Berry Oakley deserves some serious praise here as well. He is to bass as Duane was to slide. The entire band is killing it on this night. They were so much more than a southern rock band. In fact, Gregg said many times that the only reason people labled them "southern rock" was because of where they're from. They were a blues band above and beyond anything else. Truly one of the greatest bands in rock history. RIP Duane, Berry, Butch, and Gregg. You've left your mark and made the world a better place.
Man, it never gets old. His work from 10:54 to the peak at 12:43 is pure upward momentum, like a lumbering pack animal bringing the whole band up the mountain
Blues yeah, but jazz and psychedelia too. This track has all of that. Then In the Dickey Betts years country and rockabilly flowed in. It was a tasty mix always expertly played.
I am sitting on my ocean front deck over looking a spectacular moonlit ocean and listening to this gem of a concert. Just thanking God for what I have and for blessing our world with the Allman Brothers Band. HELL YEAH!!!
I saw this band twice in 1970, and the two things I noticed the most were Duane and Berry and their interplay. They were on opposite side of the stage and like 2 poles of a bar magnet, the energy flowed between them, ebbing and flowing, and the rest of the band hopped on to ride with them. It was truly musical magic. I am so privileged to have witnessed it. Changed my musical life.
Same here Philadelphia CivicCenter open for CTA. Wen th started playing people were milling about n Duane turned his back n th band Jammed on. Suddenly people started to sit down n th Mystic moment was Live.1968 I was 17
nicely said sir! to me they were like a giant freight train racing down the track, so powerful as to knock one back in their seat, one of the most dynamic bands I have ever seen live!!
Jk loftin. Couldn’t disagree more bro. Listen to allmans in 2010. Oteil outplays berry and trucks and Haynes vastly superior to Duane. Duane is overrated as fuck. Warren and derek a thousand times better bro. Listen to the tapes. Duane allman decent but he ain’t as hyped as you and others make him out to be bro. You should listen to 2010 version and you’ll know I am right bro
@@mojorising0071950 you guys need to stop with the overhype on Berry and Duane. The band was vastly superior when the brothers added Lamar and Chuck leavell. They got bigger in 73 and Derek and Warren were better players. Yo that’s fact not fiction. Try to listen with your ears bro. Duane was sloppy as fuck
Saw the brothers back in 1969 in Jacksonville Beach Florida their 1st album have been follow eversense truly one of most amazing groups! I was very fortunate to see them several times with Duane Allman . Derek Trucks is the closest thing to Duane Allman. Will surely miss the brothers playing
The Brothers had virtually stopped playing Dreams. Then they get cleaned up and come back out with this great version. Duane does his solo work with cool Dickey notes and chords under. With Berry thumping along. Then Dickey is playing really cool stuff for a couple minutes while Duane has his slide playing soft notes. Then Berry has an almost solo before Duane screams in with his slide. In standard tuning! I wish I had more technical knowledge of music. I’d probably appreciate even more what I’m hearing. And what I’m hearing is awesome! Love these guys!
Sat in the Fl Keys sun this summer listening to this version...felt like I was on another planet...God rest your soul Duane Allman you insanely gifted bugger...
Truly one of the greatest shows in history, sadly only weeks before the untimely and tragic demise of the greatest guitarist I have ever heard...The only musician who can still make me cry, to this day...We were truly blessed to have this amazing talent all together for the short time of the original 6... R.I.P.....
+James McCarthy Duane and Dickey, Barry, Greg, Jaimoe, Butch - The magic is real, it wont be back but it is here(hear?). I believe this is as near to heaven as if there. No others have ever moved me so...My heart thanks(thinks?) No Heart that is not moved by this magic, is no heart I'd want in me.
Sitting here with tears flowing...... you will be missed forever Gregg. The jam that must be taking place with big Brother Duane, Berry and Butch in Heaven. Thank You for all the treasures you left us with.
Gregg is Ba-bro...as Duane used to call him. Older by little over a year. Just some trivia, but your thoughts brought tears to MY eyes...saw them a few months before music world caught on, in a small auditorium..maybe 200 seats...maybe. No one even there at the door to take our tickets! Don't know what seats we were assigned, thet werent used.....walked right down to first row, 6 feet from a small stage and listened to them play as if to a crowd of thousands, take a break after a while in the back corner of the stage, as they enjoyed some "refreshments", then get up and play for another I don't remember how long. The next year, they WERE playing to thousands. The next year, Duane was gone..followed by Berry a year later...in the same way at almost The same location. But, that show they put on for so few that night was the best birthday present of my life!
