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- From: napier@cs.ucsd.edu (Jim Napier)
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- Subject: Re: Allman Brother's question
- Date: 20 Jan 1993 20:18:58 GMT
- Organization: AMES Dept., UC San Diego
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- In article <1993Jan15.214004.1787@bmerh85.bnr.ca>, bgan@bmerh136.bnr.ca (Bruce Gan) writes:
- |> Who was Elizabeth Reed?
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- An old girlfriend of Dicky Betts, the guitarist for the band who wrote the song.
- The apocryhpal story that the band used to tell the press about the origins of
- this song was that Dicky was inspired to write it after making love to a woman
- in a graveyard. Elizabeth Reed was supposedly the name on the tombstone where
- they did it.
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- Jim Napier
- Systems Administration
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- UC San Diego
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- "Shut up before I have to tell you to shut up."
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