No stock licks. No safety net. Just the chance it could fly—or fall. "One thing I used to like about the Allman Brothers in the Fillmore days, a lot of bands were improvising and playing for a long time then, but the Allman Brothers always seemed to take risks; they weren't out there running through a stock of licks, really improvising, and along with the chance that it could really fly there was the chance that it could sort of fall over for a minute. It made it more exciting. That's the only point to me at which improvisation really gets to be worth something is where there is risk to it." Robert Palmer