Carnegie Hall was built for whispers. In 1974, Gregg Allman hauled in an orchestra, an electric bass, and the nerve to find out what would happen on his Laid Back tour. "I took out a 24-piece orchestra and cut what became my second solo record: The Gregg Allman Tour. It was recorded at Carnegie Hall. And you put a Fender bass in Carnegie Hall-the place is built for the spoken word. You put an electric bass in there, you’ve got a problem, man. We used one 12” speaker cabinet for the bass. It was like a Vibrasonic. And one 8” speaker for the lead guitar. We had horns, violas, violins, cellos. We had the orchestra leader and everything. I want to do that again, now that I’m old enough to do it. I’d like to do it right. It didn’t make any money, but it was ballsy. They said, what’s Gregg doin’, is he out of his mind? But we had a helluva lot of fun doing that record. It did pretty good." Gregg Allman 📷getty