Hmmmm. When the Allman Brothers decided they were not going to complete their album deal with Clive Davis and Arista Recotds and the feeling they were hurting their legacy with the last album and lineup and that musical tastes had shifted where their style wasn't that popular anymore, they decided to shelve the Allman Brothers Band and try something else. Gregg took Danny Toler and David Toler with him and the three men were determined to build a new band using Gregg's name. I saw Gregg's new band the first time in 1982. Dickey, Butch and Chuck teamed with Jimmy Hall of Wet Willie and put together a band that would feature Dickey's songs and material from Hall and Chuck.

Just listening to the things Gregg says about the Horns etc leads ms to think this is 1983. Maybe!

Poor Jaimoe was left out entirely and was playing some in a small club in Forsyth, Georgia and doing farm labor to make a living. Jaimoe was kicked out of the ABB in 1980 and replaced by David Toler.

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Listened again and to another Gregg interview that popped up next from his book tour for My Cross To Bear.

As a fan going back to 1970 and with much of the band's history locked in my mind because it was almost like a religion to me.....it is amusing and baffling the mistakes Gregg makes.

I'll just mention three. Gregg says in 1983, his new band is really coming together and he finally snapped the writers slump he had gone through ( Gregg said that off and on for years) but he and Danny Toler went back and worked up an Allman Brothers tune ",Leave My Blues At Home" and the Allman Brothers never played it live one time. The interviewer says " What Allman Brothers album was that one on?" and Gregg says " It's on the first one we ever did. Cut it in New York and Atlantic Records gave us just a limited amount of time so we rushed it. I've always wanted to go back in and redo that first album". Leave My Blues At Home is on Idlewild South and recorded in Miami not New York.

Gregg was asked by someone at the book signing " What was the last thing you and Duane wrote together?". Gregg says " My brother didn't write much. He wrote Little Martha a song about his girlfriend ". The host jumps in and says " What was the last song you and your brother recorded together?". Gregg has a long pause and he is saying let me think , let me think.........."It would be Trouble No More I think". The answer is Blue Sky and Standback right before that.

Gregg is asked " When was the first time you played with Derek Trucks? Gregg said " Derek was 9 years old the first time I played with him. "We were down in Miami, Florida recording the Enlighten Rogues album with Tom Dowd and Butchie wants me and Haynes and Allen Woody to go to this little dumpy club and show us something " Some one says Enlighten Rogues was 1979. Gregg says "Oh. Well that wasn't it. Derek would be 70 years old now. Oh God what was it". Again he takes a lot of time to remember and finally says " No that time we were in Florida recording Shades of Two Worlds and Butchie took us to hear Derek. " etc etc. The answer is Seven Turns. Shades was recorded in Memphis.

I'll stop there. Maybe Gregg really did believe in his mind that he hitchhiked from LA to Jacksonville to join the Allman Brothers. But apparently he flew out of LAX.

Okay he was like that. But he was the BEST singer EVER in the Allman Brothers. The band's voice. And one of the best singers anywhere. Can you imagine Fillmore East with Warren or Dickey singing all those songs instead of Gregg?? Wouldn't be as good!!

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It’s funny how the memory works like that
Gregg emphatically said in his book he & a large group of people were at the hospital chapel 10/29/71 when the surgeon came out and informed them Duane had died

Both Red Dog and Chank Middleton said Gregg had returned home when Red Dog showed up, told Chank Duane had passed, and referring to Gregg said “don’t tell him now” when Gregg emerged and said “don’t tell him what” & that’s how he found out -
so who knows

Yeah as you said, that hitchhiking across the country story had its variations too - read somewhere, John McEwen said he recalled giving Gregg a ride to the airport:o
I love the ABB

It was like that everywhere - the shock to the system caused short-circuits of body & mind - as Chuck said in his book, “time plays tricks w/the mind, so does tragedy”

Chuck himself recalled being at Johnny Sandlin’s house - Cowboy guitarist Tommy Talton was also there, Chuck recalled - when, after the initial phone call came to Johnny that Duane had been in an accident, the second one came with the news that he’d died

Johnny indeed recalls in his book being at home when the first call came
Then driving to the Capricorn office, and walking w/others the short distance to the hospital, where word eventually came that Duane hadn’t made it

Author Anathalee G. Sandin’s Intro to this chapter puts lucid perspective on it all