
819
00:52:30,814 --> 00:52:34,026
and welcoming feeling
about him as a person.
820
00:52:34,109 --> 00:52:36,904
I think, if you go through
Chuck Leavell's discography,
821
00:52:36,987 --> 00:52:39,281
look at all the records
that he's played on.
822
00:52:39,365 --> 00:52:41,606
It would be difficult to match that
823
00:52:41,648 --> 00:52:44,453
accomplishment, to
find any musician who...
824
00:52:44,536 --> 00:52:47,206
contributed more than Chuck Leavell.
825
00:52:47,289 --> 00:52:53,921
You see, he's indispensable, you know,
he's an indispensable part of our setup.
826
00:52:54,004 --> 00:52:58,008
What's always impressed me about Chuck
is that he has this whole other life...
827
00:52:58,092 --> 00:53:02,763
outside... outside music with his... with
his forestry and environmental issues,
828
00:53:02,846 --> 00:53:06,892
and... you know, it's extremely
impressive that somebody
829
00:53:06,975 --> 00:53:11,980
who has come so far in this
very specific world of music...
830
00:53:13,065 --> 00:53:17,027
has another... has another life
and is contributing something
831
00:53:17,111 --> 00:53:20,030
to... to society and ecology
832
00:53:20,114 --> 00:53:24,284
and the environment and giving
talks at the... at the White House.
833
00:53:24,368 --> 00:53:26,495
I think the trees is really
a good thing he does.
834
00:53:26,578 --> 00:53:29,456
He's obviously very sincere about it.
835
00:53:29,540 --> 00:53:34,253
He goes all over the world and, you know,
it's not just about the trees in Georgia.
836
00:53:34,336 --> 00:53:36,338
I think it's a really, really good thing.
837
00:53:36,422 --> 00:53:39,258
And I try not to rib him, maybe
I've ribbed him once, okay.
838
00:53:39,341 --> 00:53:41,009
I'll give tha...
839
00:53:41,093 --> 00:53:42,218
But I think it's really good work
840
00:53:42,302 --> 00:53:43,262
and it's nice to have something
841
00:53:43,345 --> 00:53:45,264
outside of music as well.
842
00:53:45,347 --> 00:53:48,183
Every plane trip we go on...
843
00:53:48,308 --> 00:53:51,895
and people are asleep while having
beers and Chuck's there taping away.
844
00:53:51,979 --> 00:53:56,650
Um, he's... you know, he's a
good... he's a good multitasker.
845
00:53:56,734 --> 00:53:58,193
He's a great emailer.
846
00:53:59,862 --> 00:54:00,988
And a great, um...
847
00:54:02,448 --> 00:54:04,408
campaigner for the forests...
848
00:54:05,492 --> 00:54:07,453
which can't be bad.
849
00:54:07,536 --> 00:54:11,415
He's not just good for,
you know, for playing piano,
850
00:54:11,498 --> 00:54:14,209
Chuck is good for the environment.
851
00:54:14,334 --> 00:54:18,422
You know, he's trying to... he's
trying to help save our planet.
852
00:54:18,505 --> 00:54:21,091
No, I'm not bored by that at all.
853
00:54:22,259 --> 00:54:23,359
We need more like him.
854
00:54:24,136 --> 00:54:25,888
It's about his heart.
855
00:54:25,971 --> 00:54:28,766
It really comes through
his fingers. It really does.
856
00:54:28,849 --> 00:54:32,102
And to make that connection
is a... is a blessed thing.
857
00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:42,571
They're just super cute, man.
858
00:54:42,654 --> 00:54:45,324
They... they are...
859
00:54:45,407 --> 00:54:47,910
They're total... They're
just a total team.
860
00:54:48,952 --> 00:54:54,958
They're so cool that you don't think
of the time that they've been together.
861
00:54:55,042 --> 00:54:57,961
They really seem like they, you know,
862
00:54:58,045 --> 00:55:01,840
they could... they could easily
have been together for three months,
863
00:55:01,924 --> 00:55:05,552
you know, they're just very steady
864
00:55:05,636 --> 00:55:09,181
and, um, really fun to hang out with.
865
00:55:10,307 --> 00:55:12,518
Trocadéro, honey.
866
00:55:12,601 --> 00:55:15,376
How many times have we been
here, 15 or 20 or something?
867
00:55:15,418 --> 00:55:16,146
Many, many...
868
00:55:16,230 --> 00:55:18,273
- Absolutely.
- We got to get a selfie, right?
869
00:55:18,357 --> 00:55:19,233
- Yeah.
- Hold on.
870
00:55:20,567 --> 00:55:23,028
All right, we got it.
871
00:55:28,575 --> 00:55:30,285
You want this one?
872
00:55:30,369 --> 00:55:32,579
- How much is it?
- I don't...
873
00:55:32,663 --> 00:55:34,413
I don't know how much money I have.
874
00:55:34,748 --> 00:55:37,251
Yeah. Let's look at that.
See, it's multicolored.
875
00:55:37,334 --> 00:55:39,503
Okay.
876
00:55:39,586 --> 00:55:42,047
- Look at it change colors.
- Yeah. Change colors.
877
00:55:43,173 --> 00:55:46,176
All right. No, no, we'll
ta... we'll take this.
878
00:55:46,260 --> 00:55:48,804
- It's a bonus.
- I'm broke now, you know this.
879
00:55:48,887 --> 00:55:50,806
Come on.
880
00:56:02,609 --> 00:56:06,613
One of the very interesting
things about Paris
881
00:56:06,697 --> 00:56:09,491
is that, while it's known
as the City of Lights,
882
00:56:09,575 --> 00:56:12,160
uh, it's actually also the city of trees.
883
00:56:12,244 --> 00:56:17,624
There's over 470,000 trees in Paris.
884
00:56:17,708 --> 00:56:20,586
And they are all documented.
885
00:56:20,669 --> 00:56:23,171
This looks like a piano stool.
886
00:56:27,634 --> 00:56:28,594
And so, now...
887
00:56:29,887 --> 00:56:31,430
I am le Capitan.
888
00:56:34,349 --> 00:56:36,018
We're going to do a song for you.
889
00:57:28,570 --> 00:57:30,280
♪ I'm gonna take a freight train ♪
890
00:57:31,657 --> 00:57:33,492
♪ Down at the station ♪
891
00:57:35,077 --> 00:57:37,371
♪ Don't care where it goes ♪
892
00:57:40,749 --> 00:57:42,084
♪ Gonna climb a mountain ♪
893
00:57:43,794 --> 00:57:45,462
♪ The highest mountain ♪
894
00:57:46,672 --> 00:57:49,800
♪ Jump off, nobody gonna know ♪
895
00:57:51,343 --> 00:57:52,552
♪ Can't you see ♪
896
00:57:54,388 --> 00:57:56,431
♪ What that woman ♪
897
00:57:56,556 --> 00:57:58,850
♪ She been doin' to me ♪
898
00:58:00,310 --> 00:58:02,020
♪ Can't you see ♪
899
00:58:02,104 --> 00:58:04,564
It's beautiful, isn't it? Wow.
900
00:58:04,648 --> 00:58:09,194
We had the lovely, little boat, and went
up and down the Seine, and turned around,
901
00:58:09,277 --> 00:58:11,029
then come back, up and down.
902
00:58:12,698 --> 00:58:14,449
A beautiful day.
903
00:58:20,914 --> 00:58:22,916
Chuck Leavell on the piano there!
904
00:58:43,979 --> 00:58:46,979
We have a great show tonight,
guys, give it up for The Roots!
905
00:58:48,025 --> 00:58:51,903
♪ There's a big fat
cat in a funny red hat ♪
906
00:58:51,987 --> 00:58:53,321
♪ Here he comes ♪
907
00:58:55,282 --> 00:58:57,909
♪ He got something in his bag ♪
908
00:58:57,993 --> 00:59:00,078
♪ Yeah, for everyone ♪
909
00:59:02,956 --> 00:59:06,668
♪ Well, up on the
rooftop one, two, three ♪
910
00:59:06,752 --> 00:59:10,338
♪ And then he slide on down the chimney ♪
911
00:59:10,422 --> 00:59:11,882
♪ Hey Santa ♪
912
00:59:13,258 --> 00:59:15,886
♪ What's in your bag for me? ♪
913
00:59:23,560 --> 00:59:27,981
My man, that is Rolling Stones
keyboardist and music director,
914
00:59:28,065 --> 00:59:30,817
Chuck Leavell, sitting
in with The Roots tonight.
