{"id":30819,"date":"2024-11-11T18:02:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T18:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-nov-11-1972-allman-brother-band-founding-member-berry-oakley-died\/"},"modified":"2024-11-11T18:02:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T18:02:45","slug":"on-this-day-nov-11-1972-allman-brother-band-founding-member-berry-oakley-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-nov-11-1972-allman-brother-band-founding-member-berry-oakley-died\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Nov. 11, 1972: Allman Brother Band founding member Berry Oakley died"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-11-11\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Nov. 11, 1972 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Berry Oakley<\/strong>, bassist and founding member of the <strong>Allman Brothers Band<\/strong>, was killed in a motorcycle accident in Macon, Georgia. He was only 24.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Oakley\u2019s death occurred just three blocks from where fellow Allman Brothers Band member <strong>Duane Allman<\/strong> was killed in a motorcycle accident one year prior, on Oct. 29, 1971. Duane also died at the age of 24.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Oakley played in guitarist <strong>Dickey Betts<\/strong>&#8216; band <strong>Blues Messengers<\/strong> prior to the 1969 forming of the Allman Brothers Band with guitarists Duane and Dickey, singer and keyboardist <strong>Gregg Allman<\/strong>, and drummers <strong>Butch Trucks<\/strong> and <strong>Jaimoe Johanson<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Considered by some to be one of the best bass players of all time, Oakley was posthumously inducted into the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 with the Allman Brothers Band.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Nov. 11, 1972 &#8230; Berry Oakley, bassist and founding member of the Allman Brothers Band, was killed in a motorcycle accident in Macon, Georgia. He was only 24. Oakley\u2019s death occurred just three blocks from where fellow Allman Brothers Band member Duane Allman was killed in a<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-nov-11-1972-allman-brother-band-founding-member-berry-oakley-died\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}