@robertdee I've seen/heard many ABB jams that remind me of a broken play turned gold in a football game. A bobbled snap or dropped ball - picked up and passed or lateraled to another player who turns the disaster into a touchdown! They always seemed to salvage any miscue!
@rusty Yes Duane Allman himself said they like to go out there on several of their songs and sometimes it's not so hot but we try to find it and turn it into something.
But when we are really hitting the note, those jams go into places we haven't been before and it's amazing. It's musicians at one with their instruments and the audience.
Wishbone Ash’s first Argus tour, Traffic Low Spark of the High Heel Boys and Steely Dan Can’t Buy a Thrill.
Saw a blurb in the paper, Low Spark was released “on this day” in 1971
Most recent listen, Yesterday & Today, & Beatles VI
Top southern rock hits!!
Including the title track from the Allman Brothers fourth album...Ramblin' Man!!
Wait someone didn't do their homework.
Ramblin' Man is from the band's FIFTH album Brothers and Sisters. And I guess it isn't the title track!!
I'm not a big Kiss fan. Did take a girl who was to one show years ago.
But this Empire State Building salute to the Kiss show in town is cool.
Earlier the band visited the observation decks.
Dan Fogelberg - Live At Carnegie Hall
Reminds me how long it’s been since I’ve heard Glass Harp’s album from there, Glass Harp Live at Carnegie Hall - eye opening 1971 album
most recent listen, Conrad Herwig, The Latin Side Of John Coltrane
Jimmy Smith and Wes Montgomery aka The Dynamic Duo!
T'is the season!
As a contrast to that post on the great Tommy Dorsey, here's what trombones did for 'heat' back in the days before Duane put the icing on the cake. Great bass too. Take that B O, hah hah.
Chicago / The Studio Albums 1969 - 1978 On the headphones while mulching leaves in the backyard.
Highway Call, Richard Betts - vinyl, w/the poster - 2 masterful sides of music - Hand Picked is right there & more w/any ABB instrumental
…he’s 80 today/ever the young pup when the music spins - happy birthday bro & thank you for this album!! & all your music
@tenorsfan Which one of those hicks is thumping that bass like that?? That is laying it down. Of course that is a stand up acoustic bass!!
How about a very short video of a man burning up a snare drum?? I mean setting it ON FIRE 🔥🔥
https://youtube.com/shorts/ssEyO5_sfT4?si=iD8mP0GwcsDnW0YW
Yea, BR was intense. That bass player with Higginbotham is the great Pops Foster, the same guy on that driving, once very famous Louis Armstrong record aided by that modern sounding guitar, Lonnie Johnson, who was still around for Duane's time. Wonder if they ever crossed paths?
Highway Call, Richard Betts - vinyl, w/the poster - 2 masterful sides of music - Hand Picked is right there & more w/any ABB instrumental
…he’s 80 today/ever the young pup when the music spins - happy birthday bro & thank you for this album!! & all your music
As with many of us, one of my favorite albums. My son always got a kick out of it when I drove him to school. Good bet he was the only lad in So Cal that had a Richard Betts "Highway Call" shirt. To all things Dickey Betts!
@stratdal That track by Devon Allman is very impressive!! Wow!!
He is Gregg's son but in the face he looks more like his uncle Duane.
@tenorsfan Pops Johnson can kick a stand up bass!! Louie Armstrong was a huge talent!!
I guess you can't compare as BR was not a rock and roll player. BUT when it comes to technical ability and speed, was BR better than say John Bonham of Led Zeppelin? It's too different worlds so maybe it's not something one should compare.
@tenorsfan Arvil Shaw was a good stand up bass player. Here he is with Cozy Cole on drums and I see the great Bobby Hackett on trumpet ( cornet actually-very similar horn) and Louie Armstrong's good friend on Trombone, Jack Teagarden.
Always a fun play. Merry Christmas!
Here's Robbie Robertson's adventure to the south as a young Canadian and what he experienced with Sonny Boy
@goldtop Wow that was so interesting and sad.
So many of the blues performers were used and had their pocket picked by people in the music business.
One Way Out for example was written by Elmore James, Sonny Boy and Marshall Sehorn.
Sehorn was a record man who demanded a song writing credit in order for his assistantce in getting the song published.
B. B. King shared his songwriting with Jules Tuab. It's my understanding Jules Tuab was a record executive with connections and early on for B. B., he gave Jules Tuab half of his song writing royalty inorder to get signed.
That isn't moral and decent to me. It's fat out taking advantage of someone's talent.
I guess the worst one I read about was the owner of Fantasy Records taking 100 percent of John Fogerty's song royalties for Credence Clearwater Revival to get a record deal.
@robertdee Same with Gregg and Melissa and Steve Alaimo
Fantasy sued JF for several songs he put out after CCR because they sounded like CCR songs...
The free market allows these types of things to happen and morals and ethics are not even in the mix...so many bands got taken because of the way the industry was ran.
Sadly there's no cure in our culture for this behavior because there will always be the hungry and the opportunist.
