Col. Bruce Hampton (Ret): The Daddy of Us All
any kind of racing that lasts less than five minutes and you can tell who's winning. The hundred yard dash and the 440 in the Olympics are fun. I don't understand stock car racing. I'm trying to. I'm asking my friends, "When do you cheer?" I mean, I respect their unbelievable skills, but I just don't know when to get excited. I like drag racing. Other hobbies. I'm just getting back into reading psychology books for the first time in thirty years. I read all of them back in the sixties. I'm reading philosophy again. I really don't know why. (laughs)Everybody has an opinion.
Describe your favorite meal?
Actually, in May of this year I started on a diet to lose weight, and I stopped eating as many carbohydrates. I went on a low carbohydrate diet and I dropped about 40 pounds in two months. Since winter's come I've gained it all back. It's from eating too many carbs. My favorite food, I am proud to say is corn. It's hard to beat cream corn. What do you like to eat?
If you saw me, you would see that I definitely have my own food issues.
Yeah, but in reverse. You're too thin, right? (Note: Col. Bruce has obviously not seen me in person yet!)
Not exactly. But my favorites are Indian food and Middle Eastern.
Oh, I love Indian food.
What music do you listen to today?
I can't stand any popular stuff. I try to be open, but I turn on the radio today and it makes my epidermis hurt. I mean, what in the world? These kids are getting married at 23- do they come back at 70 and hear all this noise and say "Darling, they're playing our song!" I mean, there's no melody. I'm sorry, I just get it. It's not that I'm old, it's not a generational thing. It's just awful. I'm listening to Charlie Christian and Django Rhinehart today, and Robert Johnson.
But I'm sure you listen to some of the young bloods today, like Derek Trucks. I know he's your boy.
I talk to Derek about every three days, and he's coming to see me next week. I've been a friend and a fan since he was nine years old. There are a few hopes out there. As long as it's pure, I'll dig it. As long as it's from the heart. There's no bad or good. It took twenty years for people to
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