Thanks! I was at this show! Derby Eve, and the last day of finals at the University of Louisville for the spring semester of my junior year.
The Kentucky Derby vibe was so much different back then. Lots of young folks from out of state would camp on the University of Louisville baseball field. Towels were rented by the U of L Student Union for a $2 deposit (so the towels would be turned back in) to take showers in Crawford Gym (on campus and maybe a ten minute walk from the main Churchill Downs gate).
There was a retrospective article in the Louisville Courier Journal in the last couple of years that mentioned the nude softball games and street parties among other things.
Oh, to have a time machine!
The band took an extremely long intermission that night.
Story was that they were watching the Mohammed Ali Vs Jimmy Young fight on TV.
@cb Probably Dickey watching the fight.
Johnny Sandlin noted and later Les Dudek said the same thing. They could NOT record any of Brothers and Sisters on nights Kung Fu starring David Carradine was airing on TV. Dickey wanted to watch that show and even Phil Walden couldn't get Dickey to work on the album.
Two tracks were recorded in the fall of 1972 with Berry Oakley on bass. Wasted Words and Ramblin' Man. The rest in 1973.
They performed a lot of shows in 1973. Not sure what Dickey did if they had a gig on the night Kung Fu aired.
Now you record it and watch later.
ABC (I think) was to broadcast the ABB live on tv. I watched, only
to have Chris Schenkel (sic?) come on and say `the Allman Brothers
Band, their fans, they've gone now'. In other words there was a
screw-up and we never got to see the band at all.
ABC (I think) was to broadcast the ABB live on tv. I watched, only
to have Chris Schenkel (sic?) come on and say `the Allman Brothers
Band, their fans, they've gone now'. In other words there was a
screw-up and we never got to see the band at all.
I was there and they said they were going live on Ramblin Man. I worked at Louisville TV stations and tried hard to find a copy of the video. What you say here explains why I couldn't find it.