I was lucky enough to have seen them - through many changes - about 15 times between 1970 and 2010. One of the best live bands you'd ever wanna see...
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Take a listen - it's two and one-half hours of great live performance. Let it be the soundtrack of your afternoon.
The Allman Brothers Band - 40th Anniversary (Full Concert)
For months before Macon Georgia’s Allman Brothers Band achieved mega stardom with their breakthrough Eat A Peach album, the foundational lineup of Duane and Gregg Allman alongside Berry Oakley, Dickey Betts, Jaimoe Johanson, and Butch Trucks were in their peak form as a touring act. They entranced their audiences with amazing live performances that stretched blues and soul into genre-defying improvisational terrain. Every gig added a little something extra, their signature was a soaring dual-guitar and the finest vocal chops of any bluesmen of their generation. By 1971, Duane Allman was a well-seasoned as Lead and Slide session guitarist backing the likes of Aretha Franklin and Wilson Pickett in the studio, yet he stayed committed to his core Allman Brothers Band. After three straight years of non-stop gigs and playing, they brought inspired new tunes into the fold, such as “Blue Sky,” that would become their lifeblood. More importantly the big canonical numbers such as “Dreams,” “Elizabeth Reed,” and “Whipping Post” were growing wilder than ever into uncharted territory.
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1969-71 - the original lineup.
Gregg Allman / Duane Allman / Dickey Betts / Berry Oakley / Butch Trucks / Jai Johanny 'Jaimoe' Johanson
Brothers Duane and Gregg Allman got their first big break with the band Hour Glass, but after a couple of little-heard records and 1967 and '68, the group split, with Duane starting a prolific career as a session guitarist while Gregg contemplated a solo career. But by the fall of '69, Duane had started a new band with guitarist Dickey Betts, bassist Berry Oakley, and drummers Butch Trucks and Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson. Summoned by Duane to add the final missing ingredient, Gregg joined the lineup, and the Allman Brothers were born.
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This is a great read if you like
the band as much as I do:
Click on the picture or the link for more info.
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They were together, in one form or another, for 50 years. That's really kinda extraordinary.
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Gregg was as fucked up in as many ways as you can imagine, but he was still the creative genius behind a majority of their hits, and he kept the band together a lot longer than anyone mighta believed.
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First time I heard the Allman Brothers- I was working at Greenbrier Mall in Atlanta. On my lunch break I wandered into the record department of Rich’s department store and heard Whipping Post for the first time. This was in 1969. I was 18. The last time I listened to the Allman Brothers was.... yesterday. When Dwayne died, I read about his death in the Pacific Stars&Stripes - one paragraph- rock guitarist killed in motorcycle crash. That band is the music of my life
ReplyDeleteIt's great how we can do that for ourselves - add a sound track I mean. I agree.
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