RIP Greg Allman
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Maybe I shouldn't have said anything about Muscle Shoals/Capricorn Records in the Carolina Beach music thread. Loved the Allman Brothers, one band I never say live.
His brother Duane died shortly after taking part in Derek And the Dominoes, it made Gregg crazy with grief. As he achieved his greatest success, Gregg became a debauched alcoholic.
He got sober and sang about his past life.
He got sober and sang about his past life.
I loved that band from their first album forward. I never saw them live either, but I sure bought every issue and then reissue of their "Live At The Fillmore East" album, original vinyl, double CD, SACD, and expanded versions.
Gregg's solo stuff later was well worth listening too as well. RIP.
I watched part of an interview w Allman a few years ago. Unfortunately, as with Ozzy or Richards the ravages of heavy drug use on his mind were all to apparent. His speech was slow and his words were slurred.
Whipping Post. One of my favourite Allman Brothers tunes. Thanks form the link, MissCroft...
Many of these guys die of liver cancer because they have hepatitis C, likely thru injecting or snorting drugs. Anyone that grew up in this period could have been exposed to Hep c and not know it. It costs nothing to get tested.
Gregg Allman was a very famous musician, singer and songwriter who, together with his brother, founded The Allman Brothers Band, one of the top bands in America in the late 1960s and the 1970s. He wrote and played top hit songs “Midnight Rider,” “Melissa,” “Whipping Post,” “Trouble No More,” “Blue Sky” “Ramblin’ Man” and “Dreams.”
Yet in spite of his fame and millions of dollars in income, he lived a miserable life and on May 27, 2017, he died at the very young age of 69 of liver cancer, liver damage, immune suppression drugs to keep him from rejecting a liver transplant, pneumonia that was caused by the immune suppression, and drug and alcohol damage to his heart, kidneys and every other organ in his body.
https://www.villages-news.com/gregg-allman-liver-cancer/
Gregg Allman was a very famous musician, singer and songwriter who, together with his brother, founded The Allman Brothers Band, one of the top bands in America in the late 1960s and the 1970s. He wrote and played top hit songs “Midnight Rider,” “Melissa,” “Whipping Post,” “Trouble No More,” “Blue Sky” “Ramblin’ Man” and “Dreams.”
Yet in spite of his fame and millions of dollars in income, he lived a miserable life and on May 27, 2017, he died at the very young age of 69 of liver cancer, liver damage, immune suppression drugs to keep him from rejecting a liver transplant, pneumonia that was caused by the immune suppression, and drug and alcohol damage to his heart, kidneys and every other organ in his body.
https://www.villages-news.com/gregg-allman-liver-cancer/
