For me, this is the most beautiful musical moment ever recorded. The ultimate moment, within the ultimate improv, withing the best live performance ever. No one was ever this good before, or since. God bless you, Duane Allman.
duane had a very special ability to go beyond the technique he had mastered and transfer his emotions directly into the sounds coming from his guitar. i've never heard anybody quite like him. his young death was such a loss.
Im 60 I had heard of Duane over the years. My guitar idol is Jimmy Page. To say I have a genuine love for Duane's guitar playing is an understatement. This is possibly Duane's Magnus Opus, surly.
I could listen to the Allman Brothers everyday. Unfortunately, I didn't have the chance to see them before Duane and Berry died. I have never heard a band that was so tight with their music. This is not only with the original band, but the band at the end. Even with the changes in musicians, they were still solid. There will never be another band like them. I miss them, but I want to thank them for the great music and the memories I have going to their shows.
And its my opinion. Such a pleasure to communicate with individuals of such stature and the recognition of great, the greatest music ever played at such a level night after night.
I was lucky enough to see the entire band on a three day weekend concert at Love Valley North, Carolina in 1971. I still stands out as one of the greatest times of my life.
Nicely done...this has to be everyone's favorite part. Duane and Dickey's guitars coming to life and then Duane's slide solo afterwords is almost too much for a soul to take. The most beautiful music I've ever heard. Duane's slide work was out of this world however in my opinion his lead guitar work is equally as impressive if not more so...his solos on Elisabeth Reed, Whipping Post, You Don't Love Me, Stormy Monday and Blue Sky to name a few are the best I've ever heard.
I was fortunate to see the original Allman Brothers Band lineip on 5/30/1971. whoch was 2 1/2 months after they performed amd recorded the Fillmore East concerts for At Fillmore East, and Mountain Jan .
you know almost 50 yrs ago ,i had an inkling that i would be listening to this 50 yrs later . . . . .and still getting emotional about it. ... 66 yrs still living . . . . .hopefully still alive got 2 yrs to go . . . . i will listen on that birthday. who else got to think that about a band . . . . . stones ,beatles , that' s it . duane the GOAT !
I couldn't tell you what scale Duane is playing. Sometimes I can't tell if he's playing slide or not. But I can tell you this guitar playing is more moving than anything I've ever heard. And Duane takes me for several rides up and down the mountain everytime I listen to this song. It's just incredible how fitting the title of the song is. And even more incredible someone at the age of 24 could compose something so masterful and mind-blowing.
Just a little reminder: As far as it goes DUANE, and Mr. Betts, two of the greatest guitarplayers of all time. AND two great drummers (Trucks,Johanson), but just one bassplayer... Barry Oakley is propably the most underrated musisican of all time...
I was 21 when I heard this while in the Army. I'm 60 now and it is STILL one of the best solo's of all time. Duane is untouchable and nobody comes close even to this day. This and Duane's live Whipping Post and 'Lizbeth Reed solos are his best to me. I had the record, the cassette, and the CD. Ha RIP Duane
This is one of my favorite comment threads on RUclips.......Can't think of another song, I have listened to for over 40 years and still gets me every time. Pure musical genius.
You are so right. No matter how many times I hear a piece of music like this, or other fabulous pieces by Skydog, they always reach down and touch a place beyond mere emotion - and it's fresh each and every time. Words fail me, but I know others here know what I'm stumbling to say...And it's something that unites us as well.
I saw Duane Allman perform many times. I saw ABB In Jacksonville when they were the Second Coming.I remember Mountain Jam first time at the Jacksonville Beach Colosium. I was thunderstruck from what I was listening to. I can still picture it. He used to put a cigarette in his guitar and you could see the glow in the dark. I don't think there was any better duet than Duane and Dickie Betts, except for Duane and Eric Clapton.
Not lost in any comments, yet not specifically expressed, is how incredibly tight this performance was. It was as though they had practiced its amazing counterparts for months. When Oakley changed the tempo at 3:50 through to 5:00 is an incredible piece of lead / rhythm / bass work that has this feel like these guys were born triplets with the ability to anticipate exactly where the other was going. Never heard anything like it, esp live.