915
00:59:31,693 --> 00:59:36,114
Chuck, we love you, buddy. Welcome
back. Always good to see you, buddy.
916
00:59:36,198 --> 00:59:38,382
Chuck is also the
co-founder of the leading
917
00:59:38,424 --> 00:59:40,702
environmental website
Mother Nature Network.
918
00:59:42,996 --> 00:59:45,791
I believe in this stuff. I
believe in climate change.
919
00:59:45,874 --> 00:59:49,002
And I believe we've got to make
these changes in our attitudes
920
00:59:49,086 --> 00:59:53,882
towards the environment. And
our staff and my partner, Joel,
921
00:59:53,965 --> 00:59:56,718
whom I love so much, um...
922
00:59:57,761 --> 01:00:03,183
Everyone at MNN just does a wonderful
job because they believe in it too.
923
01:00:03,266 --> 01:00:05,644
You know, it's in their
DNA. It's in their blood.
924
01:00:05,727 --> 01:00:10,357
They want to see these changes come about,
they want to offer the general public
925
01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:13,693
options to live better, to
be kinder to the planet.
926
01:00:13,777 --> 01:00:16,404
And I'm just as proud as
I can be of all of our staff.
927
01:00:16,488 --> 01:00:19,741
We at Mother Nature
Network always went much
928
01:00:19,825 --> 01:00:21,576
broader than energy and recycling.
929
01:00:21,660 --> 01:00:25,163
We always had travel and food and family.
930
01:00:25,247 --> 01:00:27,582
You know, the site had rapidly became
931
01:00:27,666 --> 01:00:32,587
and still is by far the most
visited site in the world
932
01:00:32,712 --> 01:00:35,799
for profit in the environmental category.
933
01:00:35,882 --> 01:00:41,721
We get people from 200 different
countries, close to 7 million a month,
934
01:00:41,805 --> 01:00:47,602
you know, they... they just love what they
do and they believe in making a change
935
01:00:47,686 --> 01:00:50,438
and that works for me.
936
01:00:50,522 --> 01:00:54,568
He is as knowledgeable on the topic
as anybody, I mean, he can discuss
937
01:00:54,651 --> 01:01:01,241
the chemistry and, uh...
and geology, and all of the
938
01:01:01,324 --> 01:01:06,371
very academic aspects
of the topic with experts,
939
01:01:06,454 --> 01:01:07,956
and in an expert way.
940
01:01:08,039 --> 01:01:10,750
When you think about
it. Okay, trees and forest.
941
01:01:10,834 --> 01:01:15,630
Well, they give us materials for books,
magazines, newspapers, packaging products.
942
01:01:15,755 --> 01:01:18,550
They give us materials
to build our homes.
943
01:01:18,633 --> 01:01:21,303
They provide clean air, clean Water.
944
01:01:21,386 --> 01:01:24,723
They provide home and
shelter to all manner of wildlife.
945
01:01:24,806 --> 01:01:28,310
And, you know, I love the saying...
946
01:01:28,393 --> 01:01:30,812
that Ralph Waldo Emerson has...
947
01:01:32,772 --> 01:01:37,402
His quote was: "In the woods,
we return to reason and faith."
948
01:01:45,410 --> 01:01:46,870
What does that mean to you?
949
01:01:46,953 --> 01:01:49,873
Oh, man, it's so true, you know, um...
950
01:01:49,956 --> 01:01:53,460
it helps keep me balanced.
951
01:01:53,543 --> 01:01:58,173
You know, when you live in the world,
it can get pretty crazy from time to time.
952
01:01:58,256 --> 01:02:03,136
And you take that walk in the woods
and see some deer dancing through there,
953
01:02:03,220 --> 01:02:07,057
you know, see a wild turkey,
a covey of quail, songbirds,
954
01:02:07,140 --> 01:02:10,352
uh, black bear. We have black bear here.
955
01:02:10,435 --> 01:02:15,607
And just, you know, hear the sound of the
wind in the pines, that's a good thing.
956
01:02:28,870 --> 01:02:35,460
Prescribed burning can be one of
the best tools used in certain forests.
957
01:02:35,543 --> 01:02:38,046
You have to know what you're
doing. You have to do it right.
958
01:02:38,129 --> 01:02:39,755
You have to do it at the right time.
959
01:02:39,839 --> 01:02:42,676
You have to understand
all the dynamics involved.
960
01:02:42,759 --> 01:02:46,805
But it can be such a positive outcome.
961
01:02:46,888 --> 01:02:52,602
Uh, what does it do? You're reducing
competition against those mature trees
962
01:02:52,686 --> 01:02:55,802
so that the sunlight,
the water goes more to
963
01:02:55,844 --> 01:02:58,858
the trees that you
want on that landscape,
964
01:02:58,942 --> 01:03:01,853
rather than scrubby Oaks and undesirable
965
01:03:01,895 --> 01:03:05,365
growth that is in the
understory of the forest.
966
01:03:05,448 --> 01:03:09,369
It also helps reduce
the incident of wildfire.
967
01:03:09,452 --> 01:03:14,291
You're getting rid of the fuel
that might build up over years.
968
01:03:14,374 --> 01:03:17,324
And then when that wildfire
hits, boom, you lose everything.
969
01:03:19,587 --> 01:03:22,507
One early memory on
the farm I have of my dad,
970
01:03:22,590 --> 01:03:24,718
he loves his burns and
he just loves burning
971
01:03:24,801 --> 01:03:27,762
and he said he definitely
set a couple things on fire
972
01:03:27,887 --> 01:03:30,265
in a bad way. "I'm
learning how to do that."
973
01:03:30,348 --> 01:03:34,686
But I remember he would set his
burns and we would go out and ride
974
01:03:34,769 --> 01:03:37,230
at dusk and check out...
975
01:03:37,314 --> 01:03:40,567
you know, how everything was looking. Just
the beauty of seeing those little fires,
976
01:03:40,650 --> 01:03:42,444
they're low, you know, less than a foot.
977
01:03:42,527 --> 01:03:44,988
And then growing into
becoming really an expert,
978
01:03:45,071 --> 01:03:48,283
winning tree farmer of the
year, you know, nationally.
979
01:03:48,366 --> 01:03:52,620
And starting to speak about conservation
and becoming extremely knowledgeable
980
01:03:52,704 --> 01:03:55,081
to the point that he can
school other people on that,
981
01:03:55,165 --> 01:03:58,835
has been interesting to
watch over the last 35 years.
982
01:04:01,171 --> 01:04:03,757
You know, we're seeing
what's happened out in California
983
01:04:03,840 --> 01:04:05,717
and the West with all of these fires,
984
01:04:05,800 --> 01:04:09,346
and if they had the opportunity
985
01:04:09,429 --> 01:04:12,474
to do an occasional, prescribed burn,
986
01:04:12,557 --> 01:04:14,625
I don't think you'd be seeing nearly the
987
01:04:14,667 --> 01:04:16,936
devastation that you
are seeing these days.
988
01:04:19,939 --> 01:04:22,901
The most important
thing you're going to do
989
01:04:22,984 --> 01:04:25,236
when you're going to
initiate a prescribed burn,
990
01:04:25,320 --> 01:04:29,157
is to cut a fire break all the way
around the area that you want to burn.
991
01:04:29,240 --> 01:04:33,203
So, you know, in Charlane Plantation,
992
01:04:33,286 --> 01:04:36,039
I have what's called an offset Harrow.
993
01:04:36,122 --> 01:04:39,417
Uh, it's basically kind of a plow.
994
01:04:39,501 --> 01:04:43,171
And you go around the area with this
995
01:04:43,254 --> 01:04:49,135
to make the dirt pop up and to
get rid of any grasses or, you know,
996
01:04:49,219 --> 01:04:54,599
items, sticks, whatever that
might cause a fire to get out.
997
01:04:54,682 --> 01:04:57,310
And you make a nice, wide firebreak.
