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when the Allman Brothers Band broke out

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of Macon Georgia in the late 1960s it

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was as the standard bearers of a new

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movement known as southern rock

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though they remained an underground act

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their distinctive sound and white hot

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live shows led by the unique guitar

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playing of Dwayne Orman had built a

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dedicated fan base

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their music was now identifiably their

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sound unique from anyone else

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and I saw him and I was I was just I was

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brought to tears it was just so magical

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I think of the top 10

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shows rock and roll shows I've ever seen

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in my life The Allman Brothers got at

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least three or four of those

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what sets them apart is their music is

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Indescribable it has elements of

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everything but what do you call Jessica

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what do you call in memory of Elizabeth

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Reed they're clearly very Jazz

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influenced but they're not jazz songs

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proper The Allman Brothers could play

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Stormy Monday they could play with

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Albert King BB King Bobby Bland and

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sound great more so I would say than

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just about any other band of their era

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but it's very limiting to call them a

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blues band and that's why the Allman

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Brothers are the Almond Brothers they're

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a singular musical entity

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the sudden death of Dwayne in 1971 came

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at a time when the band were reaching

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their Peak and had honed their

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musicianship to the point where they

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were ready to carry the quality of their

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concerts into their Studio recordings

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it's just breathtaking in the studio the

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outtakes were just just magic I mean

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they weren't used because there was

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something with one more magic but they

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were great

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but as the almonds started a new chapter

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in their story the road ahead would be

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fraught with difficulty a tale of

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success loss dissolution and the

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eventual Triumph of rock and roll's

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greatest survivors when I met them in

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1983 they were all struggling yet at a

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certain point

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their legacy was gone

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these days you hear nothing about share

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you hear nothing about scooter Herring

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you hear nothing about how bitter the

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breakup was in 1976.

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what do you hear is

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how that ban was probably the greatest

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live band in the history of rock they

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built themselves back up to a point

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where today they're bigger than they

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they ever were

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in the winter of 1971 the Ormond

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brothers were a band devastated by the

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loss of their talismanic lead guitarist

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Dwayne Orman

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tragically killed in a motorcycle

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accident on October 29th Dwayne had

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founded the group and raised it in His

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it had been the clarity of Dwayne's

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Vision that it set the almonds on an

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Peerless musicianship that had attracted

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in the emotionally fraught aftermath of

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Dwayne's death the band was forced to

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confront the question of whether they

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would be able to carry on without him

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Dwayne's death just knocked the air out

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of all of us

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and that whole weekend

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is just kind of a daze

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one of my jobs was to

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take the family members and friends to

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view Dwayne in the casket

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and boy that was heart-wrenching because

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not only my grief but sharing everybody

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else's grief and uh

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then we had the funeral which was really

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uplifting that's when I

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that was my first realization that

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everything was going to be all right

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the band played the music was there and

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we came out of that funeral

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if you can believe it uplifted

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we had a meeting the week after the

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funeral

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everybody agreed

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unanimously that there was no way the

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band would break up that we would

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continue on

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within a couple of weeks we were back in

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New York working

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and I remember the very first date

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without Dwayne to see that empty spot on

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the stage was really

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strange and there's obviously a hole in

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the music but the band was still there

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the music was still there and everybody

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was determined to go on because they

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knew that that's what Wayne would have

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would want the van was going to go and

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start playing

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about three or four weeks after Dwayne

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had died at first I was surprised but

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then I thought well this is what Dwayne

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would want them to do that's what always

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got us going with some music we've

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played the music everyone felt felt good

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they got along and things were happening

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and uh

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so it just it was that's the only thing

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they could do the people on the street

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that were out there in the street and my

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peers the people that were promotion

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people and you know with Colombian RCA

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and all those labels back then that were

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doing well ABC they said man Advance

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Dwayne Allman is the band I mean you

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know he's the go you know look here he

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is the band well I actually heard more

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than I'm I'm a

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songwriter myself so I like I like the

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lyrics you know and Greg Allman is the

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best white blues singer ever period I

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mean you know they people say Joe Cocker

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and Rod Stewart and no no best blues

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singer Greg Allman so I'm I'm kind of

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saying well if he can carry it

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if Greg can carry it then yeah let's you

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know put them on the road let's go

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but whether Greg could carry it remained

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an open question

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in trying to stabilize their career The

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Allman Brothers first had to address the

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leadership vacuum created by Dwayne's

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death and bassist Barry Oakley initially

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stepped in to try to fill the void

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after Dwayne passed away

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it was impossible to expect Greg to

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become what he wasn't and what he had

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never been

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you know he was the only almond still

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left in the Allman Brothers Band and

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people naturally assumed he was the

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leader but

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you know that it was just something he

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was not capable of doing Barry Oakley

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step up and assume Dwayne's leadership

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mantle

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and he really wasn't suited for it he

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didn't have the personality for it plus

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and just didn't have the the strength to

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pull that off Barry Oakley really died

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the same day Dwayne did he walked around

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for a year but

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the death of Dwayne just took every bit

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of his strength and soul out of him he

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just spiraled down downhill so he's he

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wasn't able to do it

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and not being a natural leader

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he couldn't take it over and Dickey was

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more of a

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musical leader so there was really

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nobody to take up the mantle of

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spiritual

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leader

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and the band desperately needed to take

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hold of their career which was moving

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fast as years of touring had seen the

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ormonds develop a reputation as one of

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the finest live acts in America

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between 1969 and 1971 the original

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five-piece of Dwayne and Greg Ullman

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drummers jamo and Butch trucks bassist

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had released two critically acclaimed

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commercial breakthrough with the live

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record at Fillmore East by 72 the heat

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that had been progressively building

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around the group had taken them to the

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very edge of national stardom

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it is sort of stunning to look back and

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realize that Duane was only with the

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band for less than three years and for

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the first couple of years they were

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slugging it out and they were such a

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strong live band that everywhere they

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went they developed more fans it was

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growing it was growing and just weeks

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uh at Fillmore East came out and really

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was a hit and Dwayne knew it he knew it

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was coming Dwayne had had this

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unflagging enthusiasm and confidence

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that he kept everyone going whenever it

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else was was starting to drag and lose

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faith and it was just starting to happen

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the vision that he had set forth to

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everyone was starting to come true they

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were on the up of the diving board they

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were diving and they were just about to

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to hit the ark and and he never really

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established him was this Fantastic live

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Blues but not at all a Blues Band I mean

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fearless improvisation of the Grateful

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Dead with far more precision and

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foot in jazz and just doing it all

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beautifully in a way that didn't sound

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and there was also a new record to

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sessions for what would become the

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band's third studio album eat a peach

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were already underway at the time of

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Dwayne's death and having recently

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achieved a commercial breakthrough with

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at Fillmore East the ormond's next

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release was widely anticipated in

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December 71 the group traveled to

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criteria Studios in Florida to work with

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their regular producer Tom Dowd on three

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new tracks that would comprise the

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album's first time ain't wasting time no

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more La Brea in a minor and Melissa

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those three tracks were very critical

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for the band because it was going to be

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the first time in the studio without

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their leader without Dwayne Allman and

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they had a lot to prove a lot of people

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didn't think they could make it without

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Dwayne and this was their way of saying

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yes we can Dicky all of a sudden showed

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up playing Electric Slide which no one

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really knew he could do and he had just

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never done it because that was Dwayne's

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thing so that was an important element

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the instrumental of a minor is really

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interesting because it's it's like they

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recorded it expecting Dwayne to come in

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and add his guitar parts

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except there was no place for Dwayne

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Allman solo I mean it's I listened that

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song the other night it's

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just so obvious they were missing

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they didn't know what to do with that

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absence in that song

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Melissa

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was really the song that

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said we're gonna be okay

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it was an old song that Greg had written

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back in 68 or 69.

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and it was actually the original

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recording was the first time Dwayne

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played slide on record

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and Dickie played this really beautiful

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lead guitar behind the vocals that has

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been often imitated it was melodic

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it was

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just it set the mood of that song

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Perfectly and

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I think that one song really

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was a statement

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we're not only going to survive we're

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still going to be creatively viable

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they're gorgeous away

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and I believe I can run a piece of

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marathon thank you very much download

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v-lean now

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I'm here

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Egyptian

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s

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with Sweet Melissa

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the fact that they were able to come up

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with those in the immediate aftermath of

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Dwayne's death and their emotional

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Devastation is quite striking I don't

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think it's really fair to say that they

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were over it I think what it shows is

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that their form of therapy was musical

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they poured everything they had all of

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their grief all of their anxiety all of

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their nervousness all of their passion

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to continue into the music and what came

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out were very very strong tracks

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as the almonds only remaining guitarist

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Dicky Betts naturally assumed greater

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prominence onita Peach he stepped up to

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take vocals for the first time singing

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on his own composition Blue Sky in a

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significant step in the band's evolution

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Blue Sky really mined a new direction

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for the Almond Brothers he didn't want

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to sing it and everyone heard his demos

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like are you crazy

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you're perfect for that

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you know he wrote that for Sandy Blue

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Sky who who he was dating at the time

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and that song is just so filled with

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love and warmth for my money that is

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Dwayne Allman's greatest guitar so it

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was an important thing for the Allman

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Brothers because it showcased for the

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first time Dickey's country influences

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foreign

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foreign

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it obviously opens up a whole new

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direction for the band it's one that the

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band went heavier in because of the

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absence of Dwayne and will never know

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just how much they would have continued

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to explore it with Dwayne but I think

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what's also interesting about blue sky

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is that it opened up new avenues of

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Dwayne's guitar playing as well which is

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often overlooked and he plays

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beautifully and differently than he had

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before and then of course there's the

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Fantastic Harmony lines I would have

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loved to have heard what Dwayne and

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Dicky would have done in that vein

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further

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Capricorn records released Eat a Peach

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on February the 12th 1972. it was an

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instant success peaking at number four

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on the Billboard Chart

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although some boost in sales might be

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attributable to the media attention

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around the death of Dwayne Allman the

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critical and Commercial reception given

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to the album suggested that the second

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incarnation of the Allman Brothers Band

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was poised to exceed the achievements of

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the first

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well the people that I was promoting to

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didn't even know who the Allman Brothers

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Dwayne Allman was

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so it was the music

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and um

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I mean they may have heard your reading

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billboard about you know uh Regional

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band member dies in motorcycle wreck or

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something like that but they didn't know

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anything about making Capricorn you know

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it was all brand new territory and here

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we come with this operatic Jazz

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influenced

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shuffledown Boogie southern rock and it

386
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was not fitting in anything in the

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playlist that were out there at the time

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it was had to go in at midnight and and

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things like that because it was just

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totally uh 180 degrees out from what was

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being played

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following a tour behind eat a peach The

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Allman Brothers returned to the studio

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towards the close of 72 to record a

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follow-up brothers and sisters

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Capricorn had recently ended their

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distribution contract with Atlantic

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Records for whom Tom Dowd was a staff

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producer and the band now turned to

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Johnny Sandlin former drummer in Greg

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and Dwayne's early band The Hourglass to

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oversee the sessions

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I admire Tom down immensely I've

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listened to all his records and I was

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and especially the brothers

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and uh I liked some of his ideas I took

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and then I modified him with some ideas

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I came up with but

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it was it was just getting the band to

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play right and having the tape runner at

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the right time and you might come up

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with an idea

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put this verse here in that at a bridge

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or something but it was nothing that

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totally changed the meaning of the song

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or the other record

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but uh

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I was really proud of the time when I

419
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could bring ideas at time and personally

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given me and use them

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but as work on brothers and sisters

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commenced sandin was called on to divide

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his time in an unusual fashion parallel

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to sessions with the Allman Brothers

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Band he would also produce a Greg Allman

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solo project laid back

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Greg at this point had a set of songs

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that

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he didn't really think fit within the

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Allman Brothers structure he had this

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new arrangement of Midnight Rider he had

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Queen of Hearts which was a very Jazzy

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song that really you know I don't think

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at that point The Allman Brothers could

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have done

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uh he had multi-colored way which was a

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ballad

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is he had all these different flavorings

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that

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you know

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were sort of almond brother-ish but

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really didn't fit into what they were

443
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doing so I think he was actually smart

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to want to do a solo album Greg Allman

445
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has always had several sides to his

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musical personality and without a doubt

447
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he submerged some of them for the sake

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of the Allman Brothers Band The Allman

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Brothers Band was Dwayne's idea really

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Dwayne put the whole band together and

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then called Greg and said I got this

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great band and you got to come be the

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singer and he did and he was fantastic

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and Greg was the main songwriter

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initially he was the only songwriter

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really and he was writing songs and they

457
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were picking songs that would fit into

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the Allman Brothers Band catalog Greg

459
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wrote almost all the songs on the first

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album Greg wrote almost all the songs on

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the second album Dickie was just

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beginning to emerge and at the same time

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he was writing songs that he didn't

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think fit into the Allman Brothers

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catalog and he was putting them aside

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Greg has this fullky side of him he

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loved Tim Buckley loved Jackson Brown

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who was his first songwriting

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inspiration as a young man they were

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roommates in Los Angeles on laid back he

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plays Jackson browne's these days which

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Jackson has since said he had to relearn

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the song Greg's way because Greg had

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done it from memory and actually had

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made up some of it

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out that I'm walking

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I don't do that much

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these days I sing to thank a lot about

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the things that I forgot to do

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for you

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and all the times

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well I

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love her

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he wanted to go into a different area

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explore a different world than what the

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Allman Brothers were exploring

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it's a cool thing you know to get a

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great song and and it's fun to play and

490
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fun to hear and fun to perform and

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you play it and it goes this way and

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it's it's over in four minutes and 20

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seconds and

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on to the next you know it's it's it's a

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fun thing to do so

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the

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it's not surprising that's what he

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wanted to do I think that Johnny Sandlin

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and Greg Allman had a more clear

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understanding when they did laid back of

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what it was and that that was

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appropriate to put Greg in the

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foreground the musicians were in fact

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the backing musicians which is very

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different approach than the band and I

506
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think that did affect the overall sound

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of laid back which is a fantastic album

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I think it's Greg's greatest solo work

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and there it was almost thrown off in

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between recording sessions for brothers

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and sisters but I think that it had been

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building up with ingrag playing was

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great his singing was great and I think

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Johnny Sandlin was there and understood

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it and captured it and it's just a

516
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fantastic album that has stood to test

517
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the time you know from what I've been

518
00:22:19,559 --> 00:22:21,539
told was very therapeutic for him

519
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because

520
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he had that outlet and he had

521
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a way to express his grief you know one

522
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thing Johnny Sandlin talks about is you

523
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know that is a very dark album in many

524
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ways and I think for Greg it was it was

525
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a release

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I don't remember him being

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morose or or

528
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you know uh

529
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I think he was

530
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moving on I'm certain that somewhere

531
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inside him it was a wonderful way for

532
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him to move on

533
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and which his brother would

534
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have been quite pissed at him if he

535
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hadn't

536
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the laid-back sessions also had radical

537
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implications for the Allman Brothers

538
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Band

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among the collection of musicians

540
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recruited to back Greg was a young

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pianist Chuck Lavelle Johnny sandon had

542
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been contemplating a means by which to

543
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reimagine the Almond sound in the

544
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post-dwayne era and he now suggested to

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Greg that they invite Lavelle to sit in

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with the group on brothers and sisters

547
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the band agreed to give the idea a try

548
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I was amazed at his playing and I

549
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started using him for piano and

550
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everything I did

551
00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:37,679
and he was just wonderful

552
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he could sit in on anything it's not the

553
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nice it's nicer guys anybody could ask

554
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to meet

555
00:23:44,100 --> 00:23:46,080
and things just went smoothly with him

556
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on the piano

557
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after Dwayne died the brothers had gone

558
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through looking possibly for another

559
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guitar player but they weren't too they

560
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didn't like that idea it's just nobody

561
00:23:55,740 --> 00:23:58,919
could place Dwayne and uh Chuck showed

562
00:23:58,919 --> 00:24:01,140
up and he seemed to fit any knew their

563
00:24:01,140 --> 00:24:04,140
music he seemed to fit in and they'd got

564
00:24:04,140 --> 00:24:06,419
him to play and it was just natural and

565
00:24:06,419 --> 00:24:09,659
easy and once that once he started

566
00:24:09,659 --> 00:24:12,059
there was no denying and he was there

567
00:24:12,059 --> 00:24:16,080
he had played with uh Alex Taylor and Dr

568
00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:19,919
John who often opened shows for the

569
00:24:19,919 --> 00:24:22,559
brothers and chuck would actually set up

570
00:24:22,559 --> 00:24:24,360
his little keyboard without a sound

571
00:24:24,360 --> 00:24:26,520
system behind the stage and play along

572
00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:28,320
with the band so

573
00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:30,360
even though he wasn't in the band or

574
00:24:30,360 --> 00:24:32,940
invited to be in the band he was playing

575
00:24:32,940 --> 00:24:37,080
in the band after the laid-back sessions

576
00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:39,720
we had a meeting at Phil wallin's office

577
00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:43,740
and the band tendered him an offer to

578
00:24:43,740 --> 00:24:47,820
join and he was excited and accepted and

579
00:24:47,820 --> 00:24:52,320
that was again it it was not a new

580
00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:54,600
guitar player and it didn't replace

581
00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:56,760
Dwayne but it added something to the

582
00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:59,340
music that hadn't been there before

583
00:24:59,340 --> 00:25:13,869
[Music]

584
00:25:18,539 --> 00:25:20,130
foreign

585
00:25:20,130 --> 00:25:46,220
[Music]

586
00:25:46,220 --> 00:25:48,960
the five-man shows without another

587
00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:51,360
instrumentalist their ability to carry

588
00:25:51,360 --> 00:25:54,299
on was very impressive was was inspiring

589
00:25:54,299 --> 00:25:56,340
really but you could also hear a musical

590
00:25:56,340 --> 00:25:58,020
hole and they filled that whole

591
00:25:58,020 --> 00:26:00,559
brilliant way with Chuck Lavelle Chuck

592
00:26:00,559 --> 00:26:03,179
allowed them to continue on with the

593
00:26:03,179 --> 00:26:05,720
harmonies but completely different

594
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:07,500
harmonies instead of two guitar

595
00:26:07,500 --> 00:26:10,140
harmonies you now had piano and guitar

596
00:26:10,140 --> 00:26:12,120
harmonies and often three-part harmonies

597
00:26:12,120 --> 00:26:14,880
with the guitar the piano and Greg's

598
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:16,740
organ and something that's often

599
00:26:16,740 --> 00:26:18,539
overlooked is in that transition to

600
00:26:18,539 --> 00:26:20,580
Chuck Lavelle Greg actually became quite

601
00:26:20,580 --> 00:26:22,799
a bit more involved musically if you

602
00:26:22,799 --> 00:26:24,840
listen to Greg's organ Parts they're

603
00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:27,240
becoming much more intricate than they

604
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:29,039
were before he's not just playing a pad

605
00:26:29,039 --> 00:26:30,539
he's playing a part of a three-part

606
00:26:30,539 --> 00:26:33,360
Harmony which is a very complex thing to

607
00:26:33,360 --> 00:26:34,620
do

608
00:26:34,620 --> 00:26:37,159
foreign

609
00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:42,510
[Music]

610
00:26:43,159 --> 00:26:45,720
brothers and sisters was paused at the

611
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:47,820
beginning of November 72 as the band

