Robert,

Looks like a firestorm is a brewing. By the way, who is RP? He may know a different Johnny Townsend than I do, but has he worked with him, been in business with him? Me thinks not. Anyhow, Townsend isn’t worth this much verbiage. I simply wanted to get the facts straight about a very memorable night Keith and I spent at the party for Cream. And unless Rusty, Keith’s and my memories are ALL faulty, JT was not there. End of story!

Bobby Dupree

Subject: Re: Remember One THANG : Don't Ever Let The Words "Robert Register" Pass Through Your Lips!!!
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 18:18:30 -0500


Robert,
This is laughable, just like the lies he wrote about an event that he didn't even attend. As far as leaving him in a lurch, he did everything he could to split up our band, and cause annimosity at a time when we were all struggling just to put food on the table. I think that Keith, Rusty and I have pretty good memories about those times, and we all three agree that what he wrote is pure lies, written to make himself out as some super star that he never was. And that Mama's boys line is the one he used on Rusty right after the butcher knife incident I told you about. The fact is, no one could stand Townsend. Thanks for printing the truth Robert.
Bobby Dupree


DEEP SOUTH: Hal McCormick [Uprisin], Jeff Carlisi [.38 Special], Artimus Pyle [Lynyrd Skynyrd], Ed King [Lynyrd Skynyrd], Robert Nix [Candymen, Atlanta Rhythm Section], Jeff Adams [Bloodsugar], Jimmy Hall [Wet Willie] and Dean Daughtry [Candymen, Atlanta Rhythm Section]


JIMMY HALL INTERVIEW!!!! http://www.hittinthenote.com/archival_feature.asp
DEEP SOUTH courtesy of Excalibur Photography http://www.excaliburphotography.com/
Jimmy Hall on Sax with drummer Bob Nix in background

GREETINGS MY DEAR BELOVED SISTERS AND BROTHERS WITH MOTHERS OF MANY DIFFERENT COLORS:
DEEP SOUTH now solicits your efforts to marshall all of your loyalty and support to enable them to establish DEEP SOUTH as 2005's "STATE OF THE ART" SOUTHERN ROCK BAND!!!!
BEST,
roberto http://robertoreg.blogspot.com


photo courtesy of http://www.ed-king.com/

DEEP SOUTH
ArtimusPyle:http://artimuspyle.com/renegades.htm
The force and “Pyle” driver behind ‘Lynyrd Skynyrd’! Ronnie Van Zant told Artimus when he hired him on drums to push this quintessential guitar army band as hard as he could. Artimus did just that, with a “Vynym”!! His hard thunderous drums can now be heard with his southern rock musical brothers, DEEP SOUTH!

Jimmy Hall:http://www.ktb.net/~insync/wet_willie.html
Lead Vocalist, Instrumentalist extraordinaire, and founder of the soulful group, ‘Wet Willie’. Jimmy’s incredible voice is easily recognizable as one of the greatest singers to ever come out of the south!
He is now front and center stage, where he belongs with DEEP SOUTH!

Dean Daughtry:http://www.atlantarhythmsection.com/disc96Writeup.htm
The ‘Killer’ keyboardist, songwriter, and one of the founding members of the Atlanta Rhythm Section! Dean has co-written many great hit songs for A.R.S. and he is now doing what he was born to do… Dean is playing and writing with his kindred spirits of the south, DEEP SOUTH!

Jeff Carlisi: http://www.campjamatlanta.com/2005/
His specialty is a passionate and fluid guitar magic that can be heard on all of the .38 Special hits! He not only put his special style on .38’s records, but Jeff co-wrote, “A Heart Needs a Second Chance”, which was the biggest chart record of all of .38 Special’s songs! He is now helping create a whole new southern sound with, DEEP SOUTH!

Robert Nix:http://www.alisonheafner.biz/
Drummer, Co-Producer, and Songwriter, along with Dean Daughtry, of the Atlanta Rhythm Section’s biggest hits! Robert has played on drums on many recording sessions, but he feels honored to have been asked by Al Kooper and Ronnie Van Zant to play on Lynyrd Skynyrd’s ‘Tuesday’s Gone’! He is now playing drums and making history with a whole new breed of DEEP SOUTH!

Ed King:http://www.ed-king.com/
They don’t call him Ed ‘Guitar’ King for nuthin! His brand of playing is one of the most copied and talked about in the world! Ed is also co-writer, with Ronnie Van Zant, on one of the biggest rock songs of all time, and one of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s signature songs, ‘Sweet Home Alabama’!

