Butch says the ABB " may " Re-form.

fender31 · 2015-03-08T09:41:29Z

WHO: Butch Trucks with the School of Rock AllStars. Cresskill High School junior Jason Ross, left, will be one of the School of Rock AllStars performing with Allman Brothers Band drummer Butch Trucks this weekend. WHAT: Rock. WHEN: 1:30 p.m. Sunday. WHERE: Mexicali Live, 1409 Queen Anne Road, Teaneck, 201-833-0011 or mexicalilive.com. HOW MUCH: $20. MORE INFO:facebook.com/butchtrucksofficialpage and schoolofrock.com. Play music for the love of it and your dreams of rock stardom may come true. Lose yourself in ambitions of being a rock star and the chances are less likely. These are the life lessons that Allman Brothers Band drummer Butch Trucks hopes to impart this weekend to local teenagers from the School of Rock AllStars. "We never set out to be rock stars," Trucks said of the legendary, pioneering Southern rockers. "We discovered this way of playing that was absolutely new and original, and it was incredible. Every night we would go in different directions. "If you're there to entertain and try to get a gig with Lady Gaga that's something different," Trucks said by phone. "There's a place for that, and I'm not going to tell the kids what to do. But I will tell them my experiences." Trucks will spend today talking privately with more than a dozen aspiring musicians from the School of Rock AllStars and perform a set of Allman Brothers songs with the students at a public concert on Sunday in Teaneck. The students who will perform with Trucks belong to the Tenafly, Montclair and Chatham Schools of Rock, as well as schools from New York and Pennsylvania. They include musicians from Cresskill, Haworth, Norwood and Harrington Park in Bergen County. The School of Rock AllStars will perform 10 songs with Trucks plus five non-Allman songs on their own. They will rotate onstage, with each student playing at least two songs with Trucks. Guitarist Jason Ross of Cresskill said the students have spent the past two months intensely rehearsing Allman Brothers classics, including "Whipping Post," "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" and "Dreams." Ross, a Cresskill High School junior, said he loves the Allman Brothers' mix of Southern rock, blues and country rock, and penchant for drawn-out, improvisational jam sessions. "I like how they venture into different territories," said Ross, 17. "They are one of those bands that come around once in a lifetime." Ross said he is also looking forward to hearing Trucks relate his music business experiences. "It's good to hear from someone who's been through the troubles and turbulent times and knows what it takes to be a successful musician," Ross said. Trucks said the Allman Brothers, who retired last year, learned firsthand the perils of getting lost in their own fame in the mid-'70s. "We were drinking and doing drugs and got away from playing music and turned into rock stars," he said. As a result, he said, the band's music suffered. The Allman Brothers disbanded in 1976 but regrouped by the end of the decade. The Allman Brothers were known for their annual month-long spring residencies at Manhattan's Beacon Theatre. They played their final shows in October at the Beacon. Trucks said he felt by then that the band had become too predictable. "It was a lot of fun, but a lot of the nights were getting tedious and boring, playing a lot of the songs in the same arrangements," Trucks said. "If we do re-form, and we very well may, I hope it would be more spontaneous." Bass guitarist Graham Orbe, 18, of Harrington Park, said Trucks is a selfless drummer who forgoes flash for feel. "He plays for the good of the song and the good of the band," said Orbe, a senior at Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan. Trucks also had advice for parents whose children want to play drums. He said they should buy their kids a set of drumsticks and a practice pad and wait a year or two before purchasing a full drum set.

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Is this a PhotoShop image? If it isn't ... and if Butch is bored ... maybe he and Marc could get themselves cast in a new version of Chico and the Man. 😉

You are dating yourself with that comment!

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