Fitzomania!

AllmanFitz!

Fitz!

I’m still a big fan a Layla after all these years.

Me too Fitz!

Duane’s Loan Me A Dime with Boz Scaggs still blows me away every time I hear it.

Duane! Jerry! Jimi!

Funny, I got on a YouTube kick today too – and it’s all your fault :) Watched some early/mid-Dead (check them out at the Playboy club in 69 for a hoot), Jimmy Cliff (I Can See Clearly Now is always a feel-gooder!), Burning Spear, Marley, and some Monterey Pop 67. Now I will go watch that Whipping Post…

btw, love Jimi and Duane.

Having lead a privileged life, I heard Stevie Ray Vaughan more times than I can count and cherish each memory.

And BB King, Eric Clapton…

Yeah I got to admit Loan Me a Dime is way up there too.

Yeah I have to admit Loan Me a Dime is way up there too.

Duane rocked!

Statesboro Blues and his duet with Boz Skaggs on Loan Me A Dime my alltime favorites.

OT -

I responded to a right-wing loon’s column that she titled “Gay agenda means less freedom for all.”

My response to it is here.

Side note: I mention Pacha so, Pacha, if you like, I’ll remove the reference to you.

I thought a little music would be a nice respite for the holiday, and certainly from the attack of the bedwetters. Lordy the idea that the war on terra is just a big con sets off all their little wingnut alarm bells, doesn’t it?

Dana- hoping you are reading here, and not downstairs. I can access the net 2 ways- edu server and mindspring server. I can’t get the pix via edu server right now, but can via other. This also happened the last time there was a changeover (when FDL went off Blogger) but the problem did correct itself eventually. I remember others commenting on problems with edu servers before. So, that altered me to the server prob. I don’t know what kind of server you are using but that can be a prob., and yes, it does fix itself eventually, in my prev. experience.

freeperpunkin’ should be considered a sport.

thanks for the spiritualized video…i love them and had never seen this before…it’s funny, my friends tell me that they need to have a youtube intervention for me…

Thank you, Jane, for tonight’s musical selection.

Matt O.: No problem.

I’d like to ask anyone still tempted to feed the trolls downstairs to let them starve. Their spewings have already nicely supported the main point of the post below, and baiting them serves no further purpose. Plus, it’s late, and I’m tired of moderating!

;-)

I remember seeing Queen in CA and how dissapointed I was. A lot of it was just playacting to there studio recording. Always good to see a bonafide performance band.

I bailed when you did pach, I get tired of eating rice cakes, whats the point?

How does that moderate thing work? Do you have to read every post before it goes up?

Pach- can you close out comments on that post? Might save some grief. Not the usual approach, just a suggestion.

Eat A Peach!
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My personal top ten rock guitarits:
(in no particular order, after Jimi)

Hendrix
Allman
Zappa
Santana
Garcia
Edge
Clapton
Page
Stills
Barbara Keith

Nice diversion. I’ll have to remember to show this to my son tomorrow after school. He’s 10 and into guitars in a huge way. My husband and I are repeatedly shocked at what he’s absorbing. (But it’s all good…..) At the present it is Redd Volkaert. I had to clue him in about maybe it wouldn’t be the best thing in the world to go to school and tell his 4th grade teacher he is learning a song called “Telewacker”. Innocence is so fleeting…..

Pach — I’ll leave it up to you but close the comments section if you want.

Isn’t anyone going to make fun of me for Barry Gibb? I’ll just be sitting here, waiting for my snark….

The thing I love about Duane Allman is the melodic structure of his solos. He plays an idea, repeats it, develops it, and then uses the end of the developed version as the beginning of the next idea. Instead of a succession of hot licks you get a continuous narrative arc.

It’s a pretentious comparison, but compare the melody of the 4th movement of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony (the last movement — not the famous “fate knocking” movement) to some of the solos from Fillmore East, especially Whipping Post and Elizabeth Reed. There are similarities in the way each melodic phrase is developed from the one before it.

Jane, who is Garry Bibb?

Jane,

I just couldn’t bring myself to even mention your link to the BeeGees. But now that you have…I guess we were all young once.

EPU’ed — Hugh #124 (on the previous thread): I think it’s that they start out with the same legitimate gripes that many of us have, about their economic situation becoming more uncertain and such, and then they encounter people who tell them that there are people who are to blame for it. Their rage is constantly being stoked against whatever “other” is currently useful by these people who have no intention of actually doing anything to improve their situation, because the real causes aren’t that simple, and they mostly lie with the financial backers of the people stoking the rage.

Jane, Thanks, this is Manna from Heaven! Duane was so good. If he’d never slipped a coricidin bottle on to his left ring finger he’d still belong in the pantheon of great guitarists. As great as he was on slide, he doesn’t get nearly enough credit for his straight playing. He was a monster. His solo on Elizabeth Reid from Live at the Fillmore just burns it down. He had it all. Taste touch and tone.

Push Push with Herbie Mann is a great Album. Their collaboration was really nice. The stuff everyone else has mentioned is all good. His Goin’ Down Slow was great, too.

Law and Music. Nice touch. Bush names any more Bret Kavanaughs to the Court, we’re all gonna feel like we’ve been tied to the whippin’ post.

Merci, Valley. I only have edu, so I’ll have to wait it out. Funny thing in the previous comments section–My question and Jane’s answer are flipped, and it appears, as teddysanfran says (I think) that Jane is prescient.

So, I have my rock guitarist favs. But, “Weather Report” was kinda like a revolving door for great ones (sorry I didn’t mean that to be negative) and I loved Weather Report, and thus it was that I happened to recognize Joe Zawinul checking in just in front of me for a PanAm flight to London. More to the story… much more…

Wow, I just got back from readin’ all that foolish commenting on Pach’s post. As my grandmother asked at one of her more-than-two-martini soirees, “Who invited all these tacky people?”

Did somebody leave the troll door open? That was fun reading, in a way, but must have been horrible in real time! Are you all okay?

poormary at 24, are you in Austin? Or has Redd Volkaert’s reputation reached beyond the limits of our fair city?

dana- I saw that flip too! very strange. If we figure it out, maybe Jane can use it more, in future.

omg, BG is adorable. took me right back to loving him in a big way. thanks, Jane

Teddy 36 — I KNEW you would get my back. Merci.

dana – appearances are not always deceiving….

tsf @# 33

That was a blast. I’d like to hang with mfi and stand back to back and last as long as we can. Damn that brings back some swell memories (bigass grin over here)

Oh, Jason Pierce. I was in the front row for a Spiritualized gig just after LAGWAFIS came out (and Kate Radley had left the band, making her responsible for the year’s two best albums) and couldn’t hear a thing for the next three days. Such bliss it was.

Good stuff, Jane.

It was a hole in the music, when he died.

I really liked his sweet, restrained, work on “Jessica”, best.

I didn’t listen to too much Rock; I was more into blues, but I think Clapton’s break on “Crossroads”, when he was with Cream, is one of THE great electric guitar riffs. It was so clean and coherent.

Just my 2c, but a little wild chordslapping goes a long way.

TSF- Did somebody leave the troll door open?

Yes, probably! In this instance, it was quite illuminating to see all of the troll comments, so focused and relentless. That kind of discussion is very educational, imo.

Jane, no one is going to “diss” you for Gibbs ’cause your ears are your own biz…and as someone who appreciates Duane, your ears can’t be all bad LOL!

Thanks for that Whipping Post – noone sounds like Duane and Dickey together – whatta sound! Love the Spiritualized as well (and ignoring the BeeGees :))

Just found some good Robert Randolph clips on YouTube as well, hot young pedal steel player – just ripping! Saw him late night at Vegoose.