My god, what if ? need to remember no classic rock playing at this time. No borrowing this lick or that lick. Where's it coming from. From his natural soul... Sorry Eric, I place you in the same category, but what if, maybe everyone would be chasing this. Sorry all but just give this a second or a third listen, 1971 all this is unfolding, what is he 24 years old, unbelievable. For anyone out there who knows me, I want this piece played at my funeral, you'll know when to Que it in. God Bless Him ....
everyone has their favorite bars on this one. Mine is the transition from the crescendo on slide into the long drawn out notes....2:20-3:09....Skydog forever...
Headphones on, press play, prepare to be launched into the stratosphere... At the 5:30 mark, prepare for reentry, enveloped in the warm embrace of Duane and Dickey bringing you home gently. Utterly transcendent, sublime - Thank You, Skydog! And Thank You Dickey, Berry, Jaimoe, Butch and baby brother Gregg for your contributions to this masterpiece.
To my ears, the two greatest solos ever . . . . .this one and the Liz Reed solo . . . .#1 and 1a to me. Their is Duane Allman . . . .and every other great guitarist can fight it out for #2
Including Hendrix. I saw that Rolling Stone poll. Yeah the electric guitar innovation, but as a player, in the ability to connect to all things tangible and mystical and pure and mischievous and soulful and ETERNAL, he was good, but my man Duane is just that much better. If only he made it to 27 let alone 24.
100% correct. Never heard a more powerful solo than Duane’s Liz Reed. Had headphones on full blast for ultimate experience. Unfortunately I do say “what?” quite often now.
171, 000 listens...and I bet half of them are mine! Also, got to give DIckie more credit for this piece of magic, its not just Duane. They were both at their best when playing off of each other. And add in Berry's unmatched bass playing.
The first time I heard this, it blew me away. The three solos all different. Shows what Duane could do. This gave me chills. The guitarist that moved me most in my life.
I was fortunate enough to see them play at "The Dome "Post College Long island NY. $1 to get in. Good bunch of guys. Mucisians of respect. And this song brings tears to my eyes for all the passion that is felt in the playing of it.The Original JAM Band ,never equaled,Magic pure and simple. As one Radio DJ said "They made the blues fun."
Zen52Blues! I can't agree more! Couldn't have said it any better. I've listened to the Fillmore East album 1000 times and will 1000 more and never tire of it. In 70-71 every party every club every radio station who knew anything played it all cause it was the best shit on the planet and still is! We bought tickets in high school in early Oct 71 to see Duane on Dec 3, we were so fkn stoked for 3 weeks till we got the news... Devastating news... My god we miss you Duane...
Saw him play three times before he passed....... he's the reason I play guitar till this day...... I remember reading that Butch thought that this version of mountain jam was not their best......hard to image they could have done it any better.......but he would know.......
I have the same funeral thought that IDC has . . . . . I only want from 5:28 to 8:17 . People have short attention spans today. And to me that part is the best of the best.
Might be the best music I've ever heard, God bless us all, Lets enjoy our lives, for ourselves with others we love and all those who got cut short like Duane! Love Always And Forever ! ! !
We should always acknowledge the time-signature change. The switch to 6/8 at about 5:27 (apparently into a slow derivation of "Will the Circle Be Unbroken") is just spine-tingling. Duane's slow, drawn-out notes on this segment mystify me to this day.
