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@@AirplayBeats See the "Tom Dowd and the Language of Music" documentary. He recorded this and most of their stuff and was a big influence on their career. He called ABB a blues/jazz band, and called Marshall Tucker a country/jazz band. He put Clapton and Duane together and recorded Layla. Wait'll you see just who all he recorded, before he even met these guys. A Whos-Who of great artists. Fascinating man. Fascinating doc.
@@AirplayBeatsThere are video clips of them playing this and other classics at the Capitol Theater ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IwjCOXT3ka8.htmlsi=xM5Z7lDTzUSOlgSL
Thank You Guys. Yes it’s Dickey & Dwayne trading licks throughout the song. This Song Is The DNA of The Allman Brothers Band. And I remind you this is recorded live at The Fillmore 1971. Theirs no auto tune. Just some righteous brothers plugging in and playing their hearts out. And to answer who is Elizabeth Read. Dickey was at the cemetery. Paying his respects. And passed a head stone that said In Memory of Elizabeth Read. I’m 61 guys I’ve been up and down all the music you guys are discovering. Yes the music from my generations much better than anything that’s put out today . I Thank You Both ❤
From Wikipedia "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" was inspired by a woman Betts was involved with in the group's hometown of Macon, Georgia. She was the girlfriend of musician Boz Scaggs, with Betts later saying she "was Hispanic and somewhat dark and mysterious-and she really used it to her advantage and played it to the hilt."[4] To cloak her identity, the composition is named after a headstone Betts saw at the Rose Hill Cemetery, where band members often ventured in their early days to relax and write songs.[4]
THIS is The Allman Brothers Band. They were built and designed to be a live band; two drummers, two lead guitarists, Greggs haunting vocals. . . . awesome band
And Dickey sang pretty dang well when he got the chance. Hats off to Berry Oakley, he was the driving thumping force behind so much of their amazing sound
I asked my dad one time what type of music he liked. His answer: “Good music”. That’s the genre you’re hearing with this. No need for any other names or categories or definitions. This is simply Good Music
These guys played blues, jazz, rock, country, and gospel; sometimes all in the same song. They've been my favorites for 50 years. You'll enjoy the trip through their catalog.
Elizabeth Reed was a women from Macon Ga who died in the 1930's and had a tombstone in the cemetery that the band hung out and practiced. This is actually in memory of Boz Scaggs' girlfriend whom Dickey was in love with. But Boz was friends with the band and they didn't want to hurt the relationship so Dickey named it after a lady on a tombstone.
This song was written by Dickey Betts. He wrote it in a graveyard in Macon, Georgia. On one ofthe tombstones was written "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed". That is how the song got it's title. Elizabeth Reed was a woman who was born in the 1840s, I believe. She died long ago, but she was real person. Today Gregg Allman, Duane Allman, Berry Oakley, and Butch Trucks are all buried in this same cemetery in Macon, Georgia. It is called Rose Hill Cemetery.
My favorite recording from my favorite band from my favorite album. Duane's solo, the second solo, after Gregg's organ solo, is also my favorite guitar solo. You hit on all cylinders for this reaction. At Fillmore East is easily the best live album ever recorded with every cut being an amazing journey. Thank you for reacting to this, it made my day.
This recording stands the test of time does it not? The most amazing thing is when you realize the band members are in their early twenties! Simply astounding level of musicianship for any age. I have seen this band since their inception in various incarnations and I have never seen a bad show.
It's my opinion that the reason music after the eighties began to lag can be attributed to technology. Folks went from being musicians to being technicians. 75 next month and I do miss it. Sooo glad you and others will carry on and keep it alive! Thanks!!!
Legend has it that when Duane got the lineup he wanted he locked the door and told them anyone that didn't want to be in the band had to fight him to leave..
See, to me, this IS the Allmans. If you listen to the entire album, it is very much like this, and this was how I was introduced to them at the time the album came out. I saw them first when I was 14, just after Duane passed. Berry was still with them. Amazing bass player. Still, to this day, the greatest concert I'd ever been to, and I've been to hundreds since. Never tire of it.
One of the reasons this era is so great, is because everything hadn't been done yet, there was still room for pioneers and experimentation. I'm glad you guys heard this one because the all comments were right, you can't really put them into a single category. From here it's easy to imagine how and why Duane worked with so many artists from other genres, especially Jazz.
