Its hard to conceive that they will no longer be making this music. Thank-you LL55A. This could be my fav video of all time. Derek's solo is absolutely crazy!
chris casey Chris, check out LT'S Stormy Monday from the same night I think ? It's a blast too...I like his vids, as most of them are gr8 high Def and good sound...bunch em together
When SRV passed away,it was hard to imagine another player coming along whose style,along with incredible technique,phrasing and note selection, would ever have the same effect on my soul as his did.IMHO,Trucks is by far the most exciting and inspired guitarist since SRV, and of his entire generation. Lots of awesome players,no doubt,but those of Trucks caliber are rare indeed...
Man; too cool - closest to Dickey and Duane that i've herd on this song; thanks for putting this out there. Personally; i thought the stuff from this year was some of the best ever. Hope they have a great last run this year.
Always ... ALWAYS AMAZING WHEN THESE GUYS DO THIS SONG. always !! Now if I could just find that version with Derek and Dickie from 20 years ago that disappeared off the net.
Derek is a great guitarist, so is Warren, They both are at the top of this style of music, no doubt. However, this is a Dickey Betts song. Look at some of the vids of him and Warren playing this in the early 90's, I see a bit more feel there and tone for sure.
To all that say this is Dickey's song: yes, that's true, he wrote it. But please, please fuck off with the "No Dickey, no ABB" nonsense. If that's what you believe, then you've truly missed the whole concept, heart, and meaning of the Allman Brothers Band. I love Dickey Betts for what he brought us for years....but those days are long gone. He's with his son and the newest formation of Great Southern and is playing well. But this, this is the Allman Brothers Band...just as much as it was in 1971, 1975, 1979, 1989, 1994, etc. if you prefer the band with Dickey, cool. If you say it's not ABB without him: get a fucking clue.
I get it Randy. I give the same response to people who can't fathom Deep Purple without Ritchie Blackmore. One person doesn't make a band. Enough of that. This sounds fantastic. I'm happy that they played this again before they called it a day. RIP Duane, Berry, Lamar, Allen, Dan, Frankie, Butch, and Gregg.
While I agree with you in principle it was and is not nor will ever have the same feeling,sound or emotions of the Allman Bros as it did when Dickey fronted them and that's irrefutable.There are just some things that when they are gone from the equation a piece of it's soul is never the same.There is a reason that 20 years after his departure from the band fans still pine for him.Gregg had the name but make no mistake about it,Dickey was the outboard evinrude that powered that boat.Let's just be grateful for the wealth of music the boys left us to enjoy for generations to come.
+ernie velasquez To each their own. It's a good performance, as all the musicians involved are talented and do a good job. It sounds different because it isn't Dickey, doesn't mean it's bad.
If Derek Trucks had never picked up a slide in his life, he would still be one of the greatest players in the business. To my ear,his fretstyle playing is as good as his slide playing.That is one of the greatest guitar solos I have ever heard, Southern blues rock guitar playing as well as it can be done, wow.
I'm only 19 years old. i don't care if its dickey or derek playing guitar on this track, because nobody can deny this is one of the greatest versions of this song ever recorded. So lets stop arguing and just sit back and relax. Have a cold one, smoke a fat one, do whatever you gotta do to enjoy one of THE GREATEST songs ever recorded in the history of rock and roll... Oh, and one last thing before i forget.... RIP DUANE
Absolutely perfect. This is in reality the very best sound I have ever had the extreme pleasure of feeling. Thank you so much brothers😁 In my exsistence thus far, this is the very best piece of music, performance, and song I have witnessed. This is mastery of our craft and absolutely #1 beyound definition
One of my all time favorites...however its missing Dickey...he brought so much emotion to many songs, ESPECIALLY this one! I'll never forget hearing him play this at the Beacon back in 91...Warren had just joined the band, and Dickey closed out the song (he always took the second solo) and for damn good reason...his intensity and emotion is un-paralleled...
