The Allmans Brothers Band 7-17-70 Whippin Post (Duane Allman) P.2

[G8GT364CI]

Fender Dual Showman heads behind Butch Trucks' head I had one of those at around the same time.

[jrfranz13]

Two words....HOLY POOP! Awesome job dude! This is amazing stuff! There isn't NEARLY enough Duane vids. Thank you!

[kewlbreez77]

Part 1 was posted??

[Scotiadave]

@kewlbreez77 Yes :) Only a silly intro thing though

[anotherUSAMan]

Awesome jam! Fabulous crowd shots! WoW!

[l2string]

GREAT RIFF @ 3:19

[wastemgmt07]

outstanding....... 

[iemand115]

Man mooi, wij hadden de Ruud pegmAN BAND IN DIE TIJD. WAS OOK GOED , ACHTERAF.

[jokkergar]

Wow amazing thank you, thank you, thank you

[acarouselofantics]

fantastic upload

[VIDJACK]

you should get a medal for this.

[Froggboots]

oH MAN...back in the day...love them!

[eissman123456]

wow

[elvinx5050]

if anybody knows of anything better than this please let me know what it is

[kewlbreez77]

@elvinx5050 ... Grateful Dead, Old Renaissance Faire Grounds - Veneta, OR, Aug, 1972; also when members of ABB played w/ the Dead, think it was 1970...? Both are incredible...

[icatchfishalot]

I would give my right nut to have been at that show.,....sadly i wasnt born until 1982

[jorysimmons]

Turn Barry UP !!!!!!!!!

[mcbrowncb]

@jorysimmons

YES!

[Danjd1]

duane with a tv yellow JR. Rare stuff, never seen a a photo of him with that thing. COOOOOOOL

[bronncohowie]

the real fuckin deal !!!

[johnmitchel1958]

I saw this film once 25 years ago-silent! What a tremendous job! thank you so much!

[totowablood58]

This is the big kahuna people what you see right in this video. The most amazing bunch of instrumental musicians to take the stage in any genre. Only three words describe the Allman Brother Band...Power, Grace and originality of the finest quality. Listen to the pbs video of whippin' post. At the end of the song, they segue into this pattern structure that is mind blowing. No other band ever made that work like the Allmans. They created an ambiance on stage that made your hair stand up.

[rentatrip1]

this is truly magbificent historic ROCK footage - you have done a super fine job of editing - masterful work on this film - words can not thank you enough, God Bless

[Scotiadave]

@rentatrip1 Thank you :)

[omeathkathy]

Incredible footage, thanks for sharing it!

[rayvan23]

Damn, so this is what I missed! I made it to within about 200 yards of the festival and was busted...jailed in Stateville for 8 days.... sharp court appointed lawyer got me off in two minutes. Most of the other 50+ people arrested went for "the deal" (I think it was $300) They never offered me one...Thanks for the video! Great work of love syncing up the sound.

[LEXGREYMUSIC]

Duane with Les Paul T.V. Junior!!!!

[mjmacary]

@rentatrip1 Sorry rentatrip, LEXGREYMUSIC is right. That is a TV Junior. Look at approx 7:24.  It is definitely a TV Junior one P/U and only two knobs. No switch up top, only two knobs and no carved top.

[mjmacary]

@rentatrip1 Also look at 7:58. Definitely at LP TV Junior.

[mjmacary]

@LEXGREYMUSIC You're right TV Junior. Look at 7:24.

[mjmacary]

@LEXGREYMUSIC Also look at 7:58. Definitely at LP TV Junior.

[mrcannabis94]

Does he have his slide on his pinky? and is he playing with his fingers?

[MrGeltabs]

2:36 - 2:40 ha she doing some thinking on sume good drugs, whoooohoo ABB kicks the shit out everythang else!!!  except that little bitch on the keyboards, just found out about gregg testifying against his manager / bodyguard and a local Macon, Georgia pharmacist

[uncasist]

Thank you for piecing this together. It really gives me a feel of being there. Guess what"? Most PA systems back then sucked, except for Owsleys at the Fillmore(s). Most didn't care less...

