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Well, a nice unexpected tune-up for NYC last night....cruise to watering hole #2, the Downtown Tavern, sign says Private Party, open to the public at 9.
So I kill a little time, cruise back around 9:30. First person I see when I walk in the door is Microwave Dave Gallaher. Turns out somebody rented the place for a 50th b'day, and had seen Microwave Dave and the Nukes in Huntsville, hired them.
After the house sweetened the pot a bit, they played for the rest of the night.
Hard, tight roadhouse blues. Lots of flying V slide, 3-piece, a lot like Johnny Winter.
This will be one of the bands at our Blues & BBQ on June 6, along with the Skydogs, Lefty, and Donna Hopkins.
Damn, I love to just walk in on something right out of the blue like that!
It's a Lawrence Welk Final Four:
"And-a-one, and-a-two..." :looney:
I picked the exact Final Four in one of my brackets. I've never done that!
Didn't the Jeff Beck Group also do a version of Dazec and Confused?
Mitch
This round went to Bluedud. Wait till I get him in NYC in person, fuhgetaboudit. I'll take that sorry looking piece of scrap wood with an "F" on it and show him a thing or two. Here's a transcript of today's call:
Ring, ring:
Skydogsys: Hello Fender crisis line, what is the nature of your emergency?
BlueNuts: Is this Duckey Butts?? I was calling because I am concerned about your compensated nuts. That must be painfull...
Yes Rodess. We were talking about that in the forum.
I'd heard the band wasn't into Led Zep and walked out of a Zep show at some point in the early days. Maybe the ABB liked the original version of the song, not the Zep cover.
Scotty...chk pms... :rainbow:
Just a quick reminder that the 10th anniversary Gin Mill pre-show is slated for Saturday, 4/7/07 from 4:30 - 7:30. As a reminder, It's at 442 Amsterdam Ave at 81st street, downstairs in the private room. Happy Hour prices and super people!
For the second year we'll be able to take advantage of the multiple plasma televisions and good sound down there. I expect to have something special to share with everyone that I suspect most have not seen.
The ABB fans greatest ally has provided several really nice posters that I will give away as door prizes including the 3/13/06 FE anniversary poster and the Big House show poster.
And I will have a 10th anniversary Gin Mill souveneir for all attendees.
It's a rockin' time to spend before the show with like-minded peach heads. Let me know if you have any questions. Please RSVP with the number you'll have in your group if you have not done so already.
Thanks,
Gary
Isn't there a Dazed & Confused tease in Mt Jam from the Ludlow Garage CD?
Billy Eddins, nice post. thank you. Tells what the heck was going on. Now that is what we need to hear.
What is this Led, Ned, and Ed stuff. Didn't the man say he had a bad dream. Or am I lost. Did the band really play a Led, Ned, and Ed song. That would be a disgrace to the human race. Back in the early seventies. If I recall ,the band did not think to much of that band. What they say now is an other stiory. Gregg was song writing dead years ago, he has his reason? I know how he looks as I just saw and spoke with him a month ago. Was wanting to know how the Brother sounded. Don't you people take this wrong, but that word FAN is a degradeing word. Never have liked that word, when refering to people that like something, or a group, even baseball, we are people. I do believe a good way to say it would be to say, Allman people. Fan goes round and round. I just casn't get into that word, when refering to people.
Edge,
I just called that Fender basher and we had it out on the phone...:censored:
I doubt it did any good :bash:
Of course ya'll probably don't get a phone mail telling you your Fender guitar is a tree stump either...Just got that one....
I have an LP, and a Strat, I love em both....Strat cant be that awful, Stevie Ray used em.....
Headline: LIGHTING A SPARK
By ALAN SCULLEY
Asbury Park Press
Devon Allman remembers the exact moment when he became the songwriter and musician fans hear with his band Honeytribe on its debut CD, "Torch."
"I woke up Jan. 3 of '05, going, "What am I doing?' " Allman said. "I need to
just do it all from the heart, with no thought, no pretense on "I'm not going to
sound like that' . . . I'm just going to write a collection of songs. I'm going to put the best (band) lineup that I can put together. Literally, by that evening, I had put Honeytribe together."
Until that time, Allman admitted, he had shied away from writing songs that
might bring to mind the music made by his father, Gregg Allman, in his group, The Allman Brothers Band. That's exactly what Devon Allman did for the better
part of a decade. A native of Corpus Christi, Texas, Allman moved to St. Louis
around 1989, and his first band, the Dark Horses, made some noise (and nearly
signed a record deal) during the 1990s.
