BTW this jam following You Don't Love Me is not from the Fillmore album. It claimes it was closing night at the Fillmore which is where One Way Out on Eat A Peach came from. I think Butch always said that set , which Butch always claimed was the best set they ever played in the 45 year history of the band, wasn't recorded. Anyone remember it that way?

This show is from a radio broadcast of the private invitation only July 27 show. Butch claimed the night before, the last public show, was the hottest show they played. Also known as the "Holy Grail" show.

https://duaneallman.com/the-night-they-closed-the-fillmore-down/

There are so many that it is difficult to agree.

Indeed there are. I am very fond of his solo in Searchin For A Rainbow. It is a perfect little DB solo in my opinion. As for live, hands down his solo on Whippin Post from L.A.F.E will never be topped by ANYONE.

There are so many that it is difficult to agree.

Indeed there are. I am very fond of his solo in Searchin For A Rainbow. It is a perfect little DB solo in my opinion. As for live, hands down his solo on Whippin Post from L.A.F.E will never be topped by ANYONE.

Thanks for reminding me of that!...Dickey at his best, that country tinged flavor and again, I've always wondered why the "Highway Call" period was so short and not further pursued later on in his career.

I think he makes a great case for this solo! There's no right answer, and my default was also Whipping Post from At Fillmore East, but this is great stuff and his analysis of Dickey's playing shed some new light on him for me.

It's that much more interesting because my feeling was that the June 27 show wasn't their best — with the band possibly a little burnt out from the big jam the night before, which is that much more legendary because we've never heard it and probably never will. Someone (CanadianMule maybe?) has pointed out a couple of times that the June 26 late show has probably been dramatically over-inflated in ABB lore. I'm sure it was great, but based on the shows we've actually heard, they probably didn't play for 4-6 hours including two hours of jamming post Mountain Jam — of the Duane shows we do have, they never did anything like all of that. Maybe it'll turn up one day and it'll turn out all the legends were true, and even if they're all wrong I'd love to find out, but...

From the same show (6/27), OWO - put needle to Side III EAP & more blistering guitar you’ll never hear in 1st song
Also, Nobody Knows (studio)
among the many - that’s real nice, thx for posting

There are so many that it is difficult to agree.

Indeed there are. I am very fond of his solo in Searchin For A Rainbow. It is a perfect little DB solo in my opinion. As for live, hands down his solo on Whippin Post from L.A.F.E will never be topped by ANYONE.

Good call on SFAR. I've always loved that little cameo solo. Pure Dickey. WP is a great one too. My personal favorite is the studio version of Jessica.

Too many to pick just one, but his solo on LAFE “You don’t Love Me” is right up there.

Liz Reed from the Wipe The Windows album, Nobody Knows from the 1st Set album come to mind as well..studio Jessica..many others

hard to pick a solo as the "one"...

I remember years ago being brought to tears during a blue sky solo... I think it was at the house of blues in Boston/Cambridge area...

his whipping post solo at the 94 woodstock show was pretty epic as well

I love his solo on "Hand picked"....

Dickey's blues guitar solo on Jelly, Jelly from Brothers and Sisters is real strong and tasty too. Great solos from Gregg on organ and Chuck on piano and excellent drums from Butch and Jaimoe too.

There are others that are more epic in scope, but I've always loved his outro solo on Can't Lose What You Never Had from Wipe the Windows.

Dickey's blues guitar solo on Jelly, Jelly from Brothers and Sisters is real strong and tasty too. Great solos from Gregg on organ and Chuck on piano and excellent drums from Butch and Jaimoe too.

forgot about that one! My favorite on that album.

There are SOOOO Many

The 1st thing I ever heard from ABB was AFE

What got me hooked (in addition to Duane's slide) are some of the shorter, more melodic solos - Stateboro Blues and Stormy Monday (part of the derivation of my screen name). They are perfect.
The entire AFE album and Stony Brook Blue Sky come to mind at "the best". But impossible to say

All of them!!!!

I love his solo on "Hand picked"....

+ 1

It’s not really a solo, just a passage I guess
The last 2 or so minutes leading to the drums solo on Mtn Jam (side II vinyl)
Climbs & climbs that scale, wants to hit that final mindbender high note, misses it, comes back to it, NAILS it - then the gradual decent back downward......

The whole band simply Shines during this two minute or so interlude - BO begins it so amazing w/those harmony bass lines - Gregg w/the perfect support underneath - it’s one of the most amazing passages in all of music

I have always been fond of Dickey’s “Back Where it all Begins” solo from 2nd Set.

haven't listened to this in a long time. is the solo very different from the studio version?

Derek and Dickey in 1999. This song is right on. Noboby Left With To Run With. Both Duane and Gregg are gone and Jimi too.

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Studio version of Jessica for me. Sometimes the live stuff can't beat the studio version. Blue Sky is the same, just perfection as recorded.

I agree Buckeye. Blue Sky on Eat A Peach is absolutely perfect. It makes me smile and feel uplifted and happy everytime I play it which is since February 1972. It has millions of views on YouTube.

I know I'm very partial to the Allman Brothers, my favorite band by far, and Dickey's writing and unique guitar style....but Blue Sky on Eat A Peach is the most enjoyable music to me by any band. Often I let it seque into Little Martha for that wonderful experience. Standback before Blue Sky is real good too with Jaimoe shinning big on drums. It seems they hit absolute perfection in the studio then wham-o .....Duane left this old world.

Yup blackey! Blue Sky is just pure joy.

Lot's of great choices I see...I really like 6/26/71 Done somebody wrong and of course the One way out solo from that night. Both are the highest energy solo's I've heard recorded by Dickey. Blue sky EAP and Jessica B&S are my favorite studio solo's

Has anybody watched Derek and Dickey play Nobody Left to Run With I linked just above earlier? It's from 1999 and it's real fine.

Yes
Blackey..better than real fine
Thinking of Dickey this week with 50 show coming up
Saw some great solo`s over the years
University of Florida band shell 1981
Newton Theatre NJ. 2014

Has anybody watched Derek and Dickey play Nobody Left to Run With I linked just above earlier? It's from 1999 and it's real fine.

I will throw this out there, I think Derek is/was so much closer to the "original" six sound when playing slide than Warren ever was. it still boggles my mind that with a talent like Derek on board they did not capitalize on this with the same arrangement Duane & Dickey had..."You play slide Derek and I will play off that"...

Dickey's solo on OWO from LAFE. It's like an explosion, a super nova. Never heard anything like that from any guitarist.

Werner. Jimmy Herring said that is one of his absolute favorite rock guitar solos and the tone is incredible.