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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have to do Gregg Allman songs.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kind of question whether to say this or not, but it's almost like the Allman Brothers turned into an Allman Brothers tribute band.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1969, I was playing guitar in several rock bands that toured central Florida.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, my dad was in construction and used to move the family back and forth between central Florida's east and west coasts.
- Nov 07, 2020
Ramblin' was in my blood.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My daddy had been a fiddler, and I heard a lot of fiddle music as a child. I had a ukulele and had played along with him.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm influenced by Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelly, Roland Kirk, John Coltrane, B.B. King, and then by bluegrass. But when I was 16, bluegrass wasn't cool. We was rock n' rollers then: Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in South Florida, and my family was pretty poor. We weren't your upper-class whites by any means.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our main thing we'd have to entertain us: All my uncles would come over, and we'd sit around the living room on a weekend night, and we'd play. That was a big event for me, getting to play. We never did have any percussion.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a ukulele when I was about seven. Then I started playing around with the mandolin and the banjo.
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Seven Turns' was a tough album because we knew that the critics would use it to determine whether or not we should have remained broken up.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anytime I'm playing music or getting ready to record, Duane Allman will enter my thoughts, and so will Berry Oakley. It's part of my musical makeup and mental process when it comes to music. We learned to play together and taught each other a lot.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard for people to understand that when five or six guys are together working intensely, they can really get into some duels.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't call myself a jazz player or a blues player.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've written some songs that are pretty scary, but 'Jessica,' 'Ramblin' Man,' and 'Blue Sky' are happy songs. That's the way I wrote them: have-fun tunes to make you feel good.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people take me as being a rowdy, honky-tonk hero type. Some people see me as a quiet person. I guess I can be either one, you know, at any moment.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as the music goes, I like melody.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have so many great memories of the Allman Brothers early days. It was an incredible time.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything comes to an end.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you've got a corporation, and you throw out one of the founding partners that is responsible in part for making the organization what it is today, you have to compensate that person. You have to come to a settlement.
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- Nov 07, 2020
People say a lot of things in the heat of the moment. But in the entertainment business, ya never say never.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes arguments get publicized so much that it gets blown all the hell out of proportion.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sure you have arguments with your friends, but they don't get printed up and magnified in the papers.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really feel like I've written my most effective music in the instrumental realms.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In rock n' roll music, you almost have to apologize for being around more than four or five years. I don't know why.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blues players are around for 50 years, and that's just fine.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned to climb a tree pretty fast.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing with Berry and Duane and the rest of us in the original Allman Brothers seemed to be a once-in-a-lifetime thing. When Duane was killed, we knew we lost a great part of that, but we still managed to play some great music.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, I'm not the kind of guy who likes to look in the mirror and say, 'Oh, you're the best.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our tunes aren't just sing-along tunes: they're very complex. After a few days of that, you gotta take a break.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to play acoustic slide. I like that. I just... I can do it, you know. But it ain't my cup of tea.
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- Nov 07, 2020