Probably been posted before but damn Dickey & Warren tear it up!
Hot indeed! Maybe the best twin guitar other than Dickey and Duane for that classic Allman Brothers Band sound.
But Jaimoe thought it was Jack and Dickey. Especially when Jack played slide.
When I saw the band in 1999 I thought Derek and Dickey was the closest to the original but many people including Jaimoe insist Jack's slide was the closest to Duane.
The time they almost made an ash of Conan! This is a great period, but the guitars seem way over-driven than in the Duane & Dickey days. I also think (thought) that Jack was the closest to Duane when in the ABB mix. This is certainly not to knock or detract from Warren, Derek or Jimmy H. Fans of the Allman Brothers Band are just spoiled rotten when it comes to guitar players! 😉
This is a great period, but the guitars seem way over-driven than in the Duane & Dickey days. 😉
It is those 100 W high gain Soldano Heads they were using for amps... sounds good to me.
Dickey and Warren definitely played with more drive in their tone than any previous lineup. Back in the early 1970s you just turned your Marshall amp up in large theaters until the tone started to break apart. By the mid-1990s these guys were swapping in hotter pickups, pedals, amp effects, etc, so they could get the same dirty tonal effect at smaller venues where you can't turn it up as loud.
I was jamming with another guitar player last year and he had his pedal board pushed. His tone was super over-driven, not Zakk Wylde dirty, but no separation. He was telling me that's how Dickey and Duane sounded with their stacks of Marshalls. But if you listen to At Fillmore East, Dickey and Duane have relatively clean tones (especially compared to Warren and Derek). Everyone hears it different.
@porkchopbob It's been so long since I saw Duane and Dickey together it's hard to remember. But it seems they sounded like they do on At Fillmore East and live Eat A Peach.
Of course the first 3 or 4 times I saw them Dickey was playing a Strat. Duane a Goldtop LP.
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Duane's LP Goldtop is without pickup covers it seems. I don't remember that.
And that Strat Dickey is playing now that I think about it is probably that old 1956 hardtail he used for several years in the late 90's so that is probably not a 1970 picture. In 1970 I'm thinking the neck of Dickey's strat back then was black.
robertdee, I think that photo is of Dickey in the late 70's or early 80's Great Southern era... 55 or 56 Hardtail I believe. There is a photo out there of him & Duane Allman playing and he is playing a 60's era strat ( rosewood fingerboard.
@redhouse1969 Yes you are right. I found a picture of Dickey and Duane in February 1970 and the neck on Dickey's Strat is rosewood (black). Dickey was playing that Strat probably the first four or five times I saw the ABB. Then he went to the SG he gave Duane for slide after Dickey switched to Les Pauls. Several LPs before he got Goldie and that was his number one for many years.
Dickey got that old 56 Strat hardtail apparently around 1976. Dickey said in the 70's he liked Strats for rhythm guitar in the studio. Somebody played it a lot from 1956 to some years later. I saw that guitar up close in Blacksburg, VA about 18 months ago at an Allman Betts Band show. Duane Betts uses it on a couple of songs. Up close it has a lot of road wear on the neck and the body where your right arm will often touch it when playing. The fret board is really worn. It's not pretty but in a way it has a cool look.
Dickey used it as his main guitar from 1997 to 2000 or so while he was mad a Gibson for ignoring him. Not sure what was meant by that. Apparently no signature model. But Dickey got a signature model in 2001. Duane has signature 2001 Les Paul guitar as his number one now but in recent months apparently Dickey's 1961 ES-335 dot neck is what Duane uses most now. It has a real good tone but different than a Les Paul. Duane Betts continues to tour with the signature Les Paul, the 1961 ES-335 and the 1956 Strat. For several years now.
