Allman Brothers Band Trivia

[Ol Smoke]

Many of you are way too young to have ever heard of this band.  But if you like rock music, you should hear the first three albums they made.

 

Duane Allman and Gregg Allman started the band in 1969 but Duane was killed in a motorcycle accident in 1972.  He was the driving force and lead guitar behind the band, and yet he was only

with them for 3 years.  His brother Gregg tried to keep it going but never really wrote a true Allman Brothers sound record.

 

Duane was the first lead guitar rock player to use a glass slide.  He also introduced dual guitar leads with Dicky Betts.  Incorporating harmonics and harmony tones.

 

If you want to hear two of the best songs they ever did, try listening to Rambling Man and Revival.

 

One year after Duane's death, the bass Player died in a motorcycle accident only a block or two from where Duane had died.

 

Duane first played at the Muscle Shoals recording studios and showed a lot of the rock guitarists then, some new ways to play.

 

Derek Trucks played with them in the 1990's.  Derek was, at the time, 11 years old, when he met Dicky Betts and Gregg Allman. He played with the cannibalized ABB for many years.

 

Duane Allman  (by the way, the glass slide was an aspirin bottle his brother found at their house.  He never used anything else)