@Lord Jagged I know....tragic, and then Berry...I remember selfishly worrying that there would be no more music from them...Both of them, brilliant in different ways, yet so important in the world of music. I know that they are part of what I know.....
The first live version I heard of this song was that Ludlow live album. I didn’t think that version could be beat but this version takes this song to an even higher level. Shows how much Duane was getting better. Can’t even imagine how much better he could have gotten!!! Great band.
Saw these guys many times. For that, I was indeed blessed. Duane, Greg and Berry are all rock and roll Saints to me and many others. What these guys left behind is noithing short of a miracle. Love them always people!
14 thumbs down? WTF!!!! The best version of Dreams I have ever heard and I go back to the beginning. Get a clue and quit listening to Bieber and Swift and turn on to real music.
@Moon Shine of known recordings and of this quality there actually arent that many recordings of dreams thru 1971. fillmore west, brewer field house, and this one are some. tired id say not... i mean the band was at the peak of their hard drug use so maybe a little strung out but i hear too much energy in this recording to feel that theyre tired in the slightest. This is the definitive recording of live versions of dreams in my opinion.
Moonshine which versions do you like most, are any on RUclips? I like the Fillmore WEST from Feb 71, and Atlanta 70. Is Atlanta 69 out? They also played in 70 a pop festival in FLORIDA, has anyone heard this show?
Duane was master of buildng solos: tension and release, tension and release up to a final climax (yes, like really good sex) with the band following his arcs of intensity and then he would let someone else solo (if they dared.) Even today most rock guitarists don't think in terms of building a compositional improv solo like Duane does here.
Mike McGreevy Berry was and wanted to be a lead guitarist at first. Switched to bass, but he plays it like a lead axe. What choices did he have with Duane and Dickie ??? Can you imagine, THREE lead guys in the same band !!! The rest is history..............
Gregg is such a wonderful blues singer but even a better composer. He is also an excellent guitarist however it is obvious there is now need for his services in that capacity. I love this composition as his voice and organ soften the vibrant guitar solos.The music here is timeless.
A musical journey to another dimension. I listen to this I think it's one of the greatest things I've ever heard. Then I go listen to a couple of the other versions the original band did that are totally unique and equally as incredible. What a treasure it is to hear these guys, 52 years later and it still doesn't get any better then the ABB.
Saw The Bros. a month before Duane’s fateful day and to say amazing would be an understatement because Duane and Dickey sounded as 1 playing 2 parts. Damn they were sooooo good their music changed my life! When Derek and Warren became the guitar players they were once again back on top the charts…. God rest all those that have gone before us!!!
until an hour ago ,I would not have agreed, but this just blew me away! , this IS the best Dreams ever. I've always loved the first version..used to ride around in my Fiat with the top down, Allmans on as loud as possible (and others, of course) And it's so good to read all the comments and stories . I was so lucky that I lived in the Bay Area,still do, and got to see so many of the earth-shaking bands!! thank you for this, Trout Voice.
It's almost as if the band extended these moments out as long as they could to savor the short time this line-up would have together. It's as if Duane know he had to put his guitar's voice out there as strongly as he could while he had time.
duane really pulls out all the tricks on this one. he really had an ear for what people wanted a guitar to sound like and how to do it. haunting, souful, jammin'! forget about the imposter filling in at the beacon theater for their final show. when Duane died that was the final show PERIOD!
When the Allmans lost a talent as unique and gifted as Duane the Allmans they never again reached the heights that they did with him. Impossible to do so. Rest in Peace Sky Dog.
