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SUMMER DATES.....SUMMER DATES....SUMMER DATES...EAPFP
Seems like any rumor around quickly gains twilight zone status almost immediately. In "The Monsters are Coming to Mulberry Street" on the zone the aliens faked a crash landing and then started turning appliances off and on and so forth. They let one guy's power stay on so everyone jumped on him, thinking he was with them. Then they turned on the power of another neighbor and so everyone jumped on him. Then another and another. After a while, the mob was destroying the neighborhood. End of the story was two aliens sitting on a knoll overlooking the town saying, "See, you just make them think a ship has landed, turn on and off a few lights and they take care of the rest themselves." One rumor started here has good folks again jumping in and condemning everyone from our hosts to fellow fans. Everyone ought to put on some Brother Duane and "Cool it!"Johnny
Good day all. I am glad some have taken their daily dose (overdose?)of judgemental horsepoop pills, hehe. I guess I'm being judgemental saying that, so.... On Oteil, all I can say is the guy is a class act, and he was so kind last year at BtoP and he is definitely a real guy with no pretentions about hanging with fans. And anyone who doesn't like the scat and jazz stuff, I think in spite of that ocassional foray, he adds a lot to the band. His bass is just monster on Whipping Post. See ya in March Oteil!
Watching the news this morning in LA. For those of you who have not had the pleasure there are some true gossip section that really cover it all.
Top stories included McCartney being offered $4mil to play Vegas for 1 night. They then went on to comment how the 35+year old demographic is exponentially spending more on concerts. It seems to be a real boom industry. The newscasters commented on Chicago & Styx selling out in LA & yes Styx is coming back again.
Pretty disgraceful that there are comments that the brothers can't pull a draw on the left coast or that there is not enough money in it for them. What ever happened to the idea that concerts were not to make money but promote albums?
Sounds pretty stuffy if it is no longer about vibing off a crowd or sharing this beautiful music. I hope that the money is not the reason......
Heck I would gladly offer my services to plan a future schedule. Not that my help is needed but if the claim is that the draw is the problem then pair up.
There are bands that make it out here. Heck Skynrd plays. I can't believe that they do that much better than the allmans. If the band was creative they could spend a little extra time (an hour or two) and see their attorneys working on the copyright/ ownership issues and creatively call it a business expense.
Maybe Kirk could sit down for a minute & hammer out some deals to release some of this Duane stuff- (ie. anthology 3, some other form of duane material, a OLD but new allmans album.)
Take some time on the left coast and get us tapping our stomachs again.
Please play the left coast 🙁
That's my morning rant
Peace Love & beautiful music--Scotty
Rowland, please install a button on the GB that we can remove our foot from our mouths:o and one that can take away the hurt and pain caused by our words even though we can delete the offending post. Peace and God bless all of y'all.:)
Factual confirmation/information. Red Dog himself removed the post regarding Oteil. I respectfully retract my statement regarding Lana or Rowland removing THAT post, (imo this GB is so overblown and hard to maneuver I haven't attempted to mess with all the gadgets, so being a poster on the old book and knowing that once you hit "submit" it was gone, it should be understandable that I didn't know a person could go back in and remove or edit their own posts, my bad for not reading the manual on how to use this GB) however, I do know they do remove and censor other posts so my feelings don't change on the censorship/removal issue. I agree with the previous poster stating that anyone with the ability shouldn't be at the helm ready to pounce on removing or censoring posts. EAPFP and remember when free speech was more valuable than a hit counter and little stars were something you saw twinkling in the night sky, not letters in words.
Dear friends and family,Those who are wondering what is going on with Oteil, please check out Oteil's post at the guest book at Oteil's website. ;-)I think he has set the story straight. I'm thinking this is just a misunderstanding that has been blown out of proportion. Now...back to your regularly scheduled program....:)Have a peachful day...
There playing Feels like rain. from John Hiatt
You guys got to hear my buddies from Long Island play it go to.
http://joevicino.homestead.com/MUSIC.html
Tom S. controversial? Since when.(ha-ha) Seriously Tom, Frim probably like I read a few posts about Oteil's alleged(sp?) firing and commented on it. Such as "Oh no here we go again. Anyone remember last year?" Scrolling back I couldn't find the offending post. If it was deleted by the powers that be, then that is definately not cool, Rowland. For one reason if the post was correct, it should be left for everyone to form their own opinion about it. One opinion that could be derived from the post would be: "So this is the reason that Reddog was asked to leave the band. "To some extent I can sympathize with the majority of the band that after 30 yr.s maybe they are tired of dealing with the BS from other members. Founders or not. Also if Dog made the post, it was meant maliciously. It was meant to hurt either Gregg or Oteil and probably succeeded on some level. According to Oteil the rumor is false. Oteil is a great player who if allowed to can open up new vistas to the road going on forever. Tom, I like you and Dog, but Frim is a cool fellow too. And I'm sure he meant no disrespect to Reddog. Also Rowland hold off on the censorship button. People ten to hang their ownselves
if given enough rope. N'est pas? Peace.