I remember the first time the first solo grabbed me. I was driving in central Pennsylvania, on my way to Pittsburgh, in August 1998. I think I'd just left I-99 and turned onto State Rte 22, but I know I was in the Alleghenies. They're not the most dramatic mountains, but I remember rounding a bend and catching a great vista of a green mountain ridge in the warm glow of the afternoon sun just as Berry's solo ended and Duane got into it. The solo seemed to last as long as that vista. Thx4sharing
Duane was unique, but so was the Allman Brothers Band. What other band jammed quite like this? It wasn't an ordinary 'jam'. They somehow found the art to play around each other in support with just the right fills and backing and sometimes a different music movement that still fit together amazingly. From an article on Butch Trucks: It was onstage, where the group's ability to meld into one unit - when they were "hitting the note," to use a phrase they said often in the Seventies - was best on display. "Hittin' the note is reaching that point where you can't do any wrong," Trucks once said, according to Skydog. "With us, when we're playing music, it's where the brain goes away and the body just does what it's supposed to do, and there's no thought and there's no question, and no matter what you do, it's right. It's getting to that spiritual level where the communication is total, but it's not mental."
Man, that brings back memories. I played that album so much during the '70s and '80 that I think I had every note memorized! Duane always threw some surprises into his solos, as did Hendrix. That's something you don't get with today's ABB.
I've seen other people say it here on this thread, so I'll say it too.... I remember the first time I played Eat a Peach Mountain Jam I was a young boy of 13 in 1973..... I got very emotional also. Nowadays what gets me the most is Duane saying at the end "Thank you, it sure has been a fine weekend", and then calling out the names of the band members. Greg, Duane, Berry, Butch as well as Danny and Lamar, I hope you are in a place where you can feel the love all of us still earthbound have for you, and that you are aware of the joy you have brought us fans both then, now, and in the interim.
Even though he was almost gone for four years, John Coltrane was smiling down from heaven hearing the Allman Brothers Band and Duane Allman playing Mountain Jam at The Fillmore East in the middle of March, 1971.
At "that" Time he was just being a Chanel, no doubt he had "contact", it's the most beautiful solo I ever heard, and I've heard a few, to bad His life was cut short
Unbelievable, I lost track of this over the years. I do remember hearing it the first time on Eat a Peach, and getting emotional. 40 years later, same reaction. What is it about this piece of music ? More powerful than any version of the Ave Maria I've ever heard.
Some time ago, I responded to a post on a classic rock group that idolized Eddie Van Halen. I said the solo, all shredding, was rubbish. Naturally I was thrashed. I wish I had this clip to post and try to convince the novices what true greatness sounded like.
Great work MKM - I can listen to this over and over and over again. MJ and Dreams are examples of guitar genius. God Bless America, the Allman Brothers, and our Troops. E Pluribus Unum.
The second, slower, more melodic and shall I say "sad sounding" solo (starting at 5:10) always made me think that Duane was playing is own eulogy, as he died shortly after. I have no data for this except my heart and all this rain running down my cheeks.
I hear you. It's lightning in a bottle. Tell you a quick story ... I was at his gravesite on the 25th anniversary of his death, and there were notes left there from teenaged girls thanking him for helping them through difficult times. They hadn't even been born when he died! And it wasn't words or singing ... just that guitar.
God rest ye merry gentlemen. Without Duane, Layla would never have happened and Clapton's career would've stayed where it was derailed. Clapton has never given Duane the credit he deserves for pulling his ass out of the obscurity fire. After Cream, Clapton obviously forgot what that thing slung around his shoulder was supposed to be used for - Duane never forgot because it was only the music and the people he cared about that meant something to him. No drama, no bullshit, no Top 40 crap. R.I.P.
As good as Johnny and Jimi may be (and perhaps more technically talented than Duane) I've never heard either of them (or anyone else really) phrase a solo as melodically and as moving as him. If you have any suggestions send them over.
From 2:15 in this video, to the highest point at 2:35 then to 3:10 has given me chills everytime since I first heard Mountain Jam up until and including today!!! Musical orgasm at 2:35!!!
The 2nd half of Mountain Jam always gets to me! Always chokes me up. Many years ago, one pre-dawn, I was driving through the Blue Ridge Parkway, just as the sun was coming up, the 2nd half part came on. Combine that with the imagery and the music. I had to pull over. I was overcome with so much beauty.
I loved the music when I discovered it with 16 years, I still love it now at the age of 50, gives me the same old feeling of my gorgeous hippy-youth, like no foto can. Great music of Duane Allman lives forever as long as we have technology and travels the whole world around. Peace and Greetings from Switzerland
NOBODY had ever played Bass like Berry Oakley at that time either...Would have I given up my life as it was to be this good, well....some of it ABSOUTELY....
