Greg Allman Passes

mscard88

mscard88

Touchdown! Greaser!
Joined
Oct 1, 2015
Messages
23,216
Location
Alabama
Display Name
Display name:
Mark
Last edited:
Sad :(

Jessica by the Allman Brothers has always been one of my favorites.
 
A long run....a big loss none-the-less. RIP.
 
Butch Trucks also passed earlier this year.
 
Dammit. Got a transcon to do tomorrow - gonna play some Allman Brothers enroute.

Melissa was always my favorite.
 
kayoh190 said:
Dammit. Got a transcon to do tomorrow - gonna play some Allman Brothers enroute.

Melissa was always my favorite.
Click to expand...

Great song, but the live version of Whipping Post is incredible. Stormy Monday is awesome too.
 
Played ABB all day today while doing a little road trip for business. RIP.
 
All man will pass at some point.
 
wrbix said:
Best Rock album extant - The Bro Live at the Filmore.
Click to expand...

Sat at the condo pool on vacation a couple of years ago and listened to the whole thing. Duane was one incredible slide player.

Saw them in the Omni in Atlanta early to mid '70s. My favorite band at one time.
 
kyleb said:
Great song, but the live version of Whipping Post is incredible. Stormy Monday is awesome too.
Click to expand...

I have all their music on the iPod. Listened to Ludlow album and Whipping Post and One Way Out were killer.

Bill Graham called them the best band ever. When he closed Fillmore East or West, forget which, he booked ABB as the last act. Beach Boys wanted to be last, but Graham said no and BB played right before ABB after threatening not to play. I love the BB too but ABB just a different band completely. Saw Brian Wilson a month ago and it was a great show. Brian has lost his voice some but the man could write music.
 
OH Dang. that is so sad. They put on great shows, glad I went to a bunch. RIP.
 
coupl'a years ago The Bro's and Widespread Panic came to Charlotte. a buddy of mine from ATL was big into panic and came up for the show. I never really got into panic, barely knew a song but we've both been long time Bro's fans. also, the venue was at the verizon amphitheater, a pretty cool place to see a show like this.

so panic goes on first and does a few sets. I was like 'ok, they played some music'. then The Bro's came on and blew the doors off the place. wait, it's an ampitheater, there are no doors. anyways, they mother flippin rocked the ever lovin shiznit out of Charlotte. we tallied it up in the end, it was 3 sets to 0 in favor of The Bro's, no competition.
 
eman1200 said:
coupl'a years ago The Bro's and Widespread Panic came to Charlotte. a buddy of mine from ATL was big into panic and came up for the show. I never really got into panic, barely knew a song but we've both been long time Bro's fans. also, the venue was at the verizon amphitheater, a pretty cool place to see a show like this.

so panic goes on first and does a few sets. I was like 'ok, they played some music'. then The Bro's came on and blew the doors off the place. wait, it's an ampitheater, there are no doors. anyways, they mother flippin rocked the ever lovin shiznit out of Charlotte. we tallied it up in the end, it was 3 sets to 0 in favor of The Bro's, no competition.
Click to expand...

True, hard to top the Bros, but Panics lead guitarist, Jimmy Herring, was considered and offered a job with the ABB. Style very much like Duane Allman's. He played with the ABBs a few times and was offered the job a few times.
 
Weird.

Gregg Allman Portrait Using Allman’s Blood Sep 18, 2017


  • A portrait of Gregg Allman painted with the late rocker’s own blood will be packaged with certain editions of his new album.

    The painting, which you can see above, was commissioned from surrealist Vincent Castiglia, who used Allman’s blood – as well as blood from Allman’s children – in the work. The portrait is based on a photograph by Neal Preston and will be included in the deluxe edition and the initial run of vinyl copies of Southern Blood, the album
    Allman was working on when he died on May 27.

    You can watch a time-lapse video of Castiglia working on the portrait via Yahoo.

    Castiglia said he was approached by Allman in late 2015 to paint the album art for Southern Blood, which will be released on Friday. The artist stored vials of Allman’s blood in his refrigerator for more than a year, starting work on the piece soon after Allman’s death.

    “This is the single most important work I’ve ever painted,” Castiglia says in a news release. “When Gregg shipped me the vials of his blood, no one could have foreseen what was to come — that ultimately the painting wouldn’t be created until his after his passing. Painting Gregg’s portrait in his and his children’s blood, memorializing him posthumously, was one of the most emotively intense experiences.”

    Allman had completed most of the work on Southern Blood with his touring band and producer Don Was at Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals before he died at age 69 from complications from liver cancer. The record marks his first album since 2011’s Low Country Blues.

    ultimateclassicrock.com/gregg-allman-portrait-blood/
 
Anymouse said:
Ummm... I think I'll just download the tunes.
Click to expand...

Yeah I did a few weeks ago, good tunes on his final album. But this vinyl with his own blood, nah, I'll pass on that. I mean he had Hep-C, what if ya wanted to lick it? :yikes: :rofl:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top