Funny, because when Duane put the band together, he wanted musicians where each one was better than the next and all were better than he. NOW, whether I agree that Betts was better than Duane....I don't. But Duane respected him. 2 lead guitars working in harmony is just not an easy undertaking...with a tidal wave a percussion, 2 great drummers. 2 Key boards, Gregg and Levell, Berry (genius), and Gregg's throaty, blues voice...they worked together like nature...they knew just what to do. Gregg.. after losing his brother, was not sure people would want them...he took a chance, he wanted to make his brother's dream a reality...and he did a pretty good job. He made sure to separate his band from the ABBs band. Betts had never played slide on an electric guitar. Gregg said on a flight across the country, he started to try...he mastered it by the time they landed. One sad, sad thing is that they were starving when Duane died. Gregg says LITERALLY 2 weeks after Duane's death, they were millionaires....
duane man oh my fucking god. they may have been a southern blues band but this might be the most proper psychedelic song and solo ive ever heard. The man was a once in a life time musician. incredibly inspirational as a young guitar player.
Just gotta add my two cents to an AMAZING performance by the entire band but, especially, Duane. Song's structured to be a showcase and still was as recent as Trucks-Haynes. Duane shown before on this song a lot but...jeezus, never heard it like this. Other-worldly, even for Duane I'd have to believe. Almost wonder if he wasn't feeling his calling.
Listen to the master fly. From 02:29 onward he is celestial, right through each movement. Both of the guitars are perfect, the wave of organs they ride is perfect, the drums are restrained. The playfulness at 03:39, the building of power starting at 04:05, which relaxes at 04:30 and ambles on pensively, curating that idea around 04:47, and then the great trill building up that crescendoes like great sex at 05:15, shuddering and fluttering like bird wings at 05:25, and final,ly getting it back together at 05:38 for a second, wrapping up thoughts, whipping the band up, now Berry fretting diads and triads through 06:30 and then lumbering along through the harshness that concludes at 06:52 with perfect tenderness of gentle exploration that gradually works towards that wonderfully lo-fi playfulness and crescendoes again at 08:17...Jesus, it never ends. The segue at 08:58... this is the greatest recording of the greatest guitarist of all time.
Meanwhile......I bought into the "Madison Sq Garden 50" PPV SHOW on March 10th, 2020, JUST before the COVID shut down NYC that Friday....THAT was an AMAZING Show !!!! :-)
I was a student at SB 66-71 :-) I saw there the very 1st Allman Bros show at SB with Chicago as the headliners on a Thursday Night .....~ 1968? Where the ABB was Unknown!!! 2 sets ( I saw both sets) with the ABB playing last for the 2nd set, finishing with the Mt Jam with ~ 50 kids total, left in the Gym dancing in front of the stage,,,,,.changed my Musical Life :-))) I still perform that song as maybe my FAV ! I wish the Film from the ABB's Fillmores Last Concert would surface! !!!!
I was there from 69-73' - some amazing nights of music. They didn't 'headline' till this '71 show. Remember, opening up for Mountain? or Delaney and Bonnie a week after the Dead shows?
Simon Bolivar Hi Simon......Hmmm I woulda thought they headlined in 69? I can't remember specifics of any of their shows except for that 1st one........ ;-) Can you imagine if Jimi Hendrix was still alive !! I can remember how hard his passing hit me and where I was.........I was living in Roth 1 and walked over to the Mess Hall.......... :-( PS One of THE greatest anecdotes I ever heard...... about Duanne starting Slide is on the Muscle Shoals documentary. If you havn't seen that work.........its wonderful !
klmullins65 I just found my SUNY Concert list from those years it was 4/28/70 :-) If you want me to email you a PDF of the complete list let me know mm@soundsight.net
I was there that night but couldn't say if this was Early or Late show , I can say it was awesome and the late show got out at 3:45 AM . Nothing like the original ABB and Marshall Tucker who went on before them sure didn't suck either ...
The quality is amazing..... - a friend who ran the soundboard for All the shows had his own private stash of 1/4" reel to reel tapes direct off the board..... So this has to be from him ;-)))))
I would think that the B&W film of last day at Fillmore would be somewhere in Wolfgangs Vault if it exists....Sure would dig seeing that as well as the Atlanta Pop Fest 1970 footage that has supposedly already been worked on...
I've talked with Mossyi (the lighting guy) about those vault tapes and Seth who manned the board passed away within the last 3-5 years due to Crones Disease. He hasn't been able to locate his parents to see if he could get a hold of those boxes and boxes of SBDS. I've attached a link here for you...home.comcast.net/~gv0000/Stony_Brook_Archive.pdf
it's all about moon dog, y'all. Greg was steady but Duane was the man. the final Allman Bros. concert wasn't in new york, but it was where ever Duane played last. because that was the last fuckn Allman Bros concert..................
