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Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 5:09 am Post subject:
I just wanted apologize to the readers of this post who might have been off-put by my harsh comments regarding the current ABB line-up. Sometimes I let my emotions get the best of me, I should take my finger off the trigger more often when publicly posting my personal comments.
I'm just a big fans of the orignal ABB line-up. To me that's the ABB!
Joined: 08 Aug 2003 Posts: 943 Location: Terra Firma, Ether Sea
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 5:44 am Post subject:
Rod,
No apologies necessary.
You are totally within your rights to express your opinions and preferences. If we all liked the same things for the same reasons, this world would get very bland, very quickly, and life, art, entertainment, etc., would cease to evolve and grow... and the roots & histories would quickly be forgotten & lost.
Although I very much admire and appreciate what Derek, Warren, O'teil, and Mark bring to the ABB table, I find that my personal Allman interests still center on the "old stuff". (As I have told Gregg... the night I first heard an ABB tune, "Whipping Post", on the radio after lights out, in the Naval barracks in Millington, Tennessee, in late 1969, was a landmark event forever burned into my memory.) The heart of that band will always be, for me, the products of the Gregg, Duane, & Dickie days.
Even Gregg actually shares your feelings and has told me that, though he himself enjoys and appreciates where the ABB road has lead, he finds that he has a very difficult time writing for this band as it is such a different musical entity from what it started out as.
He tells me that is exactly what lead him to start his GA&F outlet for the music he writes now... the ABB's refusal to learn and play a song he wrote and felt very strongly about. Which, incidentally, he tells me went on to be his big hit off that first 'solo' album. _________________ B C-ing U!
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"This boy's diseased with rhythm!" -Bing Crosby (Road To Rio, '49)
Joined: 08 Aug 2003 Posts: 943 Location: Terra Firma, Ether Sea
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:43 am Post subject:
Believe it or not, I have just been informed that tonight's surprise special guest will be.....
ta daaaa.....
Esteban!
This should be quite an interesting evening. _________________ B C-ing U!
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"This boy's diseased with rhythm!" -Bing Crosby (Road To Rio, '49)
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Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 7:33 am Post subject:
juspasinby2003 wrote:
...He's going to need a bigger amp than the one he sells on HSC.
LOL! Aint' that the truth!
Gotcha! Much as Bert, ABB's manager, got several of us.
Bert's announcement of E's sit-in was a bit of a joke on everyone, as there were no regularly scheduled guests for last night other than the "Gregg Allman & Friends" horn section.
Esteban didn't make it, so we'll all just have to wait a little longer for his much anticipated appearance.
But as it turned out, come showtime, last night evolved into a "free-for-all" with a cavalcade of ligitimately surprise-guests... Derek's wife, Susan Tedeschi, on vocals... Derek's brother, Duane, on drums... legendary R&B, soul, & funk guitarist Cornell Dupree... Atlantic records/Muscle Shoals legend, bassist Jerry Jemmott... "the world's most recorded drummer", Bernard Perdie... and Derek Trucks band vocalist Mike Mattison... popping in and out, along with the GA&F horns, thruought the evening. _________________ B C-ing U!
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"This boy's diseased with rhythm!" -Bing Crosby (Road To Rio, '49)
Joined: 21 Jul 2003 Posts: 401 Location: College Station, TX
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 7:46 am Post subject:
Cornell Dupree, with Jemmott and Purdie?! Damn - Daved you are one lucky guy to be witness to all this. How do you concentrate on your job with all this going on around you?!
And you realize that these three guys were part of another historic concert at the Fillmore East in the early 70s - they were part of King Curtis' Kingpins when they backed up Aretha for her live album (and the King Curtis live LP that came out from the same series of shows). Did they do Memphis Soul Stew or Soul Serenade by any chance?
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Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 7:59 am Post subject:
telefunk1 wrote:
...Damn - Daved you are one lucky guy to be witness to all this. How do you concentrate on your job with all this going on around you?!
Now you know why I like my job.
telefunk1 wrote:
...Did they do Memphis Soul Stew... by any chance?
Yup! Sure did!
I set Cornell up thru one of Derek's Super-6's. _________________ B C-ing U!
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:27 am Post subject:
Last night's guests... Leslie West & Corky Laing. _________________ B C-ing U!
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Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 9:28 pm Post subject:
Tonight's ABB guests were, Susan Tedeschi, Ron Holloway, and Bruce Willis. _________________ B C-ing U!
