On March 23, 1969, an interracial group of Southern musicians held a jam session in the front room of the "Gray House," and it went so well that veteran Muscle Shoals session guitarist Duane Allman barred the doorway and said anyone unwilling to be in his band would have to "fight your way out." Three days later, his brother Gregg joined as lead singer and keyboardist. Calling themselves the Allman Brothers Band, the group also included Dickey Betts, Butch Trucks, Berry Oakley, and Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson. Made up of four Florida musicians, a bassist from Chicago, and a drummer from Mississippi, the band drew members from the 31st of February and the Second Coming, whose musicians had lived and jammed in a Victorian house down the block known as the "Green House." While living in the "Gray House," Gregg wrote most of the band's first album, including "Whipping Post," which he composed in the middle of the night with burnt matches on an ironing board cover because he had no pen or paper. The band held its initial rehearsals at the Comic Book Club on Forsyth Street in Jacksonville and within weeks moved to Macon, Georgia. In 1971, the Allman Brothers Band won critical acclaim with the live album At Fillmore East, and in 1972 Eat a Peach became a Billboard top five success. The following year, Brothers and Sisters reached the top of the Billboard album chart and produced the group's most successful single, "Ramblin' Man," written by Dickey Betts. Though widely known as standard-bearers of Southern Rock, they played rock and roll shaped by deep blues, jazz, R&B, and country. The band produced ten gold and four platinum albums. Duane Allman died in a motorcycle accident in Macon in October 1971, and bassist Berry Oakley died in a similar accident in November the following year. The group continued and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. It disbanded in 2014 after a concert at the Beacon Theater in New York City with Derek Trucks and Warren Haynes as newer mainstay guitarists. After forty-five years of making music, the final song that night was the first one played at the "Gray House" in 1969, "Trouble No More." Founding member Butch Trucks died in January 2017, followed by Gregg Allman in May that year.