Why are those guys so glamorous compared to nowadays "stars". They even more change their kind of playing. They are more spontaneous, more experimental, more innovative. Especially the play of Duane is an example for what I mean. It is fresh after 40 years. No mistakes in harmonic and structure. He is a real master of his instrument. (I don't like ... he's the best ever - we don't know who is coming next)
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Berry Oakley deserves some serious praise here as well. He is to bass as Duane was to slide. The entire band is killing it on this night. They were so much more than a southern rock band. In fact, Gregg said many times that the only reason people labled them "southern rock" was because of where they're from. They were a blues band above and beyond anything else. Truly one of the greatest bands in rock history. RIP Duane, Berry, Butch, and Gregg. You've left your mark and made the world a better place.
Man, it never gets old. His work from 10:54 to the peak at 12:43 is pure upward momentum, like a lumbering pack animal bringing the whole band up the mountain
How can anyone pigeon hole this band? They’re one of the greatest blues bands ever
Yes man this song might have my favorite bass line ever
Blues yeah, but jazz and psychedelia too. This track has all of that. Then In the Dickey Betts years country and rockabilly flowed in. It was a tasty mix always expertly played.
Berry was overrated as was Duane in terms of playing. Both were heroin addicts which impacted their ability to play.
I am sitting on my ocean front deck over looking a spectacular moonlit ocean and listening to this gem of a concert. Just thanking God for what I have and for blessing our world with the Allman Brothers Band. HELL YEAH!!!
Duane Smiles from those words!
Berry
😊😊
One of the greatest live recordings ever - absolutely mindblowing
Best version of DREAMS I've ever heard.
Astonishing that these guys were just 23, 24 years old at the time. So brilliant, so inspired, so talented.
I saw this band twice in 1970, and the two things I noticed the most were Duane and Berry and their interplay. They were on opposite side of the stage and like 2 poles of a bar magnet, the energy flowed between them, ebbing and flowing, and the rest of the band hopped on to ride with them. It was truly musical magic. I am so privileged to have witnessed it. Changed my musical life.
Same here Philadelphia CivicCenter open for CTA.
Wen th started playing people were milling about n Duane turned his back n th band Jammed on.
Suddenly people started to sit down n th Mystic moment was Live.1968 I was 17
nicely said sir! to me they were like a giant freight train racing down the track, so powerful as to knock one back in their seat, one of the most dynamic bands I have ever seen live!!
Jk loftin. Couldn’t disagree more bro. Listen to allmans in 2010. Oteil outplays berry and trucks and Haynes vastly superior to Duane. Duane is overrated as fuck. Warren and derek a thousand times better bro. Listen to the tapes. Duane allman decent but he ain’t as hyped as you and others make him out to be bro. You should listen to 2010 version and you’ll know I am right bro
@@mojorising0071950 you guys need to stop with the overhype on Berry and Duane. The band was vastly superior when the brothers added Lamar and Chuck leavell. They got bigger in 73 and Derek and Warren were better players. Yo that’s fact not fiction. Try to listen with your ears bro. Duane was sloppy as fuck
Saw the brothers back in 1969 in Jacksonville Beach Florida their 1st album have been follow eversense truly one of most amazing groups! I was very fortunate to see them several times with Duane Allman . Derek Trucks is the closest thing to Duane Allman. Will surely miss the brothers playing
I was there for this. Very memorable show, especially that it was not long before Duane's passing.
I go hiking throughout the Pacific Northwest with this tune permeating my ears. 19 minutes of magical deliciousness!
Yea Berry and Duane were best friends. When Duane died, poor Berry fell apart. Still the best band in the land
After 46yrs. Dreams never gets old. Listen every morning.🍑🍄
This is the best "blues rock" piece ever. Manhood.
The Brothers had virtually stopped playing Dreams. Then they get cleaned up and come back out with this great version. Duane does his solo work with cool Dickey notes and chords under. With Berry thumping along. Then Dickey is playing really cool stuff for a couple minutes while Duane has his slide playing soft notes. Then Berry has an almost solo before Duane screams in with his slide. In standard tuning!
I wish I had more technical knowledge of music. I’d probably appreciate even more what I’m hearing. And what I’m hearing is awesome!
Love these guys!