I am 60 years old. I was listening to and rocking to Duane and Dickie when I was stationed in Jacksonville in 1971. They still make me smile. Rock on Skydog! You two are the best! Thanks for my memories.
Thanks so much for editing and sharing this piece of heaven mattmossop. Like many here I'm always looking for anything with Duane, and it's simply impossible to describe how beautiful this is.
This guitar playing here is the closest sound to the voice of God that I have ever heard thus far during my entire lifetime...
It's pure. You got that right. Where else could a musician take sound?
@@johnrichards5201 Amen...
@@glennkarant6760 and amen....
Best way to discribe it. I'm with ya.
Make room for me in the amen corner!
For me, this is the most beautiful musical moment ever recorded. The ultimate moment, within the ultimate improv, withing the best live performance ever.
No one was ever this good before, or since. God bless you, Duane Allman.
Fantástico!!
Well said.
Agree
When you think Duane can't climb any higher, The Skydog soars...
Absolutely agree with you I have been listening for over 50 years and I'm more amazed every single day
51 years after his passing
Gone but never forgotten
duane had a very special ability to go beyond the technique he had mastered and transfer his emotions directly into the sounds coming from his guitar. i've never heard anybody quite like him. his young death was such a loss.
Im 60 I had heard of Duane over the years. My guitar idol is Jimmy Page. To say I have a genuine love for Duane's guitar playing is an understatement. This is possibly Duane's Magnus Opus, surly.
I heard somewhere that Duane was trying to mimic a harmonica when he played slide
I could listen to the Allman Brothers everyday. Unfortunately, I didn't have the chance to see them before Duane and Berry died. I have never heard a band that was so tight with their music. This is not only with the original band, but the band at the end. Even with the changes in musicians, they were still solid. There will never be another band like them. I miss them, but I want to thank them for the great music and the memories I have going to their shows.
Berry Oakley was a very underrated bass player :(
The driving bass makes this guitar solo a work of genius.
man, that's the TRUTH!!!!!!
Always consider the source. Do you really respect the opinions of those who would, underrate Berry Oakley?
Top ten
Absolutely,
This was Duane's Magnum Opis, his best work. Love him.
He couldn't have taken flight (and what magnificent flights!) without that rhythm section, including Berry. This rocks me to sleep at night.
Lets just admit it - this cut is a MASTERPIECE. Been listening to this for 44 years and will still continue.
He pulled off 3 of the greatest classic rock solos back to back to back LIVE... incredible.
Amen to that brother!
beautiful, brilliant,
ok liz reed, what we just heard and? post?
I have been also. This and the entire fillmore album never get old.
BERRY OAKLEY IS ONE OF THE BEST BASS PLAYERS IN ROCK HISTORY.😎🎸🎶🎼☮️ BOB.
God has assigned him to show the world how music can be marvelous...
the best damn 10 minutes of music in the history of the world
It still sounds as majestic as it did when I was a young man and I get that same feeling. So beautiful, my stupid words can not describe it.
This is the absolute best live music ever performed and recorded...just my opinion
I’m with ya Laroo
At least you say it's your opinion.
And its my opinion. Such a pleasure to communicate with individuals of such stature and the recognition of great, the greatest music ever played at such a level night after night.
I was lucky enough to see the entire band on a three day weekend concert at Love Valley North, Carolina in 1971. I still stands out as one of the greatest times of my life.
Nicely done...this has to be everyone's favorite part. Duane and Dickey's guitars coming to life and then Duane's slide solo afterwords is almost too much for a soul to take. The most beautiful music I've ever heard. Duane's slide work was out of this world however in my opinion his lead guitar work is equally as impressive if not more so...his solos on Elisabeth Reed, Whipping Post, You Don't Love Me, Stormy Monday and Blue Sky to name a few are the best I've ever heard.
