I heard an interview with Greg Allman years ago, this is what I remember.
he said he didn't know that singer songwriters got paid much more then regular band members and that's what he thought of himself just a regular. so he was kinda embarrassed and he would stick the royalty checks here and there and forget about them. he sold a TV to a roadie and when they moved it there was a check for $36,000 underneath.
of all the talents of all the people of the entire planet there are very few talents I'm envious of, I'm pretty happy with what I got. if I had one more talent it would be the ability to write a song. George Thorogood took 40 hours to craft 'bad to the bone' he wanted it just right because it was going to be his anthem. when the people behind the Bond movie 'live and let die' approached Paul McCartney for the theme song he sat down and pounded it out at the piano in 10 minutes! I had a guy in the jingle biz tell me when the creative juices start flowing you can't shut them off.
Greg Allman wrote 'midnight rider' and had a demo tape in maybe a half hour, wow. he couldn't find the band to record the demo but he found a roadie that could play drums and one that played a little guitar and they banged it out. awesome
Duane was dating this girl and greg came over to hang and ended up crashing on the coach. he had a dream in the night and wanted to write a song about it while it was fresh. he woke up in a strange place he couldn't find pen or paper or even a light switch, but he found an ironing board and he had lots of matches. so he wrote it out using burnt matches, and in the morning there it was..... the lady of the house was PI$$ED! she probably threw it away, its not a priceless rock atrifact but I'd like to have it what a conversation piece.
here it is 'it came to him in a dream'
tied to the whipping post, live 1972 at the Fillmore
