@porkchopbob Wow Porkchopbob!! That 1978 Blue Sky is smoking!! Had to play it twice. What a jamming intro. Dickey was changing things around more often than I thought. Danny Toler on the first after first verse solo then Dickey. Somehow Toler allowed Dickey's unique and great style to slip into his phrasing back then that became to noticeable. When he got back with Dickey about 2003 Danny had shifted away from Dickey's style I thought.
I was disappointed when I read Danny had sold the pretty sunburst Les Paul Dickey played on At Fillmore East and gave Danny in the late 1970's. Sell a gift?? Oh well maybe he needed the money badly.
The picture is on a bootleg I assume. In 1978 Dickey's hair was long again if I remember and he no longer used that particular guitar.
But that was indeed a smoking version of Blue Sky!! One of the best I've heard. Blue Sky is probably my favorite song. I still enjoy the Eat A Peach version after hearing it hundreds of times since 1972. It always makes me feel happy.
Dickey once said as he remembers it, Blue Sky on Eat A Peach was the LAST thing Duane Allman played in the studio. I think Duane added an acoustic track to it too.
Dickey is one of my heros. His unique guitar style and original songs were fantastic. Never be another like him.
Dickey said Jerry Garcia's death shook him up in 1995. That he always enjoyed Jerry so he added that intro in 1995 because of Jerry passing away.
The picture is on a bootleg I assume. In 1978 Dickey's hair was long again if I remember and he no longer used that particular guitar.
It's actually an official release, you can listen to the whole album on YouTube. Often small labels use photos from periods that don't line up with album, the designer doesn't know any better just use whatever stock photo they can find (the recent re-release of Dickey's 2006 Live Bootleg features a photo from 1994). That photo looks like it's from the Richard Betts American Music Tour judging by his western jacket and LP with the zebras.
@porkchopbob Thanks brother Porkchopbob. I wasn't aware that was an official release. Wonder what year it came out? I have the 2006 Official Bootleg. Bought it at a Great Southern show about 2006.
Yep I remember Dickey using the LP with zebra pickups in 1974.
Dickey got another Les Paul sunburst without a pick guard and silver pickup covers in 1977. I was told it was so he would have a red guitar when he was on shows with Charlie Daniels. The brightest and prettiest LP sunburst Dickey has was the one he used for slide. It has a pick guard. But by 1979 Dickey was playing slide on an SG. Initially I thought it was the 1961 he gave Duane Allman. But when I compared pictures later it had some differences. Wasn't the same guitar. And about that time Dickey got a red Ibanez Artist guitar as backup and for some reason plays it at shows where he is part of Hank Williams Jr's band and show in the early 80's. And on the 1982 ABB video he plays it in the motel room. The Ibanez Artist!
I assume it's down at Dickey's house. Supposedly Dickey owns over 40 guitars and Dobros and his son has three electrics and some acoustics with him so there should still be a stack of guitars at Dickey's home.
The Ibanez with Hank, Jr. Only thing I can figure that Goldie wasn't used was so Dickey could have a red guitar because the audience would be familiar with " People down in Georgia come from near and far to hear Richard Betts pickin' on that RED GUITAR". Obviously when Charlie Daniels wrote that Dickey was using the zebra pickups ax.
@porkchopbob Wow Run Gypsy Run is hot too!!
Here is how Dickey looked in 1978 with Danny on the other guitar.
What in the heck is that stuck to Goldie on the body just past the bridge???
Thought Dickey and Danny were spot on with the twin lead passage just before Dickey's closing solo. They were absolutely together to me. Very impressive.
I have too much time on my hands. Retired and bored! Here I am in 2021 thinking about and looking for videos of Dickey Betts playing an Ibanez Artist instead of his Goldie Les Paul close to 30 years ago!!
That is really not that important. Sorry to anyone yawning about it!!
Great performance, but I wonder what Duane would've thought of that hair cut ... and the pink jacket! 😉
🤙I enjoy your posts, esp the vids - but yes, that’s one beef I always had w/the Chuck/Lamar band - not making Jelly Jelly THEIR slow blues instead of SMndy, JJ would’ve been great onstage & they could’ve played it in its entirety & made it THEIR Stormy Monday, leaving SM in the Duane/Berry era a la Outskirts of Town, Pretty Woman etc anon
I always found it curious that the Allmans rehearsed "Outskirts" with Chuck and Lamar. I wonder if they were thinking of adding to Brothers & Sisters before Gregg brought "Jelly Jelly" (which went through its own permutations); if they considered taking it out on the road; or if they were just using it as a familiar rehearsal tune to kick the tires with the new members.
😁🤙bomb, never heard that - A Lotta Room For The B3, love it👊, thx PCBob - great summer in Milwaukee w/the Bucks winning & Brewiz goin’
Yeah that latter scenario you mentioned seems logical - this is a treat, thx again
@porkchopbob Yes. What were they doing? Sometimes I think that may be Oakley on bass on that. I got the 1973 B&S 40th anniversary release with the live and outtakes extra cds.
Also I was at the record store the day Brothers and Sisters dropped. It sold a staggering 760,000 copies the first week. Eat A Peach sold over a million copies and At Fillmore East crossed the one million mark after Eat A Peach so the fans were ready for Brothers and Sisters. Ramblin' Man is why the album sold over five million copies. About 3 1/2 million of those who bought B & S because they liked Ramblin' Man on the radio, apparently never bought another Allman Brothers album. The ABB never had another million selling new album. So some of the At Fillmore East/Eat A Peach buyers dropped out too. I knew a few guys who lost interest after Duane died. Not me. It was a huge blow but I was still with my favorite band if they were going to continue.
Got B&S home and looked at the 33 1/3 record and Jelly, Jelly credited to Trade Martin was cut 4. BUT!! On the credits sleeve inside the album, track 4 was titled Early Morning Blues and Gregg Allman was credited as the writer. WTH??? What was that about?
Later as people I knew gradually got their copy, the sleeve was changed to Jelly, Jelly and Billy Eckstein was added to Trade Martin as writers!??
That lineup was a little laid back and perhaps slightly more sophisticated and a lot more jazzy than the original lineup.
@rusty Yes that pink jacket is wild. Maybe all six of them should have had matching pink jackets in 1969 when Atlantic Records saw them and gave Phil Walden the thumbs down. Said they didn't have a show. That would if you got that singer out from behind that organ and stuffed a salami down his pants and had him jump around like Robert Plant ( or Mike Jagger) maybe you would have a chance!
Here is the B&S band where Chuck, Lamar and Jaimoe really shine!!
WOW. Wipe The Windows Check The Oil Dollar Gas (new CD) is $36.99 on Amazon! You can do an MP3 for $9.39 though.
I looked it up and what I saw has one of those OBI strips on the left side so I'm guessing that is an import from Japan.
Everything in Moderation. Including Moderation.
They played DKMW and Hot ‘Lanta a few times in 1973. Wonder if any recordings are out there?
@masbama I saw the Brothers and Sisters lineup about 20 times and never heard those songs. That is interesting. And the last 3 I saw in 1975 and 76, Dickey played his new Goldtop LP but no slide.
Here is a 1973 Jessica complete with a BOMB SCARE!!! Chuck Leavell is fantastic here!!
Thanks my friend! It is indeed awesome! Love the pic with Greggs two stacked leslies. Don’t know if any body else has ever done that.
If you find those songs please share!
