He played guitar and sang and did so with guitarist Scott Sharrard. Allman’s last gig was at the Laid Back Festival in Denver, Sept. It’s just a beautiful setting, man, so I’ll go up there and paint for a while it really relaxes me and lets me clear my head.”Īllman played hundreds and hundreds of gigs over the years, of course, with the Allman Brothers Band (in its multiple configurations) and solo, leading his own group. I have a room in my home with these big windows that look out over all these old oak trees. A lot of people may not know this, but I also dabble in painting. “I really enjoy deep-sea fishing as well there is tremendous tarpon fishing right off the coast of Savannah, where I live. “I love to ride motorcycles, always have,” he said. “I tell people I’ll never retire from playing it’s the traveling that will make me quit! I love playing music it’s my life’s blood, man, and that’s what keeps me out on the road.” Six years before he died, I was chatting – well, exchanging email questions and answers – with Gregg Allman.Īfter some prodigious health battles, the Allman Brothers Band singer-keyboardist was on tour again (under his name with an eight-piece backing band) and expressing a not-uncommon attitude about life on the road, especially for a musician in his mid-60s after a lifetime of doing it.
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