LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES- OCT 29, 2019…ON THIS DAY IN 1971 GUITARIST DUANE ALLMAN DIED FOLLOWING A MOTORCYCLE CRASH. HE WAS ONLY 24. ALLMAN LOST CONTROL OF HIS MOTORCYCLE ON A MACON, GEORGIA STREET WHILE TRYING TO SWERVE TO AVOID A TRACTOR-TRAILER AND WAS THROWN FROM THE BIKE. THE MOTORCYCLE BOUNCED INTO THE AIR, LANDED ON ALLMAN AND SKIDDED ANOTHER 90 FEET WITH ALLMAN PINNED UNDERNEATH. DUANE ALLMAN WAS THREE WEEKS SHY OF HIS 25TH BIRTHDAY. THAT DAY THE WORLD LOST A TRUE GUITAR GOD. HERE’S THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND WITH A LIVE VERSION OF ‘WHIPPING POST’ FROM 1970
