idasessions: Neal Preston: We had this thing on tours called ‘road wives.’ You&rsqu

idasessions:

Neal Preston: We had this thing on tours called ‘road wives.’ You’d hook up with a girl for the tour and then the second the tour ends, you never see her again.

Marc Maron: I remember that from Almost Famous.

NP:Well, everything in Almost Famous is pretty much real.

MM:That was all about the Allman Brothers tour, right?

NP:The character that Billy Crudup played, where the kid kept trying to get an interview, that’s a bit of Gregg Allman. The band itself, I think Cameron would tell you, is an amalgam of a lot of bands that had two competing, creative entities. You know, John & Paul, Don & Glenn, Mick & Keith, Jimmy & Robert. That kind of thing. The actual girl who got traded for a case of beer was…let’s just say a groupie I used to fraternize with. [laugh]

MM:So that’s a real incident? 

NP:Oh, yeah.

MM:That’s sort of sad, huh?

NP:…Yeah.