RIP Gregg Allman

Wobbie

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7759662/gregg-allman-dead

rgambs

Damn, one of the all-time greats! 

Wobbie

Live at the Fillmore East is an all time classic.

Their music will certainly endure.

erocshifty

Damn. Sad day for music. RIP..

EM194007

RIP Gregg

PorchgirlCO

RIP Gregg. What a horrible loss. Saw them at Red Rocks and it was awesome!! Another sad day in the world of music 

jjflash

Less than two weeks, two greats moving on. RIP, Gregg.

Who Princess

Wobbie said:

Live at the Fillmore East is an all time classic.

Their music will certainly endure.

So talented and so much great music.

Wobbie

https://youtu.be/FUvxRjYqjEQ

2-feign-reluctance

Fucking fuck fuck FUCK!!! Fuck off death. God damn!! RIP. 

dudeman

What a loss to the world. Rest in peace brother. 

Wobbie

EM194007 said:

RIP Gregg

man, that is one beautiful picture!

EM194007

A friend took it during Whipping Post 6-8-14 at Mountain Jam, in Hunter NY. Glad I got to see the last ABB show at The Beacon. I'm still more shocked on losing Butch this year, especially after getting to hang with Butch after a show less then a month before he was gone. We knew Gregg was not doing well the last two years. So, his passing wasn't a shocker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxAzqgG1D2M

Wobbie

always loved the two drummers.

loved seeing Derek playing with his dad's band. derek is badass. warren, too, but there's not the blood connection.

gonna have to put fillmore east into the truck CD player.

Wobbie

maybe one of tne best rock n roll photos, ever:

EM194007

Wobbie said:

always loved the two drummers.

loved seeing Derek playing with his dad's band. derek is badass. warren, too, but there's not the blood connection.

gonna have to put fillmore east into the truck CD player.

Butch is Derek's uncle, not his father. Warren and Dickey Betts got together in the late 80's and was part of Dickey's solo album. Then in 89 when the ABB reunited, Dickey got him in with the ABB. The rest is history. 

brianlux

Even reading about Gregg being in Hospice care for some time now and knowing it was coming just doesn't make any less of a blow.  Damn. 

R.I.P. Gregg Allman.

VespertineSun

My youth is slowly slipping away.

THE LOOK

Another loss that punches me right in the gut!!!

iwasatpj20

Listening to the Fillmore East deluxe CD today.   RIP Gregg

Wobbie

EM194007 said:

Wobbie said:

always loved the two drummers.

loved seeing Derek playing with his dad's band. derek is badass. warren, too, but there's not the blood connection.

gonna have to put fillmore east into the truck CD player.

Butch is Derek's uncle, not his father. Warren and Dickey Betts got together in the late 80's and was part of Dickey's solo album. Then in 89 when the ABB reunited, Dickey got him in with the ABB. The rest is history. 

I stand corrected. I was surprised Dickey got thrown out for drug use because he didn't strike me as a druggie...at least not a major druggie.

EM194007

Wobbie said:

EM194007 said:

Wobbie said:

always loved the two drummers.

loved seeing Derek playing with his dad's band. derek is badass. warren, too, but there's not the blood connection.

gonna have to put fillmore east into the truck CD player.

Butch is Derek's uncle, not his father. Warren and Dickey Betts got together in the late 80's and was part of Dickey's solo album. Then in 89 when the ABB reunited, Dickey got him in with the ABB. The rest is history. 

I stand corrected. I was surprised Dickey got thrown out for drug use because he didn't strike me as a druggie...at least not a major druggie.

Dickey was a alcoholic more so then a druggie in 2000 when all that went down. Not saying there couldn't or wasn't any drugs involved, but more the alcohol abuse. Gregg sure wasn't no angel, neither was Butch. Would have loved to see them bring Dickey on stage for at least one song on their last night playing together as the ABB. 

Wobbie

^^^^ in the link in the OP, it said that by age 27, Gregg was drinking a quart of vodka a day, was a heroin addict and was on his third marriage. I shouldn't find that funny, but I did.

Who Princess

Wobbie said:

^^^^ in the link in the OP, it said that by age 27, Gregg was drinking a quart of vodka a day, was a heroin addict and was on his third marriage. I shouldn't find that funny, but I did.

Party like a rock star?

helplessdancer

http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/news/a55315/gregg-allman-death-tribute/?src=nl&mag=esq&list=nl_enl_news&date=052917

SmallestOceans

Really needed this one today...it hits hard...
https://youtu.be/n5NPN3NF0rM

helplessdancer

Celebrating Gregg Allman's Life | "Midnight Rider" | LIVE at the 2017 CMT Music Awards
update link does not work anymore  :(

helplessdancer

re gregg's new/last cd   :(

Inside Gregg Allman's Musical Farewell
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/inside-gregg-allmans-final-album-southern-blood-w494132

dpduke69

Extremely grateful I got the chance to see the last incarnation of ABB and Gregg Allman Band gigs a bunch. What a rock legend. Glad my dad introduced me to his music. Their/his music will always remind me of my dad.

helplessdancer

Gregg Allman’s bandmates and confidantes reflect on his life and music.

Warren Haynes:

You and Gregg wrote many songs together during the past few decades. What was your creative process like?

