Duane Allman and Aretha Franklin

So, I'm in sales which is mostly on the phone, and I become acquainted with the switchboard operators as time goes by, maybe even flirty. So one day at a big resort I'm talking to a woman named Stacie, who's very nice, and I mention I'm going to see a GD cover band tonight (this was last year), and she says "oh, I've seen them", and of course I say "really? where?", and she says "Winterland", and I say "gtfo, when"? She says, in no form a bragging, "I was Gregg Allman's girlfriend at the time". 

OK- so now I'm digging away for some incredible dirt and rock history. She was an 18 year old Cali chick who met "Gregory" ("he was just a country bumpkin") while he was trying to make a solo career in LA on the Sunset Strip. Then Duane called and told him to get home that he's got a band together and needs a singer- which is when he packed up and brought Stacie with him. She said they moved into a small place in Daytona Beach with "Mama A", as they called her, with basically NO money, and the rest became history. Gregg asked her to marry him a few times, which she never did, but came back to her many times over the years between his 7 wives. She says "Melissa" is about her, and when she questioned him he told her "nothin' rhymes with Stacie"!

So I began to drag anecdotes out of her that ALL checked out historically, including one when they were in a Mussel Shoals studio when Duane was recording with Aretha. At one point , she was grumping at him that she wanted something played a certain way, and Duane pulled off his guitar and said- "then you play it"! I imagine Duane had a little old-school, deep South cracker in him. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGdxpnGK2o4&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR...