Looks as if it's a lot of pieces spliced together. Much of it in this clip I've seen before but I'm going to see it.
I imagine Gregg and ABB catalogue releases will jump in sales due to this.
I understand the greatest hits albums, Laid Back, Eat A Peach, At Fillmore East, Brothers and Sisters have cool off in recent years and this may improve sales for awhile.
To me that clip of Cher introducing Gregg at the beginning is shocking. She was such a beautiful young lady back then but her hair and outfit in that introduction clip is ugly. She looks like a gingerbread girl cutout.
Anyone think she looks sexy and cool in that clip?;
@robertdee She was a beautiful lady but that matching outfit looked better on him than her. Definitely not her best look.
I remember when this aired originally, I was so excited to see it. My parents took us to my grandparents house that day and decided it was time to leave just as it was coming on. I pitched a fit but it didn't matter. I missed the first song, Don't Mess Up a Good Thing. Got home just in time to see the last song Midnight Rider at the end. It was years before I was able to see what I had missed.
Never imagined how available clips like these would become later in life.
@kcjimmy I had a VHS with a bunch of ABB clips I tape from late night shows. I was so bummed when I missed their Austin City Limits performance. When it was supposed to re-air it was bumped for 24 footage of Princess Diana's funeral I was so pissed (she wasn't even a princess anymore!). I never saw it until it popped up on Youtube.
@porkchopbob I have several of those VHS tapes myself. One full of ABB related stuff, others with other bands. Greg on Cher's show was well before VHS though. One of my favorites was Elton John, "To Russia with Love". Just Elton John in Russia on piano and some dude named Ray playing drums and percussion. Mid 70s, they played every Elton John song I knew at the time. Very good.
In the mid 80s. I purchased the Concert for Bangladesh on VHS tape for $90 just so I could watch Leon Russell play, Jumping Jack Flash. I was thrilled to have it!
Now we can watch all that stuff free on YouTube. That is a blessing.
@kcjimmy I think I saw that show too. But had forgotten the wild hair and outfit.
I even bought the Allman and Woman album. Maybe played it three times. I use to keep up with the album charts and it never charted. Very poor seller. One would have thought her fans and Gregg's fans would have bought enough copies to get it at least on the bottom of the top 200 albums.
Yes she was beautiful back then. I used to watch Sonny and Cher in the mid 60's.
Apparently her fans and his fans weren't that interested in Gregg and Cher in the same band.
They did a tour and I think it collapsed half way through. Next time I saw Gregg was in Atlanta playing organ and singing some of the songs with the Nighthawks. Gregg did a whole tour with them but didn't join.
@robertdee I was at that Nighthawks show at the Great Southeast Music Hall in Atlanta. we may have talked about that before. I believe that was 1977 maybe 78. I know when I saw the Allman Brothers in Atlanta at the Omni in October of 1975, Cher was on the side stage dancing for a bit of the show.
@kcjimmy Yes we were at the same show. I'm guessing 1978.
Gregg recorded and Capricorn released Playing Up A Storm in 1977 and toured. Then he and Cher recorded Allman and Woman which was released in the fall of 1977. Playing Up A Storm didn't sell as well as hoped and in Gregg's book he blamed Phil Walden for Capricorn not getting behind the album and pushing it. It think it sold something like 160,000 copies and Laid Back was over 800,000 so naturally Gregg was disappointed.
Allman and Woman ( Cher) wasn't on Capricorn for some reason. It was on Warner Brothers Records and it didn't sell enough to make the top 200 album chart. That was very surprising for me as I thought enough Gregg fans and enough Cher fans would have bought it so it would at least get on the bottom of the chart and sell 60,000 copies or so.
Then Cher and Gregg went on tour and it may have been in Japan that Cher and her people left the tour and it collapsed. Not sure how they handled refunds after that. Maybe it wasn't selling in tickets anyway. But I think the Gregg Allman/Cher marriage collapsed for the last time then too.
So when Gregg returned to the states he didn't have a band and the Nighthawks invited him to hook up with them and try it. Gregg played several shows with the Nighthawks but decided not to join.
So it seems that show we saw would be 1978. I think it may have been cold in Atlanta that night so it may have been in March or so.
But not long afterwards Dickey decided to get together with Gregg and talk about the Scooter Herring fiasco and Dickey saw what Gregg was up against with the feds.
Gregg, Butch and Jaimoe played a set as the Allman Brothers Band on a Great Southern concert in Central Park in New York that summer with Dan Toler and David Goldflies instead of Chuck and Lamar and it was in Circus magazine the next week the Allman Brothers Band was back together.
Later that summer I read Phil Walden pushed Chuck Leavell and Larmar Williams to rejoin the Allman Brothers too but they turned it down so they went into the studio in the fall of 1978 with Danny Toler and Goldflies on bass.
Gregg said in his book and Butch agreed that Goldflies played too many notes and didn't have the right chemistry. Butch wasn't than warm about Danny Toler either saying on his blog that version of the band just didn't work. Didn't have the right chemistry then Jaimoe was fired ( voted out ) and it made it even worse.
Butch said he regretted voting to remove Jaimoe during the first show he played with David Toler on drums. Said every time he started to play something Toler was already playing it. That Toler was in his way much of the time, a problem he never had with Jaimoe.
But Gregg took both Toler brothers with him and for years they played tons of shows sometimes in bars with no recording contract ( I saw several and enjoyed them ) until Epic signed Gregg in 1987 for I'm No Angel which sold very well. About 700,000 copies and a Gold record.