Chris Robinson

pills or whatever you know he's like and there was a thing when we were kids and there was a song I forget which band did it but if you were you were fake if you were a Quincy punk you know because they took like the way people looked on Quincy or whatever and that instantly became a punk yeah yeah you're bullshit when you started out like what what was the inspirations for your band like what were you guys into I

I mean, it's hard to untangle because my dad was a singer.

So our dad was a singer.

And he was very, well, my dad was kind of a strange guy in general.

A lovely guy, but dynamic to say the least.

But he had had like a hit in the late 50s called Boom-A-Dip-Dip.

Like a top 40 kind of record.

And a couple of subsequent sort of...

you know, rock and roll singles.

And he was living in New York and stuff.

And then when he, that kind of pales out and then he moves back to Atlanta and he immerses himself in like the folk music scene.

And he was signed to a label called ABC Paramount.

So by the time I come along in 66, it's kind of, he's not doing it anymore.

What was he doing?

He was a schmata guy.

He was in the middle, he was like Willie Loman.

He was in the garment business.

My grandfather, Ike Robinson, they were in children's wear.

My dad was in women's wear and then ended later back in children's wear.

But the one thing around the house that I remember earliest memories are him pilling out his guitar and singing folk songs.