The CD booklet notes quote Tom Dowd noting that he used a different Dickey Betts solo on this set for the Liz Reed. To my ears, Dickey's solo on this set sounds exactly like the one from the original AFE album. Anyone have any info? Are the notes wrong or was the CD changed at the last minute?
Thanks
Paul I bought a copy of that 1992 expanded At Fillmore East release and that is what is says.
When interviewed Tom Dowd said he had the tapes of all the sets the band did during their March 1971 Fillmore shows. Tom Dowd did not like the horn players Duane brought including a good friend of Jaimoe's, Juicy Carter a sax player. But a couple of those tracks were used including the You Don't Love Me horn version. There actually isn't a horn solo in that version. Just a sax playing the harmony line with the guitars.
As to Dickey's solo, Tom claimed he wanted the best solos from Dickey and Duane so he spliced together two versions of Liz Reed one with Dickey's best solo and the other with Duane's best solo.
But I think it was discovered after Tom passed away that he was confused as the two dubs he spliced together are the same Liz Reed. The Dickey and Duane solos are actually from the same performance.
I spotted it immediately. The Dickey solo is absolutely the same solo which appears on the original At Fillmore East 1971 release.
It has been said Duane and Dickey never played a solo the same way twice. They could be similar but never exactly the same. Even the length of the solo would vary.
Apparently if Tom had again listened to the At Fillmore East album he produced and supervised he would have caught the mix-up. He may have spliced together two different tapes but they were dubs of the same performance of the song.
This is one complete performance of the song which was used on the 1992 Fillmore Concerts expanded released. Tom may have spliced together two different tapes but those two tapes were of the same performance.
This performance.
Anyone remember any more about this mix-up from the 1990's. I think I remember correctly.
it’s also worth noting that You Don’t Love Me IS spliced together from two different shows. The first half is from the first show on 3/13/71 and the second half is from the second show on 3/12/71. It’s possible that Tom just misspoke as to which tune was spliced and said Liz Reed when it was really YDLM.
@rab I bet you are right. You Don't Love Me is the song Tom spliced together from two different Fillmore performances. I now recall that coming out in the press after Tom Dowd passed away.
Gregg apparently misspoked once about Dickey not playing on the studio track Dreams. According to a very reliable source Dickey actually doesn't appear on Please Call Home which was released on Idlewild South and Tom Dowd wasn't available to produce. They were in New York and went to a studio to record Please Call Home with Joel Doren producing and Dickey refused to participate apparently because there wasn't a window or exit door on that floor.
Duane tried to reason with Dickey but to no avail. So Duane is apparently the only guitar player on the track. Gregg once said his brother must have liked Dickey because Dickey was the only person Duane occasionally took some s*** from.
The rest of Idlewild South was recorded in Macon at Capricorn with Tom Dowd producing. The band only had a couple of days before they had to get back on the road. They did 300 shows that year.
When they had some time again to record Tom Dowd refused to record in Macon as he wasn't happy with the Capricorn studio so they completed the album in Miami at Criteria.
Another matter with Tom Dowd was Eat A Peach. When Phil Walden moved Capricorn distribution from Atlantic Records to Warner Brothers, Jerry Wexler insisted Dowd drop out on Eat A Peach so Johnny Sandlin was asked to take over the recording of Eat A Peach. Johnny himself mentioned being at the controls for Blue Sky and when he began mixing the track Duane had just been killed and Johnny said it was emotional to mix the last electric guitar playing Duane Allman did.
Johnny Sandlin was expecting Eat A Peach to credit as Producer Tom Dowd AND Johnny Sandlin. Johnny was hurt and angry when he found out Phil Walden wanted only Tom Dowd credited as Producer and Johnny only got a small "special thank you to Johnny Sandlin".
Johnny said he co produced what was the band's first million selling album and was denied credit and he hurt personally. At Fillmore East went Gold just before Duane died. It didn't go Platinum ( 1 million or more sold ) until later in 1972 after Eat A Peach went Platinum.
Who knows why Phil Walden did that.
Robert, RAB, Thanks for the info.