True musicians which is now a rarity these days. There are none of this caliber any longer. So many back in the days
Sat in the Fl Keys sun this summer listening to this version...felt like I was on another planet...God rest your soul Duane Allman you insanely gifted bugger...
Truly one of the greatest shows in history, sadly only weeks before the untimely and tragic demise of the greatest guitarist I have ever heard...The only musician who can still make me cry, to this day...We were truly blessed to have this amazing talent all together for the short time of the original 6... R.I.P.....
Man, Duane was only getting better. The notes to the final cadence of a beautiful life, a beautiful song
So sad that these were Duane's final week's on earth. Truly a legend. RIP skydog
Such good sweet words...
Nothing can touch early Allman Brothers!! Wail on Skydog!!!
the sound of the slide guitar is amazing. it will never be matched,. Thank you Duane.,Rest in peace
+James McCarthy Duane and Dickey, Barry, Greg, Jaimoe, Butch - The magic is real, it wont be back but it is here(hear?). I believe this is as near to heaven as if there. No others have ever moved me so...My heart thanks(thinks?) No Heart that is not moved by this magic, is no heart I'd want in me.
The word is this is the greatest version of Dreams ever, well you have my vote, Duane & Berry are hot shit.
I still think it is, recorded. I heard Derek Trucks play it at peach this summer and was blown away. It was like watching someone rise from dead.
Here is a spectacular version with Trucks taking both solos ruclips.net/video/vrsLveZmLSE/видео.html
Sitting here with tears flowing...... you will be missed forever Gregg. The jam that must be taking place with big Brother Duane, Berry and Butch in Heaven. Thank You for all the treasures you left us with.
I completely understand....sniffling still a year after you wrote this...love to you.....
Gregg is Ba-bro...as Duane used to call him. Older by little over a year. Just some trivia, but your thoughts brought tears to MY eyes...saw them a few months before music world caught on, in a small auditorium..maybe 200 seats...maybe. No one even there at the door to take our tickets! Don't know what seats we were assigned, thet werent used.....walked right down to first row, 6 feet from a small stage and listened to them play as if to a crowd of thousands, take a break after a while in the back corner of the stage, as they enjoyed some "refreshments", then get up and play for another I don't remember how long. The next year, they WERE playing to thousands. The next year, Duane was gone..followed by Berry a year later...in the same way at almost The same location. But, that show they put on for so few that night was the best birthday present of my life!
@Lord Jagged I know....tragic, and then Berry...I remember selfishly worrying that there would be no more music from them...Both of them, brilliant in different ways, yet so important in the world of music. I know that they are part of what I know.....
If there was a road and a song that could go on forever this might be it,
The first live version I heard of this song was that Ludlow live album. I didn’t think that version could be beat but this version takes this song to an even higher level. Shows how much Duane was getting better. Can’t even imagine how much better he could have gotten!!! Great band.
Exactly. A year and a half between the two performances.
All deeply & fully committed serious musicians intending to play the hippest music they could.....and they did!
Absolute magic, musical magic!!
Saw these guys many times. For that, I was indeed blessed. Duane, Greg and Berry are all rock and roll Saints to me and many others. What these guys left behind is noithing short of a miracle. Love them always people!
This is as REAL and PURE as it gets...Fucking amazing this song ~
Twenty four years old. People play guitar their entire lives and never get close to this good. And B.O....driviing the tractor. Wow.
This version is sloooowwer than the others…and the pain is reeeeeall……man I love this….decimating and knocks you down to chill….
i want this played at my funeral!
Listening and writing this number down for mine.
14 thumbs down? WTF!!!! The best version of Dreams I have ever heard and I go back to the beginning. Get a clue and quit listening to Bieber and Swift and turn on to real music.
Personally I prefer the version on Gregg Allman's '74 Tour
Ignoring "thumbs down" is a key RUclips video-watching skill. It takes practice, though.
@Moon Shine of known recordings and of this quality there actually arent that many recordings of dreams thru 1971. fillmore west, brewer field house, and this one are some. tired id say not... i mean the band was at the peak of their hard drug use so maybe a little strung out but i hear too much energy in this recording to feel that theyre tired in the slightest. This is the definitive recording of live versions of dreams in my opinion.
Moonshine which versions do you like most, are any on RUclips? I like the Fillmore WEST from Feb 71, and Atlanta 70. Is Atlanta 69 out? They also played in 70 a pop festival in FLORIDA, has anyone heard this show?