Totally agree but would add that it was set in a time of great political and social experimentation. The very nature of experimentation allows for less concern about mistakes so the approach to things can be more free. I’m 65 years old--it was a great time to be alive.
Yes, the Allman Brothers sang Country, Blues, and Ballads. Not familiar with the jazz aspect, but you may be correct there also. "Layla" with Duane was the version I always heard. Later I heard the other version, and it was not the same.
Oh so many socio-polical-industrial reasons, 70s vs today, agree with this and below. Let’s not fail to mention the ascendancy of FM radio during that time: such an important medium for DJs at all levels to *play what they dug*...thereby letting us hear the whole glorious spectrum of talent and style.
I feel that this era had an explosion of creativity and talent as it was a huge generation of kids, baby boomers, that lived in a time where learning music part of their lives in a more natural way. Playing music in ones home was a way that people entertained themselves, most public schools had free music programs, and more people played music or sang in church.
The Allman Brothers-Six musicians in a theater made this masterpiece recording the breathtaking tone of the guitarist were performed on Gibson Les Paul through Marshall amplifiers. nothing more and the band’s equipment and instruments-no army of producers or overdubs. Shear genius’s -six men on stage in a theater in the wee hours of the night!!
Ok, the band used to hangout in Rose Hill Cemetery in Macon, Ga. There is a headstone in the cemetery that says In Memory of Elizabeth Reed. Dickey Betts saw the headstone and used it as the song title. Dickey also played the first solo and Duane played the second solo.
Butch too, and there’s room there for Jaimoe and Dickie to be laid to rest with the rest of the boys. So awesome that they were such a family in life, living together as a full band and whatnot, and now will all rest together side by side forever.
Once, during an interview when Dickie Betts was asked, "Who was Elizabeth Reed?" He replied, "A Beautiful Woman".... You can hear the beauty and feel it deep into your soul!!
I first heard this live in1970. They played in place on Pensacola Beach Florida. My wedding party traveled from Mobile to hear them. To make a long story short, the place was empty so we sat on the dance floor next to the low stage. We asked Duane if we could sit there and he said sure "this ain't dancing music". They played the entire album including "one way out". GREAT night!!
ABB incorporated elements of jazz, blues, funk, soul, etc. into a lot their music. This song is a pretty obvious example, but there are many more. Like y'all said, you just can't pigeon hole these guys into a particular genre, they played whatever they wanted, however they wanted...absolute one of a kind.
Fun fact..they'd go to the cemetery in Macon Georgia where they're from and Dickey wrote that next to a tombstone of a woman named Elizabeth Reed. The brothers are all buried in that same Rose Hill cemetery together..it's gated off and there waiting for the 2 that are still alive..Dickey and drummer Jaimoe who is still out there playing..they'll all be brothers again..RIP to them all 💙 💙💙💙
Now jump in the Time Machine and check out live versions of this this same song by the 1990s and 2010s Allman Bros lineups and introduce yourselves to the magnificent Warren Haynes, Allen Woody, Derek Trucks and Otiel Burbridge.
Hey guys, Ned from Spain here using my wife's account. Thanks for this video. These guys were not only deeply into blues and R n B but Jazz, like Coltrane , Miles , Horace Silver Sonny Rollins, Hancock among others. They were high level musicians who loved the feeling and sound of music, didn't trap themselves in a category and could play anything. One more important thing was their ears, they really heard what their partners were playing, where they were going always ready to support. The biggest problem now is the obsession with fame and money instead of treating music and art like a blessing to be enjoyed and shared.
In the early 70s, we road around all night listening to bands like the Allman Brothers. Derek and the Dominos, Van Morrison, Pink Floyd, Bowie, Hendrix. And now you're just discovering this? Why only now? We all knew our parents' music, Glenn Miller, Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Harry James, Gene Krupa. How'd these new generations get so musically illiterate? You don't know what you don't know. Maybe that's changing. But mostly we in our 60s, 70s, are tuning in to these reaction videos to see what you think.
Saw them with Duane, summer 1971-I can't describe the musicality of this band. Set list: Don't Keep Me Wondering; Done Somebody Wrong; One Way Out (that would be a great one to hear from this album); In Memory of Elizabeth Reed; You Don't Love Me; Whippin Post; Revival and Dimples. You can tell who is playing the solo on this album because Duane is in the left ear (he is left on stage as you look) and Dickey in in the right ear-assuming you have your headphones on correctly.
