Allman Brothers Band - Warehouse New Orleans - 20 March 1971 

Billy Gibbons mentions this show in his foreward of Randy Poe's Skydog.

@88Gibson LesPaul Billy's not in the same class as Duane and Dickey.

@@Nluther21 When I saw ZZ played that night I thought how I would love to hear Billy talk about it at length.He has a way with words the Rev does..

absolutely I graduated in 1970 and living in New Orleans suburbs we always ventured to the Warehouse. Saw Allmans many times here and city park. ZZ Top was a regular band too Great time to grow up

Right On Brother, I couldn't agree more. What you said about Oakley is 100% correct in my opinion. I first saw Duane and the Brothers 49 years ago in 1970. Until this day I'm more hardcore A.B.B. then ever, still living off the early years...

Berry was just as you said not only chasing Duane & Dickey around but Jaimoe & Butch as well.This has a divine sound.Greggs voice & keys..😢

So true Berry and Butch pushed those guys. Both so underrated

@@peakbagger6805 Duane was around during the days of good old plastic syringes. He used a corisedan (like advil) bottle for a slide. It wouldn't work. It would have to be a big foot syringe and I don't even know why I am dignifying this with an answer Don't be surprised if a junkie lies....it is no surprise.

Duane snorted heroin, he didn't allow any needles in his presence and declared anyone in the band or crew caught shooting dope was gone.

@@peakbagger6805 that's what Reddog told me and he had no reason to lie.

Does anyone realize how incredibly hard it would be to use a syringe (even a glass one) for a slide? Brother Duane was a a damn talented slide player but come on now! Even if Duane was shooting junk, why in the hell would he use a rig onstage for a slide? The man cared way too much about music to do anything that would make his playing suffer... I'm just saying.

@Dinkie Dunn Gregg wasn't the only one that didn't go for rehab, Dickey and Jaimoe didn't go either.

DEFINITELY AGREE

Steve Longobardi BOY you are so right, no one in the last 30 years has ever come close to making music like this, epic stuff.

@@winesource1 ... I dare to oppose this statement ... there was a man named Rory Gallagher .... although he made music of a different category ... I am not saying worse or better .. just different .. .of an equal rang ....

It's crucial that you never look at the "thumbs down" count. Pardon the pun, but there's not upside to it. None.

They are irrelevant.

I think it's still called Plumb Dumb!

you'll allways will have those people with tumb down....get used to it. most of the time they are satch and slash ,page,osborne lovers.......

What's really mind boggling is that anyone cares or even notices how many "thumbs down" or "thumbs up" a video has, as if it matters. And of course it doesn't, not even in the slightest.

"Fillmore" ???

East😎

+JoJoJo And yet, you still want their music to go longerrrrrrrrr!

That's the way it is with all great music - no matter how much of it you get, it's never enough.

This isn't even the whole show- It's the last half (not including the encore). Fuckin' guys were jam monsters.

And still everyone feels as if they got more than their money's worth and never ever gets bored even during the drum solos...amazing. ONly the ABBs can get away with being 6 hours late at times...never less than 2 hours late and mostly 3. I have been to several concerts. With Duane and without sadly.

Joe the Grateful Dead could do the same at or around this time if the set list was right. I hope you’ve heard the dead with the allman brothers on stage together

Pretty damn far

i was there too!

I have read a few comments mentioning the carpet squares. Don't know anything about it but made me recall the occasional piece of worn out carpet on the Warehouse floor. The little that was there was soaked in beer and by the smell some urine. You didn't wanna go down in the Warehouse. Would be a good idea to have every one bring a self sticking square and lay it down. Free concert equals free floor. Went there May thru Dec 1975.

👀I think their called A holes 👅

I never missed a show unless I was in jail or the emergency room.

Did you see the Doors? @@FRANKMANGIAPANE

I went to tech school at Keesler AFB also. Got there first week of May 1975. My best friend from Basic was there also but in a different dorm. While visiting him in his barracks the guy across the hall was looking for a ride to New Orleans to visit his brother. I bought a car as soon as I got there and wanted to see NO anyway. The guy says we can stay at his brother's apt. for a ride. This guy had enlisted in NO and had shared the apt. with his brother who was still there. It just happened to be within a block of the warehouse, which I had honestly never heard of before. Spent many a weekend there until just before Xmas 1975, saw some great shows. We were there when Fleetwood Mac was big and the show was sold out, I had not planned on going in because of that, but there was a small liquor store across from front of warehouse and I just went in to buy booze. I walked in and saw an envelope on the floor and picked it up. It had 3 tickets for FltMac inside. I asked the owner an older black gentleman if anyone had lost anything and he said no, finders keepers. My friend and I went in and gave the third ticket to a girl who was crying because her friends had tickets and she could not get one and would be left alone outside. Did not want to be greedy and sell it which would have been easy and profitable, Karma can be a bitch. Great memories. Thanks for your service.

