The Dean Ween Group-" Dickey Betts" - Royal Oak ,Michigan 10-21-16

Excerpt from interview

The Deaner Album kicks off with a very Allman Brothers Band-sounding instrumental, appropriately entitled “Dickey Betts.” Did you set out to pay tribute to him, or is that just how the song came out?

The way that came about is really f—ed up. I was watching my parents’ house, when they were away, a long time ago it seems like now. I had an acoustic guitar that had just four strings on it. I brought a four-track along, thinking I could get some work done. I recorded just the melody, with a drum machine and no bass, and it was like a minute long or something. And I just never knew what it was going to turn into what it did, it didn’t really sound like the Allman Brothers at all at first. But I always loved how the old jazz guys, like Miles Davis did it a lot — he put out a song that was inspired by the music of Prince, and he’d call it “Prince.” So I took this jazz thing to it, realized everybody was going to say it sounded like the Allman Brothers, I’m going to call it “Dickey Betts.” And now, that song can run 25 minutes long, or five minutes. That’s real jamming, that’s how it’s supposed to be, it shouldn’t be planned.

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[Edited on 10/28/2016 by jszfunk]