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A friend of mine/ours from the Allman listserv posted this in response to Hophead's Warren interview. Thought y'all might enjoy it. Just one more day and I'll be standing in the front row, grooving to two of the best guitarists on the planet! Peace, CeeCee ---------------------------------------------- He said, "I hope no one ever thinks of me as a rent-a-guitarist. I've been with this band for ten years, after all." TEN years? Jesus, Warren, I've thought of you as a member since 1988, Pattern Disruptive tour at the Peabody in Orlando - which gives you a good 13, 14 years anyway. Frogwings, GA&F, Great Southern, ABB, Mule, DTB... I'm really colorblind or inclusive or indiscriminate or whatver the term it is I'm looking for when it comes to the family of music/ians centered on the ABB. Warren a rent-a-guitarist? Sure, like I might rent the Taj Mahal for a reception hall some day. Who-sum-ever gets Warren to sit in with them has got to consider themselve one fortunate and honored sonuvagun. I can't not think of a more pre-eminent musician or ambassador of music than Warren Haynes. If Bush can't appoint him, then the next Democratic President ought to - to some some yet-to-be-invented cabinet-level post... Minister of Peace and Good Times, Minister of The Groove... ahhh, think up your own more apropos post for Warren Haynes, Musician Extraordinaire, loved dearly by his fans. oh... and: " Later, Warren told us that the Grateful Dead were planning to reunite and tour -- using that name -- and they asked him to be part of it, but he turned them down. With the time he wants to devote to the Brothers and to the Mule he wasn't able to do a month's rehearsals with them and then their tour. He said that growing up he was not a Deadhead and that he was much more into the ABB. In fact, it was only in the last ten to twelve years or so did he start to listen to the GD music -- and it was the songwriting that brought him into it. Once he began listening to Garcia and Hunter's immense repertoire of songs he really started to understand the Dead." Jesu-maria... I can't find words to express how utterly cool I find this. Cool? No, that doesn't begin to define my... understanding, agreement, appreciation.. and oh yah... that little bit about "time he wants to devote to the Brothers". Is that a quote? Just an accurate paraphrase? Holy crap.... do I ever love Warren Haynes. BTW... one thing I've often been thinking, and it is no way an 'original' thought... but so overwhelming in its urgency, I must express it once again: The ABB have assumed complete and Whole ownership of Rocking Horse... just in case any of you have overlooked that fact. Its an entirely different and fleshier tune with the ABB. Fleshier? Where the f do I come up with such ineptitudes? It is a monster MONSTER song by the Allman Brothers Band. How can you not thrash to that song? It pushes you like a building breeze on the sea oats. Unlike a mere Hurricane, though, it rips you out by your roots and thows you clear across the peninsula into the next ocean - still viable, still respirating. Warren, you ARE an Allman Brother.