FUNNY STORIES
& TRIVIA
*After a long rehearsal at Delaney Bramlett’s "Rock ‘n Roll Ranch" in California, Rick was walking through the kitchen, when he smelled something good on the stove. He saw a "T-Bone" steak in a frying pan, and proceeded to scarf it down. It sure tasted good! Later, Rick learned that he had eaten Delaney’s dinner!
* While shooting "The Outsider" ( where Rick Allen played the part of an organ player) at Universal City Studios, and feeling like a movie star, Rick sat on a sawhorse and ripped the seat out of his pants. He had to walk around the set all day holding his pants shut so tourists and other actors wouldn’t see his underwear!"
* After spending the night at Dickey Bett’s cabin on the Allman Brothers’ Farm in Georgia, Rick Allen barely escaped an attack by Great Danes."
* While playing a piano solo at Madison Square Garden in a Loggins and Messina concert, the audio pick-up in the Steinway Grand fell on top of the piano strings. The amplifiers began to scream with feedback. The sound-man turned off the piano, but the spotlight was still on Rick. There were over 20,000 people in the audience. So, he kicked over the piano bench, and pretended to play a solo. Later, Billboard Magazine reported that his solo was great! That’s funny, because no one could hear it."
* During the Big Tujunga Fire in southern California, Delaney’s roadies Rick Davis and David Guerra helped Rick Allen and his family save their home from the flames".
* Rick's father, Jack Sutherland, played a role in Charlie Chaplin's classic movie, "City Lights". Almost forty years later, Rick was rehearsing in the same room where "City Lights" was filmed. The Charlie Chaplin Studios had become A&M Records. Rick's father didn't live to see his son working at the same location. Ironically, Rick's dad never thought Rick would survive in show biz.
* While Rick was on tour with Bonnie Bramlett, drummer Big John Thomassie tried to flush crawfish heads down the toilet at a Holiday Inn in Memphis. The whole floor was flooded. Big Johnny picked up the phone and growled, "Hey. Get me a plumber".
* From a hotel in Washington, DC, while on tour with Don Preston, Rick Allen called the White House, said he was a State Senator, and got the switchboard to connect him with a Chinese restaurant."
* President Carter’s son Chip (along with the Secret Service) came to hear The Bonnie Bramlett Band with Rick on organ, Atlanta, 1978."
* Rick Allen had breakfast with Howlin’ Wolf at the Shelby Hotel in Detroit. Wolf asked Rick to work with his band."
* Rick Allen directed Ray Charles’ Rayletts’ singers Clydie King, Shirley Matthews and Vanetta Fields on a session for Liberty Records. The songs were by singer Bobby Angelle."
* Rick played on a song with Ringo Starr, but never met him. Ringo overdubbed his drums."