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 […]
Top 10 Cities That Rock
Esquire magazine has compiled a list of Top 10 Cities That Rock. Cities were judged on the quality of music scenes, stores and concert venues: Pittsburgh, PA Denver, CO MinneapoliS, MN Raleigh, NC Gainesville, FL Fresno, CA Cincinnati, OH New Orleans, LA Phoenix/Tempe, AZ San Francisco, CA
Bill Cook, Martinique Owner Passes Away
By: Bill Thames Sometimes the phone rings and even though the person on the other end is an old and cherished friend, you know right off the bat that it’s not good news. Well, this morning I received just one of those phone calls. Yesterday, Bill Cook, the former owner of the Martinique, and the […]
Duane’s Mountain of Green
By: Bill Thames Every new event and each person that we meet in our life is filtered through our own unique set of experiences. Like a computer, we compare new people and places to the ones neatly catalogued in our minds, make our assessments and comparisons, and then we neatly file the experience away for […]
Gregg Lands On “Earth Vs. The Radiators – The First 25”
New Orleans’ icons, The Radiators, celebrate their first 25 years with a double CD and DVD release :Earth Vs. The Radiators: The First 25. The CD will be the band’s first release in three years – a double live CD recorded at the world-famous Tipitina’s over the course of the band’s 3-night run January 29,30 […]