The Allman Brothers

There's a channel on XM called "Deep Tracks," where they basically just dust off some pothead's music collection and play classic rock all day. Except it's not the classic rock you usually hear, it's mostly stuff you've never heard, which makes it a top-notch station. I mean, there's only so many times you can hear "American Woman" in any given week.
As I turned my car off last night, the Allman Brothers were in the middle of an extended jam. That was about 10:30PM. When I turned my car back on this morning, sure enough, Allman Brothers extended jam. That was about 8:15AM.
Then I thought to myself, You know, it's entirely possible that that was the same exact song... not like they played it twice, it just kept going for 10 hours.

An Allman Brothers concert-- the number
2 Mecca for burnouts, next to Jamaica

Couldn't you picture the Allman Brothers, circa 1971, starting an all-day festival at 10 in the morning, and playing just one song that lasted until 8 at night, to an audience of 56,000 tripped out stoned hippies? I can just see Gregg Allman stammering up to the mic afterwards, saying, "That was... uhhhhh.... uhh.... whipping post... I think. Up next is... umm... shit, let's play whipping post again! Wooooooo!"
And the crowd goes wild.

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