Chords for The Allman Brothers Band - After The Crash

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_ _ _ _ When the Allman Brothers [A] band broke out of Macon, [G] Georgia in the late 1960s
It was as the standard-bearers of a new movement known as [D] Southern Rock
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Though they remained an underground act their distinctive sound and white [A]-hot live shows led [G] by the unique guitar playing of Dwayne Allman
Had built a dedicated fan base
Their music was now identifiably their sound
unique from anyone else
And I saw him and I was I was just I was brought [D] to tears it was [G] just so magical _ I
think of the top 10
_ [Am] Shows [G] rock and roll shows I've ever seen in [C] my life [G] the Allman Brothers got at least three or four of those
_ What _
_ _ [F] _ _ sets them apart is their music is [D] indescribable it has [Ab] elements [Am] of everything, but what do you call Jessica?
What do you call in memory of Elizabeth Reed?
They're [G] clearly very jazz influenced, but they're not jazz songs proper
The Allman Brothers could play Stormy Monday.
They could play with Albert King BB King Bobby Bland and sound great
More so I would say than just about any other band of their era
But it's very limiting to call them a blues band and that's why the Allman Brothers are the Allman Brothers
They're a singular musical [C] entity
[D] the _ [G]
sudden death of Dwayne in 1971 came at a time when the band were [D] reaching their peak [G] and
Had honed their [C] musicianship to [D] the point where they were ready to carry [G] the quality of their concerts into their studio recordings _
It's just [F] breathtaking in the studio [Eb] the [Bm] outtakes
_ Were just just [Ab] magic.
[Am] I mean they weren't used because there was something a little more magic, but they were great
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But as the Allman started a new chapter in their story the [Em] road ahead [A] would be fraught with difficulty [G] a tale of success loss
Dissolution and the eventual triumph of rock and roll's greatest survivors
_ When I met them in 1983 [Em] they were all [D] struggling you know at [G] a certain point
_ _ Their [C] legacy was [D] gone
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These days you hear nothing about
Cher you hear nothing about Scooter Herring
You hear nothing about how bitter the breakup was in 1976
_ What do you hear is?
How that [C] band was [G] probably the greatest live and in the history of rock
They built themselves [F] back up to a point where today they're [E] bigger than they've they ever were [Eb] _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _
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in the winter of
1971 [E] the Allman brothers were a band devastated by the loss of their [Abm] talismanic lead guitarist [Eb] Dwayne Allman _
[E] Tragically killed in a motorcycle accident on October the [A] 29th Dwayne had founded the group and raised it in his image
It had been the [E] clarity of Dwayne's vision that had set the Allmans on an unstoppable rise to [Eb] success and his peerless
Musicianship [E] that had [A] attracted legions of fans _
[E] in the [A] emotionally fraught aftermath of Dwayne's death
The band was forced to confront the [Ab] question of whether they would [E] be able to carry on without him _ _
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_ [E] [A] Dwayne's death just [E] knocked the air out of [A] all of us _ and that whole weekend
It was just kind of a daze _ _
One of my jobs was to _
_ _ _ Take the family members and friends to view Dwayne in the casket _ _
and
boy, that was heart-wrenching because
not only my grief but sharing everybody else's grief and
Then we had the funeral which was really uplifting.
That's when I
that was my first realization that everything was going to be alright because
the band played the music was there and
We came out of that funeral _
_ If you can believe it uplifted
_ We had a meeting the week after the funeral _ and
_ Everybody agreed
_ _ _ Unanimously that there was no way the band would break up that we would continue on _ and _
Within a couple of weeks we were back in New York working _ and
I remember the very first day without Dwayne to see that empty spot on the stage was really _
_ _ Strange and there was obviously a hole in the music, but the band was still there
The music was still there and everybody
Was determined to go on because they knew that that's what [N] Dwayne would have won would want the band was going to go and Start playing
About three or four weeks after Dwayne had died at first.
I was surprised
But then I thought well, this is what Dwayne would want them to do.
That's what always got us going was music
We played in the music.
Everyone felt felt good.
They got along and things were happening _ and
So _ it just it was that's the only thing they could do the people on the street
that were out there in the street and my peers the people that were
Promotion people and you know with Columbia and RCA and all those labels back then that were doing well ABC.
They
Said man the bands Dwayne Allman is the band.
I mean, you know, he's the go _
Look here.
He is the [E] band.
Well, I actually heard more than I'm a _
Songwriter myself.
So I like I like _
lyrics, you know and
Greg Allman is the best white blues singer ever
Period I mean, you know, they people say Joe Cocker and Rod Stewart and no no best blues singer
Greg Allman, so I'm I'm kind of saying well if he can carry it _
If Greg can carry it then yeah, let's you know, put them on the road
Let's go, _ _ _ _ but [Eb] whether Greg could carry it remained an open question [E] in trying to stabilize their career
the Allman brothers [A] first had to address the leadership vacuum created by Dwayne's death and
Bassist Barry [E] Oakley initially stepped in to try to fill the void
_ [B] [Gbm] after Dwayne passed away
[E] It was impossible [Ab] to expect Greg to become what he wasn't and what he had never been
You know, he was the only Allman still left in the Allman brothers band and people naturally assumed
He was the leader, but you know, that was just something he was not capable of doing Barry Oakley really tried to
step up and assume
Dwayne's leadership mantle _ _ and
He really wasn't suited for he didn't have the personality for it.
Plus
Barry was really getting lost in drugs and alcohol _ and
Just didn't have the the strength to pull that off
Barry Oakley really died the same day Dwayne did he walked around for a year, but
_ _ the death of Dwayne just took every bit of his strength and
Soul out of him.
He just