Did anyone watch the CMT Crossroads special last night with Hank Williams Jr. and Kid Rock?
They opened the show with "Midnight Rider." Never thought I'd see Kid Rock playing a brothers tune.
It did segue into one of his own tunes in rather bizzarre way. He was singing the lyric, "never gona catch the midnight rider, never gonna catch me, no....................because, I'm a Cowboy Baaby."
It was a very odd show w/ Hank and the Kid, however, they played mostly Hank tunes with interviews in between. The kid actually isn't bad. Apparently he grew up listening to Hank, and somehow they are now friends.
Check out Hank's new disc, "Almeria Club." They did a tune off of it last night with a line that goes, "In country music you can't say the F word..." I almost fell out of my chair laughing.
If they repeat the show, try to catch it. Pretty funny and entertaining stuff.
The following was cut from Oteil's guestbook
Hey everyone!
I haven't been able to get online for the last few days because I'm in the process of moving into a new house. Our new phone just got turned on about 5 minutes ago.
I was shocked to hear that everyone thought that I was getting fired from the band and I just want to let you know that it is NOT TRUE. I think that I would have heard SOMETHING about it! As someone else stated, I think that they would have probably got someone else to do the record if the were going to let me go. My room in New York is already booked for the Beacon shows so I know I'll be seeing you there.
If I were to be fired, (or quit for that matter) I would certainly let everyone know "from the horses mouth". I'm sorry that I wasn't able to get online sooner and ease people's minds but circumstances wouldn't allow. All I can say is that in the future, PLEASE do not believe everything you hear. And if I DON'T respond right away, then take that as a GOOD sign. I can't always be around to do rumor control.
Thanks for the support!
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Peace and love, Oteil
Johnny...
thanks for the package from the Fish Camp..
haven't had a chance to drop it in the video but will today..
very curious...
Thanks, Bro!!
Whats going on now?, another change, I can't take anymore, i hope this Otiel thing is just a rumor.IT will take them half the Beacon run to get where they'll sound great again, with another bass player.
Dont know if this has been posted, but yesterday they were playing "Jessica" as background music on the Weather Channel!
PEACHES Y"ALL!
Just wondering why Red Dog's post regarding Oteil was removed ? It's Beacon time, which means "talk" time, which has meant for the past several years that "something" and it aint "love" is in the air. Man, if someone is removing (read Rowland or Lana) Red Dog's posts there is definately a problem here, can anyone say "censorship" to the nth degree? I'm amazed that he even posts here at all or that Dickey wants anything to do with the site or it's owners, but, to each his own and of course we so enjoy hearing (reading) Lana's conversations with the Betts' after one of her phone calls to them, maybe that's why this conglomeration of self promotion has come about. However a little kibble for yer bits Red Dog, if you make an honest (which I have no doubt that it was) post and it got yanked then man lets go on over to the Dog House where little stars don't come up for the "naughty" (hey can we get a list of those Lana, just so we'll know what not to say so as to keep your site pristine, lord oh mighty, the ABB, the hard driving, drug taking (yeah in the past, I know), drinkin', feudin', fightin', divorcing, back together, firin', then re-hirin' etc. band actually not allowing people to use THOSE (someone call George Carlin!) words, isn't that a little creepy to anyone else here? Funny, Dog allows his guestbook to run it's own course and if it gets out of hand he politely gives a bark and a calm comes over the kennel, but then again, he's not trying to impress anyone. One more question ,oh keepers of the BOOK, is Red Dog an off topic subject for the ABB portion of your compartmentalized guest book (another creepy deal, evveryone deemed cool enough for this site has their own little place where they and only they can be discussed ,weird...)? If so, please may we have a Red Dog link, you did say that you'd be happy to make new links if we wanted them right? Just tryin' to keep it straight.
Bird- Great post. For a minute felt like I was riding with you through beautiful Montana 😀 in the front of cab just truckin' & smellin' the life:cool: Great air up there too:) Haven't been to Glacier National Park since 1971. 😡 My fault!
Think I need to go again;)
Thanks for the reminder 😎 PeachNutt
Good morning y'all. First off what's with this Otiel rumor? Reading back through the posts I see a few that credit it to a post from Reddog, but scrolling back I can't find a post of Dog's that mentions anything about Otiel? Rumor control!
Rumor control! Lana, Rowland clear up and quash this BS for me...please.:confused:
Hey Frimjolly, I don't consider Red Dog a jerkoff, and i don't think anyone else here does either. Read where the source came from next time before you call names. Like everyone else, i hope it's not true. I'm sure there was some merit to it tho if Red Dog said it. Gregg seems to be on some power trip now. Lets hope he comes to his senses.
Durwood
Got the new remastered box set of Live @ Leeds last night. Haven't heard that album in 20 years. It sounds GREAT. Has the whole orginial album plus most of the live Tommy stuff from the concert. If your a Who fan as well, pick it up. Doesn't have a damned thing to do with the ABB, but tuff!
Some jerkoff always starts this Oteil rumor. Many of us will be laughing at it while we watch him play bass at the Beacon in a few weeks.