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Yet another passing.........
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Author:  Billw97 [ May 28th, 2017, 3:33 pm ]
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Just found out that Gregg Allman passed yesterday.......

Author:  fivebass52 [ May 28th, 2017, 4:47 pm ]
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It's been all over the news since yesterday... one of the greats...

Author:  Carmine [ May 29th, 2017, 3:48 pm ]
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As a guy who was just starting to learn to play at the time, where I came from Gregg and the ABB were a HUGE influence on me and my older musician friends. Those first 2 ABB albums and the Fillmore album were revered like the holy trinity. Once I was a decent enough player to jam on "Whipping Post" with the older guys, I knew I'd be ok. It was a musical rite of passage to play those songs.

There's so much more to say about the influence and the legacy- but Warren Haynes post on Facebook said everything I was thinking, and then some:

Warren Haynes, who helped revive the Allman Brothers in the ’90s, wrote the following moving post on Facebook about his friend:

RIP Gregg Allman – I am at a loss for words. I was moved by Gregg’s voice when I first heard the Allman Brothers Band in 1969. I was nine years old. I had not even picked up a guitar yet but thanks to my to older brothers I had been exposed to a lot of great soul music with the best singers in the world. But this was something different. This music was making a deep emotional connection with me even though it was too complex for me to really understand. Somehow, though, it had this “common man” quality that allowed that music to connect with people on so many different levels without analyzing the ingredients that went into it-soul, blues, rock, country, jazz-all mixed together in a way no one had ever done before. And on top of it all was this beautiful voice that could be soothing, terrifying, mellow, angry, and amazingly natural and soulful all at the same time-and instantly captivating. It drew me in. It drew us all in.

Over the next few years I would begin to play guitar as everyone of my music loving friends became Allman Brothers’ freaks. That music spoke to anyone who heard it but in the South it resonated with us. It spoke volumes. It brought a voice to people like myself in the midst of some confusing, ever-changing times. Here was this group of Southern hippies with an integrated band coming out of the Deepest South with equally deep music on the heels of some extremely deep changes. We didn’t realize how heavy that was at the time but we sure realized how heavy the music was. Every guitar player in every Southern town was listening to the Live at Fillmore East record and worshipping at the altar of Duane Allman and Dickey Betts. But the icing on the cake was always Gregg’s voice. That’s what separated the ABB from being a band that only connected with music freaks. Women whom previously had only listened to the radio would tolerate the long jams to get to the parts where Gregg melted their souls with that angelic voice. It turned casual music fans into fanatical fans who were discovering a new multi-dimensional music that a few years prior wasn’t even in existence. And it was all due to Gregg’s voice-and the songs.

He wrote these amazing songs that were as natural as his voice was. The words and melodies felt so perfectly unpretentious and, when delivered by him, made an emotional connection that only happens when music is genuine and honest. I learned an enormous amount about singing and songwriting from him-most of it before we ever met.

I am truly honored to have been fortunate enough to have written many songs with him and equally honored to have traveled the world with him while making the best music the world has ever known. I will never, ever take that for granted. And on top of all that-he was my dear friend.

My fondest memories will always be of Gregg, myself, and Allen Woody sharing a tour bus together-listening to great music and laughing our asses off mile after mile. Traveling- like life- is so much better when you’ve got friends to share the experience with. I’ve lost too many lately and this one is gonna be hard to get past. There is some comfort in knowing that millions of people all over the world feel the same way.

I love you Gregory – WH

Author:  tim [ May 30th, 2017, 11:07 am ]
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Thanks for sharing that, Carmine. I have nothing worthy to add, other than I've loved the ABB since picking A Decade of Hits during their aforementioned '90s revival. My bass teacher from those years occasionally subbed in for them. Stormy Monday was the first tune we ever worked on.

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