Posted on 05/27/2017 1:36:16 PM PDT by Dacula
These days there are drugs that can cure Hep C.
same age myself. interesting times and people. Used to live like we’d never make 25 then we lived like nothing could kill us. : )
Cher is like a Black Widow!
Well, that’s three. The celebrity death wait list can take a break now for awhile.
Great Allman Bros. song, but it was written and sung by guitarist Dickey Betts. Not a Greg showcase.
RIP, Greg...
Eat a Peach.
He went through the hep c treatments and even did commercials about it several years back. He’d had liver cancer before his transplant in 2010, it returned since
One of my all-time favorites. RIP Mr. Allman
Treat yourself and look up the studio solo unplugged version of “Come and Go Blues” by Gregg. Allman was the greatest of all white blues singers.
So I have been working all day down in the barn. Mrs. Big Kahuna comes down around noon with a small tear in her eye. She had carried Greg’s torch for many decades now, having been a fan of the Allman Brothers since they first came out to the West Coast.
Currently I am listening to their set at RFK Stadium, June 10th. It was a double bill with the Grateful Dead. It can be found and downloaded on the interwebs.
After that I think I will play their set at the Cow Palace, New Year’s Eve 1973/74. That one went till dawn and included Steve Miller, Boz Scaggs and a host of others joining in.
Then maybe I will put on one of their concerts from their last run at the Beacon.
We have lots of live Allmans to choose from to honor such a great bluesman.
Met him some years back during the early 1990s. He was living in the Bay Area and had a pick up band called the Alameda All-Stars. Played a very small club in Santa Clara for New Years. Went back stage and spent some time. Sat with John Lee Hooker for awhile. His, (Greg’s) new squeeze, Savanna, was sitting there like a beacon in the middle of the room. A wild time was had by all that night.
If folks want to know where to get all the live allman brothers you can handle, pm me.
Another sad loss to the music world. Rest in peace, Gregg. May you join your brother above.
One of the few rockers of that generation to publicly express his disgust with rap.
Freegards
Once they got to Macon and Capricorn Records, Atlanta (my hometown) is where they came to make their mark, mostly by playing free concerts at Piedmont Park, but also many other gigs. (as I mentioned above, they were hired to play my graduation dance).
Being so big in Atlanta, I wasn't really aware that they hadn't made it nationally.
I bring this up to say that I bought their first two albums when they came out. The Allman Brothers Band and Idlewild South.
They were both masterpieces that were never surpassed. In fact, I didn't even buy At Fillmore East since they were "just" live versions of the songs I already had on my first two albums. (I eventually got the CD version, though)
And though the actual recordings are not pristine (tape hiss, compression, etc.), the music and punch of those first two albums are almost unbelievable. If you do not have them....GET THEM!
They spoiled me so much, I never bought another thing after Duane died.
27.410348, -82.578342 ...... can you believe I actually looked up those coordinates. Your party island did not show up until I hit street view. Done on bing maps not google.
My Dicky Betts story. A relative was the Allman Bros road manager or something close to that for a while say 30 years ago or so. Dicky Betts pulled a knife on him. But in the last day or so I read it was not that unusual for ol Dicky when he was drinking too much.
And that party island is very densely wooded these days.
I believe that at one point I had at least one of them or both.
The ABB though was a live Jam band, and in my opinion, you had to see and hear them live to get the full experience.
I have a real penchant for their live stuff and have collected several Cd’s that show them in various stages before and after “Live at the Fillmore”. Duane was the real driving force behind so much of what was the band itself.
When Duane died he was just irreplaceable. I think adding Chuck Leavell after Duane died really helped and gave them a different sound. Of course without Gregg’s musical abilities they could not have gone on.
Gregg made it to 69, which in itself was something, given all the excesses in his life. I was surprised to hear he died of Liver cancer and I am very curious about that and how it happened.
Well they will live on in the music they left.
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