[witchman1]

Visty is great, this was the shit. Anybody here remember these days? BTW Visty is the code we see for video, was the old day sync. This was the only true brother band, as in brothers for the cause, ok I'm drunk.Good lord seeing Jia and Butch and the brothers with dickey and berry, Im in R&R heaven.

[witchman1]

Visty is great, this was the shit. Anybody here remember these days? BTW Visty is the code we see for video, was the old day sync. This was the only true brother band, as in brothers for the cause, ok I'm drunk.

[jeffguitarnelson1]

Super Duane Allman !

[oberryconnection]

I graduated high school in 1970 and this group was super then and super now.  Thanks Scotiadave for this!!

[oberryconnection]

I graduated high school in 1970 and this group was super then and super now. Thanks Scotiadave for this!!

[eurotrash5150]

scotiadave and any others..I consider this a piece of history..this is true american rock and roll in the raw.. like it was played i love it and thank you for this post

[Tengent]

Does it bother anyone else that they change time signatures from 11/8 to 12/8? OCD fail

[gclafontaine]

This is priceless stuff. Thanks for the effort!

[pinto4646]

5:50, duane is god-like

[qu1et]

Awesome job of syncing this w/ audio, scotiadave. Thank you!

[Scotiadave]

@qu1et Thanks :)

[jcord57]

I think Duane is definitely my favorite guitarist ever

[scasey1960]

Here's the newpaper headline of the concert - what no links in posts?

[drum0dad]

I saw The Allmans in Dayton. OH 6 weeks before Duane's untimely death. Still one of the top 5 shows, and I've seen a lot (incl The Beatles, Stones, Jeff Beck etc). Saw them on Jimmy Fallon's show, and due to this vid had forgotten how awesome Jaimoe was in the day. Thanks to Scotiadave for this wonderful document.

[richardr105]

As the late Bill Graham said.... the Allman Brothers were the greatest live group he ever saw...period....end of story. Being the founder of the Fillmore's East+West + having booked legends the likes of Hendrix, Joplin, The Doors, the Stones etc he would know. He also invited them to close the last show at the Fillmore East in June of 1971. Long live the Allman Brothers.....STILL TOURING AFTER 41 YEARS!

[cmacknews]

Man I remember when all the "hippies" came to our hometown. Our town went from population of around 25 to estimates of 100,000 people. Talk about overload.

[chelliegirl]

Duane had two, the sunburst and gold lame-finished Les Pauls. No one ever played them better! Duane on "Road of Love" is the lick to end all licks.

[MonkeysSmellStudios]

@Kohntarkosz......calm down its the brothers they didn't need a ton of camera work around the stage all that mattered was the music!

[Kohntarkosz]

I don't know why you're telling me to calm down. I'm just saying they did a shitty job of filming this concert. The music is great, as always, but there's too much of bad camerawork and too much of the audience being shown. But I guess that's what happens when you've only got a couple cameras.

[jahmerican876]

0:15-0:18 MONEY SHOT.

[ckfootballman]

Jaimoe is the coolestdrummer ever!

[SteveArvey]

Duane just simply kills this solo. The start of this solo just defies imagination. Duane was just incredible!!

[cobrakeister]

So that's the Allman Brothers. This guy is moving the whole ambiance of this piece through his guitar.

Very unique style.

There's really nothing like this old southern rock

My compliments

[dancane5]

...UMM yea..

[Kainnmaul]

Whats your opinion guys, think duane got laid after that concert? lol

[JourneyHome]

That's hilarious....!

[jahmerican876]

HAHAHA, Look at the chic's face at 2:35 and that answer your question.

[Kainnmaul]

Yeah brother, duane was the best. RIP skydog

[alantvanko1]

@Kainnmaul I think EVERYONE got laid before during and after

[zerominusminus]

Wow...Duane's playing is so unbelievably gorgeous and unique. No question, stylisticly, the greatest rock guitarist ever. It's such a pleasure to hear him play. Over the past 30 or so years, we've come to expect a lot of the bombast of the guitarists tending towards heavy metal. I wonder how much more influential he would have been, had he lived........