The gifted, Ed ‘Guitar’ King, along with Artimus Pyle, Jimmy Hall, Dean Daughtry, Jeff Carlisi, and Robert Nix have brought together some real rock and roll roots by the ones that really made this timeless music!!!!
Together, they are DEEP SOUTH!!!
A sample set list includes:
Atlanta Rhythm Section: ‘So Into You’, ‘Imaginary Lover’, ‘Spooky’, ‘I’m not Gonna Let It Bother Me Tonite’, ‘Champagne Jam’, & ‘Doraville’.

Wet Willie: ‘Keep on Smiling’, ‘Dixie Rock’, “Shame, Shame, Shame’, ‘Weekends’, 'Dixie Rock' & ‘Country Side of Life’.

.38 Special: ‘Hang on Loosly’, ‘Caught Up In You”, ‘A Heart Needs a Second Chance’, & ‘Rockin Into The Night’.

Lynyrd Skynyrd: ‘Simple Man’, 'Saturday Night Special', ‘The Ballard of Curtis Lowe’, ‘Tuesday’s Gone’, ‘Sweet Home Alabama”, & ‘Freebird’.


Hey Big Bob & Justo:
How 'bout giving us the story about the day you appeared on American Bandstand.
best,
roberto http://cottonkingdom.blogspot.com


THE CANDYMEN
American Bandstand - Brenton Wood / The Candymen

Episode Information

Episode Number 1803
First Aired December 2, 1967

Guest Stars: Brenton Wood (as Himself) The Candymen (as Themselves)


Synopsis

--Brenton Wood – "Gimme Little Sign" (and possibly "Baby You Got It")
--The Candymen – "Georgia Pines"

Hey Ya'll:
We gotta great forum!
The Candymen, The Rockin' Gibraltars, The Five Men-ites, The K-Otics, The Rubber Band & Wilbur Walton Jr. & The James Gang.
It is hard to believe that somebody would want to send me something and then tell me not to publish it.
Ya know I think some people's problem is that they just haven't had their ass whipped lately. Lord knows, I've had my ass whipped. I had my ass whipped by practically the entire Bama Rugby Team. Things went pretty bad until IRON MIKE passed me his trusty BUCK KNIFE so I could cry in triumph, "How many uv you boys wanna see your guts tonight?"
What some folks don't unnerstand is Rusty didn't wanna kill nobody wid that butcher knife, he just wanted to cut on 'em a little bit sow'zzzzzzzzzz he'd git they attention!
best,
ka$h http://robertoreg.blogspot.com

Re: The Weblog "CUBA, ALABAMA" Has Been Renamed "Southern Rock Babylon"
To: "robert register"


I only have two comments: 1) The Johnny Townsend
I've known for many years is a truly nice guy who
certainly doesn't appear to me to have "an incredibly
huge ego." 2) Gregg didn't get the idea of two
drummers from anybody because it wasn't even Gregg's
idea. By the time Gregg went back to Jacksonville at
Duane's request (or, more accurately, demand) in March
of '69, Duane already had two drummers lined up for
what became the Allman Brothers Band. Jaimoe says that
Duane told him he wanted two drummers because James
Brown had two drummers. End of story.

RP

Subject:
Re: Something A Little Bird Told Me About THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND AT FILLMORE EAST
Date:
Thu, 19 May 2005 20:20:15 -0500

Robert,
I just read to Keith Brewer the STORY Johnny Townsend wrote about the night of the Cream farewell concert. He said if Townsend ever comes back to Alabama we're gonna kick his ass. Keith, as well as both Rusty and I, are absolutely amazed at how Townsend can take a moment from our lives, and make it appear to be his experience. One thing Townsend didn't "REMEMBER" is that George Harrison was there. Other corrections to his "REMEMBERANCE" are 1: Ginger Baker wasn't riding a Harley inside the house, 2: there was no jam session, 3: Eric Clapton wasn't there, 4: We only played one gig with Jimi Hendrix and that was at the Bakersfield Civic Center. Keith and I are going to sit down and write the total EXPERIENCE between Heart and Jimi Hendrix. This will set the record straight!
Bobby Dupree



Subject: Re: Something A Little Bird Told Me About THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND AT FILLMORE EAST
To: "robert register"


Yep. My buddy Jim Marshall (somebody should write a
book about him - he's a madman) told me that nobody
wanted to do the photo shoot. They all just looked
bored out of their minds, and he thought he wasn't
going to be able to get anything useable until DA
spotted his dealer, scored, and then ran back and sat
down - at which point everybody cracked up and Jim got
his shot. Take a look at the cover again. DA's got the
drugs concealed in his hands.