The difference between musicians of this era and today is the music they grew up listening to. These guys learned from the sources of American music; blues, jazz, country, gospel, soul etc. It opened their minds and the music came flooding out.
The Marshall Tucker Band and their song 24 hours at time live .with Charlie Daniels is another jam of this era you would like. They were closets friends of the members of the Allmans.
The mid-60s through the late 70s was a uniquely creative time that was made by an incredible confluence of influences. The parents of us Boomers had been through the Great Depression and WW II. Then we had the somewhat severe repression of the 50s and a concurrent economic boom. The Civil Rights Movement hit its stride and then there was the Vietnam War. Rock n Roll music was born in the late 50s and became more and more popular with my generation, even though ‘adults’ tried to discourage and repress it. The way to be a cool cat was to learn to play guitar or drums and start a garage band. In the mid-60s the counter culture/hippie movement started. This music exploded out of all those influences and then helped feed the movements pushing for civil rights (farmworkers, gay, Hispanic, anti-colonialism and feminism civil rights movements followed the Black movement) and to end that dang war in SE Asia. It was a remarkable stew that birthed this music and these musicians. We weren’t as stuck on what genre was being played. "It’s all rock n roll to me" sort of embodied the attitude. If it grooved, we moved. If it spoke to us, we listened and asked for more. I don’t know the answer to why today’s music seems to be so much lesser, although there still are some excellent musiciians making damn good music out there, but technology seems to be partitioning people off into separate tribes of "oh, I only listen to K-POP or hip hop or hard rock or country or R&B or, or, or". There was less separation and more cross-pollination back then. That’s part of why there was more creativity. Diversity *does* make a positive difference.
This is off their album "Idlewild South" and there are two well-known songs on this album, which is one of my favorite albums (lol) this song "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" and "Midnight Rider" which is 🔥fire also. Dickey Betts was the oldest member of the band when they formed in 1969. He shared lead guitar duties with band founder and leader Duane Allman, he went on to have a successful solo career. Dickey and Gregg Allman had a very bad falling out, I believe it was something like 15 years or more. But thankfully they patched things up right before Gregg passed away. Duane Allman became heavily influenced by Miles Davis, earlier in his career, Duane was part of the band like the "Hourglass" and "The Allman Joys." some blues artists that Duane was inspired by were T-Bone Walker (The classic Stormy Monday Live at Fillmore East is a T-Bone Walker song from 1948), BB King (He inspired every single blues guitarist you've ever heard of) 😏 and "Taj Mahal" (His recordings inspired Duane to pick up the slide) and of course the legendary Albert King (who also was SRV's mentor too.) I truly enjoyed that one guy's, thanks so much for the memories🎸💖🎶👍🤗
Yes, this is the Allman Bros. I know, I was at this concert back in March 1971 just before my 21st birthday. Most incredible. Hot Lanta is another instrumental they played. My friend and I would run in place to this one before we played tennis. Thanks for posting!
I attended the Allman Brothers benefit for Jimmy Carter Nov 25, 1975. Being in that civic center felt like a drug high, such a great party band. Greg's keyboard had pictures of magic mushrooms on it. The guitars were party wild, yet so pure.
Guys, this is the recording that defined them, I'm 73 and saw them 2 weeks before Duane died in Springfield, Ma and never heard the Studio material on top of it... Awesome, Mesmerized!
They are a rock/blues band. They jam in person (this album is a live album) but they know basically what the song sounds like. This is what rock music used to sound like guys!!! And yes, Duane was still alive at this time. If you would like to hear another jam band with 2 drummers try The Grateful Dead live as well.
I’ve been loving your Zeppelin journey, and, I agree- greatest rock band ever! GOATS. But, the greatest band ever for outright jams- The Allman Bros. - I listen to something from Live at Filmore East all the time for 40 years-greatest live album ever.
It’s a pleasure meeting you guys discovering my favorite band. Just to answer one of your questions 21:29 : Dicky’a guitar tends to have more of bite to it. You notice it more in their kind of call and response conversations. Duane is smooth , slick. Together, chart new territory. I’m glad you found your way to the Allman Brothers. Check out Dreams from the first album for some more Gregg’s soulful vocals.
