Duane Allman's LAST performance - Statesboro Blues - Allman Brothers Band 

A very good friend named Bill Baker came back from the Atlanta Pop Festival 1970 and told me about The Allman Brothers Band and that he was going to Love Valley. After he got back from that festival he told me they played each day . He told me they were playing in Chapel Hill at Jubilee May 1st 1971. So we hitchiked up there from Wilmington N.C. On Saturday evening Alex Taylor was introduced and Duane came out and played with his band , we were blown away he played dobro. After his set The Allman Brothers came out and played and I have to say the hair on my neck stood up . I had no idea that he and Dickie played in unison and interplayed around one another . All Bill ever said was that this band was badass and I had to see them live. He wasn't exaggerating , mind blowing sound. We took a road trip to NYC that August and arrived the day it was announced on the radio that King Curtis had been murdered . So we found out that they were playing at The Manhatten Centre not many days later. We pooled our money together and bought the first two albums and At Fillmore East that had just come out and immersed ourselves for a couple of days. We sat through The Holy Model Rounders and Wet Willie who were booed after a few songs , which puzzled me because I actually liked them a great deal. And then possibly the best American blues rock band at that time came out and just blew everyone away. You can find their performance on You Tube , not a good recording but it's worth listening to anyway, their usual set list but they played Soul Serenade in honor of King Curts and later played for the first time Blue Sky which blew us away because we knew it was a new song that not on any existing album . And when Dickie sang the line about going to Carolina we went apeshit. We whooped and yelled like a bunch of proud southern teenagers from North Carolina. Great memory , I'm glad I can still remember it. That was I believe August 18th 1971. He was killed Oct. 29th 1971. I saw them twice before1975. And that was it. I kept waiting for that magic that Duane ignited in them to come back but it never really did for me. He had the vision and he was the leader. I live in Tampa now and saw SRV play at Curtis Hixon Auditorium once and knowing something about the local music scene history from long ago I couldn't help dreaming about what it must have been like there on a night in late December 1970 when Derek and the Dominoes played there and was joined on stage by Duane for what had to have been a glorious night of music. I'd love to see Duane inducted into the RRHOF as a solo artist because his inspired so many guitarist, but I'm just having another dream. Thank you Skydog, RIP.

Best band ever. Totally unique.

For all of you who like to compare musicians as to which one was better, two things: This is music, not the NFL, and when you reach a certain level of mastery and vision (Stevie Ray, Duane, ZZ Top, Jeff Beck, Bill Evans, Beethoven, Sarah Vaughn, etc.-and Samantha Fish), your only competition is you and the limits that you put on yourself.

Duane was the greatest electric slide player in the world and no one, not even trucks had his tone or phrasing

Duane and Johnny Winter. RIP to two superlative slide masters. Thank god we still have their music.

Their stars are the brightest and most intense and they shoot across the universe lighting up the darkest corners and then they're Gone!!Just keep their light burning forever with their music alive in your instruments and your heart and your sounds. ☮️

I lived in Atlanta 1970 & 1971, saw ABB play several times. When I went back to visit high school friends in Dayton, OH and talked about how great they were, people thought I was taking about Osmond Bros. and was crazy. Then "Live At Fillmore East came out, NOW they understood! When Duane was alive, Statesboro Blues was their opening song. Got everyone up and boogieing!

Greetings from DC. From the standpoint of historical accuracy, the Last show was at Painter's Mill in Baltimore, MD. When the Allman's played Baltimore again, Dicky Betts told the audience that the last time that he played with "Brother Duane" was here (Baltimore). This also jives with their website. I was fortunate enough to have seen the Painter's Mill concert and I distinctly remember Duane saying this, "Ya'll were a real pleasure to play for tonight". He lives on.

Amen!! Duane had insane timing, phrasing tone and the ability to improv all over the place at will...legions above any, period.

One of the Greatest Guitar players that Left us way too soon

Was at this show, Wet Willie opened. Was at both shows that year at the Mosque. My all time favorite band.

Wow! Duane tears it up. Such a loss at the height of his talents. Who knows what he might have gone on to do...

NOBODY played slide like skydog!!!! For Beare!!!! ❤❤❤❤

Song gives me chills !! amazing band will live on forever!!

Vielan Dank, Bruder. People forget that everything Duane laid down was before his 25th birthday. There's never been anyone quite like him.

Never should be compared, never will be another!!! Brother Duane Allman!!! ABB forever!!!!!

Great quote from Chet Atkins (Who was pretty damn good himself) on Duane Allman: "That SOB sweats on the backbeat!"

How sad to listen to this knowing he was going to be dead two weeks later. We will never see anything like what Duane did again.

Unmistakable and incomprible. One of a kind. A bros.

duane , man, makes me smile , like rembering a close bro you grew up with , who moved away, or passed on, a specil place in your heart from your youth , and keep that feeing forever , i got all their albums , just saw them with eric, crossroads, new york ,dude they were hott , but we know only 1 sky dawg , peace .

Duane's last show was two nights later at the Painters Mill Music Fair in Owings Mills, MD. on 10/17/71

You are CORRECT!!!! No one has or ever will come even close.