612
00:26:47,820 --> 00:26:49,500
renegotiated their contract with

613
00:26:49,500 --> 00:26:51,779
Capricorn records and made their debut

614
00:26:51,779 --> 00:26:53,880
television appearance on Don kirschner's

615
00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:56,039
in concert

616
00:26:56,039 --> 00:26:57,779
less than two weeks later however

617
00:26:57,779 --> 00:27:00,720
disaster befell the brothers once again

618
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:03,120
in a scarcely believable twist of fate

619
00:27:03,120 --> 00:27:05,340
Barry Oakley was killed in a motorcycle

620
00:27:05,340 --> 00:27:08,100
accident just a few hundred yards from

621
00:27:08,100 --> 00:27:09,840
the site of Dwayne's death

622
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:12,059
burial head

623
00:27:12,059 --> 00:27:15,960
been on a downbound train since Dwayne's

624
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,600
death the drugs and alcohol and the

625
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:21,659
grief were just eating him alive

626
00:27:21,659 --> 00:27:25,919
but he had also been the social director

627
00:27:25,919 --> 00:27:28,320
of the band and that particular weekend

628
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:30,720
he had planned an event with the road

629
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:32,640
crew and the band wives that were going

630
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:35,279
to have a jam session a show at a local

631
00:27:35,279 --> 00:27:36,720
nightclub

632
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:40,020
and in the preparation for it he was out

633
00:27:40,020 --> 00:27:42,960
on the bike with Kim Payne

634
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:46,679
and within a very

635
00:27:46,679 --> 00:27:48,900
near radius to where Duane's accident

636
00:27:48,900 --> 00:27:52,620
was he had an accident he did not make a

637
00:27:52,620 --> 00:27:55,740
turn in the on his motor and he hit the

638
00:27:55,740 --> 00:27:58,500
side of a city bus and uh

639
00:27:58,500 --> 00:28:01,080
he went back to the big house he refused

640
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:02,640
to go to the hospital he said he was

641
00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:03,720
okay

642
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,419
and as he got back to the big house he

643
00:28:06,419 --> 00:28:10,760
immediately his condition

644
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,380
worsened and he was taken to the

645
00:28:13,380 --> 00:28:15,900
emergency room and

646
00:28:15,900 --> 00:28:17,760
he did not survive

647
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:21,000
he had fractured his brain and was

648
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:22,440
hemorrhaging

649
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:25,679
and what the doctor said was

650
00:28:25,679 --> 00:28:27,720
they there was nothing they could have

651
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:30,419
done even if he had gone to the hospital

652
00:28:30,419 --> 00:28:33,120
immediately after the accident

653
00:28:33,120 --> 00:28:36,600
and I'll never forget campaign

654
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:39,960
looked back and saw this in this very

655
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:43,080
brutal thought flashed through his mind

656
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:47,940
it's like oh [ __ ] there we go again

657
00:28:47,940 --> 00:28:50,820
I remember the last time I talked to him

658
00:28:50,820 --> 00:28:54,000
he'd call me in the afternoon say uh

659
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:55,980
some of us are going down to whatever

660
00:28:55,980 --> 00:28:58,799
the local bar we were going to then

661
00:28:58,799 --> 00:29:00,960
to jam

662
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:02,940
I want you to come down there and sit in

663
00:29:02,940 --> 00:29:05,820
with us and I said all right

664
00:29:05,820 --> 00:29:08,039
and I was planning to go down there and

665
00:29:08,039 --> 00:29:10,260
jam with him but that afternoons when I

666
00:29:10,260 --> 00:29:11,940
got called to the hospital again for

667
00:29:11,940 --> 00:29:15,840
Barry there were some very

668
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:19,260
Eerie similarities between Dwayne's

669
00:29:19,260 --> 00:29:22,140
death and Barry's death obviously they

670
00:29:22,140 --> 00:29:25,020
were both on motorcycles Dwayne was

671
00:29:25,020 --> 00:29:28,740
traveling down Hillcrest Avenue in Macon

672
00:29:28,740 --> 00:29:32,340
he passed ivernus and then hit a truck

673
00:29:32,340 --> 00:29:35,279
at the intersection of Bartlett

674
00:29:35,279 --> 00:29:38,460
Barry was going up Napier Avenue which

675
00:29:38,460 --> 00:29:41,520
runs parallel to Hillcrest

676
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:44,399
he had just passed Bartlett Avenue and

677
00:29:44,399 --> 00:29:46,380
he hit the bus at the intersection of

678
00:29:46,380 --> 00:29:47,640
iverness

679
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:50,279
so these crashes happen about a thousand

680
00:29:50,279 --> 00:29:52,980
yards apart you know both Dwayne and

681
00:29:52,980 --> 00:29:55,860
Barry were 24 at the time

682
00:29:55,860 --> 00:29:58,980
and the accidents happen exactly a year

683
00:29:58,980 --> 00:30:02,220
and 13 days apart

684
00:30:02,220 --> 00:30:04,919
so it was

685
00:30:04,919 --> 00:30:07,440
you know to a lot of people in the

686
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:11,120
Brotherhood it was just a very spooky

687
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:14,039
Coincidence of how these two accidents

688
00:30:14,039 --> 00:30:17,600
almost paralleled one another

689
00:30:17,620 --> 00:30:20,700
[Music]

690
00:30:20,700 --> 00:30:22,980
coming so soon after the death of Dwayne

691
00:30:22,980 --> 00:30:25,020
the almonds were hit even harder than

692
00:30:25,020 --> 00:30:27,360
they had been 13 months earlier and were

693
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:29,279
now overwhelmed by a sense of compound

694
00:30:29,279 --> 00:30:31,559
loss but once again they pledged that

695
00:30:31,559 --> 00:30:33,659
they would continue drummer jamo's

696
00:30:33,659 --> 00:30:35,399
childhood friend Lamar Williams took

697
00:30:35,399 --> 00:30:37,860
over on base and the band completed work

698
00:30:37,860 --> 00:30:39,179
on what would become their most

699
00:30:39,179 --> 00:30:41,279
commercially successful album brothers

700
00:30:41,279 --> 00:30:42,899
and sisters

701
00:30:42,899 --> 00:30:44,940
although Barry had passed and he was

702
00:30:44,940 --> 00:30:47,700
such a critical member of the band there

703
00:30:47,700 --> 00:30:49,620
was no stopping that was a band that

704
00:30:49,620 --> 00:30:52,500
there were musicians that's all they had

705
00:30:52,500 --> 00:30:54,240
I mean really when it comes down to it

706
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:56,700
it was their their spirit and their

707
00:30:56,700 --> 00:30:57,600
music

708
00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:01,020
and no one even thought about quitting I

709
00:31:01,020 --> 00:31:03,720
mean that would be almost

710
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:05,820
the antithesis of what

711
00:31:05,820 --> 00:31:07,440
Dwayne would have wondered what bear

712
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:09,120
would have wanted

713
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:10,500
and

714
00:31:10,500 --> 00:31:12,960
so they were carried on and they they

715
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:16,140
were they got they held auditions and

716
00:31:16,140 --> 00:31:18,299
came up with Lamar it was a great bass

717
00:31:18,299 --> 00:31:20,700
player too and a nice guy it was just

718
00:31:20,700 --> 00:31:23,460
death death Death I mean every day who's

719
00:31:23,460 --> 00:31:26,220
dead you know neocratic good friend of

720
00:31:26,220 --> 00:31:29,520
our the Capricorn killed in a you know

721
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,340
to flip the Porsche over and you know I

722
00:31:32,340 --> 00:31:34,919
mean it just it just seemed like every

723
00:31:34,919 --> 00:31:36,960
week that someone was the way that was

724
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:39,059
close to the family close to Capricorn

725
00:31:39,059 --> 00:31:41,640
family was dying off so I mean we're

726
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:43,860
just all like in shock and just we just

727
00:31:43,860 --> 00:31:45,419
said well like I guess maybe like

728
00:31:45,419 --> 00:31:47,760
soldiers in war you know they're so used

729
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:49,679
to you know people and everything they

730
00:31:49,679 --> 00:31:51,480
just you know we're on a mission and

731
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:53,279
that's basically what we were as a

732
00:31:53,279 --> 00:31:54,960
capital we were on a mission we wanted

733
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:57,179
to we wanted to stick this music up

734
00:31:57,179 --> 00:32:00,080
everybody's ass

735
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:02,279
and with brothers and sisters Dicky

736
00:32:02,279 --> 00:32:04,320
Betts had clearly emerged as the band's

737
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:07,440
key creative Force save for two songs by

738
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:09,299
Greg Allman all the album's original

739
00:32:09,299 --> 00:32:11,460
material was written by Dickey who

740
00:32:11,460 --> 00:32:13,140
developed the country strains previously

741
00:32:13,140 --> 00:32:15,659
heard on Blue Sky into an integral part

742
00:32:15,659 --> 00:32:17,880
of the Allman Brothers sound

743
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:19,919
I think brothers and sisters is a

744
00:32:19,919 --> 00:32:21,600
fantastic album so it's hard to pick

745
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:23,220
Stand Out tracks because the whole album

746
00:32:23,220 --> 00:32:26,100
is a standout but Ramblin Man actually

747
00:32:26,100 --> 00:32:27,899
obviously stands on its own as their

748
00:32:27,899 --> 00:32:29,159
biggest hit and it's something that

749
00:32:29,159 --> 00:32:30,539
doesn't really sound anything else like

750
00:32:30,539 --> 00:32:32,580
the band has ever done in addition

751
00:32:32,580 --> 00:32:35,279
Jessica is an all-time classic it's

752
00:32:35,279 --> 00:32:38,220
Jessica is a song that will be heard as

753
00:32:38,220 --> 00:32:40,080
long as anybody's listening to music it

754
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:41,700
will be on the radio it will be on

755
00:32:41,700 --> 00:32:43,620
commercials it will be on baseball

756
00:32:43,620 --> 00:32:46,679
football it's one of the most joyous

757
00:32:46,679 --> 00:32:48,460
happiest songs ever recorded

758
00:32:48,460 --> 00:32:56,820
[Music]

759
00:32:56,820 --> 00:32:58,460
foreign

760
00:32:58,460 --> 00:33:12,180
[Music]

761
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:16,320
I think of Jessica had not been there

762
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:18,659
the complexion of that entire album

763
00:33:18,659 --> 00:33:21,360
would have changed Dramatical you know

764
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:22,380
Jessica

765
00:33:22,380 --> 00:33:24,720
was another

766
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:27,179
song that was

767
00:33:27,179 --> 00:33:30,720
sort of earmarked by Dickey's country

768
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:34,019
influences it was a purely Western swing

769
00:33:34,019 --> 00:33:35,220
song

770
00:33:35,220 --> 00:33:37,980
and it not only gave Chuck his first

771
00:33:37,980 --> 00:33:39,840
real showcase

772
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:45,080
it gave Dicky an incredible showcase

773
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:58,279
[Music]

774
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:05,519
I think maybe Dicky felt a little

775
00:34:05,519 --> 00:34:08,460
liberated you know he was

776
00:34:08,460 --> 00:34:12,540
while not the designated leader he was

777
00:34:12,540 --> 00:34:14,839
more or less a musical leader

778
00:34:14,839 --> 00:34:17,460
there had always he had always had that

779
00:34:17,460 --> 00:34:19,980
country background he started writing

780
00:34:19,980 --> 00:34:22,619
more and more songs I think probably

781
00:34:22,619 --> 00:34:26,520
again that he was the musical Direction

782
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:28,918
of the band it definitely was a key

783
00:34:28,918 --> 00:34:30,719
driving force you know he would talk to

784
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:32,760
me about something if Greg they were

785
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:34,918
going in the studio he would say well

786
00:34:34,918 --> 00:34:37,260
Greg is Rewritten and you know changed

787
00:34:37,260 --> 00:34:38,699
the chord structure and Rewritten and

788
00:34:38,699 --> 00:34:41,099
interpreted a blues song so he would

789
00:34:41,099 --> 00:34:42,719
mention this to me we might be at a

790
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:45,060
restaurant or having a a beer or

791
00:34:45,060 --> 00:34:49,139
something and so uh Dickey was very

792
00:34:49,139 --> 00:34:52,080
um appreciative of everybody in the band

793
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:55,199
in their music in his own music

794
00:34:55,199 --> 00:34:57,180
um you know as a writer of instrumental

795
00:34:57,180 --> 00:34:58,400
Tunes

796
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:02,400
uh unbelievable

797
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:04,440
one of the standout tracks to Bear

798
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:06,720
Dickey's distinctive musical imprint was

799
00:35:06,720 --> 00:35:08,640
the Allman Brothers first hit single

800
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:10,020
Ramblin Man

801
00:35:10,020 --> 00:35:13,140
released in September 1973 as the lead

802
00:35:13,140 --> 00:35:15,480
single from brothers and sisters Ramblin

803
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:17,520
Mann was a breakout crossover success

804
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:19,440
reaching number two on the Billboard

805
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:21,480
Chart and being heavily played on radio

806
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:23,599
across America

807
00:35:23,599 --> 00:35:26,099
was a completely new musical direction

808
00:35:26,099 --> 00:35:28,440
for the Allman Brothers the only hint of

809
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:31,200
what might that it might be there was in

810
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:33,060
Blue Sky which is still quite different

811
00:35:33,060 --> 00:35:36,599
but it's it's in a similar vein

812
00:35:36,599 --> 00:35:38,700
um I don't think the band was completely

813
00:35:38,700 --> 00:35:40,980
surprised when Dicky pulled Ramblin Man

814
00:35:40,980 --> 00:35:42,540
out for these sessions because there's

815
00:35:42,540 --> 00:35:44,660
recordings of him showing it to Dwayne

816
00:35:44,660 --> 00:35:47,520
as early as during the early demo

817
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:49,859
sessions for eat a peach so Dicky had

818
00:35:49,859 --> 00:35:51,420
been kicking the song around for a while

819
00:35:51,420 --> 00:35:53,460
I think Dicky's interest in country

820
00:35:53,460 --> 00:35:55,260
music was well known to everyone in the

821
00:35:55,260 --> 00:35:58,200
band so they probably weren't shocked

822
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:01,040
laughs

823
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:19,099
[Music]

824
00:36:19,099 --> 00:36:22,260
I think that was the first real post

825
00:36:22,260 --> 00:36:25,020
Dwayne Allman song

826
00:36:25,020 --> 00:36:27,240
that is the song where Dicky came into

827
00:36:27,240 --> 00:36:29,160
his own

828
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:31,920
I can't imagine Dwayne playing on that

829
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:34,380
song and I think that was really where

830
00:36:34,380 --> 00:36:36,060
they turned the corner

831
00:36:36,060 --> 00:36:38,099
and became

832
00:36:38,099 --> 00:36:40,680
in reality this new version of The

833
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:43,079
Allman Brothers Band that was led by

834
00:36:43,079 --> 00:36:45,920
Dickey Betts

835
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:57,539
[Music]

836
00:37:00,020 --> 00:37:02,820
as I traveled around the country and we

837
00:37:02,820 --> 00:37:04,560
always had a car radio on in the rental

838
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:05,760
cars

839
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:07,740
I started hearing Rambling Man about

840
00:37:07,740 --> 00:37:10,020
every 30 minutes on every station I said

841
00:37:10,020 --> 00:37:12,839
this is going to be a hit record and it

842
00:37:12,839 --> 00:37:15,060
was Dickie's song and it was originally

843
00:37:15,060 --> 00:37:16,980
thought maybe too country for the band

844
00:37:16,980 --> 00:37:18,839
but uh

845
00:37:18,839 --> 00:37:21,300
yeah Dickies

846
00:37:21,300 --> 00:37:23,820
Dickies flavor was all through that

847
00:37:23,820 --> 00:37:25,560
album radio

848
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:28,619
you know was looking for something to

849
00:37:28,619 --> 00:37:30,420
play off that record and couldn't find

850
00:37:30,420 --> 00:37:32,880
anything but Rambling Man Rambling Man

851
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,460
and so that's what they played and we

852
00:37:35,460 --> 00:37:38,520
just got behind radio radio you know

853
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:40,680
pretty much forced that off the album so

854
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:42,960
we just got in behind that and went with

855
00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:44,460
it even though it wasn't the Allman

856
00:37:44,460 --> 00:37:47,940
Brothers sound but it fit radio format

857
00:37:47,940 --> 00:37:50,280
you know and you can't argue with radio

858
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:52,619
you know I mean or anybody in media

859
00:37:52,619 --> 00:37:54,420
that's got that big of a blowback you

860
00:37:54,420 --> 00:37:55,980
know you just you go with it you know

861
00:37:55,980 --> 00:37:58,260
and it's a lot easier to pull out of the

862
00:37:58,260 --> 00:38:00,300
radio stations once you've got these

863
00:38:00,300 --> 00:38:02,880
plethora of radio stations on it you

864
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:04,500
know get on this because you got 500

865
00:38:04,500 --> 00:38:06,180
stations on it well everybody they all

866
00:38:06,180 --> 00:38:08,960
joined on then

867
00:38:09,930 --> 00:38:13,160
[Music]

868
00:38:14,220 --> 00:38:16,140
the release of brothers and sisters in

869
00:38:16,140 --> 00:38:19,200
the summer of 1973 saw the band arrive

870
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:21,720
at the absolute peak of their Fame they

871
00:38:21,720 --> 00:38:23,940
performed in front of expensive sold out

872
00:38:23,940 --> 00:38:26,000
audiences on a U.S stadium tour

873
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,500
culminating in playing the Summer Jam in

874
00:38:28,500 --> 00:38:30,960
Watkins Glen New York where a crowd

875
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:33,660
numbering 600 000 watched The Allman

876
00:38:33,660 --> 00:38:35,579
Brothers headline what was the largest

877
00:38:35,579 --> 00:38:37,880
concert in history

878
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:41,579
[Music]

879
00:38:41,579 --> 00:38:44,220
their new album Memoir was also breaking

880
00:38:44,220 --> 00:38:48,180
records sales exceeded 750 000 coppers

881
00:38:48,180 --> 00:38:50,400
in just three weeks making it one of the

882
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:54,500
fastest selling LPS of all time

883
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:57,079
[Music]

884
00:38:57,079 --> 00:39:01,920
73 was really when they went from a big

885
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:05,220
band to a super group band the stadium

886
00:39:05,220 --> 00:39:06,480
shows

887
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:11,280
I mean no one could could uh help but be

888
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:14,400
uh cognizant of what was going on as far

889
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:16,740
as the success of the band the crowds

890
00:39:16,740 --> 00:39:19,980
the adulation the success of the records

891
00:39:19,980 --> 00:39:22,560
I used to comment how funny it was that

892
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:25,500
the band would in the 1970 would play

893
00:39:25,500 --> 00:39:28,200
for free or for a little or no money and

894
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:30,780
they would do the same show in 1973 and

895
00:39:30,780 --> 00:39:33,240
be paid hundreds of thousands of dollars

896
00:39:33,240 --> 00:39:34,920
for it

897
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:37,079
we never got the sense that we were one

898
00:39:37,079 --> 00:39:38,579
of the biggest bands in America we

899
00:39:38,579 --> 00:39:40,140
always consider ourselves the underdog

900
00:39:40,140 --> 00:39:42,420
so we're always you know swimming

901
00:39:42,420 --> 00:39:45,420
upstream and uh

902
00:39:45,420 --> 00:39:48,420
the success of the album like I said but

903
00:39:48,420 --> 00:39:52,020
that time you know all the machine you

904
00:39:52,020 --> 00:39:54,900
know was rolling the publicity the music

905
00:39:54,900 --> 00:39:58,260
the radio uh the articles I mean just

906
00:39:58,260 --> 00:40:00,599
everything was rolling so basically at

907
00:40:00,599 --> 00:40:04,020
that point we were just you know

908
00:40:04,020 --> 00:40:06,060
um

909
00:40:06,060 --> 00:40:07,980
working like you would if you were in

910
00:40:07,980 --> 00:40:09,780
the shoe business you know fill this

911
00:40:09,780 --> 00:40:11,650
order fill that order fill that order

912
00:40:11,650 --> 00:40:14,099
[Music]