Dreams
Masterpiece 🎸🎶🎶🎶
just wanted to say ...I Love Duane Allman....
With Respect,
From India
I was fortunate to see the original Allman Brothers Band lineip on 5/30/1971. whoch was 2 1/2 months after they performed amd recorded the Fillmore East concerts for At Fillmore East, and Mountain Jan .
BEST GUITARIST THAT EVER LIVED!!!......
Amen
you know almost 50 yrs ago ,i had an inkling that i would be listening to this 50 yrs later . . . . .and still getting emotional about it. ... 66 yrs still living . . . . .hopefully still alive got 2 yrs to go . . . . i will listen on that birthday. who else got to think that about a band . . . . . stones ,beatles , that' s it . duane the GOAT !
I couldn't tell you what scale Duane is playing. Sometimes I can't tell if he's playing slide or not. But I can tell you this guitar playing is more moving than anything I've ever heard. And Duane takes me for several rides up and down the mountain everytime I listen to this song. It's just incredible how fitting the title of the song is. And even more incredible someone at the age of 24 could compose something so masterful and mind-blowing.
Not to mention what Dickey and Berry are doing!!
Just a little reminder:
As far as it goes DUANE, and Mr. Betts, two of the greatest guitarplayers of all time. AND two great drummers (Trucks,Johanson), but just one bassplayer...
Barry Oakley is propably the most underrated musisican of all time...
Oakley along with Jaimo and Butch - the best rhythm section...ever
Barry was what made this all work.....Bad mofo right there........
Mountain jam by the way was Barry o'ckley's creation
Barry Oakley was Not underrated at my house!
BERRY Oakley!!! Not Barry
I was 21 when I heard this while in the Army. I'm 60 now and it is STILL one of the best solo's of all time. Duane is untouchable and nobody comes close even to this day. This and Duane's live Whipping Post and 'Lizbeth Reed solos are his best to me. I had the record, the cassette, and the CD. Ha RIP Duane
Dreams solo always blew me away
Amen brother
Jimmy Herring...
I find “you don’t love me”on mountain jam is so underrated it’s insane.
Duane was better than Clapton.
Just the spirt of nature/God whatever in this piece. Absolutely a gift to all.
This is one of my favorite comment threads on RUclips.......Can't think of another song, I have listened to for over 40 years and still gets me every time. Pure musical genius.
Fluid majestic and spontaneous
It's Duane soul playing, that makes the magic. Unique.
THEY WERE MEANT TO BE HEARD.ALLMAN BROTHERS WERE AHEAD OF TIME. THE MUSIC THEY PLAYED IS TIMELESS.ONE OF THE GREATEST BANDS EVER.😎🎸🎶🎼☮️ BOB
You are so right. No matter how many times I hear a piece of music like this, or other fabulous pieces by Skydog, they always reach down and touch a place beyond mere emotion - and it's fresh each and every time. Words fail me, but I know others here know what I'm stumbling to say...And it's something that unites us as well.
I saw Duane Allman perform many times. I saw ABB In Jacksonville when they were the Second Coming.I remember Mountain Jam first time at the Jacksonville Beach Colosium.
I was thunderstruck from what I was listening to. I can still picture it. He used to put a cigarette in his guitar and you could see the glow in the dark. I don't think there was any better duet than Duane and Dickie Betts, except for Duane and Eric Clapton.
So lucky you are. To me nothing compares to his playing. Saw Dickey many times, and he was great, but was to young to see Duane.
Not lost in any comments, yet not specifically expressed, is how incredibly tight this performance was. It was as though they had practiced its amazing counterparts for months. When Oakley changed the tempo at 3:50 through to 5:00 is an incredible piece of lead / rhythm / bass work that has this feel like these guys were born triplets with the ability to anticipate exactly where the other was going. Never heard anything like it, esp live.
My god, what if ? need to remember no classic rock playing at this time. No borrowing this lick or that lick. Where's it coming from. From his natural soul... Sorry Eric, I place you in the same category, but what if, maybe everyone would be chasing this. Sorry all but just give this a second or a third listen, 1971 all this is unfolding, what is he 24 years old, unbelievable. For anyone out there who knows me, I want this piece played at my funeral, you'll know when to Que it in. God Bless Him ....