Dickie is a master of playing solos that include minor and augmented tonalities over major chord progressions. Switching seamlessly between standard pentatonic scale licks and heavily extended "jazz" scales like it's just normal everyday $h1t. You're used to that with jazz horn players, Miles & Coltrane come to mind, but is not normal coming from hippie good ol' boys, especially in the 70's. And Gregg was one of the best "organist" in any genre. I put him up there with Winwood, Wakeman & Wright, not to mention his vocals sounding like a 60 year old Black Blues Journeyman when he was still in his teens. Allmans definitely one of my favorite bands to cover. Have played Sweet Melissa and One Way Out for decades. Was only in 1 band that had the skills and balls to cover this one though. Way back in 88-89. Same band also did Jessica. Both a blast to play but you GOTTA play them pretty much sober, because if 1 person gets lost, the whole sound is F'd.
I grew up in the 60's/70's. I started playing guitar in my 50's. I'm 67 now. I appreciate that I can go on YT and find lessons on here. It's great, but it's still slow. Maybe it's harder to teach an old dog new tricks. So, naturally I'm amazed that guys like Duane, (24 when he died) or the Beatles, in their 20's when they landed on this planet, and did what they did. I never got it! Now I know how they did it. They just did it! They took the instruments, pounded the pavement, from club to club, made huge mistakes, and just lived it, until they perfected their craft. At first, they lifted the arm off the vinyl a thousand times until their ear understood what it heard, got together with the boys, in the daytime, and went out at night and tested it in all the clubs..They weren't sitting around in front of a computer, or TV. They LIVED IT! It's the only way to get this good. We'll never see another time like that, I'm afraid. Simply not enough clubs to hone your craft. Sad.
They evolved, developed and performed as a band, a unit. It takes utter individual talent but also years of hard work to form a common musical landscape and synchronicity. People don’t do that nowadays.
Thanks for another great reaction! I'm 72 years old and I really enjoy your perspective on the music I grew up with. The Allman Brothers Band was and still is one of my all time favorite bands. You are right. The music in the sixties and seventies was just different. Real, raw talent. I think you would really enjoy checking out some more great artists from that era. In 1964, I was a 14 year old kid listening to Wolfman Jack's radio show. Please watch these sometime: Roy Orbison's Pretty Woman 1964. Here's the link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gy9CtTYMwAo.html. Santana's Soul Sacrifice, live at Woodstock 1969. Amazing, legendary live performance. Here's the link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sSp05euvRNU.html. The Edgar Winter Group with Johnny Winter, Tobacco Road, live 1973. You have to see this live version to really understand what incredible musicians and singers these guys were. As you guys said, this was before auto tune. Thanks and keep the great reactions coming!
Our 3 boys took music lessons when they were younger. I was talking to my son's guitar teacher about music. He was early 20's. I said he should listen to this song. He said he heard it for the first time 3 weeks prior and hasn't stopped listening to it over and over and over. That was 10 years ago. Wonder if he's still listening to it? Lol. GREAT SONG!!!!
Forrest Richard Betts aka Dickey May your wings fill with air and reach heaven above and see the brothers again. Just a fan of great music that grew up in the 70s in Florida. RIP 12/12/43 4/18/24 For the new fans enjoy the great music of that time it really was a great time for all music around. Great video enjoyed the reaction. I've listened to them before but they don't sound the same. I believe is the best response about the Allman Brothers I've ever heard.
It was sometimes difficult to tell which guitarist was playing but after years of listening to them I can usually tell. Dickie Betts wrote the tune. He is the first featured guitar lead. Greg does his organ lead. Then Duane blasts the walls open with the second guitar.
So glad you guys reacted to this one, I strongly recommended it, on one of your previous ABB videos. There's something special about this song, I still get goosebumps every time I hear it... ABB definitely can't be pigeonholed, stylistically. Another instrumental masterpiece of theirs is "Les Brer in A minor"..
You guys rock!! The Bros remind me of a Southern Santana. This band would play over their time limit and the Events would shut the power off. At one the crowd protested and they turned the power back on.
Jai Johnson played jazz before joining the Allman Brothers and brought that influence into the group. Another great tune that incorporates jazz influence is the fiery first cut from their first album, an instrumental cover of the Muddy Waters song Don't Want You No More. A great jazz blues rock time that blew everybody away right out of the gate, then blended smoothly right into the soulful blues Ain't My Cross to Bear. It was the perfect tune to launch their career. Also check Hotlanta a hot jazz tune penned by Dickie Betts and given the ABB treatment. BTW - Elizabeth Reed was simply a random name seen on a gravestone.