--- robert register wrote:
> bongorandy:
> You might want to check out this urban legend.
> The reason Doowang is wearing that shit-eating grin
> on the album cover is cause he just scored some
> heroin from his dealer who he caught walking down
> the sidewalk beside the parking lot where the photo
> was taken in downtown Macon.
> best,
> roberto
> http://robertoreg.blogspot.com



THE ROCKIN' GIBRALTARS PLAYING AT DOTHAN'S HOUSTON COUNTY FARM CENTER!

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Roberto,
I just talked to Rusty and he filled me in on some of the facts about that night of the Cream Farewell Concert party at Jimi's house. He said that he and Ed Sanford had dates, with women who were taking them out for a steak dinner. They didn't want to miss that, so they left the house early and went out. Johnny Townsend was racked out with his girlfriend in their room. Rusty said that when Russ Shaw came down, only Keith and I were able to go to the farewell party for Cream. It's a shame that Townsend still has an incredibly huge EGO controlling his life. That story he put on your blogsite is so far from the truth, I believe (like you said) that he DID take the brown acid. I hope you got the story of the RG's change to Heart, and that it straightens out the story on Townsend's web site about how he got out to California. From talking to Rusty, I believe it was Townsend's aim to split our band up from the beginning. Rusty, while we were in Studio City, overheard Townsend talking long distance to Tippy. Rusty just assumed that he wanted Tippy to join us, Rusty included, but Townsend was just making the moves to line up the old members of the Rubber Band to replace the RG's. When I left, they got Lou Mullinex. It's pretty obvious now, but that's water under the bridge. Townsend has lots of karma following him, and from what Ed tells me, it's coming back to get him now.
Also I told you last night that Greg Allman use to hang out at our house and jam a lot. Rusty and Keith had gone back to Alabama, and Tippy had replaced Rusty, Larry Sims (of the Sunshine Company, later of Loggins and Messina) had replaced Keith on bass guitar. Merle Brigante (also of the Sunshine Company and later Loggins and Messina) came down, and we played double drums. I believe this is where Greg got the idea from when the Allmans got started.
Let's keep in touch. I'll send you as much stuff as I can...................Bobby


Roberto,
Didn't know if you'd seen this photo of the RG's at the Houston County Farm Center. I think this was a gig we did to open up for Jerry Lee Lewis...........Bobby
Roberto,

Man, it was good to talk with you last night, and hope we can continue the discussions of the “old days.” I’m inclosing some of the stuff I sent to Greg Haynes for his book “The Hey Baby Days of Beach Music.” Hope you find it interesting.



“I saw the Candymen at the Montgomery Municipal Auditorium not long after they had returned from England. We’d seen them at a WBAM show backing up Roy Orbison and they were great then. Keith, Rusty and I went down to see them on the recommendation of Bill J. Moody, our manager and D-Jay at WBAM radio station. I remember them doing a song by the Beatles. By that time everyone was becoming big fans of the Beatles and had been listening to their records. They started playing that Beatles’ song and I know my jaw dropped to the floor because they sounded exactly like the record.”



This is one of the interview sections I did with Greg via the phone. Someone told me that the Beatles were very impressed when they heard the Candymen in England, and I think it was John Lennon that said the Candymen actually played the Beatles songs better than they did. When we saw the Candymen at the Big Bam show backing Roy Orbison, I remember Ed Sanford kept saying, “Listen to Little Bobby, listen to Little Bobby”. At the time, I think he was playing a Wurlitzer piano. Of course, Ed was playing a Wurlitzer in our band. My focus that night had to be Roy’s voice, singing like an angel the song “In Dreams”.



I’ll e-mail rusty Crumpton and give him your Web site URL. I know you’ll probably hear from him. I’ll try and write up the stuff we talked about last night concerning Jimi Hendrix.

Bobby Dupree



photo courtesy of Ronnie Quarles at WTBC [probably with a little help from Jimmy Bank]
http://www.wtbc1230.com/
THE CANDYMEN [while performing at Tuscaloosa's FT. BRANDON Armory- I am pretty sure I saw them there my freshman year 68-69, however, the memory is a little foggy- wonder why!?!] The little guy in the hat at the bottom is Bobby Peterson. l to r Billy Gilmore, Rodney Justo, Robert Nix, John Rainey Atkins.