Greatest riff ever played from 4:06-4:09, brings me to my knees every time, unbelievable...thank you Duane...
Could'nt a said it better Danny.
everyone has their favorite bars on this one. Mine is the transition from the crescendo on slide into the long drawn out notes....2:20-3:09....Skydog forever...
5:37-7:37 is my favorite 2 minutes of music by anyone at anytime and anywhere. It just mesmerizes me.
Danny Kerr I know what you mean! I've been a life long fan and at 64, ABB is STILL my band. They kick a$$!
The way Barry Oakley follows him...there are no words. Two minds, four hands, one soul.
Headphones on, press play, prepare to be launched into the stratosphere...
At the 5:30 mark, prepare for reentry, enveloped in the warm embrace of Duane and Dickey bringing you home gently.
Utterly transcendent, sublime - Thank You, Skydog! And Thank You Dickey, Berry, Jaimoe, Butch and baby brother Gregg for your contributions to this masterpiece.
And Berry.
To my ears, the two greatest solos ever . . . . .this one and the Liz Reed solo . . . .#1 and 1a to me. Their is Duane Allman . . . .and every other great guitarist can fight it out for #2
Including Hendrix. I saw that Rolling Stone poll. Yeah the electric guitar innovation, but as a player, in the ability to connect to all things tangible and mystical and pure and mischievous and soulful and ETERNAL, he was good, but my man Duane is just that much better. If only he made it to 27 let alone 24.
100% correct. Never heard a more powerful solo than Duane’s Liz Reed. Had headphones on full blast for ultimate experience. Unfortunately I do say “what?” quite often now.
I am a musician. A blues man. And I miss Duane with all my heart and soul.
The ability to just to interpret and develop a melody like this, improvised to an extent, is just beyond belief. It comes from somewhere else.
It comes from the creation itself.
Lightning in a bottle.
171, 000 listens...and I bet half of them are mine! Also, got to give DIckie more credit for this piece of magic, its not just Duane. They were both at their best when playing off of each other. And add in Berry's unmatched bass playing.
i get those goose bumps every time i hear this its never ending awsome
After all these years it still rocks! God bless the Allman bros.
Regarding everybody's comments below and above at anytime anywhere anyplace in history I'll simplify this in 2 words; BEST.EVER.
The first time I heard this, it blew me away. The three solos all different. Shows what Duane could do. This gave me chills. The guitarist that moved me most in my life.
I was fortunate enough to see them play at "The Dome "Post College Long island NY. $1 to get in. Good bunch of guys. Mucisians of respect. And this song brings tears to my eyes for all the passion that is felt in the playing of it.The Original JAM Band ,never equaled,Magic pure and simple. As one Radio DJ said "They made the blues fun."
Zen52Blues! I can't agree more! Couldn't have said it any better. I've listened to the Fillmore East album 1000 times and will 1000 more and never tire of it. In 70-71 every party every club every radio station who knew anything played it all cause it was the best shit on the planet and still is!
We bought tickets in high school in early Oct 71 to see Duane on Dec 3, we were so fkn stoked for 3 weeks till we got the news... Devastating news... My god we miss you Duane...
still unmatched
Think about it. What other piece of music has lifted you up so high then seconds later bring you down so perfectly.
This is absolute SUBLIME. My soul just took a short flight to the stars listening to this.
Greatest 10 minutes of music played in my lifetime and the reason I took up guitar 48 years ago. Beautiful choice . Count me a new subscriber. Thanks.
Duane was one of the all time great musicians. History will record.
Saw him play three times before he passed....... he's the reason I play guitar till this day...... I remember reading that Butch thought that this version of mountain jam was not their best......hard to image they could have done it any better.......but he would know.......
Duane, best I ever seen, and i seen them all.
Simply the best 10 minute journey of a lifetime...
