Great ones robertdee, it’s among my favorite playing of Dickey’s, those blistering improv intros during the OWOut & GTFeeling clips
looking frwrd to the rest of the clips this wknd while cheering w/respect & dignity, Dickey’s life & spirit
very cool GS clip, there was so much to like about Great Southern - imho, the reformed post-2000 version w/Danny as well as the original mid 70s one w/him🎶🤙
same the Dickey Betts Band w/Warren, Johnny Neel, PtrnDsrptv etc - & the later versions w/Let’s All Get Together etc
in that same on-topic sense of the 1st paragraph, Alvin Lee’s blistering improv intro on the live GMLSGirl, comes to mind
He’s on the road & the water again, both same time, calling to the dolphins, playing to the heavens, mayb The 11 w/a thrilled Jerry & Duane
RIP brother
@stephen The beautiful lullaby Dickey plays during his solo on this 1973 version of Whipping Post made tears come in my eyes. The TONE and the EMOTION was INCREDIBLE!!!
I'm 77 years old but how different the last 54 years would have been if Dickey had not been a regular part of the music I liked.
Chuck on Dickey and his passing.
Chuck's piano really supports this version.
I hope Dickey and the Boys are jamming Blue sky in heaven.
Chuck on Dickey and his passing.
Chuck's piano really supports this version.
Thanks for posting the words form Chuck.
Everyone has a plan, till you get punched in the face,
Billy Strings (who I've come to love in the last 3 years) did a fantastic tribute last night. NGL, it tore me apart. I lost it. Really hit home last night brother Dickey is gone.
Can't describe how it felt seeing my music idol of my youth being up on the screen behind Billy and the boys. My love from youth to what I love now.
Not the best video (if you have nugs.net, it's on there):
Man they looked so alike in those days it’s hard to tell if it’s Chuck or Twiggs in that photo - they were mixed up when WTWCTODGas came out
Forrest Richard Betts!!!!!!!
"Dickey Betts wrote from our second album In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed"
Chuck Leavell is featured here discussing Dickey.
Nice article on Dickey in Premier Guitar
https://www.premierguitar.com/artists/guitarists/dickey-betts-1943-2024
It is hard to write down a few words in English about the passing of Dickey. It is sad but we all knew that he was frail and that we have to expect his departure. He was my hero. The first ABB tune which sticks in my memory was „Dreams“ which I taped from the radio with primitive means (micro on a small transistor radio). Only years later I learned that this was the ABB. Later on, of course „Ramblin‘ Man“ and „Jessica“ which was the opening theme for a radio show in the „Bavaria 3 Club 16“. Later on, my commuter friend complained that „Mountain Jam“ was in the cassette player all the time…. (And in 2008, I was involved in a business meeting with US House Committee members, one of which was Jim Marshall who had worked with Capricorn in the 70s, he also had Mountain Jam in constant circulation). Then, 1978 we had Rockpalast with DBGS, and in 1980, I finally saw the ABB live in Germany (see my recollections, ticket stub with autographs and fotos, https://allmanbrothersband.com/event/abb19800915/ )
I saw them again in 1991 in Cologne, this was the tour which produced the „Ohne Filter“ show on German TV. I wish I had known about that!
I saw Dickey again five times on his three tours in Germany in 2008 (May and July, which produced another Rockpalast show in Bonn) and 2012 (where he played, inter alia, the reknowned Burg Herzberg Festival). In the meantime, I became friend of Andy Aledort and he invited me on the guest list. My last memory was that some new-made friends and I joined the band when they relaxed after the Nuremberg show in the hotel bar, Pedro Arevalo playing a bit piano and fiddle.
Excerpt form above ( https://allmanbrothersband.com/event/abb19800915/ ):
The Blues Band was a fantastic opening act and I feared that the ABB could not be on equal terms. But they were even better!!!! It was “the” concert of my life. It also had to do with the way how I felt on this day. End of February 1979, I slept in my sleeping bag in my small French car (Peugeot 104, only 3.58 m long, almost 4 yards) in Lausanne (youth hostel was closed…) and it was cold. I heard on a French radio station that the ABB was together again. Then, next year, Summer 1980, I traveled 11 weeks in the US and Mexico and I wanted to see the ABB but did not catch a show (pre-internet times….). When I came back to Germany on a Sunday morning in September, a noticed a poster of the ABB and feared that they had been in Germany while I was in the US. When I saw my sister on that morning, she said: “Guess what I have bought” and I asked “tickets for the ABB?”. “Yes” was the answer.
