Below are highlights from his conversation:
He shared some health tips.
You gotta give it seven days.
Youll have more energy.
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His first concert was the stuff of legend.
He coped with his brothers death by taking a vacation to Jamaica.
Duane died in 1971 at the age of 24 after getting into a motorcycle accident.
Wed have exotic drinks, laugh, snorkel, parasail.
Hes candid about the early days of his career.
The Allman Brothers Bands genre-blending brand of southern rock remains one of musics most influential sounds.
But when Allman first got started with the band, he wasnt so confident in it.
I thought it was too loud, he admits.
Youve got to have dynamics.
Some of this metal stuff starts up hereAllman raised his hand upand ends up here.
He says his band is playing the best it ever has.
When you start out, you have to learn everybody [in your band], Allman says.
Thats the way the band I have now is.
My theory is that the energy from the audience scares you into getting it right, he says.
