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Garrett

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Berry Oakley
« on: April 04, 2011, 07:29:34 AM »
In memory of Berry Oakley!



April 4, 1948 / Nov. 11, 1972

Raymond Berry Oakley was the Bass player and founding member of the Allman Brothers Band. He died as a result of injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident about a mile away from where  Duanne Allman was killed thirteen months earlier in a motorcycle accident.



Berry and Duane

 Duane and Berry are both laid to rest in the cemetery that was memorialized by co member Dickey Betts in the song "In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed".

~In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed~

The song is named after a headstone Betts saw at the Rose Hill Cemetery in Macon, Georgia, a place frequented by band members in their early days for relaxing and writing songs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt9-00zousA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHhKnc0XZrs

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Re: Berry Oakley
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2011, 02:23:15 PM »
IMO one of the bass gods. 
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Re: Berry Oakley
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2011, 05:14:41 PM »
One of the great holders of the bottom end & still one of my favorite bands. I think him & Duane  are content with what they see & hear now.
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Re: Berry Oakley
« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2011, 12:55:31 PM »
39 years... whoah... rip
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Re: Berry Oakley
« Reply #4 on: April 10, 2011, 08:17:51 AM »
I think him & Duane  are content with what they see & hear now.

Yep, and they are seeing and hearing it from the same location....so to speak. Duane and Berry were laid to rest side by side at Rose Hill Cemetery in Macon, GA.




Duane on the left and Berry on the right.