Prior to the show, my sister went to the restroom in the adjacent Holiday Inn. She “detected” some band members in the bar and we had a brief chat with them. I even asked Paulette Betts for an autograph and she said “I am not in the band” and I replied “yes, I know, I know from fotos in the innersleeve of the first DBGS record” and she was pleased and immediately told it to Dickey.
I know all these details because I put them in my diary of the US/Mexico travelling.
The show itself was fantastic. It is hard to express this in English. The vibes were so good, the sound was good. The opening act was good, and their guitar player and singer/harp player joined the ABB for the encore.
@shorty Oh that was beautiful. You expressed it perfectly in English.
When Dickey was hitting the note it was spiritual.
Chuck Leavell said Friday that Dickey had his own style. That if he heard a song and he didn't know Dickey was on it, he could immediately know it was Dickey when the solo began.
I was up at my cabin until this morning and got home to a message on the machine from my friend, it was tough hearing him & Christy cry. Grief is the M/F er of all M/F er's. It took the wind from my sails and I can only imagine what the family is going through. Now I just wanna go back up to the cabin... (RIP) Mr. Betts and thank you for those kind words spoken that late November day in Pollock Pines. Your music brought me full circle, back to where I belong.
Played a lot of pre-2000 ABB Thursday and Friday night. What I had actually never stopped to realize is that I likely saw Dickey solo more than I did when he was with ABB. Which is a way is cooler just because the venue sizes being smaller and being able to be so close to the stage and the band. But man, great memories, great times, great songs and the feeling and emotions those songs and those notes give us and will always give us. Was always a huge Dickey Betts fan, my most favorite lineups of the band were the ones he was in - wish we would've gotten more, but forever thankful for what we did get.
To my ears, nobody has mastered the art of the joyous guitar rising out of the swamp of every other emotion the way Duane and Dickey did. It's the first sound I hear in my head when I think of them both.
I only wish I could have thanked them in person.
To the Betts family my sympathies for your loss. I do not doubt that he rests in 🍑.
Another brother fallen, but as before, one who will never be forgotten....
Thank you for all of the wonderful music that your name has been associated with, Mr. Betts, as a member of the ABB, solo, and with Great Southern. Your music is your legacy, and that legacy will keep your name alive forever.
Rest in peace...
Gonna miss you dickey. you where like an old friend.
Warren Haynes was his usual gracious self when responding to Dickie's passing. I apologize for not knowing how to copy and paste Warren's comments. As such, here is a link: https://www.jambase.com/article/dickey-betts-remembrance-warren-haynes
Feel like another big chunk of my life is gone.So many memories.
Must have seen Dickey on stage in one form or another at least 100 times
I'll never forget smoking a joint with him by the tour bus after a BHLT show at the Bottom Line.
The shows at The Lone Star
All the ABB shows
Of course,the DB & GS show in Central Park that turned into a reunion I'll never forget.
The music.All the wonderful music and what it meant in my life.
RIP Dickey.You will be missed
Condolences to his family.
Warren Haynes, Bill Kreutzmann, Derek Trucks, & More Pay Tribute To Dickey Betts
https://liveforlivemusic.com/news/dickey-betts-tributes-warren-haynes-bill-kreutzmann/
Chris!
Another long time no see forum member.
I hope you're doing well.
Hey RON!!! I'm feeling the nostalgia of the early 2000s coming back here!
I was wondering about the other long-time members... gonna post a thread for check ins... just curious to see who's still poking around here.
Got a surprising and wonderful phone call yesterday from an old fraternity brother. He said it had been 18 years since we last spoke. No animosity, just lives being lives in different areas of the country. Unfortunately, it was Dickey's passing that was behind us reconnecting. Maybe a silver lining kind of thing. My freshman year in college I was on my way to class as I passed his room and I heard "Done Somebody Wrong" from LAFE cranked up on his stereo. I stopped in my tracks and asked, "who is that group?" I was hooked by the ABB from that moment forward. Lead to attending many, many shows, finding this website and connecting with and becoming incredible friends with so many who have gathered here through the years. The original six, Lana & Rowland changed my life in so very many wonderful ways.
RIP Dickey and those that went on before you.
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