913
00:40:14,099 --> 00:40:16,500
but with the fame came creeping issues

914
00:40:16,500 --> 00:40:17,940
that threatened the professional Harmony

915
00:40:17,940 --> 00:40:19,140
of the group

916
00:40:19,140 --> 00:40:21,540
success had been accompanied by excess

917
00:40:21,540 --> 00:40:23,820
with band members over indulging in

918
00:40:23,820 --> 00:40:25,500
drugs and alcohol

919
00:40:25,500 --> 00:40:27,960
two shows at Madison Square Garden had

920
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:29,760
been arranged around a stint in rehab

921
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:32,040
for Greg who tried in vain to get a

922
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:34,200
handle on his heroin addiction

923
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:36,720
egos had started to inflate and the

924
00:40:36,720 --> 00:40:38,579
overblown Entourage that surrounded the

925
00:40:38,579 --> 00:40:40,560
almonds became increasingly belligerent

926
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:42,660
with the road crew in particular prone

927
00:40:42,660 --> 00:40:44,760
to throwing their weight around matters

928
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:46,260
came to a head at a gig in Washington

929
00:40:46,260 --> 00:40:48,420
when Capricorn records promotional

930
00:40:48,420 --> 00:40:51,240
director dick Wooley was assaulted label

931
00:40:51,240 --> 00:40:53,280
Chief Phil Walden decided to fire a

932
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:55,140
warning shot and dismissed two of the

933
00:40:55,140 --> 00:40:57,599
band's longest-serving Roadies campaign

934
00:40:57,599 --> 00:40:59,880
and Mike Callahan Phil had really

935
00:40:59,880 --> 00:41:02,820
started cracking down on the Roadies

936
00:41:02,820 --> 00:41:04,260
because like I say the Allman Brothers

937
00:41:04,260 --> 00:41:06,720
were great wonderful to work with but

938
00:41:06,720 --> 00:41:08,220
all the Roadies thought they were rock

939
00:41:08,220 --> 00:41:11,160
stars and acted like rock stars so this

940
00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:13,440
Roadie stopped me at the top of the

941
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:15,900
stairs said you can't go back stage and

942
00:41:15,900 --> 00:41:17,520
I said well those are my seats over

943
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:20,160
there there's my wife and Peggy and Phil

944
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:21,780
and everything I got these beers and I'm

945
00:41:21,780 --> 00:41:24,060
going over here no you're not and I said

946
00:41:24,060 --> 00:41:29,220
yeah I am and so uh I I was wearing

947
00:41:29,220 --> 00:41:30,839
cowboy boots and had a couple of drinks

948
00:41:30,839 --> 00:41:33,300
myself so I wasn't you know I wasn't in

949
00:41:33,300 --> 00:41:36,780
fight and shape but when the guy hit me

950
00:41:36,780 --> 00:41:39,780
then I went after him and uh I was you

951
00:41:39,780 --> 00:41:41,940
know one thing you want to be in a fight

952
00:41:41,940 --> 00:41:46,320
you know is uh uh you know on bottom if

953
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:48,240
you're going to be swarmed and I could

954
00:41:48,240 --> 00:41:50,339
see the Swarm coming

955
00:41:50,339 --> 00:41:52,619
so I rolled over on the bottom and I'm

956
00:41:52,619 --> 00:41:54,800
punching this guy in the face you know

957
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:57,180
and uh and I was a pretty good puncher

958
00:41:57,180 --> 00:42:00,599
like I say I was Taekwondo I was uh uh I

959
00:42:00,599 --> 00:42:02,280
was I was a damn good fighter if I do

960
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:03,839
say so I got a couple of trophies to

961
00:42:03,839 --> 00:42:06,060
prove it from the road Cruise point of

962
00:42:06,060 --> 00:42:09,300
view the stage had gotten dangerous they

963
00:42:09,300 --> 00:42:12,000
felt like it was even buckling to the

964
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:14,420
point that one more person

965
00:42:14,420 --> 00:42:18,300
uh up on stage even a friend or family

966
00:42:18,300 --> 00:42:21,240
person would be dangerous and they just

967
00:42:21,240 --> 00:42:23,460
made a complete cut off I just remember

968
00:42:23,460 --> 00:42:25,560
getting you know

969
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:29,700
Bright Lights uh

970
00:42:30,060 --> 00:42:33,300
um and someone getting me and pulling me

971
00:42:33,300 --> 00:42:35,460
out from underneath that pile by this

972
00:42:35,460 --> 00:42:38,640
time four or five guys big huge guy one

973
00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:40,020
of the Grateful Dead Roadies I think

974
00:42:40,020 --> 00:42:41,880
they had some kind of a nickname like

975
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:44,940
killer or you know uh King Kong or

976
00:42:44,940 --> 00:42:46,800
something but he was huge and had me in

977
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:49,680
one of these police holds and I'm you

978
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:52,140
know I'm I'm still fighting you know and

979
00:42:52,140 --> 00:42:54,599
he saved my ass is what he did by

980
00:42:54,599 --> 00:42:56,300
pulling me out of there I thought he was

981
00:42:56,300 --> 00:42:59,280
going to do me harm but he pulled me out

982
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:02,160
of there saved my life probably that was

983
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:07,020
the breaking point for taking crap you

984
00:43:07,020 --> 00:43:09,060
know from these Roadies you know a road

985
00:43:09,060 --> 00:43:11,460
is a baggage handler you know or a

986
00:43:11,460 --> 00:43:13,319
Furniture mover so I mean you know this

987
00:43:13,319 --> 00:43:15,540
attitude's got to cease so that was kind

988
00:43:15,540 --> 00:43:18,240
of the breaking point right there so I

989
00:43:18,240 --> 00:43:20,700
think he he fired that that night he

990
00:43:20,700 --> 00:43:23,339
fired and let him know you know that you

991
00:43:23,339 --> 00:43:25,260
know hey this is a business even though

992
00:43:25,260 --> 00:43:27,540
creatively and financially things were

993
00:43:27,540 --> 00:43:29,579
still on an upswing

994
00:43:29,579 --> 00:43:33,480
uh there were problems beginning

995
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:37,079
as far as the road crew who were heavily

996
00:43:37,079 --> 00:43:40,319
drugged out and I'm no no one will deny

997
00:43:40,319 --> 00:43:41,339
that

998
00:43:41,339 --> 00:43:43,740
and the pressures that they went through

999
00:43:43,740 --> 00:43:46,140
on these big stadium shows and outdoor

1000
00:43:46,140 --> 00:43:48,660
shows there was tension there

1001
00:43:48,660 --> 00:43:53,460
the band was starting to get a little

1002
00:43:53,460 --> 00:43:56,819
aloof a little apart from one another so

1003
00:43:56,819 --> 00:44:00,800
there was kind of a a drift beginning

1004
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:03,720
but the year ended on a high with the

1005
00:44:03,720 --> 00:44:05,400
Allman Brothers named as Rolling Stones

1006
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:08,400
Band of 1973 and featured on the cover

1007
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:10,140
of that Christmas edition

1008
00:44:10,140 --> 00:44:13,079
Greg's solo album laid back climbed as

1009
00:44:13,079 --> 00:44:15,000
high as 13 and the charts following its

1010
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:17,160
release in October to cap a roller

1011
00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:18,900
coaster year in which he had married his

1012
00:44:18,900 --> 00:44:21,300
second wife Janice Blair Mulkey and

1013
00:44:21,300 --> 00:44:23,940
struggled through drug rehab the dawn of

1014
00:44:23,940 --> 00:44:27,240
1974 saw his version of Midnight Rider

1015
00:44:27,240 --> 00:44:29,760
become a top 20 hit and the first ever

1016
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:33,359
Greg Allman solo tour commenced in March

1017
00:44:33,359 --> 00:44:35,880
when I talk about laid back I like to

1018
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:37,800
confess that is my favorite album that

1019
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:39,180
I've ever done

1020
00:44:39,180 --> 00:44:43,140
I felt like we we had good songs and

1021
00:44:43,140 --> 00:44:45,119
Greg was in top form

1022
00:44:45,119 --> 00:44:47,040
and it worked out we had good

1023
00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:50,339
Arrangements and good players it was an

1024
00:44:50,339 --> 00:44:53,940
immediate commercial success and we went

1025
00:44:53,940 --> 00:44:56,099
on tour with Greg and a big string

1026
00:44:56,099 --> 00:44:58,920
audience a string section and a full

1027
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:02,359
band and scenery and lighting it was

1028
00:45:02,359 --> 00:45:04,619
completely different from the Allman

1029
00:45:04,619 --> 00:45:06,720
Brothers and it was a very big

1030
00:45:06,720 --> 00:45:10,859
successful tour unbelievable band two

1031
00:45:10,859 --> 00:45:12,420
drummers

1032
00:45:12,420 --> 00:45:17,040
uh organ piano two guitars me and Scott

1033
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:21,300
Boyer a five-piece horn section uh three

1034
00:45:21,300 --> 00:45:25,319
female background singers and uh on we

1035
00:45:25,319 --> 00:45:27,240
did two tours and on one of the tours

1036
00:45:27,240 --> 00:45:31,500
was the string section so at one at one

1037
00:45:31,500 --> 00:45:33,960
any given moment on stage there was

1038
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:36,420
probably I think 26

1039
00:45:36,420 --> 00:45:40,800
24 of 26 people on stage and and the

1040
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:44,220
power of that is just a great feeling

1041
00:45:44,220 --> 00:45:48,000
and the tour was done on a

1042
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:51,119
really classy high level kind of in

1043
00:45:51,119 --> 00:45:54,060
keeping with the spirit of the sound of

1044
00:45:54,060 --> 00:45:57,480
the laid-back album it it's slick you

1045
00:45:57,480 --> 00:46:00,720
know it's it's slick without you losing

1046
00:46:00,720 --> 00:46:02,359
the soul

1047
00:46:02,359 --> 00:46:05,819
uh and so we did all the best theaters

1048
00:46:05,819 --> 00:46:08,579
and and all the biggest cities it was

1049
00:46:08,579 --> 00:46:10,140
wonderful you know the Allman Brothers

1050
00:46:10,140 --> 00:46:12,180
Band was Dwayne's

1051
00:46:12,180 --> 00:46:16,140
vision of a group and Greg was a piece

1052
00:46:16,140 --> 00:46:18,780
of that a very important piece

1053
00:46:18,780 --> 00:46:23,640
but it was someone's definition of what

1054
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:26,099
the sound should be like you know it

1055
00:46:26,099 --> 00:46:29,700
wasn't Greg's vision for what his sound

1056
00:46:29,700 --> 00:46:32,220
should be you know Greg always wrote

1057
00:46:32,220 --> 00:46:34,140
songs that

1058
00:46:34,140 --> 00:46:37,619
didn't always fit within the structure

1059
00:46:37,619 --> 00:46:41,700
of the Allman Brothers and his solo

1060
00:46:41,700 --> 00:46:44,640
album and solo tour really helped him

1061
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:47,880
Define who he was both artistically and

1062
00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:49,500
as a person

1063
00:46:49,500 --> 00:46:52,440
you know in a way that was Greg getting

1064
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:54,599
out from under the shadow of his big

1065
00:46:54,599 --> 00:46:55,800
brother

1066
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:59,579
and him coming of age as a musician

1067
00:46:59,579 --> 00:47:01,920
I don't know if it's coincidental or not

1068
00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:03,720
but he seemed to be writing less

1069
00:47:03,720 --> 00:47:05,760
material that was

1070
00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:08,760
adaptable to the Allman Brothers Band

1071
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:10,740
but Greg's drug addictions were

1072
00:47:10,740 --> 00:47:12,060
deepening

1073
00:47:12,060 --> 00:47:14,099
now supplied directly by his personal

1074
00:47:14,099 --> 00:47:16,560
assistant scooter Herring he struggled

1075
00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:19,140
to perform on stage regularly unable to

1076
00:47:19,140 --> 00:47:21,720
play reliably alongside the band

1077
00:47:21,720 --> 00:47:23,940
with the excesses and addictions came

1078
00:47:23,940 --> 00:47:26,220
escalating tension and the members of

1079
00:47:26,220 --> 00:47:27,839
The Allman Brothers Band started to

1080
00:47:27,839 --> 00:47:30,240
drift apart with the family ethos of the

1081
00:47:30,240 --> 00:47:31,800
group increasingly looking like a

1082
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:35,520
utopian dream now consigned to the Past

1083
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:38,579
drug use was really getting to be

1084
00:47:38,579 --> 00:47:41,220
a problem at that point

1085
00:47:41,220 --> 00:47:43,740
I got a phone call in New York at the

1086
00:47:43,740 --> 00:47:45,900
hotel

1087
00:47:45,900 --> 00:47:47,460
that

1088
00:47:47,460 --> 00:47:50,940
Greg had overdosed and

1089
00:47:50,940 --> 00:47:54,540
it looked very serious I rushed over

1090
00:47:54,540 --> 00:47:56,760
some other band members had gotten there

1091
00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:58,140
before me

1092
00:47:58,140 --> 00:47:59,579
uh

1093
00:47:59,579 --> 00:48:01,880
we were able to

1094
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:04,079
revive him

1095
00:48:04,079 --> 00:48:06,480
and

1096
00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:08,760
you know I don't think he realized the

1097
00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:11,339
seriousness of it but we did

1098
00:48:11,339 --> 00:48:16,260
they were all young they all had money

1099
00:48:16,260 --> 00:48:20,940
they were all partying very hard in

1100
00:48:20,940 --> 00:48:24,180
I think a lot of that was

1101
00:48:24,180 --> 00:48:26,640
them trying to deal with grief and doing

1102
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:31,520
it and not not very healthy way

1103
00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:35,160
and there was nobody to say no once they

1104
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:38,400
came into money it sort of took them

1105
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:40,440
away from their Roots you know the first

1106
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:42,900
couple years they all lived together

1107
00:48:42,900 --> 00:48:48,000
by 74 yeah they were scattered all over

1108
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:50,940
the place when they went on tour

1109
00:48:50,940 --> 00:48:53,880
they would they would

1110
00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:57,599
rent Suites for each band member and

1111
00:48:57,599 --> 00:48:59,760
they would spend like five minutes awake

1112
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:02,640
and then just crash they never saw the

1113
00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:05,760
rooms Butch would order five bottles of

1114
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:07,980
Dom Perignon and leave four of them

1115
00:49:07,980 --> 00:49:11,300
behind for the maid

1116
00:49:11,300 --> 00:49:15,359
Greg got a limo so Dicky had to get a

1117
00:49:15,359 --> 00:49:17,339
limo

1118
00:49:17,339 --> 00:49:19,140
and it just

1119
00:49:19,140 --> 00:49:22,800
the spirit that really propelled them

1120
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:25,619
seem to get lost it was at this point

1121
00:49:25,619 --> 00:49:27,480
you could really start to see it

1122
00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:30,000
beginning to unravel I don't know that

1123
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:31,800
they changed so much on the basis of

1124
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:34,619
success I think it's a time it's in and

1125
00:49:34,619 --> 00:49:38,280
not necessarily a musical disharmony I

1126
00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:40,579
think it's just uh

1127
00:49:40,579 --> 00:49:44,220
uh you know when you how much are we

1128
00:49:44,220 --> 00:49:45,420
going to work what are we going to do

1129
00:49:45,420 --> 00:49:48,599
what are playing uh are there outside

1130
00:49:48,599 --> 00:49:51,560
influences

1131
00:49:51,720 --> 00:49:54,800
are there some bad habits are there

1132
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:57,720
different influences of all of these

1133
00:49:57,720 --> 00:50:00,660
types they play A Part every band you

1134
00:50:00,660 --> 00:50:01,619
read about

1135
00:50:01,619 --> 00:50:04,500
you know of you go why did they break up

1136
00:50:04,500 --> 00:50:06,599
and then why did they come back together

1137
00:50:06,599 --> 00:50:11,280
so I think everybody was aware maybe not

1138
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:14,040
aware enough and maybe not knowing

1139
00:50:14,040 --> 00:50:16,920
exactly maybe how to help in some

1140
00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:19,880
circumstances

1141
00:50:20,099 --> 00:50:22,319
The Omen Brothers Band agreed to take a

1142
00:50:22,319 --> 00:50:24,359
break and after a summer tour they went

1143
00:50:24,359 --> 00:50:26,040
their separate ways for the final four

1144
00:50:26,040 --> 00:50:28,859
months of 1974.

1145
00:50:28,859 --> 00:50:30,900
Dickey Betts took the opportunity to

1146
00:50:30,900 --> 00:50:33,359
launch his own solo career and his debut

1147
00:50:33,359 --> 00:50:35,640
album Highway call matched the success

1148
00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:37,859
of Greg Allman's laid back in Breaking

1149
00:50:37,859 --> 00:50:39,540
the top 20.