photo courtesy of Greg Haynes at
Man, that story about Little Bobby just breaks my heart.
I think that I told you that a woman claiming to be his wife, told me that he was dead and had died of a Cerebral Hemorrhage while working for Neil Diamond.
I also heard that he was living as a sort of waif in Gainesville.
I can assure you that had I known that it was true I would have contacted him.
Bobby showed up Atlanta in about 1970 or 1971,and he was in really bad shape mentally.I mean paranoid,depressed, confused, and generally no sense of direction.
He was virtually unmanageable.
I had to call his father in Orlando who I had never met and tell him that we were sending his son home on a plane and he needed to get him some help.
I never heard from either of them again
Just heartbreaking

Robert---please spread the word that my good buddy and ol' pal Billy Joe Royal is gonna be in Dothan June 17 at Cowboys. Last time he was in Dothan he packed the place and showed he still has his chops, as good as or better than ever. All of us from way back when know that Billy Joe is the nicest and hardest working artist any of us ever worked with, so I'm going to be there and would like to see lots of old friends there too. Heck, Roberto, it's a Friday night in mid June, so what else you got to do? You ought to come down, too. Buddy's going to be in Canada that weekend, and Justo is going to be in New York pretending to play golf, but other old timers will be around. Tell Nix to come down and I'll buy him a drink and promise not to throw him in a swimming pool (like we did to him and Buddy in Clearwater in 65).
Jimmy Dean

On August 22, 1967, we recorded four songs at Cosmos Studio in New Orleans, Louisiana, produced by Marshall Seahorn and Allen Toussaint. The songs were Shake Sherry Shake, a cover version originally recorded by the Contours, It’s a Wonder, a Sam and Dave song & Soothe My Soul (an original), and Get Out My Life Woman, a cover version originally recorded by Lee Dorsey. The session was done in a few hours, and the tracks were some of the best sounding ones we’d done to that point. Cosmos Studio was up on the second floor of an old warehouse downtown New Orleans. We had to bring the equipment up an old freight elevator that was driven by a huge canvas belt. We signed contracts with Marshall Seahorn at his and Allen’s office. Some months went by, and we started wondering if the songs were going to be released. Marshall would never return our phone calls.
We played the Big Bam Winter show and were joined by our old friends The Rubber Band. They originally were named the Magnificent 7, and after they got the recording contract with Columbia, they had to change names. You see, Columbia had just done this movie called “The Magnificent 7” and the execs at Columbia didn’t want a movie with the same name as a band. So Wyker called us and asked if we wanted to sell our name. We of course told him no, and so he had this idea to name his band “The Herald Angels” and said that the first album released was to be titled Hark !”The Herald Angels Sing. “After that, they changed the name of the band to “The Rubber Band”. Anyhow, they had a great song out called Let Love Come Between Us and it was on the WBAM charts. James and Bobby Purify later covered the song. They had just come back from New York and they all had bought these really cool Paul Revere and the Raider boots, leather vests, etc. We knew they were going to try to out-do us at the BAM show, so we decided to come up with the most outrageous outfit that we could. We went down to Weil’s, the local clothing store in town that carried the “hippest” threads around. We found these lime green pants, black shirts with iridescent flowers, white suspenders, and bright orange suede slip on Johnson-Murphy shoes. We cut the pants off and made them into shorts, and bought knee-high thin black silk socks to wear with them. We kept the outfits hidden until we were to go on stage. When the Rubber Band saw them, they knew we’d outdone them. We actually looked like a bunch of Bavarian yodelers. The Rubber Band broke up a short time after this show.
In the spring of 1968, we played the Big Bam Spring show in Montgomery and were seen by a producer from Hollywood named Bob Hinkle. Bob was producing a medical documentary in Alabama, and also was a promoter for Evil Kneival and Chill Wills. He wanted us to sign a management contract with him, but we were still under contract with Marshall and Allen. We finally contacted a lawyer who sent them a letter of our intent to be released from their contract. The songs we did at Cosmos were never released, and we forfeited all rights to the songs (5/68) in order to sign a management contract with Bob Hinkle.
Bob wanted us out in Los Angeles so that we could play some local gigs and get exposure there. We needed some songs he could take out there and shop for us a record deal. Sonny Grier, our lead singer, was married by then, and decided that he didn’t want to make the move. We were all saddened by his decision and felt a bit let down. Here we were, signed to a contract with a Hollywood producer and we had no lead singer.
We called Wyker and found out that Johnny Townsend had just gone out to L.A. and was staying with Greg and Duane Allman, who had a group called The Hour Glass. We called Johnny, and made arrangements for him to fly back to Alabama so we could rehearse. Bob got him signed to a contract, and we started writing and rehearsing so we could cut some demos. Bob took us to Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama and we recorded The Train, and Heartbeat in June 1968, engineered by Jimmy Johnson. These were the first demos recorded as the band Heart, with Johnny Townsend on vocals. Bob went back to California and contracted with Warner Brothers to sign us. The contract with Warner Brothers necessitated us moving out to California. We later cut The Train, and Heartbeat in L.A. and they were released on Warner 7/Reprise records.

