@lee No I'm not Lee. I'm saying that people who enjoyed Derek when he was much younger playing mostly Duane Allman licks and ABB songs and  not that turned on by what he does today seem to want Derek to be Duane Allman and not grow into his own style and music.  He evolved from that I think. Apparently the reason Derek and Warren wanted out of the ABB in 2009 but reluctantly hung on for another five years for Butch signals that to me. But mine is just an opinion. 

Just five or six years ago in an interview the guy ask him which guitar players does he listen to for inspiration? Derek said he didn't listen to any guitar players now for inspiration and ideas. Only horn players and eastern musicians. 

I assumed Derek is still trying to evolve where players such as Clapton continue to play about where they were years ago. 

Now there are guys where staying with their expected style and licks is the right thing to do and don't try to evolve their playing further. And Clapton may be one of those. The late B.B. King is a good example. 

@lee I read that he said the exact opposite, that he's definitely not a clone, he's his own player.

Perhaps people read and see things differently. 😀 

@lee No Lee. Some people want Derek to be Duane Allman reincarnated. I'm old enough to remember when Hank Williams' legion of fans wanted Hank Jr. to be his father. Dress like his father and sing all those Hank Williams hits. And Jr. did a few tours like that but eventually wanted his own identity. His father's fans were upset and walked out when he began playing and dressing more like someone in Lynyrd Skynyrd. 

I was excited when I saw Derek Trucks playing at a small club playing a lot like Duane and playing songs that Duane played on. 

So I'm saying Derek can't be expected to be clone of Duane Allman. 

And I think he is likely still evolving because just a few years ago an interviewer asked him what guitarists does his listen too for inspiration? Derek said no guitarists. Horn players and eastern musicians. I imagine he is still discovering patterns and licks. 

But it's okay to stay put too such as say B.B. King who developed his own blues style and licks and stayed with that winning sound. When we saw B.B. we were expecting more of the same and loved hearing it again and again. 

The last times I saw Derek with TTB it seemed I was hearing some new licks and patterns. Also they played some songs I had not heard them play before. 

I'm a big Derek Trucks fan. Have been for years. 

I still chuckle when I remember reading an interview and the guy asked Gregg Allman if he remembered the first time he saw and heard Derek play. Gregg said the Allman Brothers were in Miami recording Enlightened Rouges and Butch talked him in to going over to a small club where Derek was playing with his little band in Miami. That when they arrived, Derek was outside pitching a ball with someone as he wasn't old enough to be in there with the drinking unless he was on stage.  The interviewer said " That album was recorded in 1979 the year Derek was born!". And Gregg said something like, Oh that can't be right then. I was in Miami for something. I'm pretty sure that is where I heard Derek play the first time. 

@lee This is probably the band Gregg saw in Miami or wherever. I saw Derek the first time about 1993 at Recreation Billiards near the Greensboro Airport in North Carolina. A tiny stage and about 100 people. This looks like the band. I seem to remember another guitar that was painted "Teal" unless I'm remembering Susan's Teal guitar with all the signatures on it. 

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@lee No Lee.

Yes Blackie. People can look at things differently. Not everyone sees things through the prism of everyone else. 😉 

@lee Of course. I didn't mean to give the impression Derek is impersonating Duane Allman. When he was young and touring with the early lineup of the Derek Trucks Band, Derek had a Skydog T shirt with Duane on it and he played slide very similar to Duane on Statesboro Blues, Done Somebody Wrong etc but Derek has evolved way past that and as Porkchopbob pointed out a few months ago, Derek's style is his own. He doesn't sound much like Duane. 

I remember Warren said about 1990 that when he and Allen joined the Allman Brothers in 1989, Dickey said to play the songs the best they can and within the Allman Brothers sound but be your own man with your style. We don't want anyone copying Duane and Berry's style, that most musicians wouldn't want to be pigeonholed with being asked to play like a former member. 

Then Warren said that was a big relief when Dickey told us that but on some of the old songs such as Statesboro Blues, Warren said the Fillmore East version has been heard so many times by the fans that if he didn't follow Duane's pattern on slide especially the intro before the singing begins, it wouldn't sound right to the band's fans. But most of the time Warren played his solos his own way. 

Yeah I heard someone (I think it was Warren) say something along the lines of staying true to a song but not playing it exactly the same.  That makes sense.