998
01:04:57,394 --> 01:05:02,482
Um, and that's the first
thing you do to keep the fire
999
01:05:02,565 --> 01:05:04,984
where you want it to
be and not let it jump out.
1000
01:05:05,860 --> 01:05:09,072
When you make a little country
album, when you have Frank Liddell
1001
01:05:09,155 --> 01:05:10,990
and he calls Chuck Leavell,
and you get a taste of
1002
01:05:11,074 --> 01:05:16,496
that absolute rock and
roll royalty on your record.
1003
01:05:16,579 --> 01:05:18,456
It's... it's a treat.
1004
01:05:18,540 --> 01:05:20,208
And definitely also for Pistol Annies,
1005
01:05:20,291 --> 01:05:22,752
I mean, he's played on
almost every one of my records
1006
01:05:22,836 --> 01:05:27,382
and Annies' records. And... you know,
it's funny that all... a lot of the music
1007
01:05:27,465 --> 01:05:31,261
that we listen to on a day-to-day basis
that we love, that inspires us so much,
1008
01:05:31,344 --> 01:05:32,971
he was on that and now
he's on our own records.
1009
01:05:33,054 --> 01:05:39,227
I have this fantastic
picture of us in '89
1010
01:05:39,310 --> 01:05:43,481
of Steel Wheels tour, we played
Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama.
1011
01:05:43,565 --> 01:05:46,860
I sent a car down for Mom and
her friend. I took her to the concert,
1012
01:05:46,943 --> 01:05:50,363
and I have this fabulous picture
just before we walked on stage
1013
01:05:50,447 --> 01:05:55,452
with Mom and her friend and the
whole band. And, you know, morn's sitting
1014
01:05:55,535 --> 01:05:59,622
on her purse looking
up at me. It was fantastic.
1015
01:05:59,706 --> 01:06:01,374
And now, everyone,
1016
01:06:01,458 --> 01:06:03,626
how fantastic that you
are inducting Chuck
1017
01:06:03,710 --> 01:06:06,045
into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame.
1018
01:06:06,129 --> 01:06:08,882
Sorry he couldn't be with you tonight.
1019
01:06:08,965 --> 01:06:10,547
And it's our fault, really.
1020
01:06:10,589 --> 01:06:13,052
We want to say that
Chuck is just the most
1021
01:06:13,136 --> 01:06:14,975
amazing keyboard player and he's really
1022
01:06:15,017 --> 01:06:17,140
worthy of this great
honor you've given him.
1023
01:06:17,223 --> 01:06:21,227
Yes, and diamond tiaras. And
Chuck will know what I mean.
1024
01:06:21,311 --> 01:06:24,939
Greetings from South America,
he's here with us now. Sends his love.
1025
01:06:25,064 --> 01:06:27,275
Congratulations, Chuck!
1026
01:06:32,530 --> 01:06:33,490
Yeah.
1027
01:06:55,762 --> 01:06:57,305
Here you go, darling.
1028
01:06:57,388 --> 01:06:59,390
- Thank you.
- Cheers.
1029
01:06:59,474 --> 01:07:01,226
- Cheers.
- Life is good.
1030
01:07:01,309 --> 01:07:03,603
- Life is good.
- Aren't we blessed?
1031
01:07:03,686 --> 01:07:05,313
Yes, very blessed.
1032
01:07:08,107 --> 01:07:08,942
All right.
1033
01:07:32,882 --> 01:07:36,010
It's nice to have this
quiet time before we go.
1034
01:07:36,135 --> 01:07:37,971
True, with the birds chirping.
1035
01:07:38,054 --> 01:07:40,682
- Mm.
- And the dogs. And the puppies.
1036
01:07:42,725 --> 01:07:45,603
Well, I can tell you this,
that at the present time,
1037
01:07:45,687 --> 01:07:49,190
uh, I'm seeing the third
1038
01:07:49,274 --> 01:07:53,111
severe drought... on Charlane Plantation.
1039
01:07:53,194 --> 01:07:55,679
You know, there's
really nothing you can do
1040
01:07:55,721 --> 01:07:58,366
to, um, prevent this.
This is nature at work.
1041
01:07:58,449 --> 01:08:03,788
You know, these bugs have always
been here throughout the eons of time.
1042
01:08:03,871 --> 01:08:08,668
They're usually kept in check by cold
and wet weather, but with climate change
1043
01:08:08,751 --> 01:08:11,838
as it is, you're seeing more and more,
1044
01:08:11,921 --> 01:08:16,259
uh, hot weather, we set records
every year now here in Georgia.
1045
01:08:16,342 --> 01:08:21,055
This year, we set a record of
the most days above 90 degrees,
1046
01:08:21,180 --> 01:08:23,725
and when you're getting that much
heat throughout the summer time
1047
01:08:23,808 --> 01:08:26,269
and throughout even the fall...
1048
01:08:26,352 --> 01:08:31,065
it just creates a situation where these
bugs can't thrive. And if you hit that
1049
01:08:31,149 --> 01:08:34,068
drought like we've had
here, this is what happens.
1050
01:08:34,152 --> 01:08:36,487
I mean, there's no way to
come in here and spray anything.
1051
01:08:36,571 --> 01:08:41,284
There's nothing to spray, no chemical you
would want to use to spray this anyway.
1052
01:08:43,453 --> 01:08:48,082
So there's basically three insects
that you worry about here in the South.
1053
01:08:48,166 --> 01:08:51,377
There's the ips beetle, I-P-S, ips.
1054
01:08:51,461 --> 01:08:53,379
There's black gum turpentine beetle.
1055
01:08:53,463 --> 01:08:56,257
And then the worst guy
is the southern pine beetle,
1056
01:08:56,341 --> 01:08:59,510
the speed of these bugs
kind of depends on the exact,
1057
01:08:59,594 --> 01:09:03,056
uh, bug we're talking about.
A southern pine beetle...
1058
01:09:03,139 --> 01:09:08,061
in the proper conditions, you know,
they can eat up probably an acre a day
1059
01:09:08,144 --> 01:09:13,524
or better, um, the ips and
the black gum turpentine
1060
01:09:13,608 --> 01:09:16,151
are going to be a little slower.
And you can tell that by these
1061
01:09:16,235 --> 01:09:19,035
little, small things
that look like popcorn,
1062
01:09:19,077 --> 01:09:21,532
these little white specks on the tree,
1063
01:09:21,616 --> 01:09:26,913
which is... crumbling now,
but it was full of sap at one time.
1064
01:09:29,040 --> 01:09:30,750
And so, what are we going to do?
1065
01:09:30,833 --> 01:09:32,794
Well...
1066
01:09:32,877 --> 01:09:36,673
you try to make lemonade out
of lemons is what you try to do.
1067
01:09:36,756 --> 01:09:40,551
First of all, you need to
arrest this, you want it to stop.
1068
01:09:40,635 --> 01:09:43,596
I've walked around this a
good bit and we had a lot of wind
1069
01:09:43,680 --> 01:09:45,306
during that period of time as well.
1070
01:09:45,390 --> 01:09:47,850
And what happens is,
these bugs literally get blown
1071
01:09:47,934 --> 01:09:49,936
from one area to another.
1072
01:09:50,019 --> 01:09:52,480
My best guess is that I've
got about 12 acres here
1073
01:09:52,563 --> 01:09:54,482
that's going to have to be wiped out.
1074
01:09:54,565 --> 01:09:57,068
If there's good news about it,
1075
01:09:57,151 --> 01:09:59,654
the lemonade is that a lot of these trees
1076
01:09:59,737 --> 01:10:02,990
are perfect size to make fence posts.
1077
01:10:03,074 --> 01:10:04,951
And that's a pretty desirable product.
1078
01:10:05,034 --> 01:10:07,995
So I've already talked to
my forester and my logger
1079
01:10:08,079 --> 01:10:11,290
and we're going to take all
of this and get as many fis...
1080
01:10:11,374 --> 01:10:13,876
Fence posts out of it as we can.
1081
01:10:13,960 --> 01:10:16,211
The rest of it might go
a little bit for pulpwood.
1082
01:10:16,295 --> 01:10:19,424
And some of it just have
to be chipped up for energy.
1083
01:10:19,507 --> 01:10:21,384
This is real. It's happening.