@Moon Shine lmfao. You're a fucking joke.
AMEN. Brings tears to my eyes my father just passed away he’s up there in heaven with four of the brothers Love u pops and hope u get to meet them.
Fills me with so much joy❤
6am and the hair is standing up on the back of my neck, just amazing. RIP Duane, Greg, Barry, and Butch.
I could almost die happy with the 'birds' chirpin' in a DREAM....Thanks!
First time I ever did hear the birds!!
Last Note of Layla....Chirp @@robindesjardins8238
Being there would've been so great, but its a blessing to be able to listen to this whenever we want.
Incredible blessing. 49 years ago today
It just doesn't get better than this!
Duane was master of buildng solos: tension and release, tension and release up to a final climax (yes, like really good sex) with the band following his arcs of intensity and then he would let someone else solo (if they dared.) Even today most rock guitarists don't think in terms of building a compositional improv solo like Duane does here.
And what about what Dickey is playing in the middle! Really beautiful notes!
Wow, great version of this classic Allman Brothers song. Besides Duane's fantastic guitar work, Berry Oakley's bass playing is insane.
Mike McGreevy Berry was and wanted to be a lead guitarist at first. Switched to bass, but he plays it like a lead axe. What choices did he have with Duane and Dickie ??? Can you imagine, THREE lead guys in the same band !!! The rest is history..............
Pretty close to damn perfect.
Perhaps the greatest
Emulating birds on a slide Beautiful..
The Best Band i have had the pleasure of hearing + seeing," many times".Thank you Allman Bros
just incredible, the years seems to just fly by and this just takes me back to the carefree times of my youth.
Gregg is such a wonderful blues singer but even a better composer. He is also an excellent guitarist however it is obvious there is now need for his services in that capacity. I love this composition as his voice and organ soften the vibrant guitar solos.The music here is timeless.
Man, I'm in tears after hearing this.
The sounds Duane was getting throughout this with just a guitar and an amp is crazy. 13:45 almost sounds like a univibe
Gosh that was lovely thank you for sharing this gem 🙏🏽
Dreams and Whipping Post their best, well then there's Ramblin Man, Midnight Rider, Southbound, Melissa...it's all good. What a group!
Don’t sleep on Elizabeth reed 71 Fillmore. Technically, I don’t think they’ve played a better song
A musical journey to another dimension. I listen to this I think it's one of the greatest things I've ever heard. Then I go listen to a couple of the other versions the original band did that are totally unique and equally as incredible. What a treasure it is to hear these guys, 52 years later and it still doesn't get any better then the ABB.
After this Dreams, Duane’s guitar confessed to everything.
Maybe the best dreams ever recorded!!!
I would have to agree with you there.
*****
chev202 u ain't lyin, my friend
Ain't no maybe about it.
Maybe? That and Bluesky are the best versions ever.
Saw The Bros. a month before Duane’s fateful day and to say amazing would be an understatement because Duane and Dickey sounded as 1 playing 2 parts. Damn they were sooooo good their music changed my life! When Derek and Warren became the guitar players they were once again back on top the charts…. God rest all those that have gone before us!!!
This is the highest quality recording I have ever found on You Tube, I really appreciate your work.
Seriously Troutvoice THANK YOU
until an hour ago ,I would not have agreed, but this just blew me away! , this IS the best Dreams ever. I've always loved the first version..used to ride around in my Fiat with the top down, Allmans on as loud as possible (and others, of course) And it's so good to read all the comments and stories . I was so lucky that I lived in the Bay Area,still do, and got to see so many of the earth-shaking bands!! thank you for this, Trout Voice.
10:54 is why Berry is the baddest motherfuckin bassist that ever played jam music
thanks. sky dog slide guitar was out of this world
Are you kiddin me...nobody plays like that no more...these guys are serious
It's almost as if the band extended these moments out as long as they could to savor the short time this line-up would have together. It's as if Duane know he had to put his guitar's voice out there as strongly as he could while he had time.
duane really pulls out all the tricks on this one. he really had an ear for what people wanted a guitar to sound like and how to do it. haunting, souful, jammin'! forget about the imposter filling in at the beacon theater for their final show. when Duane died that was the final show PERIOD!
