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Dickie Betts has passed away...
Jambase ^ | 4/18/2024 | Team JamBase

Posted on 04/18/2024 9:37:21 AM PDT by oldskoolwargamer2

One of the greats...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History; Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: allmanbrothers; dickiebetts
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To: oldskoolwargamer2
Dickie Betts guitar... on Sweet Melissa
21 posted on 04/18/2024 9:53:09 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: abigkahuna

Okay—here it is __Found a version of the show on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYhla3IOMKQ Elizabeth Reed is actually more than 40 minutes long. The show is Dickie at Winterland 1974-12-14.

Luckily i found this on youtube...The file was way to big to try and transfer here...and my usual source, tela.surgarmegs.org didn’t have this show listed for some reason.


22 posted on 04/18/2024 9:57:05 AM PDT by abigkahuna
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To: oldskoolwargamer2

Wow, RIP, Dickie!


23 posted on 04/18/2024 9:58:06 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: oldskoolwargamer2

(Almond Brothers)


24 posted on 04/18/2024 9:58:33 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: oldskoolwargamer2

Dayum. Forrest Richard Betts...we’ll never forget ya. RIP.


25 posted on 04/18/2024 9:59:06 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perfection is impossible. But if you pursue perfection...you may achieve excellence.)
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To: M Kehoe

“Didn’t Oakley and Duane Allman die in very similar bike accidents two years apart?”

Motorcycle accidents, within about a block of each other, I think it was just over a year apart.


26 posted on 04/18/2024 9:59:34 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: oldskoolwargamer2
Rest in Peace.   Your music has been the theme songs of my life.   I named my wonderful Daughter Melissa.
“It is with profound sadness and heavy hearts that the Betts family announce the peaceful passing of Forrest Richard ‘Dickey’ Betts (December 12, 1943 – April 18, 2024) at the age of 80 years old. The legendary performer, songwriter, bandleader and family patriarch was at his home in Osprey, Florida, surrounded by his family. Dickey was larger than life, and his loss will be felt worldwide. At this difficult time, the family asks for prayers and respect for their privacy in the coming days. More information will be forthcoming at the appropriate time.”
Dickie Betts pickin' on that red guitar!

I'm an old man and should not burst into tears like this.

27 posted on 04/18/2024 9:59:48 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: oldskoolwargamer2

I’m happy to have grown up listening to music on the radio in the 1970s. Rock and Roll is dead today.


28 posted on 04/18/2024 10:04:36 AM PDT by HandBasketHell
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To: oldskoolwargamer2

Helping to make southern rock all it should be... Great!


29 posted on 04/18/2024 10:05:56 AM PDT by Portcall24
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To: stanne

Yup.


30 posted on 04/18/2024 10:06:40 AM PDT by Coronal
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To: oldskoolwargamer2

Damn, now I feel old...

Was walking thru the old DFW in ‘72 on my way to Orlando and saw a coupla really long haired guys with patches everywhere on their clothes and of course guitar cases. It was Dickie Betts and Berry Oakley - just before HIS accident - and they were trying to find their gate. Said Hey to them, they smiled back, went on my way. Guy I was going to visit used to do light show for them when they were the Allman Joys, seemed kinda cosmic that that happened...


31 posted on 04/18/2024 10:08:20 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: oldskoolwargamer2

Thats a shame. One of my favorite guitar players.
RIP


32 posted on 04/18/2024 10:09:15 AM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal! )
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To: SaxxonWoods

Bike= motorcycle.

Both were hit by a bus.

Don’t know if this applies, but in the Army there is an old saying, once is an anomaly, twice a coincidence and third time is enemy action.

5.56mm


33 posted on 04/18/2024 10:09:31 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go. )
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To: HandBasketHell

Here Ya Go: http://tela.sugarmegs.org/alpha/d.html

Scroll down to Dicky, Dickie or Diky (some peopel can’t spell simple names.) Not a whole lot, but there is Dick Dale up above... Enjoy some of that good old rock and roll....


34 posted on 04/18/2024 10:14:08 AM PDT by abigkahuna
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To: oldskoolwargamer2

RIP Dickie. Thanks for the memories.


35 posted on 04/18/2024 10:15:08 AM PDT by freefdny
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To: stanne

“Elizabeth Reed as well”

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

“A song Dickie Betts wrote for our second album, uh, “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed””

IMO, this live version on Allman Brothers Live at the Fillmore is the finest piece of recorded music in the history of mankind.

The band up in heaven just improved.


36 posted on 04/18/2024 10:16:38 AM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: oldskoolwargamer2
I saw lots of bands in the early 1970s but never got a chance to see the Allman Brothers. My wife saw them back then in Pittsburgh,PA. Brothers and Sisters is a great album and still holds up all these years later. RIP Dickie.
37 posted on 04/18/2024 10:16:43 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (Arise and shine,and give God the glory!-A trail cook's morning call.)
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To: oldskoolwargamer2

My older brother introduced me to the Allman Brothers. Too young to have seen them play and not part of “my generation.”

I consider them a national treasure and cultural icons, who combined traditional Southern Blues and guitar-heavy rock-n-roll (and Jazz) in the next iteration of RnR after Elvis’ generation.

Truly an epitome of a 100% American (and southern) musical art form that could not have been produced anywhere else, or at any other time.


38 posted on 04/18/2024 10:17:06 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: stanne

Only Jaimoe is left.


39 posted on 04/18/2024 10:19:30 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: oldskoolwargamer2

RIP indeed, thanks for letting us know, I was not aware


40 posted on 04/18/2024 10:23:18 AM PDT by Weirdad (Orthodox Americanism: It's what's good for the world! (Not communifascism!))
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