[TREYOLDHIPPIE]

Will always love this song.. and its great to see this live version. It still works, who does not love them and this HIT!

[frankfear]

WOW!!! Duane is playing a Junior!

[pube45]

The cool thing is to watch the ferocity that Jaimo plays on this clip. He's a shell of the drummer he once was and is mostly there for effect. Butch does the heavy lifting, but this is evidence of JJJ's once great talent. God Bless the big man.

[impala327]

Interesting. I wish they would get rid of their current percussionist (no offense to his talent) but, with Jaimoe, why do you need a percussionist? I prefer the old band and the equipment (small jazz kits) and the way they were recorded-you could hear the interplay. Now? Hard to tell where Jaimoe IS in the mix, dig? I just think they are recorded/mixed too loud these days. No subtlety...shame.

[zdoiron]

i totally agree with you. Back in the day Jaimoe and Butch had it goin on!!! but now, shit its just the two of them playing the same thing, they dont need to be powerful or anything, it's kinda lame and very very sad. I sure wish Duane and Berry and Dickey were around to get things back on the right track

[budz73]

As a drummer myself it's called age. Butch will be the first to admit that the Beacon run kills him these days. Playing shit like Mtn Jam at sixty isn't gonna have the same punch as playing when you're twenty-five no matter how good of shape you try and keep yourself in.

[JourneyHome]

Yep! - I also love Duane around the 5 minute mark turns to Jamioe and gets him going - Butch's eyes - Berry, Dickey - they all bought into the music - the music first - what powerful synergy - I can't express it in words - words are useless..for whats going on here...

[8aPeach2]

well said...I couldn't agree with you more.

[classicbruiser]

Duane could make the devil weep and angels sing.. in unison!.. long live the Allman Brothers Band!

[CyberAynne]

I second the sentiment!

[CadillacL]

Isn't the internet/youtube AMAZING!?! For those of us not even born when Duane was tearing up the stage (I was born in 1971) to be able to witness footage of him is wonderful. Duane was only 24 when he died & had THIS much talent? Can just imagine what he'd be doing today. R.I.P. Duane!

[zdoiron]

the allmans would be even better thats what

[Birkebine]

It's amazing that even with this godawful sound reproduction this is so damn good. Allman Bros. through a tin can vs. Jonas Bros. in digital glory? Gimme back that can!

[groundhog713]

What's interesting is how in sync Jaimoe and Butch are when they are drumming, and Berry locks it in together. Now that's a rhythm section!

[hollowbodyguitar77]

this is unbelievably amazing.. the 20th century is so unique because we were able to capture everything on modern media and preserve for time.. i am watching this imaging the ghost dancers 120 years ago

[otuzzir]

the Allmans rock and are still rockin' in 2008!

[muskratrowdy]

The girl at 2:36 looks uh, pharmaceutically entranced.

[aarfeld]

Does anyone anyone know whether Love Valley ever hosted another music festival after this one. It's kind of an unusual place, to say the least. An inentional Christian community with a cowboy western theme, yet it's back East in North Carolina. Go figure?

[skankspankr]

Most of those big festivals never made any money, some lost alot of money. Where in NC is Love Valley? Western part? I live in E TN, not far from NC, but have never heard of it.

[aarfeld]

It's west of Winston-Salem, northeast of Hickory. At several festivals they couldn't control the gate--like Woodstock, where masses of kids tore down the fences and quickly made it a free event. Good thing they made a movie and albums of the festival--that's where the investors made a profit. But it took them nearly 10 years before they did.

[skankspankr]

There were people trying to gate-crash the Woodstock movie too, demanding to see it free, because "the People" made it. The People didnt thow in on the financing tho.

