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Music legend Greg Allman has died.
He was 69.
When it came to the Allman Brothers band,
he played [G] on everything.
They were the quintessential Southern [Dm] rock band, even though Greg really
[G] disliked that tag.
[Dm] His management confirmed his death today, saying Allman passed away
peacefully at his [E] home in Savannah, [G] Georgia.
Greg [Dm] struggled with health issues over [E] the
past several years.
[G] During that time, Greg considered being on the road playing music
with his brothers and [Em] solo band for [G] his beloved fans.
Essential medicine for his soul.
Playing
music lifted him up and kept him going during the toughest of times.
He was born Gregory _ Lenoir Allman on December 8, 1947 in Nashville, Tennessee.
He was always
[A] the main vocalist and composer of the Allman Brothers [Dm] band.
For a lot of years, the group
had that [A] three [G] musketeers motto, all [D] for one and one for all.
They lived [Dm] together, played,
traveled together, [A] partied together, [Dm] which if you're starting a band makes it a little
[A] easier.
We're talking [Dm] 1969 here.
They [C] were starving, [G] malnourished, [Dm] and looking for an
audience.
And of course they stayed up all night.
When they weren't playing, [C] they [G] were
partying.
[Dm] Dwayne Allman's vision of the band was to have [G] a different group, with two
lead guitarists and two drummers.
They even toyed with calling themselves Beelzebub.
Those
two first Allman Brothers band LPs, the self-titled debut from 69, [A] and 1970's Idle Wild South
were not really big hits at first.
Even though they had classic tunes on both, the first
had Whipping Post, which Rolling Stone magazine [Dm] called an enduring anthem, [A] rife with tormented
blues ballad imagery.
[Am] It also contained Muddy Waters' classic Trouble No [G] More.
Idle [Dm] Wild
South had Midnight Rider, which Greg Allman called, the song I'm most proud of in my career.
[G] It also featured [Dm] a future concert [D] mainstay, In the Memory of Elizabeth Reed, a jazz-flavored
[G] groovy instrumental.
The [Dm] Architects of Southern Rock, however, found their footing on their
third album.
[G] Greg Allman one day had [Dm] a lightbulb moment where he realized that even if they
didn't have hits, even if their albums didn't sell [G] as well as they wanted [Dm] to, they'd always
make a living on the road.
That audience was growing all the [A] time.
And he [G] thought, maybe
it's time for a [C] live album.
In July [Dm]
1971, they released At Fillmore East.
[G] It's considered
one of [F] the best live albums [D] of all time.
It peaked at number [Am] 13, their [D] highest at that
[G] point, and [D] everything they had _ [E] was on that album.
[G] And as they say in rock and roll, everything
changed after that.
With increased popularity came [D] the usual [G] rock and roll carnage, drugs
and booze.
Dwayne Allman and bassist Barry Oakley and even a few of the roadies went
into rehab.
The band's biggest blow came on October 29th, _ [D] 1971.
[G] At the age of only 24,
Dwayne [E] Allman was killed [Am] in a motorcycle accident.
On deciding the future of the band, Trucks
once said, We all had [G] this thing in [Dm] us, and Dwayne put it there.
He was the teacher, and
he gave something to us, [Am] his disciples, [G] and we [D] had to play out.
The next album, Eat a
[Dm] Peach did feature Dwayne Allman prominently [C] and it reached number [G] 5 on [Dm] the charts.
On
the LP, a gorgeous tune, Melissa, that was originally thought to be too soft [G] for the
group.
Greg wrote it [Dm] before he was in the band in 1967 and later played it at [G] Dwayne's
funeral.
Things got worse.
Bassist Barry Oakley was killed in another motorcycle accident
just a few blocks from where Dwayne had died.
They are [C#] buried side by [Dm] side.
Interestingly,
[G] they called the next album Brothers and Sisters, which is weird because they were not getting
along.
There was drugs in the way and a [Dm] lot of arguments.
The album [A] did feature Ramblin'
Man, their only [Am] top 10 hit.
And by [Gm] the way, this album was their only number [Dm] one.
From
1999 to 2014, _ Trucks' nephew, Derek, joined the group as [G] a guitarist.
They broke [Dm] up and
reformed [G] three times.
[Dm] They eventually retired in _ [D] 2014.
Melissa Etheridge said today,
My [Dm] Southern Rock heart is breaking.
Brad Paisley tweeted, What a [D] legacy Greg Allman leaves
behind.
Jam on [D#] in the great hereafter.
[Dm] And Keith Urban tweeted, My heart [A] breaks today
at the passing of a soul brother, Greg [D] Allman.
Blessings and peace to [F] all the Allman [D] family.
And Ringo [C] Starr's message, [G] Rest in peace [D] Greg Allman.
Peace and love to all the [F] family.
Just last January, [D] Allman Brothers long time [G] drummer, Butch [Dm] Trucks died from suicide.
He
was also 69 and at that time, Greg said, [G] I'm heartbroken.
[D] I've lost another brother and
it hurts beyond words.
[G] Butch and I knew each other since we were teenagers and we were
bandmates for 45 years.
He was a great man and a great drummer and I'm going to miss
him forever.
Rest in peace, Brother Butch.
In the _ 1970s as a teenager, my tastes were not sophisticated or I wasn't curious enough
to discover the Allman Brothers band.
Long before the tabloids were what they [Am] are today,
Greg, of course, had married Cher in _ 1975.
They are long divorced.
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