Forty years ago today

Michael Holland · Post by **Michael Holland** » 29 Oct 2011 5:45 am

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 29 Oct 2011 7:59 am

Seems like yesterday

Ron Whitfield · Post by **Ron Whitfield** » 29 Oct 2011 9:24 am

It would have been an interesting parallel life for Duane, and maybe longer, had Gregg not been available. With no ABB he would have forged a much different musical path.

Bill Hatcher · Post by **Bill Hatcher** » 29 Oct 2011 9:48 am

Ron Whitfield wrote:It would have been an interesting parallel life for Duane, and maybe longer, had Gregg not been available. With no ABB he would have forged a much different musical path.

man you are really speculating....you dont know what would have happened..lol

Ron Whitfield · Post by **Ron Whitfield** » 29 Oct 2011 11:48 am

+1

Bill Hatcher wrote:man you are really speculating....you dont know what would have happened..lol

I had a whole schpeil about the supposition aspect that went nowhere and as such deleted.
It's a speculation I put on most of my persons of interest, the what-woulda/coulda/shoulda-beens. Like what Jimi would have been had he and Les Paul hooked up that fateful day in '66, instead of the incredible ride we know.

Bill Hatcher · Post by **Bill Hatcher** » 29 Oct 2011 2:05 pm

i had a gig in macon one day. went out to that cemetery..rose hill i think..to see allmans gravesite. there was a guy hanging there. cleaning up a little. didnt say anything at first. cased me out. i just stood there, checked things out and was fixing to leave..said hello to the guy. long story short...he was married to berry oakleys sisiter or cousin or something like that. he said the kids in town come to the site and party and have sex on the grave and have stolen everything that they could. they were always having to keep the site clean and such and were bummed about it.

got to thinking.....the allmans used to go out to that same cemetery and write songs and party and whatever...guess turnabout is fair play.

saw him play in 69 with the original band. they were a great band!!

Steve Hinson · Post by **Steve Hinson** » 29 Oct 2011 4:57 pm

Ain't this the section of the Forum where there doesn't have to be any steel content?

Here's some steel content-Duane Allman and David Lindley and players like them changed the way that a lot of steel players play their instrument...I use stuff that I stole from Duane Allman every day in the studio...and so do a lot of other steel guitar players...

Thanks for posting,Michael...I'd forgotten...I was about 15 or 20 miles up the road in Warner Robins when Duane got killed...he was one of our local heroes...I was 15 and all us little kid guitar players were chasing after Duane,Dicky,and all the other great guitar players in the Middle Georgia area(Mike Brown at Peavey was one who went to my high school)...y'all wouldn't believe the great rock and roll guitar players who came from Warner Robins,Georgia...I'll put 'em up against the rock and roll guitar players anywhere in the world!

Anyhoo...love it or hate it,Duane Allman's slide playing lives on every day on country radio...usually because of a steel player...bye.

Dave Hopping · Post by **Dave Hopping** » 29 Oct 2011 5:15 pm

The time since Duane left us is now more than twice as long as his life was.I've been trying to get my mind around how short was the musical age he was part of and how long ago it really was.It's as if during Duane's lifetime we were copping licks from a guitarist who had died forty years before-in 1931.I can't think of anyone like that.Can you?

Bo Borland · Post by **Bo Borland** » 29 Oct 2011 10:26 pm

I saw Duane and the rest of the band on the boardwalk in Atlantic City back in the early days, they played a date at Steel Pier or the convention center... It was the first time I had ever seen anyone play slide...I asked him what he was using to get that sound.. he looked at me like I was from MARS... and walked away, I was crushed... .. I still use every lick and sound he ever made, every day . RIP Duane.

Craig A Davidson · Post by **Craig A Davidson** » 30 Oct 2011 4:47 am

Duane was an influence for sure. The slide work on Ramblin' Man and Clapton's Layla proves that.

David Mason · Post by **David Mason** » 30 Oct 2011 9:32 am

He's the primary reason I play PSG. After taking slide as far as I personally could, there wasn't anywhere else to go, for chords and note groupings. Then after hearing Sonny Landreth, I had to start playing slide again! My personal goal is still to sound like Duane Allman playing Miles Davis's version of Beethoven's Sixth Symphony. Or maybe, Beethoven playing Miles's version of "Mountain... well foo, you know. A guy's gotta dream...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt9-00zousA

Closing the Fillmore:
http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/Allm ... astNYC.asx

sugarmegs.org has tons of "new" old ABB, must be 50 concerts there.
http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 1 Nov 2011 6:58 am

I don't know who played the solo on Midnight Rider. It might have been Dickie Betts or Duane?
It has a strong PSG influence.

