This may not be appropriate for this site but I thought it was not only interesting but educational. 

Where would we be without the Allman Brothers AND where would we be today without the WARNER BROTHERS??? 

Eat A Peach has a live version of McKinley Morganfield's Trouble No More. 

When wearing headphones with good volume I notice just how TIGHT AND POLISHED the Allman Brothers are here. And the cymbals rising and time keeping by Butch Trucks is simply outstanding. Indeed an outstanding performance by all six musicians. 

If you haven't listened with a good pair of headphones I urge you to do it! 

@robertdee What instantly drew me to the ABB was the fact they could swing and not rush shuffles and make them sound....uh..."White"...for lack of a better word...

The original ABB played blues with a much more authentic feel than any other blues/rock band...with the exception of possibly the original Paul Butterfield Blues band with Bloomfield...other than those 2 bands...I really can't listen to blues/rock bands because somewhere along the line of interpretation they lose it...The ABB and the PBFBB for me were the only 2 that I felt really touched what I felt when I discover blues by going and buying albums by the songwriters/performers those 2 bands covered. Elmore James, Muddy Waters T-Bone Walker...etc

I have a hard time listening to many modern players who have tremendous skills but for me it seems displaying their skills is more important just playing blues...loud...over driver...a million noted per bar....screaming lyrics...just over the top for my ears yet I see they have serious playing skills but it doesn't attract me because it sounds like competition blues guitar...not just play a song...sorry for the rant...I'm old...and stay off my lawn or I'll take your ball too... 😉 🤣 🤣 🤣 

@goldtop You are absolutely correct. The original Allman Brothers could swing like a big band. Here it some in the Chuck/Lamar lineup too. 

You talking about the crooners your parents played and mine did the same. 

Here is Sinatra with the Count Basie Band with Sonny Payne on drums. Where or When. Man does this SWING!!! 

Back to Eat A Peach. 

From the beginning to the drum solos Berry Oakley is incredible and demonstrates why he was the most unique bass player ever in the Allman Brothers and as Dickey often said was so important to the unique sound the band had. 

BTW Butch said this is the worst version of this they ever played but it was recorded by Tom Dowd with a studio quality truck outside. 

@robertdee Butch like most musicians hears the mistakes...there are some loose moments in Mtn Jam but the last 14 minutes are timeless to me...the slide shuffle the hard 6/8 groove and the slow gospel part cover a lot of Americana...

@goldtop I totally agree, I've always said the Allman Brothers rhythm section is what sets them apart, specifically they make the blues swing. Like "Done Somebody Wrong" or the end of the "You Don't Love Me" jam. A writer once referred to them as the Count Basie Orchestra of RnR and I thinks that's appropriate. Never got into a lot of other "blues rock" or "blues rock guitarists" because it's usually just a pale noise imitation of the real thing.

It's funny how other people hear things different. I was playing with a another guitar player friend a few years ago, he had been in the crowd of several ABB shows. His guitar was so overdriven on pedals it sounded almost metal, pretty far from the ABB. He told me I need to meet him there, turn up the gain because the ABB played through 100w Marshall stacks. I was like, yeah, with NO PEDALS, and they weren't playing through a house PA. You listen to Fillmore and that interplay on "Stormy Monday" and "Liz Reed" is not only sublime, it's much more clean than a lot of people tend to remember.

@goldtop Yes I remember Butch talking about the Mountain Jam on Eat A Peach and again he said it was the worse version they ever played. And Butch talked about just after the drums solos comes a bass solo then Oakley counts the entire band back in but they are out of sync. So at the end of the last bar in the measure Butch turns the best around so they can lock together but Butch had to do it a second time before all six of them were together. 

I put on the track later after reading that and I think I hear what Butch is talking about. Right after Berry's solo following the drum solos and you hear Berry go "1 2 3 4 " and all six start to play but it does sound off there and I hear Butch turn it around then turn it around again and they all catch it! 

@porkchopbob You were correct!! I wasn't a gearhead when I was 24 years old. But I knew guitars a little and knew an ES-335 from a Les Paul and from a Tele or Gretsch. And I noticed and heard about pedals but the several times I saw the band in 1970 and 1971, Duane and Dickey seemed to be plugged straight in. No pedals. They sounded clean and organic and I got really hooked by the unique ABB sound straight away. Only time I ever really flipped out over a band. 

Speaking of Gretsch guitars, one of my favorites who plays a Gretsch most of the time, Brian Setzer, just posted that the 2024 Stray Cats tours is apparently his last. Said he has developed an auto immune disorder and he can't play guitar now. Said he feels as if he is wearing gloves now when he trys to play and cords and solos are impossible now. I was sorry to read that. 

@robertdee I actually like the looseness in that part and how tight it is when the lock it down...many years ago I took it to my guitar teacher and he said...they're turned around then suddenly they locked in and he said...wow I kinda like how they got out of that...LOL

@goldtop Yes I like how they got out of that too!! 

When Butch wrote about it on his blog, Butch indicated he instantly noticed half the band was out of sync and he turned it around at the end of the bar or measure but someone was still adrift so he turned it over again and they were together then. 

So apparently it was Butch Trucks who got the tracks clear from that train wreck. But as you said it's a fun train wreck. They eased out of it nicely. 

Butch as I mentioned said it was the worst version of Mountain Jam they ever played but it was studio quality because Tom Dowd had a truck outside and they were setup to record live for the Fillmore album but Mountain Jam wasn't used plus Duane was on it so they wanted to use it for two extra sides on the Eat A Peach album as Eat A Peach is dedicated to Duane. 

I like the ending where Berry Oakley thanks the audience and wishes them a good weekend. Then Duane says "Berry Oakley, Dickey Betts, Butch Trucks, Jai Johnny Johnson, Gregg Allman and I'm Duane Allman"...then thanks them and Good Night!!"