At the time of this recording, Dickey can hardly remember how to play anything he wrote. His alcoholism has left him in terrible shape. As for his guitar work, I would easily say both Warren and Derek are just as good as he ever was, and I really think this song would have been better had Gregg sang it.
Ahhh yes... well, it seems that Trucks is channeling Duane's slide for the first part, then Haynes takes a complete Dickey techy pickin' rant!! I consider it a tribute to the two former AB greats!!
Never heard a bad version of this song but I do miss a post from more than a decade ago of Derek doing it with Dickey and some cruel bastard took it down.
Larry C. How's this for blasphemy? Dicky Betts himself has never played that song with the same type of not just technique,but soul and passion that D.T did that night.Wow,really?
I'm from San Rafael Marin County San Francisco California so I pledge allegiance to Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead and yet I love fish and Trey Anastasio and I think Dwayne Allman is absolutely amazing Rastafari yes I Tucson Arizona Sonoran Desert Blue Sky wow what a song
Derek really has own chops and adds such a singularity in his playing. Like to believe Derek's picking up the torch for Duane and moving in a direction Duane might have headed in.
This is not one of my favorites, but they seem to be playing everything especially good the last year or two. I love them, LL55a, thanks again for the Beacon, 2013 stuff. I'll never be able to see them in person, this is the next best. What a solo, Derek!
This song always touches my soul! Born and raised in the Carolinas it always makes me think of my late father as he so loved North Carolina I always raise my hands to the heavens when I hear this song.
I think what all of you who have never been in a band do not know; is someone comes in with a song, it's as stripped down as can be. It is the input and idea's from the rest of the group that is involved in the end product. I'm sure dickey came in with this and his other tunes, playing on an acoustic guitar and singing. The tune then evolved from the other band members input! Remember this was one of the last tunes Duane played on, he also takes the first solo on the original.
There is an actual live version of them kicking back at some house in Tennessee , as i recollect, playing, on acoustics, the original. Just very course approximation. I'm not sure where it is now, but it's out there somewhere. I know Blue Sky. She may know where it is. I'll have to ask her one of these days.
cavdragoon "they did."Exactly.That was then, this in now. Enjoy what you get. Which is pretty fucking good.Dickey decided a bottle was more important than his music.If you want to hear the same thing year after year, go see the Eagles.
I love the hostility over a personal preference. No one stated that this incarnation of the ABB is not great. So before you lay down a layer of Eagles bullshit read the fucking comment. This song was written and sang by Dickey Betts. No matter how you cut it or who plays it the song will never sound the same unless he is the one playing it. By the way the band decided (with all their addictions) that Dickey was out, not the bottle.
What "fact". The one where you said that Dickeys drinking was the reason he was kicked out, which is incorrect. Or was it the one where if " I want to listen to the same thing year after year" I should see the Eagles. I mean the last album the ABB released of original material was in 2003 so I guess you are also listening to the same stuff year after year. To close this is a band that still trys to sound the way it "use to", and to accomplish it you need to have the guy who wrote and sang the song. I mean if Greg Allman was no longer in the band and the only original members were Butch and Jaimoe would you still think the same way?
Being a drunk certainly contributed. Drunks tend to be bullies- like Betts. Using your argument, NO ONE should EVER cover anyone else's songs. I've heard scores of live Betts performances of this song and NONE came even close to the original. Derek not only beats any of those but his solo here is arguably better than the original. They're not trying "to sound the way" of ANY band but themselves.......and at this very moment in time. That's the beauty of it. And you've missed it completely because of your tunnel vision. Your Butch and Jaimoe "argument" is a straw man.
Yes he does or did you mean to say that Warren has to play slide on Every song in the world, cause he's also a master. One can never have enough, let along too much, slide .
Excellent, beautiful playing aside. know why I love this video? The camera isn't changing every 1.5 seconds to "make it exciting". Concert directors: if you have make to make it exciting, it's a band not worth listening to watching.
