Guest Book

HEY FANS. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I'M POSTING IN THE GUEST BOOK. FIRST OF ALL, RED DOG, YOU ARE THE MAN. YOU AND I MET IN 1999 IN NYC AFTER A CONCERT WHEN YOU AND JOE DAN WERE HAVING DINNER AFTER A SHOW ON THE CORNER FROM THE BEACON. TIMES WERE FUN THEN. DEREK WAS LEARNING THE MUSIC, DICKEY WAS BRINGING US NEW TUNES. THINGS WERE HAPPENING. THINGS CHANGED THE NEXT YEAR THOUGH. DICKEY GOT FIRED-JIMMY HERRING CAME IN BUT THE MUSIC WASNT MUCH I'M SORRY TO SAY. THEN WARREN CAME BACK, THEY MADE THE CD, STARTED PLAYING ALL THESE COVER SONGS AND HERE WE ARE TODAY. DICKEY BETTS SAVED THE ALLMAN BROTHERS IN THE 70'S WHEN DUANE AND BERRY DIED. HIS MUSIC TO ME IS WHAT THE ALLMANS ARE. GREGG WROTE SOME GREAT SONGS TOO BUT NOT THE INSTRUMENTALS WHICH DEFINE THE BROTHERS MUSIC. WHEN DICKEY WAS IN THE BAND, ALOT OF CRAZY THINGS TOOK PLACE, SOME WE HEARD ABOUT SOME WE DIDNT. BUT NO MATTER WHAT, GOING TO AN ALLMAN BROTHERS CONCERT WAS AN EVENT. LATELY I DONT FEEL THAT WAY. TO ME AT TIMES WHAT THEY DO NOW IS BORING. PLAYING VAN MORRISON COVERS AT AN ALLMAN BROTHERS CONCERT IS NOT WHAT THE ORIGINAL GUYS SET OUT TO DO. NOW ON TO THE SUBJECT OF DICKEY BEING INVITED BACK NEXT YEAR. OF COURSE HE SHOULD BE INVITED BACK. HOW COULD THEY (JAIMOE, GREGG AND BUTCH) NOT INVITE HIM? NOBODY IS SAYING HE SHOULD BE BACK IN THE BAND PERMANTELY, BUT GIVE HIM A COUPLE OF DATES TO SIT AS A GUEST AND SHOW SOME FORGIVENESS. A FEW PEOPLE HAVE STATED THAT THEY NEVER WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THE BAND WOULD END UP THE WAY IT IS NOW. I CANT BELEIVE IT EITHER. I KNOW THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO LIKE THIS CURRENT LINE-UP. DEREK IS A GREAT GUITAR PLAYER AND ONLY GETTING BETTER. WARREN PLAYING IN DICKEYS SLOT'S THOUGH AND PLAYING WITH THAT GOVT MULE SYTLE TO ME DOESNT CUT IT. BACK TO YOU RED DOG. WHATEVER YOU CAN DO AND WHATEVER ANYBODY CAN DO TO GET DICKEY INVITED SHOLD BE DONE AND SAID. LIFE IS TOO SHORT. REMEMBER IT IS BETTER TO LOVE THAN BE LOVED. IT IS BETTER TO UNDERSTAND THAN TO BE UNDERSTOOD. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVEYONE. BROTHER BILL