Were you listening to jazz artists like Cannonball Adderley, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins or Miles Davis?
Gregg Allman by Dino Perrucci Absolutely. We had everything from the Father, Son and the Holy Ghost to Stanley Turrentine through a whole lot of Roland Kirk and Leon Thomas. Everybody kind of brought their own music that they liked. So, when we got our first bus – if you could call it a bus – everyone was listening to the same kind of music. We were all trapped in there together [laughs]. On the way to the gig we were listening to all this jazz and everything, and that’s where all the influential stuff started happening. Was there anything that was particularly appealing to you about the scene in the late ’60s? The only time that I looked at rock ‘n’ roll and said, “That is what it is not about” was when everybody had teased-up blond hair and black leather pants on. It was like the uniform of the day [laughs]. It has never been a fashion show for us. That’s not part of it. It’s just the music. Were there any ideals that were important to you personally in the early ’70s? Did you want t
