I've read so many stories over the years about Gregg Allman being a "difficult" interview that I wasn't expecting much when I got him on the phone last week. To my surprise, however, the Southern rock icon could not have been chattier about a variety of subjects -- including one of his estranged former bandmates.
"The band has changed a lot since Derek and Warren joined, back to more like it was in the beginning," Allman said. "We don't have two guitar players fighting, then one dies and the other takes on this thing of, 'Oh God, I've gotta fill his shoes.' Then instead of the way some people turn wimpy and say they can't do it anymore, he turns bully.
"But hey," he concluded, "if you can't say anything nice, why say anything at all?"
For lots more on everything from presidential politics to Hepatitis C, check the interview in Friday's paper. Allman Brothers play Raleigh's big outdoor joint tonight, extending their run as the only act to play there every year the place has been open.
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Fri, 10/03/2008 - 10:21 — pearcemolifor the article David!
Are you going?
I sure hope they comped you for the big picture and article you did on them.
The quote from Gregg in the article, "Plus I'm hoping we can find time to go into the studio with some new songs that have been road-tested", is BS. The only "new songs" they have done since the early leg of this years tour started in August are new *cover* songs. There are NO brand new original band penned tunes, yet. Just to be clear.
Gregg, I love him and his music, but he puts this in interview after interview and it isn't factually correct.