FLASHBACK: Gregg Allman Talks Jimmy Carter on ‘Conan’

Gregg Allman would have celebrated his 76th birthday today (December 8). Back in 2012, he gave an incredible interview on Conan promoting his autobiography, My Cross to Bear.

The interview covers a multitude of topics from trying to fight Johnny Rotten, listening back to At Fillmore East and the Allman Brothers Band Museum in Macon, Georgia.

As if it couldn’t get any more hilarious, Allman tells the story of having dinner at the White House with President Jimmy Carter shortly after his inauguration proving long before the 2020 documentary that he really was the "Rock & Roll President."

He recalls being in the Lincoln Bedroom and noted how the actual bed was absurdly high off the ground and very narrow. Allman said he was chatting with Carter's mother in the bedroom. This led to some innuendo-inspired laughter from the studio audience and plenty of jokes from O'Brien himself.

He then says Amy Carter, the youngest Carter child, enters the Lincoln bedroom and says, "Mama says y'all are gonna stay for dinner." Allman, recognizing the grandness of inauguration day initially declines but ends up having dinner at the White House that evening.

Despite being good friends, Allman couldn't believe Carter's ambitions in wanting to be President of the United States. When talking about Carter telling him he was going to be President, Allman said, "I laughed so hard I about choked."

O'Brien replied, "You laughed at Governor Carter when he said 'I will be President'?" Allman responded, "Well, yeah! When was the last southern president before him? Anybody?" After a beat of silence, sidekick Andy Richter chimed in with, "What about LBJ? Doesn't Texas count as the south?" Allman hilariously replied, "Nah! Sorry, I love Texas."

This clip ends with Allman saying, "Tell me a better president we've had since." Bill Maher, who was sitting on set after being the show's first guest, said, "I agree. [Carter] never fired a shot, and somehow, he got to be the poster boy for being a p-ssy. That's actually strength when you don't have to fire a shot." Allman responds to Maher's comments with, "Amen. You said it like a profit." Maher replies, "Amen, brother." O'Brien chimes in about notorious atheist Maher, "'Amen?' He's religious now. You converted Bill Maher. It can be done!"

The Who’s Live at Leeds was released on May 16, 1970, and it’s one of the greatest live albums of all time.

It saw the band adding heavier guitars to their mod-era classics and to some early rock and roll chesnuts, and it holds up to any of their studio albums. Through the ‘70s, and ever since, rock bands have been releasing live documents of their concerts, and while some of them are little more than “greatest hits” collections with crowd noise, the albums on this list are essential parts of their respective artists’ discographies.

Scroll through the gallery below and see where some of your favorites are ranked in our greatest live albums list.