Allman has to be close to 100 years old now, doesn't he? It's going to badly screw with my perspective of the world when old and still performing rockers actually die of natural causes. Hell, if I considered the Monkeys a real band it might have already happened.
The Monkeys...I hear 'ya, Don.
Gregg is probably about 64 or so now (not too much ahead of me)
. He had a serious battle with Hepatitis C and had to get a Liver Transplant...it almost killed him, but he's back now. We saw him a couple of months ago, and he's still got it. The voice isn't what it used to be, it's still plenty good for the kind of stuff they do. The past year, he mostly did Gregg Allman & Friends touring, but the Allman Brothers Band is still alive and kicking, with Gregg, the original drummers, the bass player that's been with them for now a long time (Barry Oakley died in a motorcycle crash almost 1 year to the day later than Duane Allman), Warren Haynes (Government Mule, and now with The Dead), and Derek Trucks, who plays the meanest slide you'll ever hear. He's in his early to mid 20's, and probably the best I've ever heard, next to Duane himself. Derek is the newphew of Butch Trucks, the drummer. He's even got some of Duane's old medicine bottles he uses to play slide on his Gibson SG.
The Allman Brothers are currently doing their New York, Beacon, thing....about a 2 week gig, as it's a relativel small venue. They're still tight, and still good....and Gregg's still playin' the old Hammond B3.
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