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Butch Trucks

(1947–2017) Musician

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Butch Trucks carries his laptop while traveling and spends evenings answering questions online. He thinks many people in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame don’t deserve a spot anywhere. He also talks about hearing Elvin Jones play, saying the drummer blended flawless technique with deep feeling.

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Butch Trucks was a musician.

Quick Facts About Butch Trucks

Born: May 11, 1947
Died: January 24, 2017
Profession: Musician

About Butch Trucks

American drummer (1947–2017)... | Claude Hudson "Butch" Trucks was an American drummer. He was best known as a founding member of the Allman Brothers Band, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. Trucks was born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida.

Quotes by Butch Trucks

I have done nothing my entire life but play music.

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We're a live band. It's what we do best.

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I loathe and detest heavy metal.

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I'm not going to keep my mouth shut.

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I feel like the Cal Ripkin of rock n' roll.

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I was going to go back to college and become a math teacher.

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We did 300 shows in our first two years.

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Majored in staying out of Vietnam.

Army

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I remember somebody came in with Chicago Transit Authority, and we listened to it one time.

Authority

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A jam means it's not structured - let it go. Let it go here, let it go there.

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I don't think we listened to any rock n' roll at all in the early days. It was Miles Davis and John…

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We were either listening to jazz or Robert Johnson, the old blues man, but not to our peers.

Blues

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I've gotta be the only father begging his son to leave a six-figure job to go play in a rock n' roll…

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You're playing for yourself. And if you're not playing for yourself, you're an entertainer, doing it for the crowd.

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Oh, he's magic. Faulkner has opened passages in my brain. You do things you'd never expect.

Brain

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We have a well and a garden. I crawl around in the mud and grow great vegetables.

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Duane lived life right on the edge. If you ever read Goethe's Faust, Duane Allman was very much that kind of figure.…

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After we did the last Allman Brothers Band show, my wife and I just packed up and went to France for pretty…

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We all knew that asking another guitar player to step into Duane Allman's shoes would not really be fair to anybody who…

Conscience

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I'm enjoying the hell out of playing straight. It seems to be the case with everybody. We're having a lot more fun.…

Energy

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That whole Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame thing - at least half the people in there don't have a place in…

Fame

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See, we started out with a foundation of blues. But then we added people like Miles Davis and John Coltrane to the…

Blues

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Something happens when the music starts, and all that tiredness just goes away. When it's going like that, I'll take on any…

Drummer

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After being away from it for so long, it's really nice to go out and have 10- or 15,000 people show up…

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To be honest, I don't listen to much music! I've been so engrossed in it my whole life that when I drive…

Books

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When we're playing, when we're really, really going... you're just in the moment. You're not thinking about yesterday, tomorrow, or anything else.…

Brain

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Our approach is more the jazz approach, where you learn to play your instrument as well as you can, develop your craft,…

Approach

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One that really caught me was Joe Morello. He was the first drummer I ever saw that could do a roll with…

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This is show business, and there's room for the shows and the personalities. But I think there's also room for music, for…

Audience

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A lot of the cities where we have a strong following, we don't even get to every year anymore. But Stony Brook…

Chemistry

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The music became secondary to being rock stars.

Being

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The only way a musician can express feelings is playing.

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We never thought that we would be more than an opening act.

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There's nothing - nothing - like the magic of playing music.

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I'm boring as hell. I just sit around and talk philosophy.

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Blues Traveler is hot, and Big Head Todd, the Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies - all of 'em.

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It wasn't unusual for an Allman Brothers record to cost $300,000.

Brothers

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For a long time, our only mode of travel was an Econoline van. Eleven of us, with nine sleeping in the back…

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I like some things other people don't like, and they like stuff I don't like.

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There's always going to be a percentage of the kids out there who want to hear people who can actually play and…

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