I never could get into The Chambers Brothers. They make good records, but I never could get behind it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.
I don't spend much time listening to the records when they're done. Usually I let go of it. Especially in the Eighties and Nineties - they were like product, almost.
All the records I've made have pretty much been big club turntable records. You need to feel the rhythm.
When we started Allman Brothers, Atlantic Records kept telling us there was no way it was going anywhere.
With The Allman Brothers, we made two studio records that were OK, but the first really great album was the live one, 'At Fillmore East.' We were a live band, and it's one of the reasons we were able to stick around for 45 years.
'Step Brothers' itself, when I did it, I don't know if I had any idea that it would become a defining moment in my career and life like it has, and I'm really happy that that's the one that ended up being that for me.
They're pretty good actually, Hall & Oates. I gotta give them credit. They got a lot of toe-tappers.
I've never been one to chase awards or anything like that, to be honest.
I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before 'Mad Men.'
My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the Jazz Brothers, that recorded for Riverside Records.