RIP Duane Allman (November 20, 1946 - October 29, 1971), aged 24 And RIP Gregg Allman (December 8, 1947 - May 27, 2017), aged 69 You both will always be remembered as legends.
Duane was such an amazing talent and it was such a tragedy to loose him so young. I was fortunate enough to have been born and raised in Macon Georgia and was able to see Duane and Gregg and the original Allman Brothers Band when they were first getting started and playing pop up shows all around town. Duane, Berry, Butch and Gregg may the Brothers rest in peace.
Been listening to the brothers since I was 11 I remember my brother telling me about Duane getting killed in the motorcycle accident my brother had tears in his eye's and kept saying I can't believe this I thought Duane was Kin folk
I work in the movie union in Atlanta, That was so devastating with all of the law suits , I grew up with the Bros, I don't know what will become of it, It is needed,
Here's a heartfelt quote for the intro to the movie & maybe even the ending... ''There are Artists who can wrest us up, & place us into Themselves. Now These, are the 'One's' who continue to wrest us up... Even beyond Their wrests in peace.'' -gilpin 11919
I watched this special on PBS on Muscle Shoals...It's a couple of hours long...it sure fills in a lot of missing musical gaps in modern music...The Swampers... Who woulda thunk... northern Alabama...
That Hey Jude rendition with Wilson Pickett literally made the hair stand up on my neck. Can someone send me back to the 70’s when we had talented musicians.
@@wvufreak56 If you haven't seen it, watch "The Swampers" about making music at Fame Studio at Muscle Shoals. Shows greats like Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin (before she was big).
Wow I loved this. gave me goosebumps at the end! pretty cool story. funny too about the horse incident and ever so sweet about that pill bottle. Celebrating your lives catching up reading and watching and of course listening to any footage out there. Such genuine raw talent. that has to feel awesome to have been so young, and able to play and perform straight from the soul. Live on in our lives Allman Brothers! But may you Rest peacefully reunited. ❤
Southern rock was such a cool genre of music back in the day....probably never to be repeated but at least the music survived even though most who created it didn't
Duane absolutely lived to play guitar. The best studio guitarist ever. He would play any style. His jazz guitar on Herbie Mann's 1971 Push Push , will melt your face. I passed that album to my son for his vinyl collection. .
Thanks for the correction, but can you describe "straight" blues? I'm familiar with the sounds of Delta, electric, hillbilly, West coast, and Chicago styles of blues. But i don't know what straight blues is like.
Gotchyer 6 yeah Duane Allman was great it was a sad day when we lost him and we also must remember Berry Oakley and I believe recently of heard that Butch trucks passed away
You are right, but in all candor, Gregg absolutely hated the term "Southern Rock" - He never liked to be called a Southern Rocker and didn't believe in regional terms.
I only saw the Bros. play live twice, but both were seminal concerts. The first time was at the Fillmore East, early '70's, the concert that the "double live" album was recorded at. The second time was at "Summer Jam" in Watkins Glen, a few years later. "Summer Jam" is generally known as the "Second Woodstock", it had nearly twice the attendance as the original Woodstock concert in Bethel. Feel free to burn with envy and jealous rage.
You know that's the one thing Gregg cherished more than anything; the memories he had of and with his big brother, Duane. Rest in Eternal Peace, Skydog. Rest in Peace, Gregg. We miss you!
Muscle Shoals is easily one of the greatest music documentaries ever made. If you haven't seen it you're missing out on so much history that's sure to blow your mind!!
I’ve watched it now to many times to count. I was a young man when Patches was on the radios all over. I can remember many songs I listens to were recorded at Muscle Shoals .. maybe the building wasn’t much on the outside… what came out of it was some of very best music ever recorded on tape and pressed onto vinyl records. The recording engineer and owner such a demanding perfectionist. Just listen to those recordings today to me they are history to the ear, beautiful music, great players, amazing music and song writers.
@@gregj.gotham4402 It definitely had some magic going on inside the studio there. And the owner/engineer being a perfectionist was likely a good thing for the music though ultimately if I remember correctly...the Swampers or at least some of them eventually left cause of his demeanor and perfectionist ways. But like Motown and Stax... it's hard to find any clunkers that were recorded at Muscle shoals.
