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Allman Brothers Band - Greg Allman
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Allman Brothers Band - Greg Allman
GOODBYE 2024
Just some of the many musicians we lost in 2024
A beautiful Sidney Smith photo of Gregg playing Duane's 1961 Gibson Les Paul SG Standard, once owned by Dickey Betts.
From the classic audio files: The Allman Brothers Band has a great new sound... An advertisement for Pioneer loudspeaker systems - 1974.
The Allman Brothers Band || May 1969
From left to right:
Back: Duane Allman and Gregg Allman
(Front): Butch Trucks, Dickey Betts, Berry Oakley and Jaimoe.
...and only Jaimoe remains...
Guitarists Steve Cropper, Brian Setzer, Link Wray, Dickey Betts, Dave Edmunds, Johnny Winter, Neil Schon and David Gilmour backstage at a 'Guitar Greats' concert at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, New Jersey on November 3, 1984. (Tommy Bolin Archives FB page)
(via Dickey Betts: Best Songs With Allman Brothers Band)
Song Review: The Allman Brothers Band - “Whipping Post” (Live, 1991)
By the time 1991 rolled around, the second iteration of the Allman Brothers Band’s final comeback - Johnny Neel had already left - sounded as if it’d been together for a couple of decades rather than a couple of years.
It’s this three-drummer (Butch Trucks, Jaimoe and Marc Quiñones) lineup that features on a freshly unearthed, pro-shot video of “Whipping Post.” And though Gregg Allman is clearly not at his best, he retains power in his voice. Meanwhile, Dickey Betts is in peak form and guitarist Warren Haynes and bassist Allen Woody - the two who joined alongside Quiñones - are veteran members in everything but time served.
The delivery is nearly infallible and the joy is palpable, particularly when Trucks rises from his kit to pound tympani with mallets as the “Post” builds to its final crescendo.
Sound Bites was fortunate to experience this lineup a handful of times and his memories of the gigs are such that the blog has often thought perhaps they were colored with roses. This new evidence confirms they were not.
And with Woody, Trucks, Allman and Betts all gone now, this video is even more valuable.
Grade card: The Allman Brothers Band - “Whipping Post” (Live, 1991) - A
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