Sounds as if they were playing Ovation guitars. I don't know if I liked it. It's one of those songs that has to be tricky to make it sound right.
I remember Duane Allman, apparently seriously, claimed Jimi Hendrix walked into his motel room in a dream, went over to the sink and turned on the water and with his fingers played the stream of water as one would play a guitar. Duane said he woke up, grabbed an acoustic guitar and began playing what he heard in his dream.
That is a wild story.
Sounds as if they were playing Ovation guitars. I don't know if I liked it. It's one of those songs that has to be tricky to make it sound right.
I remember Duane Allman, apparently seriously, claimed Jimi Hendrix walked into his motel room in a dream, went over to the sink and turned on the water and with his fingers played the stream of water as one would play a guitar. Duane said he woke up, grabbed an acoustic guitar and began playing what he heard in his dream.
That is a wild story.
Good one. Never heard it.
Sounds as if they were playing Ovation guitars. I don't know if I liked it. It's one of those songs that has to be tricky to make it sound right.
"Little Martha" always sounds pretty good to me. What you're referring to is probably Warren's nylon strings. Duane played a dobro on the original which gave it a sweetness and a resonance, and Derek and Warren typically played "Little Martha" on electrics after this. This would have been quite a nice treat.
The Blue Sky on this box set is also from 3/21/05. It was an incredible show on tape (wish I had been there). Wish they would just release this an archive as it is one of the high water mark for the 2001-2014 ABB:
1. You Don't Love Me
2. Statesboro Blues
3. Midnight Rider
4. The Same Thing
5. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
6. Egypt
7. Into the Mystic
8. Come and Go Blues
9. All Night Train
10. Blue Sky
SETII
1. Little Martha
2. Les Brers in A Minor
3. Good Clean Fun
4. I've Got Dreams to Remember
5. Can't Lose What You Never Had
6. Desdemona
7. Jessica
Encore:
1. Southbound
2. Layla
Chuck played on the final 3 songs of set 1 and final 4 songs of set 2. Paige McConnell was on piano for Layla. Jimmy Cobb on drums for Can't Loose and Desdemona. Asbury Jukes Horns on Same Thing (my fav versions have horns), Dixie Down, Dreams to Remember and Southbound (and maybe 1 more). I need to find my recording of this night....traded for it years ago on CDR (but my collection is not organized at all any more!!
And Butch Trucks on this website wrote they have quit playing all Dickey songs he sang on, they would never play Ramblin Man, a song they should have never recorded, again and as soon as they wrote some new instrumentals ALL Dickey songs are gone. And that they should have voted Dickey out when Duane died and started over with new guitar players.
What HAPPENED??? In just 4 short years they are still playing Dickey songs and even Blue Sky which is a Dickey vocal.
Actually I agree with Butch. Blue Sky without Dickey cheapens the song. Made it sound like a cover or tribute band to me. Not so with Jessica though.
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Geez. Didn't that get litigated here ad nauseam for a decade? The 3/21/05 show I highlighted is a monster and played by a group of musicians with serious ABB credentials.....regardless who the songwriters or original singers were of the tunes. It's one of my favorite recordings in the history of the Allman Brothers Band.
Chuck played on the final 3 songs of set 1 and final 4 songs of set 2. Paige McConnell was on piano for Layla. Jimmy Cobb on drums for Can't Loose and Desdemona. Asbury Jukes Horns on Same Thing (my fav versions have horns), Dixie Down, Dreams to Remember and Southbound (and maybe 1 more).
Yes, this was a great show. When I looked at the detailed setlists for the entire run that one member of this forum would post, it indicated that Paige McConnell and Matt Abts (in place of Jaimoe ) played on Southbound but Chuck played on Layla. Also indicates that Jimmy Cobb did not play on Can't Lose, only Desdemona which makes sense for a jazz drummer. The Jukes Horns also play on Into the Mystic. Anyone who was there please offer any further corrections.
dzobo- I believe you are right. I remember the setlist posted on this site never had the guests perfectly marked. I was doing some of that from memory. I need to find the recording and give it another listen and note the right guests.
hotlantatim. I followed Butch Trucks posts on the website closely from when he started in the mid 90's until Butch stopped just a couple of years before his death. I never ever heard what was the explanation behind Butch stating firmly Dickey's songs on which he sang on were removed from the set lists, Ramblin' Man was a mistake and will never be
played again in any band Butch had anything to do with, and as soon as they wrote some new instrumentals ALL of Dickey's songs will be removed from the band. Butch eventually had a page here in the 2000s and the front page had a picture of the original lineup but Dickey was removed. It was Duane, Gregg, Butch, Berry and Jaimoe. I was familiar with the picture and Dickey was the last one on the right and Butch had Dickey cropped out. It seemed Butch wanted anything Dickey gone.
When the last lineup decided to do the entire Eat A Peach album live, they did Blue Sky with Gregg singing. A couple of people asked Butch about that on THIS site and his response was they made a one time exception because they wanted to celebrate the anniversary of Eat A Peach.
