I’m surprised I haven’t seen a thread about this.
Butch Trucks, founding member and longtime drummer for the Allman Brothers Band, died Tuesday at age 69.
Link here http://www.clatl.com/music/article/20850120/butch-trucks-rip
Some nice tributes and film clips here: Butch Trucks, Allman Brothers Band Founding Member, Dead at 69 – Rolling Stone
He was a good guy. I met him several times at Pegasus Studios. RIP Butch.
I saw that. “Whipping Post” got me through sophomore year of college. RIP
The Allmans are possibly the best American band ever.
Trucks really should not have had the bad luck to die the same day as Mary Tyler Moore.
Latest news is that he shot himself… 
Oh no - really? I have no context so don’t know if such an act would be driven by events, by illness, by longstanding depression or other issues.
Wonderful player and part of a truly great band.
Well, the great man ‘died’, all right. After shooting himself in the head in his wife’s presence. What a shitty thing to do.