I will never forget seeing the Brothers before they were well known in a bar on the beach in Cocoa Bch Fl . I'm sure it was 1969!. They like something I'd never heard and left wanting more !! Been a fan ever since !! Another sad day in the R&R world !! RIP and I'm sure the big band in the sky welcomes you with open arms !!!
Only time I ever saw Gregg Allman live was Friday, October 15, 2015.
Ironic how hanging in a cemetery they would name an instrumental about someone they had never met yet will now spend an eternity in the company of, much the same as that tombstones name will forever be etched in my memory... Interred as Sky Dog and now Gregg are in the Rose Hill Cemetary. Yeah it might have really been about Betts getting on with Scaggs old lady but heck, we were all yutes at one time.
Lot's of juju in the air in Macon. If you've every been there you'll know what I mean. Story has it that Elizabeth Reed Napier lived on Rogers ave in Macon, just a few blocks from the Big House. Berry Oakley lost control of his bike on Napier Avenue where we was killed. Two blocks from Napier Ave on Hillcrest Duane Allman met his fate. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Allman+Brothers+Band+Museum/@32.845939,-83.6566038,18z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x9d124fcdafe46db0!8m2!3d32.8460043!4d-83.6558957
More juju Gregg Allman played his last show on October the 29th, 2016 Allman Brothers played their last show on Oct the 29th, 2014 Duane Allman died on October the 29th, 1971
Always a fan. 'Fillmore' was one of my first LP's when I scored my first real stereo back in '74. A 'brush with celebrity' anecdote is in order. Was drinking, etc., my way through FL with a couple of buds during Spring Break of 1979. Sitting at the Metz II Lounge in Daytona Beach Shores. Slow night and the bartender comes over and says 'see that guy on the pay phone (it was 1979, after all), that's Greg Allman, the rock star'. Yeah, sure we thought. Just a scraggly looking blonde dude in a fatigue jacket. Couple weeks later I read in Rolling Stone that Allman was pretty much down in the dumps, hanging at a house in Daytona without a telephone. Reckon the bartender coulda been right...the late '70's were not a good time for Allman. Anyway, I still enjoy listening to Allman Brothers vinyl from the late '60's and early '70's. Mighty fine stuff that. Thanks Greg, RIP.
"Despite all the amputation, you could dance to a rock 'n roll station..."