Now for the news, haven’t read last thread. Did anyone post on the 3500 addtl troops being sent into Iraq that is on the front page of WaPo? Was this a late night, Mem. Day, newsdrop?

I guess that “when they stand up, we’ll stand down” thing still isn’t going so well. Incompetent #&@($ CIC!

What’s most amazing about the Allmans is how extraordinary they have been in the decades since Duane’s death. I used to see them every year at the Beacon Theater in NYC in the 90s, and they invariably blew the place down.

IMHO, though, listing any guitarist, including Hendrix, above Jimmy Page is just a joke. His achievements as a songwriter and performer on the guitar stand alone, beyond compare.

Love the Bee Gees… man, could they sing.

Zero snark and love to Kobe.

The first thing I ever saw on YouTube was Focus performing Hocus Pocus. This well-known song from the 1970s has the triple threat of flute, whistling and yodeling. Songs like this just aren’t made anymore.

“Did somebody leave the troll door open?”

I guess.

You guys are too nice. :o)

At Gilliard’s, they’ve about stopped showing up. We rack ass in a heartbeat.

Of course, it helps that practically every fucking syllable out of their mouths is being exposed by real events, as arrant bullshit.

Kinda cuts down on their talking points. :o)

TeddySanFran and VG–I’m kinda spooked now.
My husband won a dance contest, dancing to Jimi Hendrix. Glad I missed that spectacle. Full moon that night.

If you miss Duane Allman, you can get a little taste of similarly brilliant guitar playing from Derrick Trucks. I believe he may be the son of the Allman Brother’s drummer, so it’s all in the pedigree. Give him a listen.

reviser’s post reminds me:

Jane, curious what you think of Duane’s replacement (so many decades later), Warren Haynes?

There is a youtube clip of Robert Randolph with Warren at this years Jazzfest, btw. Duane is obviously in the pantheon of greats, but Warren is no slacker. Have seen him in various configurations and he’s always amazing. Love him best in his own band, Govt Mule, but he can play with anyone.

Jane, the daughter I’m giving away in Lost Wages on the sixth went to her first concert with me. It was actually during a baseball game here in OKC. The band was the Beach Boys. Now she’s all Goth (my daughter) likes all the metal bands and as a model has fans worldwide. She still gets a little misty whenever she hears the Beach Boys.

Funny how music is that magic carpet that travels not just through space but time as well. I say Foghat and you think of a time and a place and the people you were with. Bee Gees, c’mon not so bad.

tanbark- this was a “full moon” incident, without the full moon. It was worth seeing their comments, in such a concentrated form. In general, random trolls get weeded out.

reviser — I always felt Greg Allman got overlooked in the shadow of his brother, he’s a remarkable vocalist. Last time I saw him his voice was going, but for decades he’s been an incredible blues singer. I just LUV Midnight Rider.

Come on, more Barry Gibb abuse, I can handle it…

Sandia #34 – We are south of Austin, but Redd’s reputation preceded him before his move to Austin. My husband is a hardcore classic country and bluegrass nut but our son just absorbs it all. I guess it’s the age. It’s hard to find a venue to take a 10 year old to, but we got a chance to see Redd and Heybale at the Blanton MOA opening last month. The whole band was nice and Redd was quite the gentleman to Jes. He told us some of the other places he plays that are good for kids and also that he does an afternoon gig at the Continental Club.

Sorry to hear about Clifford Antone’s passing last week. I’m sure the whole community is taking it hard.

I first heard the Allman Bros. on late night radio in Anchorage, Alaska. I bought “Eat a Peach” right after it came out. Most of that album is from the same Filmore concert as Whipping Post. Later I bought the “Live at Filmore East” album. It is my all-time favorite album. Over the years I’ve worn out a vinyl copy, a casette copy and I’m now finishing off a CD. I never knew there was video from that concert.

Derek Trucks is another hot young’ un! He can bring a variety of styles and genres to the table, very impressed.

Apparently, in addition to having a marriage that makes pundits drool, Hillary Clinton also stands for nothing and is open to charges of personal ambition:

The WaPo chimes in on this month’s Topic A:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..01029.html

Bushco in a stanza:

>>>>>>>>>>>>>
jive talkin’

It’s just your jive talkin’
You’re telling me lies, yeah
Jive talkin’
You wear a disguise
Jive talkin’
So misunderstood, yeah
Jive talkin’
You really no good

I luv the Beach Boys!!!

Jane – no disrespect for the Barry Gibbs but addicting me to YouTube is really unfair!

and Reviser – thank you for mentioning the Beacon … I have had this inability to remember the name of that place for years now and you just popped it back into my synapses … merci! saw Marley there way back – great place (as was the Fillmore East … though I never did the Allman’s thing … now Jeff Beck with Rod Stewart fronting at Fillmore East – that was hot!)

Where do I sign up to abuse Barry Gibb? Oh, that’s not what you meant…

Duane Allman and Barry Oakley

the free birds

and hey revisor at 45

sorry dude, no jokes here

Jimmi Hendrix

Duane Allman

Jimmy Paige

Eric Clapton

that’s the order that history will keep them aranged in

Jimmi didn’t write music, he breathed it

and Duane Allman, well, look at the reception more than 30 years after …

sorry, jimmy paige is only number 3

Sounds like momma wants a spanking, you naughty naughty girl.

Speaking of Michael Moriarty/Ben Stone, Moriarty’s wikipedia entry claims he’s going to run for president (of the United States) in ‘08. (Despite the fact that he lives in Canada, whence he exiled himself after threatening a lawsuit against Janet Reno, who allegedly found Law & Order “offensively violent”.) His recent blog posts on his website apparently contain “scathing denunciations of Bill Clinton, Thanaticism, abortion, embryonic stem cell research, anti-Catholicism, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, George W. Bush, both major U.S. political parties, Halliburton, the College of Cardinals, and most of Catholic theology…”

Not too bizarre.

Teddy 62 — When I put up that link I sincerely thought “Teddy is going to be the only one who understands this…” And of course, you do ;)

Jane, I was in a clothing store in Santa Cruz a few months ago and heard a truly lovely Bee Gees song I’d never heard before. Had to go up to the girl at the register to find out what it was. She didn’t know, but they were playing a live album from many many years ago. This song was way better than any of the Greatest Hits we all know and secretly enjoy. It was so pretty I’m probably going to wind up making my first Bee Gees purchase since the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack — which I got for my Bar Mitzvah and didn’t pay for, thank you very much…

Dickie Betts has become a monumental lead guitarist. Somewhere out there with a copy of “A Night at the Beacon Theater” please link us to the recording of “Blue Sky”…masterpiece.

lists are impossible! fun, but impossible. How do you compare a Jimi or a Duane to a Garcia or a Zappa? Or a John McLoughlin?

VG likes the Beach Boys? Surely not. whoda thunkit. (pinching yer cute cheeks VG)

No Bee Gees abuse here. I’ve loved their falsetto crooning since fourth grade.

VG — I’m a big Beach Boys fan too. Stood next to the piano while Brian Wilson played in a bar at Sundance one. Helped him push a piano down the hall in a recording studio as well, I don’t really remember why…

I really liked his sweet, restrained, work on “Jessica”, best.

I didn’t listen to too much Rock; I was more into blues, but I think Clapton’s break on “Crossroads”, when he was with Cream, is one of THE great electric guitar riffs. It was so clean and coherent.

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Jessica is Dickie Betts. Duane was already gone when that was done but you’re right about Clapton’ Crossroads solos. Particularly, the second one. He just burns. They played really well for their reunion last year. I was pleasantly surprised. They smoked.

