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Warren on end of the line, Dickey and other things

Delawhere · 2014-10-11T11:08:49Z

By Wade Tatangelo TicketSarasota.com Warren Haynes has done everything from co-writing the Garth Brooks hit “Two of a Kind, Workin' on a Full House” to playing lead guitar with The Dead. Haynes has successfully toured and recorded as a solo act and, for the past two decades, with his rock group Gov’t Mule, which returns to Jannus Live in downtown St. Petersburg on Saturday. Despite all his varied accomplishments, Haynes remains most famous for his role as guitarist, songwriter and singer in The Allman Brothers Band, which, depending on who you ask, will be ending its amazing 45-year-run later this month with several shows at the Beacon Theatrte in New York. Here are highlights from our recent phone interview. Q. When I first met you after a Gov’t Mule show at Jannus Live in 2002, Red Dog (longtime Allman Brothers roadie Joseph Campbell who died in 2011) got me on your tour bus and I was sitting there with (bassist) Dave Schools, we were drinking Heinekens, and you stood, in the rain outside the tour bus, for like an hour signing autographs. I remember Schools telling me, “I would never do that.” That has always stuck out in my mind about the kind of person you are. What makes you go that extra mile for the fans? A: It’s not that hard. They give us the support to be touring musicians, without the audience there’s no reason to tour. Q: When you showed up at that Dan Toler benefit here in 2011 and you did “Simple Man” the crowd went wild and it meant a helluva lot to Danny ( who died in 2013). Why was that so important for you to come here, barely making it, in between tour dates? A: I love Danny. He was a wonderful musician and a wonderful human being. I miss him. I really loved him. Q: And you never even played with him, at least not in the Allman Brothers. You joined about eight years later. I mean, were you guys even that close? A: Yeah, we were not in the Allman Brothers at the same time but we played together a few times and always had a blast hanging and playing together. Q: The latest Gov’t Mule album “Shout!” is outstanding overall but two tracks really move me. What inspired “Captured”? A: That song touches on the changes in my life as a new father. I have a three-year-old son. It just changes everything. You reach a point where family trumps everything and it is different seeing that through my eyes, someone who waited to be a dad later in life. Q: “Bring on the Music” is such a powerful song, too. What’s that about? A: “Bring on the music” was written after a very vivid dream I had of losing someone very close to me. Of course, these days that’s happening a lot more than I wish in real life. It’s just about changing your perspective on things and concentrating on what’s most important in your life and bringing everyone together because we’re all in it together. Q: You do a killer version of Gregg’s “Come and Go Blues” on the new tribute album “All My Friends: Celebrating The Songs & Voice Of Gregg Allman.” So, is that your favorite of Gregg’s songs that you didn’t co-write with him? A: I have so many favorites it would be impossible to choose one but I love that tune and I had performed it solo, acoustic a couple times and thought it would be nice to do it with a band. Q: So Gregg Allman is really sending a mixed message about the future of the Allman Brothers Band. First, you and (fellow Allman Brothers guitarist) Derek Trucks announce you will be leaving the band at the end of this year and Gregg then says the whole band would also retire at the same time. But in a more recent interview, Gregg says the Allman Brothers will continue with a new guitarist. Warren, what’s going on? A: I wish it wasn’t so misleading. There’s a very vague message being presented by the band and truthfully when (fellow guitarist Derek Trucks) and I released the press release earlier saying that we were leaving the band that’s not really the way it all went down. I mean we, the band as a unit, has been talking for several years and even made a decision two or three years ago to make the 45th anniversary the last year. And then at least one member started getting cold feet and wanted to change things and a lot of us kind of felt like that, no, this is the right thing to do, we all planned accordingly. But I think it’s important to know that the concept of going out on a high note is not a concept that came from us that’s a concept that has come from the entire band and even goes back to when I first joined the band 25 years ago. Q: How do you feel about the Allman Brothers continuing without you? A: Well, this incarnation of the Allman Brother has lasted 14 years, longer than any other version, and the musical chemistry we have together is amazing and we have built it year after year and so my feeling, for many, many, years now, has been this incarnation should stay together for as long as it can and when its’ done, me personally, I think that should be the last incarnation of the band. But that’s not my decision to m...

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Rusty

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To be discussing a reunion ... before the breakup ... just seems strange. Whatever.

Posted : October 14, 2014 4:49 am

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What bands that hang on too long lose is their dignity. Wind up going out on a sour note (no pun). While I hated the Beatles breaking up, at least they didn't have that "cr@ppy last album". Imagine (no pun) them ending on a Ringo and Paul version of the Beatles? Kinda where we are here folks.

Posted : October 14, 2014 6:47 am

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at least they didn't have that "cr@ppy last album"

Helped along no doubt by the fact that they don't put albums out...

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Posted : October 14, 2014 7:02 am

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at least they didn't have that "cr@ppy last album"

That could be a matter opinion for some..... 😉

Posted : October 14, 2014 8:04 am

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Interestingly, the best stuff from Paul, John and George in particular right after their breakup up could have made for two more great Beatles records.

Posted : October 14, 2014 8:16 am

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A Kirk West photo by way of Alan Paul's fan page. Love it!

Some really amazing photos in there. Thanks for sharing. Probably my favorite of the bunch. Brings a smile to my face.

Posted : October 14, 2014 9:50 am

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Thanks... that last photo was actually from 1986 joint solo tour.

KIrk and I spent days poring over images and there were some hard decisions - someof which will be altered or paperback - but this one was a no brainer... it was in as soon as I saw it.

I should be at all the Beacon shows BTW and will be posting setlists, updates, photos, whatnot on the FB page.

Posted : October 14, 2014 10:23 am

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at least they didn't have that "cr@ppy last album".

I'll take "Hittin' the note" over any recording of DB & Great Southern I've heard since its release.

Posted : October 14, 2014 11:16 am

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Interestingly, the best stuff from Paul, John and George in particular right after their breakup up could have made for two more great Beatles records.

The Beatles turned down All Things Must Pass, and I think by the time the band broke up George had just been stashing a lot of songs because he either didn't want to give them to the Beatles or knew John and Paul wouldn't give him more than a couple of songs per album.

Posted : October 14, 2014 11:29 am

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