[uncosu84]

Love Valley is off Hwy. 115, around 25 miles south of Wilkesboro, and 15 miles north of Statesville. Love Valley has a really interesting history; a book has been written about it in fact. You can find excerpts from the book on the Web. According to the book, some of the Allman Brothers band members found the peace and quiet there to there liking and returned several times before their success made it tough to get away from the road.

[deepend420]

Simultaniously laughing and crying, all the while covered in goosebumps! Thank you Scotiadave, you rock!

[gibsoneb3]

That girl at 2:12...probably somebody's mom now, but timeless beauty and attitude...good girl.

The kind of girl you took to a concert, who when she sees Robert Plant yowling onstage, bolts for the front.

[kissed61]

I'm guessing somebody's grandma ;-)

all kidding aside,this is a sweet sweet discovery.I had the pleasure of catching Dickey with the band,but not Duane.Warren is a helluva player also.

[skankspankr]

Check out the chick at 2:33, she definately has lust in her eyes! LOL

[opjkdg]

You ever see the picture of Duane and Dickey both playing Strats. Post layla sessions? Love to hear that.

[aarfeld]

Berry is seen playing his first tractor bass here. He later improved upon his original design by placing the Hagstrom pickup slightly tilted in the next one that he built: the blonde Jazz bass, which is now owned by his son, Berry Oakley Jr. Dickey Betts rescued the blonde from a Macon pawn shop where it somehow ended up after Berry's death, and later presented it to Berry Jr. The whereabout of the original tractor bass, seen here, are unknown.

[Kohntarkosz]

Thanks for those comments. I always wondered if those were two basses, or if he had the sunburst one refinished. BTW, are you sure it's a Hagstrom pickup? I thought I read where Dickie said it came off a Guild Starfire bass, and "sounded like shit, but we couldn't get him to play anything else!".

[aarfeld]

@Kohntarkosz: The Guild Starfires used Hagstrom pickups until about 1973, when Guild began manufacturing their own--changing the sound. The earlier models are far more valuable today as a result. Barry played as Starfier in the '60s and during the ABB's first year. That year he and a member of the road crew built the first Tractor bass.

[Kohntarkosz]

I thought that might have been what it was. I should have known they were using Hagstrom pickups, because I know I've seen some Guild guitars from that era that have the same hardware as the contemporaneous Hagstrom guitars. You see the same tremolo systems, control knobs and things like that. Very interesting.

[laoghaire086]

This is how music in paradise should sound like.

( I don't dare to think what might be waiting for me if I don't get there. Scary isn't it? )

[six2112]

Nobody will ever convince me that this lineup wasn't the greatest live rock and roll band of all time.

[Scotiadave]

Sorry about that, i had to edit those in to fill the holes left by missing footage. i thought you lot would prefer a more complete deal to one that stops and starts. dave

[TeeKay19]

I posted this to someone else, but am passing it to you, also:

I like seeing the crowd. It gives you a sense of the scene around the band, which in the south back then was very unusual and controversial. In every crowd shot I've seen on these by Scotiadave, you seen black & white people in the audience. Yes, it's mainly white, but the Allmans in the south back then were controversial. You don't see much of a mix these days.

[1onebastard]

best one! marginal audio BUT AT LEAST IT'S EARLY/ORIGINAL DAYS thtswhtIlke

thaNx foR poStiNg her

[florange00]

I'd sure like to punch out the idiot with the camera that was aimed at the doofy dancing crowd INSTEAD OF THE BAND!!!!!!!!!

[TeeKay19]

I like seeing the crowd. It gives you a sense of the scene around the band, which in the south back then was very unusual and controversial. In every crowd shot I've seen on these by Scotiadave, you seen black & white people in the audience. Yes, it's mainly white, but the Allmans in the south back then were controversial. You don't see much of a mix these days.

[Kohntarkosz]

I'd like to punch the idiot who didn't arrange a more elaborate shoot. They should be at least two or three cameras doing nothing but filming the band. There should be one on stage right, one on stage left, and maybe one behind the drummers. And perhaps one down the front. And one to get crowd shots. So at least five cameras. It looks like this whole thing was filmed with only two cameras PERIOD!