And we’ll have fun, fun, fun, when the chimp goes away.

lalala.

And patriot63: no sweat, I hear you, and I worship the Allmans — but it’s hard to believe Zeppelin won’t emerge on top in rock history; nobody wrote better songs than Page. Except maybe McCartney.

And Liz Phair, whitechocolatespaceegg. ;)

I don’t think you really need a reason to help Brian Wilson push a piano, Jane. I will dream about this vision and get back to you another day!

Had the chance to see the original Allman Brothers before I had ever heard of them, at Shippensburg State. The back up band didn’t show up, so we were treated to a bunch of guys in jeans and tee shirts, who just stood there and played, with no lightshow or flashy theatrics. They blew that place apart for 3 hours. Duane and Dickie Betts played unbelievable harmony to each other, and Berry Oakley, who also died in a motorcycle wreck, played a mean bass. They died just a few months later. (Duane & Berry) Such a tragic loss, like so many others. That said, SRV was the best of them all, seemingly able to play for hours without ever repeating a riff or running out of new places to explore.

Steve Howe
Johnny Winter
Jan Ackerman

‘Death to the liberal insect that preys on the life of the people’

;>)

If you miss Duane Allman, you can get a little taste of similarly brilliant guitar playing from Derrick Trucks. I believe he may be the son of the Allman Brother’s drummer, so it’s all in the pedigree. Give him a listen.

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He’s Butch’s nephew. He’s got Duane’s slide parts down but he’s really good in his own right. He’s got his own band, too. He’s also married to Susan Tedeschi who’s no slouch herself. Naturally, he does some stuff with her, too.

Excuse me while I kiss the sky of tomorrow’s NYT piece on speaker Pelosi: “She ought to be a big component of the fall campaign,” said Ed Rogers, a Republican strategist and lobbyist. “There are some Democrats who make really good bad guys.”

Ms. Pelosi, the California Democrat and House minority leader, lends herself to easy caricature by Republicans.”

I love this post, btw– I am going to have a hard time sleeping with all the music swirling in my head, though. Sweet rock and roll and blues!

Thank you Jane and friends!

Sorry if I offended the ladies. Not my intent. Sometimes I aim at humor and miss widely.

My list of guitar greats:

Jimi Hendrix
Eric Clapton
Jimmy Page
Duane Allman
Jeff Beck
Tommy Bolin
Paul Kossoff
Joe Walsh
Joe Satriani
Carlos Santana
Craig Chaquico
Russ Freeman
Lee Ritenour…

I’d better stop now ’cause I’ve been a “lead guitar” fanatic all my life and this list might go on for a while…LOL!

tanbark @ 10:09 pm (#48) – Of course, it helps that practically every fucking syllable out of their mouths is being exposed by real events, as arrant bullshit.

I sometimes wonder if they’ve been awake the last couple of years. One guy was saying he knew Al Qaeda is shrinking in Iraq because some intercepts say so. And where did word of these intercepts come from? Hello!!

The other thing I was wondering is “And they call us angry?” These guys seem to hate anyone who disagrees with them.

Link to NYT article about my Congresswoman:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05…..elosi.html

Oilfieldguy– huh? I wasn’t offended, if that was for me. Just make sure the cheeks you pinch are above my waist!!! Metaphorically or otherwise.

Blank Kludge @ 9:47 pm (#23) and
Mad Dogs @ 10:30 pm (#82)

Those are good lists, at least for rock and metal. I’d add Pete Townsend, Mick Fleetwood, Dick Dale, and Stevie Ray Vaughn to the list, but they’d be near the bottom of that pile.

I — not a Clapton fan or even close — have long maintained that the supreme irony of Clapton’s career was that he wasn’t even the best guitarist on his most famous recording: “Layla.”

Duane was indeed special.

Robert Cray could play with the big dawgs, too.

Jane, loved the Duane Allman video. Too bad it’s not in a downloadable format.

Cujo, Mick Fleetwood is a drummer.

For decades I have thought that if the three top rock albums of all time were to be listed they would be Allmans Live at the Fillmore, Layla, and there would be no third.

I’m with Rat Bastahd:
“lists are impossible! fun, but impossible. How do you compare a Jimi or a Duane to a Garcia or a Zappa? Or a John McLoughlin?”

Even if you limit it to Rock/Blues electric, what do you do with Dick Dale? And if you allow acoustic and jazz into the mix, how high do you put the imortal Django Reinhart?

Lists are fun, but their best use is to provoke long, drunken debates, which end with everyone deciding they are the best friends ever.

And patriot63: no sweat, I hear you, and I worship the Allmans %u2014 but it’s hard to believe Zeppelin won’t emerge on top in rock history; nobody wrote better songs than Page. Except maybe McCartney.
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Clearly, that’s a matter of opinion, reviser. Page is a first-rate guitar player, but he can be pretty sloppy, too. His greatest strength is as a conceptualist and a producer. He had a vision of Zep, he put it together and he sure knows how to make a record.

But as a guitar player, Hendrix is better. Clapton is better. Beck is better. Knopfler is better. Gilmour is better. Santana is better. Duane Allman was better.

And as a songwriter, well, for openers, there’s this guy named Dylan.

angie @ 10:37 pm (#88) – He could, indeed. I just don’t think of him as being in the same group as the others. His style is very different.

chris @ 10:37 pm (#90) – Brain hurts. Apparently, I enjoyed the eighties more than I should have. Real answer is Lindsey Buckingham.

Jane-

Yeah, Duane and Dickey. Couple of years ago, Rolling Stone reported that Dickey had played for a private party for Republican delegates in NYC during the convention and he wrote a letter to the editor clarifying that he had no affiliation with them and if he had known it he would have cancelled the gig!

Ray McGovern on Randi Rhodes today said that all one can say about Colin Powell is that he’s a “nice man without the courage of his convictions”. Well, besides the conviction that you never disrespect the chain of command even tho’ that chain is headed by a chimperor.

Wail on, Skydog!

Captain and Tenille?

I just skimmed the no “war on terror” thread. I hope you guys think about that next time you want to call me a troll.

chris’ list of three great or underrated guitarists:

- Richard Thompson
- Frank Zappa
- Mike Campbell

chris’ list of three overrated guitarists:

- Jimmy Page (by far the worst)
- Eric Clapton
- Eddie Van Halen (an inventor, sure, but it counts what you invent)

Mad Dogs says

May 29th, 2006 at 10:30 pm

Nice list. Where’s Larry Carlton? Robbie Robertson? Garcia was no slouch.

Duane is definitely my fav American guitar player, aside from Jimi, that is. Brits? Well, there we run into problems…. Keef, Jimmy, where do you start?

Oh Jane, thank you. This brought up and caught in my throat that exuberant feeling of knowing all. things. are. possible.

Didn’t realize til now how much I’d been missing it.

Several years ago, when I lived in L.A., I used to see live bands all the time — one of my favorites in the late ’80s/early ’90s was a group called Bloc, which sounded like the Red Hot Chili Peppers would if they all had the chops to play avant-garde jazz (as the musicians in Bloc did), fronted by a female R&B belter as lead vocalist.

Their main set would always be original material, but they would do cover versions during their encores … and the most frequently requested was an incendiary version of “Whipping Post.”

Yeah, TeddySanFran, what did you think of the Pelosi article?

I don’t think Pelosi should be giving interviews unless she gets liquored up first. Certainly wouldn’t diminish her incoherency and it might give her some passion.

chris’ fourth seriously underrated guitarist: Bonnie Raitt

Apologies for the earlier omission.