Gregg later said he didnt want to do Blue Sky either but they kept playing it occassionally with Warren singing. Southbound returned, Revival, and finally Seven Turns with Oteil singing. Yes they did cut back on Dickey's instrumentals and I was at a show in 2003 with NO Dickey songs. But eventually Elizabeth Reed, Les Brer in A minor, Jessica, True Gravity etc were ALL back.
Then they had their manager invite Dickey to the 40th but Butch told a reporter just a few years earlier they wanted Clapton and anyone who had played with Duane to play on that Beacon run. The guy said that then would include Dickey would it not. Butch said that particular person did play with Duane but would not be invited. Just a few weeks later Dickey was invited. Butch was asked on this site about that and he said he did finally agree if we were inviting people who played with Duane then Dickey had to be invited. Butch said he reluctantly agreed but it was going be very hard for him to play with that person in the stage but he would. Of course Dickey didn't make it saying he would come if Gregg called him personally but Gregg didn't.
I never heard Butch explain why not only did Dickey's instrumentals leave but some of the songs he sang on came back. And who overruled Butch? It had to have been Gregg and Jaimoe voting against Butch wouldn't it?
Why did this happen? Somehow I missed it.
I thought the instrumentals should continue as they are among the bands best songs. But I didnt like Blue Sky being back with someone else singing. It just didn't work for me for an ABB show just as someone else singing Whipping Post or Midnight Rider would work for me. It's fine if its Govt Mule or DTB but not the ABB. Clearly that is why this show I'm going to is billed as THE BROTHERS.
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I don't see why people did not like the final ABB playing Blue sky. Maybe they were trying to give a nod to dickey by playing it.
The last lineup first played Blue Sky when they decided to play Eat a Peach in it's entirety. Gregg sang it and it received tremendous applause from the audience and it was clear Blue Sky was an ABB classic that people really loved and wanted to hear when they saw the band. Soon somehow they decided to play it occasionally but Gregg didn't want to sing it anymore, I guess Gregg was uncomfortable doing it, but Warren was on good terms with Dickey and apparently decided to sing it so they could play it as it's one of the classic ABB tunes that people wanted and expected the band to play. Butch didn't like it but I'm not sure how they got around Butch's opposition.
Personally I agreed with Butch's position that it won't sound right but maybe Butch was more interested in removing Dickey completely from the band, man, songs and all.
I knew part of Dickey's lawsuite in 2000 was Dickey felt Jimmy Herring was impersonating him. Suddenly people are buying tickets and Liz Reed, Jessica etc is being played but someone was playing Dickey's parts and solos who had never been in the band before. When I saw the Charlotte show they never said Dickey was voted out and this man is playing Dickey's parts on Dickey's songs!! It rubbed me the wrong way so I walked out. It was 4 years before I felt like seeing them again and they didn't play one Dickey song that night but not long lots of Dickey songs were back even after Butch said they would stop ALL Dickey songs as soon as they wrote some new instrumentals.
I walked out out of respect to Dickey and the joy and love I had from seeing the original lineup. Vote a man out of the band, hire Jimmy and keep playing Dickey's songs struck me as down and dirty.
Even Gregg apparently felt a little that way because in 2001 Gregg said if Warren, who played with Dickey in the band for 8 years, had not come back, Gregg was going to leave the band and go all solo.
I know Dickey became impossible to work with and his playing was sloppy some nights in the last couple of years he was in the band because he was boozed up, but I saw more than one show in 1974, 75 and 76 where Gregg was drunk and making mistakes and blowing lyrics. Gregg, to his credit, said in an interview that he was like that in the years after Duane died and he too should have been voted out. Butch said when Gregg was too drunk to play he was on the side and they would turn down his organ and avoid letting him sing alot. But Dickey was in the middle of the stage and it just caused everyone to play subpar.
Dickey, believe it or not, was more responsible for the success of the band after Duane died and as Butch said, probably did take the band more toward a county sound on several songs he wrote, but it worked commercially. Butch said it aggravated him to hear ABB influence in the modern country acts because that influence was completely from Dickey, something they should have never let happen after Duane died. And I know Butch had some serious animosity toward Dickey over band business, but because of tempers they didn't handle that summer 2000 deal so it didn't irritate many long time and Dickey fans.
I missed a couple ABB shows in late 1980 and early 1981 that were close to me because of them voting out Jaimoe. I could be wrong, but my guess is nobody would ever be voted out if Berry and Duane had lived. If they had lived, likely the first lineup would have been the ONLY lineup.
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When they began listening to old tapes for archival releases in the early 2000s, Butch said he could tell what drugs they were on. This is suppose to be from
a Coke show if Butch had right.
It's ONE WAY OUT.
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I often wonder how different Duane might play the song today if he was still alive? I appreciate most of the versions done by later incarnations of the ABB just different vibes by different players
Laterz
