Posted on 06/09/2010 3:35:10 PM PDT by pissant
Just Exactly Where I’ve Been….Gregg Allman wasn’t kidding. On the last verse of “Wasted Words,” from the Allman Brothers Band’s “Brothers and Sisters” album, he gets the message across.
Well I ain’t no saint and sure as hell ain’t no savior.
Every other Christmas I would practice good behavior.
That was then. This is now.
Don’t ask me to be Mr. Clean ’cause, baby, I don’t know how.
Summer ‘73. The Allman Brothers Band emerged from tragedy and artistic challenges to deliver what some still consider their finest studio album ever. The music was holding up great. Fans had wondered, though, how Gregg was holding up. The brash lyrics of “Wasted Words” provided an answer. A headstrong guy was leading the best rock band in America.
But all the success Gregg Allman achieved over the next two years couldn’t keep him from being trapped. Such a thing occurs easily when one has developed a serious drug addiction obvious to more than a few associates. And it really gets tough when the long arm of the law becomes interested; even tougher when the government gets manipulative.
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Man, that must have been awesome. I would have loved to have seen them in their heyday, if I were only allowed to attend rock concerts back then. Practically wore out my “Brothers of the Road” 8-track tape.
Wasted words, already been heard
go on home, baby
watch it on tv
Starting in about 1978 up through the early 1990s I went to so many shows it’s hard to remember them all. I had forgotten all about seeing the Allmans until I saw this article.
saw them right after Duane died but before Berry Oakley died....awesome....but depressing
They had the best harmony guitars ever... I can think of only one other band that came close... and they had 4 guitar players and two drummers.
I saw them at the Warehouse on Tchoupitoulas Street in New Orleans. I saw them again in Mobile and once in Jackson. Jay Johnnie Johnson was from my hometown. Killer drummer.
LLS
Yep, The Dead, Allmans and the Band with 600,000 people in 28 acres. tons of fun. I left. (the Dead’s sound check the day before was awesome, however!)
Glad he is clean and rocking. The Beacon Theatre Shows every year have become legendary.
Hot Tuna!
Jorma!
Nothing like the concerts back then, bands would play for 4 to 6 hours just jamming away.
Thank goodness for youtube. There is some great stuff on line
Bump for later reading
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