I have the same funeral thought that IDC has . . . . . I only want from 5:28 to 8:17 . People have short attention spans today. And to me that part is the best of the best.
I have told my family to play it at my funeral too.
It is also to play at mine. I have it in my will, for 40 years now.
Yep same its a breakthrough for sure....👽
Me too and Cowboy " Please Be With Me".
I have told my ex wife and my sister that this will definitely be played at my funeral
Nobody can come closer to him.Period..As if music is coming from another world...
This is my funeral song from start to finish my only wish
Might be the best music I've ever heard, God bless us all, Lets enjoy our lives, for ourselves with others we love and all those who got cut short like Duane! Love Always And Forever ! ! !
We should always acknowledge the time-signature change. The switch to 6/8 at about 5:27 (apparently into a slow derivation of "Will the Circle Be Unbroken") is just spine-tingling. Duane's slow, drawn-out notes on this segment mystify me to this day.
love this
I remember the first time the first solo grabbed me. I was driving in central Pennsylvania, on my way to Pittsburgh, in August 1998. I think I'd just left I-99 and turned onto State Rte 22, but I know I was in the Alleghenies. They're not the most dramatic mountains, but I remember rounding a bend and catching a great vista of a green mountain ridge in the warm glow of the afternoon sun just as Berry's solo ended and Duane got into it. The solo seemed to last as long as that vista. Thx4sharing
Duane was unique, but so was the Allman Brothers Band. What other band jammed quite like this? It wasn't an ordinary 'jam'. They somehow found the art to play around each other in support with just the right fills and backing and sometimes a different music movement that still fit together amazingly. From an article on Butch Trucks:
It was onstage, where the group's ability to meld into one unit - when they were "hitting the note," to use a phrase they said often in the Seventies - was best on display. "Hittin' the note is reaching that point where you can't do any wrong," Trucks once said, according to Skydog. "With us, when we're playing music, it's where the brain goes away and the body just does what it's supposed to do, and there's no thought and there's no question, and no matter what you do, it's right. It's getting to that spiritual level where the communication is total, but it's not mental."
Cool thanks for the quotes. They definitely "hit the note" on this one.
YEAH!!
Tight...takes yrs to jell like these guys. u gotta be good though. thx Wade.
Greatest guitar player ever - not even close. I'm still mad at that kid for dying so young.
Duane GOAT
デュアン オールマンの奏でるエレキギターの音色は、私の魂を揺さぶり、そして幸せをもたらしてくれる。
オールマンブラザーズバンドのマウンテンジャムは、ロック史上最高のライブ演奏です。
ありがとう、オールマンブラザーズバンド
ありがとう、デュアン オールマン
The change at 5:36 is probably the most beautiful piece of music I have ever heard bar none.
I couldn't agree with you more Brother!
going to listen to this till the day i die
and after I hope, told my son , when i go play the "Circle piece" from MJam, talk about church,,,,,,,
What is the circle piece
@@joedrew9418 "Will The Circle Be Unbroken".
Man, that brings back memories. I played that album so much during the '70s and '80 that I think I had every note memorized! Duane always threw some surprises into his solos, as did Hendrix. That's something you don't get with today's ABB.
everytime I hear this music ( over 40 years now...) I am amazed by its beauty
I've seen other people say it here on this thread, so I'll say it too.... I remember the first time I played Eat a Peach Mountain Jam I was a young boy of 13 in 1973..... I got very emotional also. Nowadays what gets me the most is Duane saying at the end "Thank you, it sure has been a fine weekend", and then calling out the names of the band members. Greg, Duane, Berry, Butch as well as Danny and Lamar, I hope you are in a place where you can feel the love all of us still earthbound have for you, and that you are aware of the joy you have brought us fans both then, now, and in the interim.
Even though he was almost gone for four years, John Coltrane was smiling down from heaven hearing the Allman Brothers Band and Duane Allman playing Mountain Jam at The Fillmore East in the middle of March, 1971.
Pure genius..straight and simple.
