The pictures he shares from this period reveal their own story. John (Allman was unimpressed), drink beers with The Marshall Tucker Band, hang out with Jackson Browne and spot Eric Clapton watching them play a free concert in Miami Beach. But as a chronicler of the band’s exuberant rise and tragic dissolution, however, he is fabulous.Īllman beautifully re-creates the rock scene of the mid-’60s as the brothers’ various bands move from regional clubs to national venues like the Fillmore. (The story begins with the murder of his father in 1949, the victim of a carjacking gone wrong, when Gregg was 2 and his brother, Duane, was 3.) And he isn’t especially adept at describing how he and his brother developed their signature musical style (“The more I did, the more I learned”). Maureen Ryan's Hollywood Takedown Book Storms to Top of the ChartsĪs narrator of his private life, Allman is uneven - honest but not particularly insightful.
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