The caption says this: "The Allman Brothers Band playing ''Willie Jean Jam'' live at the Armory Building, Jacksonville, Florida, USA, on March 30 in 1969. Early days. This is one of the first times the band would play together in public."

One of the comments says this: "An excellent Duane Altman & Larry “Rhino” Reinhardt jam!!!"

I'm listening to it now. It is indeed pretty darned cool - a very listenable bootleg. The guitar cuts through the fuzz. It's twenty minutes.

This is said to be the entire show. Also some years ago this was out on a bootleg and several were saying this show took place just 4 days after Gregg arrived and Gregg didn't play. It was billed as The Second Coming which was Dickey, Berry, Reese, Larry Rienhart etc which had become a hit band locally but several of the guys who would be in the Allman Brothers played on several of the songs. And the band that had just came together had not selected a name yet. I think on a few early performances the contract was signed Allman Band plus Duane's signature. Phil Walden wanted Duane's name used but Duane didn't care and even added 3 more players than Phil was expecting. Butch indicated he and Duane were in favor of Beelzebub for the band's name and Gregg didn't object. After some discussion between the original six they decided to write a name on a pieces of paper and put them in a hat and 4 (not Gregg according to his book) wrote The Allman Brothers Band so that got Duane's name in it for Phil and they went with it.

When the first album came out, it featured a picture inside the gate fold of just Gregg and Duane. Duane was angry and told Phil he didn't like. that. The other 4 are not sidemen. We are a 6 piece band. Duane insisted that all 6 had to be in any pictures on albums or promotional material. Duane said when we need a leader, I'm it. But otherwise it's all 6 of us running this thing.

The first guitar you hear is definitely Dickey and he takes the second solo after the singing starts. I can spot his guitar style a mile away. Dickey also sings. Berry sings the second song. I haven't listened to the rest of it but they do the Spencer Davis instrumental that kicks off the first ABB album and its connected to Ain't My Cross to Bare.

I found out many years ago Second Coming was playing that with Dickey and Berry well before Duane Allman showed up wanting to talk Berry into going with him. Dickey was asked next and Jaimoe was already with Duane. Second Coming was a good band and had a single out that was selling okay in Florida and getting some air play...so why were Berry and Dickey so tempted to leave Second Coming and join Duane? Duane was so positive and charismatic PLUS Duane had been signed by Otis Redding's manager and had a record deal with Atlantic Records.

several were saying this show took place just 4 days after Gregg arrived and Gregg didn't play.

Thanks for this. Gotta say, this is the stuff I really like - the oldest. If Gregg didn't play, who sang on the 1st song (it's not Duane although there's a family resemblance) & played keys?

[Edited on 6/17/2020 by cyclone88]

More details on the recording can be found here https://allmanbrothersband.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=XForum&file=viewthread&tid=65824

And some more additional info:

Update February 7, 2016:

Richard Hombre Price wrote the following on Facebook about 'Hey Joe':

It was not recorded at the Jacksonville Beach Colosseum. It was recorded at The Cedar Hills Armory. I was playing bass, Butch on drums, Jaimoe on congas, Reese Wynans on keys, Larry Rhino Reinhardt is the second guitarist on this cut. It was not March 30th. We played there at least twice. It was one of the Load and Second Coming jams. Butch lived in town and was jamming and Duane and Jaimoe had come from Muscle Shoals for a visit and jammed with us while there. I was standing next to Duane. It was either the jam we did there before Gregg arrived or he had arrived and did not play. I remember him coming to this venue with us when he got to town. So, that means it is not later than March 26 and in my mind it was one of the ones before he arrived. You can hear when Duane's guitar goes quiet. His cord went bad and Rhino played some licks until you hear a buzz where Duane plugged back in and finished the song. I remember Duane sitting around with us playing along with the Hendrix record and you can hear this beautiful combination of Duane and Hendrix's style. It is rare that Duane is singing at all and singing in unison and in harmony with himself is even rarer. He called that song spontaneously at the jam that night. There are may bootleg versions of this, most of which are very bad quality because of being copied so many times and passed around. I have the first generation copies made from our manager Mr. Facemier's reel to reel who recorded much of the live stuff that made it from that time. Two mics in front of the stage left and right and a reel to reel. You are listening to the music, called Southern Rock today, being formed. I have taken pictures of all the boxes of the Facemier reel to reel recordings of the first Second Coming, The Load, and the 2nd Second Coming. There are some dates and info on them.

Thanks ABBDutchFan, all the details are collated here https://www.duaneallman.info/note10.htm .

https://www.duaneallman.info is a great site for any fan, an amazing amount of effort has been put into pulling the site together.