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The Live Album’s Revolutionary Evolution

By David Menconi Raleigh News & Observer 28 March 2004 Copyright (c) 2004 by The News & Observer Pub. Co. Bob Dylan’s new “Live 1964: Concert at Philharmonic Hall” might look like just another compact disc. But it’s actually a dinosaur on the verge of extinction: the last of the great live albums. That’s not […]

Life Outside the Beacon

By: Bill Thames For the past two weeks, while countless lucky Allman Brothers Band fans have been gathering in New York City, and swarming over the Beacon Theater, those of us left behind were doubtlessly searching for something to take our minds off the concerts that we were missing. This past weekend, while the Allman […]

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 […]

Happy Birthday, ABB!

26 March 2004 – Macon Telegraph Brothers’ birth March 26, 1969. Macon would not be the same without this date. No Duane Allman Boulevard. No Raymond Berry Oakley III Bridge. No GABBAfest. Heck, there is no GABBA. No Hittin’ the Note magazine. Bow down and pay homage. Today marks the 35-year anniversary of the forming […]

Tales from Old T-Shirts

Rock fans recall how they acquired classic threads By Lauren Bishop 22 March 2004, The Cincinnati Enquirer On March 4, we started an unscientific search for the oldest rock T-shirt in the Tristate with an Enquirer article about how celebrities and children of baby boomers are snapping up vintage rock and concert Ts from the […]

ABB: A Magical Configuration

Monday 3/22/04 was my first time seeing this legenday band at the Beacon. I have seen the ABB play on and off for the last 14 years and after seeing this show I felt compelled to write about it. I knew that opportunities to see this band in this configuration may not be around forever […]

“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 […]

ABB’s New CD Documents Great Playing with As Much Fire as Finesse

By: Doug Collette For: All About Jazz Skeptics may wonder why there’s any need for another live Allman Brothers album, but they’d no doubt be part of the same group unaware of the miraculous rejuvenation of this seminal Southern rock band over the last few years. One Way Out (Peach/Sanctuary), due out March 23rd in […]

Band of Brothers Still Peakin’ at the Beacon

Band of brothers: After 144 shows, the Allman Brothers Band is still peakin’ at the Beacon By Steve Knopper 19 March 2004, Newsday Copyright 2004, Newsday. All Rights Reserved. Gregg Allman’s voice, on the phone, is a slur. His style is a ramble. He sticks to one topic for about 30 seconds, maximum, then launches […]

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 […]