Thank you for posting! Only video I’ve seen of them and the quality is very good.
My favorite Allmans family band. They were smokin!
Feel bad for the Outlaws having to follow that
Thank you for posting! Only video I’ve seen of them and the quality is very good.
My favorite Allmans family band. They were smokin!
Feel bad for the Outlaws having to follow that
You're welcome! I saw them at the Roxy Theater in '77 and loved 'em.
I saw them in late 1976 or maybe very early 77 at a nightclub in North Carolina. They had no roadies. Remember Jaimoe setting up his own drums and the floor tom had a mushroom sticker on it with the then Allman Brothers Band logo. Lamar and Jimmy Nalls carried in their own stuff too but a piano was already on the stage. The opening band and later Chuck used it.
I asked Chuck Leavell, who was wearing a belt on his pants with piano keys on it, why the ABB broke up. He said Gregg had been kinda a part time member since 1974 and Dickey and Butch didn't like that, they waisted too much money on their tours which were actually very successful financially and there was a big problem with a roadie that involved Gregg so Dickey and Butch quit. Chuck said he, Lanar and Jaimoe already had a band together because the ABB after 1973 would go months apart with zero communication. Chuck said Butch Trucks wanted to be in Sea Level and they did a short club tour with him but Chuck said he liked it better when it was just the four of them.
[Edited on 4/29/2020 by blackey]
The writing credit on Hot 'Lana is all 6 band members. Dickey said he was in another room when Gregg began playing this cool riff on the organ he came up with and Dickey said suddenly he thought of a good melody line so he rushed in a hummed it in Gregg's ear. When he stopped the rest of the band liked it and they collectively decided to throw ideas around and turn it into a song.
My apologies to all who know the story.
Bomb clip, hadn’t seen it b4 - others were right there too 
YouTube rocks
Their show from 4 nights earlier at the Ivanhoe Theatre in Chicago has Long had big love among my family tree stuff - traders hooked me up here, Xclnt quality, stoked crowd - Sea Level was a real special band
Blackey you may know this already but the Hot Lanta on the countrified Pickin on the Allman Brothers CD is credited solely to Dickey Betts - wonder how that coulda happened
All these many months later, Deep Purple doing Hot Lanta trips me out - they’re great on it - the power of music...now it’s onto that Ian Gillan w/the Don Airey Orchestra - thx to all
[Edited on 4/29/2020 by Stephen]
No Stephen I didn't know Hot' Lana was credited only to Dickey on that album. But on Live At Fillmore East it is credited to all six band members. Gregg came up with the riff and Dickey the basic melody line. I'm not sure what the other four contributed but clearly all six musicians kicked around ideas that were used to finish the song. But on, for example, Whipping Post and some other songs Berry Oakley came up with the bass opening and he and Butch Trucks changed the time signature and the entire band added touches here and there and the song emerged very differently than what Gregg Allman showed the band but ONLY Gregg got the credit. Gregg has been said to have not been that happy with how the Allman Brothers changed or arranged some of his songs and that is why he put several on his solo albums closer to how he wrote them.
Also on Idlewild South no credit is given as to the harmony vocals on Revival. On the 1990 Dreams box set, only Dickey Betts is credited with background vocals. But Dickey in 1986 and Butch Trucks about 1996 told me personally when I asked about the vocals that it's all six of them not only singing together but clapping their hands. And on Black Hearted Woman the chant is again all six of them with Berry Oakley laughing at the end of the chant. And while we are on laughing, Butch Trucks said that is him laughing at the fade out on Pony Boy from Brothers and Sisters.
[Edited on 4/29/2020 by blackey]
The song was going to be credited to Gregg. He says he listed all the others so they would get song writing credits. Supposedly they didn't know he had done that. Certainly everybody must have contributed anyway as it was an instrumental on a very much improvised live album as opposed to a note for note rehearsed studio take.
The clip reminded me why I was never a big fan of Sea Level and I saw them a couple of times. Amazing players but a little too many solos for me that went on a bit too long. Still it was interesting to hear them after many years.
Here's the whole show:
There was an album called aLive Down South that compiled some 1970s southern rock performances. The highlight was Sea Level performing "Hot 'Lanta" and finishing with Chuck playing "Little Martha" solo on piano. It's still available at a huge discount: https://www.merchmountain.com/product/alive-down-south-various-artists-cd/
Also it's interesting Sea Level played Hot 'Lana because I saw the Brothers and Sisters lineup a bunch of times and don't recall them playing it at all. In 1975 and 76 they did Long Time Gone from Highway Call and Chuck sang lead on the first verse. And when they played Midnight Rider, Chuck would start the song the way it's arranged on Laid Back and it eventually sequed into the Idlewild South arrangement. Gregg gave Kim Payne a writing credit on Midnight Rider as Kim suggest a vocal line to Gregg and Gregg used it. But supposedly Payne gets just 05% and Gregg gets 95%. Bet it's still been a decent paycheck for Payne.
Here's a video I posted back in March, from one of my old VHS bootlegs. 20 minutes of footage from the "Long Walk" lineup.
Here's a video I posted back in March, from one of my old VHS bootlegs. 20 minutes of footage from the "Long Walk" lineup.
Nice!...Who is the second Keyboard player/Vocalist?...And the 2nd Guitarist?
Here's a video I posted back in March, from one of my old VHS bootlegs. 20 minutes of footage from the "Long Walk" lineup.
Nice!...Who is the second Keyboard player/Vocalist?...And the 2nd Guitarist?
Randall Bramblett and Davis Causey
Here's a video I posted back in March, from one of my old VHS bootlegs. 20 minutes of footage from the "Long Walk" lineup.
Nice!...Who is the second Keyboard player/Vocalist?...And the 2nd Guitarist?
Randall Bramblett and Davis Causey
I certainly know the names, thanks
A drummer with last name Weaver replaced Jaimoe by the second album didn't he? Jaimoe played percussion on a few tracks on second album. Then Chuck got Randall Bramlett and Davis Causey to join. Jaimoe left. Then Chuck got Joe English as the drummer before they folded the band.
Chuck was to join the ABB then but the ABB quit over dropping ticket sales and that controlling Arista record deal. Then Chuck joined Dickey, Butch and Jimmy Hall but no record label was interested.