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Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 10:10 pm Post subject:
I missed something. Did you say that Susan Tedeschi teamed up with Esteban? Wow, sorry I missed that.
More seriously, what's the review on Bruce Willis? Rumor has it that he once in a while shows up at the open jams at Cozy's, a small "everyone knows your name" joint in the San Fernando Valley that has a great blues calendar. I'm not about to make the 1-1/2 hour drive down there every night just to catch a glimpse ... but it could be fun if he ever shows up when I'm there.
And yes, Daved, inquiring minds want to know: When DO you sleep? _________________ - BlueRunner
Joined: 08 Aug 2003 Posts: 943 Location: Terra Firma, Ether Sea
Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 9:53 am Post subject:
Bruce was quite relaxed and his usual very pleasant and accessable self. I think he's filming a movie somewhere in the area as he was supposed to show up a few nights ago, but he told me that work ran late for him and by the time he was free he would never have been able to get to the Beacon in time to sit in. But he tied things up early yesterday and was able to come hang out with us.
He and I talked a bit about Robben, and about the studio he has built up in his L.A. "bungalow" (as he calls it) up off of Mulholland overlooking the valley. A comfortable place, with expensive high end recording gear set up behind glass walls in his living room. I usually run Robben's amp back into Bruce's bedroom which we use as an isolation chamber, when he records there.
Anyway, Bruce is not a Mark Ford by any means, but he plays competently and has an obviously very good time. It's always fun when he shows up at one of Robben's Hollywood gigs and sits in.
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Sleep? What is this "sleep" of which you speak and where can I buy some? _________________ B C-ing U!
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Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 10:13 pm Post subject:
ABB stretching out on "Nantucket Sleighride"? I have to agree that would have been quite spectacular, I'm sure. Probably my alltime favorite Mountain tune.
Unfortunately though, Johnny, it didn't happen.
However, they did do pretty ripping versions of "Summertime" and "Born Under A Bad Sign".
I knew Leslie would be there, but when I saw an unfamiliar drummer take the stage, I asked our drum tech who that was.
"Some guy named Corky", he replied.
"Corky Laing?!?!", I exploded?
"Yeah, I guess so", Jaimie responded, a little surprised by my reaction (Jaimie's just slightly too young to be familiar with the drum heroes of the Mountain, and West-Bruce-Laing period ).
So, I went over, introduced myself, and was, to my immense pleasure, assured by him that he actually was Corky. Chatted with him for a few minutes before having to dive into work. Hell of a nice guy, hell of a kick-ass drummer.
A fan review from the Allman Brothers website:
"...The rumor of Leslie West’s appearance has permeated the crowd, so it is only a mild surprise when he is set up center stage for set two. However, Corky Laing’s presence on Jaimoe’s kit (Laing being West’s crony from Mountain, one of the archetype power trios providing the blue print for the original Gov’t Mule) is news. The band eases into “Summertime,” the Gershwin tune from Porgy and Bess that some may remember from Janis Joplin’s soulful version; this arrangement evokes Joplin’s. West is all over it, with a stinging, buzzing tone and a take-no-prisoners attack, ratcheting up the energy level two notches from set one. Warren takes the ball, finds the pain in the song, milks it like a tongue on a toothache, then transforms it from pain into something good. Warren and Leslie are firmly camped out in the big, loud, dumb happy sludge place; with Leslie West on stage, you wouldn’t have it any other way. Derek steps forward, changes up, plays some ethereal gloomy slide, yielding to West. Derek is the blue angel, to the two devils on his left. Suddenly Derek is in that hi-toned, fast easy blue place. West turns his head up, looks at Derek, responds to what he hears , and the guitar guys in the back of the hall whoop it up as West lets loose.
Next, “Born Under a Bad Sign.” Warren and West trade vocals, each singing a verse. The band has morphed into a lumbering dinosaur—a very deft dinosaur. West stings on a blues solo, Warren picks it up, then they take it down with a stomp for Derek. As Derek works his spells, West walks over to him, right up to him, in his face like he’s observing a specimen in the wild, like he’s never seen one of these before. Then he engages, beginning to play with Derek as he steps back. Then Derek and West do the mind meld, meshing and flailing at each other, pulled forward by a sheer powerful magnetism leading back into the song’s riff and close. Whew." _________________ B C-ing U!
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Sometimes I let my emotions get the best of me, I should take my finger off the trigger more often when publicly posting my personal comments.
I missed something. Did you say that Susan Tedeschi teamed up with Esteban? Wow, sorry I missed that.
