…Doing The Dirty Hunch And Feelin’ Chicks’ Tits—Staying Out Of Trouble Right?

Dimensions: 20" x 25"
Medium/Materials: watercolor and gouache on polypropylene
Year: 2008
notes: One day I was looking at an image of Peter Doig's "100 Years Ago" in a book. The painting depicts a long-haired, bearded man sitting in a large red canoe. At some point I thought to myself "Gee, that's a big red canoe. Where have I seen that before." Not ten minutes later I put on the first side of Duane Allman's Anthology Volume One. Inside the gatefold sleeve of the record is a picture of the Allman Brothers Band in a giant red canoe. Doig's image was the same except he left out everyone except bassist Berry Oakley. In interviews he's admitted that "100 Years Ago" is a painting of Berry Oakley but what he's never said is that he left everyone else out. This is the first in a series of paintings about this image of the Allman Brothers Band and Doig's painting and just shows Duane. The title is a quote attributed to him in the liner notes of the Anthology mention above regarding his high school pastimes. Duane was one of the lead guitar players. He died in 1971 at the age of 24. In addition to his work with the Allman Brothers Band, Duane was a highly regarded session player. He's correctly ranked higher than Eric Clapton at number 2 in Rolling Stone's list of 100 greatest guitar players (of course Hendrix is number one).