1084
01:10:21,467 --> 01:10:23,761
We need to do something about it.
1085
01:10:23,845 --> 01:10:27,098
You see what's happening
at the Amazon basin
1086
01:10:27,181 --> 01:10:29,475
with the forest fires
there in recent times.
1087
01:10:29,559 --> 01:10:32,770
There have been thousands of fires.
1088
01:10:32,854 --> 01:10:35,481
That is the lungs of the planet.
1089
01:10:35,565 --> 01:10:40,820
We lose that, you know,
it's like contracting cancer.
1090
01:10:54,417 --> 01:10:55,626
♪ I can't feel ♪
1091
01:10:55,710 --> 01:10:57,503
He's just, you know,
1092
01:10:57,587 --> 01:10:59,088
a great guy.
1093
01:11:01,257 --> 01:11:03,050
♪ I can't shout ♪
1094
01:11:04,844 --> 01:11:06,387
♪ I can't scream ♪
1095
01:11:08,431 --> 01:11:09,682
♪ Breathe it out ♪
1096
01:11:11,893 --> 01:11:13,519
♪ Breathe it in ♪
1097
01:11:15,480 --> 01:11:17,023
♪ All this love ♪
1098
01:11:18,858 --> 01:11:20,318
♪ From within ♪
1099
01:11:21,778 --> 01:11:24,781
For me, it's really a love story.
1100
01:11:26,741 --> 01:11:29,035
♪ Said goodbye ♪
1101
01:11:29,118 --> 01:11:31,913
♪ I'm out of tears ♪
1102
01:11:35,124 --> 01:11:38,294
And, uh, excuse me.
1103
01:11:40,171 --> 01:11:45,426
Yeah, uh, 40, 46 years
now we've been together,
1104
01:11:45,510 --> 01:11:49,889
and, uh, woo, that girl's
been mighty good to me.
1105
01:11:52,767 --> 01:11:54,519
We have a very special thing.
1106
01:11:56,854 --> 01:12:02,068
Farming and just all that just
brought him to be who he is really
1107
01:12:02,151 --> 01:12:07,698
the Chuck Leavell, not the musician,
just the Chuck Leavell the man.
1108
01:12:08,574 --> 01:12:10,576
♪ I can't hear ♪
1109
01:12:10,660 --> 01:12:12,328
It's amazing...
1110
01:12:14,080 --> 01:12:15,830
that he can live that kind of life.
1111
01:12:16,707 --> 01:12:18,709
And be in that kind of place.
1112
01:12:20,086 --> 01:12:24,465
And then go play for the Rolling
Stones and play for a million people,
1113
01:12:24,549 --> 01:12:27,218
you know, in South America. It's nuts.
1114
01:12:27,301 --> 01:12:29,762
Mom and Dad both
were great at old sayings,
1115
01:12:29,846 --> 01:12:32,974
you know, Mom would say,
"Stitch in time saves nine."
1116
01:12:33,057 --> 01:12:34,976
Dad would say, "Well,
you make your own luck."
1117
01:12:35,059 --> 01:12:37,562
You know, that one always stuck with me.
1118
01:12:37,645 --> 01:12:39,772
You make your own luck.
What does that mean?
1119
01:12:39,856 --> 01:12:43,317
It means learning how to be in
the right place at the right time.
1120
01:12:43,401 --> 01:12:46,946
The story of my career
has been very fortunate
1121
01:12:47,029 --> 01:12:49,115
to one thing leads to another.
1122
01:12:49,198 --> 01:12:50,992
And so, in 1989,
1123
01:12:51,075 --> 01:12:53,911
we're on tour with The
Stones, Steel Wheels...
1124
01:12:55,162 --> 01:12:57,874
the band decides to have a special guest.
1125
01:12:57,957 --> 01:13:01,794
Well, they called Eric Clapton,
and he did several shows with us.
1126
01:13:01,878 --> 01:13:05,673
Being Eric Clapton, the band
said, "Well, let's do a blues song."
1127
01:13:05,756 --> 01:13:09,510
So we did "Little Red
Rooster," Howlin' Wolf.
1128
01:13:09,594 --> 01:13:11,304
♪ I am the little red rooster ♪
1129
01:13:11,387 --> 01:13:13,180
You know, Mick sings it so great.
1130
01:13:13,264 --> 01:13:16,350
And so, we have a nice
musical conversation.
1131
01:13:16,434 --> 01:13:18,686
You know, I'm being
careful. I don't want to step
1132
01:13:18,769 --> 01:13:21,105
on anybody's toes. This is
Eric Clapton over here, right?
1133
01:13:21,188 --> 01:13:26,068
It was that playing... playing with Chuck
at that point that maybe realize that...
1134
01:13:26,152 --> 01:13:31,866
that it was the real thing. I actually
needed something credible to play with.
1135
01:13:31,949 --> 01:13:36,078
I get home and on my cassette
there's this unbelievable message.
1136
01:13:36,162 --> 01:13:40,583
"Hello. This is Eric Clapton
calling from Hong Kong...
1137
01:13:40,666 --> 01:13:43,252
wondering if Chuck
Leavell might be interested
1138
01:13:43,336 --> 01:13:46,672
in doing some dates
at the Royal Albert Hall."
1139
01:13:46,756 --> 01:13:50,468
Yes, I would, I would
be very interested in that.
1140
01:13:50,551 --> 01:13:53,387
I would be extremely interested in that.
1141
01:13:53,512 --> 01:13:57,058
And so, you know, I answered
the call and we had long been
1142
01:13:57,141 --> 01:14:00,061
finished with the Steel Wheels
tour and I think it was '91.
1143
01:14:01,062 --> 01:14:04,190
We did 24 nights at the Albert Hall.
1144
01:14:04,273 --> 01:14:06,859
I played 18 of those 24 nights with him.
1145
01:14:06,943 --> 01:14:10,696
One of the most soulful white
musicians I ever came across.
1146
01:14:10,780 --> 01:14:15,409
Partly because I guess he was steeped
in it and from where he came from,
1147
01:14:15,493 --> 01:14:18,579
but he was kind of
like Mr. natural and...
1148
01:14:18,663 --> 01:14:21,582
And he was very...
he was always positive.
1149
01:14:21,666 --> 01:14:24,794
He was always positive
and very supportive.
1150
01:14:24,877 --> 01:14:28,172
The tragedy is that Eric
was going to take a year off
1151
01:14:28,255 --> 01:14:32,093
after the Albert Hall shows
and after doing this work.
1152
01:14:32,176 --> 01:14:36,263
And he wanted to spend
time with his son, Conor.
1153
01:14:36,347 --> 01:14:38,057
And we all know what happened,
1154
01:14:38,140 --> 01:14:40,101
you know, it was a
horrible, tragic accident
1155
01:14:40,184 --> 01:14:43,980
where Conor falls out of the
high-rise building in New York.
1156
01:14:44,939 --> 01:14:49,652
Well, I'll tell you something,
when... I've been sober for about...
1157
01:14:49,735 --> 01:14:53,447
four years when my son
died, and there was a lot of talk
1158
01:14:53,572 --> 01:14:56,742
about whether I would...
That would be, um...
1159
01:14:58,035 --> 01:15:00,204
that's what I was going
to... I was going to pick up.
1160
01:15:00,287 --> 01:15:01,706
You know, I was going to pick up.
1161
01:15:01,789 --> 01:15:05,668
So... after the obvious period of grief
1162
01:15:05,751 --> 01:15:09,839
and trying to figure that out,
he decided, "I need to work.
1163
01:15:09,922 --> 01:15:12,341
I don't need to take any time off."
1164
01:15:12,425 --> 01:15:15,678
And so he had challenged George Harrison.
1165
01:15:16,637 --> 01:15:19,974
Kind of to a tour, you know...
1166
01:15:20,057 --> 01:15:23,394
"Hey, man, you make a
record every five years or so,
1167
01:15:23,477 --> 01:15:26,564
but you don't get in the
trenches like we do, you know."
1168
01:15:26,647 --> 01:15:30,359
"But I don't have a band, I don't
have a band." Eric says, "Well, I got
1169
01:15:30,443 --> 01:15:32,820
a band and you can have
it and you can have me."
