Great to see you stop by today Lana!
"There is no mechanical problem so difficult that it cannot be solved by brute force and ignorance"
I remember trading some posts with Butch in a Clapton thread back in the day. Fun times at allmanbrothersband.com!
Hey Lana. I never got around to thanking you, though I had 20 years to do so, for everything you did, from way back to now. 'preciate ya❤️
@stratdal, Butch really did enjoy interacting with the Peach Corps. I remember the time we took him to a Sweeties party at the Beacon Hotel. Everyone was so excited! He even brought a bottle of wine, which I'm pretty sure Jax still has ... at least the bottle. 🙂
Lana 😀
@stratdal, Butch really did enjoy interacting with the Peach Corps. I remember the time we took him to a Sweeties party at the Beacon Hotel. Everyone was so excited! He even brought a bottle of wine, which I'm pretty sure Jax still has ... at least the bottle.
Hey Lana! ... I was at that party ... I had a copy of the "Frogwings" CD on me that I had just bought at Tower Records and Butch signed the disc for me ... he quipped "well, that's two we've sold" ... much love to you x
@harvey, hi! Great memory and great photo! Is that Janet Carper? After the party, and before the show, we took Butch out to dinner. He was so happy. Just like Scott Milas (at least I think it was Scott Milas) was when he saw who walked into the restaurant and sat not far from him. Love to you and Jan!
Great read! Thanks for your work on this site, then and now.
Lotta good memories from those days; special times, special people, timeless music.
I sent Butch a message back when he was interacting with fans on HTW in the late 90's. I was a student at UF at the time. Butch being a FSU alum, busted my chops for being a gator. He signed off with "One thing about the Swamp, you smell it before you step it it!". I was pumped he took the time to reply to me.
@randall, thank you! It's always been a labor of love. 🙂 Any favorite memories? Much love!
@goodlawdy2, that's hilarious and so Butch! Much love!
It was definitely cool knowing that as members of the fan club we not only had the access to the presales, but there were people that loved the fans so much that we were looked out for in ways that I'm not sure any other fan club would've. I know I messaged with you a time or two years and years ago on a ticket issue or two and I'm sure I thanked you then, but I would like to thank you again for everything. Those trips to NYC and the opportunity to attend the Beacon shows are truly a highlight of my life - none of which would've happened without this website and the people that made it all work.
And then coming here after the shows (or here while not attending shows) and getting the song-by-song set list as it happened. And Butch was around posting, Gregg's guitar technician would post. Those early/mid 2000s was a really great time to be into ABB and be part of this website!
lana, are you coming to macon?
I remember the 35th anniversary of AFE show. I was hanging out on the website enjoying the updates and the replies almost as if I was there. It was really fun. The band was electric and was on it big time. The next day, it was on the music track of the site and I listened to it as long as I could before I had to head off to work. At the office, I told my boss about it and how great it was even though I wasn't there. The power of the internet! Good times!
@lana Hi Lana! I have a lot of good memories of my Beacon "mini-vacations".
-One of my favorites is a Dreams with Dickey and Derek. Gregg's vocals were spot-on. Dickey's solo was excellent and moody (in a good, Dickey way). Derek's solo started out quoting Miles Davis and then expertly went into transcendent territory. At the end of his solo, it felt like coming back to reality.
-Another year, there was discussion here about which song they would start off with, on the Friday show that I was to attend. Someone guessed Can't Lose What You Never Had. I responded that I didn't think so, given that it wasn't from their more favored eras. Lo and behold, that night they opened with you guessed it, a blistering Can't Lose What You Never Had. The energy that all of the band members put into it just blew everyone away. I often listen to it, and get chills every time. I like to think that they did it just to say "We'll show you what we can do!"
-All of the Suitees parties and the people that I met there. Jacquie, TerriB, Sari, BLDoggie, PeachNutt and Marley, AlanS, and of course Buppalo (and many others).
-Standing in the fourth row with Brofan, both of us being in awe of Warren's fretwork. That was the year that he was "special guest".
-The pre-show party at the basement party room at a bar on Amsterdam. Met a lot of familiar HTW names there. Cap'n brought roses for the ladies there, which I thought was a really cool thing to do.
-Attending the 30th Anniversary show on 3/26/99, then having a front row seat on 3/27/99. Got my tickets in the HTW pre-sale, like all of the ABB Beacon tickets I've been blessed to be able to get. Eternally grateful!
-I have other fond memories, but for now I'll end with this one: After an ABB Beacon show, I saw Kirby and Lisa buying slices of pizza on Broadway around midnight, very few other people around and pretty quiet atmosphere in the street. I had very briefly met them the day before, and I knew that he offered up the "Summer of True Gravity" disc to share (great disc, btw). I had the same feeling that I would have seeing a neighbor going about their day, doing routine things, even though that night I was thousands of miles away from the neighborhood where I live. Because back then, the upper West Side became the ABB neighborhood.
Hey @Randall, thank you for the wonderful memories! The pre-show party you mentioned in the basement of a bar on Amsterdam was at the Gin Mill. 🙂 Gary Nagle organized it. To this day I call Cap'n "Peach Rose Man". The upper West Side really did feel like the ABB neighborhood. I remember getting out of a cab in front of the Beacon Hotel. The first person I saw was Ron Everhart, leaning against the buildling with a welcoming smile on his face. Or walking down Broadway and hearing, "Lana? Lana?" The voice belonged to Akira who had literally just arrived from Japan and gotten off the subway. Shopping at the Fairway, walking around Central Park, meeting up at the diner after the concert ... *such* a familial feel. Love!
