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Spots Of Time Crowd Noise Guitar Intro Hoochie Koochie Man Drum Solo Linda Lou Mary Lou Hideaway You Upset Me. He spots Devon Allman watching from the side of the stage and motions over to him. Devon asks if can get him anything. Betts points to the cheering crowd and tells Devon to look out there. Those words that Dickey had said to me came back around and reverberated stronger when I started touring with Duane. Dickey was really sweet and he was kind of telling the future there. Louis area home.
It's really about striking that balance. It's a special bond shared by Devon, Duane and Berry, who have known each other since meeting as kids 30 years ago on the road with the Allman Brothers Band. And we know what that body of work means to the fans. In , Betts left the Allman Brothers Band in a much-publicized split after reportedly being told by fax to "get clean. Betts also released another studio album of new material and toured with his Great Southern group, which would feature his son Duane sharing lead guitar duties with him.
Dickey Betts decided to retire in following a hometown charity show here at Robarts Arena that took place shortly after the Allman Brothers Band's final gig. In January , Butch Trucks died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. A few months later, Gregg Allman died due to complications from liver cancer. Bill Graham had often retailed the story that in he called the Grateful Dead in the recording studio, asked for Jerry Garcia, and offered the band a New Year's Eve show at the Cow Palace.
I first heard Graham tell this story at a free lecture in Berkeley in According to Graham, Jerry refused the offer. Yet it remains that was the only year other than when the Grateful Dead were actively touring, while Bill Graham was alive, when the Dead did not play somewhere.
The party-at-Bill's story has been repeated so many times that everyone takes it for granted. I myself think that Graham was truncating a complex series of negotiations into a single vignette, in order to improve the story. Put another way, the basic arc of the anecdote seems to contain some kernels of truth, but I highly doubt the conversation between Graham and Garcia actually took place in the form he described.
To name just a few things, why would Graham call Garcia at the studio? The Dead had a booking agent--Sam Cutler--and while Graham didn't like him, it's unlikely that Garcia would have wanted to discuss business with Bill and thus bypass his own agent.
For another thing, would the notoriously disputatious Grateful Dead have had an answer so readily prepared? Finally, in August , Wake had not yet come out, and the Dead's finances would not have been settled yet, and I doubt that they would have been so quick to turn down a big offer without thinking about it.
With all those caveats listed, however, I think the basic dynamic of the story was probably correct. The Grateful Dead were independent, and did not have to explain to a Los Angeles record company why they would or would not play New Year's Eve. Garcia, among others, never spoke fondly of playing New Year's. Finally, by November, when it would have been fish-or-cut-bait time, the Dead would have felt comfortable financially, and willing to tell Graham "no. It didn't happen.
The Allman Brothers Band, the most popular band in the land, ended up headlining two nights at the Cow Palace on December 31, and January 1, It was a tribute to the Allmans drawing power that they could not only sell out New Year's Eve, but sell out the next night also, even though New Years was a Tuesday. Support acts were the Marshall Tucker Band and the Charlie Daniels Band, then both up-and-coming, although hardly unknown. It's also possible that the amount of money required to both book the Allmans and tempt the Dead was too large for an indoor venue.
They were 'discovered' and moved to Los Angeles, where they led a group called The Hour Glass in , and they mostly played around California.
They had played the Fillmore and the Avalon a few times the SF group called All Man Joy had no connection to them , but they never broke out of the 'almost' mode. While in Los Angeles, however, Duane learned to play slide guitar from Ry Cooder and Jesse Ed Davis, and that set his guitar playing apart from almost everyone else at the time. By , Duane had indeed put a band together, with two drummers and two members of a group called The Second Coming, bassist Berry Oakley and guitarist Dickey Betts.
All that was missing was a lead singer, so Gregg was called back from LA did you know that Gregg had flunked an audition as bassist for Poco? With Gregg playing organ, writing songs and singing lead, and with the backing of Phil Walden, manager of the late Otis Redding, the Allman Brothers Band was ready to conquer America.
