One of my fondest memories is racing with my dog, AngelFood McSpade,  at twilight across the Piedmont Park open field as the Allman Brothers started Whipping Post roaring in the air like a storm gathering to release all that energy at once!  Boom!

See Ron Curren of Hittin The Note’s photos of a  Macon Allman Brothers expedition   to visit Kirk  West

This non profit deserves your help.

And the museum will blow your mind.

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The Brothers first Piedmont Park appearance  impressed The Bird enough to do a two page spread and put Duane in his STP shirt on the cover.

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The Big House where much of the Allman Brothers music was first played.

H & H where the Allman’s Brothers  were fed. Ron Currens of Hittin the Note awaits us.

Heaven if you are an Allman’s memorabilia fan.

Our host, Allman’s archivist Kirk West, is holding a sheet from a Fillmore East pad where Duane wrote Jimi Hendrix’s name and number.

Recognize these cases?

Elizabeth Reed

Martha

Hittin the Note’s Jim Bell, MysterE, Bill Hardin, Kirk West, and David Michaelson outside Capricorn Studios.

Duane and Berry’s resting place

Kirk, Thanks for an unforgettable trip!

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An homage - David Michaelson above, L-R below - MysterE, Bill Hardin, Ron Currens and Joe Bell from Hittin the Note.

Read Miller Francis’ review of The Allman Brothers and Santana

at Atlanta’s Municipal Auditorium during the 1970 Sanitation Worker’s Strike. From

The Great Speckled Bird.

Thanks to

David Turner for improved print of Duane ‘s first cover shot for The Bird.

Love that STP shirt (save the park, stop the police)