"I spent a lot of years in St. Louis really trying to kind of find myself and my sound and my style," said Devon Allman. "I was really proud of the Dark Horses project. But I think at the end of the day, it was still something that didn't encapsulate my most natural abilities. So it just kind of fizzled out."
After the Dark Horses breakup, Allman formed his first version of Honeytribe
around 2000. That unit lasted only a year or so partly because its horn-spiced
eight-person lineup proved unwieldy to hold together and because after the birth
of his son, Orion, he wanted to take time away from touring to be a stay-at-home
dad. Allman admitted that his dedication to parenting was partly a product of his own childhood, which was spent with his mother, Shelly, after she had
divorced Gregg Allman.
Allman knew about his father as a young child and actually began to grasp his father's notoriety at a young age as well.
"I don't think it hit me to the magnitude of his celebrity until I was about 4 or 5, basically by seeing him on the cover of magazines in the supermarket checkout line when he was with Cher," Allman said. "That was a trip."
The relationship between Allman and his famous father wasn't forged until
Devon Allman was 15 and he decided to reach out.
"I think more than anything else, I wanted to know he was all right," Devon
Allman said. "You hear stories. You hear things. I remember I sat down and I
wrote him a letter when I was 15. It was very basic. It was a paragraph long.
"Hey, I'm your son. I think about you a lot. I hope you're OK. I play guitar. I love music. I like Zeppelin; I like Hendrix. If you feel like talking, here's my number.' Pretty cut and dried."
His father called, and right off the bat, the two had a rapport. Several months later, they met in person back stage at the Fox Theater in St. Louis at an Allman Brothers show, and once again, they enjoyed a good visit. By then Allman was a high school junior, and after finishing that school year, he tagged along on tour with the Allman Brothers Band.
That tour convinced Devon Allman, who had been torn between pursuing acting
and music, that he wanted to follow the career path of his father.
Of course ya'll probably don't get a phone mail telling you your Fender guitar is a tree stump either...Just got that one....
Ya'll go' make me lose my mind, up in here, up in here....
Got a phone mail from one of the Brothers on this site a week or so ago.... It said....
"Hey John, this is Jon. Calling you about travel arrangements to see The Allman Brothers Band in New York City. Give me a call when you get a chance"
Now....How many of ya'll get a phone message like that ???
I know I'm going but it seems like a dream. Guess I'll drink up a little more wine, to ease my worried mind...and walk down on the street and leave my blues at home....
Lana.
You are right.
I stand corrected.
In your honor as the greatest of hostesses a Sugarloaf/T-Rex tribute would be tres appropriate.
> Bang-A-Gong............
BIKENJ420 posted:
>>>I was in the Lower Balcony and you could feel the floor rocking that whole second set. It felt like the theatre was literally dancing. I was waiting for those big statues to unperch themsleves and start dancing as well !! The Beacon was ALIVE !!<<<
I think that basically says it all! -- If the band is happy and they are feeling it - and the fans are totally getting off on it, that's all that matters.
I applaud them for their musical integrity and for the fact they refuse to rest on their laurels. Not really sure why some people are always trying trying to figure out what Duane would of thought about this or that - in this case Led Zep - that really isn't even relevant here. If this band wants to play these songs, they should play them, case closed. I'm pretty sure Duane and Berry would be damn proud of these guys. "Dazed and Confused" is still the blues - heavy blues, but still blues none the less. Sounds like a keeper to me - so does Manic Depression. THis band does it all, don't they?
Hey there sweet family,
As a green eyed lady I think the song would be a wonderful addition to the set list ... right after Hot 'Lan'a 😉
Take care and know that you are loved ... and Rowland is still ill 🙁
Lana
I'm sure Jaimoe and Oteil have longed for their entire careers for the oppurtunity to play Dazed and Confused....
Dazed & Confused makes sense - deep deep bluesy song with a strong story line about a woman from hell...........
sounds like an old ABB theme to me?
but.
Manic Depression played full out........now that is much more off the wall musically I think.
The tempo and beat sequence is jazzy & out there and kickin' with a Mitch Mitchell signature beat like none other.
no song sounds like Manic Depression that I know of.
Ok - now if Oteil steps up and does his version of Green Eyed Lady........
well I think we'd have to draw the line there.
reading all posts of the guestbook dont usually post went to the show last night and it was killuh dazed and confused was great i read somthing about duane never playing led zeppelin just listen to mountain jam off of ludlow's garage