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Now I Realize What Jimmy was Trying to Say - Time Goes by Like Hurricanes

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When I was a teenager my friends were in love with: Aaron Lewis from Staind, Fred Durst, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, a slew of WWE (nee WWF) wrestlers and professional athletes (there's always that one friend, right?) and members of various boy bands. Among others of his ilk, I was in love with Gregg Allman. Yeah, I have no idea either. I really didn't adopt jam band culture in totality (I was never really into Grateful Dead, for example), but there was something about Gregg Allman that I liked that I can't identify. God rest his blonde ponytail. I never buy rock n' roll records, but I might now that I have my own space to jam into. Brothers and Sisters , anyone?  One of my favorites of The Allman Brothers Band was on their 1994 album Where It All Begins (total disclosure: Dickey Betts wrote it, not Gregg Allman), surprisingly enough. As a kid listening to records from the seventies for the first time, I had no concept of what the singles were, so I just list