Warren Haynes had mapped out a different life when the Allman Brothers called—and everything he thought he knew about where he was headed stopped mattering. You don’t prepare for that kind of disruption. You just say yes. “I’ve always maintained that if I were going to join a band I grew up listening to, the Allman Brothers would be at the top of that list. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience. It’s also something you can never prepare for. No one is ever prepared for the opportunity to join a band that is an institution like that. I was preparing myself for an entirely different career trajectory, and that just came along and disrupted the apple cart in a good way.”