Some of my fondest memories are of us writing songs together. He was a rare, old-school individual, who was never in a hurry to finish a song. If it didn’t look like it was going to be finished today, then maybe we could look at it tomorrow— and if it didn’t look like it was meant to be finished tomorrow, then maybe we’d look at it next week. But he always came up with certain little changes that I would never think of on my own, which is quite ironic, considering how long I’ve known him and how much I loved and studied his music before I even met him. He always had a way of making things seem complete when they finally were. Until that point, he always felt a song wasn’t finished. Our process varied from song to song: Sometimes he would write more of the music and I’d write more of the lyrics, and sometimes it was vice versa.


What struck you the first time you saw Gregg perform live?

I never saw the original Allman Brothers because Duane died when I was 9 years old. The first time I saw Gregg was in a club when I was in my 20s, and he had not yet signed to Epic, which was his comeback with I’m No Angel. I remember seeing him several times around then and he always sang his ass off. The band at that time was really good as well—Dan Toler, a fantastic player, was on guitar and his brother Frankie was a wonderful drummer. I heard them do “I’m No Angel” quite a long time before he ever recorded it and I remember commenting then: “That’s a great song.”

We first met in 1981 and played together a couple of times, but then I didn’t see him a lot until he recorded Just Before the Bullets Fly, which contained my song as the title track. And, about a year later, they invited me to join the Allman Brothers, which is really when he and I started becoming close friends.


Gregg often downplayed his musicality, but he was a great organ player. Describe his approach.

Gregg’s voice will go down as one of the great voices in rock history. His organ playing was very understated, but it was always perfectly placed. What he played fit the music as well as anything possibly could. He had an uncanny sense of being able to fit in with the two guitars and stay out of the way, while still contributing in an extremely valid way. The sounds he got out of a B-3 were always impeccable, which is really the most important element of organ playing— being able to capture a great sound. And he was also a great fingerpicker on the acoustic guitar. I loved to sit around and watch him tune the guitar to open G and get into his folk side, which was always one of my favorite things about his musicality—the melodic, sweet side of him that was so beautiful.

helplessdancer

Derek Trucks
While Gregg will always be remembered for his voice, can you talk about him as a Hammond player?

I think that’s probably the most unsung part of his musicianship. I’ve never heard anyone else that sounds like that on the Hammond—the way he would work the drawbars and certain chord swells. It didn’t matter what headspace he was in, it would just be so second nature to him—even with tunes like “Jessica,” he would always just nail it. He was one of the most tasteful B-3 players ever. There’s no one else who sounds like him in the realm of whatever we call what the Allman Brothers did. He had a very singular sound.

The rhythm section in the Allman Brothers was always this propulsive, mysterious thing that was part of the magic, but the sound of Gregg’s B-3 was a huge element to that. The intro to “Dreams,” that stuff gives you the chills before anything else shows up—before the lyrics and the Duane solo, when it’s just the drums and the sound of Gregg’s B-3. That’s what probably drew me in without even knowing it. It’s sneaky good.


What’s the first song that comes to mind when you close your eyes and think of Gregg?

When I first got a CD player as a kid, and would put on headphones, I remember burning out “Ain’t Wastin’ Time No More”—just the sound of his voice, the way he sang that line, “We’ll raise our children,” the way he pegged that microphone. When I heard that he passed, that’s the first song I went to and that’s when all the emotions came crashing down—just listening to him sing that tune and thinking about what he was going through when he sang that song and what it was like being on stage playing that particular song with him.

“Dreams” and “Please Call Home” also come to mind when I think about him—there’s so many great moments, but there’s something about “Ain’t Wastin’ Time No More.” He really was a unique combination of things that don’t often come along. There’s a lot of great musicians that came along in the jamband scene, but no one had a voice like him—had that much fucking mojo, that vibe and that voice. I can’t tell you how many people I’ve run into from all walks of life, whether it was George Jones or Herbie Hancock, who say, “Oh, you play with the Allman Brothers—Gregg’s voice.” He pretty much crossed all boundaries, and he gave credence to our whole scene, even when people didn’t know what was happening.

In the ABB, Gregg balanced so many musical elements. There was that time he called out you, Oteil and Jimmy for taking it too far out on “Mountain Jam,” and then he came back and apologized.

That sums up his feeling about being in the Allman Brothers Band from the beginning. He wanted it to be the Bobby Bland band, and Duane wanted it to be the Bobby Bland band and the Miles Davis band. [Laughs.] There was always that dynamic, and when that went down, we were just early into the era with me and Jimmy, which only lasted a year. And, in some ways, it was the first time that it wasn’t Duane or Dickey running the band. Gregg was trying to sort out what he wanted it to be or see how far he wanted to let it go.

It was just him, in real time, either trying to put his stamp on it or realizing, “Wait a minute. There’s already a momentum carrying this thing; it just is what it is.” That’s what it felt like to me— I didn’t take any offense to it. I thought it was hilarious even when it happened. He was like, “Who’s the Phish fan?” and I remember being a smart ass and I was like, “Not me.” [Laughs.]

Then, he went to the back of the bus after telling us, “That was just too far” and he started thinking about his discussions with Duane. So he came back up, and said something to the effect of, “Me and my brother used to go round and round about that shit.”