When the Allmans lost a talent as unique and gifted as Duane the Allmans they never again reached the heights that they did with him. Impossible to do so. Rest in Peace Sky Dog.
Funny, because when Duane put the band together, he wanted musicians where each one was better than the next and all were better than he. NOW, whether I agree that Betts was better than Duane....I don't. But Duane respected him. 2 lead guitars working in harmony is just not an easy undertaking...with a tidal wave a percussion, 2 great drummers. 2 Key boards, Gregg and Levell, Berry (genius), and Gregg's throaty, blues voice...they worked together like nature...they knew just what to do. Gregg.. after losing his brother, was not sure people would want them...he took a chance, he wanted to make his brother's dream a reality...and he did a pretty good job. He made sure to separate his band from the ABBs band. Betts had never played slide on an electric guitar. Gregg said on a flight across the country, he started to try...he mastered it by the time they landed. One sad, sad thing is that they were starving when Duane died. Gregg says LITERALLY 2 weeks after Duane's death, they were millionaires....
This kind of music just came on the radio while we were driving in those days. Nice to drive to on a California country road.
This is really nice quality. Thank s for posting this.
From 12:07 -15:30 Duane just pours his guts out. Incredible,cathartic creativity. Duane lives FOREVER.
AWESOME. Love the bird noises
They were sure tuned into some thing great and wonderful!! Listen and channel it in to your soul
duane man oh my fucking god. they may have been a southern blues band but this might be the most proper psychedelic song and solo ive ever heard. The man was a once in a life time musician. incredibly inspirational as a young guitar player.
WOW!!!! Those guys were good,,,,Daune was MAGNIFICENT
best solo ever.
True Allman Blues Thank you 💋👀🖤😊
Just gotta add my two cents to an AMAZING performance by the entire band but, especially, Duane. Song's structured to be a showcase and still was as recent as Trucks-Haynes. Duane shown before on this song a lot but...jeezus, never heard it like this. Other-worldly, even for Duane I'd have to believe.
Almost wonder if he wasn't feeling his calling.
The perfect song to listen to when you are high
Absolutely right!😙💨✌️🎼🎸🎸🎤🥁🥁🎹
Yuh no doubt
Top of the mountain. Chirp chirp💓💓💓
Listen to the master fly. From 02:29 onward he is celestial, right through each movement. Both of the guitars are perfect, the wave of organs they ride is perfect, the drums are restrained. The playfulness at 03:39, the building of power starting at 04:05, which relaxes at 04:30 and ambles on pensively, curating that idea around 04:47, and then the great trill building up that crescendoes like great sex at 05:15, shuddering and fluttering like bird wings at 05:25, and final,ly getting it back together at 05:38 for a second, wrapping up thoughts, whipping the band up, now Berry fretting diads and triads through 06:30 and then lumbering along through the harshness that concludes at 06:52 with perfect tenderness of gentle exploration that gradually works towards that wonderfully lo-fi playfulness and crescendoes again at 08:17...Jesus, it never ends. The segue at 08:58... this is the greatest recording of the greatest guitarist of all time.
Michael McCarthy nice to see a true duane fan
+Michael McCarthy amazin observation
+Michael McCarthy - say perfect in harmony and structure and full of ideas who show us how to play a guitar
Thanks for the kind words man, this recording means a great deal to me.
Thanks for the kind words man, this recording means a great deal to me.
Para mi Duane siempre sera el mas grande. Su tecnica era tan exquisita, su slide tan dulce y especial!! El mas grande de todos los tiempos sin duda
Meanwhile......I bought into the "Madison Sq Garden 50" PPV SHOW on March 10th, 2020, JUST before the COVID shut down NYC that Friday....THAT was an AMAZING Show !!!! :-)
A month later after the performance the incredible Duane Allman would be gone away from us all so soon...RIP!!!! Skydog
I was a student at SB 66-71 :-) I saw there the very 1st Allman Bros show at SB with Chicago as the headliners on a Thursday Night .....~ 1968? Where the ABB was Unknown!!!
2 sets ( I saw both sets) with the ABB playing last for the 2nd set, finishing with the Mt Jam with ~ 50 kids total, left in the Gym dancing in front of the stage,,,,,.changed my Musical Life :-))) I still perform that song as maybe my FAV ! I wish the Film from the ABB's Fillmores Last Concert would surface! !!!!
