Butch Trucks

During the set, he handed out lyric sheets to the crowd to record their mass background vocals for the track, "Sons of 1984", which closed out his 1974 album, Todd.

In 1973, the Allman Brothers Band's drummer, Claude Hudson "Butch" Trucks, survived a harrowing car accident in Macon, Georgia.

In 1976, former teen idol Frankie Avalon brought summer nostalgia to primetime television when his four-week variety miniseries, Easy Does It, premiered on CBS Television.

The show paired him up with his frequent Beach Blanket Movie co-star, Miss Annette Funicello.

Derek's name had been taken from the band Derek and the Dominoes, the band with whom Eric Clapton had his greatest success, playing alongside the great Dwayne Allman.

Not so coincidentally, Derek Trucks is the nephew of Butch Trucks, one of two drummers in the Allman Brothers band.

Are you following this? From the age of 11 years old, Derek's guitar playing was compared to Dwayne's And so it was only a matter of time before he joined his uncle's band to stand in the same spot where Dwayne Allman had once played.

Derek also had his own band, garnering the same following Susan Tedeschi's was.

I am the moon songs that, that, uh,

and you know, and soul sweet song, you know, I don't, they, they do the video, they have the video montage that goes with it and they show, you know, all the Kofi of course, but you know, Greg Allman and Butch Trucks and all the people who've passed on.

It gives me chills just mentioning it now.

They bring it every moment of every song 100% every night.

It would start with Duane Allman's slide guitar playing, and then Dickey Betts would answer back with a bluegrass-inspired lick.

And Jaimoe and Butch Trucks would toss drum fills back and forth like hot potatoes, with Berry Oakley holding it down on bass.

And then Gregg's organ would swoop in and take it over the top on songs like Midnight Rider and Whipping Post.

While the music played, Gregg could forget about all the bullshit back in Macon, and the taunts about his long hair, and the slurs hurled at his drummer, the threats from the local cops.