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Howard Duane Allman (November 20, 1946 – October 29, 1971) was an American guitarist, session musician, co-founder and leader of The Allman Brothers Band until his death in a motorcycle accident in 1971 at the age of 24. The Allman Brothers Band was formed in 1969 and based in the Southeastern United States. In the early 1970s, the band had major success. Allman is best remembered for his brief but influential tenure in the band and in particular for his expressive slide guitar playing and inventive improvisational skills. In 2003, ''Rolling Stone'' magazine ranked Allman at #2 in their list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time, second only to Jimi Hendrix. In 2011 he was ranked #9. His tone (achieved with a Gibson Les Paul and two 50-watt bass Marshall amplifiers) was named one of the greatest guitar tones of all time by ''Guitar Player''. A sought-after session musician both before and during his tenure with the band, Duane Allman performed with such established stars as King Curtis, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, and Herbie Mann. He also contributed heavily to the 1970 album ''Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs'' by Derek and the Dominos. Duane Allman's skills as a guitarist were complemented by personal qualities such as his intensity, drive and ability to draw the best out of others in making music.〔'It would be real accurate to say that Duane was the father of the band, He had a lot to do with the spontaneity of the whole thing. He was like the mother ship. Somehow he had this real magic about him that would lock us all in, and we'd all take off. He really had that quality about him. Those were very happy days' Gregg Allman reported by Obrecht. Jas. 'Duane Allman remembered', ''Guitar Player'', October 1981, Vol. 15, no 10.〕 He is still referred to by his nickname "Skydog".〔This may be a reference to his signature guitar sound and tone. Many consider "Skydog" a variant of the nickname "Skyman" given to him by Wilson Pickett during the recording of Pickett's cover of the Beatles' "Hey Jude." Jim Dickinson was quoted in Keith Richards' autobiography ''Life'' as saying he was given the name because he was high much of the time.〕 ==Early years== Duane Allman was born on November 20, 1946 in Nashville, Tennessee. He was the eldest son of Willis Allman, a World War II non-commissioned officer turned recruiting officer in the United States Army,〔Allman, Galadrielle (2014), ''Please Be with Me: A Song for My Father, Duane Allman'', New York:〕 and Geraldine (née Robbins). His younger brother Gregg Allman was born in late 1947. While the family was living near Norfolk, Virginia, his father was murdered by a shell-shocked veteran he and a friend met in a bar and had given a ride to.〔〔Freeman, Scott, ''Midnight Riders. The Story of the Allman Brothers Band'', Little, Brown & Company, 1995, p. 5〕 In order to retrain as an accountant, Geraldine "Mama A" Allman sent Duane and Gregg to Castle Heights Military Academy in Lebanon, Tennessee, which they both disliked intensely.〔Freeman 1995, P. 5-6〕 In 1957, the family moved to Daytona Beach, Florida where the boys attended Seabreeze High School. The boys returned to Nashville to spend summers with their grandmother, where Gregg learned guitar basics from a neighbor. In 1960, Gregg had saved enough money to buy his first guitar, a Japanese-made Teisco Silvertone while Duane acquired a Harley 165 motorbike. Duane began to take an interest in the guitar, leading to fights over it, and eventually their mother bought Duane a Gibson Les Paul Junior.〔Freeman, 1995, 8〕 It was also in Nashville that the boys became musically inspired by a rhythm and blues concert where they saw blues guitar legend B. B. King perform. Apparently, Duane turned to Gregg and said, "We got to get into this."〔 Duane learned to play very quickly and soon became the better guitarist of the two. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Duane Allman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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