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wrote on July 20, 2024
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5:57 pm
New on the site and I need to know where I can ask a question on here? I use to be able to get video from the Fillmore album online. The site showed the marquee from the front of the venue. Haven't been able to find it for a couple years or longer now. The only thing pops up is just audio with a picture of the album cover.
wrote on June 26, 2024
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12:15 pm
Welcome back and sorry you missed the "grand opening!" We transitioned to this site in 2020 - the transition from the old one should have been instantaneous, a couple hours at most 🙂 !
wrote on May 28, 2024
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8:24 am
I just came across this new site. I thought when they closed the old one, that was it. Glad I found this. I look forward to all of the good reading and comments.
wrote on April 22, 2024
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8:21 pm
Without Duane Allman Dicky Betts would not have become Dicky Betts (and that is true for every other member of the original band).
However, without Dicky Betts there would have been no 1972 Brothers and Sisters album, at least not as we know it.
Without Brothers and Sisters the ABB would have been a legendary live band from the Fillmore East, FM radio, counterculture audience days of the late 60's and very early 70's without the ability to fully replicate that sound again.
Brothers and Sisters is the reason why 75% of their fans, including my brother and I, went on to buy all of their older Albums when Duane was alive including Derek and the Dominoes.
Betts, Gregg, Leavell, Jaimoe and Butch are as responsible for making Duane Allman the legend that Duane Allman went on to become as Duane was himself.
But as for Betts' unique contribution, and to me this is heart and soul of the whole Live at the Fillmore album, Whipping Post. Duane's solo is first, and he’s obviously a guitar genius showing off all of his creativity, ability, speed, fluidity and control but it has a little bit of a feeling of wrote mastery (at least for him). But when Betts takes the second-guitarist solo he weaves a composition with movements leading the band into a musical range from gospel camp revival to the Fires of Hell (where you can actually hear Betts' audibly yell when he crescendos) and again back down to the sweetest playing of 'three blind mice' before leading the band back into the fire. That one recording of Whipping Post at the Fillmore in March 1971 made the Allman Brothers the Allman Brothers. In my opinion, it is Betts’ masterpiece. He takes the band on a wonderous journey fully supported with brilliant reactionary and dynamic ‘compose on the fly’ musicianship from the whole band.
I went to see Dickey in Greenwood Lake, NY in 1977 shortly after the split up of the Allman Brothers band. Drugs and alcohol had taken their toll. Happily, he pulled out of that period, as did the rest of the ABB fighting similar demons.
I've always felt that Dickey was relegated to the stereotype of a 'hot guitarist' who could hold his own with Duane Allman but he was as important to the creation of the legend of the Allman Brothers as Duane Allman was himself.
One of my favorite stories from reading many ABB biographies was of Duane being asked to go on a bike ride by the band's roadies in Macon during an off week. Duane looked around and saw Dickie in the back room of 'the big house' practicing his guitar and Allman replied to the bikers 'I gotta practice'.
Allman knew the power of Betts playing. Betts kept Allman on his toes as much as Allman kept Betts on his. That's a tribute to Allman and to Betts. Allman understanding Betts' greatness still concluded 'my band will be better with this brooding fallen Angel whose playing testifies as clearly as Bix Biederbeck's to the scars of trial-by-fire, the repentance of a broken soul and the acceptance of the gift of divine mercy then it would be without him' and Duane was 1000% right. That takes real guts and confidence. No affronts will befall them now. Archangels will listen in awe and crush all assailants.
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wrote on April 18, 2024
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3:25 pm
R.I.P. Dickey Betts
wrote on April 18, 2024
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1:28 pm
Old school post in the Guest Book for Dickey.
RIP Dickey.
Thank you for the memories, music and all the happiness you brought to my life.
wrote on April 18, 2024
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1:03 pm
RIP Dickey.
wrote on March 22, 2024
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8:53 am
Amen, Randall! Birthday remembrances of one of the most precious folks to populate these pages. I think about Randy every day.
wrote on March 21, 2024
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11:35 pm
Birthday remembrance of Buppalo, a true Skydog fan. Happy birthday Randy!
wrote on March 1, 2024
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10:04 am
Just checking in; I almost never come to the Guestbook for some reason
wrote on February 18, 2024
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3:20 pm
Hi all.
Its been a while sense i have been on here.I miss the ABB terribly.Thank god for TTB.They help fill the void.
Peace to Sue and Alex and all my friends.
Matt
wrote on January 6, 2024
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5:37 am
Been a while...nice to be back ! Love n Peace Brothers and Sista's
wrote on November 14, 2023
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8:29 pm
Happy birthday wishes to the one and only Queen of Peach, Lana rhymes with Donna, Lana!! Happy Lanarooooo!! Know that you are loved💕
wrote on August 10, 2023
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12:18 am
"Boy, do I got some stories to tell."
~Jaime Royal "Robbie" Robertson
I had the privilege back in the 70's of seeing The Band at Fillmore West, and Winterland. Seems like a dream the time I saw them in Golden Gate Park for free - not far from Hippie Hill. Rest in peace, Robbie Robertson. 😓🌈🎵
wrote on June 23, 2023
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5:34 pm
Seeing Tedeschi Trucks Band tonight and tomorrow at the Fox in Atlanta. A lot of great Allman Brothers feelings and memories come back on show day like this. I flash back to the great '98 and '04 Fox runs. Will be seeing some of the old traveling tribe over the next couple days that used to visit here. Thanks again to Rowland and Lana for their investment in this site that brought so many of us together over the years. I'm still reaping the benefits! And love to you all. Y'all a great bunch! ....Tim
wrote on June 8, 2023
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9:47 pm
Happy birthday, Derek. Cheers!
wrote on May 24, 2023
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7:13 pm
Rest in peace, Tina Turner. Simply the best…
wrote on May 10, 2023
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2:11 am
sorry, I deleted a double entry!
wrote on May 10, 2023
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1:48 am
Enjoyed and agree with all the comments and sentiments re. the 30th anniversary of Where It All Begins. It is one of my favorite ABB releases and for me the songs WIAB and Change My Way Of Living are as good as any era or formation of the Band. Also, I noticed the link to the 10 Best ABB songs - hard to argue against any of those choices, but somehow you've got to get One Way Out in there!
wrote on May 2, 2023
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10:53 pm
This joint still open ? ✌🏼😎