The story goes that when Clapton first heard the great soul singer Wilson Pickett's Hey Jude and the guitar in it , He called the radio station and said that kind of guitar playing was great for soul music . Eric did his calling and searching here and there to find out who the guitar player was . And that was the beginning and way too short collaboration on the sessions and a few of the songs with clapton and allman both playing on the Layla album . The eponymous song Layla would have never been a classic without Duane imho . it was so sad that Duane's life was cut so short something like only a month after he worked with clapton and the Dominos band . Bobby Whitlock was an essential component too . His singing and piano playing did much for the Layla album .
Clapton has always been the kind of musician who takes inspiration from the other musicians around him. Long-time crony and side-man, the legendary Albert Lee, has said that. Sometimes, you couldn't get E.C. up for a performance unless you started "cutting him" -musician slang for trying to show him up on stage - which would get his attention. Duane Allman motivated and inspired Clapton like no one before or since has done. What's that saying? "Twin brothers from different mothers"? That was them.
I am proudly from The South and the Allman Brothers Band was the greatest band ever to come out of the South. Let us not forget other Southerners which include Southern blues, Janis Joplin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Stevie Ray Vaughn and the the list goes on forever.
And the Swampers. Believe it or not neither Duane or Gregg were one man bands. Take Boz Scaggs recording of Loan Me A Dime in Sheffield, Alabama. Duane was great but Eddie Hinton was right on his back! He really pushed Duane hard during that jam. The song wouldn't have been nearly as good without him. Boz credited the great Drummer, Roger Hawkins for making that song great! He took the lead and Duane and the other greats followed his lead into history. They were all just killing it! The Studio was so small, they had to put Duane and his guitar and amp in the toilet! Imagine that! 😆
That slide story is in Gregg's autobiography, which is a great book. I own of those original coricidin bottles, got it in a coin collection I bought, it was full of old silver dimes. The reason the coricidin bottle is so much better than any slide that's on the market today, in my opinion, is that the glass is so thin you can feel the strings. I know it's hard to believe but if you can find an original bottle, it's only 2 1/8th inches tall and has a plastic pop on top, play whatever you use for slide first then try the pill bottle. The sound is also very warm. You can find them at flea markets if you're lucky or on eBay if you don't mind paying up to $100 for a real one. The later ones with the screw on tops are different, don't sound the same and they are thicker glass (now that I think of it those are probably the older ones). Great video, I'm gonna have to find the entire documentary now. Oh, and why hasn't there been a Muscle Shoals movie yet?
I went to work for Schering-Plough in 1978 as a pharmaceutical salesman and Coricidin was one of our major products. At that time ,the Ploughing division was in Memphis. Great story,ty
I came into the Brothers about a year after Duanes accident; thus he took on a kinda mythological aspect to me! The ABB moved me like no others before or since! I saw them on their tour that supported their ‘Enlightened Rouges’ LP It was like being in a great Church Service! It still makes me super sad that the split with Dickie was never resolved before Gregg joined Duane in Heaven. It would have been so great to see Dickie Betts jamming with the Brothers one last time!! RIP to Duane, Gregg, Barry and Butch...
In an interview with Dan Rather, Dickie said they had made amends and they, at the time got along. Now I don't know if they ever played together again, but at least they were getting along at the time of Greg's death...
There always seems to something special and different about a MS story. Imagine a guitarist the calibre of Duane Allman turning up at your out-of-the-way studio. My spine still tingles when I hear his opening phrases to "The Weight". The same goes for Wilson Pickett's tigerish version of "Hey Jude" plus Duane Allman's crystal clear instrumentation.
Jerry Wexler said of the Wicked Pickett that whereas most soul singers screamed off-pitch and in a non-musical manner, even Pickett's screams were musical and on-pitch. The Wicked One always had smoking hot session players on his recordings, including guitarists like Bobby Womack, Joe South, Steve Cropper, Jimmy Johnson, Duane Allman and later in Philly, Norman Chambers. Like all the greatest soul singers, Wilson Pickett brought out the best in those around him. The cats always played better on his sessions. I didn't get a chance to see Wilson in his prime, but even near the end of his life he was still a heck of a singer and a wonderful entertainer.