1170
01:15:32,903 --> 01:15:34,488
So, there we go,
1171
01:15:34,572 --> 01:15:37,033
you know, we work up
this tour with George.
1172
01:15:37,116 --> 01:15:40,119
Last tour that he did, the tour of Japan.
1173
01:15:40,202 --> 01:15:43,873
Eric Clapton and band
backing him up, man.
1174
01:15:43,956 --> 01:15:46,167
Wow. What an opportunity.
1175
01:15:46,250 --> 01:15:49,670
And I was hanging out with him early on
1176
01:15:49,754 --> 01:15:52,006
and found out that that he had
played with George Harrison.
1177
01:15:52,089 --> 01:15:54,675
That was kind of the topper for me.
1178
01:15:54,759 --> 01:15:57,887
Like, that was the one where I was like,
"Okay, you got to tell me everything"
1179
01:15:57,970 --> 01:16:02,516
"about that gig." You know, so, we
spent... we spent a couple of nights...
1180
01:16:02,641 --> 01:16:05,394
um, recounting George Harrison stories.
1181
01:16:05,478 --> 01:16:08,272
Some of us in the band
tried so hard to get George
1182
01:16:08,355 --> 01:16:13,736
to take it to the U.S.. And, you know,
Eric was doing George a favor obviously,
1183
01:16:13,819 --> 01:16:16,571
and I don't think Eric was
interested in continuing that.
1184
01:16:16,655 --> 01:16:19,241
And the next thing we did,
was the Unplugged record.
1185
01:16:19,325 --> 01:16:21,410
It had been going for a while, Unplugged,
1186
01:16:21,494 --> 01:16:23,579
uh, on a few people who'd, um...
1187
01:16:24,872 --> 01:16:28,084
I'd use that format in
a fairly successful way.
1188
01:16:28,167 --> 01:16:33,672
But to... what I'd seen
up till almost that point,
1189
01:16:33,756 --> 01:16:39,220
uh, was people just doing
their recorded material
1190
01:16:39,303 --> 01:16:41,430
in an acoustic setting. And I thought,
1191
01:16:41,514 --> 01:16:44,183
"Well, that's interesting
and all well and good."
1192
01:16:44,266 --> 01:16:46,852
But then I saw Hall and Oates do it.
1193
01:16:46,936 --> 01:16:50,356
And they did a Beatles song
called "Don't Let Me Down."
1194
01:16:50,439 --> 01:16:52,149
I think it's a Lennon song.
1195
01:16:53,025 --> 01:16:55,486
And I twigged, I finally thought, I mean,
1196
01:16:55,569 --> 01:16:57,516
I realize what you could do. And I
1197
01:16:57,558 --> 01:17:00,074
thought, "Well, okay,
I can do renditions."
1198
01:17:00,157 --> 01:17:04,912
This has got nothing to do
with me playing my own material.
1199
01:17:04,995 --> 01:17:10,084
I can do... I can do other things,
and "Alberta" was one of them,
1200
01:17:10,167 --> 01:17:16,382
because it was one of my favorite songs.
And it's always been a challenge to me...
1201
01:17:16,465 --> 01:17:21,554
to take a solo performance and
turn it into a band arrangement.
1202
01:17:21,637 --> 01:17:24,181
I think it's the most
challenging and interesting
1203
01:17:24,265 --> 01:17:26,976
and satisfying thing about making music.
1204
01:17:27,059 --> 01:17:29,770
♪ Where you been so long? ♪
1205
01:17:32,773 --> 01:17:35,526
♪ Alberta, Alberta ♪
1206
01:17:38,279 --> 01:17:41,031
♪ Where you been so long? ♪
1207
01:17:41,115 --> 01:17:43,075
And so, that was my first show...
1208
01:17:43,159 --> 01:17:44,743
Chuck Leavell!
1209
01:17:44,827 --> 01:17:46,620
...as the only keyboard player with Eric.
1210
01:17:46,704 --> 01:17:48,164
Chuck is a very sentimental guy.
1211
01:17:48,247 --> 01:17:51,584
And I think he... he
likes things with emotion.
1212
01:18:01,677 --> 01:18:05,431
♪ Would you know my name ♪
1213
01:18:07,766 --> 01:18:11,187
♪ if I saw you in heaven? ♪
1214
01:18:14,190 --> 01:18:20,863
He can combine a rhythm
section feel with... with delicacy.
1215
01:18:20,946 --> 01:18:23,240
You know, that was an incredible, um...
1216
01:18:24,241 --> 01:18:27,369
incredible way of being
almost not there, you know.
1217
01:18:27,453 --> 01:18:32,166
But just shift the thing on,
because he swings like crazy.
1218
01:18:32,249 --> 01:18:35,586
You know, that's... that's not easy.
1219
01:18:35,669 --> 01:18:37,922
You know, that's...
that's a gift, really.
1220
01:18:38,839 --> 01:18:42,176
We had rehearsed the
song "Old Love," right?
1221
01:18:43,969 --> 01:18:46,472
And I thought it sounded great.
1222
01:18:46,555 --> 01:18:50,351
But Eric said, "No." I think
maybe he felt like it was, you know,
1223
01:18:50,434 --> 01:18:52,659
one ballad too many or he... for whatever
1224
01:18:52,701 --> 01:18:55,356
reason, he decided he
didn't want it in the set.
1225
01:18:55,439 --> 01:19:00,486
I was disappointed. But okay, so we
go through the set, the whole show.
1226
01:19:00,569 --> 01:19:05,282
We play the encore, I think it was
a couple of... couple of encores.
1227
01:19:05,366 --> 01:19:07,576
Audience wanted more,
the band's feeling great.
1228
01:19:07,660 --> 01:19:11,288
Everything's going, and I don't
know why he turned to me, but he did
1229
01:19:11,372 --> 01:19:15,459
and he said, "What can we
do?" I said, "Do 'Old Love, ' man."
1230
01:19:15,542 --> 01:19:19,129
And... and that was one of the
greatest moments of the night.
1231
01:19:43,070 --> 01:19:46,031
♪ I can feel your body ♪
1232
01:19:50,160 --> 01:19:52,413
♪ When I'm lying in my bed ♪
1233
01:21:00,981 --> 01:21:02,483
♪ Old love ♪
1234
01:21:02,566 --> 01:21:05,110
Any time you needed
to know whether or not
1235
01:21:05,194 --> 01:21:08,030
it was going well, I could look at Chuck
1236
01:21:08,113 --> 01:21:10,824
and I knew we were
doing all right, you know.
1237
01:21:10,949 --> 01:21:12,826
He would feed that thing to you.
1238
01:21:12,951 --> 01:21:14,703
To contribute to that...
1239
01:21:15,954 --> 01:21:20,959
and stand out, but not
in a... An aggressive way.
1240
01:21:21,043 --> 01:21:22,711
If you want to... if you want to focus on
1241
01:21:22,753 --> 01:21:24,588
Chuck, you're going
to have a lot of reward.
1242
01:21:24,671 --> 01:21:26,558
But if he's playing with other famous
1243
01:21:26,600 --> 01:21:29,051
musicians, then you can
you can certainly focus
1244
01:21:29,134 --> 01:21:31,762
on them and Chuck will only
be adding to what they're doing.
1245
01:21:31,845 --> 01:21:35,849
So it's a gift that he has that... that he
could... he could... he could stand out
1246
01:21:35,933 --> 01:21:40,104
even more if he wanted to, he's
a great solo artist in his own right,
1247
01:21:40,187 --> 01:21:42,815
but he can play with almost
anyone and make them better,
1248
01:21:42,898 --> 01:21:44,274
and that's not easy.
1249
01:22:13,887 --> 01:22:18,475
♪ Yeah, women think I'm tasty ♪
1250
01:22:18,559 --> 01:22:21,353
♪ Make me burn a candle right down ♪
1251
01:22:21,437 --> 01:22:23,981
You can look at being a
keyboard player as two things.
1252
01:22:24,064 --> 01:22:26,066
You can look at it as accompaniment
1253
01:22:26,150 --> 01:22:30,779
or you can look at it as
co-creation, co-composition,
1254
01:22:30,863 --> 01:22:33,657
and he is one of those players,
1255
01:22:33,740 --> 01:22:35,909
you know, Chick Corea
is like that too, you know.
