The Allman Brothers will endlessly be related to the town of Macon, GA. Right this moment, followers can go to The Allman Brothers Band Museum, located within the ‘The Massive Home’ on Vineville Ave, the place the band and varied relations and associates lived from 1970-1973.
Now, they’ll keep at one other of guitarist Duane Allman’s former houses. The five-bedroom, three-bathroom property in downtown Macon, often known as ‘The Southern Rock Mansion’, sleeps as much as 11 folks and is out there as a short-term trip rental from US$1000 per night time ($1200 on weekends).
Duane Allman lived on the home together with his girlfriend Donna and their toddler daughter Galadrielle for lower than a 12 months earlier than shifting to Vineville Ave in January 1970.
The home has been painstakingly adorned to pay tribute to its illustrious previous, creating “a novel immersive rock’n’roll expertise for visitors to remain the place musical historical past was made.”
This contains two murals of Allman, a hallway shrine to the guitarist that includes classic images and live performance posters, and a music room with a ceiling lined with album covers. Eagle-eyed readers will discover copies of Deep Purple’s Good Strangers, Boston’s debut album, Bat Out Of Hell and, uhm, Males At Work’s debut album Rhythm Of Youth amongst their quantity.
“We love the music scene right here,” proprietor Ed Hubbard tells WGMT. “There’s loads of locations to look at reside music. And we’re Allman Brothers followers. When the chance to get this place took place it felt prefer it was made to occur.”
Holidaymakers eager to take advantage of Allman-themed lodging in Macon will likely be delighted to study that different choices embody an Allman Brothers-inspired rental unit and an condominium Gregg Allman lived in within the early Seventies.
