Nice, Thanks for sharing. DDT was one fine player.

Yes he was. It's hard to compare this guitar line up with Warren and Derek. Dickey and DDT are doing faster runs than Warren and Derek usually do but so what? Right?

To me Dickey playing like this is better than having Warren, Derek or DDT in the band because....
Dickey's sound and writing is such a big part of the classic/historic/original ABB sound.

With that said and with all due respect to DDT, I would take Warren or Derek over him because the band is just better with either one. Dickey doesn't like electric slide and Warren and especially Derek claim it as a big part of their bag of tricks. And Warren and Derek's lead solos don't favor Dickey's style like DDT seemed to except when Warren and Derek were intentionally throwing in Dickey (and Duane) licks to make the old stuff sound right.

But if we are talking about choosing out of a group that includes the late and great Dan Toler, then lets just go with Dickey and Duane Allman and forget Warren and Derek too for our dream ABB band because WITHOUT A DOUBT the original band set the high water mark for the ABB.

BTW, if I have my info correct, that Les Paul DDT is playing so well on this video once was owned by Duane Allman and he used it with the ABB. Dickey was using a Gibson ES-335 then and late 1969 went to a Fender Strat. Then in the summer of 70 Dickey switched to a Gibson SG. Next Dickey went to a Goldtop Les Paul but wasn't happy with it and Duane had moved on from his Goldtop to other Les Pauls and Duane liked Dickey's SG he then was using as a back up guitar for slide so Dickey gave Duane the guitar and Duane gave Dickey his Goldtop. Dickey liked it better than the Les Paul he was using, had it painted to make it a sunburst and played it for several months including on the Fillmore album. Dickey, still searching for an ever better tone, moved on to other Les Paul's including a couple more Goldtops and a sunburst with zebra pickups and stopped using the guitar Duane gave him.

When DDT joined Great Southern in 1976, he was playing an old Fender Strat. But when he ended up in the ABB two years later, Dickey gave him that guitar he is playing here...the Duane/Fillmore East guitar. But remember my ABB guitar expert friend says Dickey played it on Fillmore East.

After the Gregg Allman Band broke up when Gregg rejoined the ABB in 1989, DDT moved on and eventually found a red Fender Stratocaster he liked better and made the switch and stopped using the Duane/Fillmore Les Paul. A couple of years after that the story goes he SOLD IT!!! To a Japanese collector and that guitar is in Japan now.

If all this is true and I'm rather certain it is, it's a shame that guitar is not at the Big House. It certainly has plenty of ABB history. First played in the ABB by Duane Allman. Then by Dickey Betts including Dickey using it on Live At Fillmore East. Then played in the ABB by DDT.

As this funny story goes and it should be true as I've heard it from a couple of good sources and Red Dog mentioned this story, there is one Les Paul that Dickey disliked so much that in the middle of a show he took it off and tossed it across the stage and it landed with a loud BANG but it didn't break. Red Dog picked it up and noticed it wasn't broken so he put it back in Dickey's guitar rack. As the story goes and Red Dog mentioned it also not long before his passing, the next day when Dickey came on stage and saw it again, he pulled it out of his rack and slammed it into the stage floor so hard the guitar did break into pieces then. Red Dog said he waited for the right moment, gathered it up and put it into the nearest dumpster. I wonder which Les Paul that was. It must of had a warped neck or wouldn't stay in tune or something.