Al Right!!
http://politicalwire.com/archi….._ca50.html and
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/p…..splead.htm

Not certain whether it is spin….but it is sweet music:

Staffers from the National Republican Congressional Committee are quietly telling GOP House members to prepare for a possible loss in the June 6 special election to fill the seat of Randy “Duke” Cunningham, now in prison for taking bribes. The Southern California district is heavily Republican, but some GOP insiders believe that Democrat Francine Busby will defeat former GOP Rep. Brian Bilbray and go on to win a full term in November.

G’nite peeples

An under-rated blues lead guitarist is Mick Taylor, who was brilliant in lifting the Stones into peak shape, was stiffed over songwriting credits, and then went nowhere fast. But in his prime, there was nobody I liked better at filling the lead break.

southpaw @ 10:41 pm (#96) – Well, besides the conviction that you never disrespect the chain of command even tho’ that chain is headed by a chimperor.

Two problems with that, of course. First of all, you’re not supposed to follow illegal orders. Inciting a war without cause strikes me as illegal, at least according to the U.N. Charter. I know, who cares?

Second, he’s not in the army anymore. Of course, I spent a good deal of time reminding ex-army people that they weren’t in the army anymore and could speak their minds and even refuse to do stuff if they felt strongly enough, but still, that’s part of being a civilian. You might say it’s even a responsibility when you’re in a position to prevent a disaster.

So, I’d go with not having the courage of his convictions, or else he just didn’t have serious convictions.

Well, I liked that the NYT has come up with a new word “bogywoman:”
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Asked why she makes such a popular Democratic bogyman, or bogywoman, Ms. Pelosi shrugged, smirked and, finally, smiled.

“I am an Italian-American Catholic grandmother,” she said, “very traditional in terms of values.”
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I expect we’ll be hearing that word more and more; I’m rather surprised the NYT didn’t test-drive it in last week’s Hillary article….

damn, that was good. I was one of those fortunate few who saw the Allman Bros at the Fillmore in 12/69. They were 2nd on the bill to Blood Sweat & Tears (I was expecting Al Kooper, but we didn’t have an internet or even up to date news about rock bands back then unless you could find a copy of the Voice down in DC or had acess to the fledgling Rolling Stone, which I didn’t). After hearing the Allmans, being forced to endure David Clayton Thomas was too much for me, so I left, buzzing with the power and the glory of southern rock and blues. But I came back the next night, just to see the Allmans again.

More on Duane-
On this video Jane has linked, for those who don’t know, Duane is on Gibson Les Paul and tie dye with blone-ish hair and Dickey Betts is on Gibson SG with brown hair and takes the second solo. This is from the Fillmore East in Sept. of 1970 during the same period where Duane was recording Layla with Clapton in Miami. Here the Allman Brothers Band is playing as if their lives depended on it. But, then, they always did back then. Very UNcommercial and punkish in attitude if not sound.

Southpaw 96- Great story about Dickey!

Also, Johnny Marr (Smiths) and John Squire (STone Roses)are quite good.

Underrated: Knopfler is the true “slowhand” imo.

MadDog #82, I get to see Chaquico every so often as he lives in my small town.

chris’ list of three great or underrated guitarists:

- Richard Thompson
- Frank Zappa
- Mike Campbell

chris’ list of three overrated guitarists:

- Jimmy Page (by far the worst)
- Eric Clapton
- Eddie Van Halen (an inventor, sure, but it counts what you invent)

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Mike Campbell is like a God to me. The man has never wasted a single note. He knows that you know you’re good when you know what to leave out.

I think you’re a bit harsh on Clapton. I can understand a bit of what have you done for me lately, but to totally dismiss the man’s contributions is like dissing Willie Mays ’cause he couldn’t play centerfield now. He’s 75 years old! In his day, he was the best that ever took the field. He still is.

Jane—I hear they’re looking for a moderator at this site. It seems they were pretty impressed with your reputation for being ruthless with trolls.

Swopa 103 — A really good female R&B belter singing “whipping post?” Now THAT I would like to see.

RGB 117 — thanks. I’ve been waiting all night for that ;)

These would also make my list of excellent lead guitarists:

Larry Carlton
Mark Knopfler
Nils Lofgren
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Johnny Winter
Rick Derringer
Mick Taylor

rat bastahd # 144: Wouldn’t mind stoppin’ over to Craig’s for a listen myself :-)

Late Nite, so I’ll cross the line.

But I could almost swear I read JH or RH saying every woman likes a man with a slowhand, wrt to Fitz, that is, just let the man take his time.

Cujo @ 110

Yeah that’s true about Powell. I should have included what McGovern said about him basically hitching his wagon to the neo-cons and I guess him not being able to divorce himself from his military career. Sad.

My oops! That was rat bastahd # 114

Clapton in his yardbirds/cream years was awesome … later pop boring imho

Jeff Beck BeckOla can still make my heart race
(but these days that’s a scary sensation)

Robbie Robertson would round out my guitar heroes

and Mad Dog – did you ever see the Mad Dogs and Englishman film of the Leon Russell tour with Joe Cocker, et al … wonder if it’s on YouTube? I remember it fondly but not sure it would stand up today.

That was a real treat – thanks. Love me some Allman Bros. Epic album … In Memory of Elizabeth Reed….Stormy Monday….Whipping Post…Trouble No More

Dickey Betts was/is no slouch with the axe, either. (why do I have this awful feeling he’s become a Charlie Daniels style redneck? hope that’s wrong).

And pray tell what did Gregg Allman see in Cher?

And how about an integrated band from the deep southg in 1970? That’s a far cry from Lynard Skynard.

Still, it comes back to Duane. Damn that peach truck.

Jane…didn’t really want to give you any ideas but somebody had to do it.

October 15, 1971, The Allman Brothers played the Syria Mosque, in Pittsburgh (now a parking lot), in a show co-produced by Carnegie Mellon and Pitt. I had a CMU press pass, and walked in the back door and waited on stage for them to start. There are about 20 pretty good shots of the band- all taken on stage. Some from behind the amps, some from the edge of the stage. I was especially tuned to Duane, in what turned out to be his next to last concert.

Even now, almost 35 years later, I look at them practically every day. Anyone want to see them?

Gather I missed some troll-bashing tonight?

A really good female R&B belter singing “whipping post?” Now THAT I would like to see.

It was truly incredible. You could light up a small city with the energy she poured into singing that song.

punaise @ 126-

see my post at 96 re: Dickey

I’ve seen him recently and he plays for three hours with a bunch of young whippersnappers and takes breaks to give the audience a chance to go “burn one” :) No Charlie Daniels-esque flag waving there but they do go way back together. Ever heard “Long Haired Country Boy”? That’s Dickey on dobro.

Duane Fanatic @ 128–

Hell yes!!! How can we get that going?

siun at # 124 did you ever see the Mad Dogs and Englishman film

If I did, those particular brain cells have long gone LOL!

I took my handle from Noel Coward’s “Mad Dogs and Englishmen” (as American analog to the British Empire). See http://www.sabrizain.demon.co.uk/malaya/coward.htm

Mad Dog…thanks for adding Nils to the list. Probably not Top 10, but certainly way up there. Who else can list both Crazy Horse and the E Street Band on their resume?

puppethead 47

Focus performing Hocus Pocus

the pinnacle of ’70s Dutch prog rock!
(Jehtro Tull did well with the flute in a prog context, but alas, no yodeling)

I think Johnny Winter is playing at the Backyard or Stubbs sometimes this summer. His “And Live” album was the first real electric blues I ever heard. I’m determined to make that show. He did a real service to the Blues helping with the revival of Muddy Waters career in the early 80s.

