RIP to a legend.
I don't either but, when he was on, there wasn't anyone better.i don't know if he's the best singer in rock history
Fair to say. I originally called him a front man which he was in theory but not in traditional rock constructs in terms of jumping around.So to me Gregg wasn't a rock singer. He was a southern blue eyed soul/blues singer.
and Duane can give him his cough medicine bottle backI imagine him being met on the other side by Duane on a motorbike with a couple guitars. Then he drives him over to Sonny Bono's pad where he gives him, like, a velvet smoking jacket (or something) and they all get high/drunk jamming and swapping stories about Cher.
As someone from the MTV generation, that song (and video) was the first thing that connected me to him. It got me interested in his earlier work.Not the nerdiest song to select right now, but I'm pretty fond of I'm No Angel.
In the most literal sense, he was incomparable.
great post. thanx,Had the pleasure to spend give or take 40 nights with Gregg. Usually with friends, often under the stars and it never for a second of his stage time escaped me that it was to special and to soak it in as I knew of his habits. I remember a show at beacon in 95 or 96 that didn't start til 10:30 due to Gregg having a "motorcycle mishap". How or why Gregg would have been on a bike in NYC. People were reasonably patient and they played their ### off with mainly dickey and warren singing. But when it came time for Gregg to hit it, and i don't recall what it was, he tore the hell down.
As I said to my friend, never saw Gregg do a bad show but sometimes we really touched greatness.
Excess, largess, ego, dope, celebrity wives, and bascially a disloyal jerkoff. But Gregg is STILL The greatest in my book. i don't know if he's the best singer in rock history but he's my favorite
“Gregg Allman was one of the most gifted singers of the last fifty years,” it reads. “We became friends in LA in the late sixties when he and Duane were in The Hourglass. He was a blues singer first, and he was so natural, and so soulful, that when he sang songs that were written in a major scale, he found all the most soulful and expressive passages through those changes. It was just how he heard it. That’s how it was with my song, ‘These Days.’ He slowed it down, and felt it deeply, and he made that song twice as good as it was before he sang it.“I got to speak with him in the week before he passed, and I got to tell him how much his music and his friendship has meant to me. He recently recorded one of my early songs, ‘Song For Adam,’ and he and [producer] Don Was sent it to me to sing on, and I did. That song, the way he sang it and where he sang it from – at the end of his life – well, he completed that song, and gave it a resonance and a gravity that could only have been put there by him. I will miss him. I send my deepest condolences to his family, his bands and crews, and all those who knew him and loved him.”
I would include Prince and Bowie as well. No knock on them, that's just how much of an ABB fan I am.This saddens me more than Chris Cornell's passing.
Thanks for posting this.His final album 'Southern Blood' to be released in September.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/inside-gregg-allmans-final-album-southern-blood-w494132