1256
01:22:35,993 --> 01:22:40,289
I mean, I can't think of many
players outside of those two where...
1257
01:22:40,372 --> 01:22:43,208
they're listening to what you're doing
and they're interacting in real time
1258
01:22:43,292 --> 01:22:45,919
and they are almost producing their part.
1259
01:22:46,044 --> 01:22:48,505
They're not just hammering away.
1260
01:22:48,589 --> 01:22:50,674
They're consciously listening to what the
1261
01:22:50,716 --> 01:22:53,051
lyric is in your song,
what you're going for,
1262
01:22:53,135 --> 01:22:56,805
whether or not you've hit it yet.
And they kind of sit next to you on
1263
01:22:56,889 --> 01:22:59,391
the trip to find what's there. And...
1264
01:23:00,601 --> 01:23:03,937
listening back to these, even
jams quote unquote, you know,
1265
01:23:04,062 --> 01:23:07,399
that we were writing stuff, coming
up with stuff, you listen back to it
1266
01:23:07,483 --> 01:23:10,944
and you end up humming the
Chuck Leavell parts, you know.
1267
01:23:11,028 --> 01:23:13,505
You give Chuck Leavell 100 solos on the
1268
01:23:13,547 --> 01:23:16,325
same song and all 100
of them are hummable.
1269
01:23:16,408 --> 01:23:19,912
On the "Born and Raised"
sessions that we did with Don Was...
1270
01:23:19,995 --> 01:23:21,413
Don brought Chuck in...
1271
01:23:23,040 --> 01:23:25,311
and those were writing
sessions a lot of that
1272
01:23:25,353 --> 01:23:27,461
time, some of it was stuff I already had.
1273
01:23:27,544 --> 01:23:30,506
But a lot of that was free
form like writing in the studio.
1274
01:23:30,589 --> 01:23:37,262
Just to watch the process that he
has, um, its kind of an on-the-fly deal.
1275
01:23:37,346 --> 01:23:40,766
He'll come up with a riff and it
sound... and it's sounding great.
1276
01:23:40,849 --> 01:23:44,269
And then he'll start mumbling
or, you know, coming up with
1277
01:23:44,353 --> 01:23:47,481
nothing and then something,
and before you know it,
1278
01:23:47,564 --> 01:23:48,982
this guy has this great song written.
1279
01:23:49,066 --> 01:23:51,109
It's just a fantastic process to watch.
1280
01:23:51,193 --> 01:23:52,110
He's a genius.
1281
01:24:00,994 --> 01:24:05,332
Well, "Queen of California" was
on the Born and Raised record.
1282
01:24:05,415 --> 01:24:08,877
And, uh, John wanted
to do a video for it.
1283
01:24:10,546 --> 01:24:13,507
We thought, "Well, that's a
generous thing, yeah, sure,
1284
01:24:13,590 --> 01:24:15,467
we'd love to be in your video, man."
1285
01:24:15,551 --> 01:24:17,886
So, he flies us out to California.
1286
01:24:19,096 --> 01:24:24,017
Huge, huge, uh, studio,
one of the biggest indoor
1287
01:24:24,142 --> 01:24:25,644
facilities I've ever seen.
1288
01:24:26,687 --> 01:24:29,273
And there's this incredible set up.
1289
01:24:29,356 --> 01:24:32,985
They're going to do a long
shoot all the way through the song.
1290
01:24:33,068 --> 01:24:36,822
Starts with John in a
bedroom playing his guitar.
1291
01:24:36,905 --> 01:24:41,034
Uh, he walks out of the
bedroom into another set...
1292
01:24:41,118 --> 01:24:42,452
into another set.
1293
01:24:43,495 --> 01:24:47,457
He eventually comes into a room
where us musicians are stationed
1294
01:24:47,541 --> 01:24:50,002
and, you know, plays with the musicians.
1295
01:24:51,837 --> 01:24:55,299
Was one of the most fascinating
videos I've ever done in my life.
1296
01:24:57,634 --> 01:25:01,888
He is the rarest
combination of honky-tonk,
1297
01:25:01,972 --> 01:25:04,474
southern rollicking R&B.
1298
01:25:04,558 --> 01:25:09,313
He will sip wine to play
like he's drunk on Whiskey.
1299
01:25:13,817 --> 01:25:15,378
Thinking about coming
out with like a "Gimme
1300
01:25:15,420 --> 01:25:16,987
Shelter," or something
like... second half?
1301
01:25:17,070 --> 01:25:18,780
- Yeah.
- Just leaving you in.
1302
01:25:18,864 --> 01:25:20,699
- Yeah.
- Just come out, stay out.
1303
01:25:20,782 --> 01:25:22,868
"Jack Daniels" is in that set,
"Mixed Drinks" is in that set.
1304
01:25:22,951 --> 01:25:25,454
We'll do "Honky Tonk
Women" or something with Joe.
1305
01:25:25,537 --> 01:25:27,956
Uh, stay all the way through the end.
1306
01:25:28,040 --> 01:25:30,000
- We'll do "Lowdown."
- Okay.
1307
01:25:30,083 --> 01:25:31,752
- You're going to do "Lowdown"?
- Just do "Lowdown" there
1308
01:25:31,835 --> 01:25:33,879
'cause I know you got a
little customized version of it.
1309
01:25:33,962 --> 01:25:35,631
Yeah, I just kind of do it for me.
1310
01:25:35,714 --> 01:25:37,549
Do you want me to play on the intro?
1311
01:25:37,633 --> 01:25:39,176
- Yeah. Yeah.
- All right.
1312
01:25:39,259 --> 01:25:40,759
Let me... let me try that one.
1313
01:26:09,873 --> 01:26:13,001
I messed up that very last section
where it hangs on the G to C.
1314
01:26:13,085 --> 01:26:14,920
- That one, four, yeah.
- Yeah, yeah.
1315
01:26:15,003 --> 01:26:17,153
- Uh, could you just do that for me?
- Yeah.
1316
01:26:26,682 --> 01:26:27,516
Go again.
1317
01:26:38,819 --> 01:26:40,696
Let's take it from there. Take
it from there one more time.
1318
01:26:40,779 --> 01:26:44,366
One more time from
that section. 3, 4 and...
1319
01:27:19,735 --> 01:27:23,155
My brother-in-law, he said
my dad is like the Forrest Gump
1320
01:27:23,238 --> 01:27:26,283
of classic rock. And
it is, it's like, if you
1321
01:27:26,366 --> 01:27:30,370
look at, like, every seminal
moment in classic rock history,
1322
01:27:30,454 --> 01:27:31,913
Chuck Leavell was there.
1323
01:27:34,499 --> 01:27:40,130
My dad was being awarded the highest
honor for the Captain Planet Foundation.
1324
01:27:40,213 --> 01:27:43,925
It was also a Ted Turner's
last public appearance,
1325
01:27:44,009 --> 01:27:47,387
and he was performing with Julian Lennon.
1326
01:27:48,972 --> 01:27:52,476
Obviously, I've seen The
Stones a few times over the years.
1327
01:27:53,393 --> 01:27:57,355
But it was such pleasure, I
mean, he and I clicked immediately.
1328
01:27:57,439 --> 01:28:00,233
A great deal of respect for each other.
1329
01:28:00,358 --> 01:28:05,614
And, uh... but you know, it
was actually fun on stage.
1330
01:28:05,697 --> 01:28:10,452
One thing I found I learned about
Chuck when we were on tour, is that
1331
01:28:10,535 --> 01:28:13,330
if you're in a hotel which
has a piano in the bar,
1332
01:28:13,413 --> 01:28:16,958
if you get a few drinks inside him,
he basically becomes Little Richard.
1333
01:28:17,042 --> 01:28:20,462
So, uh, other than mixing and editing,
1334
01:28:20,545 --> 01:28:23,423
what have we been doing?
Living life to the fullest, I hope.
1335
01:28:23,507 --> 01:28:25,550
Yeah, just been lounging on the fob.
1336
01:28:25,634 --> 01:28:27,260
- Yeah.
- Doing a bit of woodwork.
1337
01:28:27,344 --> 01:28:29,094
- Yeah. Yeah.
- Yeah, I'll show you.
1338
01:28:31,640 --> 01:28:35,143
This is this is, um... this
is made out of a tree...