If you want to hear some stripped down to the essence soul-shakin’ blues by the man who penned many classics, check out “I Am the Blues” by Willie Dixon (who, granted, was a bass player). BTW, his songs have been covered by everbody from Led Zeppelin (Dixon won a lawsuit over “You Need Love” being appropriated as “Whole Lotta Love” in th 80s) and the Allman Brothers to The Jesus and Mary Chain.

I’ve had “One Size Fits All” in heavy rotation on my mp3 player of late, and not only could Zappa bend strings as good as any body, his genius in arrangement and production values makes my car stereo sound as good as my home setup. And the Mothers had a “Live at Fillmore” album, too. Mud Shark, anyone?

Dick Dale. Absolutely.

…and Keith Richard. ‘Sympathy’ smokes. n’ ‘Gimme Shelter’

Whoever played for Janice in Big Brother was ok, too.
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Well, I can’t add anything to what Hugh had to say about ‘visitors’. I can point to my own experience at a commercial Mac site that includes a ‘political’ area. After the Katrina hit left Bush under 40% JAR, I left a comment (in a thread about Bush’s polling) that I didn’t think he’d ever see the other side of 40% I was engaged with vitriol; eventually, my (unknown to them, deceased) parents were demeaned. That told me all I needed.
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Local PBS showing American Experience that intertwines two stories on Oct 17, 1967: One a fierce ambush firefight that left 60 plus out of 140 plus U.S. dead in Vietnam. Along with the Dow protest in Madison. Interspersed with interviews of participants, friends and family of the soldiers. And professors and students and Madison police.

Not too surprisingly…some of the vets are both tortured by that fight and angry at the job they were given to do.

Also, not surprisingly, some UW/Madison students that had no opinion (NOT ‘activists’) were RADICALIZED by the police action against the student protest.

southpaw 130 – thanks, glad I was wrong

26 obsessed says:

May 29th, 2006 at 9:51 pm

Clearly, for someone who had little to no formal musical training as far as I know, Duane had a very sophisticated natural understanding of melody, harmony and counterpoint. His ability to work as a session man at Muscle Shoals bears that out. He had to be able to handle all types of music in minimal takes. He also worked with jazzers like Herbie Mann and King Curtis successfully. The guy was just a monster talent.

As great as Duane was, I think it’s important to note just how good Gregg is. He’s got one of the all-time great voices and he’s a real solid keyboard player. He’s also a top notch songwriter.

Intergrated band from the south with a serious Coltrane/B.B.King fixation. Lovely music. One of my favorite moments from Duane was his tossing off K.Curtis’s Soul Serenade after Curtis passed away, believe it’s on a version of You Don’t Love Me. Such soul……
Oh. Hendrix. Allman. Santana. Page.

punaise and others- the trolls are still at it. just caught the latest comment on Pach’s article:

Your post is a war on coherent thought. Tell me who’s the bigger enemy, militant Islamist extremists or Bush?

Oh, gee, I guess the guy’s got his mind made up, and I have too. Just so happens we come to different conclusions.

Thanks, Jane. It put me in mind of my favorite, the “Brothers & Sisters” autumn album with the all-time masterpiece guitar instrumental “Jessica,” “Pony Boy Carry Me Home,”Ramblin’ Man,” “Southbound,” all these sounds that could not’ve been created but for Duane, even though it had to follow his passing.

VG – OK, guess I better do a fly-by to catch the flavor. Will try not to dwell.

TeddySanFran 111

Yes, but does Nancy Pelosi have a lemon yellow pantsuit?

coriolanus—

Huge hugs and waves from me!!!! It is totally in keeping with the spirit of FDL Late Nite, and not a blog faux pas at all, if you wish to give us an update on Ashland, Cyrano, etc. etc. Please?

Duane fanatic 127 WOUld love to see the pics and am also from the burgh! LOOOVEd seeing Duane and wasn’t Dicky last seen running from the police in FLA after brandishing a knife at wifey?

Agree with the gist of the lists but think that Jeff Beck is lord and he IS STILL making completely original and brilliant noise.

Bless you for posting that. It made my night. What a blessed relief from the daily grind of outrage and agravation.

V.G.

Thanks for the shout out. We are in tech, putting clothes, lights and sound on the body. He’s looking rather good, knock on wood, as if he’s getting ready for a lunar trip. It’s all a mystery so one hopes it all comes out o.k. And of course by rehearsing two shows in rep I’ve no time for keeping up, let alone doing the Roots Project.:( We preview in two weeks, open in three weeks. It’s all good as they say!

87chris says

May 29th, 2006 at 10:36 pm
I %u2014 not a Clapton fan or even close %u2014 have long maintained that the supreme irony of Clapton’s career was that he wasn’t even the best guitarist on his most famous recording: “Layla.”

Duane was indeed special.

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I’ve gotta disagree with you there. They’re equals going toe to toe. Duane lit a fire under Clapton’s ass and he hasn’t played that well consistently since. That’s Clapton’s problem. Unless he’s got someone pushing him, he gets too comfortable and he’s on automatic pilot before you know it. He’s got first rate players in his band but they’re sidemen. He needs someone on equal footing to push him. He’s still got it. He just needs a kick in the ass to get it out.

And how about an integrated band from the deep southg in 1970? That’s a far cry from Lynard Skynard.

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That wasn’t that unusual. What’s your beef with Synyrd?

Nominally, I dislike the rote subjectivity of listing my own tastes (Humdrum…arty farty…Marginal…Is he done yet?)

So just this once:

Lenny Breau
Les Paul
Junior Brown
Robert Fripp
Albert Collins

…In addition to most of the previously noted. Far too many to do justice to, really.

And then there’s bass players…The tragic clowns of the musical wild kingdom. But don’t start me to talking.

;>)

Leo Kottke is another of my favorite guitarists…

nite, all.

coriolanus–

That’s great. And, I can understand why there’s little time to keep caught up.

And, I know what you are talking about, but that’s just because I know, ya’ know?

But, sometimes people who read FDL are not totally aware of the enormous talent and wit and dedication that “ordinary” commenters at FDL put into their own calling.

So, coriolanus, and I will delete this part if you tell me to do so,

BUT, coriolanus is a revered Shakespearean actor and part of the company at the Ashland Shakespeare Festival. (p.s. that part about Shakespearean actor is really awkward, but I trust you know what I mean)

Thanks for that Late Nite treat. Listening to this version of Whipping Post just now was good for some waves of goosebumps. After seeing ‘V’ tonight on the big screen and getting home only to unexpectedly listen to Duane Allman, it might take awhile to fall asleep.

The best guitar performance I’ve seen in person was SRV in Texas at the old Fair Park Coliseum in ‘85 or ‘86. We sat on wooden bleachers and watched in amazement. He was wearing one of his hats with the arc of a billowy plume that danced with his every motion. whew, more goosebumps

Mad Dogs – know the Coward as well … good choice

darkblack – bass players – Jack Bruce hands down

and with that, I’m finding some sleep

darkblack # 149: And then there’s bass players

Stanley Clarke with Jeff Beck playing Rock & Roll Jelly just sends me flyin’!

Duane Allman was great. Thanks, Jane. I listened to the Whipping Post twice while reading the comments.

I just went down and looked at Pachacutec’s no war on terra post to see what the fuss was all about. I was really struck by this paragraph:

“I know I’m not alone when I say, I’m an American and I’m not afraid. I know I’m going to die. I accept that I’m going to die, no problem. What I do not accept and will not accept is the notion that I must live as a slave to fear for the purposes of craven, cowardly men who, in their time, pissed the bed rather than fight an actual war, later to become powerful and use that power to line their pockets with my tax dollars. Give me liberty or give me death. Take your “terror” and shove it.”

Wow, Pach. That is truly powerful.

