The Allman Brothers Band Quotes
The Allman Brothers Band Song Quotes
"I'm not gonna let 'em catch me, no
Not gonna let 'em catch the Midnight Rider"
-The Allman Brothers Band
from Midnight Rider (1991)
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The Allman Brothers Band is an American rock/blues band once based in Macon, Georgia. The band was formed in
Jacksonville, Florida, in 1969 by brothers Duane Allman and Gregg Allman, along with
Dickey Betts, Berry Oakley, Butch Trucks, and Jai Johanny Johanson.
While the band has been called the principal architects of Southern rock, they also incorporate elements of blues, jazz, and country music, and their live shows have jam band-style improvisation and instrumentals.
The band has been awarded eleven gold and five platinum albums between 1971 and 2005 and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.-Wikipedia
Members:
While the band has been called the principal architects of Southern rock, they also incorporate elements of blues, jazz, and country music, and their live shows have jam band-style improvisation and instrumentals.
The band has been awarded eleven gold and five platinum albums between 1971 and 2005 and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.
Gregg Allman -
organ, piano, guitar, vocals
(1969-1976, 1978-1982, 1986, 1989-present)
Butch Trucks -
drums, tympani
(1969-1976, 1978-1982, 1986, 1989-present)
Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson -
drums, percussion
(1969-1976, 1978-1980, 1986, 1989-present)
Warren Haynes -
guitar, slide guitar, vocals
(1989-1997, 2000-present)
Marc Quiñones -
drums, percussion, background vocals
(1991-present)
Oteil Burbridge -
bass, vocals
(1997-present)
Derek Trucks -
guitar, slide guitar
(1999-present)
From: Macon, GA, U.S.A.
Genre(s): Southern rock, blues, blues rock, roots rock, boogie rock, country rock, jam rock, electric blues
Active From: 1969-1976, 1978-1982, 1989-2014
Associated Acts: Gov't Mule, The Dead, The Derek Trucks Band, Derek and the Dominos, Hour Glass, Great Southern, Sea Level
Did You Know:
Founding members Duane Allman and Berry Oakley died in 1971 & 1972, both in motorcycle accidents at the age of 24.
The group has split-up twice: from 1976 to 1978 & again from 1982 to 1989
Quotes:
I'd kind of grown up with a classical background and Duane and Gregg with the Blues. Plus, my background was Gospel. But then with Dickey with the Blues and the Country background, it all kind of melted. That first year or two, all we listened to was Miles and Trane and people like that in the jazz idiom.
Butch Trucks
Well, I left Florida State College with a couple of friends in '67 and went to Daytona to make it big playing music. We went to college to stay out of Vietnam, is all we were doing. They finally kicked us out of college for not coming to class. We left Tallahassee and headed to Daytona to strike it big. We had a band that was good, but you couldn't dance to it, so we couldn't get work.
Butch Trucks
"The band has always viewed itself as the original alternative band. They went out there breaking all the rules. They insisted on doing their way, not the way the industry told them they had to do it."
"We have two drummers and percussionist and two lead guitar players. None of these bands have that kind of firepower."