Great live album Filmore East album Mountain Jam is 34 minutes long jam lol plug in headphones on and chill. They were together 45 years 69 to 2014. For a country sound when guitarist Dickey Betts is lead singer you really get country rock. Check out Blue Sky and Crazy Love
Sounds like the same Allman Bros. style to me. This is a great song too. Duane and Dickey on guitar. Elizabeth Reed's name was on a headstone in Rose Hill Cemetery in Macon, Georgia where they often wrote songs.
From Wikipedia: The jazz-influenced piece was written by guitarist Dickey Betts, among his first writing credits for the group. Betts named it after a headstone he saw for Elizabeth Jones Reed Napier in Rose Hill Cemetery in the band's hometown of Macon, Georgia.
This is perhaps the finest live recorded composition ever in history. This being the original members of the band they took you on a journey through the stratosphere . This was live -one take-No band ever had this level of collective musical prowess as this ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND did -Look no further !
Dickie brought the jazzy modal playing into the soulful blues rock of the brothers and this is a shining example. Listen close to their other songs and you hear him throw in those lines and chords that made them sound so unique.
A couple other great Dickie Betts penned tunes are 'Revival' and 'Jessica.' You might also find the studio version of Elizabeth Reed interesting too. These guys are young...23, 24 years old!
You guys would love Tedeschi Trucks Band considered the best jam band touring today. Derek Trucks nephew of Allman Brothers drummer Butch Trucks. He began opening for Allman Brothers at 11yrs old. Joined Allman Brothers around 14-15. Anything since 1995 Derek Trucks plays Duane's slide solo's. Eric Clapton has said he channels Duane into his guitar work. Derek met his wife Susan Tedeschi when she was opening for Allman Brothers she just a couple of days ago was given award by Smithsonian Institute. Susan earned a Bachelor's degree from Berkeley University school of music @ 20 yrs old. Spent her 20's touring with BB King, Buddy Guy, Mellencamp and Allman Brothers. When Bob Dylan heard her as a teen he invited her to play during his set. 12 piece band that stays true to their root influences, mixed in with current jams. New release of 4 disc set, 24 new songs. "I AM THE MOON" 30 years of music history with Tedeschi Trucks Band. Grammy for Blue's album of the year 2012 "REVELATOR". Also greatly influenced by Stevie Ray, and Janis Joplin you will see that here. "I PITY THE FOOL" for Buddy Guy's birthday ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6DjtB0Vb90U.html
Saw them live at painters mill, in Owings Mills Md, it was right after the Fillmore East NYC Duane died a couple weeks after. It was a theater in the round, very intimate. Saw a lot of live music, it was right up there with the best
There's a great story in Alan Paul's book about the Allmans and the first time they all jammed together. Apparently they just started playing and didn't come up for air for an hour or so. Duane then stationed himself in front of the door and said something to the effect that anybody who wasn't going to be in the band was going to have to fight him to get out the door.
Thanks guys for reacting to this song - one of the greatest performances ever. Duane and Dickey trading solos. Gorgeous melody - reaches deep into your soul.
Intro and first guitar solo is Dickie Betts, who also wrote this, second guitar solo after the organ break is Duane. This translates Miles Davies into rock. World Cultural Heritage. Play it on my funeral.
ABB had a strong jazz and soul side. A photo of Dickey Betts and his son later in life showed them each wearing a t-shirt with an image of Miles Davis's Sketches of Spain album on it.
I was a teenager during the 70's and we were blessed to have so much great music to listen to. So many talented musicians and such diverse creativity. Nothing will ever compare to that time period!
I believe the Allman Brothers used to hang out in Rosehill Cemetery and get high and get inspired. Dickey Betts wrote this song and named it after someone, Elizabeth Reed, who was buried there.
Two guitars and two drummers check out Whipping Post Daune Allman was a session player at Muscle Shoals backed Wilson Pickett on Hey Jude And Aretha Franklin and many other Soul Artist he was the guitar player doing the solo on Eric Clapton's song Layla
Aren’t they great? Master musicians telepathically connected. Another Dickey Betts song I like, although it’s slow to get going, is “Les Brers In A minor” from ‘Eat A Peach’. It starts from nothing, they feel their way through, and then suddenly Berry Oakley tears into an incredible bass riff and they’re off. By the time it ends a couple minutes later I’m swearing they’re geniuses.
