The Allman Brothers Band: Every Picture Tells a Story

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You couldn’t help but laugh when you realized they had no idea who they had in their presence: The Allman Brothers. The group Rolling Stone would call the best damned band in the country less than two years later. They were screaming, “Play ‘Wipeout’!” “Play ‘Gloria’!”

The Brothers were little more than one year old as a band that night at Tulane. All these years later, you still can’t believe how stupid those frat boys were but you admired that the Brothers were accommodating them. They were just having fun onstage. That was their way and always would be.

It’s 40 years later and you still remember that night like it was yesterday. You had your camera in hand and you were just taking pictures. It was the very first band you would ever take pictures of in concert. You remember Berry Oakley offering you what you thought were illegal drugs. It was actually just snuff and you said, “No Berry, I never touch the stuff” and Berry said. “It’s just snuff, kid.”

You were only 16. Not yet versed in the ways of the world yet. What the hell did you know about drugs?

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