i'm sure it will repeat some
I missed it too. Had an engagement to attend and forgot it was happening.
One song from Radio City Music Hall.
I watched it live as it aired and it was GREAT. It's really hard to believe that this band sounds as great as it does after 50 years. In fact they are better than EVER especially with Michael McDonald on board as he is for this tour. Let's not forget they've got Marc Quinones on percussion and Marc Russo has been their sax player since 1998. From 1984 to 1990 Russo was with the jazz outfit The Yellowjackets and was on four Grammy-nominated records with them. He made a smart career move to latch onto the consistent touring and popularity of the Doobies. The Doobies are one of the all-time great American bands for sure!!
Here's a nice jam that I shot in 2015 at the Sonoma Music Festival with Scott Sharrard and Bill Payne. If you're wondering, Gregg Allman & Friends were also on the Festival bill so that explains why Sharrard was around. I believe Payne did the entire Doobies tour that year but not sure about that.
@robslob I wonder if the Allman Brothers Band would have sounded that good at their 50th anniversary? By the time the 50th rolled around the original band was long gone. What if Duane and Berry had lived and they added Chuck Leavell on key in late 1972 anyway as their McDonald.
We will never know because the Allman Brothers Band I heard on the classic rock stations except for the Brothers and Sisters lineup when they play Ramblin' Man, Jessica and Southbound ended in 1972.
BTW, reading an interview with Gary Rossington yesterday and he was asked about them having just one original left, him. And surprisingly he said " What they're seeing now and in recent years is a Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute band. The actually band has been gone for years".
The ABB had 3 left. Gregg and two drummers. Warren not long ago said when "he and Derek think about the Allman Brothers it's the original band. But I defy anyone to say Derek, Otiel and I didn't hold up the original bands legacy real well".
@robertdee: Warren is correct, they certainly DID hold up the legacy REAL well!! I saw enough shows to know that and I also have 6 or 7 of them on CD.
Saw the Chicago stop on this tour and it was a fantastic evening.
If anyone sees it being re-broadcast, please post for those not fortunate enough to catch the previous airing.
thanks
@robslob Any thoughts on what the Allman Brothers with perhaps a 7th man in the person of Chuck Leavell would have sounded like on it's 50th? Obviously the Doobie Brothers with Michael McDonald ( not original member but neither was Chuck Leavell in the ABB) sounds really good.
The bass player I was used to seeing with the Doobie Brothers back in the 70's isn't there now (was his name Porter) and one of the original drummers has passed away but Tom and Pat are there which would be like Duane and Dickey being on the 50th. And Gregg too.
Unfortunately the Allman Brothers Band doesn't exist now and will never play again and that is sad. And it's also funny to look at the Rolling Stones for example which began 7 years before the Allman Brothers and the ABB ended in 2014 and the Rolling Stones are still going.
@robertdee I think the original Doobie bassist was Tiran Porter.
There was an article on the Rolling Stone (magazine) site the other day. The title was, "I'm With the Band ... Sort Of". It was about bands that tour with (very) few original members and specifically cited Journey, Foreigner and the Allman Brothers. I couldn't read the entire article because I won't pay for a subscription to that rag. They had a photo of what looks to be the current ABB "family"/tribute band. RS evidently misses the fact that this band is NOT billing itself as the Allman Brothers.
Derek, Warren and Oteil certainly proved worthy of the Allman Brothers brand. It's sacrilegious to say, but I think they bettered the originals in certain respects. The original line-up played a usual setlist where the Warren/Derek/Oteil band could play multiple nights in a row with very few song repetitions.
The Doobie Brothers - probably more so than the Eagles - took the same level of musicianship and performance and created a much more commercially approachable style of music. They're certainly one of the finest bands of all time.
@robslob I wonder if the Allman Brothers Band would have sounded that good at their 50th anniversary?
Warren not long ago said when "he and Derek think about the Allman Brothers it's the original band. But I defy anyone to say Derek, Otiel and I didn't hold up the original bands legacy real well".
to anyone who has heard it, where might “The Brothers” 2020 show at MSG in NY fall? Recall it being raved about (also the BOMB photo of the band at the end) as really a tribute of loving reverence/truly inspired music that (Warren quote) upheld the band’s legacy real well
- the players themselves were hyped afterward a la Erie 2005 - was this indeed what that 50th show would’ve been - Duane’s & BO’s spirit have never really left the band
Derek & Warren said it well - the original band is what comes to mind 1st re ABB (the slide intro to EHWoman for me🎶🍄🎸)
Would guess Dickey & other musicians associated w/the band over the years would say they really like 2001-14/have their favorite shows etc
Will p/u that 2020 show someday - it’s gotta be the be all end all of ABB tribute shows
Am not a huge fan but dig the Doobie Bros, thx for the clips - gotta dig out their Don Kirschner show vid - the unknown ones they do on that one are super, vy good show
@rusty According to Butch the original band was the most creative and took the most chances on stage live than the last and other lineups but you are right about the same set with a few variations. Duane would throw in Dimples when he felt like singing.
When Duane was killed, they had only released two studio albums and they added some blues covers several of which got on At Fillmore East. Maybe lack of material was the reason of similar set list every night. But a lot of bands played the same set more or less then and I guess now.
The original band obviously wrote new songs more often and better than the last line up and other lineups except the Brothers and Sisters lineup up. The B&S lineup had several ABB songs that became classics. As
The last line up was good, no doubt about that. And the early 90's Dickey/Warren lineup was hot. As was the Jack Pearson/Dickey lineup.
But to me, the band wouldn't have made it as well as it did without Duane. So Duane Allman is key to the band's success in my mind. And Gregg and Dickey wrote many great songs that helped assure the band's early success. No one wrote songs in the band as well as Gregg and Dickey did. The list of classics for the ABB is lengthy.
To me the original band is THE Allman Brothers Band. The original sound and material set the table for the latter years and lineups.
Sometimes it feels as if most of what we are into concerning the Allman Brothers was created between 1969 and 1973. When most of the incredible classic Allman Brothers songs were written.