I was fortunate to meet Gregg after a concert in Rochester, NY back in 2016. He had been working on his last album "Southern Blood" at Muscle Shoals. We were talking about mostly small stuff, when out of nowhere he said, "My brother should have never left Muscle Shoals!" It gave me chills! RIP Gregg and Duane!
Just went down to Mushel Shoals. About a month ago. A must thing do, dance with my wife by the front door of the studio. Dewayne Allman & Otis Redden, Hey Jude, on you tube, made a good memory !!!
Even crazier is that a company now remakes those bottles specifically for slide guitar players! Think about that. His one identifying trait, that Coricidin bottle, made such a mark that they now make them specifically for slide guitar. Perfect glass weight. Perfect thickness. No seam in the glass. 🤯👍👍 Derek Trucks actually has one of Duane's personal slides, given to him by Gregg years ago. I swear to God, that would be my most prized possession if I were Derek. And it may be his. I've not heard/read anything, though.
I had listened to this before and the story Gregg tells about the album.and pill bottle is one of those stories that every kid across this country that ever picked up a guitar and had heart some real desire and an ear for music at the enlighten level internally has g8ne to the medicine cabinet looking for a glass pill bottle a s of course they. Arent iaing glass anymore but when I was played on my younger years similar ideas that I opulent put together O coups play some rippen rythm but on election trox I didn't know how to dial in the the sound or tone that appealed to me. Grew up on a church playpen guitar an acoustic in the blue grass band the youngest moment scared to death to okay in front of the. Church on Sunday to practice with the older fellas I jumped right I to that gave it everything I had. Lots if fin git cought on e I figured out the basic riffs of Sweet Hime Alabama the Skynard song I was playing it on the church systems main PA at O ly about a 3 Sherri g in volume that was thrilling to say the l least the pastor came out of his office and said young man you are coming along really well played that guitar you keep that. Is you hear me. He lived those southern rock ya know its fusion of blues blue grass gospel jazz and rock that is what Americas greatest contribution to the world is the diversify from the fiddlers from the Island of the UK Itelans and Scottlans the roots of Blue grass music the eythm and pace just melded together every popular gaunera of American music Gospel played a huge roll from simolarbvovalization of the Missippi delta blues and cotton picken. Yes the evil.himanity has put upon each other ate real but the grace and mercy of a loving God used those broken hearts to gibe back to humanity the greatness to this day unrivaled all music is trlated like family in America truthfully wish we all could look at each as family things would be similar for is all.
I was so disappointed with this video---because it ended! It could have gone on telling me the backstory of music I grew up with but didn't really know
I can remember on playing Duane at my drive-in theater back in the 70s at Kings Bay Drive in theater in St. Mary’s Georgia his guitar would light up my 200 speaker so you could hear it for miles God bless Duane Allman
David Lyle I probably don't have to tell you check out Tedeschi Trucks they rock pretty good too! Of course there's some pretty strong roots to the ABB. Up in the mitten we have a saying that the Apple don't fall far from the tree. Course Derek Truck being of ABB royalty and all. It's easy to see where some of his talent came from. He just keeps getting better with age and new acquaintances.
Might I add the Temperance Movement from the UK. Phil Campbell, lead vocalist, has the "it " factor when delivering a song. They toured be with Blackberry Smoke a few years ago.
I could listen to Duane play for the rest of my life ! I sure I hope i continues when I've gone to music Heaven ! Now THAT would be a hereafter of note !
Loved all the Allman Brothers albums. My first was Duane Allman Anthology. Must have been fight after he died. Try out Blackberry Smoke, up there with the Allman Bros.
Moral of the story: things are stronger and fresher when you mix them up into something new and different by combining elements that were previously thought to be incompatible. Like Soul and rock, black and white. These people had the genius to look past prejudice and biases, so they could see the truth more clearly than those who desperately cling to their fear of the unknown.
