I’d been thinking about this for a long time, I just didn’t know if I could find the people to do it. I wanted to do something that was almost extreme but would also have real songs, just with different kinds of time signatures and arrangements. I wanted to do this different kind of music. And I had been sitting on this idea since playing with the Allman Brothers. “They asked me if I wanted to get together. He was still touring with Winter when he heard from the renegade Butterflies. Caldwell later played with the Allman Brothers and with Johnny Winter’s band. Caldwell and Reinhardt had played in rival garage bands in Florida in the late 60s. Reinhardt called on an old friend to join them – drummer Bobby Caldwell. He flushed the toilet on us.”Īfter Butterfly ended, Reinhardt and Butterfly bassist Lee Dorman decided to continue playing together on a new project. We couldn’t do Butterfly without his voice. I was like, ‘This band is about to make a big, new splash, and you quit?’. And I’m looking at him having a gin and tonic with two broads sitting next to him while he’s telling me this. I can’t take this rock ’n’ roll life with all the women and the drinking’. He was a preacher’s son, and I think he had a revelation or something.

As I remember it, there were a couple of groupies, and he was having a cocktail, and there were crosses all over the room. But then Doug called a meeting, and so we went down there. We were just tearing people’s heads off, and we were all saying: ‘We’ve really go to do another album’. “We were riding high, the European audiences were loving the new band.

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