1150
00:50:39,540 --> 00:50:41,819
dick is always one with surprises and

1151
00:50:41,819 --> 00:50:43,980
and I love the music that he'd be

1152
00:50:43,980 --> 00:50:44,940
brought in

1153
00:50:44,940 --> 00:50:46,800
I thought well this is a fresh look at

1154
00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:50,880
at uh more country music and I loved it

1155
00:50:50,880 --> 00:50:53,280
and there again we got to work with some

1156
00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:55,920
very talented people and Dicky was just

1157
00:50:55,920 --> 00:50:57,960
showing his old different side of

1158
00:50:57,960 --> 00:50:59,339
himself

1159
00:50:59,339 --> 00:51:01,859
and he is super talented

1160
00:51:01,859 --> 00:51:03,559
I mean he is

1161
00:51:03,559 --> 00:51:06,839
writing and singings always been good

1162
00:51:06,839 --> 00:51:09,359
but it's guitar playing

1163
00:51:09,359 --> 00:51:11,640
this is pretty amazing

1164
00:51:11,640 --> 00:51:14,400
and you've put him around these other

1165
00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:16,740
great musicians and it's gonna it's

1166
00:51:16,740 --> 00:51:17,900
gonna happen right

1167
00:51:17,900 --> 00:51:26,590
[Music]

1168
00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:33,920
I'll Always Love The Home Road

1169
00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:37,920
Precious Memories

1170
00:51:39,740 --> 00:51:47,220
[Music]

1171
00:51:47,220 --> 00:51:48,780
me

1172
00:51:48,780 --> 00:51:51,480
I love the songs and I love the music we

1173
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:52,920
had fun doing it

1174
00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:55,500
we had late nights and we start like 10

1175
00:51:55,500 --> 00:51:57,540
at night I think dick you had to watch

1176
00:51:57,540 --> 00:52:00,480
the I can't remember what this show I

1177
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:03,480
think it was kung fu as a TV show of his

1178
00:52:03,480 --> 00:52:05,640
own didn't come on until nine o'clock at

1179
00:52:05,640 --> 00:52:07,319
night and he would have to see that

1180
00:52:07,319 --> 00:52:09,619
before he'd come to the session

1181
00:52:09,619 --> 00:52:12,540
Dickey Betts uh solo debut Highway call

1182
00:52:12,540 --> 00:52:15,480
is I think a fantastic album I would put

1183
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:17,520
it up there as well recorded just after

1184
00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:20,280
laid back and these in in both Dickie

1185
00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:21,960
cases and Greg's case was their full

1186
00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:23,760
first solo albums and in many ways their

1187
00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:25,680
most successful one I would call shows

1188
00:52:25,680 --> 00:52:27,720
Dickey Betts conception of country and

1189
00:52:27,720 --> 00:52:29,220
it's very different than the conception

1190
00:52:29,220 --> 00:52:31,079
of country coming out of Nashville at

1191
00:52:31,079 --> 00:52:32,880
that time and it's also very different

1192
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:34,680
than the conception of country coming

1193
00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:36,960
out of sort of California hippies

1194
00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:39,960
without a doubt in my mind if Dickey

1195
00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:41,640
Betts had decided to move to Nashville

1196
00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:43,260
and just start hanging out full time

1197
00:52:43,260 --> 00:52:45,140
with Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings

1198
00:52:45,140 --> 00:52:48,180
and that crew he could have been a

1199
00:52:48,180 --> 00:52:50,280
linchpin of the Outlaw country music in

1200
00:52:50,280 --> 00:52:51,900
some ways what Dickey was doing was a

1201
00:52:51,900 --> 00:52:54,119
precursor to the Outlaw country that was

1202
00:52:54,119 --> 00:52:56,339
just just budding although again it was

1203
00:52:56,339 --> 00:52:58,740
distinctly different he had this sort of

1204
00:52:58,740 --> 00:53:01,920
Rebel country rock thing it was country

1205
00:53:01,920 --> 00:53:04,319
music filtered through the guy who had

1206
00:53:04,319 --> 00:53:06,480
played on live at Fillmore East Dwayne

1207
00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:08,400
Allman and of course that was different

1208
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:11,119
[Music]

1209
00:53:11,119 --> 00:53:14,960
wake up

1210
00:53:14,960 --> 00:53:18,190
there's something in your song

1211
00:53:18,190 --> 00:53:23,039
[Music]

1212
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:29,960
you keep me rolling along

1213
00:53:31,319 --> 00:53:35,480
keep me rolling on

1214
00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:38,819
I'll tell you by then after the Allman

1215
00:53:38,819 --> 00:53:41,760
Brothers and the look what was Greg's

1216
00:53:41,760 --> 00:53:42,839
album

1217
00:53:42,839 --> 00:53:45,960
and Dickey's album I guess you got to

1218
00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:48,839
got to a point I don't mean this sounds

1219
00:53:48,839 --> 00:53:50,880
all stuck up you know but I thought the

1220
00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:53,040
illness we have a magic thing here and

1221
00:53:53,040 --> 00:53:54,780
it's going to keep working

1222
00:53:54,780 --> 00:53:56,880
of course that doesn't keep working

1223
00:53:56,880 --> 00:53:58,200
forever but

1224
00:53:58,200 --> 00:54:01,559
if it would ride it while we could

1225
00:54:01,559 --> 00:54:04,319
and in the winter of 1974 two of The

1226
00:54:04,319 --> 00:54:06,119
Allman Brothers Band went head to head

1227
00:54:06,119 --> 00:54:08,160
as both dickiebacks and Greg ulman

1228
00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:10,680
embarked on U.S solo tours

1229
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:12,780
wary of being in competition with one

1230
00:54:12,780 --> 00:54:14,940
another the two camps negotiated on

1231
00:54:14,940 --> 00:54:16,740
venue dates and who would have their

1232
00:54:16,740 --> 00:54:19,619
pick of available backing musicians we

1233
00:54:19,619 --> 00:54:22,260
tried to keep their dates to their shows

1234
00:54:22,260 --> 00:54:23,880
from being in conflict with each other

1235
00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:26,420
in terms of selling tickets you know

1236
00:54:26,420 --> 00:54:29,760
all of a sudden both shows are on sale

1237
00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:32,400
in the same Market you know and they're

1238
00:54:32,400 --> 00:54:34,380
a week apart well we tried to keep them

1239
00:54:34,380 --> 00:54:36,480
greater than a week apart and the

1240
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:38,940
routing to treat them as far as apart

1241
00:54:38,940 --> 00:54:41,280
and all of a sudden you're crisscrossing

1242
00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:43,500
the country and they end up maybe in the

1243
00:54:43,500 --> 00:54:46,980
same city on the same night you just

1244
00:54:46,980 --> 00:54:50,640
couldn't avoid it uh 100 and I think

1245
00:54:50,640 --> 00:54:52,319
maybe a couple of times they were close

1246
00:54:52,319 --> 00:54:53,940
and one would go over and see the other

1247
00:54:53,940 --> 00:54:57,059
one and so forth so my efforts to sort

1248
00:54:57,059 --> 00:54:59,339
of separate them was not a personality

1249
00:54:59,339 --> 00:55:02,460
issue so much as it was that if one was

1250
00:55:02,460 --> 00:55:04,440
playing the same venue in the same town

1251
00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:07,380
but four weeks apart

1252
00:55:07,380 --> 00:55:09,720
you know you could just you know they'd

1253
00:55:09,720 --> 00:55:12,059
have a chance to not competing with the

1254
00:55:12,059 --> 00:55:14,520
Allman Brothers Band audiences for which

1255
00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:16,380
if a public is going to make a decision

1256
00:55:16,380 --> 00:55:18,780
give their give the fans the time to get

1257
00:55:18,780 --> 00:55:20,280
a little more jingle in their pocket get

1258
00:55:20,280 --> 00:55:22,380
another payday behind them get some

1259
00:55:22,380 --> 00:55:23,940
money in their pocket and go see both

1260
00:55:23,940 --> 00:55:26,460
doing their solo tour

1261
00:55:26,460 --> 00:55:29,280
there was never any overt competition

1262
00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:32,160
between dick and Greg but I think it was

1263
00:55:32,160 --> 00:55:36,020
covert I think they couldn't help but

1264
00:55:36,020 --> 00:55:39,119
uh each being jealous somewhat I don't

1265
00:55:39,119 --> 00:55:41,700
know if jealous is the right word but uh

1266
00:55:41,700 --> 00:55:44,400
not resentful but just maybe a little

1267
00:55:44,400 --> 00:55:48,480
professional jealousy in the fall of 74.

1268
00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:54,380
when Greg and Dicky were both out solo

1269
00:55:54,380 --> 00:55:57,780
and I obviously couldn't go with both of

1270
00:55:57,780 --> 00:56:00,359
them at the same time I think Dickie was

1271
00:56:00,359 --> 00:56:03,380
feeling that maybe he was getting the uh

1272
00:56:03,380 --> 00:56:06,720
stepchild treatment that Greg's tour was

1273
00:56:06,720 --> 00:56:09,720
getting the best of the Roadies it was

1274
00:56:09,720 --> 00:56:12,720
very diplomatic we had to share Roadies

1275
00:56:12,720 --> 00:56:16,619
uh again I went with Dickie as maybe the

1276
00:56:16,619 --> 00:56:18,540
senior road person

1277
00:56:18,540 --> 00:56:20,700
but Greg got some of the better

1278
00:56:20,700 --> 00:56:22,880
musicians it was

1279
00:56:22,880 --> 00:56:25,980
it was a little chippy there Dickey

1280
00:56:25,980 --> 00:56:27,480
Betts was

1281
00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:30,960
more country than Rock and he had a lot

1282
00:56:30,960 --> 00:56:34,260
of country musicians he was built as

1283
00:56:34,260 --> 00:56:36,780
Richard Betts at his request I think

1284
00:56:36,780 --> 00:56:40,980
maybe he confused his fan base

1285
00:56:40,980 --> 00:56:44,460
his tour was not nearly as successful as

1286
00:56:44,460 --> 00:56:46,619
Greg's

1287
00:56:46,619 --> 00:56:48,960
he didn't make as much money off of it

1288
00:56:48,960 --> 00:56:51,359
and some many of the shows were just not

1289
00:56:51,359 --> 00:56:54,359
successful I I think there was some

1290
00:56:54,359 --> 00:56:57,540
confusion in the marketplace on that my

1291
00:56:57,540 --> 00:56:59,520
next guest is a very special member of

1292
00:56:59,520 --> 00:57:01,740
the rock music scene for the past two

1293
00:57:01,740 --> 00:57:03,599
years he was voted number one in the

1294
00:57:03,599 --> 00:57:05,880
All-Star Rock and Jazz poll you know

1295
00:57:05,880 --> 00:57:07,619
he's got enough Gold Records to open up

1296
00:57:07,619 --> 00:57:09,780
a chain of banks he's also the lead

1297
00:57:09,780 --> 00:57:11,579
singer in the great Allman Brothers Band

1298
00:57:11,579 --> 00:57:14,280
he's a guitarist a composer

1299
00:57:14,280 --> 00:57:16,319
and he's really terrific he's also a

1300
00:57:16,319 --> 00:57:18,550
very good friend of mine Mr Greg Allman

1301
00:57:18,550 --> 00:57:21,540
[Applause]

1302
00:57:21,540 --> 00:57:24,480
in January 75 just a month after

1303
00:57:24,480 --> 00:57:26,339
finalizing a divorce from his second

1304
00:57:26,339 --> 00:57:29,640
wife Janice Greg Allman met Cher and the

1305
00:57:29,640 --> 00:57:31,079
two began dating

1306
00:57:31,079 --> 00:57:33,000
sessions for a new Allman Brothers album

1307
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:34,980
had been planned to start at Capricorn

1308
00:57:34,980 --> 00:57:37,680
Studios back in Macon Georgia but gray

1309
00:57:37,680 --> 00:57:39,720
could move to Los Angeles where he was a

1310
00:57:39,720 --> 00:57:41,160
sconced with Cher

1311
00:57:41,160 --> 00:57:43,020
the recording process for what would

1312
00:57:43,020 --> 00:57:45,119
become win loser or draw proved to be

1313
00:57:45,119 --> 00:57:47,700
torturous with producer Johnny sandling

1314
00:57:47,700 --> 00:57:50,220
finding it an almost impossible task to

1315
00:57:50,220 --> 00:57:51,900
cajole the band into taking the project

1316
00:57:51,900 --> 00:57:54,680
seriously

1317
00:57:54,900 --> 00:57:59,339
[Music]

1318
00:57:59,339 --> 00:58:01,920
everybody was separated there were very

1319
00:58:01,920 --> 00:58:04,140
few times when everybody was in the

1320
00:58:04,140 --> 00:58:05,760
studio at the same time

1321
00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:08,040
with everybody playing or or working

1322
00:58:08,040 --> 00:58:09,480
opportunities

1323
00:58:09,480 --> 00:58:12,540
and there's so-and-so would have a song

1324
00:58:12,540 --> 00:58:14,940
the other person would have a song and

1325
00:58:14,940 --> 00:58:16,440
they put them together but they'd work

1326
00:58:16,440 --> 00:58:18,540
them up usually on their own there was

1327
00:58:18,540 --> 00:58:21,000
no interaction between them

1328
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:23,339
but it's just

1329
00:58:23,339 --> 00:58:25,020
you know you can see that it just wasn't

1330
00:58:25,020 --> 00:58:26,940
the interest on their part

1331
00:58:26,940 --> 00:58:29,400
I think more than anything they weren't

1332
00:58:29,400 --> 00:58:31,800
pretty as much

1333
00:58:31,800 --> 00:58:34,920
as a time into it or just much as much

1334
00:58:34,920 --> 00:58:38,400
gift to it Ray and Dicky

1335
00:58:38,400 --> 00:58:39,960
would call if they didn't want to go

1336
00:58:39,960 --> 00:58:41,400
they didn't go

1337
00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:42,839
if they didn't want like when the

1338
00:58:42,839 --> 00:58:44,760
session was they wouldn't go they

1339
00:58:44,760 --> 00:58:47,160
wouldn't show up and this was

1340
00:58:47,160 --> 00:58:49,859
much worse on on Greg than it was Vicky

1341
00:58:49,859 --> 00:58:51,240
but

1342
00:58:51,240 --> 00:58:52,920
I don't know if Capricorn had anything

1343
00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:54,960
to do about they were trying to get a

1344
00:58:54,960 --> 00:58:57,420
record out the record company was and

1345
00:58:57,420 --> 00:58:59,520
and it seemed like the only way to do it

1346
00:58:59,520 --> 00:59:03,420
was to put up with this nonsense really

1347
00:59:03,420 --> 00:59:06,839
to compound all that during those

1348
00:59:06,839 --> 00:59:10,619
sessions Greg started dating Cher

1349
00:59:10,619 --> 00:59:14,099
who was the biggest television star in

1350
00:59:14,099 --> 00:59:18,119
Hollywood and not only kept Greg and La

1351
00:59:18,119 --> 00:59:20,940
during those sessions but kept

1352
00:59:20,940 --> 00:59:22,440
two of them

1353
00:59:22,440 --> 00:59:25,440
on the cover of every tabloid

1354
00:59:25,440 --> 00:59:29,040
in your supermarket checkout line

1355
00:59:29,040 --> 00:59:31,740
so for a large part of that session Greg

1356
00:59:31,740 --> 00:59:35,160
was not even in Macon and at a certain

1357
00:59:35,160 --> 00:59:39,599
point Johnny sent tapes to La for Greg

1358
00:59:39,599 --> 00:59:42,180
to do his vocals

1359
00:59:42,180 --> 00:59:44,040
and what happens

1360
00:59:44,040 --> 00:59:47,819
Greg cuts his vocals when he has a cold

1361
00:59:47,819 --> 00:59:51,359
that when loser draw album was just a

1362
00:59:51,359 --> 00:59:53,460
disaster from every angle you look at

1363
00:59:53,460 --> 00:59:57,780
you could just see the end was not far

1364
00:59:57,780 --> 00:59:59,760
off

1365
00:59:59,760 --> 01:00:02,160
Win Lose or Draw was released in August

1366
01:00:02,160 --> 01:00:05,940
1975 after months of arduous sessions

1367
01:00:05,940 --> 01:00:08,040
though the ormond's popularity ensured

1368
01:00:08,040 --> 01:00:10,680
that sales held up reviews were largely

1369
01:00:10,680 --> 01:00:12,599
negative with some critics floating the

1370
01:00:12,599 --> 01:00:14,880
notion that the group was out of time

1371
01:00:14,880 --> 01:00:17,940
okay this isn't brothers and sisters but

1372
01:00:17,940 --> 01:00:20,819
yeah it still has some great music High

1373
01:00:20,819 --> 01:00:22,319
Falls

1374
01:00:22,319 --> 01:00:24,540
it's just a brilliant instrumental that

1375
01:00:24,540 --> 01:00:27,599
that Dickie put together when loser draw

1376
01:00:27,599 --> 01:00:30,240
was a great song that Greg wrote he

1377
01:00:30,240 --> 01:00:32,579
wrote it about a friend of his who had

1378
01:00:32,579 --> 01:00:34,859
done time in prison but the band

1379
01:00:34,859 --> 01:00:38,280
butchered and Greg recorded it with a

1380
01:00:38,280 --> 01:00:41,339
cold so his vocals were not what they

1381
01:00:41,339 --> 01:00:42,290
should have been either

1382
01:00:42,290 --> 01:00:50,050
[Music]

1383
01:00:50,220 --> 01:00:52,220
foreign

1384
01:00:52,220 --> 01:01:27,929
[Music]

1385
01:01:27,980 --> 01:01:30,340
looking back on that album

1386
01:01:30,340 --> 01:01:32,940
[Music]

1387
01:01:32,940 --> 01:01:36,619
it really wasn't very good

1388
01:01:36,720 --> 01:01:40,559
yeah it was the Allman Brothers Band was

1389
01:01:40,559 --> 01:01:42,299
running on fumes

1390
01:01:42,299 --> 01:01:45,420
the win loser draw tour

1391
01:01:45,420 --> 01:01:48,599
fall of 75.

1392
01:01:48,599 --> 01:01:51,180
started off with a bang we opened up the

1393
01:01:51,180 --> 01:01:53,160
Superdome the first concert in the

1394
01:01:53,160 --> 01:01:55,559
Superdome but as

1395
01:01:55,559 --> 01:01:58,319
the tour progressed and the album was

1396
01:01:58,319 --> 01:02:00,119
not doing as well

1397
01:02:00,119 --> 01:02:01,859
we were having more and more

1398
01:02:01,859 --> 01:02:05,280
performances that were lackluster jamo

1399
01:02:05,280 --> 01:02:08,240
was having back problems again

1400
01:02:08,240 --> 01:02:11,520
I could definitely see things slipping

1401
01:02:11,520 --> 01:02:14,579
away and by

1402
01:02:14,579 --> 01:02:17,940
the end of the tour we actually canceled

1403
01:02:17,940 --> 01:02:21,420
a couple of shows and it just it was not

1404
01:02:21,420 --> 01:02:25,460
a successful tour financially

1405
01:02:26,099 --> 01:02:28,559
when the tour concluded the legacy of

1406
01:02:28,559 --> 01:02:30,839
Greg's drug use came to wreak havoc on

1407
01:02:30,839 --> 01:02:32,640
his entire world

1408
01:02:32,640 --> 01:02:34,799
scooter Herring Greg's assistant and

1409
01:02:34,799 --> 01:02:37,160
dealer was arrested on drugs charges

1410
01:02:37,160 --> 01:02:39,720
Herring was loosely associated with the

1411
01:02:39,720 --> 01:02:41,940
Dixie Mafia a large-scale organized

1412
01:02:41,940 --> 01:02:43,799
crime outfit that operated across the

1413
01:02:43,799 --> 01:02:46,440
southern states and the FBI swiftly came

1414
01:02:46,440 --> 01:02:48,660
for Greg pressuring him to incriminate

1415
01:02:48,660 --> 01:02:50,700
scooter and hand them leverage in their

1416
01:02:50,700 --> 01:02:52,859
attempt to break the Dixie Mafia

1417
01:02:52,859 --> 01:02:55,559
Greg agreed to cooperate and scooter was

1418
01:02:55,559 --> 01:02:57,540
sentenced to 75 years in a federal

1419
01:02:57,540 --> 01:02:59,940
penitentiary

1420
01:02:59,940 --> 01:03:02,760
Greg was given immunity and he was told

1421
01:03:02,760 --> 01:03:04,920
you know if you don't Testify the way we

1422
01:03:04,920 --> 01:03:06,480
want you to

1423
01:03:06,480 --> 01:03:08,400
you're going to end up doing a lot of

1424
01:03:08,400 --> 01:03:10,920
time in federal prison with long blonde

1425
01:03:10,920 --> 01:03:12,720
hair

1426
01:03:12,720 --> 01:03:15,000
at the time the band didn't really

1427
01:03:15,000 --> 01:03:17,400
understand and to the whole Allman

1428
01:03:17,400 --> 01:03:19,680
Brothers persona

1429
01:03:19,680 --> 01:03:22,799
you know to turn on one another was was

1430
01:03:22,799 --> 01:03:27,119
just unacceptable and the whole band at

1431
01:03:27,119 --> 01:03:28,200
that time

1432
01:03:28,200 --> 01:03:30,839
didn't understand Greg's position and I

1433
01:03:30,839 --> 01:03:33,660
among them I thought he was a rat but I

1434
01:03:33,660 --> 01:03:35,160
came to understand that he didn't really

1435
01:03:35,160 --> 01:03:36,540
have a choice

1436
01:03:36,540 --> 01:03:38,160
when the whole power of the federal

1437
01:03:38,160 --> 01:03:40,260
government is on you there's just not

1438
01:03:40,260 --> 01:03:41,579
much you can do

1439
01:03:41,579 --> 01:03:45,420
after scooter was convicted Greg was

1440
01:03:45,420 --> 01:03:47,640
getting death threats from within the

1441
01:03:47,640 --> 01:03:48,980
Brotherhood

1442
01:03:48,980 --> 01:03:51,740
people were very angry

1443
01:03:51,740 --> 01:03:53,780
incredibly angry

1444
01:03:53,780 --> 01:03:57,900
jamo wrote a letter to the editor

1445
01:03:57,900 --> 01:04:00,000
to the make and Telegraph

1446
01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:02,220
basically saying he was no longer going

