indiucky
Grandmaster
I dunno. Just rambling tonight. Saw that episode of Louie... now I'm binging a bunch of Robin Williams tributes with a bottle of bourbon... just felt like posting.
I know how you feel brother...Greg Allman's passing did that to me.....Due to my age I can't remember there not being The Allman Brothers in my life...I was probably 12 when he was on Cher's show and I remember thinking even then that this country boy is not going to be able to hang with that lifestyle long...I remember an interview with Cher after Greg left....He has said, "Let's go to a movie...Get away from all of this..."(The Paparazzi were on them 24/7)...Greg got the keys, Cher said she would be right there and they left for the theater...When they got there cameras were everywhere...Greg knew she had called the press to let them know where they were going to be...A little later Greg stood up, grabbed his car keys, said, "I am going to go get a pack of smokes..."
She didn't hear from him for 2 weeks lol...He was "done" as they say...I remember being impressed that he could dump Cher, and not for another woman, but because he did not feed off of fame the way she did...
Anyway when he died we were at the farm...I just got a smart phone and went on INGO and saw where he had passed...Right at dusk I grabbed a bottle of bourbon, a Mason Jar filled with ice, an old fashioned bottled Coca Cola and headed out to my wife's claw foot tub by the barn and the grape arbor...I settled into the tub, poured a tall one, opened the Coke, pulled youtube up on the phone, pulled up "Tied to the Whipping Post" live and tipped my jar to the setting sun....
And got a little tight.....The point being Brother....We deal how we deal and losing someone you have never met but has always been there your whole life is hard...I got to see Greg Allman once in the 80's on his "I'm No Angel Tour".....He always seemed to perform and speak as if the weight of the world was on his shoulders...
This picture is worth a thousand words lol...
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