The Allman Brothers Band - In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed (REACTION)
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- @AirplayBeats reacts to In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed by The Allman Brothers Band
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Y’all got great taste in music. This song is such a vibe.
It sure is!!
We were not expecting this when we pressed play
Even towards the end, and a lot of the bandmembers had changed, Gregg Allman still had great music coming out of the Allman Brothers band
@@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 ua-cam.com/video/IwjCOXT3ka8/v-deo.htmlsi=xM5Z7lDTzUSOlgSL
The scary thing is, these guys are in their early 20’s, and playing like this. They humble me.
Greg Allman once said, "There are jam bands, and there are bands that can jam. We are a band that can jam."
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 ❤
*Duane
Dickie et al was doing more than paying their respects. It was what they did.
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]
Perhaps the greatest double lead guitar band ever 😊😂
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.
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
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
amen!
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
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.
RoseHill Cemetery on Riverside Dr.
"The tombstone where Dickey effed Boz Skaggs' wife," as they used to razz him.
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.
Man this song gives me chills. 1st guitar solo is Dickey Betts and 2nd, after organ solo, is Duane Allman. Phenomenal
Every song on this album is the best rendition you'll ever hear.
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.
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!!!
Partly true though their was still very good musical technology back in the day.
auto- tune anyone...?
Yup fake beat machines and vocals by machines
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.
The BEST ERA THE 70s thank you my ERA! I am reliving it at 76yrs Old!
Amen brother I’m with you on every point
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..
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.
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!!
Best american group ever,rock,blues,country,soul,jazz
Duane playing the 2nd lead parts. Duane is throwing in some Coltrane licks that just KILL IT!! ❤
favorite comment: "Everybody's soloing!" so true, but not over each other, together WITH each other. So awesome!
Perfectly put Jim....
Literally the greatest song ever
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!!
She was just a tombstone that Dickey Betts saw one day at a cemetery.
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.
@@annbeguity5932 exactly and especially late at night and on college radio stations 💿
Exactly
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.
Well said. Sadly technology and the worship of money has changed society, sometimes for better but just as often for worse.
AMEN
That just about sums up what these guys keep saying each time they react to a video of the Allman Brothers. ❤
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.
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!!
What a great night is right! That would be the dream of almost everyone, a private show by the Allman Brothers Band👏👏👏👏❤❤❤❤
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 💙 💙💙💙
This song was written by Dickey Betts, who just passed away today. RIP Dickey
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.
And now Duane, Berry, and Gregg are buried there too
Wow, didn't know that. Thanks.
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.
Again guys in my opinion the greatest band. I wore out the vinyl, then tapes then CDs of their music
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.
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.
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.
For more Allman Brothers blues, please try Not My Cross To Bear...you all have great taste in music💞✌️
The best live album in rock history. Period.
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.
Don't forget Jack Pearson!
Their children are carrying the torch, making some damn fine music.
When it comes to live bands, the original six were the benchmark!
This is all about their musicianship. They were more musically sophisticated than most people realized. And it is more than a jam. It's a composition.
Soulshine with Allman brothers and Government Mule... you'll never be the same. Peace.... enjoy your channel.
Managed to see them play twice in the 70s… they knocked it out of the park on every song. Inescapable Jazz and Gospel influences and saturated in a Blues temperament. Nobody could touch their level of playing. They came and kicked ass.
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!
I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY TIMES I WOULD LISTEN TO THE ALLMAN'S ON ROAD TRIPS !!🚗 🛣️PERFECT MUSIC TO LISTEN TO DRIVING! 🚙😍😁🎸🔥
Let’s go 🔥 btw the 1970 version does have live footage. Now you gotta Watch don’t keep me wondering 1970 live footage version❤️
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.
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.
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.
@@christinerobinson9372 lighten up Chris
I have this album I bought back then and some others. all fantastic. Duane and Dickey Betts on guitar. Berry Oakley on Bass
Berry was a force of nature..
AMEN on the musicianship of artists from the 60's and 70's!!!!!!!! On point!!!!!
RIP Dicky Betts. Thanks for the memories and music
The greatest live album ever ❤
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🎸💖🎶👍🤗
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.
These guys earned their legendary status by doing this right here…….great stuff.🔥🔥🔥🔥❤️
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.
I named my daughter after this song. Such beautiful music.
Dickey plays the intro, & 1st solo, Duane 2nd guitar solo, & in between Gregg on Hammond organ.
I saw this band 4 months before Duane died.
A musical blessing.
One of the best instrumentals
This is how you gain Immortality. No questions asked and pure instant approval. And the guitars: NO ONE before them had that tone and sound. Especially Duane: part-buzz, part-horn, part-squawk. A lot of copy-cats, yes. And Duane unleashed a Category-5 hurricane at the tail end of his solo.
The 70's CRUSHED IT musically!!!
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!!!!
You guys got it! 70's music was the best! I saw so many cool bands! Jimi Hendrix Experience was my first concert!
Most bands can't claim they had one of the best guitarists of all time, the Allman Brothers have had four.
Duane Allman 69-71
Dickie Betts 69-76, 78-82, 89-00
Warren Haynes 89-97, 01-14
Derek Trucks 99-14 (Maybe the best slide player alive today)
Add Jack Pearson to the mix 😎
And Dan Toler
How can a band play so smooth and intense at the same time, usually those two things don't go together but they make it happen
Their masterpiece, a blend of rock, blues, fusion and freeform. Jim
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: ua-cam.com/video/gy9CtTYMwAo/v-deo.html. Santana's Soul Sacrifice, live at Woodstock 1969. Amazing, legendary live performance. Here's the link: ua-cam.com/video/sSp05euvRNU/v-deo.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!
