The very existence of an integrated band from the middle of Lester Maddox Georgia was an affront to the prevailing mindset. That they were just so good made it perfect.

• Duane Allman obituary Issue of The Great Speckled Bird

  Great Speckled Bird v. 4 no. 45 (November 8, 1971) available as a pdf from Georgia State University Library here.

   

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• 2007 Allman Brothers return to Piedmont Park

  September 8, 2007 (9/8/7) The Allman Brothers Band returned to play Piedmont Park with the Dave Mathews Band.  Here are MysterE and R. Tim on the front page photo from that day’s  Atlanta Journal Constitution.

  And the Brothers brought ...

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• Visiting Macon

  See Ron Curren of Hittin The Note’s photos of a  Macon Allman Brothers expedition   to visit Kirk  West.     The Big House is  a must visit for Allman fans.

  An homage – David Michaelson above, L-R below ...

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• May 11 Be-In in Piedmont – Meet The Allman Brothers Atlanta!

  

  Where Penn ends at 8^th Street is an apartment house. In 1969 and a bit, it was called The Zoo. Jan Jackson, Tom Jones and Dave Hoffman, friends from college, lived in an upstairs apartment.I was visiting on ...

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• Allman Brothers meet Atlanta!

   

  A Personal story of May 11, 1969.

  Upon first seeing the Allman Brothers Band, an interracial rock and roll band from the heart of segregated, reactionary Georgia not only calling themselves brothers, but acting like it, Miller Francis of The Great Speckled Bird put ...

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• 2007 Allman Brothers band returns to Piedmont Park

  The Allman Brothers  returned to their roots to play Piedmont Park on 9/8/7. A different trip from the free concerts of old but a good time WAS had.

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• 1970 Columbia High Prom with The Allman Brother’s Band

  In 1970 Dekalb County’s Columbia High School signed a contract for a local band some students said were amazing.  Soon after their live album ‘At Fillmore East’ made them super stars. The Allman Brothers showed their stuff and honored ...

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• Mass Music -Allman Brothers Band

  The Great Speckled Bird Dec. 8, 1969 Vol 2 #39 pg 2-5

  Mass Music

   Each of the record albums discussed here could be termed a masterpiece worthy of a full-length “rave.” But the Review format can often be nothing more than a limitation on that form of struggle for liberation called Criticism (Mao); while details of ...

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• First There is a Mountain … Creative Loafing on The Allman Brothers Band

  Creative Loafing Dec 28, 1981 vol 20 #31 

  First There is a Mountain …

  

  It’s Sunday, May 11, 1969. Around noon. A group of us, just on the heavy side of 20 years, are walking south along the “Strip,” the ...

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• The Bird on The Allman Brothers Band

  The Great Speckled Bird Vol 2 # 11 April 19, 1969 

  The Allman Brothers play a form of what some might want to call “hard blues” but that term merely relates their music to what we already recognize and accept as valid; it says nothing of their real achievements. What informs their creation is not black music ...

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