One Sunday morning in the early 1970s, my phone rang. It was my good friend and music lover Ben V. talking very enthusiastically about the LP he had purchased. You were still buying your sound carriers back then. `Have you ever heard of `The Allman Brothers Band`? I had to admit that this band was unknown to me. `Come over to enjoy an afternoon`. Together with my young wife, I reported to the GLIPHOEVE in the BIJLMER. `Let’s hear it`. After listening to it for the first time, the bomb hit me. I had never heard this before. What wonderful music, what a great group of musicians, what singers. Bluezy underground, beautiful arrangements. We played this album at least a dozen times, and the depth got deeper and deeper. The music got stronger and stronger. To this day I still think this is a TOP album. Later I started collecting everything by The Allman Brothers Band and can still enjoy it to this day. Even though the individual members went out on their own and both Allman Brothers exchanged the temporary for the eternal I am a fan for life.
