For two rock stars who died young in violent motorcycle crashes, the Rose Hill Cemetery was supposed to be a quiet spot of final repose. Most recently, a local newspaper photographer, Nick Oza, was arrested for trespassing Sunday, after he slipped under a rope cordoning off the two adjacent graves during the annual Allman Brothers Band fan club festival. Charges against The Macon Telegraph photographer are still pending. But there had been problems long before Sunday's arrest.
People sit there and drink bourbon and eat chicken wings while sitting on the stones.
A couple's been caught in the middle of a good old intimate sex act on the stones themselves. Once, someone tried to dig under one of the graves, which include a headstone as well as flat, coffin-length raised marble slabs. Two carved angels resting at the bases of the monuments were stolen. Anderson says the problems at the tombs distress his clients and the surviving Allmans so much that they have considered exhuming the bodies to bury them elsewhere. I don't know what is, but we cannot remain at the status quo.