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ALLMAN BROTHERS - RAMBLIN MAN | REACTION

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KPRESTN712
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Jamel was feeling this one too. Strapped on the air guitar.


 
Posted : June 11, 2020 6:27 pm
CanadianMule
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This guy makes me laugh sometimes but he is also full of crap too. Some tunes that he does are impossible to have never heard. Plus his air guitar often reacts to something that he shouldn't know is coming.

Between radio, commercials, movies etc - it is pretty hard for a guy his age to have never heard Ramblin Man before.


 
Posted : June 13, 2020 5:30 am
JimSheridan
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My parents are in their late 80s and not rock fans. They’ll listen to old Broadway stuff, Irish folk tunes, Anne Murray - maybe John Denver when they feel naughty.

One of my fondest memories of the summer of 1975 is of our cross-country camping trek from NJ to CA and back, seven of us in the Plymouth station wagon, listening to AM radio. By the time we reached California, we had heard “Rambling Man” a jillion Times, so my dad had learned all of the words and sang along with it each time.


 
Posted : June 13, 2020 6:15 am
CanadianMule
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That is a victory, Jim. LOL

I did similar to my Dad with Blue Sky.


 
Posted : June 13, 2020 6:29 am
JimSheridan
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It’s a tribute to Dickey Betts that he could craft songs that reach very different generations.

To write a song rocking enough for a younger person but melodic enough for an older person? Not easy. McCartneyesque.


 
Posted : June 13, 2020 7:02 am
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Ramblin' Man is an old man's song now. I bought the album in August 1973. I'm 73...be 74 later this year. Im in my car right now at a Kroger and have Decade of Hits on the CD player and Ramblin' Man is track 2.

I too can't imagine he had never heard Ramblin' Man. When Marc Quinones was approached by Butch Trucks to join the band Marc was skeptical. He wasn't familiar with the ABB and had only heard Ramblin' Man. Never heard Blue Sky, Whipping Post...didn't know who Duane and Dickey were.

This guy did a reaction to Buddy Rich Impossible drum solo and said hs had never heard of Buddy before and guessed he was a drummer and probably sang. I believed him about Buddy Rich but skeptical about Ramblin Man.

He stopped the Buddy Rich video several times completely overwhelmed by Buddy's incredibly fast and technically advanced drumming and it brought tears to his eyes to see a man play the drums at that level. Buddy was the best technically I suppose but tears to your eyes?????


 
Posted : June 13, 2020 7:04 am
robslob
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Yeah he is a bit of a liar. I mean............even people under 20 have likely heard Rambin' Man............in a grocery store or department store............radio ..........in a movie or TV...........SOMEWHERE.

That said, I love this guy because he has a genuine appreciation and love for ABB. Doesn't matter to me if he takes some liberties with the truth to get his point across.


 
Posted : June 14, 2020 5:40 pm
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