KCJimmy. One of the band's best shows. Thanks for linking. Enjoyed listening last night. 

Couple of nights ago I watched an okay video of the band playing in Atlanta which according to the written notes about the show was close to the last show Johnny Neal played before they decided not to renew his contract and it was, according to the notes, was the last time the Allman Brothers played " The Blues Ain't Nothing". 

Warren and Dickey were smoking hot on Statesboro, Blue Sky and several more. 

Like B. B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughn and several other famous players, Dickey had a strong independent style all his own. Hear just part of a solo and you know it's Dickey as nobody sounded like FRB. 

I saw them 5 days later at Montage Mountain, many years later the site of the Peach Music Festival. They were on fire that night too

@robertdee That show in Atlanta, Chastain Park, was the first Warren era ABB show I attended and the last ABB show i saw in Atlanta before moving to Kansas. It had been 7 or 8 years since I had last seen them and that was with Dangerous Dan, Rook and the Keytar guy, whose name escapes me... Nope is Was Mike Lawler, lol. Needless to say the Castain Park show was VERY encouraging. They had some dude with missing teeth playing slide and he was very good!

@kcjimmy Yes Mike Lawler co produced the Reach For The Sky album, co wrote Angeline with Dickey and Johnny Cobb ( also a co producer) which was hoped to be a hit single the band tried for Clive Davis. 

Next thing I find out is Mike Lawler had joined the band on keyboards and Keytar. I never heard what led to Lawler joining. Alan Paul probably knows. 

The band was trying to find a new direction and sound to fit the latest trends in rock and the shows I saw, especially after they voted out Jaimoe apparently for wanting an audit of the band's finances and missing shows with back issues, was heading in the wrong direction to me. The old songs were played well but some of the new material didn't sound like the Allman Brothers Band as you said. 

The entire time for that matter Dan Toler was the other lead player was a bit awkward sounding to me. Danny technically was a fine player but I thought he sounded too much like Dickey. Duane and Dickey and later Warren and Dickey had completely different styles. And he didn't play slide and didn't play a solo on some of the old songs where Duane did for some reason. Butch Trucks several times commented the 1978 to 1982 version of the band didn't have the right chemistry and direction. Butch and I read Gregg also didn't care for David Goldflies the bass player either. But Gregg took Danny Toler and David Toler on drums for his solo band when they decided to park the Allman Brothers Band in 1982 so Gregg must have liked them. 

Gregg, Dickey and the band were never pop artists like Michael McDonald who took over the Doobie Brothers and the ABB was never focused on churning out hit singles until they got with Arista. 

Dickey once said about 1990 Eric Clapton could adapt like a chameleon and fit in with current rock music trends and have a hit song but the Allman Brothers couldn't and embarrassed themselves so decided to back the band out of the 80's. When Bonnie Raitt and Stevie Ray Vaughn made blues style playing okay and popular again then we came back. 

The slide player with missing teeth must have been a guest artist. Chris Anderson did several shows with the ABB but I think that was 1995. I'm not sure about Chris's dental situation. 

I remember noticing Duane Allman needed some dental work or it at least kinda looked like it. And it was funny because word or rumor was going around with the fans in 1971 that if "At Fillmore East" had not become a good selling album ( sold over 1 million copies thankfully )and had stalled like the first two studio albums, Gregg was going to quit and enroll in DENTAL school. 

@robertdee The live show data base says Band played one show in 1983 at SPAC with Charlie Daniel's opening but no other info. I thought the last show was SNL IN 1982 before they played a one off benefit in 1986.

The slide guitar player with missing teeth was Warren, lol. This was the Atlanta show that you mentioned above with Johnny Neal. it may have just been a broken tooth but it was upfront and very visible for a while. He got it fixed in the 90s, but I'm pretty sure Gregg didn't do it lol.

@kcjimmy Oh my. Warren. The first time I saw Warren or heard the name was at a small club in North Carolina just before Pattern Disruptive came out when The Dickey Betts Band played there. 

After the first set he and Johnny Neal and the bass player Marty came to the bar for something to drink and I spoke with Warren about the band and complimented him on his lead and slide playing and the nice tone the silver Paul Reed Smith electric guitar he played that night had. I didn't notice a missing tooth. He must have chipped it or knocked it out soon after that. 

Matt Apts was in Dickey's band too and I had seen him before about 1984 when he was the drummer with Betts, Hall, Leavell replacing Butch Trucks when Butch decided to quit. .