Funny, I've heard countless bootleg renditions of this song, and they're all different. The boys just never "phoned it in". They always seemed to give it their best shot and to make it fresh every time...

Dennis you are so on point, hardly heard any mention of Johnny Winter passing just a few days ago, Duane, Stevie, Johnnie, Jimi, Barry, the list goes on. All the greats are passing by too damn fast!!!

they come....they bring joy to those with ears to hear...they exit....hope they all come back together for the greatest show on earth in the near future..so my grand kids get the fix i got.

Duane’s final show was reportedly two days later at Painters Mill Music Fair in Owings Mills, MD on October 17th, 1971.

This is not Duane's last performance. It may be the last known recording, but his actual last show ever was October 17, 1971 at Painters Mill Music Fair in Owings Mills, MD a couple of days later. RIP Duane.

Thanks for the upload. Great guitarist and a great piece of history.

Incredible slide guitar!His playing on "Statesboro Blues" on the live at fillmore east album is unbelievable.Miss you man!

Thanks for posting this

I agree as great as trucks is no one has the passion, energy or sound duane had. Not even the late Great Hendrix or SRV could come close to his slide work.

wow what a sound...truly amazing....

Amen. Skydog lives forever!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did you ever see a silde guitar player better than Duane Allman? I sure as fuck never did and I had the Allman Joys for music in Vietnam. Best dam music ever. Quickwater.

Listen to the lyrics of Green grass and high tides- and all the musicians who played for us--and now are gone..Listen to what the lyrics are saying..

It's amazing that Duane only started to play slide in November of 1968. He was dead less than 3 years later.

Man they were cooking that night

A lot of thanks : he was great !

There is no sound like these guys in their hay day, it set the stage for southern rock. Skynrd was good, Marshall Tucker was good too, but this IS the sound! Anyone that disagrees hasn't listened to the Allman Brothers band

I have a great recording of this gig on a boot CD titled: "Duane's Last Show" but it wasn't his final gig! The Archivist, Otto, and John from Canada, and Mr. West cannot find it!! But if it is out there I will find it! Thanks for posting!

So soulful

It's that TONE.....thick. Like the voice of one of the Sirens of Titan....

This is Duane's last RECORDED performance, not actually his last performance.

My Hero

Cant play this one loud enough!

Duayne;nikki--- So! SAD! They Were AWESOME!!!!!

ur right, i still cant find that bootleg

Not sure if this was in fact his final show as the band played at Marietta College Gym, Ohio on the 16th October and in Owings Mills (Painters Mill Music Fair) on the 17th October.

My girlfriend and I dropped some acid and went to this show. Groovy baby !!

I grew up in Allman brothers country, (just outside Macon) one of my wife's teachers dated Duane and said all he cared about was playing and everything else was second including her lol. Her husband also hates the allman brothers because of that lol.

Amen, Derek is a damn good slide player, but doesn't touch Duane as you said for phrasing THE sound and his melodies..... not enough words!

Only the good die young

That may be true; but sometimes when I close my eyes and listen to Derek, I swear he's channeling Duane...if only for a few seconds but that is as close as I can get now that Duane is gone. Derek is a fine player in his own right.

Yeah this was not his last show. His last show was 10/17/71 in Owings Mills, MD

Man Duane hadn’t even reached his peak yet.

Thin sound epic playing. ( even with my Quad DAC on)

This may be his last show recorded, definitely not his last performance.

Not his last show, Duane last show was likely October 17. 1971 Painters Mill Music Fair Owings Mills, Maryland

This isn't Duane's last performane. His last show was at Painters Mill on Oct. 17th '72.

I always thought he was trying to sound like a horn with his tone. He loved john coltrane.

Freakin motorcycles....both Duane & Berry died on them ....accident scenes within blocks of each other

Agreed! No one!

The "Brothers" never even waited two days between shows, much less two weeks!! Im sure this wasn't the last time he played this live!

R.I.P. SKYDOG

Pretty lady

This happen at the mosque?

Unless this was from painters mill in Md then it wasn’t his last

the big D

Duane nailed it alright If Trucks copied Duane the would be no "Sahib Teria Bandi"

The Allmans put earth on the galaxy map. "Check out the Skydog, man, planet Earth and them terrans are killin' it!", says E.T. Let's get some human costumes and go concerting.

.. So your telling me you have a different opinion.. :0 mind blown.

Derek Trucks is the only other slide player who compares with Duane!

but trucks is damn near the closest one there!!

There will be a resurrection of the righteous and the unrighteous the book of john

skunkman just slapped my teeth out and said about .....hell naw.... and won't say about no more ....just kidding but think more of these guys than everone....except nevermind...just got the evil eye....gonna just hush.....and appologize

Uh, no, this is NOT the last show he did. Put down the bong.

Happy Birthday Delaney Bramlett

You'd have to die to work UP to being boring

The first guitar solo - well, fine. The second - ok. The third - hmm. The fourth - I´m beginning to get bored. The fifth - I am bored. The sixth - I hate it, never again.