I’m not going to bother to read the troll chorus, it would probably give me bad dreams.

V.G. It’s all good except the part where I’m a commenter, lurker more like it who comes here to get a clue, ya know?
darkblack, your stuff is wonderful, thank you. Bass players? J.Pastorius.

Coop 49

That wasn’t that unusual. What’s your beef with Synyrd?

I don’t mean to start a south-bashing tangent, and I feely admit that Lynard Skynard had some catchy tunes. Let’s just say I trust Neil Young on this one: link

I’ve been fascinated with Neil Young’s influence on other bands ever since I heard Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama” from 1974 which was written in response to two Young anti-southern songs, “Southern Man”, from the album After the Gold Rush, and “Alabama”, from the album Harvest. From “Sweet Home Alabama” lyrics:

Well, I heard Mister Young sing about her
Well, I heard ole Neil put her down.
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember
a southern man don’t need him around anyhow.

Known as a response record, such songs “refer directly to a previous hit and usually do it in a catty, mischievous way”. The lines in “Sweet Home Alabama” are a direct response to Young’s anti-racist, anti-cross burning “Southern Man” and “Alabama” songs. Lynyrd Skynyrd’s comeback was intended to mean, at first glance, “Thank you for your opinion Neil, now leave us alone.”

It is this perceived “attitude” which has led to Lynyrd Skynyrd earning a reputation as a “racist” band. Not withstanding the fact that the band often performed with a Confederate flag as a backdrop, the label and perception has been hard to shake….

Pach, your WOT post was awesome.

bass: yeah to Jaco Pastorus, especially his work with Joni on Hejira and Mingus.

off the beaten path:

- Tony Levin (distinctive bass and “stick” for Peter Gabriel)

- Sebastian Steinberg – upright bass for the short-lived, quirky and excellent Soul Coughing

- Jimmy Jazz Prescott – upright bass for the brilliant G. Love and Special Sauce

- Justin Meldal-Johnson, bassist on Beck’s exquisite Midnight Vultures album

Bass players? In rock, there’s John Entwistle and then there’s the second tier, right? Go listen to “The Real Me” or a live version of “Sparks” and tell me otherwise.

I can go with Jaco Pastorius in jazz, no doubt.

…

And, in defense of my negative view of Clapton: I still haven’t heard a Clapton recording where his playing struck me as especially original or even musical. He does a pretty decent Albert King imitation, but that qualifies him to be one of the better cover band guitarists — and little more. I’ve heard the old Yardbirds recordings, I’ve heard Cream, I pretty much hated all of it.

But if there’s genius in it for you, dear reader, your opinion is worth just as much as mine, so don’t let me dissuade you. I just personally never saw the big deal. I’d rather have Joe Strummer playing guitar in my band, honestly.

“The Weight” with Aretha.

“Delaney and Bonnie and Friends” with that wonderful group that gathered to make such great music.

Skyman was a gift to our ears.

coriolanus-

nonsense. you have earned commenter status.

And, did you see before in my comments that I was a huge fan of Weather Report? Got to see them live in London, drive around in a black Jag, eat Chinese with them, etc. (no strings) bec. I got stuck at Shannon on a PanAm flight that was delayed into Heathrow.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaco_Pastorius

chris 161 – I tend towards your side of the Clapton spectrum, but I’m no guitar player so I’ll stay out of that debate.

Good to mention the late great Entwhistle.

p.s. to clarify- the band was in first class, but the road manager just happened to have been sitting next to me in coach. As I saw Zawinul checking in ahead of me in the PanAm line, I am sure I mentioned to my seatmate, and then….

“BUT, coriolanus is a revered Shakespearean actor and part of the company at the Ashland Shakespeare Festival.”

Thanks for that. Your mention of Ashland and Cyrano uad me going hmmmm…

Coriolanus, there are at least 3 other Ashlanders here. I haven’t seen the other’s post but have met them through the Roots Project. Knowing Ashland, it’s not surprising, what a great little town we live in!

So VG, did you suffer from let-Jag?

Yeah, I figured that’s what you were driving at with Skynyrd, sport.

What about the line In Birmingham they love the Governor, Boo, Boo, Boo. You figure them Southern boys are too dumb to grasp the concepts of sarcasm, irony and metaphor?

Did ya ever notice how Ronnie Van Zandt tended to wear a lot of Neil Young and Jimi Hendrix T-shirts? Did ya ever notice just who was the subject of Curtis Loew? That song was just a regional pride thing. They didn’t think they should have to hang their heads in shame because they came from Jacksonville. I can’t really blame ‘em for that. I come from New Jersey. I’ve heard my share of what exit jokes, too. Exit 9, NJTP. The flag thing was the record companies idea. It caught on and they were stuck with it.

The bottom line is they weren’t racist. They were a great rock’n’roll band. As good as any and they were getting better when that plane went down.

I am glad that Mad Dogs at 120 mentioned Mick Taylor to the list. I’m a fan too.

whatever

rat bastahd- it is Guiche of me to say so, but coriolanus is in Cyrano. Hope this helps.

punaise- I was so thrilled I don’t remember suffering at all.

…in 1969 I was at the Fillmore in San Francisco, the first one, upstairs on Market & Van Ness…we went almost every night, were handed an apple from a barrel on the way in along with a small post card sized poster telling who would be playing…one night the star was Buddy Guy but the warm up band was the Allman Brothers…we’d never heard of them…that’s history now but one thing…the back stairway/alley was always a place to smoke a joint and maybe meet some musicians…already blasted but always looking for more I went out there during a particularly loud set and found Duane with a biker dude and we shared a smoke…he seemed fragile looking to me…have no recollection of a conversation, sorry…do remember my friends and I were stunned by the power of their music…

Well, Chris, we’ll just agree to disagree on Clapton.

As for bass players. McCartney would be in the HOF if only as a bass player. James Jamerson of Motown. George Porter of the Meters. Robbie Shakespeare. Duck Dunn. Phil Lesh. Steve Swallow.

V.G.

My brother, a bass player, who I shared rooms with growing up had a Weather Report/Stanley Clarke fixation that was pretty intense. I suppose he saw visions of, well, black jags, London, the stage, and hip, beautiful people. Yeah, that must have been worth a delay. Thanks for affirmation wrt commenting.

Rat B.
Absolutely. Ashland is a great town. And there is a contingent. I’ve been steadily talking up FDL in my place of employement, seeing as how we are able to interact with so many people on a daily basis.

good call w/ McCartney

chris @ 12:05 am (#161) – Or just listen to the Live At Leeds album, and realize how much of that sound came from the Ox. Of course, the guy who played bass for Sly And The Family Stone was good, too. I sometimes think he and Entwistle stole each other’s stuff.

Loved listening to this, thanks for the music. I’m going to have to drag out my turntable and play some actual albums.
Anyone else think CDs don’t sound right?
Just not as good sound quality, or maybe I like the little scritchy sounds I’m used to.

Cream, Jeff Beck, Bonnie Raitt, Santana.
Well, that’s a start.

coriolanus– Hi again. That delay was interesting, to say the least. Actually, I was leaving LA to go to the UK for my post-doc- and really very upset about leaving, upset and excited and afraid, ya’ know. With my family at the airport to see me off, etc. And then there was Joe Zawinul in line in front of me, and it really was totally weird!!!!

And, as for commenting, you know, people here are very tolerant not to say really interested in off-topic interesting comments. So, I hope you don’t hang back from commenting just bec. the substance of the thread doesn’t seem appropriate. So, “OT, coriolanus here, I would just like to report from Ashland that the shoes I’ve gotten for my Count costume are totally awesome”…. xxooo

Margot @ 12:46 am (#178) – In my case, my hearing’s not what it used to be. I suspect some CDs do have poorer sound, because the medium that contains the primary source for the music has degraded over time (tape, usually). They can do a lot to remove the hiss and pops, but there’s bound to be some lost signal, as well.

