I've been slowly digesting March 9, 2013. Disc one is slaying me!
1. Done Somebody Wrong
2. Midnight Rider
3. ENd of the Line
4. Worried Down with the Blues
5. Aint Wastin Time
6. Dusk Til Dawn - almost 14 minutes, with Bill Evans
7. Jessica - almost 15 minutes
Gregg is in great voice and timing, which is so wonderful. Warren is a little louder than Derek, and Oteil s nice and high in the mix. I really like "Dusk Til Dawn," with a nice aggressive swing a la Take Five or an energetic Dreams. Warren sings the heck out of it though it sure sounds like a good song for Gregg to sing. What could have been...monster sax solo. Derek begins and ends the song with lovely jazzy playing. And then the Jessica knocks it out! Derek gets the Chuck solo, Warren comes in at the Dickey Break - so nice to hear the ABB hitting the note so late in their overall run. What a treat.
"The Brothers have over the past few years multitrack recorded their live concert performances with the intention of making every show available on an individual basis to their fans. The Instant Live program has now given us the opportunity to do that on an immediate basis," said Allman Brothers Band manager, Bert Holman.
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If this quote is from 2003, does this mean that there are at least a few tours (1997-2000 even maybe) worth of shows that are of releasable quality that could just be digitized and added to one of the two websites currently selling downloads? Seems like a fairly easy way to get new stuff out there for revenue. I realize that it may not be a billion dollar deal, but there has to be some money to be made or the situation with some of the shows becoming recently available on nugs.net wouldn't have happened.
All of the Jack Pearson/Otiel lineup shows I saw were smoking hot. Dimples (apparently first times since Duane Allman left the band) with Jack singing and Dickey playing guitar the best since about 1994. Would love one of the best shows from that line up. Also the Derek/Dickey lineup was real good on the shows I saw in 1999. Hit and miss in early 2000. So a hot show from 1999 from the Derek/Dickey lineup and might as well release a hot show from summer 2000 with Derek/Jimmy Herring.
Just saw a guitar magazine poll of 5,000 respondents as to the top 20 electric guitar players of the DECADE. Steve Via was voted the best. Derek made the list but Warren did not. Joe Bonamassa did though.
[Edited on 12/31/2019 by blackey]
Ha, Yeah you're right, something like that. I think they were already on the Summer festival bills for Mountain Jam, Wanee, and Peach Fest. The March shows were the final Beacon shows scheduled, I wonder what they would have done had they not had to post-poned several of them. Everyone expected something big in the Fall in NYC, but who knows if it would have been another Beacon run. Maybe just a single farewell show.
It's an interesting question and my guess is there would've been an October Beacon Run. Individual shows may not have worked for the band financially, and they expanded the four rescheduled dates to six - which was a tiny bit frustrating to me because I'd deliberately bought tickets to the last March Beacon show and that became the third-to-last show in October. Oh well. In hindsight, given how many calamities the band had from 2011-14 with Gregg's health and other stuff, it's incredible the last performances and especially closing night went as well as they did. Talk about pulling it together!
I've been slowly digesting March 9, 2013. Disc one is slaying me!
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Gregg is in great voice and timing, which is so wonderful. Warren is a little louder than Derek, and Oteil s nice and high in the mix. I really like "Dusk Til Dawn," with a nice aggressive swing a la Take Five or an energetic Dreams. Warren sings the heck out of it though it sure sounds like a good song for Gregg to sing. What could have been...
He did sing it that one time. I don't think you can download individual songs, though (too bad), but if the setlist on March 17, 2013 looks interesting to you, you can check that out sometime. He's a little tentative but it doesn't sound bad. I remember hearing the band rehearse the song at intermission but I can't remember why I was hanging around backstage.
"The Brothers have over the past few years multitrack recorded their live concert performances with the intention of making every show available on an individual basis to their fans. The Instant Live program has now given us the opportunity to do that on an immediate basis," said Allman Brothers Band manager, Bert Holman.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------If this quote is from 2003, does this mean that there are at least a few tours (1997-2000 even maybe) worth of shows that are of releasable quality that could just be digitized and added to one of the two websites currently selling downloads? Seems like a fairly easy way to get new stuff out there for revenue. I realize that it may not be a billion dollar deal, but there has to be some money to be made or the situation with some of the shows becoming recently available on nugs.net wouldn't have happened.
It would be great if it's true! I listen to songs from that period once in a while and it's kind of tough to put up with the much lower sound quality, so it would be very cool if that can be improved. It's also hard to imagine it becoming a major project today when it doesn't seem like ABB as a company has a lot of money or a big team on it and they're still working on things like Duane-era shows.
