Gregg Allman played My Father’s Place in Roslyn, Long Island on a Sunday night in June, 1983 during one of several Allman Brothers Band hiatus’.

The cabaret style venue with table seating was always an interesting and slightly different way for us to experience a musical artist, and where you could catch a wide variety of acts on the way up, or on the way down. When the legendary Gregg Allman stepped on stage from the left, I remember thinking he appeared somewhat gaunt, and not looking especially healthy, but the killer blues voice was intact. Perhaps this concert took place during one of his legendary drug periods, or perhaps something else made him appear tired that evening, but the man had such a storied life, with I am sure still untold anecdotes left to be told, and this Long Island show was merely a speed bump on the road that went on forever for him. I read his autobiography while on vacation a few years ago and you just knew he likely did not remember half of the stuff written in the book; considering the incredible amounts of drugs that he reportedly ingested and injected it is a miracle we had him for as long as we did before his body finally broke down for the last time. The last concert that my wife and I attended before the pandemic made the music stop was The Brothers 50th anniversary concert at Madison Square Garden in March, 2020. At the time I thought that it probably would have been a good idea to cancel the one-off show with a full house and the COVID problematic MSG stairwells that were ripe for transmission, but we survived, had a blast, and enjoyed an incredible night of Allman Brothers Band music just before live music shut down completely for more than a year.

Queen of Hearts

Rock on!

GQ