IOW, I’m pretty sure that a new CD recorded digitally or recently enough to have been digitized before the medium degraded will sound better than a virgin record album from the 70s, but a re-recorded 70s album will probably be of a slightly lower quality than the original album.

Damn, Jane. I already have a mad crush on you and now, knowing you’re a huge Duane Allman fan…dang, why do all the good ones have to be married?

I went from Tampa to Mercer Univ. in Macon so I could 1.) get away from my repressive parents and 2.) be right up the street from the Allman Bros. Fell asleep every night my senior year in H.S. to the “Beginnings” album. Too bad Duane died before my freshman year but not a week goes by to this day when I don’t stick a Allman Bros. CD in and listen to imo, the greatest guitar player who ever lived. My favorites are his solos on “Dreams” and “Stormy Monday”. God almighty, what a band.

Thanks for the wonderful post and video. I’ll have to go “Eat a peach for peace” (to quote Duane) tomorrow and put in “Leave My Blues at Home” on full volume.

Larry Graham. Yeah, they both had that rippin’ tone. I saw Hendrix at the Fillmore East on 5/10/68. It was my 15th birthday. Sly was the opening act and they just tore it down. They were so tight, so crisp. It was the original band. The drummer was fabulous. He was just a funk machine. Mr Rock Steady. The rest of the band just went to town knowing that he had their backs.

Hendrix was Hendrix. Unfuckingreal.Opened with Foxy Lady. Mitch Mitchell was so good and Noel Redding played the right parts. Jimi just tore it to shreds. I’m a guitar player so I’ve got to love it. I shook his hand outside after the show. He was so wasted. He was not that big. 5′11″ tops, but he had these huge Michael Jordan hands. I’ve got decent size hands, but they just disappeared in his. I felt like a little kid. The poor guy was just lost without a guitar in his hands.

V.G.
The shoes aren’t bad, cavalier style and suede but it’s the leaf embroidered, suede, pumpkin pants that are rocking my world;)
My vietnam vet/air cav, actor friend, when asked if acting on the stage was any way for a grown man to make a living replied ” the way I do it”.
This will be one of the only times you’ll hear a 6′3″, large brother get off on 17th century period clothes……where’s *ilson to take that somewhere? By the way, the guy who asked the question about acting was Capt.Steve Mason, the poet laureate for the Nam vets and he passed away 1 year,2 days ago. Memorial Day…..

Jane:

HUGE thanks! Allman Bros (Duane era) being my all-time fav band… I’ve never seen this clip. I’ve sent the link to others who will appreciate it as much as me, so thanks from/for them too.

coriolanus–

it’s the leaf embroidered, suede, pumpkin pants that are rocking my world;)…[] This will be one of the only times you’ll hear a 6′3″, large brother get off on 17th century period clothes

OMG (valley girl speak) I am truly laughing out loud at that one!!!

I think *ilson has gone beddy byes- haven’t seen a comment from him in a while, but if you would like, I will make sure he sees your comment.

As for the guy who asked the question about acting (Capt. Steve Mason) that is a comment that I don’t follow. I have not been reading all of the comments, but I will try to go back to find it.

Coriolanus, please keep up the commenting, even if OT. I just loved #183. And, at FDL, there is a great deal of comraderie, to help all of us through the rough times. xxxoooxx.

Jane, thanks so much for the BeeGees link. Hothothot. I would have been eleven then, and quite impressionable. “Look, ma — you can see his balls!”

How terrifying those handsome, virile young men must have been to middle America. The hair, the ruffled shirts –androgynous but reeking of sex — I don’t think right-wing America ever got over it. As frightening as Muslims are today.

Anyone a fan of “Little Feat” with Lowell George? Some great guitar work there, but I never hear them mentioned anymore.

V.G.

Bedtime. Peace and Hope.

Wow. Simply, wow. Thank you.

Veritas78 #186

I once saw Little Feat open for the Allman Brothers. It was post Lowell & Duane, but it was STILL the best concert I’ve ever seen.

Goodnight, all. Thanks again for the video, Jzne.

crooks and liars linked to real guitar playing last night:
http://video.google.com/videop…..;q=ukulele
and i found this at youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..arch=WHile My Guitar Gently Weeps
jake has a wonderful talent and feeling in his playing.

Can I also recommend that you go over to John Rogers of http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/ and watch him kick Wingnuttia in the fork? It’s a thing of beauty – perfect for Memorial Day.

Forgive me if this is old news. I am way behind in the posts and don’t have time to catch up just yet.

Newsweek on Netroots

Brilliant! Thanks for posting this, Jane.

I would also love to hear the likes of Susan Tedeschi wail on “Whipping Post”. I saw her at the NOLA Jazz Fest last year and she just rocked.

Sigh.

Derek Trucks is scary good — really takes what Duane created and moves it multiple levels beyond. If any guitarist of his generation has that other-worldly muddy river country mojo, it is Derek Trucks.

I fully agree with the previous comments about Clapton needing other musicians to push him — perhaps that is why Clapton has hired Derek to tour with him (Dominoes redux?). Just heard a stealth recording of one of the first shows of this band — Derek’s slide duet with Clapton on the Layla coda damn near made me cry it was so freakin’ gorgeous.

Love the Allman bros.
Love the Bee Gees
Love Jane and Pach and Christy and all you dogs with such great taste in music!
Sidebar?
Howling Wolf, Richie Havens, Stevie Wonder, Jimi of course and Willie Dixon…saw him live once.
Shame the ‘ war on drugs’ broke up the Allman bros band and killed one of the Gibb brothers.

think progress has it up right now, snow resigns

anybody want to venture their guess to why?

Because he is incompetent, his boss is incompetent and they have to shuffle the chairs on the Hindenburg again!

Saw Little Feat a few months before Lowell passed. Great show, and a great ‘road trip’ story to the show.

Second loudest concert in my experience. First loudest goes to G.Clinton/Parliament-Funkadelic All-Stars. What a circus that was.
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Probably the only reason I’m aware of the Ashland Shakespeare Festival is from the sweet scribblings of Kate Wilhelm.

http://www.katewilhelm.com/
…”Kate Wilhelm currently lives in Eugene, Oregon. On her spare time she likes to garden.”

My first taste of hers was this:
Nebula Best Short story winner (1968): The Planners
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Anybody doing Ashland rocks!

For the past two years, after I figured out that however good they are, guitarists like Joe Satriani are not going to deeply move me, I’ve been listening to Duane and Bloomfield. They scratch my itch. Skydog lives.

Anatomy of a White House Smear, 3.3

by emptywheel
“This is the third part of a multi-part narrative of the whole Plame Affair. Here are parts one and two. In this post, I cover the efforts BushCo made to slow the investigation–and possibly to cover-up the crime–in Fall 2003….”

Don’t forget about Yngwie…

tee-hee

Well, a big boo hoo on me ! – I missed a Late Nite Music thread – I missed a Skydog thread ?!?!?- aarrgghh !!!

am enjoying the comments so much – notice the sexist dismissal of ‘the girls’ opinions is missing – so much fun to see the complimentary tastes expressed – pretty obvious we all sat around the same speakers

don’t care that it’s such an obvious choice – One Way Out was like raising the flag or lighting the fire – it was the first cut my kids burned for their ‘Mom CD’

Bassists and no one mentions Billy Cox, or the House players at Motown ?! my, my, my

Robert Randolph is a slide guitar player and hearing him set off all those old alarms that say wow, original, talented – give him a listen

You Tube Rocks !!! there is a threatened YT intervention in our house as well – All Aretha, All The Time

Thanks Jane !

