When I saw him perform live a few years ago, he and his band stunk; I left early. Of course at the gig the next day, according to friends who attended, he Rocked it.
I never understood late in his career why he stuck with the ABB stuff, playing small clubs in front of 200-300 peeps....It always seemed to me that his heart belonged to Richard Betts and "Highway Call"..Man that would have been something had he been able to put a band like that one back together, hitting the road and playing country swing. I would have been ten times more likely to have driven for hours to hear that...I guess we'll never know, hope he's doing what makes him smile...
Demand would be less, and tour would be doomed.
Play small venues for those who want to hear this classic music!
When I saw him perform live a few years ago, he and his band stunk; I left early. Of course at the gig the next day, according to friends who attended, he Rocked it.
I never understood late in his career why he stuck with the ABB stuff, playing small clubs in front of 200-300 peeps....It always seemed to me that his heart belonged to Richard Betts and "Highway Call"..Man that would have been something had he been able to put a band like that one back together, hitting the road and playing country swing. I would have been ten times more likely to have driven for hours to hear that...I guess we'll never know, hope he's doing what makes him smile...
Demand would be less, and tour would be doomed.
Exactly, people go to Dickey Betts' shows to hear him play his songs he played with the Allmans.
While I love his acoustic songs and the songs off of his solo albums, most people are not there to hear those songs. Heck, with the side bands of the Allmans, most people go to those shows to hear songs from the Allmans, not the songs of Gregg, Warren, Butch, Dickey, Jack Pearson, and Jaimoe.
