Kids Listening to their Parent’s Music
By: Edna Gundersen For USA TODAY Jamie Horton, 14, considers himself a fairly savvy music-loving teen. The Los Angeles ninth-grader trawls the Internet for rock discoveries and totes an iPod packed with 3,000 tunes. His favorite band? Queen. Not late-’90s rock outfit Queens of the Stone Age, not late-’80s metal band Queensryche and certainly not […]
“One Way Out” is Essential
By: Thom Jurek For: All Music Guide Do we really need another live double CD by the Allman Brothers Band? Oh yeah. In fact, when they play this well, we need them in droves. This collection marks the second time the Allman Brothers have issued music from their storied shows at the Beacon Theater in […]
A Night to Honor Bands That Jam
March 18, 2004 By: Jon Pareles For The New York Times Imagine current pop turned inside out. Playing concerts would be a living rather than a promotional tool, bands would take musical chances nightly, wardrobe would be an afterthought, a group could release a dozen live albums a year, and gray hair and wrinkles would […]
Beacon Feels like the Fillmore East to The ABB
By: John Petrick For The North Jersey Bergen Record After 35 years of life, death, booze, and scandal, a mellower Gregg Allman still keeps his mind on the road. “I’m looking out at my back yard right now, watching a river go by,” says a gravel-voiced Allman from his Savannah, Ga., home. “I’m down here […]
Allman Brothers Band’s “One Way Out” In Stores March 23
Double Live CD Documents 2003 ‘March Madness’ Run at the Beacon Theatre in New York City Group to perform on ‘Late Night with Conan O’Brien’ March 16 in advance of the March 18 launch of this year’s ‘March Madness’ engagement (click to view larger image) The Allman Brothers Band, one of rock’s most acclaimed live […]
Gov’t Mule goes deep with The Deepest End
By: Eddie Modzelewski Warren Hayes, the leader of Gov’t Mule and the hardest working man in the music business, has just put out the conclusion to Gov’t Mule’s last two albums, The Deep End Volumes 1 and 2, calling it The Deepest End. Haynes, along with founding drummer Matt Abts, put out the double live […]
Allman Brothers on Freeview
Peakin at the Beacon is on channel 103 on Direct TV. Its a great show and if you have direct tv change the channel cuz your missin out on a great concert. Probably one of their greatest recent performances.
Macon Music: Museum Honors Georgia’s Musicians
The Augusta Chronicle The Otis Redding Memorial Bridge and Little Richard Penniman Boulevard are notable Macon landmarks. But it’s at the Georgia Music Hall of Fame where you can experience the significant impact these and other Georgia-bred musicians have had on the world stage. The museum in the heart of downtown Macon displays a plethora […]
Allman Brothers Band turns up the heat
By: Scott Iwasaki FOr The Deseret Morning News 9/15/2003 Fans’ warm applause and a cold night greeted the Allman Brothers Band at the USANA Amphitheater Saturday night. Still, the biting wind that dropped the mercury to somewhere around 50 degrees didn’t stop the stalwart Southern blues jam band from playing an innovative set that dipped […]
ABB at the Greek Theatre, 9/5/2003
By: Sheep From: The Left Coast These past two shows are the best two I’ve ever seen. Last night was enormous. No compromise, all the jams were huge. It was mainly Derek’s night, Warren almost conceeded to him at times, I thought, even though he was scorching all night also. Opened with Black Hearted and […]