The interview with Gregg Allman in November of 2008 was about ten minutes and it wasn't me doing the talking, for once. An interview with Gregg Allman in the 1980's went something like this:

Gregg: Hello.
Me: Hey Gregg, who will be joining you on the Christmas Gregg Allman and Friends tour this year?
Gregg: Um...
Me: Who will replace Allan Woody?
Gregg: uhhhh....we uh....the...ummmm

Now here in the 2000's Gregg has a TON to say-and the reason why that has all changed lies in his latest statement about his successful liver transplant.
"I changed my ways years ago, but we can’t turn back time. Every day is a gift, and I can’t wait to get back on the road making music with my friends."

It's been at least 10 years since Gregg has been clean and sober, I asked him how long it has been and he wasn't sure...he said "at least 10 years." He talks a lot about how unregulated guys were in the seventies with tattoos...the guys that gave him tattoos in the day "had six or eight or ten needles in a bucket of alcohol" and would say "what color and what do you want and where". Nowadays "they'll close you down, that's it, out" if you don't have at least "thousands of sterile tattoo needles for your gun". Now, Gregg says, they will pop in unexpectedly on you to make sure for sterility and also...they'll "check out the dude's background".

The man is clean and sober and making sense and he finally got his liver transplant Thursday...wow! I remember his treatment in 2008 lasted for at least two months and he said it was "the closest thing to house arrest " he has ever been through. The Allmans are back in November on the road again. I see 'em every year. You gotta go see the Allman Brothers. Always.