YMMV / The Allman Brothers Band

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• Archive Panic: Due to the absolutely massive number of live releases.
• Awesome Music: They were arguably the greatest Southern rock band of all time. You really can't go wrong with anything on the self-titled album, Idlewild South, or Eat a Peach, and of course, there are a veritable fountain of great live recordings, with At Fillmore East being the crown jewel.
• Broken Base: Some fans are a bit critical of the material released after Duane's death, feeling like the band wasn't the same without his contributions.
• Epic Riff: "Midnight Rider", "Whipping Post", "Jessica".
• Fan Nickname: Duane is "Skydog", named for his mustache and soaring solos when he was a session musician at FAME studios.
• First Installment Wins: When it comes to lineups, the original Duane Allman/Gregg Allman/Dickey Betts/Berry Oakley/Butch Trucks/Jaimoe lineup is still the most celebrated by a long shot. The fact that their most celebrated albums were done with this lineup also helps.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The artwork for their debut album includes a photo of the band standing in front of an old tomb◊ at the Rose Hill Cemetery in Macon, Georgia. Duane and Gregg Allman, Berry Oakley and Butch Trucks are all now buried in that same cemetery, together in a plot about about 400 yards/meters away from that spot, with Duane and Berry both being interred there within a mere three years after the pic was taken. And to make things more ghoulish, Oakley strikes a rather angelic-looking pose in the pic.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: "Ramblin' Man" was prevented from reaching #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 by "Half-Breed", performed by the future Mrs. Gregg Allman.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Before people shouted "Free Bird!" as an in-joke at concerts, they shouted "Whipping Post!" Legend had it that when a drunken concertgoer in Helsinki, Finland yelled for "Whipping Post" at a Frank Zappa concert, Zappa rehearsed and performed a rendition of the song mashed-up with "Montana", titled "Whipping Floss". The results can be found on You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. 2. Zappa eventually did do proper covers of the song, which can be heard on Does Humor Belong in Music? (live) and Them or Us (studio).
  • While the term is known to have existed before the song, the title of the instrumental "Hot 'Lanta" on At Fillmore East is usually credited with popularizing that name as a nickname for Atlanta.
• Signature Song: "Ramblin' Man" and "Midnight Rider" were their radio hits. Fans of the Epic Rocking will say "Mountain Jam" and (especially) "Whipping Post" for the original lineup, and "Jessica" for Dickey Betts' years as lead guitar.

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