Posted on 05/30/2017 7:43:33 AM PDT by rktman
Gregg was the fourth member of the band to die, but the first of natural causes—though his past lifestyle certainly contributed to those causes.
I say American music pioneer because categorizing him in blues, rock, or especially Southern rock is pointless. Allman's influence goes far beyond Lynyrd Skynyrd and Phish.
The Allman Brothers was made up of only one Allman brother, Gregg, far longer than not, and the group has re-created itself and been reborn at least twice, and very successfully.
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Note that Dickie Betts was the driving force on the bulk of these songs, and Dickie was fired.
My tastes are different than the author’s, but it’s a great list. I tend to like their rock and mellow sounds more than their blues tunes. “Seven Turns” is the best Allman Brothers song you never hear.
In Memory of Liz Reed
Heroin problems.
I kinda like Molly Hatchets “Dreams” a little more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTZHHQplIX8
Just as an aside, a band I was in opened for Molly Hatchet at a festival in Florida about 12 years ago and we did our version of a Doobie Bros song, “Jesus Is Just Alright With Me.” as our next to last song. (We closed with ‘Sgt.Peppers/The End’ by McCartney) When we were coming off stage one of the guys from MH (can’t remember any more which one) said “Damn dude, you guys killed it and it brought back memories of when we were touring with the DB’s.” Good memories.
And Duane Allman’s best masterpiece wasn’t even an Allman Brothers song. He played the slide guitar tracks for Derek & The Dominos on the original “Layla” recording.
Over the weekend, I listened to an Allman Brothers tune, “Little Martha”, apparently a number of folks like that one but it did not make their list. So it goes.
Whipping Post is their best, in my opinion.
Just the authors faves. I’m sure there are a lot of lists that differ.
I love that one. I wonder if the author just didn’t want to include too many instrumental songs in this list.
My favorite band ever. Saw them 8 times over the years. Was supposed to take my oldest son to see Gregg open for ZZ Top last summer, but Gregg had to cancel. Sad.
LOL! Yup. We probably play it every other week at one jam or another.
I find them more in the vein of John Mayall. Mayall was doing what he called Jazz-Blues Fusion. He put out a live album of the same name.
The Allman Brothers also were definitely the original Jam Band, playing sometimes hours at a time for a concert, At one of the Fillmore concerts for the record, they came on about 8 or 9 Pm and played until 6 AM the next morning.
If you listen closely on the Fillmore album on “Hot Lanta”, Duane had the Memphis Horns playing, Tom Dowd, the producer, was furious and did everything he could to tone it down for the record so you could not tell they were there. Duane at one point wanted to add a piano to the mix and also wanted Thom Ducette, their harmonica player, to join the band but Thom did not want to, but he loved playing with them.
A lot of their stuff is blusey jazz type stuff and they certainly influenced a lot of people.
I just looked this list, he left out some of the best stuff they ever did:
(1) Mountain Jam
(2) Stormy Monday
(3) You Don’t Love Me
(4) One Way Out
Then Gregg did some solo stuff that was really good also.
Back in the day they were the Band.
the lineup in the mid 2000’s was amazing. Greg was sober and had the double guitars of Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks.
Read the book “One Way Out”, everyone in the band told the story of the Allman Brothers. Dicky was fired because he was too hard to work with, drank a great deal and just was not a real team player. Lots of reasons. The book goes into a great deal of detail on all of it.
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