[sncreates]

WELL... it was 1970 when we did Love Valley. The budget was $3,000 for lights and film. What you're seeing/hearing is an independant no sound filmer and a soundtrack from somebody at the festival from Norway or Japan that was synced together by scotidave. This thing is an amazing mix by people who were trying (and it was hard at those times cause one had to own his tools and work for nothing more than be there and do art) who somehow got together to put this up on their own nickle.

[salty7121]

@Kohntarkosz The camera man was probablaly too stoned

[Kohntarkosz]

It's got nothing to do with the camera man being stoned, which he shouldn't have been anyway. The problem is it looks like there's only about two or three cameras. For whatever reason, people who film concerts always like to show the audience. Why? I don't know, but it seems like that's the way it's always been. When you've only got about two cameras, and one of them is panning across the audience severely cuts into what you can show of the band.

[eoj115]

is duane playing a Les Paul jr.?

[bthoma1]

i think its his 57'

[DavdDude]

It's hard to see any binding...

[bthoma1]

if you check out the rest of these videos you can see its his 57'gold top...wish I had one, but just a standard reissue goes for three g's

[Hereistone]

The '57 GT he's playing is clearly a darkback. At 7:25 you can see that this pale backed guit has only two controls. Maybe a jr.?

[bthoma1]

yea im not sure, the one he has in the next vid. part three is his 57 GT then..with his four controls...

[Hereistone]

At 1:22 in pt.3 he switches guitars.

[bthoma1]

yea thats why I said the one in the next vid is his 57.cause clearly its different

[BluesRockRevival]

looks to me like a 57 or earlier tv yellow jr. 58 is the start of when the jrs were made double cutaways, duanes is a single.

[plankspanker01]

Yes,two knobs,one tone, one volume. No binding and dot markers on the fret board. Good eye! I never noticed. He makes it sound great! It proves its not the guitar, its the man! Fly On Skydog!

[mjmacary]

That's definitely a Les Paul Jr TV model. Look at the arrangement of the knobs. They are in a straight line and there appears to be two. In never knew he played a JR.

[Kohntarkosz]

As I recall, he had one Les Paul Jr that ended being owned by Delaney Bramlett. As I recall, Delaney said he acquired the guitar second hand, and found out after the fact that it had been previously owned by Duane. When Duane asked if he could have the guitar back, Delaney said "No". But I think that one had a red finish.

[ravenshire43]

The thing that strikes me most about this vid is how in sync Butch and Jamoe are.

[flash1083]

They are always in sync. Greatest band ever.

[powerkor]

HEIGHT OF HIPPYDOM

[jackdallas]

I was there and their first album was just about to hit the stores. Remember albums?

Anyway, I was there with my girlfriend for the weekend festival and the Allman Brothers were introduced as fresh from the Atlanta Pop Festival. They sounded unlike any other band prior to them and they smoked anyone else at the "festival". When they started playing that night, it was as if a real band had hit the stage. FYI, the only other band the entire weekend who was close was the Hampton Grease Band.

[TonyJenRock1]

you are one luck dude, they were great I never saw Duane but I saw the band in about 75 for the first time I'v e been a fan since 71 when I first became "enlightened" bones

[familiar70]

i wish this was now

[Giantcrabb]

great band

[hunter19tennclem]

my dad was at that show, that was the first time he saw Duane play, but was more distracted by the hippies who kept trying to steal his beer cooler.

[danguini]

I am so excited right now!!! Thanks so much!

[guitarplayntaylor91]

It's an audience recording

[Scotiadave]

yep, and it suffered a bit from the quality reduction it needed to go on here.

[Karwash24]

Man i need u to send me this stuf bro like on a condensed dvd u dont kno how much i would appreciate it ill pay shipping costs if it has any relevance. PLZ haha

[rayoll]

amazing stuff... I wonder if the audio can be tuned up (less phasing n swirl). this is great. thanks for your efforts.