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Brothers and Sisters: The Allman Brothers Band and the Inside Story of the Album That Defined the '70s:
"This is an excellent book, detailing the years around the creation of the ABB most successful disc, Brothers and Sisters. This book begins with a short recap of the beginnings of the band and Duane and Berry's passing one year apart. But the real nar"
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“I’ll give it a year. I’ll go out and play these clubs and then I’ll go on to college.’ But after a year, I was so far in debt from trying to buy amps and guitars and everything else, that I had to do another year.”
― One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band
― One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band
“Being an expat can complicate your feelings about being American. We tend to possess an assumed superiority that I only noticed when it was punctured. I was also jarred by the commercialism that could engulf anything in the United States. Everything from a McDonald's Happy Meal to a spider exhibit at New York's Museum of Natural History was a marketing opportunity for the latest Hollywood blockbuster. I was overwhelmed by the simple act of walking into a grocery store, blinking under the bright fluorescent lights, and staring at the massive, overstocked aisles.”
― Big in China: My Unlikely Adventures Raising a Family, Playing the Blues, and Becoming a Star in Beijing
― Big in China: My Unlikely Adventures Raising a Family, Playing the Blues, and Becoming a Star in Beijing
“Late in 1967, still struggling to write a keeper song, Allman found himself sitting in a room in Pensacola’s Evergreen Motel, holding Duane’s guitar, which was tuned to open E. “I picked up the guitar and didn’t know it was natural-tuned,” Allman recalls. “I just started strumming it and hit these beautiful chords. It was just open strings, then an E shape first fret, then moved to the second fret. This is a great example of the way different tunings can open up different roads to you as a songwriter.”
― One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band
― One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band
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