Yeah same show, just repackaged (and a few of those tracks opened Wipe the Windows).

I've had the show on real to reel tape since January 1st, 1974 shipped by Capricorn records.  It was for broadcast on New Years Eve December 31st, 1973 on radio stations across the country. I think Martin Mull is the host. It was Phil Walden's deal cashing in on the Allman Brothers becoming the number one band in America when Brothers and Sisters zoomed to number one on the Billboard top 200 album chart and selling over 4 million copies.

The program director of the local station in my area and was a friend and knew I was a HUGE Allman Brothers fan and gave the tapes to me the next afternoon.  He though I may not be that interested as he knew I felt the band just didn't have that black magic potion that hooked me like taking heroin in 1970 after Duane and Berry passed.

But while a somewhat different vibe and not as scalding hot, the Chuck/Lamar lineup was really bringing some ABB heat on the summer/fall 73 shows I saw.

Gregg years later said with his brother and Berry gone he doubted Brothers and Sisters would do that well. Not as well as AFE and Eat A Peach. Gregg said he was caught off guard when that album took off and went to number one and stayed for 5 weeks. And Ramblin' Man became a hit single. And before the tour was over Playboy and Billboard magazines said they are the number one band in America!! Gregg was surprised and didn't see it coming and felt bumbed his brother wasn't there to see it as Duane Allman was the first to face the fire and was the spark that put this in motion. 

And the band couldn't keep it going:( Gregg and Dickey became interested in competing solo albums and tours, the next album was uneven and failed to sell a million copies (High Falls was a fine as any instrumental they ever did though) and the next spring they broke up. The band had its ups and downs and great shows later but they were never a super band like the Rolling Stones or The Eagles or Led Zeppelin again. 

Southbound was especially hot from that Winterland show. Dickey. Chuck, Lamar and Jaimoe are really smoking and Gregg is singing real fine. 

When they get to Chuck's solo they are REALLY SMOKING all the way to the end!!! 

An historically great show.  Made me a true believer again.  I also made a tape of the performance the night it aired.  Really nice jazzy Liz Reed (also on Wipe the Windows) and killer Jessica too (not the version on Wipe the Windows).  Close it out with kick ass Whipping Post.

Yeah Wipe The Windows had a 1975 live version of Jessica recorded at the Oakland Coliseum.  

Capricorn wanted another Allman Brothers album but they broke up before they got in the studio so Phil Walden got Johnny Sandlin to pick tracks for their second live album hoping it would sell as well as AFE. Johnny had recorded the band for radio shows several times and began work on this. Chuck Leavell,  Larmar Williams and Jaimoe were at Capricorn then working on Sea Levels first album and I remember Chuck saying in an interview for Wipe The Windows that he lobbied Phil hard for In Memory of Elizabeth Reed to be in it. Phil was opposed as there already was a live version and a studio version on new ABB albums. But Chuck got Phil to listen and convinced him that this version was a completely different experience.  It was more laid back and was more a jazz piece that shows that strength of the Brothers and Sisters line up. So Phil said okay.

I can't remember why Phil fired Johnny Sandlin during putting the album together and Walden put Sam Whiteside in charge and those two shared the producing and it made Johnny very upset as he was the one working with the band in the truck when they recorded the tracks in 1973 and 1975.

The album had disappointing sales. I heard about 200,000 copies. But Jaimoe in the 90's said he liked the album.  And was especially happy with the way he, Lamar and Chuck played. It was like they were a band within a band so Jaimoe said the shows they did at clubs as The We Three was why they were so together. They kept playing during the long stretches Gregg and Dickey were gone and seemed no longer interested. 

I always thought right on the heels of the huge success of Brothers and Sisters and finishing their long 1973 tour headlining coliseums drawing 20,000 or more people was a strange time for Dickey and especially Gregg to step back from the band. In 1974 they only played 15 shows and was as big as Pink Floyd then. Gregg did a big spring tour complete with strings and a fall tour without strings and Jaimoe on drums next to drummer Bill Stewart and Dickey did a fall tour that was really a western swing show with fiddle and steel pedal guitar. He went further in that direction than Ramblin' Man and Pony Boy.  

Then Gregg met Cher and wouldn't come to Macon to work on the Brothers and Sisters follow up album. Guess he was focus on Cher and he did have big sales with his solo Laid Back which was his ideas for music. But Phil Walden was determined to get the next ABB album completed. So they recorded in Macon without Gregg and one night Dickey showed up to record two he planned to sing on and they couldn't find Butch and Jaimoe so Johnny Sandlin and Bill Stewart play drums on Louisiana Lou and Sweet Mama. How did they get Gregg on the album? Johnny Sandlin took the tapes to a studio in Los Angeles and Gregg was coaxed into adding his parts there. Butch stayed steamed they couldn't even record an album with everyone there at the same time. Blabber Blabber. Sorry about all this that most know already.  I'm home trying to avoid the virus and bored and numbed about Leslie West and the Allman Brothers becoming the biggest band in America in the 1970s and they lost their brotherhood and purpose and fire and limped into 1976 and broke up after they played at the Coliseum in Roanoke, Virginia. 

I guess Derek and the Dominos tops that though. A band that had such an easy time becoming a superstar band but soon broke up. And James Dean an overnight star in Hollywood and was only in 3 movies. Anyone remember Bullet with Steve McQueen? The guy who drove the superfast Dodge Charger? That was Bill Hickman car stunt driver and part time actor. He was friends with James Dean and was behind him when he had his fatal high speed car crash. 

The Eagles had a song called James Dean on one of their early albums.

Stunt driver and part time actor Bill Hickman driving the Dodge Charger on the streets of San Francisco and Steve McQueen in the Mustang. Actually Corey Loftin another stunt driver did some of Steve's driving.

Buckle you seats. We are in for a bumpy ride.

@robertdee I taped it off the radio on that same night. Mine was on a cassette----which I still have!

Great way to start off Sunday Morning! I have to tell you the sound of the band at this time period just makes the hair on my back stand up, There is no other way to say it, but they were really Cooking.

And I know they were tons of problems with the band before the break-up, but for these guys to get up on stage and put out such great music is not only a nod to their musicianship, but to what they referred to as the true meaning of The Brother Hood.

That special bond is something that's often over looked, not because of the way the band blended togeather, but because it's is seldom you see it happening now with all the commercialism of the music industry.

Sure we could all name a few bands that might fit into the category, but at that time in music history, no other band played the part so well!    Just my opinion.

Long Live the Allman Brothers Band and everything they stood for then and now!