Gregg Allman

In an interview with KeyboardMag, Gregg Allman discusses his use of the Hammond B-3 organ, highlighting its significance in his music.

"Just around the time that the Brothers were first starting, [bassist Berry] Oakley had this old Victorian home, and one day I was blindfolded and led into this big room. When they took the blindfold off, I was amazed to see this brand new 1969 B-3 with Leslie 122RV cabinets. There were about eight rolled joints on the keyboard, and they said, “Have fun. We’ll see you in about a week or so.” That day is still one of the happiest days of my life. While they were gone, I wrote “Whipping Post” and most of the songs that wound up on the first Allman Brothers album. I was really on a roll."

With the Allman Brothers Band shows, Gregg plays piano onstage, using a Kurzweil SP2X.

Allman with a Gibson SG in 1973.

Allman playing Come And Go Blues in 1981.

Can't find any information as to the year of this guitar, but the picture of Gregg playing this guitar in Hollywood Reporter article, "Gregg Allman Talks Rehab, Relationships and the 'Train Wreck' That Almost Was The Allman Brothers Band" 1:52 PM PDT 5/16/2012 by Emily Zemler clearly shows him playing a Fender USA Professional Stratocaster HSS. My HSS is a mirror image, but mine is a 2017.

According to an article by Michael Wright in Vintage Guitar® magazine, Gregg Allman was among the first musicians to use the Veleno Original electric guitar.

The Allman Brothers Band performing Melissa in 1992. Allman is seen playing a Gibson SST 12 string.

With the Allman Brothers Band shows, Gregg plays piano onstage, using a Kurzweil SP2X. He uses only three presets: grand and upright acoustic pianos, and a Wurly. The Kurzweil is run in stereo through Avalon U5 direct boxes.

This clip from a TV show show Allman playing Come and Go Blues on a Guild D-40.

Allman's signature Washburn guitars.

Gregg Allman is associated with the Washburn Gregg Allman Signature Series EA20 "Melissa" acoustic guitar, as noted on the Allman Brothers Band's official website.

Allman performing "Midnight Rider" with Vince Gill and Zac Brown in 2014.

Allman performing in 1975. In this photo he is seen playing a black Les Paul Custom.

Allman playing a Clavinet D6 in 1979.

Mentioned in this September 15, 2008 post on the official Allman Brothers Band website forum.

Here is an excerpt from the first draft of Johnny's book:

"Duane was playing a Telly with a Strat neck and he and Gregg both had super Beetle Vox amps. I had an early '60s Fender Bassman amp Duane really liked so we took it out to California with us. As loud as we were playing at that time, the speakers in the amp were going and not quite loud enough so we put JBLs in it. I kept that amp until my friend, Butch Owens, borrowed it and it was stolen. He later replaced it with something as good as or maybe even better than what I had. It's a good amp and I still have it. I think it was one he got from Joe Walk. Paul played an A-100 with a leslie cut down to be portable. It wasn't a B-2 but it was close to it and we had a Wurlitzer piano that Gregg played. When Pete joined the band he played a Jazz bass with a custom amp. The amp belonged to a guy who lived in Decatur. We had a Fender 12-string Gregg would use sometimes and maybe an acoustic/electric guitar. Gregg didn't play guitar very often but he wrote a lot of songs on one. He became friends with Jackson Browne when we were out there and Gregg learned a lot from him. I think they learned from each other. Gregg went through a folk phase with his writing but his style changed with different instruments. I've still got the Wurlitzer from the band and it has a story that came with it. Several of us went to a music store in L.A. and picked out this particular Wurlitzer for Paul to play since he was playing most of the Wurlitzer parts then. Actually, Gregg and Paul set up close together so they could swap between the Wurlitzer and B-3 when they needed to but Paul was primarily on the Wurlitzer. The salesman showed us how to hook it up to an amp which was essential because you couldn't play it off the little speaker that came in it. Once we figured it out, it sounded great. The Wurlitzer is still my favorite keyboard. Duane had borrowed a '59 gold top Les Paul from Tommy Compton, who still lives in Decatur, and he didn't want to give it back to Tommy. And Tommy definitely wanted it back. Eventually it worked around to Gregg trading the Wurlitzer for the guitar. The guitar was worth more than the piano but Tommy had a use for it and was trying to keep Duane from getting busted because Tommy's dad was ready to go after Duane to get the guitar back. So, the piano was sent back to Decatur and Duane kept the guitar. Of course that guitar would be worth a fortune now, certainly more than the piano is worth. Tommy eventually sold the piano to a guy who sold it to Eddie Hinton. After Eddie died in '95, his mother sent the piano back to the guy who'd sold it to Eddie and I bought it back from him a year or so later to use in my studio."