1339
01:28:36,102 --> 01:28:38,814
out of my woods that died.
1340
01:28:38,897 --> 01:28:39,815
If I can find it.
1341
01:28:43,735 --> 01:28:47,739
- Oh, wow. That is beautiful.
- It's a cherry... a cherry wood bench.
1342
01:28:49,241 --> 01:28:51,368
- Not bad, is it?
- No, that's beautiful, man.
1343
01:28:51,451 --> 01:28:52,701
That is really beautiful.
1344
01:28:59,626 --> 01:29:01,878
I think there's about
7,000 trees reported here,
1345
01:29:01,962 --> 01:29:04,256
when we planted them,
they were about as...
1346
01:29:04,339 --> 01:29:07,050
thick as my little finger and
about maybe 18 inches tall,
1347
01:29:07,133 --> 01:29:10,011
just little twigs
stabbed into the ground.
1348
01:29:10,095 --> 01:29:12,472
And here, 20 years later...
1349
01:29:12,556 --> 01:29:16,101
some of them are sort of
25, 30 feet high, some trunks,
1350
01:29:16,184 --> 01:29:18,937
you know, 14 inches, 15 inches thick.
1351
01:29:20,105 --> 01:29:22,566
But it's amazing to
see the way trees just...
1352
01:29:24,150 --> 01:29:26,862
take off after they've been in
the ground three or four years,
1353
01:29:26,945 --> 01:29:30,095
they suddenly feel their strength
and they really start growing.
1354
01:29:32,742 --> 01:29:36,288
When I was 16, 17, my folks
took me to London, to, um...
1355
01:29:38,039 --> 01:29:41,543
to try and work out what
I should do as a career.
1356
01:29:41,626 --> 01:29:44,462
And I saw a guy for
about an hour and he, um...
1357
01:29:44,546 --> 01:29:49,009
At the end of an hour of me waffling
and saying nothing very much,
1358
01:29:49,968 --> 01:29:54,347
He, uh, told me that he thought
that what I should go into was forestry.
1359
01:29:54,472 --> 01:30:00,437
And here I am years and years
later planting tree, seems nuts.
1360
01:30:15,410 --> 01:30:19,956
Sometimes you just know with someone that
you're going to get on with that person.
1361
01:30:22,876 --> 01:30:28,298
And that he's going to share
some attitudes and things and...
1362
01:30:28,381 --> 01:30:30,431
I mean, I already knew about his playing.
1363
01:30:34,054 --> 01:30:36,181
I don't like to be too, um...
1364
01:30:37,974 --> 01:30:40,977
prescriptive on how people
want... are going to play things.
1365
01:30:41,061 --> 01:30:45,982
So, I want to get them to express
themselves, to have their take on what
1366
01:30:46,066 --> 01:30:51,863
they do first in... particularly in the
rehearsal sort of situation, and then see
1367
01:30:51,947 --> 01:30:54,824
what from that is
going to really work live.
1368
01:31:04,834 --> 01:31:07,045
♪ Hello ♪
1369
01:31:07,128 --> 01:31:09,965
♪ ls there anybody in there? ♪
1370
01:31:11,424 --> 01:31:13,760
♪ Just nod if you can hear me ♪
1371
01:31:16,137 --> 01:31:19,099
♪ ls there anyone at home? ♪
1372
01:31:19,182 --> 01:31:22,435
The who you get to sing the
other part in "Comfortably Numb"
1373
01:31:22,519 --> 01:31:24,688
is always a problem. In the past,
1374
01:31:24,771 --> 01:31:28,233
I've often had guests in to
do one night when I can get,
1375
01:31:28,316 --> 01:31:30,527
um, interesting people,
you know, David Bowie did
1376
01:31:30,610 --> 01:31:32,153
the part unto the Albert Hall.
1377
01:31:32,237 --> 01:31:34,864
♪ Get you on your feet again ♪
1378
01:31:36,366 --> 01:31:40,912
♪ Relax, I need some information ♪
1379
01:31:40,996 --> 01:31:43,623
Turned to me and he said, "Hey,
man, you want to sing on this?"
1380
01:31:43,707 --> 01:31:48,086
And I thought, "Sing in unison
or harmony or something, sure."
1381
01:31:48,169 --> 01:31:50,922
He said, "Okay. Well, you do
the... you do the counterpart."
1382
01:31:51,006 --> 01:31:53,216
When Chuck rehearsed "Comfortably Numb,"
1383
01:31:53,299 --> 01:31:57,053
in rehearsals, we were
aware of his, like, his, um,
1384
01:31:57,137 --> 01:32:00,002
his playing. We were
aware of his musicianship.
1385
01:32:00,044 --> 01:32:01,349
But then suddenly...
1386
01:32:01,433 --> 01:32:03,810
No clue about his vocal, when
he started singing We were like.
1387
01:32:03,893 --> 01:32:05,061
- What?
- I'm sorry, what?
1388
01:32:05,145 --> 01:32:06,229
- Right.
- What?
1389
01:32:06,312 --> 01:32:08,106
It's, um...
1390
01:32:08,189 --> 01:32:10,734
a completely different type of version to
1391
01:32:10,817 --> 01:32:12,587
the way Roger did it
originally on the record
1392
01:32:12,629 --> 01:32:14,279
and to the way other people have done it.
1393
01:32:14,362 --> 01:32:19,159
And he said, uh... "Let me give
you a tip, curl your lip a little bit"
1394
01:32:19,242 --> 01:32:24,789
"when you sing your part," you know,
meaning, snarl, snarl it out a little bit,
1395
01:32:24,873 --> 01:32:26,583
make it with attitude.
1396
01:32:27,459 --> 01:32:28,710
And that was good advice.
1397
01:32:28,793 --> 01:32:30,670
♪ Just a little pinprick ♪
1398
01:32:32,213 --> 01:32:37,052
♪ They'll be no more, ah! ♪
1399
01:32:37,135 --> 01:32:39,471
♪ But you may feel a little sick ♪
1400
01:32:40,889 --> 01:32:42,932
♪ Can you stand up ♪
1401
01:32:44,100 --> 01:32:48,438
♪ I do believe it's working good ♪
1402
01:32:48,521 --> 01:32:51,691
♪ That'll keep you
going through the show ♪
1403
01:32:53,276 --> 01:32:55,320
♪ Come on, it's time to go ♪
1404
01:32:55,403 --> 01:32:57,447
I'd say he was... he's done it about
1405
01:32:57,530 --> 01:32:59,616
the best of anyone that I've had do it.
1406
01:33:01,409 --> 01:33:04,871
I would want to impress on
somebody that you've got...
1407
01:33:04,954 --> 01:33:06,790
You've got the real thing there.
1408
01:33:06,873 --> 01:33:07,957
And...
1409
01:33:09,292 --> 01:33:10,251
something...
1410
01:33:11,252 --> 01:33:15,090
so special that you'd probably miss it
1411
01:33:15,173 --> 01:33:17,717
if you met him in passing.
1412
01:33:18,676 --> 01:33:20,386
You know, one of the top five guys doing
1413
01:33:20,470 --> 01:33:22,555
that sort of thing that he's been doing,
1414
01:33:22,639 --> 01:33:24,432
wearing all these different hats,
1415
01:33:24,516 --> 01:33:26,726
uh, in the history of the music,
1416
01:33:26,810 --> 01:33:28,812
which I guess you
could say starts arguably
1417
01:33:28,895 --> 01:33:30,897
in the early mid '50s.
1418
01:33:30,980 --> 01:33:33,775
So, that's a long time.
That's 60 something years.
1419
01:33:33,858 --> 01:33:37,028
And he's, uh, like I
say, in the pantheon.
1420
01:33:40,698 --> 01:33:42,158
Chuck.
1421
01:33:42,242 --> 01:33:43,868
Oh, Southern buddy.
1422
01:33:43,952 --> 01:33:45,286
You done it.
1423
01:33:45,370 --> 01:33:46,246
You're the best.
1424
01:33:47,288 --> 01:33:50,583
He's a great piano player
and a great, you know,
1425
01:33:50,667 --> 01:33:53,211
collaborator and a really good friend.
1426
01:33:53,294 --> 01:33:55,588
So I feel I'm very
proud to work with him.
