Allman Brothers Band Wraps Up Humanitarian Award
The Allman Brothers Band is being awarded the Lena and Joseph Mandelbaum Humanitarian Award at the 3rd Annual Rock and Wrap it Up! Benefit, which will take place June 12 at Pier Sixty in New York City. Rock and Wrap it Up! is an international volunteer food recovery service that feeds the hungry with leftover […]
My Week At the Beacon
By: Lee from Michigan My normal Beacon trip consists of picking one of the 3-day weekends, Thursday thru Saturday. That was the original plan this year as well. Then I got to talking to JodyGirl and she suggested I come on Wednesday because you just never know when a spring snow storm will occur. Good […]
Crossroads
By: Alan Paul For: Guitar World This story should have been up a week ago, so I’m going to dispense with a flowery introduction and cut right to the chase. The Allman Brothers Band 2003 rock all over the place. I’ve had the pleasure of seeing three of their 13 sold-out shows at New York’s […]
A Tale of Two Guitars
By: Ben Ratliff For the New York Times Each year, the Allman Brothers Band repeats a remarkable feat: filling the Beacon Theater night after night in a true New York City residency. As with the late-period Grateful Dead, the group’s records are souvenirs more than essential documents — a couple of live albums in the […]
Allman Brothers Rocks it in NYC
Allman Brothers rocks it in NYC By Rebecca Shields – Johns Hopkins Newsletter March 21, 2003 Thirty-four years later and still jamming like the 1970s, the Allman Brothers hit the stage Saturday night at the Beacon Theatre in New York City ready to recreate the musical magic of years before. The Brothers have often been […]
Band of Brothers Alive and Clicking
By Dan Aquilante For the New York Post, 3/21/03 When you wait long enough, history has a way of repeating itself. Take the Allman Brothers Band, which opened its annual March Madness run at the Beacon Theatre last week. It was more than 30 years ago that the band recorded their seminal, revered live album, […]
Allman Brothers Band Soldiers On
By: Steve Knopper For: Newsday If anybody in rock deserves to sing the line “now all the things that used to mean so much to me/Have made me old before my time,” it’s Gregg Allman. Since he and his brother, Duane, founded the Allman Brothers Band 34 years ago, the singer-keyboardist has had to cope […]
Allman Joy
By: Jim Farber For: The NY Daily News Gregg Allman doesn’t like to mention ex-Allmans guitarist Dickey Betts when he does an interview these days, yet he can’t avoid alluding to him over and over. When Allman talks about the band’s difficulty in writing material during the past decade, or his dissatisfaction with some recent […]
Mixing the Allman Brothers Band
By: Candace Horgan For Mix Online The current incarnation of the Allman Brothers Band is unquestionably one of the strongest they’ve put together in their long history; some fans even believe it is comparable to the original lineup that included Duane Allman, Berry Oakley and Dicky Betts. This year marks the 31st anniversary of the […]
Hittin’ the High Points of Hittin’ the Note
By: Sal Cirrincione For: Rock Daily Gregg Allman recently sat down with us to discuss the new ABB album and the story behind the disc’s name: Gregg Allman: We went in and cut this record over in Hoboken [N.J.]. The first day we went, we got four cuts; the second day we went, we got […]
ABB and Musicians on Call Share the Healing Power of Music
The Allman Brothers Band has generously donated 2 FRONT ROW concert tickets to Musicians on Call! These tickets are for their March 29th performance at the historic Beacon Theater in New York City. Bid now and help Musicians on Call continue its mission of delivering the Healing Power of Music to the bedsides of patients […]
New Safety Measures Expected After Blaze
By Dean Johnson For the Boston Herald Music industry veterans say the use of pyrotechnics in The Station nightclub was a horrible blunder and will bring tough new restrictions on concert special effects. “The idea of doing pyro in a facility like that is suicidal,” said Gary Bongiovanni, editor of the concert trade magazine Pollstar. […]