The Night They Closed the Fillmore Down
By: Rowland Archer Originally published in Hittin’ the Note, Issue #12 and on the first Hittin’ the Web site The last night at the Fillmore East. It’s been called “The Holy Grail of Allman Brothers shows.” The night the fan who shouted “Play All Night!” on the live Fillmore East album got his wish. Dickey […]
Really Big News from the Big House Foundation
The Big House Foundation is proud to announce a benefit concert on Tuesday, March 22, 2005, at the Beacon Theatre in New York City. Performing that night will be the Allman Brothers Band, Gov’t Mule, the Derek Trucks Band, Oteil and the Peacemakers, and Jaimoe’s Jassss Band. This legendary performance will start at 7:00 P.M., […]
Group wants to create museum at old Allman Brothers home
By Travis Fain Telegraph Staff Writer 10 February 2005, The Macon Telegraph Quite likely the most complete collection of Allman Brothers Band memorabilia and music sits largely packed away at the band’s old house here in Macon. For years, Kirk and Kirsten West, who have lived in the three-story Vineville Avenue home since 1993, have […]
Can Daytona Beach rock the cradle again?
Daytona Beach News Journal, 23 January 2005, page 8H By Rick de Yampert Entertainment Writer Years before Gregg and Duane Allman electrified the rock music world with the Allman Brothers Band, the siblings were honing their blues and rock chops in Daytona Beach in the mid-1960s with their band the Allman Joys. Years before Terence […]
2005 Bonnaroo Music Festival Initial Artist Announcement
Superfly Productions and A.C. Entertainment are proud to announce the initial lineup for the 2005 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. The fourth annual three-day camping and music festival will be held on June 10-12, 2005, on the same 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee, 60 miles south of Nashville. A list of confirmed acts follows, with […]
Gregg Allman: Life on the Straight and Narrow
By: Jeff Royer For Fly Magazine Over the phone from his home in Georgia, Gregg Allman is hooting and cackling like a madman. He’s like a Rodney Dangerfield record stuck on a slow rpm, ripping off one-liners like a snail on acid, his thick southern drawl only exaggerating the situation. In between bursts of crazy […]
I’ve Got Dreams
Three of us have been going to the Beacon shows for as long as …well for a long time. We always drag along a ‘rookie” as the fourth. It usually turns out to be a night to remember for him, and increases the fun for us. We go back-way back to the shows in the […]
Why the Allman Brothers Band is the Allman Brothers Band
The Allman Brothers Band developed their recipe in 1969, just like Colonel Sanders developed the recipe for Kentucky Fried Chicken, it doesn’t matter who’s doin’ the cookin’ as long as his recipe is being followed by people capable of following it – it will be KFC Chicken. Regardless if they actually realized their formula at […]
2004 Peachy Award Winners Announced
The 2004 Peachy Award Winners, announced in an on-line gala in Hittin’ the Web with the Allman Brothers Band’s Anything Goes Forum Thursday, December 2nd, are: Band Awards Bass Solo of the Year 1. Oteil 9/26 2. Oteil 9/24 3. Oteil 10/1 Best ABB Family Band 1. Derek Trucks Band 2. Gov’t Mule 3. Dickey […]
ABB “lit up” The Warehouse in Nawlins
Night moves: Peggy Scott Laborde’s latest prime-time nostalgia trip confirms what we’ve always known: The nighttime has always been the right time to be in New Orleans. By Dave Walker 17 November 2004, The Times-Picayune The latest in a long series of keepsake documentaries from Peggy Scott Laborde, “The Nightlife That Was” debuts Thursday at […]