Macon Birthday Memories
Saturday night in Macon was a very special night. It was the night that the city of Macon, and many of her own, thanked one of her hardist working and most beloved citizens. A pessimist might say, “a good deed never goes unpunished,” but last weekend, in a room full of smiling optimists, Gregg Allman […]
Remeber This On Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day will no longer exist for me. My Valentines of 26 years is no longer by my side. My daughter and I swap silence in this old, musty home. The desire to clean is non-existant and I know I will never cook breakfast again. Movies are nothing now and late night discussions are of […]
The Duane Strat
I was reading a post in the Forum about one of Duane’s old Strats and this story came flooding back… From day one, Duane could play just about any guitar, and make it cry, but he had a real Fender fetish in the early days. Probably his all-time favorite guitar from his early Allman Joys/Hourglass […]
Allmans’ show had memorable moments for everyone
By: Dave Richards Erie News You could debate it all night. Exactly when did the Allman Brothers Band concert at the Warner Theatre on Tuesday transcend the realm of merely good and nearly reach nirvana? Was it during a physical, Cream-like rendition of the old-blues “Good Morning Little Schoolgirl,” which featured guitarist Warren Haynes on […]
I’ve Got Dreams
Three of us have been going to the Beacon shows for as long as …well for a long time. We always drag along a ‘rookie” as the fourth. It usually turns out to be a night to remember for him, and increases the fun for us. We go back-way back to the shows in the […]
Bobby Whitlock & Kim Carmel
An Interview By Bill Thames Bobby Whitlock began his career as a musician’s equivalent to a supercharged Ferrari racecar; laying rubber and burning-up stage, studio, and sensibilities, chasing, and finally capturing that fleeting star. Like many other successful Southern musicians, Whitlock seemed to go from “chopping cotton in Mississippi to being a rock star,” as […]
Reflections on the Macon Scene & More, An Interview with Les Dudek
by Oldcoot “You have to realize,” guitarist Les Dudek begins, “that when I arrived in Macon, there was a big hole in the bottom of the bucket.” Dudek is referring to the untimely passing several months earlier by Allman Brothers Band founder and leader, the late Duane Allman. Then 19, Dudek had first traveled to […]
Gregg Allman’s Search for Simplicity Has Found a Home
Photo & Story By: James Palmer For: Macon Magazine It’s not what you’d expect. Here’s Gregg Allman, legendary rocker with deep Macon roots, moving force of one of Southern rock’s most enduring bands, cradling a toy … poodle? “This is Jasmine,” Allman said of the 14-year-old poodle the singer/songwriter holds as he and his wife, […]
Warren Haynes: Everyguitarist
By Anthony DeCurtis 6 June 2004 The New York Times (c) 2004 New York Times Company ”I’M 44 years old, and I have a brand-new career ahead of me in the same way that a 25-year-old might,” said Warren Haynes as he sat in his living room, the expanse of downtown Manhattan framed in the […]
My Baby Girl’s Heart
By: Billy Hollems Today I watched my baby girl’s heart break into a thousand pieces. My daughter Marisa, who is now nine years old, and coming to the end of the third grade, experienced today a moment in her life she will hold in her memory forever. Several weeks in anticipation, Marisa awaited her annual […]