1447
01:04:02,220 --> 01:04:05,520
to play with Greg he couldn't play with

1448
01:04:05,520 --> 01:04:08,280
Greg because Greg had betrayed

1449
01:04:08,280 --> 01:04:12,299
someone who was very dear to them all

1450
01:04:12,299 --> 01:04:14,579
uh Dickey

1451
01:04:14,579 --> 01:04:16,319
shortly thereafter

1452
01:04:16,319 --> 01:04:18,720
said the same thing you know Greg

1453
01:04:18,720 --> 01:04:20,819
betrayed the Brotherhood he betrayed

1454
01:04:20,819 --> 01:04:23,280
scooter there's no way I can ever play

1455
01:04:23,280 --> 01:04:25,799
with him ever again

1456
01:04:25,799 --> 01:04:28,859
Butch came out and said the same thing

1457
01:04:28,859 --> 01:04:33,059
Greg on the other hand was trying to

1458
01:04:33,059 --> 01:04:36,119
explain to them hey I didn't have any

1459
01:04:36,119 --> 01:04:39,180
choice there was a band meeting shortly

1460
01:04:39,180 --> 01:04:42,420
after the trial Dickey refused to even

1461
01:04:42,420 --> 01:04:46,619
speak to Greg and shortly thereafter the

1462
01:04:46,619 --> 01:04:48,180
band broke up

1463
01:04:48,180 --> 01:04:50,760
it was very bitter I mean it was very

1464
01:04:50,760 --> 01:04:52,740
publicly played out

1465
01:04:52,740 --> 01:04:55,260
it was basically confirming all the

1466
01:04:55,260 --> 01:04:57,059
rumors that had been flying for the last

1467
01:04:57,059 --> 01:04:58,440
two years

1468
01:04:58,440 --> 01:05:00,960
that they were on the verge of

1469
01:05:00,960 --> 01:05:03,420
splitting and

1470
01:05:03,420 --> 01:05:05,880
you know what finally drove them to that

1471
01:05:05,880 --> 01:05:09,559
point was a scooter hearing trial

1472
01:05:10,500 --> 01:05:12,059
as the Allman Brothers personal

1473
01:05:12,059 --> 01:05:14,579
relationships collapsed warning signs

1474
01:05:14,579 --> 01:05:15,960
started to flush around their business

1475
01:05:15,960 --> 01:05:18,780
Affairs evidence emerged that Capricorn

1476
01:05:18,780 --> 01:05:21,299
records the label founded by Phil Walden

1477
01:05:21,299 --> 01:05:23,460
in order to sign Dwayne Allman had been

1478
01:05:23,460 --> 01:05:24,960
underpaying the band

1479
01:05:24,960 --> 01:05:27,480
a series of financial issues now convert

1480
01:05:27,480 --> 01:05:29,579
to heat pressure on both the band and

1481
01:05:29,579 --> 01:05:30,190
their label

1482
01:05:30,190 --> 01:05:31,740
[Music]

1483
01:05:31,740 --> 01:05:34,460
at the end of the

1484
01:05:34,460 --> 01:05:38,760
1976 tour the early part of 76.

1485
01:05:38,760 --> 01:05:41,940
when I tallied all the debits and

1486
01:05:41,940 --> 01:05:44,280
credits and remaining cash balance I

1487
01:05:44,280 --> 01:05:46,319
found out that the tour had really been

1488
01:05:46,319 --> 01:05:49,380
a disappointment it showed a profit but

1489
01:05:49,380 --> 01:05:51,960
it was a major profit the band members

1490
01:05:51,960 --> 01:05:54,240
individually were still comfortable and

1491
01:05:54,240 --> 01:05:58,200
they weren't ever broke but it was a big

1492
01:05:58,200 --> 01:06:00,500
disappointment corporately

1493
01:06:00,500 --> 01:06:04,079
and I always used to joke that that last

1494
01:06:04,079 --> 01:06:06,660
tour was I call it the brother-in-law

1495
01:06:06,660 --> 01:06:08,940
tour because everybody had their

1496
01:06:08,940 --> 01:06:11,280
relatives their friends the family we

1497
01:06:11,280 --> 01:06:13,380
had a bloated payroll

1498
01:06:13,380 --> 01:06:15,420
the band had taken like a year off

1499
01:06:15,420 --> 01:06:17,220
during that recording paying everybody

1500
01:06:17,220 --> 01:06:21,119
full salary which is unheard of

1501
01:06:21,119 --> 01:06:23,099
for the road crew and the band everybody

1502
01:06:23,099 --> 01:06:25,500
and it was just like we took a year off

1503
01:06:25,500 --> 01:06:29,220
and no income and all out go Dickie

1504
01:06:29,220 --> 01:06:31,559
hired his own accountant

1505
01:06:31,559 --> 01:06:35,660
to audit the royalty statements

1506
01:06:35,660 --> 01:06:40,079
and he filed an arbitration case saying

1507
01:06:40,079 --> 01:06:41,520
he was owed at least two hundred

1508
01:06:41,520 --> 01:06:44,760
thousand dollars next up Johnny sandwin

1509
01:06:44,760 --> 01:06:47,460
sued Capricorn saying he was owed over

1510
01:06:47,460 --> 01:06:51,079
eight hundred thousand dollars

1511
01:06:51,539 --> 01:06:54,420
and at the same time

1512
01:06:54,420 --> 01:06:56,839
the breakup of the Allman Brothers Band

1513
01:06:56,839 --> 01:07:00,240
devastated Capricorn because that was

1514
01:07:00,240 --> 01:07:03,960
their Cash Cow people started

1515
01:07:03,960 --> 01:07:06,359
not receiving the checks they were

1516
01:07:06,359 --> 01:07:09,059
expecting alimony payments that were due

1517
01:07:09,059 --> 01:07:12,420
were not getting paid child support was

1518
01:07:12,420 --> 01:07:13,740
not getting paid

1519
01:07:13,740 --> 01:07:16,440
during this time Phil signed a deal with

1520
01:07:16,440 --> 01:07:20,940
polygram records and ultimately borrowed

1521
01:07:20,940 --> 01:07:24,180
I think 8.8 million dollars to keep the

1522
01:07:24,180 --> 01:07:25,619
label going

1523
01:07:25,619 --> 01:07:28,079
as security he put up

1524
01:07:28,079 --> 01:07:30,420
the Capricorn catalog

1525
01:07:30,420 --> 01:07:34,740
the recording contracts even the studio

1526
01:07:34,740 --> 01:07:36,359
thinking

1527
01:07:36,359 --> 01:07:39,200
this thing is going to turn around and

1528
01:07:39,200 --> 01:07:42,599
you know and it doesn't turn around

1529
01:07:42,599 --> 01:07:46,740
the bottom basically fell out of what

1530
01:07:46,740 --> 01:07:50,780
was commonly known as southern rock

1531
01:07:50,819 --> 01:07:54,180
they had also had a relatively

1532
01:07:54,180 --> 01:07:56,760
unsuccessful album and the record

1533
01:07:56,760 --> 01:07:58,200
royalties

1534
01:07:58,200 --> 01:08:00,480
had

1535
01:08:00,480 --> 01:08:05,400
begun to diminish things change

1536
01:08:05,400 --> 01:08:06,240
um

1537
01:08:06,240 --> 01:08:09,900
but if you become set in your way and

1538
01:08:09,900 --> 01:08:11,640
you hear something that's a little bit

1539
01:08:11,640 --> 01:08:13,619
different

1540
01:08:13,619 --> 01:08:14,280
um

1541
01:08:14,280 --> 01:08:17,640
and you sort of reject it you know just

1542
01:08:17,640 --> 01:08:20,640
immediately

1543
01:08:20,779 --> 01:08:25,198
then you're asking to be kicked in the

1544
01:08:25,198 --> 01:08:27,600
rear by the public

1545
01:08:27,600 --> 01:08:30,899
as the music changes and there was an

1546
01:08:30,899 --> 01:08:33,719
opportunity for example to get involved

1547
01:08:33,719 --> 01:08:35,460
with Dire Straits from Capricorns

1548
01:08:35,460 --> 01:08:37,380
records point of view might not have

1549
01:08:37,380 --> 01:08:39,960
ever happened but it was not something

1550
01:08:39,960 --> 01:08:42,839
that Phil really heard

1551
01:08:42,839 --> 01:08:46,198
so around that time period at my agency

1552
01:08:46,198 --> 01:08:49,080
I was bringing in 999 and gang of four

1553
01:08:49,080 --> 01:08:54,899
and squeeze and police and Phil was

1554
01:08:54,899 --> 01:08:57,660
pretty much stuck in one place musically

1555
01:08:57,660 --> 01:08:59,580
and I think that's the difference I

1556
01:08:59,580 --> 01:09:03,479
think he he he sort of shut off

1557
01:09:03,479 --> 01:09:06,660
you know in that journey of finding some

1558
01:09:06,660 --> 01:09:09,179
new sounds and some new music well it

1559
01:09:09,179 --> 01:09:11,640
was all cocaine everybody you know Phil

1560
01:09:11,640 --> 01:09:14,520
was just you know he was doing

1561
01:09:14,520 --> 01:09:16,259
probably three four hundred dollars

1562
01:09:16,259 --> 01:09:18,359
worth of coke a day his decision-making

1563
01:09:18,359 --> 01:09:22,319
capacity was diminished by 70 percent so

1564
01:09:22,319 --> 01:09:24,238
he was basically working on about 30

1565
01:09:24,238 --> 01:09:25,979
percent of his intellect and capacity

1566
01:09:25,979 --> 01:09:28,738
and the only thing I remember is you

1567
01:09:28,738 --> 01:09:31,799
know film making bad decisions buying

1568
01:09:31,799 --> 01:09:34,799
you know magritts and you know thirty

1569
01:09:34,799 --> 01:09:36,899
thousand dollar paintings here and in

1570
01:09:36,899 --> 01:09:38,399
the meantime he's going through a couple

1571
01:09:38,399 --> 01:09:40,738
thousand dollars a week in cocaine last

1572
01:09:40,738 --> 01:09:43,380
time I saw a Phil he was on his hands

1573
01:09:43,380 --> 01:09:45,899
and knees trying to snort up a piece of

1574
01:09:45,899 --> 01:09:48,000
cocaine that had dropped in a rug with a

1575
01:09:48,000 --> 01:09:50,460
straw and uh

1576
01:09:50,460 --> 01:09:53,279
uh you know I said this is not good I

1577
01:09:53,279 --> 01:09:54,210
gotta get out of here

1578
01:09:54,210 --> 01:09:55,320
[Music]

1579
01:09:55,320 --> 01:09:57,360
with the band dissolved in the labeling

1580
01:09:57,360 --> 01:09:59,760
crisis Dickey Betts successfully sued to

1581
01:09:59,760 --> 01:10:01,500
get out of his contract with Capricorn

1582
01:10:01,500 --> 01:10:04,080
and signed to Arista records as a solo

1583
01:10:04,080 --> 01:10:05,340
artist

1584
01:10:05,340 --> 01:10:08,160
Greg now father to a baby boy with Cher

1585
01:10:08,160 --> 01:10:10,500
continue to pursue his own solo career

1586
01:10:10,500 --> 01:10:12,420
though drug and relationship problems

1587
01:10:12,420 --> 01:10:15,660
persisted in the winter of 1977 he

1588
01:10:15,660 --> 01:10:17,880
released an album of duets with Cher two

1589
01:10:17,880 --> 01:10:19,260
the hard way

1590
01:10:19,260 --> 01:10:21,659
build as all men and women for many

1591
01:10:21,659 --> 01:10:23,460
critics the record represented the

1592
01:10:23,460 --> 01:10:25,500
absolute nadir in Greg's declining

1593
01:10:25,500 --> 01:10:26,160
fortunes

1594
01:10:26,160 --> 01:10:28,080
[Music]

1595
01:10:28,080 --> 01:10:31,260
I thought it was very very strange idea

1596
01:10:31,260 --> 01:10:34,140
but you know who knows sometimes those

1597
01:10:34,140 --> 01:10:37,679
kind of off the wall ideas work

1598
01:10:37,679 --> 01:10:39,300
and I was hoping it would I was hoping

1599
01:10:39,300 --> 01:10:40,560
it would do good

1600
01:10:40,560 --> 01:10:43,560
I don't think it made a charge but

1601
01:10:43,560 --> 01:10:46,920
I don't know but it was fun to make but

1602
01:10:46,920 --> 01:10:48,600
it wasn't a great album

1603
01:10:48,600 --> 01:10:51,840
share was just wonderful to work with

1604
01:10:51,840 --> 01:10:54,719
just together she's professional and

1605
01:10:54,719 --> 01:10:56,640
and I really liked him you know I

1606
01:10:56,640 --> 01:10:59,580
thought she was a sweet say girl

1607
01:10:59,580 --> 01:11:03,500
I was proud to work with her

1608
01:11:07,630 --> 01:11:27,020
[Music]

1609
01:11:27,020 --> 01:11:31,460
you dare only

1610
01:11:33,840 --> 01:11:37,510
cause I would back and see

1611
01:11:37,510 --> 01:11:54,620
[Music]

1612
01:11:54,620 --> 01:11:56,699
that album

1613
01:11:56,699 --> 01:11:59,580
could have been the greatest thing since

1614
01:11:59,580 --> 01:12:01,320
Abbey Road and

1615
01:12:01,320 --> 01:12:03,360
people would not have given it a chance

1616
01:12:03,360 --> 01:12:05,760
Greg and Cher were on the cover of

1617
01:12:05,760 --> 01:12:08,699
National Enquirer every week the

1618
01:12:08,699 --> 01:12:11,219
supermarket tabloids

1619
01:12:11,219 --> 01:12:13,620
Johnny Carson was making jokes about

1620
01:12:13,620 --> 01:12:15,840
them on The Tonight Show

1621
01:12:15,840 --> 01:12:18,900
I mean Gary Trudeau made fun of them in

1622
01:12:18,900 --> 01:12:20,159
Doonesbury

1623
01:12:20,159 --> 01:12:22,800
I mean that's

1624
01:12:22,800 --> 01:12:25,560
Greg and Cher had pretty much turned

1625
01:12:25,560 --> 01:12:28,560
into a laughing stock I mean

1626
01:12:28,560 --> 01:12:30,960
everyone who loved to make fun of Greg

1627
01:12:30,960 --> 01:12:34,140
and I think it not only damaged his

1628
01:12:34,140 --> 01:12:35,520
reputation

1629
01:12:35,520 --> 01:12:37,440
his

1630
01:12:37,440 --> 01:12:39,900
Merit as an artist

1631
01:12:39,900 --> 01:12:42,440
I think it also

1632
01:12:42,440 --> 01:12:47,340
really diminish The Allman Brothers pen

1633
01:12:47,340 --> 01:12:50,219
to the point where

1634
01:12:50,219 --> 01:12:52,679
no one was talking about the music no

1635
01:12:52,679 --> 01:12:55,460
one was talking about

1636
01:12:55,980 --> 01:12:59,400
the incredible albums that they made

1637
01:12:59,400 --> 01:13:01,679
with Dwayne Allman they were not talking

1638
01:13:01,679 --> 01:13:03,900
about

1639
01:13:03,900 --> 01:13:07,380
the spirit of that band

1640
01:13:07,380 --> 01:13:09,420
all of a sudden Greg Allman was that

1641
01:13:09,420 --> 01:13:11,820
coked up singer he's married to Cher and

1642
01:13:11,820 --> 01:13:14,520
oh yeah and the Allman Brothers or his

1643
01:13:14,520 --> 01:13:16,199
backup band

1644
01:13:16,199 --> 01:13:18,239
and that's what it became

1645
01:13:18,239 --> 01:13:19,980
and

1646
01:13:19,980 --> 01:13:22,440
I think it took them

1647
01:13:22,440 --> 01:13:25,560
25 years to get over that

1648
01:13:25,560 --> 01:13:28,140
during all these years Greg

1649
01:13:28,140 --> 01:13:30,360
have been lost

1650
01:13:30,360 --> 01:13:32,940
was it for the whole time and it had to

1651
01:13:32,940 --> 01:13:34,500
be worse after the thing with scooter

1652
01:13:34,500 --> 01:13:36,000
and all

1653
01:13:36,000 --> 01:13:37,560
that just had to be worse I mean

1654
01:13:37,560 --> 01:13:39,659
everything was kind of folding in on

1655
01:13:39,659 --> 01:13:42,320
itself now

1656
01:13:43,560 --> 01:13:46,080
on the subsequent tour Cher brought an

1657
01:13:46,080 --> 01:13:47,699
end to her turbulent relationship with

1658
01:13:47,699 --> 01:13:49,920
Greg Ullman and left the troubled singer

1659
01:13:49,920 --> 01:13:52,320
in the final weeks of 77 taking their

1660
01:13:52,320 --> 01:13:53,880
son with her

1661
01:13:53,880 --> 01:13:56,340
with royalty payments from Capricorn

1662
01:13:56,340 --> 01:13:58,440
having dried up the other members of The

1663
01:13:58,440 --> 01:14:00,179
Allman Brothers Band were broke and

1664
01:14:00,179 --> 01:14:02,219
struggling to meet their deaths

1665
01:14:02,219 --> 01:14:04,620
the reason for the band split scooter

1666
01:14:04,620 --> 01:14:06,000
Herring had had his conviction

1667
01:14:06,000 --> 01:14:08,340
overturned and his sentence reduced from

1668
01:14:08,340 --> 01:14:11,460
75 years to 30 months gambling that

1669
01:14:11,460 --> 01:14:12,960
their attitude towards him would have

1670
01:14:12,960 --> 01:14:15,360
softened a penitent Greg approached his

1671
01:14:15,360 --> 01:14:17,340
former badmates to suggest a reunion

1672
01:14:17,340 --> 01:14:20,040
only Chuck Lavelle and Lamar Williams

1673
01:14:20,040 --> 01:14:22,080
declined

1674
01:14:22,080 --> 01:14:25,679
share filed for divorce and as much as

1675
01:14:25,679 --> 01:14:28,320
that had been a sanctuary for Greg I

1676
01:14:28,320 --> 01:14:30,540
think in the end that felt like a trap

1677
01:14:30,540 --> 01:14:33,420
because the first thing he did was he

1678
01:14:33,420 --> 01:14:36,480
flew back to Macon and he was determined

1679
01:14:36,480 --> 01:14:38,940
to put the Allman Brothers Band back

1680
01:14:38,940 --> 01:14:40,580
together unfortunately

1681
01:14:40,580 --> 01:14:42,000
[Music]

