Col. Bruce Hampton (Ret): The Daddy of Us All


I'm good or bad, but we have a new movie that came out last week. It's about me teaching guitar lessons. It's called "Outside Out." I did it with the Phish guy, Mike Gordon. It'll start hitting theatres in a month or so.

Let me ask you, Michael B. Are you a Leo or a Gemini?

Cancer, Aquarius rising. My wife is an astrologer.

(Laughs) You are kidding! WOW! She must be a Pisces.

She's a Gemini, Cancer rising.

Air and water, good match. Which one's the craziest, her or you?

That's hard to say. We are definitely a unique pair.

You sound like a great pair.

Oh, we are. What can I say? (laughs)

Where are you from originally?

Just 35 miles down the road in Spartanburg. Jill and I have been big fans of Gov't Mule. Would you care to comment on the death of Allen Woody?

I hated to see Allen go, man. That really hurt. He was crazy as a loon. What a great guy. A good spirit.

You wouldn't know anything about crazy now would you?

I'm surrounded by it, and I am it.

How did The Aquarium Rescue Unit come to be? Did you put that together?

I had help from everybody. Jeff and I met about 1985, the drummer. He knew O'teil before, and I met him in '86 and Jimmy in '89. It all kind of just came together. I can't really take credit for it. I'm an organizer, I'm not a leader. I have to give Apt. Q258 a lot of credit too. The synergy took itself and made itself.

Did Jeff always go by the name Apt. Q258?

He used to be Jeff, now he's Apt. Q258, named after the Prophet Omega. There's a website on that too, called Friends Seen and Unseen, the movie- with Billy Bob Thornton, Marty Stuart and myself. It's not out yet, but I think the web site is up. I'm not sure.

So are you friends with Billy Bob? I know you were in Slingblade.

Yeah. Right.

It took me a while to realize it was you. I didn't recognize Dwight Yoakam either.

we were both honored to be in it.

That was a great movie. Really strange. My kind of flick.

It really was. What's funny is while we were shooting all the producers were going "this one will go straight to video," and I'm sitting there watching the thing and going 'this is one of the greatest films ever made.' Not because I

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