At "that" Time he was just being a Chanel, no doubt he had "contact", it's the most beautiful solo I ever heard, and I've heard a few, to bad His life was cut short
listen to berry, high, low, high. All in perfect rhytm
Unbelievable, I lost track of this over the years. I do remember hearing it the first time on Eat a Peach, and getting emotional. 40 years later, same reaction. What is it about this piece of music ? More powerful than any version of the Ave Maria I've ever heard.
Some time ago, I responded to a post on a classic rock group that idolized Eddie Van Halen. I said the solo, all shredding, was rubbish. Naturally I was thrashed. I wish I had this clip to post and try to convince the novices what true greatness sounded like.
I can't say I've heard anything top his non-slide solo either... incredible, and live nonetheless. And at only 24 years old.
absolutely incredible
God has been playing I think..
The Allman s symphony right here
I listened to Blue Sky on cassette on my way to graduation, almost 30 years ago
Great work MKM - I can listen to this over and over and over again. MJ and Dreams are examples of guitar genius. God Bless America, the Allman Brothers, and our Troops. E Pluribus Unum.
That part of the song always makes me cry with joy !!!
Someone please line up the people behind the 12 dislikes, lock them up and feed them Air Supply music everyday. Wait, they may actually like that....
Berry Oakley on that Tractor bass . YESSSSSS
Rock on in heaven my friend... truly a soul grabber with that LP..
The second, slower, more melodic and shall I say "sad sounding" solo (starting at 5:10) always made me think that Duane was playing is own eulogy, as he died shortly after. I have no data for this except my heart and all this rain running down my cheeks.
I hear you. It's lightning in a bottle. Tell you a quick story ... I was at his gravesite on the 25th anniversary of his death, and there were notes left there from teenaged girls thanking him for helping them through difficult times. They hadn't even been born when he died! And it wasn't words or singing ... just that guitar.
God rest ye merry gentlemen. Without Duane, Layla would never have happened and Clapton's career would've stayed where it was derailed. Clapton has never given Duane the credit he deserves for pulling his ass out of the obscurity fire. After Cream, Clapton obviously forgot what that thing slung around his shoulder was supposed to be used for - Duane never forgot because it was only the music and the people he cared about that meant something to him. No drama, no bullshit, no Top 40 crap. R.I.P.
As good as Johnny and Jimi may be (and perhaps more technically talented than Duane) I've never heard either of them (or anyone else really) phrase a solo as melodically and as moving as him. If you have any suggestions send them over.
Justin Johnson...still not Skydog...
BUT HE'S DAMN GOOD...
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The guitar god playing like an angel....
From 2:15 in this video, to the highest point at 2:35 then to 3:10 has given me chills everytime since I first heard Mountain Jam up until and including today!!! Musical orgasm at 2:35!!!
There’s a legend (or whatever) of all the legends dying at 27. We were all cheated out of at least 3 years.
Me too. The emotion in Duane's guitar playing brings tears to my eyes.
The 2nd half of Mountain Jam always gets to me! Always chokes me up. Many years ago, one pre-dawn, I was driving through the Blue Ridge Parkway, just as the sun was coming up, the 2nd half part came on. Combine that with the imagery and the music. I had to pull over. I was overcome with so much beauty.
Awesome 😊
I loved the music when I discovered it with 16 years, I still love it now at the age of 50, gives me the same old feeling of my gorgeous hippy-youth, like no foto can. Great music of Duane Allman lives forever as long as we have technology and travels the whole world around. Peace and Greetings from Switzerland
NOBODY had ever played Bass like Berry Oakley at that time either...Would have I given up my life as it was to be this good, well....some of it ABSOUTELY....
I am 60 years old. I was listening to and rocking to Duane and Dickie when I was stationed in Jacksonville in 1971. They still make me smile. Rock on Skydog! You two are the best! Thanks for my memories.
Man I wish there were some quality videos of this stuff!
Don’t forget about Berry’s playing during this part. He follows Duane’s lead right up the fretboard.
Thanks so much for editing and sharing this piece of heaven mattmossop. Like many here I'm always looking for anything with Duane, and it's simply impossible to describe how beautiful this is.