Great to read about the book. Browne scooped Alan Paul. In a perfect world

Jaimoe and Butch would have written one together.

I remember Jaimoe saying that tattoo hurt so badly that he didn't let Tuttle go beyond the outline. And that is why Jaimoe's is different than the other five. It was never completed. 

And Butch Trucks said during that interview years ago that purely by chance, by accident, when all six of them rolled up their pant leg and stood together in a line with the tattoos exposed, all six where even all the way across. And it was not planned. They all were different heights and had different size legs yet those six tattoos were at the same height from the ground from left to right. 

As far as I know none of the replacement musicians to be in the band got the leg mushroom tattoo. 

I do recall someone ( Red Dog? ) suggested Warren and Alan get one when everyone was so pleased with how good the 1989 version sounded and it looked as if the ABB was back for the long haul but Warren Haynes refused to get the mushroom. Warren may not have any tattoos. 

Duane Allman 🍄 

Gregg Allman 🍄 

Dickey Betts 🍄

Berry Oakley 🍄

Butch Trucks 🍄

Jaimoe 🫟 ( outline of a mushroom only )

Great write-up!  Thanks Bob.

I think Derek got one (mushrooom tatoo). I seem to remember a video from backstage at the Beacon where he shows it to Butch and Gregg.

@kcjimmy Yes you are correct. I just checked and Derek got a calf mushroom tattoo a week before the ABB broke up in October 2014. 

When asked why he did it Derek answers " Because Jaimoe told me to get one before this ended and I do what Jaimoe says". 

The article said Warren Haynes again declined to get the tattoo. 

Apparently Warren does not get any ink on his body. 

Gregg and Dickey went way beyond the calf mushroom tattoo. Marc and Allan got much ink on their arms eventually too but I can't find anything on the calf mushroom. Wonder if Marc and Allan got those too? 

I enjoyed the Rolling Stone interview with Jaimoe. The first one to join Duane's band and the last one standing. It's interesting after Gregg joined and there were six of them, Jaimoe knew he would be the last one standing. 

My dad's oldest sister told me not long before she passed at 96 that she knew as a teenager she would outlive her three younger sisters and she did. Those kind of feelings are creepy. 

Apparently Butch committed suicide because of tax trouble. The IRS was taking everything. I had two people with whom I was aquatinted about three years apart, commit suicide because of being in deep tax trouble with the IRS over their businesses. 

In a couple of interviews Butch said when they were recording Eat A Peach, one of the songs they put on tape before taking a break then Duane got killed was Standback, a song Berry Oakley started and Gregg Allman finished. 

Butch said as they rehearsed it he became convinced Jaimoe should be the main time keeper and he ( Butch ) would play percussion. 

I always thought Jaimoe's drumming was fantastic on that song and a highlight of Standback. 

Also in 1993 I had loaned my vinyl copy of the band's first album to a friend and just got it back before traveling to a show that summer and noticed Jaimoe, Marc and Allen in a Mexican restaurant the afternoon of the show. 

The album was in the car so I got it and Jaimoe signed it for me and I told him about the last time I saw the original band they had a sax player with them on several songs and he smiled broadly and told the others " this cat saw the band before Duane and Barry ( it sounded as if he said Barry) split and Juicy Carter was with us". 

According to Butch, this is one of Gregg's best originals and Dickey plays the guitar fills, Butch is on drums and Jaimoe plays congas and that is ALL SIX of them doing the chant with Berry Oakley laughing at the end of the chant. Also Gregg wanted to re-record his vocals after they heard the album before it was released but the producer Adrian Barber didn't want to fool with it. 

I learned more about Jaimoe from that article than I have my entire time as a fan

@islalala Jaimoe is one of the few members of the band to really like Wipe The Windows live album released in November 1976 after the band broke up over Gregg testifying in the Scooter Herring drug fiasco. 

Phil Walden wanted one more Allman Brothers Band album as they broke up on him so suddenly that summer. 

Jaimoe thought he, Chuck Leavell and his long time friend Lamar Williams were especially hot on the album according to a few interviews. 

Here is a live Southbound with Jaimoe on the left and Chuck on the right or the other way depending on how you're wearing your headphones and Lamar laying down the bass notes and I think they are indeed smoking hot.