I too thought they folded the band after the 1982 SNL show when their relationship with Clive Davis completely collapsed with Davis refusing to let them record the third album of a three album deal their way with a producer they wanted. Davis informed the ABB he would sue them for breach of contract IF they tried to record for another lable. 

It would be interesting to see if they did do that show in 1983. The band had talked Chuck Leavell into coming back and they parted ways with Mike Lawler so Chuck would apparently have played the show but I read an interview with Chuck back then and he said he agreed to rejoin when they folded Sea Level and he said then, as I remember, just before they were to go on the road Gregg, Dickey and Butch decided to shelve the band for business reasons and Gregg took the Tolers and he ( Chuck ) and Butch went with Dickey. 

The Allman Brothers Band performed TWO shows in 1986. The one for Charlie Daniels you mentioned in Nashville. The other 1986 show was that fall in New York City for Bill Graham to raise money for Bill's anti crack efforts. 

I saw both shows and Jaimoe was back on drums instead of David Toler and Chuck Leavell was on piano. Dan Toler was the other guitar player and the ABB didn't have an official bass player for those two shows. Gregg's bass player ( the late Bruce Waibel )played on songs Gregg wrote and the usual cover songs and the bass player in Dickey's band ( last name McCoy) played bass on Dickey's songs. 

I'd love to know if the Allman Brothers Band played that 1983 show. Then the guys in the band were not opposed to working together as was the case in 1976 with Gregg over Scooter Herring and 2000 with Dickey when they almost broke up if Jaimoe hadn't voted with Butch and Gregg. 

For all the great shows and great albums, the Allman Brothers Band sure had its bad times and challenges over the decades. In October 1971 I couldn't see how they could continue without Duane Allman as he was clearly the leader on stage and had so much energy and pushed the other guys with his pedal to metal guitar playing. Dickey too said it was tempting to quit then as they all knew it was Duane's show they were working. It seemed like the Rolling Stones trying to continue without Mick Jagger to me but the 5 man band did about 90 shows and finished Eat A Peach. 

And they retired in 2014 with just three originals and two were drummers. Warren, Derek and Oteil were not Duane, Dickey and Berry as they are different styles but they are such good musicians they kept that front line hitting the note to the end. 

@robertdee That 5 man band in 1972 did some pretty awesome shows too!

@kcjimmy Here is audio for the  second1986 Allman Brothers Band show which was in New York City. Bill Graham introduced the band individually. 

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@robertdee Thanks, I will check it out this evening. I know I have that show on CD but I do not remember listening to it. I knoew Chuck had joined the for the show and that there wasn't an ABB bass player but I don't have any recollection of listening to it. Of course I'm old now, lol.

@kcjimmy Oh my me too. Pushing 80. 

There is good video of the 1986 Nashville show on You Tube. Only audio that I've found of the Bill Graham 1986 New York show. 

about 30 years ago i traded some bros items with kirk west at the big house. one item was footage from the 86 crack down concert that i was the audio guy for. we shot from the pit. i don't remember how long the footage was but i remember it was short. ran in to jaimo backstage too.

@thing As I recall they played a good show. Is that what you remember? 

it was ok. i think santana was there with buddy miles who may have played guitar. csn were there too and maybe rundmc.

@thing Yes I remember Santana. And csn did a short set. 

They all were doing that New York show as a favor to Bill Graham. 

I'm not sure about the other bands but I know the Allman Brothers Band felt Bill Graham was part of them making it into being one of the bigger bands in the music world so they did it for Bill. 

Gregg and Dickey decided to do a tour in 1986 where both bands would play individual sets then for the third set they would merge the Gregg and Dickey bands for an Allman Brothers set. 

At one of those 1986 shows I saw in a small nightclub, the club billed it on their sign and on their radio spots as " The Allman Brothers Band Tonight At The Casablanca Club". 

That irritated Gregg and Dickey and after Dickey's first song in his opening set he said on the mic " Sorry if you were expecting the Allman Brothers Band. We didn't have anything to do with that. Gregg and I don't call this the Allman Brothers because Butch Trucks and Jaimoe aren't here tonight."

But because of the merged bands tour I remember reading that Charlie Daniels, then later in 1986 Bill Graham, talked them into bringing in Butch and Jaimoe and playing for them as the Allman Brothers Band. Charlie for his Volunteer Jam that summer and Bill Graham for his anti crack show in New York that fall.