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A Message From Robert Nix:


Subject:
Re: THE BIG THING I LEARNED FROM THE ROAD
Date:
Mon, 16 May 2005 18:23:48 -0500

ROBERT, LIKE I SAID THERE ARE SOOOOOO MANY JOE SOUTH TALES. I GOT TO KNOW JOE VERY WELL THROUGH MY ATLANTA YEARS. WHEN JOE WAS B.M.I. SONG WRITER OF THE YEAR(IT WAS ALWAYS JOE OR KRIS KRISTOFFERSON) JOE TOOK HIS B.M.I. BURTON AWARD TO LAKE LANIER AND CHUNKED IT OUT INTO THE WATER. HE THEN DROVE HIS MERCEDES TO MY HOUSE AND WE GOT A LIMO TO HARTSFIELD, JUMPED A PLANE TO JAX, FL. AND STAYED AT MY HOUSE ON DOCTOR'S INLET

FOR A FEW DAYS. GARY ROSSINGTON AND ALLEN COLLINS CAME OVER AND WE PLAYED SONGS FOR DAYS(AND NIGHTS). JOE PLAYED EVERY SONG HE EVER WROTE. GARY AND ALLEN WERE AMAZED. WHATEVER HAPPENED, JOE PLAYED AND SANG HIS WAY OUT OF HIS CRAZY DEPRESSION. HE ALWAYS TELLS ME WHEN I SEE HIM HOW MUCH GOING TO MY PLACE MEANT TO HIM. THERE ARE MANY MORE JOE SOUTH ROCKUMENTARY TALES. WE WILL SAVE A FEW FOR ANOTHER DAY. GET READY WORLD FOR 'DEEP SOUTH' AND ALISON AND 'BLOODSUGAR'!!!!!!!! GOOD EVENING, ROBERT AND ALISON NIX............................................................................................... http://alisonheafner.biz/

P.S. big bob, click on booking info ....

http://www.jupiterbarandgrill.com/
P.P.S. and for all of my negligent associates down in THE NUT PATCH
LET'S GIT IT STARTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If Big Bob can take a moment out of his busy day, some of you knuckleheads down home oughta be able to get wire & inspired and think about this! Nobody has told me the whole story on Little Bobby Peterson...............
"There was Robert the Bum, who in according to local legend, in another lifetime was known as Bobby Peterson, who played with The McCoys. You know; “Hang on Sloopy”? Sometimes in his more lucid states they’d let him play the piano at Market Street Pub, and it was just… magical. He could play the shit out of that piano, make it just sing. But he was not the most… clean… of individuals. Pongy, even. But damn, that man was talented. You’d see him walking around town, or leaning up against the wall behind the 7-11, chewing on one collar of his mis-buttoned blue-green plaid flannel shirt… He was killed a few years ago while crossing the street, at about 2 in the morning. " http://www.snarkland.com/index.php/weblog/comments/eccentric_locals/

http://skypilotclub.com

The BIG THING I LEARNED from the road was to remember and pay attention to what you dream while you are asleep. I haven't traveled much in the past 17 years, however, before I settled down and started a family, I was on the road for over three years. Before that, I traveled every summer from '72 until '83. I spent a whole lot of time on both coasts of the U.S. & Canada plus seven extended trips to Ecuador with a couple of excursions to Colombia and Peru
When you are in a strange place and a dream wakes you up in the middle of the night, don't go back to sleep. Pull out a notebook and start writing what you experienced. Not only that, if you're somewhere with a radio or television, turn it on and make some coffee. Read what you have written, think about what you have experienced and try to remember what amazed you about the dream and try to relate it to what you know to be familiar.

I have dreamed things that are completely alien to my experiences in this life.

My hypothesis is that the one who dwells within[call it a guardian angel] is like an editor who takes all the experiences and emotions of the conscious world and splices together a videotape[a.k.a. your dream] which mirrors in a bizarre way THE REAL WORLD. This cat who dwells within really does hold all the cards and he/she wants the best for you.
That's the best advice I could give. In fact, I am going to copy this post and email it to my 16 year old son, Christopher.
best,
robertoreg http://robertoreg.blogspot.com/

P.S. Big Bob, I am still waiting for the Joe South stories. I saw Cowboy Jack on the CMT Charlie Pride Special. He was just as I imagined him. And for all of my negligent associates down in THE NUT PATCH....
The MAR-TEKS are coming next.