HATS OFF TO DONNIE 38 SPECIAL
“All right, guys, let’s have the truth,” your intrepid reporter says to Don Barnes and Jeff Carlisi, co-lead guitarists and chief songwriters of 38 Special, as the dishes are cleared from our table at the fashionable midtown Manhattan restaurant where ace A&M publicist Audrey Strahl has brought us for an evening of good Indian food and equally good rock ’n’ roll conversation.
HATS OFF TO DONNIE 38 SPECIAL
by Billy Altman
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“All right, guys, let’s have the truth,” your intrepid reporter says to Don Barnes and Jeff Carlisi, co-lead guitarists and chief songwriters of 38 Special, as the dishes are cleared from our table at the fashionable midtown Manhattan restaurant where ace A&M publicist Audrey Strahl has brought us for an evening of good Indian food and equally good rock ’n’ roll conversation. The topic under discussion at the moment is the video for “Like No Other Night,” the first single off the band’s fine new album, Strength In Numbers—specifically, the fact that the performance clip features the first recorded onstage baring of the top of co-lead singer Donnie Van Zant’s head. “You had to have the hat surgically removed, didn’t you?” I ask, jokingly.