1682
01:14:42,000 --> 01:14:44,820
you know Chuck and Lamar and jamo had

1683
01:14:44,820 --> 01:14:47,520
started their own band called sea level

1684
01:14:47,520 --> 01:14:50,100
jamo was back in the fold with the

1685
01:14:50,100 --> 01:14:53,219
Allman Brothers But Chuck and lamari who

1686
01:14:53,219 --> 01:14:55,380
acted to stay with sea level they

1687
01:14:55,380 --> 01:14:56,640
brought in

1688
01:14:56,640 --> 01:14:59,580
two guys from Dickie solo band Dan Toler

1689
01:14:59,580 --> 01:15:01,199
on guitar

1690
01:15:01,199 --> 01:15:03,860
David gofi is on base

1691
01:15:03,860 --> 01:15:08,040
and you know that further changed their

1692
01:15:08,040 --> 01:15:09,239
sound

1693
01:15:09,239 --> 01:15:12,179
I think that the loss of Chuck Lavelle

1694
01:15:12,179 --> 01:15:13,620
and Lamar Williams

1695
01:15:13,620 --> 01:15:16,080
didn't immediately seem to hurt the band

1696
01:15:16,080 --> 01:15:18,300
they were replaced capably David

1697
01:15:18,300 --> 01:15:20,219
goldflies was a very solid bass player

1698
01:15:20,219 --> 01:15:21,659
been playing with Dickey Betts in Great

1699
01:15:21,659 --> 01:15:23,159
Southern and understood what Dickey

1700
01:15:23,159 --> 01:15:24,840
wanted and was able to fit in musically

1701
01:15:24,840 --> 01:15:26,940
Danny Toller is a fantastic guitar

1702
01:15:26,940 --> 01:15:28,320
player again I've been playing with

1703
01:15:28,320 --> 01:15:30,300
Dickie and knew what he wanted and was

1704
01:15:30,300 --> 01:15:31,739
able to fit in

1705
01:15:31,739 --> 01:15:34,500
and in the original Reincarnation of the

1706
01:15:34,500 --> 01:15:36,360
band it all seemed to work pretty well

1707
01:15:36,360 --> 01:15:38,820
but there was a certain level of

1708
01:15:38,820 --> 01:15:42,120
intuitiveness that was lost and every

1709
01:15:42,120 --> 01:15:46,920
step away from the original band and

1710
01:15:46,920 --> 01:15:49,260
although Lamar Williams and Chuck Lovell

1711
01:15:49,260 --> 01:15:52,080
of course never played with Barry Oakley

1712
01:15:52,080 --> 01:15:54,480
and Dwayne Allman they were direct links

1713
01:15:54,480 --> 01:15:57,300
back to that and each step away from

1714
01:15:57,300 --> 01:16:00,000
that hurt the band and I don't think it

1715
01:16:00,000 --> 01:16:01,800
was immediately apparent it wasn't that

1716
01:16:01,800 --> 01:16:04,260
there was a steep musical fall off but

1717
01:16:04,260 --> 01:16:05,880
there was a residual effect that over

1718
01:16:05,880 --> 01:16:08,630
time came to impact them more and more

1719
01:16:08,630 --> 01:16:12,319
[Music]

1720
01:16:14,600 --> 01:16:18,179
in February 1979 the reconciled

1721
01:16:18,179 --> 01:16:19,800
reconfigured Allman Brothers Band

1722
01:16:19,800 --> 01:16:22,440
traveled to criteria studios in Miami to

1723
01:16:22,440 --> 01:16:24,840
reunite with producer Tom Dowd and begin

1724
01:16:24,840 --> 01:16:26,640
sessions for what would be their sixth

1725
01:16:26,640 --> 01:16:29,580
studio album enlightened Rogues we were

1726
01:16:29,580 --> 01:16:31,800
really optimistic the uh there was a new

1727
01:16:31,800 --> 01:16:34,260
manager been involved with uh with

1728
01:16:34,260 --> 01:16:36,900
Dickie and the American Indian

1729
01:16:36,900 --> 01:16:40,199
foundation so in Leighton Rogues we had

1730
01:16:40,199 --> 01:16:42,960
a great great anticipation for its

1731
01:16:42,960 --> 01:16:45,420
success when they hired Tom Dao to do

1732
01:16:45,420 --> 01:16:49,080
the comeback album I firmly believe that

1733
01:16:49,080 --> 01:16:50,699
was

1734
01:16:50,699 --> 01:16:53,760
an acknowledgment by the Allman Brothers

1735
01:16:53,760 --> 01:16:56,960
that we went off track

1736
01:16:56,960 --> 01:17:00,840
we went down a path

1737
01:17:00,840 --> 01:17:03,199
wasn't particularly good for the band

1738
01:17:03,199 --> 01:17:05,940
and another thing they did which was

1739
01:17:05,940 --> 01:17:07,980
very interesting is they all lived under

1740
01:17:07,980 --> 01:17:10,800
the same roof while they were recording

1741
01:17:10,800 --> 01:17:11,880
that album

1742
01:17:11,880 --> 01:17:13,980
they were really trying to get that

1743
01:17:13,980 --> 01:17:18,239
Spirit of the Brotherhood back

1744
01:17:18,239 --> 01:17:21,860
and I think for a while they got it

1745
01:17:21,860 --> 01:17:25,860
in white and Rogues was very well

1746
01:17:25,860 --> 01:17:28,260
received critically

1747
01:17:28,260 --> 01:17:33,060
it had a lot of fresh energy to it

1748
01:17:33,060 --> 01:17:35,400
a lot of Vitality

1749
01:17:35,400 --> 01:17:37,380
in

1750
01:17:37,380 --> 01:17:39,719
it was everything that women lose or

1751
01:17:39,719 --> 01:17:42,150
draw wasn't

1752
01:17:42,150 --> 01:17:45,180
[Music]

1753
01:17:45,719 --> 01:17:47,760
down

1754
01:17:47,760 --> 01:18:31,759
[Music]

1755
01:18:35,719 --> 01:18:39,300
a lot of people still love the album I

1756
01:18:39,300 --> 01:18:41,699
find it to be good but not great I don't

1757
01:18:41,699 --> 01:18:43,800
love it

1758
01:18:43,800 --> 01:18:46,320
but I think it was a very successful in

1759
01:18:46,320 --> 01:18:48,000
the sense that

1760
01:18:48,000 --> 01:18:50,159
it sounded like the Allman Brothers Band

1761
01:18:50,159 --> 01:18:52,739
it sounded like we're going to be back

1762
01:18:52,739 --> 01:18:54,420
to who we were we're not going to be

1763
01:18:54,420 --> 01:18:56,640
this uh tepid band that petered out

1764
01:18:56,640 --> 01:18:59,159
we're back we're strong we're here and

1765
01:18:59,159 --> 01:19:00,480
they went out and took it on the road

1766
01:19:00,480 --> 01:19:02,400
and they they were original shows in

1767
01:19:02,400 --> 01:19:05,520
1979 and 1980 were very strong and there

1768
01:19:05,520 --> 01:19:07,560
was a very powerful sense amongst the

1769
01:19:07,560 --> 01:19:09,480
fan base and amongst the band themselves

1770
01:19:09,480 --> 01:19:10,739
that they were back and that they could

1771
01:19:10,739 --> 01:19:11,670
do this again

1772
01:19:11,670 --> 01:19:21,479
[Music]

1773
01:19:33,620 --> 01:19:37,920
the one thing missing on that album was

1774
01:19:37,920 --> 01:19:40,860
someone to creatively challenge

1775
01:19:40,860 --> 01:19:43,739
and creatively motivate decades as a

1776
01:19:43,739 --> 01:19:45,600
guitarist

1777
01:19:45,600 --> 01:19:48,719
sometimes Dan togar did a so-o but most

1778
01:19:48,719 --> 01:19:51,380
often it was Dicky did a solo

1779
01:19:51,380 --> 01:19:55,380
it was vocals Dickie solo back into

1780
01:19:55,380 --> 01:19:56,880
vocals

1781
01:19:56,880 --> 01:19:58,739
and there was none of that beautiful

1782
01:19:58,739 --> 01:20:01,320
interplay that had marked the early

1783
01:20:01,320 --> 01:20:04,460
years and the Allman Brothers

1784
01:20:04,500 --> 01:20:06,600
but despite breaking the top 10 on the

1785
01:20:06,600 --> 01:20:08,280
Billboard Chart and generating a hit

1786
01:20:08,280 --> 01:20:10,980
single and crazy love enlightened Rogues

1787
01:20:10,980 --> 01:20:12,780
came too late for Capricorn records

1788
01:20:12,780 --> 01:20:15,300
which finally ran out of money and filed

1789
01:20:15,300 --> 01:20:17,600
for bankruptcy in October 79.

1790
01:20:17,600 --> 01:20:19,199
[Music]

1791
01:20:19,199 --> 01:20:21,900
when Ryan Rose was released Capricorn

1792
01:20:21,900 --> 01:20:23,219
was struggling

1793
01:20:23,219 --> 01:20:26,280
and they saw that album and the reunion

1794
01:20:26,280 --> 01:20:28,679
of the Allman Brothers as I was going to

1795
01:20:28,679 --> 01:20:31,620
pull them out of their troubles but even

1796
01:20:31,620 --> 01:20:34,500
as the Allman Brothers were on tour to

1797
01:20:34,500 --> 01:20:37,380
support that album which did go platinum

1798
01:20:37,380 --> 01:20:38,760
by the way

1799
01:20:38,760 --> 01:20:41,520
polygram

1800
01:20:41,520 --> 01:20:44,960
called up Capricorn

1801
01:20:45,300 --> 01:20:45,960
um

1802
01:20:45,960 --> 01:20:48,600
you owe us about five and a half million

1803
01:20:48,600 --> 01:20:51,860
dollars and we want that today and

1804
01:20:51,860 --> 01:20:53,940
Capricorn of course didn't have that

1805
01:20:53,940 --> 01:20:58,739
money and went into bankruptcy and

1806
01:20:58,739 --> 01:21:01,199
polygram wound up with the Capricorn

1807
01:21:01,199 --> 01:21:04,800
catalog all their recording contracts

1808
01:21:04,800 --> 01:21:07,020
all their artists

1809
01:21:07,020 --> 01:21:08,880
everything

1810
01:21:08,880 --> 01:21:11,280
with the final demise of Capricorn The

1811
01:21:11,280 --> 01:21:12,900
Allman Brothers signed a new deal with

1812
01:21:12,900 --> 01:21:15,300
Arista records where labelhead Clive

1813
01:21:15,300 --> 01:21:17,340
Davis had a vision to remodel and update

1814
01:21:17,340 --> 01:21:20,280
the band sound the consequences were

1815
01:21:20,280 --> 01:21:21,540
disastrous

1816
01:21:21,540 --> 01:21:24,120
the two albums released on Arista reach

1817
01:21:24,120 --> 01:21:26,460
for the sky in 1980 and brothers of the

1818
01:21:26,460 --> 01:21:28,920
road in 81 were considered by the Allman

1819
01:21:28,920 --> 01:21:30,659
Brothers themselves to be the worst

1820
01:21:30,659 --> 01:21:32,880
records that they had ever issued

1821
01:21:32,880 --> 01:21:35,460
critics shared that sentiment and widely

1822
01:21:35,460 --> 01:21:37,739
derided arista's attempt to Crowbar the

1823
01:21:37,739 --> 01:21:39,540
band into traditional song forms

1824
01:21:39,540 --> 01:21:41,940
overlaid with glossy modern production

1825
01:21:41,940 --> 01:21:44,640
to add to their difficulties between the

1826
01:21:44,640 --> 01:21:47,100
two albums jmo Departed the group in a

1827
01:21:47,100 --> 01:21:49,199
dispute over money and another founding

1828
01:21:49,199 --> 01:21:51,000
band member was lost

1829
01:21:51,000 --> 01:21:52,440
they had signed with the new record

1830
01:21:52,440 --> 01:21:55,800
label and the idea was a foot that they

1831
01:21:55,800 --> 01:21:57,480
should be competing in the marketplace

1832
01:21:57,480 --> 01:21:58,860
of current music

1833
01:21:58,860 --> 01:22:01,679
and it didn't work out very well

1834
01:22:01,679 --> 01:22:03,840
but to be fair to the Allman Brothers

1835
01:22:03,840 --> 01:22:05,520
and I guess to some extent even to

1836
01:22:05,520 --> 01:22:06,900
Arista

1837
01:22:06,900 --> 01:22:08,640
that's what people were doing at the

1838
01:22:08,640 --> 01:22:11,460
time it wasn't unique to them the idea

1839
01:22:11,460 --> 01:22:13,620
was if you want to compete you have to

1840
01:22:13,620 --> 01:22:15,360
modernize a little bit and get away from

1841
01:22:15,360 --> 01:22:17,520
doing things the old way so they weren't

1842
01:22:17,520 --> 01:22:19,800
unique in that regard

1843
01:22:19,800 --> 01:22:22,560
but they also weren't unique on the

1844
01:22:22,560 --> 01:22:24,060
other hand and having the strength and

1845
01:22:24,060 --> 01:22:26,400
ability to say no this is not what we're

1846
01:22:26,400 --> 01:22:27,600
going to do we're the Allman Brothers

1847
01:22:27,600 --> 01:22:29,640
this is what we're going to do they

1848
01:22:29,640 --> 01:22:31,620
tried to play the game and it didn't

1849
01:22:31,620 --> 01:22:34,170
work out very well

1850
01:22:34,170 --> 01:23:10,740
[Music]

1851
01:23:11,120 --> 01:23:14,940
we were reaching and age and the

1852
01:23:14,940 --> 01:23:18,080
evolution of popular music where guitars

1853
01:23:18,080 --> 01:23:20,159
were not cool

1854
01:23:20,159 --> 01:23:23,219
guitar solos were not cool this was the

1855
01:23:23,219 --> 01:23:28,580
age of synthesizers punk New Wave

1856
01:23:28,679 --> 01:23:30,980
and

1857
01:23:30,980 --> 01:23:33,120
aristor tried to get the Allman Brothers

1858
01:23:33,120 --> 01:23:36,800
to make a turn and into that

1859
01:23:36,800 --> 01:23:41,460
and that was one of the dumbest things

1860
01:23:41,460 --> 01:23:43,380
that's ever happened in the history of

1861
01:23:43,380 --> 01:23:45,060
music to me

1862
01:23:45,060 --> 01:23:46,860
Brothers of the road is not better than

1863
01:23:46,860 --> 01:23:50,820
its original reputation implies and to

1864
01:23:50,820 --> 01:23:53,580
some extent every band has a couple of

1865
01:23:53,580 --> 01:23:55,440
Records in their history if they've been

1866
01:23:55,440 --> 01:23:57,420
around long enough that you wouldn't

1867
01:23:57,420 --> 01:24:00,480
really listen to and that's where these

1868
01:24:00,480 --> 01:24:03,719
two records fall for me so if you're

1869
01:24:03,719 --> 01:24:05,400
writing a history of the band you got to

1870
01:24:05,400 --> 01:24:07,140
spend a little bit of time listening to

1871
01:24:07,140 --> 01:24:09,360
them if you're not I don't know why you

1872
01:24:09,360 --> 01:24:10,800
would really listen to these records

1873
01:24:10,800 --> 01:24:13,860
they're they're not good they're sort of

1874
01:24:13,860 --> 01:24:17,280
sad statements of a once proud and great

1875
01:24:17,280 --> 01:24:19,920
institution falling apart and losing its

1876
01:24:19,920 --> 01:24:20,020
way

1877
01:24:20,020 --> 01:24:43,020
[Music]

1878
01:24:43,020 --> 01:24:46,860
baby we can start all over again

1879
01:24:46,860 --> 01:24:51,620
[Music]

1880
01:24:51,620 --> 01:24:54,360
and entire album is about getting a hit

1881
01:24:54,360 --> 01:24:56,940
single Straight From the Heart charted

1882
01:24:56,940 --> 01:25:02,219
so they reached that goal what that song

1883
01:25:02,219 --> 01:25:04,520
had to do with the Allman Brothers Band

1884
01:25:04,520 --> 01:25:08,280
Escapes Me Rolling Stone I thought

1885
01:25:08,280 --> 01:25:11,520
had the perfect review and what they

1886
01:25:11,520 --> 01:25:14,340
wrote was all the Allman Brothers Band

1887
01:25:14,340 --> 01:25:16,800
can do right now is give people a

1888
01:25:16,800 --> 01:25:19,500
lingering suspicion that they stole

1889
01:25:19,500 --> 01:25:20,230
their name

1890
01:25:20,230 --> 01:25:21,360
[Music]

1891
01:25:21,360 --> 01:25:23,880
after a half-hearted tour The Omen

1892
01:25:23,880 --> 01:25:25,560
Brothers dissolved for the second time

1893
01:25:25,560 --> 01:25:28,260
in the early weeks of 1982.

