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RIP Butch Trucks (Allman Brothers Band)

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GnarlosHyde's picture
January 25, 2017 at 10:50am
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It was announced this morning that Butch Trucks, the drummer for the Allman Brothers Band, has passed away. He was 69 years old. He had tourdates scheduled with his side projects, so it appears to be unexpected.

The Allman Brothers Band called it quits in 2014, and Gregg Allman had some recent health issues, but there were grumblings of a potential reunion, possibly even with Dickey Betts. 

Sad to hear this news.

In an interview with Rolling Stone last year, Trucks reflected on the Allman Brothers Band's unexpected status as headliners. "We were in another universe," he said. "We were out spreading the gospel of this music we had discovered. We never thought that we would be more than an opening act. Atlantic Records was riding our ass constantly to get Gregg out from behind the organ, stick a salami down his pants and jump around the stage like Robert Plant. We told them to go fuck themselves. 'We're playing this for ourselves. We've tried it your way before. We didn't make any money and we had a miserable time.' 

"[By the time of the Fillmore East show], we decided, 'OK, we don't care if we don't make any money. We're having the time of our lives,'" he continued. "Little by little, people started understanding what we were doing. But it had to start with us. Once the crowd got in and we could feed on their energy, we'd feed it back to them."

 

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