Wow! That one is a challenge. Too bad it fades in and fades out. Wonder if it's live.
I'm going way out on a limb. I think this is probably Sea Level.
Don't hear Gregg's organ. Anybody hear Gregg's organ? I'm 75 years old now and can't hear as good.
That may be Jimmy Nalls on lead guitar. Sounds like that "fuzz tone" sound or tone he liked back then with that Strat he played. It's been so long I can't even remember what his guitar looked like. I think it was just wood color ( no paint) and a fuzzy tone that I hadn't noticed any other guitarist try for. But it was definitely a Stratocaster. But this may not be Jimmy at all. And it may be a Les Paul. Dickey had a Les Paul that sounded similar in the neck position and the way he set his knobs. Man I'm out on a limb.
As to the drums, it does sound like Butch's straight ahead matched grip style and the way Butch played. The other drummer sounds like Jaimoe's jazzed traditional grip bag.
Is it a live recording?
The first time I saw Sea Level was late summer 1976 at a small club. A band called Arrogance opened. I had seen them before. The Sea Level band except for the big piano already on the stage, set up their own equipment. No roadies. Jaimoe's bass drum still had the Allman Brothers Band mushroom logo on it. Chuck Leavell was wearing a belt that looked like piano keys.
I asked Chuck about the Allman Brothers and he said it is over. None of us can work with Gregg again. That the played their last show in Virginia in May. I asked what Dickey was going to do. Chuck said Dickey is putting together the same setup but with different players. Twin guitars, twin drums plus bass and keys. I asked about Butch and this is what Chuck said. He didn't know where Butch would go. That Butch Trucks wanted to be in Chuck's band and they DID A TOUR OF SMALL CLUBS but Chuck said he liked it better with just the four here tonight so he had to tell Butch he had to cut him loose.
So perhaps this is from that tour???
Man I'm way out on a limb. I'm listening to Grand Larceny right now and Jimmy Nalls tone on his Strat is cleaner than this recording. So I'm beginning to sweat?
Somebody shoot me down. Im probably wrong. This may be an Allman Brothers rehearsal without Gregg. I don't hear an organ. Some of the phrasing on the guitar runs does sound like Dickey. But usually it is so easy to spot Dickey's unique style. Nobody sounds like him ( except Danny Toler in the late 1970's).
sounds like Chuck Leavell's audition....I have a CD from Skip that has a part of Chuck's audition...very similar
This is the A Minor Jam that was included on the Brothers and Sisters Super Deluxe set.Les Dudek on guitar and Lamar Williams on bass also Chuck, Butch and Jaimoe.
Nice find! Thank you. It's a real kick. Cheers!
@salcapitano Did Berry Oakley write this jam? It doesn't sound like Les Dudek's tone back then. I have his solo albums on Columbia released in the 1970's. Who knows what guitar he used. In the 1970's Dudek had a Goldtop LP on the album covers and the one time I saw him. In the 1980's when I saw him live he used a black Strat.
Stand Back is what we were told by a couple of roadies in 1972 Berry Oakley wrote. Oakley was going to call it "The Road To Calico" but he gave it to Gregg to mess with and Gregg wrote lyrics and some rearranging and it came back to Berry as STAND BACK. They said it was the last thing Duane Allman played slide on in the studio.
Les in 1990.
He dated and toured with Cher after she and Gregg split. He's a good guitar player and apparently he got the impression from Phil Walden he would replace Duane Allman but Gregg and Butch were absolutely opposed. But he, as everyone knows, plays acoustic on Jessica and second lead guitar on Ramblin'Man. He doesn't do either solo though. It's Dickey.
@robertdee Actually no-one writes a jam. The musicians agree upon a key a basic rhythm or song then just improvise. There's no real writing going on. Simply a pure creative process in real time
