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Butch Trucks

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Musician

The Resume

    (May 11, 1947-January 24, 2017)
    Born in Jacksonville, Florida
    Birth name was Claude Hudson Trucks
    Drummer for the Allman Brothers Band and Butch Trucks & the Freight Train Band

Why he might be annoying:

    He attended Florida State for one year (where he ‘majored in staying out of Vietnam’) before flunking out.
    He abused cocaine and alcohol.
    The IRS filed a $540,00 lien against his condo for unpaid taxes.
    He committed suicide by shooting himself in front of his wife.

Why he might not be annoying:

    While in high school, he played tympani with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra.
    As part of his successfully kicking cocaine, he went back to college and got a degree (1974).
    His nephew Derek Trucks joined the Allman Brothers Band as a guitarist (1999).
    He and fellow Allman Brothers’ drummer Jai Johanny Johanson tried to take drum lessons from Elvin Jones only to have the jazz legend reply, ‘What am I supposed to teach you?’

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 10 Votes: 70.0% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 18 Votes: 61.11% Annoying