Interesting take on One Way Out live album...
I enjoy listening to One Way Out live album from time to time for a different vibe and take on several classic ABB songs.
Too bad the album didn't sell many copies. It stalled on the charts at 190 out of 200 positions. But it sold slightly better than the live Peakin' At The Beacon released in 2000. If this and Hitting The Note had sold better perhaps the band would have recorded another studio album.
I recall Butch indicating the reason they recorded another live album at the Beacon so soon after Peakin' At the Beacon is because he and Gregg thought Dickey sucked on that 2000 album, their last for Epic.
Dickey I thought was a little off here and there on Peakin' At the Beacon but not bad at the show I saw and certainly not bad on Stand back. He and Derek do real fine here I think.
I rarely, if ever, listen to One Way Out. I always thought 1st and 2nd Sets benefited from being, well, single sets. I know the band felt they had something to prove without Dickey, but they could have paired down the One Way Out set list to the essentials. The 4 Warren tunes (Horse, Schoolgirl, Worried Down, and River) just don't hold up to the rest of the ABB material. Definitely don't need all 4 of them.
One Way Out had the misfortune of dropping just as the band started releasing Instant Live shows. Especially after The Fox Box was released a few months later, One Way Out got a bit lost in the shuffle. It's nice of Glide to do a feature on it. Too bad the article reads like a college essay written by an excited kid who just discovered his thesaurus but has to yet to discover how to diagram a sentence.
@robertdee I actually spin Peakin' at the Beacon more often than OWO, mostly because it's unique place in the band's catalogue. The performances weren't as tight in March 2000 as they were 3 years later (I think that "Stand Back" is maybe the worst cut of the album) but hearing Dickey and Derek trade licks is fun in the few moments of clarity Dickey experienced.
@porkchopbob Yes Derek said in an interview just after the founding members voted to removed Dickey from the stage, he personally thought Dickey had some good nights at the Beacon. And growing up and being so influenced by Duane and Fillmore East and Eat A Peach and the Layla albums thanks to his dad playing them so much, it was extremely special to Derek all those years later to have Duane's chair and play those same songs with Dickey like Duane did and it was especially special.
Derek confirmed Dickey because of whatever was causing it was becoming unhinged some nights but after a couple of very rough songs they went into Blue Sky and when Dickey got into his solo suddenly Dickey had the magic back and played a long solo that was the darnest guitar solo Derek had ever heard. And Derek said he was surprised when the founders voted to put Dickey out considering the great songs Dickey wrote for the band and how his sound was part of the Brothers sound from day one.
It was more to it than Dickey zoning out on stage. Gregg admitted he had the same problem before and was lucky he didn't get fired and he went straight to rehab but Dickey denied he had a problem. A lot of it was business especially with Butch who continued to be mad after missing out of a writing credit for the drum parts on Liz Reed and Dickey blocking Butch's plans for the band in his personal business ventures in the 1990's as Butch wanted a revenue stream for himself to balance all the extra money Dickey and Gregg made writhing songs that appeared on that 1991 archival release which sold over 2 million copies. Dickey and Gregg according to Butch made millions while he got zero because the band was cut out of a royalty on the Capricorn albums after the bankruptcy. Only the song writers made money.
Butch was a wonderful drummer and perfect for the band but he wasn't as talented as Dickey. When you consider guitar playing, song writing and singing, Dickey Betts to me was more talented than Warren and Derek. Too bad his life style deminished that great talent in his latter years. I'm happy Dickey has a lot of money a beautiful mansion in a gated community and comfortable at 80 years old. He certainly was huge to the Allman Brothers Band over the years.
@porkchopbob Hey a guy at the big music store here told me about this new Telecaster. Supposedly a good number of guitar players nationally have been requesting one and now it's here.
Susan Tedeshi said she is so honored. Last time I saw TTB Susan rotated between the Strat Derek bought for her and the sunburst Les Paul Eric Clapton gave her. But the article says this Tele has been her main ax for decades.
Here it is. A beautiful guitar.
https://www.guitarworld.com/news/fender-susan-tedeschi-signature-telecaster