1427
01:33:55,713 --> 01:33:58,632
And I don't know many other keyboard
players that's going that Chuck's done,
1428
01:33:58,716 --> 01:34:01,136
that says a lot for Chuck to me.
1429
01:34:08,810 --> 01:34:10,061
I'm so proud of you.
1430
01:34:10,145 --> 01:34:12,689
Uh, honored to have worked with you.
1431
01:34:12,772 --> 01:34:16,943
Um, I love you, and I will
see you at the next one.
1432
01:34:17,026 --> 01:34:18,987
It would be lovely to
play with you again, man.
1433
01:34:19,070 --> 01:34:22,740
Whenever we get the
opportunity and... and I missed you.
1434
01:34:22,824 --> 01:34:24,951
I've missed you, so...
1435
01:34:25,034 --> 01:34:28,746
I'm sending you lots of love
and look forward to the next time.
1436
01:34:28,830 --> 01:34:33,293
Chuck is more rock and roll than trashing
a hotel room will ever be because...
1437
01:34:34,460 --> 01:34:38,089
it comes from love. It
comes from appreciation.
1438
01:34:38,173 --> 01:34:44,053
It comes from respect and it also
comes from when it's time to play.
1439
01:34:44,137 --> 01:34:45,805
It's like, "Look out. I got this."
1440
01:34:45,889 --> 01:34:49,767
Um, he's a very special
human being. He really is.
1441
01:35:00,236 --> 01:35:03,364
All right, Chuck! I'm giving
you a run for your money.
1442
01:35:05,491 --> 01:35:07,663
Chuck Leavell, Georgia
loves you, the world
1443
01:35:07,705 --> 01:35:09,662
loves you, because you're so authentic
1444
01:35:09,787 --> 01:35:11,581
a genuine Southern gentleman
1445
01:35:11,664 --> 01:35:14,292
who loves the land, loves its people,
1446
01:35:14,375 --> 01:35:17,545
and I have been honored to
know you and be in your presence,
1447
01:35:17,629 --> 01:35:20,798
and you help me keep Georgia on my mind.
1448
01:35:23,927 --> 01:35:25,303
♪ Georgia ♪
1449
01:35:28,640 --> 01:35:30,892
♪ Oh, Georgia ♪
1450
01:35:33,603 --> 01:35:35,605
♪ The whole day through ♪
1451
01:35:39,484 --> 01:35:42,820
♪ It's just an old sweet song ♪
1452
01:35:42,904 --> 01:35:45,615
We have a great partnership,
Rosie and I, you know,
1453
01:35:45,698 --> 01:35:47,951
we look after each other very much.
1454
01:35:48,034 --> 01:35:53,081
So 46 years and we're
stronger than we've ever been.
1455
01:35:57,418 --> 01:35:58,795
♪ Georgia ♪
1456
01:36:00,588 --> 01:36:02,715
♪ Mm, Georgia ♪
1457
01:36:05,426 --> 01:36:08,680
♪ It's just a song of you ♪
1458
01:36:11,557 --> 01:36:15,270
♪ Comes as sweet and clear ♪
1459
01:36:17,855 --> 01:36:20,024
♪ As moonlight through the pines ♪
1460
01:36:28,449 --> 01:36:30,368
♪ Other arms ♪
1461
01:36:32,829 --> 01:36:34,872
♪ Reach out to me ♪
1462
01:36:36,124 --> 01:36:38,835
♪ Other eyes ♪
1463
01:36:38,918 --> 01:36:41,129
♪ Smile tenderly ♪
1464
01:36:45,591 --> 01:36:50,388
♪ Still, in peaceful dreams, I see ♪
1465
01:36:51,681 --> 01:36:56,352
♪ I see the road leads back to you ♪
1466
01:36:59,689 --> 01:37:01,149
♪ Oh, Georgia ♪
1467
01:37:05,445 --> 01:37:07,488
♪ My sweet Georgia ♪
1468
01:37:09,198 --> 01:37:12,785
♪ No peace I find ♪
1469
01:37:14,871 --> 01:37:19,292
♪ It's just an old sweet song ♪
1470
01:37:22,462 --> 01:37:25,423
♪ Keeps Georgia on my mind ♪
1471
01:38:31,614 --> 01:38:34,951
♪ Yeah, other arms ♪
1472
01:38:37,161 --> 01:38:39,330
♪ Reach out to me sometime ♪
1473
01:38:41,791 --> 01:38:47,213
♪ Other eyes smile tenderly ♪
1474
01:38:49,090 --> 01:38:54,429
♪ Still in peaceful
dreams you know, I see ♪
1475
01:38:54,512 --> 01:38:56,180
♪ Hey, I see the road! ♪
1476
01:38:57,640 --> 01:38:59,559
♪ It leads back to you ♪
1477
01:39:01,477 --> 01:39:03,062
♪ Hey ♪
1478
01:39:03,146 --> 01:39:05,606
♪ Hey, Georgia ♪
1479
01:39:07,525 --> 01:39:10,528
♪ Oh, my sweet, sweet Georgia ♪
1480
01:39:10,611 --> 01:39:15,783
♪ No peace I find ♪
1481
01:39:19,203 --> 01:39:23,082
♪ It's just an old sweet song ♪
1482
01:39:28,754 --> 01:39:30,631
♪ But it keeps Georgia ♪
1483
01:39:37,763 --> 01:39:44,562
♪ Keeps Georgia rolling
rolling, rolling on my mind ♪
1484
01:40:06,918 --> 01:40:08,294
The man is a gentleman.
1485
01:40:10,171 --> 01:40:11,506
The man's a real man.
1486
01:40:13,049 --> 01:40:14,994
You know, and I don't think I can say
1487
01:40:15,036 --> 01:40:17,345
anything better about
any guy in the world.
1488
01:40:26,145 --> 01:40:27,230
You get me?
1489
01:40:59,804 --> 01:41:04,141
♪ People think I'm crazy
always trying to waste me ♪
1490
01:41:04,225 --> 01:41:06,852
♪ Make me burn the candle right down ♪
1491
01:41:07,770 --> 01:41:11,857
♪ Baby, I can't stay ♪
1492
01:41:11,941 --> 01:41:15,820
♪ I don't need jewels in my crown ♪
1493
01:41:15,903 --> 01:41:20,157
♪ 'Cause all you ladies
you low-down gamblers ♪
1494
01:41:20,241 --> 01:41:23,202
♪ Cheating like I don't know how ♪
1495
01:41:24,203 --> 01:41:27,540
♪ Baby, I can't stay ♪
1496
01:41:27,623 --> 01:41:31,836
♪ Because there's fever
in the funk house now ♪
1497
01:41:31,919 --> 01:41:35,673
♪ This low down bitching
got my poor feet itching ♪
1498
01:41:35,756 --> 01:41:39,218
♪ Don't you know the
deuce is still wild? ♪
1499
01:41:40,303 --> 01:41:43,889
♪ Baby, I can't stay ♪
1500
01:41:43,973 --> 01:41:46,517
♪ You got to roll me ♪
1501
01:41:46,601 --> 01:41:51,939
♪ Call me the tumbling dice ♪
1502
01:41:52,940 --> 01:41:57,028
♪ Always in a hurry never stop to worry ♪
1503
01:41:57,111 --> 01:42:00,656
♪ Don't see the time flashing by ♪
1504
01:42:00,740 --> 01:42:04,076
♪ Honey, I got no money ♪
1505
01:42:04,201 --> 01:42:09,373
♪ Hold on, I'm sixes, sevens
and nines, nines, nines ♪
1506
01:42:09,457 --> 01:42:12,585
♪ Say now, baby I'm
the lone crap shooter ♪
1507
01:42:12,668 --> 01:42:15,921
♪ Playing your fields every night ♪
1508
01:42:17,006 --> 01:42:20,468
♪ Baby, I can't stay ♪
1509
01:42:20,551 --> 01:42:22,887
♪ You got to roll me ♪
1510
01:42:22,970 --> 01:42:25,514
♪ Call me the tumbling ♪
1511
01:42:25,598 --> 01:42:27,099
♪ Roll, roll, roll me ♪
1512
01:42:27,183 --> 01:42:33,064
♪ Call me the tumbling dice ♪
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