Chords for Remembering Duane Allman Oct.29 1971

He died at 24 years old.
We wanted to kind of tell you a little bit more about the Allman Brothers
because of a great new book out there.
It's called Please Be With Me, but first let's look at the
Allman Brothers. _ _
_ _ _ _ The music of the Allman Brothers might be [G] decades old, but it sounds just as fresh
now as it did when Dwayne and Greg Allman created the band back in 1969.
The brothers loved music
and their incredible craftsmanship infused their work with the unique sound that will endure for
[Bm] decades to come.
It [A] all started when Greg, who was only 13 years old, first became hooked on music
when he heard a neighbor play the guitar.
[B] He soon bought his own instrument, which his older
brother Dwayne confiscated.
[G] Dwayne and Greg would create classic songs [Dm] like Statesboro Blues,
Midnight Rider, and Melissa.
[B] _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ A few [F#] years ago, I caught up with Greg and he explained the origins of that song.
I couldn't find a light.
I couldn't find anything to write with.
So finally I found this ironing
[E] board.
Right past it on this counter was a box of kitchen matches.
I thought, ah, let there be light.
So I struck one and looked around for a pencil.
[F#] I'd strike one for [E] for light.
I'd strike another
and blow it out real quick.
I wrote it [E] in charcoal on this [A] ironing board cover.
_ [A#] Next morning I [C#m] caught
hell about that [D] ironing board cover.
Because you ruined the ironing board cover, but listen,
you created a masterpiece.
[C#] Dwayne gained notoriety as a [E] guitarist whose skill [Am] was second only to
[D] Jimi Hendrix, according to the music bible, [Am] Rolling Stone.
Sadly, in October of 1971, Dwayne was killed
in a [Am] motorcycle accident.
He was only [D] 24 years old, [Am] but he left behind a music legacy and a [C] two-year-old daughter.
_ _ [B] _ _ [A] _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _
_ [A] Galadriel Allman has just [B] written her very own book about her, Dwayne Allman and her father,
the guitarist of the Allman brothers.
This book is called Please Be With Me.
Family of Rock Stars.
Yes, that's awesome.
You've just written your first book.
It looks awesome.
I love your dad's music.
Midnight Rider is on my playlist constantly.
Tell me a little bit about your book.
Well, you know,
my father passed when I was only two years old, so I really had a lot of gaps in my own knowledge
about him.
I don't have my own memories, but I spent a couple of years and traveled around in
the south and talked to our family and musicians that he had worked with and really kind of pieced
together his story.
And, you know, I studied writing in college and had always wanted to be a writer,
and I was born into this great American story.
You know, he's kind of a heroic figure.
He went
from being a kid that wanted to play guitar, and 10 years later he was making some of the best-loved
American [G#] music that today is still loved.
So it was really a pleasure and a real labor of love to
go out there and talk to his friends and get a closer sense of him.
It had to be hard, though.
I
mean, it must have been wonderful to learn about your dad, but at the same time, you know, you
couldn't touch out and hold him, you know.
He was 24 years old.
You were only two years old when he
died.
Right.
No, it was.
I mean, it was healing, too, though.
I mean, I think I always feared that it would
be hard to talk to people who loved him, that it would trigger sadness, but it was actually really,
I think it was good for all of us to sort of go back, you know, and talk about him and listen to
the music and remember.
I think it's good to do that.
Because in learning about your dad, you're
really learning about [F] yourself because you are the piece of him that was left behind.
So I think
that's really cool, and the fact that you've documented it, that's something to be proud of
because there's not a lot of [F#] people that can go back and say they've [C] done for their father, [F#] for
their last name, what you've been able to do.
So [Am] kudos to you.
Beautiful.
Thank you.
That means a lot
to me.
Yeah, it's really been [A] a sort of moment of me becoming an [B] artist, too, by becoming a writer,
and I feel like I [Am] learned something about who he was because I was doing what he did.
I was traveling.
I was, you know, working on my thing with focus, and I think that in some ways it can really inspire
people that do all [D] kinds of things, not just musicians, because he was [Dm] so dedicated and [Em] focused
from the time he was a teenager.
He and Greg went from being, [A] you know, learning three chords to
really seriously [Am] forming bands, even in high school, that were just [D] remarkably accomplished,
and [Am] their mother really encouraged them.
My grandmother's a [D] big character in this book.
[B] She is.
Yes.
And what about Uncle Greg?
First of all, I got to meet Uncle Greg a few years ago,
which is wonderful.
He was supposed to be here today with you, but he's not feeling so hot, huh?
He's got a little cold, but he'll, he's gonna bounce back.
Is he gonna do some of the book
signings with you?
Yes, he is.
We're actually gonna be at Barnes & Noble at Union Square on
14th Street on the 10th, so we're looking forward to that.
That's right around the corner.
Yeah,
so Uncle Greg, I mean, he's kind of filled in some of the stories too?
Oh, absolutely.
He was probably
the biggest source and the most fun to talk to about their childhood all the way through.
[E] They
were really almost never apart, so he's a really inspiring person for me too, because it's the 45th
anniversary this year, and they're going to be at the Beacon from the 7th of this month all the way
through to the end of March doing 14 shows that all [F] sold out.
They're all [C#m] sold out?
An hour and a
half they sold out.
New York [A] loves the All My Brothers Band, [Bm] and we're so [E] proud of that since
they were really [A] first starting.
They [D] played at the Fillmore East [A] here, and [E] yeah, New York understands
[F#m] the music, [E] you know, so it's really cool.
[A] Well, it's so nice to meet you.
[Bm] Where did you get your name from?
[C] It's actually from Lord of the Rings.
[F#] Galadriel was the princess of the [N] elves, and that was my
father's favorite book, and it's funny because I was born prematurely, and my parents hadn't
talked about it, so my mom didn't know that he was going to name me that, and when she woke up
from labor, she said, you named her what? _
_ Creativity did not skip you over.
You've written a book, and you
have a very unique name.
It's beautiful.
Thank you so much.
All right, so nice to meet you, and you can go
meet Galadriel and her uncle Greg Allman at Union Square Barnes & Noble, March