8466 - Allman Brothers Band Signed Drumhead

Allman Brothers Band Signed Drumhead White-coated drumhead, 16.5″ in diameter, signed in black ink and ballpoint by members of the reunited Allman Brothers Band—“Boogie, love, Gregg Allman,” “Dickey Betts,” “Hey John, Butch Trucks,” “Best wishes John, God bless & keep, Jaimoe,” “John, my man, Dangerous Dan Toler,” and “Hi John, Rook, ‘alias’ The Master of Time,” for bassist David “Rook” Goldflies, and one other, possibly harmonica player Jim Essery. Hand-lettered by the collector around the edge, “The First Show Back Togather [sic] Again, Jacksonville Florida Memorial Coliseum, April 8, 1979,” and at center “The Allman Brothers.” The reverse bears two affixed stage passes. In very good condition, with expected signs of heavy use. The Allman Brothers Band, formed in Jacksonville in 1969, broke up in 1976 amid internal turmoil and drug problems. The band regrouped in 1978, with original drummers Butch Trucks and Jaimoe alongside newcomers Dan Toler and David Goldflies, both recruited from Dickey Betts’s Great Southern. They released Enlightened Rogues in February 1979 and opened their reunion tour at the Jacksonville Coliseum on April 8, returning to the city where the band began a decade earlier. From the collection of a Jacksonville, Florida, limousine operator who provided transportation for touring artists throughout North Florida and southern Georgia in the late 1970s and early 1980s; he often obtained used drumheads from the bands’ touring crews and had the members sign them.