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Wednesday, June 19. 2013

I am looking for a little Blue Sky this week

Heard these guys live and up close a couple of years ago. Good for the spirit. Middle daughter and I sat next to the rose garden while waiters passed drinks, and I had a cognac and a ceegar. Nice evening. Then we walked home hearing them play in the distance. They played til midnight. I just stayed long enough to hear Sweet Melissa and Blue Sky live. They can still have fun with musical themes, and they work hard to entertain you.

Do you miss Duane?

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Ahh, some good old country-jazz music.

#1 forest on 2013-06-19 19:43 (Reply)

"Live at the Fillmore East"

Best live album ever.

#2 scullman on 2013-06-19 21:09 (Reply)

I'm with you there. If not THE best, one of the top few. A real classic made more classic with Duane's passing shortly afterwards.

#2.1 mudbug on 2013-06-19 22:03 (Reply)

Ah yes, great stuff indeed, agreed.

But none them of them have/had ever experienced a .50 cal round aimed at their head. (if you're wondering, the NVA had many a .50 cal.)

I guess that is a point of view that will never be popular. Though I may make it from time to time anyhow.

Don't mean to be a downer... but there is so much ignored, it disturbs me, at times.

#3 XRay on 2013-06-19 22:32 (Reply)

Ray, it sounds like you did summer camp in Nam. My hat's off to you! Thank you for your service!

#3.1 mudbug on 2013-06-19 23:04 (Reply)

XRay, I agree with you. Greg shot himself in the foot to keep from going overseas along with turning in his drug dealer. It does cast a pall on the enjoyment of their music. Have you listened to The Tedeshi Trucks Band. It's Bubba Trucks nephew's band. Greg Allman has said Derek Trucks reminds him of Duane.

#3.2 shirley in Memphis on 2013-06-20 09:03 (Reply)

Oh yes, I miss Duane. So does Elizabeth Reed. Those wonderful old songs, like Statesboro Blues and Whipping Post, just aren't the same without him. The sweeter Allman Bros. tunes are fine too, but not as all-enveloping. Sweet Melissa and Blue Sky are best of them, and probably just fantastic on a summers night outdoor concert, but I really miss the two big guitars of the early band.

#4 MTF on 2013-06-19 23:47 (Reply)

I'm not the biggest Allman Bros. fan but Duane's slide guitar on the Fillmore East version of "Statesboro Blues" almost never fails to give me chill. That's what it's supposed to sound like.

Dickie Bett's non-slide solo (the middle break) is an example of a strength both he and Duane had - they both knew how to get great tone out of their amps.

#4.1 T.K. Tortch on 2013-06-20 10:15 (Reply)

I still listen to the "Mountain Jam" from "Eat a Peach" on a regular basis. Wonderful sonic landscape that.

#5 BlogDog on 2013-06-20 01:37 (Reply)

I know a lot of people who feel the same way. The Allman Bros. were like two bands in one - on the one hand they could punch out a tune like Stateboro Blues, short and sweet, the soloist have their say and out. On the other they could stretch out on something like Mountain Jam and keep it interesting instead of just collapsing into pointless noodling.

That said I like the "short, sweet" side of the Allmans better; but I'm like that about music in general.

#5.1 T.K. Tortch on 2013-06-20 10:38 (Reply)

Of course I still miss Duane - First heard the Brothers in 1969 and read about his death in the Pacific Stars & Strips in 1971. I wish he had driven his car that day.

#6 Greg Taylor on 2013-06-20 07:26 (Reply)

And Berry. Incredible bass lines.

#7 Don on 2013-06-20 07:54 (Reply)

Saw them in Denver in the early 90's at an outside show; an all day affair and they were the last band to play.
Hot, sunny day. HOT. Not a cloud in the sky.
This song started, and one teeny, tiny little cloud starts making it's way across the sky. Song plays on......as the cloud covers the sun, providing one brief respite from the blaze, the band stopped, the entire audience heaved a sigh of relief and as soon as the cloud moved off, the band started up again at the same spot............
Neatest thing I ever saw.

#8 NJ Mike on 2013-06-20 11:34 (Reply)

It's fine to miss Duane. But if you don't stop to listen to Derek Trucks you are missing something special and superb. Effortlesly glides from slide to picking, even more impressively is a great listener to what the other musicians are doing and manages to complement and elevate them at the same time. Saw them at Beacon Theater in March - even when they had guests playing he would be watching them intently, clearly seeing if there was anything he could learn. Which, I believe, is the mark of a true artist - knowing you can always be better.

#9 Dunque on 2013-06-20 13:09 (Reply)

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Wednesday, June 19. 2013

I am looking for a little Blue Sky this week