A Quote by Butch Trucks
When we started the Allman Brothers Band, there was this great new technology that allowed us to get exposure: FM radio.
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I kind of question whether to say this or not, but it's almost like the Allman Brothers turned into an Allman Brothers tribute band.
We looked at the Allman Brothers as the fathers of what was to be called Southern rock. In our book, if you didn't like the Allman Brothers, you were sacrilegious.
When we started Allman Brothers, Atlantic Records kept telling us there was no way it was going anywhere.
Duane Allman might be my favorite guitar player ever. I'd say I'm influenced by the Allman Brothers more than any other band. When I taught guitar lessons for a living, the students that were interested in soloing had to learn the intro to 'It's Not My Cross to Bear' first thing.
One indisputable fact is that whatever has happened to, and with, the Allman Brothers Band, we've persevered.
When we started the Allman Brothers, it was all about the music.
You can't have the Allman Brothers without Butch Trucks and Gregg Allman. Those are just irreplaceable spirits.
And you can't have an Allman Brothers gig without an Allman brother. I've heard people try to argue that you can, but I'm not buying it.
No journalist knows the ins and outs of the Allman Brothers Band better than Alan Paul.
The one thing the Allman Brothers Band does not do is phone it in. They bring it every night and that's something I draw from.
The Allman Brothers Band has a long, storied history and I wouldn't count them out. It's just not in the cards for me.
I have the distinction of being the only member of the Allman Brothers who has never missed a single show. I have played every single show the Allman Brothers have ever played.
With The Allman Brothers, we made two studio records that were OK, but the first really great album was the live one, 'At Fillmore East.' We were a live band, and it's one of the reasons we were able to stick around for 45 years.
First job I had, I was 17 years old. I was primarily the mail room boy at the radio station. An FM station. And in those days, nobody listened to FM.
The thing with Berry and Duane and the rest of us in the original Allman Brothers seemed to be a once-in-a-lifetime thing. When Duane was killed, we knew we lost a great part of that, but we still managed to play some great music.
There was a film called 'FM,' and we were asked to do the title song. And I said, 'Does it have to have any specific words?' And they said, 'No, it just has to be about FM radio.' It took a day or two to write.
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