Clete Ritta · Post by **Clete Ritta** » 3 Nov 2011 8:16 pm

I never got to see the Allman Brothers Band in concert. I was only 8 when he died, but their music was a huge influence. In a high school garage band, we used to dig playing In Memory of Elizabeth Reed among many of their other songs. I especially liked playing slide on One Way Out and Statesboro Blues. Duane Allman and Johnny Winter were players that I absolutely loved back then, and still do today. I learned slide guitar at a very early age listening to them both. I only recently started playing steel and thought somehow my knowledge of slide guitar playing would help. It has helped a lot intonation wise, but not quite as much overall as I presumed it would, since they are really two distinct disciplines. I do tend to come up with slide guitar riffs often enough though. Anyway, considering this thread topic, the 40th anniversary of his untimely death, I do miss Duane Allman, and will always consider him a major inspiration. In his memory, Eat A Peach.

Clete

Mike Perlowin RIP · Post by **Mike Perlowin RIP** » 5 Nov 2011 6:30 pm

Duane Allman made great music by sliding a bar across guitar strings. The fact that he held the guitar vertically instead of horizontally, and wore his bar on his finger instead gripping it, does not make any difference. Great music is great music.

He has influenced any number of people here, myself included.

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 5 Nov 2011 11:46 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhqnWw0CLl4
A comment:
Listen to Duane playing that Dobro so sweet! Love it. Thanks for posting!

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 6 Nov 2011 1:15 pm

just thought i'd mention...dickie betts, john hughey, vassar clements...

Larry Tracy · Post by **Larry Tracy** » 8 Nov 2011 10:56 am

Got to see Allman bros. with Duane at Winterland. Friends had to drag me to the show( was in a funk about a girl). Elvin Bishop opened show and came out when they were doing mtn. jam and they went into East West. Great night!! The man played with a lot of soul.

Clete Ritta · Post by **Clete Ritta** » 8 Nov 2011 12:33 pm

Thanks for the link Joachim. I liked Boz's "Lido Shuffle" back in '76 on the radio as a kid, but I have never heard this record before till now. The whole album is great! This one fell under my radar at 6 years old

. I really dont know much of Duanes work outside of the Allmans but he did a bunch of sessions. There was a compilation called Everybody Slides with David Bromberg, Mike Auldridge, Lowell George & Duane Allman which was really good. I didnt really start listening to Lowell's playing with Little Feat till the 80's. He was another great player I admired like Duane on slide, but timing is everything they say, and once again I was too late to watch him play. Like Duane, he also died too soon.

Any other recordings of Duane with other artists I probably missed?

Clete

Mike Perlowin RIP · Post by **Mike Perlowin RIP** » 8 Nov 2011 2:12 pm

Clete Ritta wrote: Any other recordings of Duane with other artists I probably missed?

Clete

Layla, Derek and the Dominoes, featuring Duane Allman and Eric Clapton.

http://www.amazon.com/Derek-The-Dominos/e/B000AQ06VW

Clete Ritta · Post by **Clete Ritta** » 8 Nov 2011 3:28 pm

That one I did know about. I was just reading his bio online after discovering the Boz album, and these are artists I didnt know about: "Allman was featured on releases by a number of artists, including Clarence Carter, King Curtis, Aretha Franklin, Laura Nyro, Wilson Pickett, Otis Rush, Percy Sledge, Johnny Jenkins, Boz Scaggs, Delaney & Bonnie and jazz flautist Herbie Mann. "...and many more uncredited at FAME Studios. Also, didnt know Lynyrd Skynyrds lyric in Sweet Home Alabama, "Muscle Shoals has got the swampers, and they been known to pick a tune or two", referred to the rhythm section on those records, so while Duane was in the Allman Brothers Band and not listed as a "Swamper" he might as well have been an honorary member, since it appears he did a good deal of work with them all. He sure could pick a tune!

Clete

Mark Eaton · Post by **Mark Eaton** » 8 Nov 2011 4:47 pm

Craig A Davidson wrote:Duane was an influence for sure. The slide work on Ramblin' Man and Clapton's Layla proves that.

Good song, Ramblin' Man - except Duane was no longer with us when that song was recorded. Les Dudek played on that one with Dicky Betts.