Taz DiGregorio of The Charlie Daniels Band Does First Solo Album
do it. By the time I got out of the army he had the flip side of "Kissin Cousins" called "It Hurts Me" and he was on his way.
After you got out of the service -was that when the original Charlie Daniels Band was formed?
Yeah, basically, the original band was Charlie, Jerry Corbitt from the Youngbloods, Billy Cox from Band of Gypsies and Jeffrey Meyer and myself. That band did not stay together but about six months, then it just dissolved. Then it was me and Charlie, and Jeffrey and a guy named Earl Grigsby. The original Charlie Daniels Band still can be heard, if you can find it. It is a bootleg and it is called Corbitt and Daniels, Live at Carnegie Hall.
We opened in 1970 for Delaney and Bonnie and it was a showcase and they brought Atlantic Records and all of these companies came and basically they wanted me and Charlie and did not want anyone else. We decided we would all stay together.
How did it come from that point to recording your first album?
The first album was supposed to be called Corbitt and Daniels, but what had happened in Carnegie Hall, Delaney and Bonnie's sound man, whom we knew recorded our show also and after the show - I am not sure what happened but something happened with Corbitt and he quit the band. Charlie was really very upset and they were supposed to go in and do an album called Corbitt and Daniels, the contracts had been signed and the money had been put up and Corbitt quit. So I took Corbitt's place on the first album. He sang half and I sang half and from the point on we just kept working at it until we finally hit on it.
Which album was that? Te John, Grease and the Wolfman.
I have that one with the beautiful picture of you guys on the GateFold. (Laughs)
(Laughing) That day that they took that picture, we had forgotten that they were coming. We were having the after recording party- just the four of us on Long Island about 100 miles out of New York City. We were pretty partied out by the time they got there and we did not even know that they were coming. The guy just looked at all of us and said "What ever you do, please don't look at the camera." (Laughs)
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