I was there from 69-73' - some amazing nights of music. They didn't 'headline' till this '71 show. Remember, opening up for Mountain? or Delaney and Bonnie a week after the Dead shows?
Simon Bolivar Hi Simon......Hmmm I woulda thought they headlined in 69? I can't remember specifics of any of their shows except for that 1st one........ ;-) Can you imagine if Jimi Hendrix was still alive !! I can remember how hard his passing hit me and where I was.........I was living in Roth 1 and walked over to the Mess Hall.......... :-( PS One of THE greatest anecdotes I ever heard...... about Duanne starting Slide is on the Muscle Shoals documentary. If you havn't seen that work.........its wonderful !
onemanmatt PS The TOM DOWD documentary is a MUST He was the Allman Bros Sound Engineer for many recordings inc the Fillmore LP
It wouldve had to be in '69, as they didnt form the band until Feb 1969
klmullins65 I just found my SUNY Concert list from those years it was 4/28/70 :-) If you want me to email you a PDF of the complete list let me know mm@soundsight.net
my favorite song
RIP Dickie Betts
Still untouched
Berry Oakley the most underat d bass in rock- Bluesusic
never forgotten !!!!!!
Mesmerizing I tell you that!!!PlayOnBrothers in paradise..
I heard this long ago. Now I can hear it again!
..mmm Yes Skydog lives in my heart ...and Soul...Love Duane..
I was there that night but couldn't say if this was Early or Late show , I can say it was awesome and the late show got out at 3:45 AM . Nothing like the original ABB and Marshall Tucker who went on before them sure didn't suck either ...
The quality is amazing..... -
a friend who ran the soundboard for All the shows had his own private stash of 1/4" reel to reel tapes direct off the board..... So this has to be from him ;-)))))
This is an Official Release from the Allmans Archives!
troutvoice Be that as it may....my buddy was the FOH and he did the recording, unless by that time the Bros had their own FOH and did the recording?
onemanmatt OH and if you have a 'connection' WHERE IS the Black and White Film of the THE last concert at the Fillmore East?
I would think that the B&W film of last day at Fillmore would be somewhere in Wolfgangs Vault if it exists....Sure would dig seeing that as well as the Atlanta Pop Fest 1970 footage that has supposedly already been worked on...
I've talked with Mossyi (the lighting guy) about those vault tapes and Seth who manned the board passed away within the last 3-5 years due to Crones Disease. He hasn't been able to locate his parents to see if he could get a hold of those boxes and boxes of SBDS. I've attached a link here for you...home.comcast.net/~gv0000/Stony_Brook_Archive.pdf
Love Duane's bird calls!!
Richard Breault like ONLY Duane could do it! tweet tweet
It's the chirp a BLUE BIRD makes!
Look at the youtube video-
"Duane's 12 greatest licks'
The technique for all-even the birds-are in that video. Loved it❣
it's all about moon dog, y'all. Greg was steady but Duane was the man. the final Allman Bros. concert wasn't in new york, but it was where ever Duane played last. because that was the last fuckn Allman Bros concert..................
I dedicate this song to Greg for Dreams no more will he see. Rest in pieces with the mieces.
Why are those guys so glamorous compared to nowadays "stars". They even more change their kind of playing. They are more spontaneous, more experimental, more innovative. Especially the play of Duane is an example for what I mean. It is fresh after 40 years. No mistakes in harmonic and structure. He is a real master of his instrument. (I don't like ... he's the best ever - we don't know who is coming next)
This Dreams sounds better than the Filmore Show.
pretty sure Duane visited the Crossroads at some point in his short life. His solo here is transcendental.
Duane Allman has become almost a myth
James, I feel the same way. Some of the bands songs literally touch my heart & soul. Close my eyes, and Im lost in that bass,..❤🍑🍄
One of my Faves from the Broters
anybody cryin?
I wish I could’ve seen the original band
Also. 1st week of school.... What a joyous way to come back to school :-)))))
Thats such a awesome version! Thx! ;o)
Just listen to Dickey! Awesome.
I will never get tired of listening to Duane playing between 10:30& 11:20 on Dreams.🍑🍄
Every time I playDreams, my dog gets on my lap and goes to sleep!🍑🍄🐶
Bonnie bramlett