1894
01:25:28,260 --> 01:25:30,179
the band members now found themselves

1895
01:25:30,179 --> 01:25:32,640
cast adrift in an unfamiliar world of

1896
01:25:32,640 --> 01:25:35,460
synth pop and corporate Rock a landscape

1897
01:25:35,460 --> 01:25:37,920
unrecognizable to the icons of the 60s

1898
01:25:37,920 --> 01:25:40,380
and 70s almost all of whom struggled

1899
01:25:40,380 --> 01:25:42,420
badly during the 80s

1900
01:25:42,420 --> 01:25:44,580
Greg Allman put a band together and went

1901
01:25:44,580 --> 01:25:46,620
out on tour but his profile had

1902
01:25:46,620 --> 01:25:48,540
collapsed so precipitously that he

1903
01:25:48,540 --> 01:25:50,159
struggled to play Anywhere larger than

1904
01:25:50,159 --> 01:25:52,620
bars and not a single record label was

1905
01:25:52,620 --> 01:25:54,000
willing to offer him a recording

1906
01:25:54,000 --> 01:25:57,360
contract the 80s were a very dark period

1907
01:25:57,360 --> 01:26:00,199
for Roots Music

1908
01:26:00,199 --> 01:26:03,420
synthesizers were huge at this point if

1909
01:26:03,420 --> 01:26:06,179
you played guitar you are not cool

1910
01:26:06,179 --> 01:26:08,280
you played a guitar solo you were

1911
01:26:08,280 --> 01:26:10,620
self-indulgent you know the 80s were

1912
01:26:10,620 --> 01:26:14,460
about disco and pop and there was no

1913
01:26:14,460 --> 01:26:17,460
Blues influence at all and there was not

1914
01:26:17,460 --> 01:26:20,400
a lot of musicianship

1915
01:26:20,400 --> 01:26:21,780
and

1916
01:26:21,780 --> 01:26:24,719
you know Dickie was playing bars jamo

1917
01:26:24,719 --> 01:26:26,699
was playing bars and Greg was playing

1918
01:26:26,699 --> 01:26:28,320
bars you know they were no longer

1919
01:26:28,320 --> 01:26:30,239
playing stadiums they could barely fill

1920
01:26:30,239 --> 01:26:31,460
up

1921
01:26:31,460 --> 01:26:35,880
a 500 seat bar is an illustration of how

1922
01:26:35,880 --> 01:26:38,040
far they had fallen

1923
01:26:38,040 --> 01:26:40,199
I spent a year playing in a band with

1924
01:26:40,199 --> 01:26:43,440
jamo you know and it was sort of

1925
01:26:43,440 --> 01:26:45,420
how did the universe allow something

1926
01:26:45,420 --> 01:26:47,340
like this to happen and it was a great

1927
01:26:47,340 --> 01:26:49,860
experience for me but

1928
01:26:49,860 --> 01:26:52,800
why is jamo playing in this little bar

1929
01:26:52,800 --> 01:26:56,100
and making in a cover band I was in an

1930
01:26:56,100 --> 01:26:58,679
early retirement I was just having a

1931
01:26:58,679 --> 01:27:02,100
good old time and I got a phone call

1932
01:27:02,100 --> 01:27:04,980
in late 1983

1933
01:27:04,980 --> 01:27:08,100
and it was Greg Allman and he said

1934
01:27:08,100 --> 01:27:10,020
would you consider coming back to work

1935
01:27:10,020 --> 01:27:13,260
with me and I said well hell yes and I

1936
01:27:13,260 --> 01:27:15,000
when I hung up the phone I literally

1937
01:27:15,000 --> 01:27:17,760
jumped up in the in the air off the off

1938
01:27:17,760 --> 01:27:20,100
the floor because that's this is what I

1939
01:27:20,100 --> 01:27:21,480
really wanted to do

1940
01:27:21,480 --> 01:27:23,760
and uh

1941
01:27:23,760 --> 01:27:27,179
I went to see the Greg Allman Band in

1942
01:27:27,179 --> 01:27:29,699
Jacksonville Florida

1943
01:27:29,699 --> 01:27:32,580
and I was shocked because

1944
01:27:32,580 --> 01:27:35,219
I was used to stadiums and Arenas and he

1945
01:27:35,219 --> 01:27:37,260
was playing a nightclub with maybe 200

1946
01:27:37,260 --> 01:27:39,960
people so we've been playing all to the

1947
01:27:39,960 --> 01:27:44,580
summer I could at real large nightclubs

1948
01:27:44,580 --> 01:27:46,320
you know they're building some big clubs

1949
01:27:46,320 --> 01:27:49,920
now because these Arenas just

1950
01:27:49,920 --> 01:27:52,380
doesn't seem like very many people are

1951
01:27:52,380 --> 01:27:54,300
making a kind of money because

1952
01:27:54,300 --> 01:27:58,020
you go into an arena or ballpark or

1953
01:27:58,020 --> 01:28:01,620
whatever and you have four five six acts

1954
01:28:01,620 --> 01:28:02,580
I mean

1955
01:28:02,580 --> 01:28:04,500
tickets gonna cost anywhere from 12 to

1956
01:28:04,500 --> 01:28:06,540
20 dollars

1957
01:28:06,540 --> 01:28:08,400
and

1958
01:28:08,400 --> 01:28:09,600
people just don't have that kind of

1959
01:28:09,600 --> 01:28:10,739
money nowadays

1960
01:28:10,739 --> 01:28:13,739
I plan on uh we plan on cutting an album

1961
01:28:13,739 --> 01:28:16,500
hopefully to have maybe a January or

1962
01:28:16,500 --> 01:28:18,420
February release

1963
01:28:18,420 --> 01:28:21,000
uh it's not for sure but that's what

1964
01:28:21,000 --> 01:28:22,620
we'd like to aim for

1965
01:28:22,620 --> 01:28:26,219
and uh we have a lot of it written he

1966
01:28:26,219 --> 01:28:28,500
sounded better than ever to me

1967
01:28:28,500 --> 01:28:30,659
but he had no record deal he had

1968
01:28:30,659 --> 01:28:33,239
tremendous tax problems all this stuff

1969
01:28:33,239 --> 01:28:35,400
had happened after he

1970
01:28:35,400 --> 01:28:40,320
left the uh the Macon Georgia scene

1971
01:28:40,320 --> 01:28:41,760
and

1972
01:28:41,760 --> 01:28:45,840
it was a really shocking to me that how

1973
01:28:45,840 --> 01:28:48,780
low he had fallen professionally not not

1974
01:28:48,780 --> 01:28:52,080
personally but professionally and he did

1975
01:28:52,080 --> 01:28:54,120
have personal problems too he still had

1976
01:28:54,120 --> 01:28:57,659
a tremendous alcohol and drug problem is

1977
01:28:57,659 --> 01:29:00,000
Greg Allman going to hit the uh

1978
01:29:00,000 --> 01:29:02,040
don't take this one it's Greg Allman

1979
01:29:02,040 --> 01:29:04,500
going to hit the heights

1980
01:29:04,500 --> 01:29:07,400
in the past

1981
01:29:08,460 --> 01:29:10,620
well if I don't it won't be because I

1982
01:29:10,620 --> 01:29:11,880
didn't try

1983
01:29:11,880 --> 01:29:15,420
there's always a little bit of

1984
01:29:15,420 --> 01:29:18,179
you know a little bit of a preference of

1985
01:29:18,179 --> 01:29:20,580
bias at the record labels to find the

1986
01:29:20,580 --> 01:29:22,940
new you know 18 year old

1987
01:29:22,940 --> 01:29:25,739
uh so it's a disadvantage if you've been

1988
01:29:25,739 --> 01:29:28,560
around a while and a couple of record A

1989
01:29:28,560 --> 01:29:30,780
and R guys who were friends of mine and

1990
01:29:30,780 --> 01:29:33,179
loved the Allman Brothers said some

1991
01:29:33,179 --> 01:29:37,260
pretty you know uh not nasty just sort

1992
01:29:37,260 --> 01:29:40,020
of quips that you know I don't need a

1993
01:29:40,020 --> 01:29:42,360
used tire or whatever you know I mean

1994
01:29:42,360 --> 01:29:44,880
just stuff that kind of it's like really

1995
01:29:44,880 --> 01:29:48,000
don't you understand you know

1996
01:29:48,000 --> 01:29:51,480
but in 1986 fate intervened to revive

1997
01:29:51,480 --> 01:29:53,580
Greg's flagging fortunes

1998
01:29:53,580 --> 01:29:55,440
he encountered a composition by

1999
01:29:55,440 --> 01:29:57,540
little-known English songwriter entitled

2000
01:29:57,540 --> 01:30:00,120
I'm No Angel and on the strength of a

2001
01:30:00,120 --> 01:30:02,340
demo of the song Greg Allman was offered

2002
01:30:02,340 --> 01:30:04,920
a deal by Epic Records

2003
01:30:04,920 --> 01:30:07,260
Greg said something to me he said I

2004
01:30:07,260 --> 01:30:08,880
really want to hear my music on the

2005
01:30:08,880 --> 01:30:10,980
radio again and that really struck a

2006
01:30:10,980 --> 01:30:12,840
chord with me and I said you know damn

2007
01:30:12,840 --> 01:30:16,679
it I'm going to do my best that to see

2008
01:30:16,679 --> 01:30:20,280
that that does happen and after about

2009
01:30:20,280 --> 01:30:23,100
four years it did but it was a long

2010
01:30:23,100 --> 01:30:26,040
a long hard slog to get people to give

2011
01:30:26,040 --> 01:30:28,679
him another chance we were booking uh

2012
01:30:28,679 --> 01:30:31,380
Dickey Betts my agency we were booking

2013
01:30:31,380 --> 01:30:36,179
uh Greg Allman and uh us I just decided

2014
01:30:36,179 --> 01:30:39,540
that it it you know might be in you know

2015
01:30:39,540 --> 01:30:43,560
a good thing to work with Greg and let

2016
01:30:43,560 --> 01:30:45,780
him rebuild you know kind of you know

2017
01:30:45,780 --> 01:30:47,940
from the ground up he liked to play and

2018
01:30:47,940 --> 01:30:51,060
he had the Toler brothers who would put

2019
01:30:51,060 --> 01:30:53,400
together some instrumental tracks and

2020
01:30:53,400 --> 01:30:55,440
Greg could write lyrics to those in

2021
01:30:55,440 --> 01:30:57,659
instrumental tracks I don't know if Greg

2022
01:30:57,659 --> 01:31:01,100
would remember this but I listened to

2023
01:31:01,100 --> 01:31:04,620
uh not hundreds but probably thousands

2024
01:31:04,620 --> 01:31:06,780
of songs that people would send or own

2025
01:31:06,780 --> 01:31:09,540
albums obscure albums or new albums and

2026
01:31:09,540 --> 01:31:11,760
almost became in myself sort of in a

2027
01:31:11,760 --> 01:31:13,739
bubble of looking for a song for Greg

2028
01:31:13,739 --> 01:31:15,420
but a guy

2029
01:31:15,420 --> 01:31:17,820
um sent this cassette out to a number of

2030
01:31:17,820 --> 01:31:20,340
people songwriters do that and

2031
01:31:20,340 --> 01:31:24,060
Publishers do that and I heard uh I'm No

2032
01:31:24,060 --> 01:31:24,740
Angel

2033
01:31:24,740 --> 01:31:35,100
[Music]

2034
01:31:35,100 --> 01:31:38,100
I'm

2035
01:31:39,450 --> 01:31:42,620
[Music]

2036
01:31:42,780 --> 01:31:45,739
sure

2037
01:31:49,699 --> 01:31:53,100
come on love me baby

2038
01:31:53,100 --> 01:31:57,650
[Music]

2039
01:31:57,650 --> 01:31:58,710
[Applause]

2040
01:31:58,710 --> 01:32:07,419
[Music]

2041
01:32:07,679 --> 01:32:10,639
so I must

2042
01:32:10,890 --> 01:32:13,679
[Music]

2043
01:32:13,679 --> 01:32:16,100
No Angel

2044
01:32:16,100 --> 01:32:18,900
it was written by a

2045
01:32:18,900 --> 01:32:21,360
guy from the UK

2046
01:32:21,360 --> 01:32:24,000
but it sounded almost autobiographical

2047
01:32:24,000 --> 01:32:26,400
for Greg and we all felt man this is a

2048
01:32:26,400 --> 01:32:30,420
hit song and the folks at Epic Records

2049
01:32:30,420 --> 01:32:33,500
called us back and one of the radio

2050
01:32:33,500 --> 01:32:36,239
promotion guys said I can get this song

2051
01:32:36,239 --> 01:32:39,840
on a on 200 radio stations So based on

2052
01:32:39,840 --> 01:32:42,139
that they made us an offer

2053
01:32:42,139 --> 01:32:46,080
and uh we signed Greg with epic and it

2054
01:32:46,080 --> 01:32:49,920
was a big success it was uh

2055
01:32:49,920 --> 01:32:52,139
we had probably four tracks that were

2056
01:32:52,139 --> 01:32:55,739
number one at aor album oriented songs

2057
01:32:55,739 --> 01:32:58,860
it was the number nine MTV video I'm No

2058
01:32:58,860 --> 01:33:01,500
Angel and it was a gold record so we

2059
01:33:01,500 --> 01:33:04,580
were back in the ball game

2060
01:33:07,139 --> 01:33:09,480
Greg's Resurrection coincided with a

2061
01:33:09,480 --> 01:33:11,699
wider Rehabilitation of lead guitar and

2062
01:33:11,699 --> 01:33:13,679
blues-based Rock towards the end of the

2063
01:33:13,679 --> 01:33:14,760
80s

2064
01:33:14,760 --> 01:33:16,739
Stevie Ray Vaughan the virtuosa

2065
01:33:16,739 --> 01:33:19,260
guitarist from Texas was creating waves

2066
01:33:19,260 --> 01:33:21,120
across the music world with his searing

2067
01:33:21,120 --> 01:33:23,400
modern brand of Electric Blues and

2068
01:33:23,400 --> 01:33:25,320
audiences were reawakened to the sounds

2069
01:33:25,320 --> 01:33:27,420
and styles of southern rock

2070
01:33:27,420 --> 01:33:29,900
foreign

2071
01:33:32,090 --> 01:33:36,020
[Music]

2072
01:33:36,020 --> 01:33:40,679
with his guitar stepped into that Arena

2073
01:33:40,679 --> 01:33:43,199
it was not involved to be a guitar

2074
01:33:43,199 --> 01:33:45,179
player and be on a label and think

2075
01:33:45,179 --> 01:33:47,040
you're going to have a shot

2076
01:33:47,040 --> 01:33:49,980
and Epic Records printed the grand total

2077
01:33:49,980 --> 01:33:52,560
of 10 000 albums in the beginning

2078
01:33:52,560 --> 01:33:55,440
and they've sold like a matter of

2079
01:33:55,440 --> 01:33:58,199
minutes or days or hours I mean it was a

2080
01:33:58,199 --> 01:34:01,080
week or so and they were gone and the

2081
01:34:01,080 --> 01:34:03,960
code number changed and they reissued

2082
01:34:03,960 --> 01:34:06,300
and they got busy really fast and they

2083
01:34:06,300 --> 01:34:08,400
did the bottom line and it got up a lot

2084
01:34:08,400 --> 01:34:10,020
of attention Mick Jagger came to that

2085
01:34:10,020 --> 01:34:13,139
show but Stevie was uh was definitely a

2086
01:34:13,139 --> 01:34:16,620
bridge to a new acceptance for you know

2087
01:34:16,620 --> 01:34:20,400
a guitar band Dickey always talks about

2088
01:34:20,400 --> 01:34:22,560
how Stevie Ray Vaughan really kicked

2089
01:34:22,560 --> 01:34:25,380
open the door again and made it cool

2090
01:34:25,380 --> 01:34:28,739
to be a guitar player it made it cool to

2091
01:34:28,739 --> 01:34:32,480
play Blues based music

2092
01:34:34,739 --> 01:34:36,420
and as a consequence of the new

2093
01:34:36,420 --> 01:34:38,340
favorable climate The Allman Brothers

2094
01:34:38,340 --> 01:34:40,920
Band reformed once again

2095
01:34:40,920 --> 01:34:44,100
Greg Allman jmo Butch trucks and Dickie

2096
01:34:44,100 --> 01:34:46,320
bets reconvened as the nucleus of the

2097
01:34:46,320 --> 01:34:48,420
group while highly regarded guitarist

2098
01:34:48,420 --> 01:34:50,820
Warren Haynes and pianist Johnny Neal

2099
01:34:50,820 --> 01:34:53,400
came across from Dickey's solo band and

2100
01:34:53,400 --> 01:34:56,159
Alan Woody joined on base in the summer

2101
01:34:56,159 --> 01:34:58,980
of 89 polygram released the dreams box

2102
01:34:58,980 --> 01:35:00,960
set a compilation of recordings from

2103
01:35:00,960 --> 01:35:03,120
across the band's career and pre-history

2104
01:35:03,120 --> 01:35:06,480
that attracted Universal critical praise

2105
01:35:06,480 --> 01:35:08,639
to capitalize on the successive dreams

2106
01:35:08,639 --> 01:35:10,860
the ormonds embarked on a triumphant

2107
01:35:10,860 --> 01:35:14,159
20th anniversary tour of America

2108
01:35:14,159 --> 01:35:17,639
because of the new technology known as

2109
01:35:17,639 --> 01:35:19,800
the CD the record business was

2110
01:35:19,800 --> 01:35:22,080
plundering its own vaults reissuing

2111
01:35:22,080 --> 01:35:25,080
things and putting together box sets the

2112
01:35:25,080 --> 01:35:27,480
dreams box set which was compiled in

2113
01:35:27,480 --> 01:35:29,940
large part by Kirk West was

2114
01:35:29,940 --> 01:35:32,400
brilliant it was one of the real

2115
01:35:32,400 --> 01:35:36,239
Paragons of the art form of the box set

2116
01:35:36,239 --> 01:35:39,420
it re-established their greatness it put

2117
01:35:39,420 --> 01:35:41,639
it into a context it allowed a certain

2118
01:35:41,639 --> 01:35:43,739
number of outtakes and behind the scenes

2119
01:35:43,739 --> 01:35:47,159
looks and it was obvious that the time

2120
01:35:47,159 --> 01:35:49,620
was right it was friendlier time for

2121
01:35:49,620 --> 01:35:51,780
them to get together

2122
01:35:51,780 --> 01:35:55,800
I remember jamo called me up one day

2123
01:35:55,800 --> 01:35:58,440
and he said good things come to those

2124
01:35:58,440 --> 01:35:59,760
who wait

2125
01:35:59,760 --> 01:36:02,040
and I was like what do you what do you

2126
01:36:02,040 --> 01:36:03,600
what do you mean

2127
01:36:03,600 --> 01:36:05,400
we're getting back together

2128
01:36:05,400 --> 01:36:10,020
the happiness and GUI in his voice

2129
01:36:10,020 --> 01:36:11,880
you could hear it in every word he said

2130
01:36:11,880 --> 01:36:12,900
he

2131
01:36:12,900 --> 01:36:15,120
it was like going home and it was like

2132
01:36:15,120 --> 01:36:16,980
that for all of them I don't think it

2133
01:36:16,980 --> 01:36:19,380
was clear to anyone at that point that

2134
01:36:19,380 --> 01:36:22,080
it would be more than a 20th anniversary

2135
01:36:22,080 --> 01:36:24,900
tour it was certainly put together with

2136
01:36:24,900 --> 01:36:26,880
the concept that if it works if everyone

2137
01:36:26,880 --> 01:36:28,860
can stand each other if the music is

2138
01:36:28,860 --> 01:36:30,659
good if he can regain a bit of that

2139
01:36:30,659 --> 01:36:33,780
Vitality that the band had in its Heyday

2140
01:36:33,780 --> 01:36:36,239
yes let's keep going they brought in

2141
01:36:36,239 --> 01:36:38,520
Warren Haynes on guitar and they brought

2142
01:36:38,520 --> 01:36:41,400
in Alan Woody on bass

2143
01:36:41,400 --> 01:36:43,920
and Warren

2144
01:36:43,920 --> 01:36:47,159
was stepping into Dwayne's chair and he

2145
01:36:47,159 --> 01:36:49,320
was up for that challenge Warren was

2146
01:36:49,320 --> 01:36:51,960
smart enough to evoke Dwayne in his

2147
01:36:51,960 --> 01:36:53,340
solos

2148
01:36:53,340 --> 01:36:56,159
but he was also good enough to where he

2149
01:36:56,159 --> 01:36:58,199
could bring his own voice

2150
01:36:58,199 --> 01:37:00,300
and they gave the Allman Brothers Band

2151
01:37:00,300 --> 01:37:02,820
something they hadn't had since the days

2152
01:37:02,820 --> 01:37:04,560
of chocovel

2153
01:37:04,560 --> 01:37:07,340
and that is a first class

2154
01:37:07,340 --> 01:37:10,020
improv soloist

2155
01:37:10,020 --> 01:37:12,120
who could really

2156
01:37:12,120 --> 01:37:15,000
take them back to

2157
01:37:15,000 --> 01:37:17,400
where things were with Dwayne when they

2158
01:37:17,400 --> 01:37:20,040
went on stage you didn't know what was

2159
01:37:20,040 --> 01:37:22,380
going to happen the tour was pretty

2160
01:37:22,380 --> 01:37:24,960
successful so it was stepping back up

2161
01:37:24,960 --> 01:37:29,340
into that into that you know uh level

2162
01:37:29,340 --> 01:37:32,580
that they'd seen uh before and and there

2163
01:37:32,580 --> 01:37:35,699
was a lot of energy and acceptance for

2164
01:37:35,699 --> 01:37:36,860
it

2165
01:37:36,860 --> 01:37:39,900
was everything you know were they really

2166
01:37:39,900 --> 01:37:44,699
creating the the the new Legacy that

2167
01:37:44,699 --> 01:37:48,600
that'll be others to decide but uh it

2168
01:37:48,600 --> 01:37:49,610
was a fun tour

2169
01:37:49,610 --> 01:37:55,620
[Music]

2170
01:37:55,620 --> 01:37:58,380
for the revitalized band The 90s Were a

2171
01:37:58,380 --> 01:38:01,260
Rich era with the 80s firmly consigned

2172
01:38:01,260 --> 01:38:03,540
to history music listeners were Keen to

2173
01:38:03,540 --> 01:38:05,520
look back and discover key artists from

2174
01:38:05,520 --> 01:38:07,860
Rock and roll's Heyday together with a

2175
01:38:07,860 --> 01:38:09,659
series of successful Studio albums

2176
01:38:09,659 --> 01:38:11,280
released over the course of the decade

2177
01:38:11,280 --> 01:38:13,679
the Allman Brothers incredible Legacy

2178
01:38:13,679 --> 01:38:15,659
was finally recognized with induction

2179
01:38:15,659 --> 01:38:17,760
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in

2180
01:38:17,760 --> 01:38:20,719
1995.

