The Allman Brothers Band - A Career Retrospective

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i miss the beacon theater in march...

You and me both

What years did you go?

only a couple times..i think around 2003 0r 2004..we had tickets for a night but that was when gregg cancelled a lot of shows due to hepatitis.

We went in 2013 and 2014. We tickets to the last two shows in 2014 then they added two more. At the time of the shows, Gregg was out with bronchitis and he wasn’t even at our shows. So we thought we were going to be present for the last ABB Beacon shows. Then they added a run in the fall to make up for the canceled Spring shows. Didn’t get to go to any of those but it was a fucking stellar run.

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My biggest concert regret to this day is all those chances I had to see them at the Beacon and never pulled the trigger. So dumb.

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I just wish I had started sooner.

Never did get Hot ‘Lanta

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I just wish I had started sooner.

Never did get Hot ‘Lanta

I probably talked about going every year since maybe 2002 or 2003? It was on my radar.

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Yeah, I'm embarrassed I never made it to one.

I really wanted to go to The Brothers show in MSG the week covid hit. Tickets dropped to like $20 lol but I couldn't convince the s/o.

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Yeah, I'm embarrassed I never made it to one.

I really wanted to go to The Brothers show in MSG the week covid hit. Tickets dropped to like $20 lol but I couldn't convince the s/o.

Have you heard that show? It was a MONSTER

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Boston Common, Boston, MA 8/17/71

A couple of months down the road now as we continue to focus on as much of the Duane Allman era as possible. The quality of the recording here drops, though much less so the performance, which is quite consistent with what you come to expect at this point. Statesboro Blues opens, and the first few songs are quick jolts that serve as almost a warm up or at least set the initial expectations of trading guitar solos, with short full band jams before expanding into new territory in the longer jams, this time with You Don’t Love Me, Elizabeth Reed and Whipping Post, with a quick but awesome raw interlude that is the cover of Hoochie Coochie Man. Yet another awesome show.

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Live from A&R Studios, New York, NY 8/26/71

This might be one of the clearest live recordings we’ve gotten so far, and thank good was for that - this one is pure fire from the opening notes through a vicious Hot ‘Lanta. I mean the band is on fire. Elizabeth Rees, an exceptional Stormy Monday, You Don’t Love Me is great as always, and a killer Hot ‘Lanta. Even the first few songs you can sense the band is feeling good. One Way Out was particularly good there as well. One of the best shows thus far, and that’s saying a lot since each show on this journey so far has been really excellent.

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Have they already switched around the order of solos on Statesboro Blues with Dickey going first and Duane second?

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I frankly didn’t somehow notice but they must have since Duane Allman has maybe 2 months left at this point.

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Live from A&R Studios, New York, NY 8/26/71

Did you even notice they didn’t play Whipping Post?

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I did notice that - I actually felt like You Don’t Love Me sort of took its place if that makes sense. And Hot ‘Lanta finished it nicely. This is the second show I have listened to where they ended the show with it and I was really into it both times.

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That’s the one tune I never got and REALLYREALLY wish I had.

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I am more drawn to the first part of the song, and the transition over to the second part is awkward but other than that transition, it’s amazing to me and keeps getting better. The toughest for me tends to be Mountain Jam, I mean I appreciate it but 35-45 minutes is a long time by any measure and much of it is lost in a psychedelia that’s present but not as engaging as when the Dead did it.

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I’ve never really warmed to it either. I got it at exactly 50% of their shows I went to and it was so absolutely boring. They didn’t really draw it out to 45 minutes or anything, but when you add a bass solo and drum solos in there, it gets pretty damn long.

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That’s the one tune I never got and REALLYREALLY wish I had.

This was Hot ‘Lanta, btw. I got You Don’t Love Me a couple of times.

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The Allmans finally getting to the Mountain Jam fest in NY opened with Mountain Jam and was clearly very fitting but also a nice rendition, they return back to it to end the set relatively concisely. After a long weekend, the crowd response was also incredible, won't forget that.

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SUNY at Stonybrook 9/19/71

This is both the roughest and longest recording available so far. Clocking in at an hour and 46 mins - there’s some interest stuff here. The first glimpses of new material arrives with a nice long rendition of Blue Sky. Dreams is a 20 minute monster. Stormy Monday is absolutely killer here. As is In Memory of Elizabeth Reed to close. An excellent show as we slowly make our way into the final month of Duane Allman’s live performance career.

[super nintendo chalmers]

Yeah, I'm embarrassed I never made it to one.

I really wanted to go to The Brothers show in MSG the week covid hit. Tickets dropped to like $20 lol but I couldn't convince the s/o.

Have you heard that show? It was a MONSTER

Not the whole thing, I've watched this a few times and just get upset I didn't risk getting that first press of Covid.



But I just noticed the whole show is up to stream, I'm gonna jump in.

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Down in Texas ‘71 (Austin, TX 9/28/71)

9 days later, and the band’s in Austin, TX. The sound is not great, but you can make due with it - in remembrance of bootlegs, it even starts a chunk through Statesboro Blues. The band is in good form on this night, though the horns that are present on a few songs really make the recording sound worse, particularly on an otherwise impassioned Elizabeth Reed. The real highlights here are Stormy Monday, which continues to get better every time, and Done Somebody Wrong, which this might be my favorite version. Skipping Whipping Post again, this one closes with Hot ‘Lanta, which is really on fire, though the horn accents again come in too loud on the recording. With adequate patience, this is worth hearing, and the penultimate release on Spotify for Duane Allman.