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| 35 years after his death, Skydog still among rock's very best guitarists | By Michael Ventre
MSNBC contributor
Updated: 5:18 p.m. ET Oct 26, 2006
No matter what the circumstances, deaths in the world of rock and roll tend to become romanticized over the years. It has less to do with the tragedy itself than it does with the warm memories that the music of the artists in question have continued to provide, and the sharp reality that there will be no more such music on the way.
What creative frontiers would Jimi Hendrix have explored if he lived beyond the age of 27? Where would Janis Joplin’s music have taken her if she didn’t pass away at 26? Exactly how would we have been entertained if Jim Morrison, Jeff and Tim Buckley, John Lennon, Freddie Mercury, John Bonham, Sid Vicious, Keith Moon, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Otis Redding, Berry Oakley, Kurt Cobain, Bob Marley, Gram Parsons and Frank Zappa, as well as many others, had been allowed to hang around a little while longer?
Outside of niches occupied by guitar fanatics and Southern blues-rock devotees, the name Duane Allman is often ignored. He wasn’t flamboyant. He didn’t live the stereotypical life of rock and roll excess. His most notable work came either as a session player for other artists, or as an unassuming member of a band he co-founded with his brother Gregg. And he is probably recognized the most for his work on the slide guitar, practically a lost art today.
| Posted by Lana on Friday, October 27, 2006 - 07:51 PM (11072 Reads)
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| Macon Birthday Memories | Saturday night in Macon was a very special night. It was the night that the city of Macon, and many of her own, thanked one of her hardist working and most beloved citizens.
A pessimist might say, “a good deed never goes unpunished,” but last weekend, in a room full of smiling optimists, Gregg Allman told the crowd that, “one shared plate of smothered fried chicken at the H & H Restaurant quickly became several plates,” and those plates fed the emerging soul of Southern Rock, and helped keep it alive while the world caught-on to their musical concept. What started as dinner “on the house” for a group of scruffy, hungry, long-haired hippie types, almost forty years ago, morphed into one of the most loving evenings in Macon Georgia’s history…Mama Louise Hudson’s landmark birthday party.
| Posted by BillThames on Sunday, July 30, 2006 - 02:29 PM (6986 Reads)
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| Remeber This On Valentine's Day | Valentine's Day will no longer exist for me. My Valentines of 26 years is no longer by my side. My daughter and I swap silence in this old, musty home. The desire to clean is non-existant and I know I will never cook breakfast again. Movies are nothing now and late night discussions are of the past. There are no dinners, no plans, no laughter. We pray the other is not ready to talk, awkward in passing hoping we do not touch. We don't stray far from our safe little corners, relieved the other has not reached out for the other. The walls have a lonesome echo as my bedroom cries out in loneliness. Photo albums, scrapbooks tossed about, never to be completed, boxes remain on the floor, waiting for the time to be stored away, never to be visited again..... Lack of concern to complete just about anything is the pattern of our day.
BUT - Let me leave you with this, and try to remember this Valentine's Message, I write to you today:
| Posted by mariettatammy on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 05:42 AM (5734 Reads)
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| The Duane Strat | I was reading a post in the Forum about one of Duane's old Strats and this story came flooding back...
From day one, Duane could play just about any guitar, and make it cry, but he had a real Fender fetish in the early days. Probably his all-time favorite guitar from his early Allman Joys/Hourglass days, when I knew him was a Telecaster body with a Strat neck, hybrid that he coveted. According to Paul Hornsby, Duane lost that guitar when it was stolen, by some bottom-feeder, while the Hourglass was touring the mid east in late 67 or early 68.
| Posted by BillThames on Sunday, July 31, 2005 - 08:38 PM (9389 Reads)
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| Allmans' show had memorable moments for everyone | By: Dave Richards
Erie News
You could debate it all night. Exactly when did the Allman Brothers Band concert at the Warner Theatre on Tuesday transcend the realm of merely good and nearly reach nirvana?
Was it during a physical, Cream-like rendition of the old-blues "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl," which featured guitarist Warren Haynes on vocals and Derek Trucks jamming way up the neck, hitting and sustaining impossible high notes?
Maybe it was when keyboard player Greg Allman stepped out with an acoustic guitar to open the second set with an eloquent "Melissa?"
Could have been the surprise of seeing Susan Tedeschi -- the wife of Derek Trucks -- bound on stage to sing a bluesy, moving version of Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right."
Then again, you can make a case for the thunderous, three-man percussion jam by Jaimoe, Butch Trucks, and Marc Quinones amidst "Leave My Blues At Home," which set up a blistering finale.
Whatever moment you choose, the rowdy, sold-out crowd at the Warner Theatre greeted nearly every song with rapture. After all, it's not often a band the stature of the Allman Brothers Band visits Erie, let alone plays the more intimate Warner. Since their 1969 debut, the Allmans have personified Southern rock at its finest, perfecting a blissful fusion of blues, rock, funk and gospel that's made to order for jamming and, yet, song-oriented, as well.
| Posted by Lana on Wednesday, July 20, 2005 - 06:32 PM (7905 Reads)
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