“I would have women in four or five different rooms,” Allman says about hotels. The band’s early road manager made a chart with the legal age of consent in every state and ensured that each member had a copy. “Foxy ladies,” he recalls wheezily - “there was oodles of them.” One of the great virtues of My Cross To Bear, his slightly better-than-average rock memoir, is how frank Allman is about the perks of being a white rock god in skinny jeans who can bellow the blues like a black man. He didn’t have the heart to turn many away. Women threw themselves at him, and he devoured them. His brother - guitarist Duane, who died in a motorcycle accident in 1971 - called him “baybrah,” a contraction of “baby brother.”īut on tour in the late 1960s and the ’70s, the heyday of the Allman Brothers Band, when he wrote songs such as Midnight Rider, Melissa and Whipping Post, Allman’s nickname was Coyotus Maximus. Gregg Allman’s close friends have always called him Gregory.
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