![]() ![]() Would have loved to see this live with all the original players. Jerry from Chicago, IlThis is as good a song as there is.As far as I am concerned, this is another big company co-opting the wonderful music from the baby boomer generation. It features the money covered biker riding down a road with money flying all over the place. Roann from Apalachin, NyThis incredible song is now used in a Geico motorcycle insurance commercial.Would've been cool to learn it from Gregg himself. It looks fairly easy, once somebody shows how it's played. I found several lessons for it on YouTube, so I might finally learn to play it. ![]() Tommy of NY, NY: Thanks for that note about the sound engineer being "drafted" to play that riff. I like Gregg's version okay, with the electric piano and horns (4:28 on his "Laid Back" or "Best of" albums), but I kinda prefer the original (first released on "Idlewild South," I think), even though it's shorter (2:59). in 1976 Paul Davidson reached #10 with it, and in 1980 Willie Nelson's version peaked at #6 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart. Three covered versions charted in 1972 Joe Cocker took it to #27 on the Top 100, in the U.K. Nine years earlier on December 16th, 1973 Gregg Allman's re-worked version of the song entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart and on February 17th, 1974 it peaked at #19 (for 1 week) and spent 12 weeks on the Top 100.
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