With twin lead guitars and two drummers, the Allmans had a unique sound that merged Miles Davis with soul and the blues, and all of the players had been around and were equipped for battle.
However, they were based in Macon, GA, and the sixties had come somewhat later to the South. Thus the Allmans adopted the strategy of bands like the Dead, regularly playing for free in places like Piedmont Park in Atlanta, building a loyal audience where they would otherwise have been unknown.
Playing for free in the park was old hat in California, but it was a new thing in Georgia. Seeing the natal Allman Brothers Band in mid-'69 for free must have spun around a lot of heads. The Allman Brothers started to tour around, and crowds were knocked out everywhere they went, so every time they came back to a city they had a bigger crowd. By November , just as the Allman Brothers were breaking out to a huge national audience with their third album, the unforgettable Live At Fillmore East double-lp, leader Duane Allman died in a motorcycle crash.
Unbelievably, almost a year to the day later, Oakley died in a motorcycle crash himself, not far from the site of Duane's death. Astonishingly, the next Allman Brothers album, Brothers And Sisters , was the band's biggest album ever, behind classic hits like "Rambling Man" and "Jessica.
I do not necessarily think that the individual band members were that close personally. Nonetheless, the bands were kindred spirits in many ways, and great musicians, and seemed to have enjoyed playing together.
July 7, , Piedmont Park, Atlanta, GA After the triumph of the Atlanta Pop Festival in , which was actually held out in the suburbs, promoter Alex Cooley held a free "thank you" concert in Piedmont Park in Atlanta on the Monday afternoon following the festival.
The Grateful Dead were flown in from Chicago. Although the Allmans had played earlier in the day, the Dead would not have seen them play.
The Dead closed the show. After the Dead set, there was some jamming, and it appears that Duane and Jerry were both on stage, although no one can confirm if it was at the same time. The day after was the Lincoln's Birthday holiday.
At least one night, members of the Allman Brothers, including Duane, and Love drummer George Suranovich went over to an infamous joint called Slug's to see Pharaoh Sanders. This piece of evidence is one of the clues to me that shows that while Duane enjoyed jamming with the Dead, it wasn't more important than other musical explorations. It was one of the first Northern cities where the Allman Brothers had a staunch following.
Ironically enough, there were only two acoustic guitars, so Weir and Duane and then Garcia and Weir played a few numbers, but the tape is more of a curio than anything else. At this time, both groups were popular but not huge live attractions, and both camps seemed to have recognized that sharing a bill would allow them to play much larger places. My own inference is that Berry Oakley, the effective leader of the Allmans at this time, would have been the one most in favor of the Dead and the Allmans working together on an extended basis.
An entire tour was actually booked for Fall '72, sadly trumped by Oakley's death. For the scheduled San Francisco dates, on December , , different acts opened for the Dead, the last time the Grateful Dead had openers at a non-New Years Winterland show. I am aware that there is some dispute about the date of this show--it was originally scheduled for Thursday July but the entire weekend will be the subject of a future post.
These were really huge shows for the era, as full-sized stadium concerts were still quite rare. The fact that the Dead and the Allmans together were more than twice as attractive a bill than either band as headliner was a significant flag to promoters like Bill Graham, who would make multi-act stadium acts a staple of the rock world in the next few years.
The auto racing track was the site of the annual United States Formula 1 Grand Prix which would be won in by the great Ronnie Peterson in a Lotus 72 Cosworth , and it could absorb a huge crowd. In response to Woodstock, the state of New York had passed a law banning concerts that lasted more than one day.
The Dead supplied the 60s vibe, and The Band were paragons of credibility back in the day, but the Allman Brothers were unquestionably the big-money headliners, the straw stirring the drink. All three bands played extended "soundchecks" the day before the official concert, as the crowd was already huge. One of the best live albums of all time is about to get considerably better. Additionally, The Fillmore East Recordings contains the complete June 27 performance during the iconic venue-s final weekend, after the band was handpicked by impresario Bill Graham to headline closing night.
The great thing about that is, the original album that brought the Allmans so much acclaim is as notable for its clever studio editing as it is for its performances.
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