OOPs! I forgot to include the link for Tobacco Road. Here it is: ua-cam.com/video/af0rV6dli_o/v-deo.html
Have a great day!
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.
"Something dad would have played." Hell yeah, groovy jazzy bluesy schmoooove...
The switch-up breaks my neck every time. It's so good.
March 26 1969 , "Anyone in this room who ain't gonna be in my band is gonna have to fight their way out of here !" ~ Duane Allman
Born Elizabeth Jones Reed November 9th, 1845, she was a young Southern belle when she came to Macon, Georgia to attend Wesleyan College. She was married to Confederate Army Captain Briggs Hopson Napier on April 26, 1865 and they had 12 children of which 3 died before reaching adulthood. She died May 3rd 1935. What is her relationship to the band? None. Dickey Betts often hung out at Rose Hill Cemetary in Macon Georgia, came across her grave and named this song after her.
The difference between the music of the 60's and 70's and today can be broken down into two different things......the first is the the soul of the times....the brotherhood and sisterhood of the people , the love of one another , the joy of sharing and the absolute joy that music brought to us...
The second thing is the dedication of the musicians , the collaboration and the freedom to step outside what the big record companies wanted the music to be and to follow their own hearts.....not to be told what they could and could not do......the people decided what they wanted and the musicians gave it to us.....
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 !
Man, there's no mistaking that Hammond B-3 organ!
The Best live version of any song EVER!!
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"..
I love Mountain Jam. Hi from Perth Australia 😎🎶🎵🎶
"Oh shit, here's the drummers". You guys made my night. Your videos are a joy to watch.
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.
This is one of the greatest pieces of music EVER created!!!!!
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.
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.
Guys, just as a little tip when listening to the ABB. Every time you hear an amazing riff or phrase on the guitar that moves you, don't ask if it's Duane. It is Duane! He was the most melodically expressive instrumentalist of his time.
The band many times used "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" as a warm up tune at concerts to get everybody loosened up and in sync, including the audience.
The way they would set up on stage puts Dickey (lead) and Berry (bass) with Butch (drummer) kind of behind them in your right headphone and Duane (lead) and Gregg (keyboards) with Jaimoe (drummer) kind of behind them in your left headphone with lots of overlap, especially between Butch and Jaimoe.
Here Dickey leads out on guitar then Duane blends in and from there they swap back and forth with everybody else taking a piece now and then and Barry driving everything along with his bass.
Awesome innit? I was born in 51 and hearing music like this when it first came out is one of the good things about being an old fart. LOL
Nice to see young folks like ya'll getting into and enjoying it too. Mahalo
Just had to revisit...RIP Dickey Betts...long live the brothers of airplay beats
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.
Greatest live band and Gregg was the best white blues singer. Their concerts were absolute fire. I saw them many times.
one of the greatest concerts of all times
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
During a 1971 radio interview, a listener called in and asked if Duane was going to continue playing twin guitar leads. Duane answered:
"That's Dickey Betts playing the other guitar, that's not me," Duane said. "See, I'm the famous one, Dickey's the good one."
Duane also said about his collaboration with Derek and the Dominos that Clapton had nothing on Dickey Betts.
Reposted from dickeybettsofficial --- There are few musicians who have had the career that Dickey has. Not only a great guitar player, but accomplished singer/songwriter and band leader. He made a name for himself on the Florida club circuit, playing with The Jokers, The Soul Children, The Blues Messengers and The Second Coming. Dickey and Duane Allman jammed together when Duane was trying to recruit Berry Oakley into his new band. During those sessions, twin guitar parts began to emerge. In addition to the harmonies, Dickey's melodic country style contrasted perfectly with Duane's fiery, jazzy blues style. When the ABB was formed in March 1969, Dickey was 25. He penned some of the band's most recognized early songs, including Revival, In Memory of Elizabeth Reed and Blue Sky. After Duane's death in 1971, Dickey shouldered more of the load going forward, delivering the band's first #1 album, Brothers and Sisters. It included Ramblin' Man, Southbound, Jessica and Pony Boy, all written by Betts. The band's resurgence in the 90's would again feature some of Dickey's timeless songwriting, penning classics Seven Turns, Nobody Knows, Back Where It All Begins and No One To Run With. Over the course of his career, he founded, toured and recorded with Dickey Betts & Great Southern, and the Dickey Betts Band. Inducted into the Rock & Roll HOF (1995), and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient (2012). There are only a handful of musicians who have ever accomplished this.
Glad to find you guys. 05:08 - YES... they are "jam masters". Much appreciation :) subscribed after 1 listen - keep it up
You guys must hear the ultimate encore jam, THE MOUNTAIN JAM. It was just about as musically perfect as could be.
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.
The band was turned on to Miles Davis around this point in time, and it really shows.
Yes Duane was on this entire album. We lost him not long after this recording. The "Top level" solo you noted was Duane.
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.
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.
Dwayne Allman played the famous riff for Eric Clapton on the song LAYLA. Clapton said that he called Dwayne because he knew he was the only one that he wanted.
Their body of work will stand the test of time. Incredible musicians, meshed in an incredible synchronization.
So so good!❤ you can here the different beats of the two drummers are killing it!
When you listen to this band,you are on a journey of sound.