Sharing a house in nearby Kathleen, Stillwater paid textbook rock & roll dues. “We were sitting around in my kitchen and I threw it out there, and everyone thought it was good, so we just ran with that,” Causey says. Inspired partly by the name of Golden’s previous band, Coldwater Army, Causey suggested they call themselves Stillwater. Many in the band had known one another, or known about one another, since high school days. It didn’t take long for the pair to decide to drop out and start a band, in which they were joined by Hall drummer and sometime singer Sebie Lacey keyboardist Bob Spearman and, eventually, bassist Allison “Al” Scarborough.
In 1972, Causey met fellow guitarist Bobby Golden at Georgia College. “We were almost famous,” says guitarist Mike Causey. But during the Seventies, they managed a minor chart hit and released two albums on the same label as fellow Southern rockers like the Allman Brothers Band and the Marshall Tucker Band.Īnd like their Hollywood namesake, Stillwater approached rock & roll fame but never quite got all the way there. The real Stillwater didn’t travel on a private plane and never made the cover of Rolling Stone, as Crowe’s faux road dogs did. But those tales also apply to a real-life group of the same name that existed during the same period - but were obscure enough that even Cameron Crowe doesn’t remember much about them.
If you think that sounds like Stillwater, the fictional band from Almost Famous, you’d be correct. They met groupies and partook in their share of on-the-road partying, and a newspaper headline declared that the band “runs deep.” Another almost missed a ride on the tour bus after making a detour to an after-show bash. One of them leapt off a hotel balcony into a swimming pool. This piece is part of our ongoing coverage of the 20th anniversary of Almost Famous.
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