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masbama
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Great version by the band. Never understood why they didn’t play it more. Seems a natural fit for this version of the band 

https://ia801800.us.archive.org/14/items/allman-brothers-band-the-warehouse-new-orleans-la-123172/11%20Hot%20%27Lanta.mp3

 
Posted : November 2, 2024 3:06 pm
robertdee
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Cool. And a hot version. 

I saw this lineup live lots of times and never noticed Hot 'lanta played by them. 

All the 1973 shows I saw were hot with many of the songs on Brothers and Sisters played. 

1974 was just three shows for me and two were hot and one was jaded and uninspired I thought. My first experience being a little disappointed. Later read the band got dosed with some horse tranquilizers and Lamar Williams almost died at the hospital. The bass player for Grinderswitch filled in and did his best but there were some rough places. Dickey played for awhile with apparently a wet towel on his head and stayed back of the drummers. They leaned on Chuck that night as he played his butt off. 

1975 and 76 were hit and miss. A lot of Win, Loose or Draw songs plus Midnight Rider begining like it does on Laid Back and eventually switching to the Idlewild South arrangement. And Lone Time Gone from Dickey's Highway Call was always a rocking and fun western swing thing with Chuck Leavell singing the second verse 

This version of the band last played in Virginia in May of 1976 then broke up later that summer. 

It was the most commercially successful lineup of the band though not, to me, as hot and energized as original lineup and this line up had a hot single in Ramblin' Man and an album which sold over 7 MILLION COPIES. By far their biggest seller allowing them for awhile to be considered the biggest rock band in America. 

Ramblin' Man live in November 1973. They had a hit single and their new album was number one FOR FIVE WEEKS on the Billboard top 200 best selling album chart.

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Posted : November 2, 2024 10:22 pm
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