We played at the Airman's Club there,, talk to a bunch of Airman about àt a Warehouse, they went and were Blown Away from the Experience, course it BLEW us away too, jus sàyin ¡😎¡

I've been super Dead most all my life, but I'm just discovering the ABB, or rediscovering them. I had bought a couple of discs in college, but they were studio albums from after Duane's time. It's good music but not, well, the same. I agree ABB can be tighter and more focused than the Dead--they were also more consistent. Sounds like you have listened to a lot of '72 and later Dead. Try '71 Hollywood Palladium, '70 Harper College, and Fillmore West 6-8-70, if you haven't already. For me, '70 was their absolute peak. As you may know, Duane looked up to Jerry, and for good, good reason. Jerry and Robert were prolific, and magnificent, songwriters.

The Dead (or any other band ) couldn't swing like the Brothers. Thanks for the bad ass posts!

Thank you for posting this it's fantastic

Mark Hopkins any cool stories to enlighten us?

No one gives a shit, seriously.

blackeyeddog Apparently you did enough to post, troll.

Really!

One year later and it's 35 with well over 950 up. Ever notice how the thumbs down don't blog...they give no reason...

Tell, tell! Please, why and how did that happen? I know they were quick to play for free (I saw them free 3x), for charity, etc. What was this?

Is this the gig where Pink Floyd got their equipment stolen; the equipment that is shown on the back cover of Umma Gumma?

Andy Wolf I think I read that they were lamenting the theft at a bar where the bartender's father was in the FBI. He helped them get their kit back.

FXPedaldotCom I remember reading that The Big Sleazy was boycotted by touring bands because of the Floyd incident and the Dead getting busted and hassled there '69ish.

Well? I never knew where I was, but I went to Mardi Gras with GF & family 69,70,??. Borrowed their car & drove to a big old warehouse. Seems like the dressing room was up in the corner, elevated. Loooong catwalk down to stage. ZZ Top opened for Canned Heat. Naturally most had come (at that point in ZZ's career to see CHeat); CHeat came on about 1am; It seemed like ZZ played for hrs & hrs! I was a Ganja newbie & it was everywhere! Just wondering if I may have been at this short-lived venue? Sure sounds like it, with the 2 set thing. Anyway this young SC White Boi got some kind of fucked up wating on CHeat, who came out (finally) & said,"We are stoned ready to go!" We left several hours later & they were still boogying! SO am I! 40+ years later & proud to say it! neill

romus68 Nice! I have to put Mardi Gras on the bucket list. The band I've seen most often live (by a long shot) is from N'Orleans. The Radiators. They used to come all the way up to the other end of the Mississippi (MPLS) and play several shows a year. One of the guys actually moved to MPLS. Enjoyed your story very much. I can see the catwalk in my head. I'd have turned around, especially tripping because I am afraid of heights. Yikes!

Oh Juanita, Oh Juanita, I call your name

@@williammcdonough2291- I wonder who Juanita was? If the kids ever re-discover Donovan, they are in for a treat. Back in the late 80s, I jammed with a coworker at Shell R&D, George, who had a gorgeous '56 Les Paul Custom Blacktop and a buddy of his, Wayout, who had a bass axe (I can't really say he "played" bass because he normally went through a Big Gulp of vodka per session, which evidently made him forget what frets were for just after tuning up), and another friend well met via the bulletin board at Rockin' Robin Guitars, John, who was in a couple bands during CBGB's heyday, and who had gigged with Johnny Thunders, among others. (we later got together with a younger bass player who could write some damned good tunes, and formed the Love Noodles. Originals, some punk covers, 60s garage, and some Rockabilly). We just did covers, and only gigged twice. We did a speeded-up cover of the Cream's cover of "Crossroads" (and George NAILED Clapton's solo), a speeded-up "I Saw Her Standing There" (my hi-hat arm burned after that one), "Money", "Last Train To Clarksville" (Monkees), Humble Pie's "I Don't Need No Doctor", CCR's "Green River", the Count Five's "Psychotic Reaction", "Strychnine" by the Sonics, an early ZZ Top tune, and a cover of the Standells' cover of "SUNSHINE SUPERMAN". I got to use my cowbell.

I saw them in Monroe La when they were the Allman Joys !! Saddle and Spur Bar and then 6 other times as brothers and single! lol

Hey Tom , you got that right. He was a great guitarist, bandleader, improviser and the heart of the ABB. And he could definitely light up the place. With Dickey Betts he could kick that music into overdrive. When they played around each other it definitely made chills go down your spine. If you ever make it to Macon, check out The Big House and a short distance away is Rose Hill Cemetary.I've been there twice to pay my respects.

Forest George?

It is up to 45 a year later and if you look at some of the blogs here, you can tell who the haters are. You will see my Judygirl name right there, kicking them in their shins.

NO... He blew his brains out in front of his wife. What a horrible thing to do to a loved on. He should rot in hell.