Hey Duane fans- find yourself a recording of Duane playing with the Grateful Dead, 4.26.71 at the Fillmore East. Best of the best. (check http://www.shnflac.net ;-) ).

new thread alert

Duane also played on Laura Nyro’s excellent 1970 album, “Christmas and the Beads of Sweat.” One side of the LP featured the “Boys from Muscle Shoals” backing up Laura. Side Two featured Laura playing piano on the haunting “Upstairs by a Chinese Lamp/Map to the Treasure” and then Duane & others backing her up on “Beads of Sweat.”

Thank you, Jane.

Never saw video of Duane before (or if I did, way back when, I don’t remember). Did see the Brothers in Mobile, post-Duane and Berry. An all-day stadium gig with southern bands plus Quicksilver Messenger Service. Great day in the sunny South in the mid-seventies.

Where has all the music (like this) gone? (I know, I know, you have to dig for gems, but dammit, would it be so bad for guitar-driven rock to re-emerge in the fingers of new young players?)

First post at Firedoglake, though I read hear often. Thanks so much for what you all do.

Good morning and EPU.

I have seen that 6′3” brother in pumpkin pants before :) My wife wants to know if Cyrano is in French?

Thanks for the Kate Wilhelm link Blank K!

Hey USBlues, love that Fillmore East 71 run. 4/26 with Duane, 4/28 one of the best ever, and that jam on 4-29…wow!

Glad someone mentioned George Porter, the Meters are in my top 3.

well, even more rote subjectivity from me, in a lower frequency range (in case of curiousity, break fast):

Larry Graham
Niels-Henning Orsted Pederson
Percy Jones
Tim Bogert (on the Fender bass!)
Willie Dixon
Israel Lopez
…Mingus.

And that’s the bottom end. On this topic, there are indeed ‘…Many, many more!’, more than there are stars in the heavenly abodes – But another time, another space.

BitNola: “Where has all the music (like this) gone? (I know, I know, you have to dig for gems, but dammit, would it be so bad for guitar-driven rock to re-emerge in the fingers of new young players?)”

Do check out Robert Randolph, Derek Trucks, Ben Harper, Ian Neville, and Eric McFadden.

Another youtube gem. Trust me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..earch=stay with me faces

jazz: Charlie Haden, master of understatement

Oh Brian Jacobsmeyer — that is marvelous.

Hey there. Thank you Jane. I have a few pet bands that I follow like the Pistons (oh be still my breaking heart). Little Feat, George Clinton, Fishbone, RHCP, some English Bands from the 80s (especially New Order), Neville Brothers. But the Allmans have been top of the list lately because I got to see them for the first time live last summer (with Chuck Leavall sitting in!)! For Christmas I got a copy of a double live show from Atlanta in ‘69. I liked the records but they really don’t hold a candle to that band live. Which might explain why the Fillmore stuff was the stuff that broke them to the wider world.

PS Susan Tedeschi is married to Derek Trucks if no one has made that connection above.

Mary Cheney doesn’t hold a candle to Rod Stewart in the realm of baton / mike stand twirling.

anyone interested in some un-intense, jazzy hip-hop – check out People Under the Stairs and Ugly Ducklings

I once had the pleasure of seeing Frank Zappa and band do a great, straight-up cover of Whipping Post, back in ‘84 with Steve Vai on lead. Seems some fan in Europe had yelled out the title as a joke, prompting FZ to muse, ‘we don’t know it, but if we did…,’ thus adding it to their setlist for the rest of that tour.

Thank god they didn’t yell ‘Free Bird’…

and if YouTube doesn’t get me fired from my day job, nothing ever will.

BeeGees rock hard, what else can one say. Ripped off every move they ever made, but the soup still tastes good if you put on the blindfold.

What a wonderful diversion from nasty politics!

I’ve always thought that Allman Brothers Live at Fillmore was the best live album ever made. Slight quibble on top ten recordings ever — I’d put the live version of In Memory of Elizabeth Reed up there. (And guitar-duet of Blue Sky as the prettiest guitar duet ever recorded. Period.)

well now, if we are going to go down the bee gees route (and thanks for the link) I recommend this gene pitney ..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..earch=gene pitney

OutFuckingStanding!

Jorma
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Way late on this thread. What I find interesting about the Duane-era Allmans was their very limited playlist. It wasn’t that they didn’t know a lot of old blues songs, or that they were trying to reach a perfect rendition. I think Duane in his sessions and Muscle Shoals years developed a jazz esthetic. Miles Davis and Coltrane went out and played “My Favourite Things” and “Dear Old Stockholm” night after night for years.

A whole page of guitarists and nobody has mentioned Mick Ronson. Or Peter Green.

Peter Green’s come up, but I think you’re right about Ronson. A glaring oversight. A lotta players were overlooked early on. Larry Carlton was an after thought for Christ sake. It’s the nature of the beast. I still don’t think anyone’s mentioned Roy Buchanan or Danny Gatton. Sonny Landreth and Leroy Parnell are both monsters. James Burton, Ricky Scaggs, Vince Gill. Clarence White was a monster. Those Country boys can play. Robbie Robertson doesn’t get his due.

You talk jazz, Joe Pass, Tal Farlow, John McGlaughlin, Barney Kessel, Howard Roberts to name a few.

I love the Bee Gees old stuff. Words, I’ve just gotta get a message to you and To love Somebody.

I’m a major Little Feat fan. I wore Waiting for Columbus out. Never saw ‘em with Lowell, unfortunately. Saw ‘em with Fred Tackett, Craig Fuller and Paul Barrere, of course. Fred and Paul can tear it up. Billy Payne can radiate those 88s and Richie Hayward’s always been one of my favorite drummers. They smoked. Saw ‘em in Burlington, VT with the Neville Brothers in ‘91 after watchin’ Clemens beat the Royals 1-0 in Fenway on a freezing April day. That was a long but great day.

I got to see The Allman Bros. 3 times.
At East Tennessee State Univ. gymnasium.
At the Knoxville Coliseum (warmed up for B.J. Thomas..jeez).
At the Atlanta Pop Festival in Macon.
When Duane was killed, it hurt.
He taught me some “outside” notes to improvise with. Still usin’ ‘em, too.
-dh

oh my Gwad. I am a 60 (don’t tell) y.o. professional woman, mother and wife and I am playing air guitar with my favorite guitar player ever. I remember “JESSICA” Eat a Peach Album” and I am reacting the same way now as I did in the 70’s to to the Allman guitar. My dogs think I am nuts.
Thanks for the rocker interlude.

“Leo Kottke…”

Well, now we’re gettin’ into sometimes-acoustic, and that means I get to bring up Tony Rice. :o)

If I can figure out how to put up a link to his playin’ Bill Monroe’s inventive fiddle tune, “Jerusalem Ridge”, and his own jazzgrass “Port Tobacco”, I bet yall will dig it all to hell and gone. :o)

Thanks for the ref to youtube. Check out Howlin’ Wolf Newport. Herbert Sumlin, top ten guitarist. Great footage.

Thank you so much for this clip. Have been a huge Allman Brothers Fan since I was a little girl, and try to see at least one show a year, yes they tour every single year since forever. If you get a chance to see them live, do it!

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tkirk

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Jane,

Duane will always be one of the top five in the world. I was lucky enough to see them in Boston Garden before he died . One song (theme) / 6 hours.
I recommend “Dimples” on Anthology I. It is rare chance to hear him sing.