2181
01:38:20,940 --> 01:38:22,660
hurry up

2182
01:38:22,660 --> 01:38:25,139
[Music]

2183
01:38:25,139 --> 01:38:26,580
early in the morning

2184
01:38:26,580 --> 01:38:30,620
feeling Nearly Dead

2185
01:38:30,679 --> 01:38:35,040
beautiful part of the comeback was the

2186
01:38:35,040 --> 01:38:37,260
Allman Brothers didn't just bring back

2187
01:38:37,260 --> 01:38:39,360
their old fans

2188
01:38:39,360 --> 01:38:41,100
and there are a lot of people just like

2189
01:38:41,100 --> 01:38:44,219
me it just stopped listening to them

2190
01:38:44,219 --> 01:38:45,960
because

2191
01:38:45,960 --> 01:38:48,420
just it wasn't the Allman Brothers Band

2192
01:38:48,420 --> 01:38:50,219
anymore

2193
01:38:50,219 --> 01:38:53,060
the 90s they not only

2194
01:38:53,060 --> 01:38:55,760
recapture their legacy

2195
01:38:55,760 --> 01:38:58,440
they pretty much stole the show at

2196
01:38:58,440 --> 01:39:01,980
Woodstock in 1994. they did an

2197
01:39:01,980 --> 01:39:05,520
incredible unplug show on MTV that was

2198
01:39:05,520 --> 01:39:08,280
highlighted by this acoustic version of

2199
01:39:08,280 --> 01:39:10,980
Elizabeth Reed it was just mind-blowing

2200
01:39:10,980 --> 01:39:14,520
they released two incredible Studio

2201
01:39:14,520 --> 01:39:16,260
albums

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01:39:16,260 --> 01:39:18,840
all of a sudden they became

2203
01:39:18,840 --> 01:39:22,920
legitimate again they became a band that

2204
01:39:22,920 --> 01:39:26,219
mattered I was surprised somewhat that

2205
01:39:26,219 --> 01:39:28,440
it lasted as long as it did I mean when

2206
01:39:28,440 --> 01:39:31,199
in the 19 in 1970

2207
01:39:31,199 --> 01:39:33,000
we were wondering if we could make it

2208
01:39:33,000 --> 01:39:35,880
into the next year and then it did and

2209
01:39:35,880 --> 01:39:39,780
then 1989 came and went and then all

2210
01:39:39,780 --> 01:39:41,760
through the 90s and up until just now

2211
01:39:41,760 --> 01:39:43,620
recently it

2212
01:39:43,620 --> 01:39:46,440
a little surprise but not not all that

2213
01:39:46,440 --> 01:39:48,900
much there's a second generation of fans

2214
01:39:48,900 --> 01:39:51,659
and they're fan base their original fan

2215
01:39:51,659 --> 01:39:54,500
base it's just amazing they're

2216
01:39:54,500 --> 01:39:57,480
I'm amazed I probably get a hundred

2217
01:39:57,480 --> 01:40:02,400
emails a day or Facebook inquiries about

2218
01:40:02,400 --> 01:40:05,040
you know the band and uh there are

2219
01:40:05,040 --> 01:40:07,860
people who still live and breathe at 24

2220
01:40:07,860 --> 01:40:10,679
7 that bad

2221
01:40:10,679 --> 01:40:12,780
but as sweet as the comeback may have

2222
01:40:12,780 --> 01:40:15,060
been the Allman still had one last

2223
01:40:15,060 --> 01:40:17,940
bitter pill to swallow Dickey Betts had

2224
01:40:17,940 --> 01:40:19,800
not resolved the personal problems that

2225
01:40:19,800 --> 01:40:21,659
had so blighted the lives of many of his

2226
01:40:21,659 --> 01:40:23,760
associates over the decades and his

2227
01:40:23,760 --> 01:40:25,679
erratic Behavior had begun to affect the

2228
01:40:25,679 --> 01:40:27,719
band's ability to function at their top

2229
01:40:27,719 --> 01:40:28,980
level

2230
01:40:28,980 --> 01:40:32,520
in May 2000 Dickey was fired from The

2231
01:40:32,520 --> 01:40:33,560
Allman Brothers

2232
01:40:33,560 --> 01:40:37,139
it was stunning news to those of us who

2233
01:40:37,139 --> 01:40:39,300
paid a lot of attention to the band it

2234
01:40:39,300 --> 01:40:41,100
was impossible to imagine the band

2235
01:40:41,100 --> 01:40:43,260
without Dickey bets

2236
01:40:43,260 --> 01:40:45,780
I among many others were skeptical of

2237
01:40:45,780 --> 01:40:47,940
their ability to perform without Dicky

2238
01:40:47,940 --> 01:40:51,659
Dicky was very clearly and all the more

2239
01:40:51,659 --> 01:40:54,179
so especially after the reunion in 1989

2240
01:40:54,179 --> 01:40:56,940
the band leader on stage I think if

2241
01:40:56,940 --> 01:40:58,980
anybody had dropped into a show from

2242
01:40:58,980 --> 01:41:00,540
planet Mars and knew nothing about the

2243
01:41:00,540 --> 01:41:02,219
Allman Brothers they would assume he was

2244
01:41:02,219 --> 01:41:04,020
the he was the guy he was the band

2245
01:41:04,020 --> 01:41:05,520
leader

2246
01:41:05,520 --> 01:41:08,159
after the Allman Brothers induction into

2247
01:41:08,159 --> 01:41:10,380
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995

2248
01:41:10,380 --> 01:41:13,139
that was sort of a low point for Greg he

2249
01:41:13,139 --> 01:41:15,000
was really a mess he checked himself

2250
01:41:15,000 --> 01:41:17,699
into rehab the next day

2251
01:41:17,699 --> 01:41:20,340
and it was not a straight line in Greg's

2252
01:41:20,340 --> 01:41:22,679
recovery it was a lot of zeking and

2253
01:41:22,679 --> 01:41:26,040
zagging and falling off the wagon but he

2254
01:41:26,040 --> 01:41:27,300
began to

2255
01:41:27,300 --> 01:41:28,739
get better

2256
01:41:28,739 --> 01:41:32,280
and as he began to be in better shape

2257
01:41:32,280 --> 01:41:34,260
he wanted to assert himself and

2258
01:41:34,260 --> 01:41:35,340
sometimes

2259
01:41:35,340 --> 01:41:37,980
and there were tensions Dickey had a

2260
01:41:37,980 --> 01:41:39,840
pattern in which he would fall off the

2261
01:41:39,840 --> 01:41:42,060
wagon and go on drinking binges there

2262
01:41:42,060 --> 01:41:44,600
had been an incident where

2263
01:41:44,600 --> 01:41:48,119
Warren and Alan Woody they had their own

2264
01:41:48,119 --> 01:41:51,540
band Government Mule they had signed to

2265
01:41:51,540 --> 01:41:54,360
the reformed Capricorn records that

2266
01:41:54,360 --> 01:41:56,460
upset Dickey

2267
01:41:56,460 --> 01:41:58,860
they had a band meeting and what I was

2268
01:41:58,860 --> 01:42:01,560
told was a fist fight broke out

2269
01:42:01,560 --> 01:42:04,440
Warren and Allen left

2270
01:42:04,440 --> 01:42:06,659
the band

2271
01:42:06,659 --> 01:42:07,320
um

2272
01:42:07,320 --> 01:42:11,040
there were instances you can hear on a

2273
01:42:11,040 --> 01:42:13,800
live album they released Dickies play

2274
01:42:13,800 --> 01:42:17,119
and got very sloppy

2275
01:42:17,520 --> 01:42:21,060
and at a certain point they just got

2276
01:42:21,060 --> 01:42:23,520
tired of it

2277
01:42:23,520 --> 01:42:27,179
I think that Dickey thought it was

2278
01:42:27,179 --> 01:42:29,219
impossible for him to be fired and his

2279
01:42:29,219 --> 01:42:30,900
behavior

2280
01:42:30,900 --> 01:42:34,440
was as such Dicky probably thought

2281
01:42:34,440 --> 01:42:36,540
maybe everybody thought until the very

2282
01:42:36,540 --> 01:42:37,920
moment that they decided to perform

2283
01:42:37,920 --> 01:42:39,600
without Dickie that the most inevitable

2284
01:42:39,600 --> 01:42:40,739
thing to happen would be they would

2285
01:42:40,739 --> 01:42:42,960
break up again maybe take a break for a

2286
01:42:42,960 --> 01:42:44,400
couple of years and get together again

2287
01:42:44,400 --> 01:42:46,980
that had been the pattern but they had

2288
01:42:46,980 --> 01:42:48,840
different ideas this time and they

2289
01:42:48,840 --> 01:42:51,960
decided to try to perform without him

2290
01:42:51,960 --> 01:42:54,119
with the loss of Dicky bet searing lead

2291
01:42:54,119 --> 01:42:56,400
playing the band now reconfigured around

2292
01:42:56,400 --> 01:42:59,520
two outstanding talents Warren Haynes

2293
01:42:59,520 --> 01:43:01,199
returned to the fold after the sudden

2294
01:43:01,199 --> 01:43:03,060
death of his Government Mule bandmate

2295
01:43:03,060 --> 01:43:05,400
the former woman's bassist Alan Woody

2296
01:43:05,400 --> 01:43:08,340
while Butch trucks young nephew Derek a

2297
01:43:08,340 --> 01:43:10,139
guitar Prodigy who had first come on

2298
01:43:10,139 --> 01:43:12,780
board in 99 now became the focus of the

2299
01:43:12,780 --> 01:43:13,619
group

2300
01:43:13,619 --> 01:43:16,139
Greg personally called Warren up asked

2301
01:43:16,139 --> 01:43:18,540
him to come back and Warren agreed to

2302
01:43:18,540 --> 01:43:20,699
come back for the beacon shows in March

2303
01:43:20,699 --> 01:43:23,699
of 2001 as a special guest he was not at

2304
01:43:23,699 --> 01:43:25,139
that point a member of The Allman

2305
01:43:25,139 --> 01:43:27,179
Brothers his agreement was basically

2306
01:43:27,179 --> 01:43:29,460
I'll see how it feels and how these

2307
01:43:29,460 --> 01:43:33,300
shows go and they were a Triumph and he

2308
01:43:33,300 --> 01:43:34,679
rejoined the band

2309
01:43:34,679 --> 01:43:37,440
it was a very unexpected turn of events

2310
01:43:37,440 --> 01:43:39,060
without

2311
01:43:39,060 --> 01:43:41,460
there's without Warren Haynes returning

2312
01:43:41,460 --> 01:43:42,840
to the Allman Brothers It's hard to

2313
01:43:42,840 --> 01:43:45,659
imagine how they would have been able to

2314
01:43:45,659 --> 01:43:48,000
continue without Dickie bets I think it

2315
01:43:48,000 --> 01:43:51,000
was a superb lineup that was rivaled

2316
01:43:51,000 --> 01:43:52,260
only by

2317
01:43:52,260 --> 01:43:54,900
the chuckleville lineup and then the the

2318
01:43:54,900 --> 01:43:58,619
comeback in 1990 with Dickie and Warren

2319
01:43:58,619 --> 01:44:01,440
you know Derek just brought

2320
01:44:01,440 --> 01:44:04,980
something special to that band I

2321
01:44:04,980 --> 01:44:07,800
remember I was living in Macon and

2322
01:44:07,800 --> 01:44:11,219
chuckleville called me up and

2323
01:44:11,219 --> 01:44:12,900
and he was like

2324
01:44:12,900 --> 01:44:15,360
Butch trucks nephews playing this little

2325
01:44:15,360 --> 01:44:17,580
Barn you know I'm gonna go see him you

2326
01:44:17,580 --> 01:44:19,139
need to come you need to hear him he's

2327
01:44:19,139 --> 01:44:22,800
11 years old and I remember it was like

2328
01:44:22,800 --> 01:44:25,500
seriously you're you're you want me to

2329
01:44:25,500 --> 01:44:28,679
go see 11 year old kid

2330
01:44:28,679 --> 01:44:32,719
and we went to the bar and Derek's

2331
01:44:32,719 --> 01:44:36,420
Gibson SG was taller than he was

2332
01:44:36,420 --> 01:44:38,520
he spent the entire show with an Atlanta

2333
01:44:38,520 --> 01:44:43,199
Braves cap hiding his face pretty much

2334
01:44:43,199 --> 01:44:46,739
nice stood there with Chuck with my jaw

2335
01:44:46,739 --> 01:44:49,940
dropped open

2336
01:44:50,460 --> 01:44:53,460
kid was 11 years old and playing like

2337
01:44:53,460 --> 01:44:54,140
that

2338
01:44:54,140 --> 01:44:58,589
[Music]

2339
01:45:06,360 --> 01:45:09,430
[Applause]

2340
01:45:09,719 --> 01:45:12,260
oh

2341
01:45:13,990 --> 01:45:14,430
[Applause]

2342
01:45:14,430 --> 01:45:17,390
[Music]

2343
01:45:17,390 --> 01:45:17,620
[Applause]

2344
01:45:17,620 --> 01:45:36,489
[Music]

2345
01:45:50,460 --> 01:45:52,940
awesome

2346
01:45:54,980 --> 01:45:57,360
I think

2347
01:45:57,360 --> 01:46:00,900
his presence really enabled them to go

2348
01:46:00,900 --> 01:46:05,760
to new heights and to continue

2349
01:46:05,760 --> 01:46:07,860
performing as a group

2350
01:46:07,860 --> 01:46:09,960
if they hadn't had him on hand I'm not

2351
01:46:09,960 --> 01:46:11,110
sure what they would have done

2352
01:46:11,110 --> 01:46:17,840
[Music]

2353
01:46:17,840 --> 01:46:21,540
in March 2009 the band celebrated their

2354
01:46:21,540 --> 01:46:23,699
40th anniversary with a show at the

2355
01:46:23,699 --> 01:46:26,100
Beacon Theater but on the same stage

2356
01:46:26,100 --> 01:46:28,500
five years later the curtain fell for

2357
01:46:28,500 --> 01:46:31,219
the last time as on the 28th of October

2358
01:46:31,219 --> 01:46:34,619
2014 The Allman Brothers Band Played

2359
01:46:34,619 --> 01:46:37,199
their final gig having restored

2360
01:46:37,199 --> 01:46:38,760
themselves to the summit of esteem

2361
01:46:38,760 --> 01:46:40,860
Within the Music World and achieved the

2362
01:46:40,860 --> 01:46:42,600
recognition that it deserted them during

2363
01:46:42,600 --> 01:46:45,900
the 80s the almonds bowed out as one of

2364
01:46:45,900 --> 01:46:47,760
the great comeback stories of the

2365
01:46:47,760 --> 01:46:51,360
Millennium what they've done is unheard

2366
01:46:51,360 --> 01:46:54,420
of in the music business they have a

2367
01:46:54,420 --> 01:46:56,280
music career they didn't have to go into

2368
01:46:56,280 --> 01:47:00,960
films or do a TV show you know they uh

2369
01:47:00,960 --> 01:47:03,480
rent a Beacon Theater in New York every

2370
01:47:03,480 --> 01:47:07,080
year for 30 days sell it out within 10

2371
01:47:07,080 --> 01:47:08,300
minutes

2372
01:47:08,300 --> 01:47:12,179
and here it is 40 45 years later

2373
01:47:12,179 --> 01:47:14,460
my God I mean I've never heard of that

2374
01:47:14,460 --> 01:47:16,940
in the business

2375
01:47:18,170 --> 01:47:27,759
[Music]

2376
01:47:31,980 --> 01:47:34,739
there's a whole new generation of

2377
01:47:34,739 --> 01:47:38,460
children of children from the from the

2378
01:47:38,460 --> 01:47:41,699
60s that are into this band now

2379
01:47:41,699 --> 01:47:44,100
a lot of us are growing older some of us

2380
01:47:44,100 --> 01:47:46,560
much older but

2381
01:47:46,560 --> 01:47:50,460
to me they could go out and and do it

2382
01:47:50,460 --> 01:47:52,980
again you know it's not beyond my dreams

2383
01:47:52,980 --> 01:47:54,719
that Dickey Betts could maybe come back

2384
01:47:54,719 --> 01:47:56,880
for one more run you know who knows

2385
01:47:56,880 --> 01:48:00,179
never never ever underestimate the

2386
01:48:00,179 --> 01:48:02,800
longevity of the Allman Brothers Band

2387
01:48:02,800 --> 01:48:04,139
[Music]

2388
01:48:04,139 --> 01:48:07,139
to continue through deaths

2389
01:48:07,139 --> 01:48:10,560
drug issues breakups marriages breaking

2390
01:48:10,560 --> 01:48:13,639
up and everything else that they

2391
01:48:13,639 --> 01:48:17,159
endured and continued through is a

2392
01:48:17,159 --> 01:48:18,780
strong message about the power of

2393
01:48:18,780 --> 01:48:21,000
perseverance I think that it's something

2394
01:48:21,000 --> 01:48:23,820
that should resonate with people who

2395
01:48:23,820 --> 01:48:25,320
love the band and people who don't even

2396
01:48:25,320 --> 01:48:27,360
know anything about the band

2397
01:48:27,360 --> 01:48:30,960
everybody in their life faces

2398
01:48:30,960 --> 01:48:34,260
Hard Times few people face as much

2399
01:48:34,260 --> 01:48:36,300
difficulty and hard times as the Allman

2400
01:48:36,300 --> 01:48:38,639
Brothers and their ability to persevere

2401
01:48:38,639 --> 01:48:41,159
continue on and and keep moving with

2402
01:48:41,159 --> 01:48:44,880
their heads up in a positive direction

2403
01:48:44,880 --> 01:48:46,800
I think is very inspiring and something

2404
01:48:46,800 --> 01:48:48,480
that everybody should take a little bit

2405
01:48:48,480 --> 01:48:50,430
of inspiration from

2406
01:48:50,430 --> 01:48:51,840
[Music]

2407
01:48:51,840 --> 01:48:54,179
the 70s The Allman Brothers Band had

2408
01:48:54,179 --> 01:48:57,960
lost everything that it once was

2409
01:48:57,960 --> 01:49:00,900
with the reunion going on tour with

2410
01:49:00,900 --> 01:49:03,540
Derek Trucks and Warren Haynes they got

2411
01:49:03,540 --> 01:49:06,000
that back and not a lot of people can

2412
01:49:06,000 --> 01:49:07,739
say that and I think that's very

2413
01:49:07,739 --> 01:49:10,080
important because

2414
01:49:10,080 --> 01:49:12,480
that band

2415
01:49:12,480 --> 01:49:15,239
was once the best band America had to

2416
01:49:15,239 --> 01:49:17,820
offer and I think that's a very

2417
01:49:17,820 --> 01:49:20,639
important Legacy and it's one that was

2418
01:49:20,639 --> 01:49:23,400
forgotten I think the fact that it's now

2419
01:49:23,400 --> 01:49:25,679
back again

2420
01:49:25,679 --> 01:49:27,480
you know that that's

2421
01:49:27,480 --> 01:49:29,270
the way the story should end

2422
01:49:29,270 --> 01:49:33,270
[Music]