Cameron Crowe

I remember something, Terry, that happened early on.

I was on the road with the Allman Brothers Band.

And I loved the Allman Brothers Band.

And they were staying at the Continental Hyatt House in Los Angeles.

And I was covering them for Rolling Stone.

And after their show at the Forum, they all came back to this kind of communal room to party and jam.

And so there's Greg Allman playing, you know, this blues song, Come In My Kitchen.

And I'm just loving it.

He's like eight feet away.

And there's some people singing.

And there's another guy playing guitar over there.

And there was a guitar right next to me.

And, you know, I only knew two chords, but I picked up the guitar and I started to strum.

And I was thinking, this is cool, man.

I am like jamming with the Allman Brothers band.

And it was like...

Hands appeared kind of behind me and lifted the guitar out of my hands, almost like a hand from heaven is just coming to relinquish the guitar from my grasp.

And I just felt like, oh, that's cool.

I'm in heaven and there goes the guitar now.

It's like, don't jam with the Allman Brothers band, particularly when you only know two chords.