Allman Brothers Band - Stateboro Blues

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[87fingerslouie]

He ain't no Dickey.

[bigbeahner]

Yeah... But last time I saw Dicky, he was no Dicky either... Its a shame cause that man could rip..

[StephanieHammack]

For all putting Derek Trucks and the latest version of ABB down:

They're STILL drawing the crowds. As good as Dickey Betts is/was, he ain't no Derek Trucks.

[HillbillyJ]

@imbigal1057 I like Duane better as well, and yes music does channel through certain people, but in different ways. Dickey was/is an amazing composer/songwriter. In Memory Of Elizebeth Reed, Blue Sky, Back To Where It All Begins, Jessica, this stuff just poured out of him. He might not shred like Duane, but Duane didn't write like Dickey. Together they fit, what one lacked, the other made up for. Thats one of the things that made them so incredible, they were like peice of a big musical puzzel.

[tirejack]

Dickey must have been the 1 dislike.



[rogerstill71]

@strings191 Gregg Allman

[2011littlejohn1]

@rogerstill71 Yeagh I'm with you; my band in the UK used to play this song and all we wanted to do was to make the nice noise - we didn't care if it was hard or easy; it was the sound that mattered. Let's face it this stuff isn't exactly Bach or Mozart or Duke Ellington but when you hear the slide go from say a D to an E it is soooo good.

[strings191]

whos the singer on keys

[rogerstill71]

All this bitching about who, when or what is better just sounds like sophomoric snobbery. The ABB always sound great.

[boblackey1]

@boblackey1 And before anyone starts yelling that I don't think Warren, Derek and Otiel are not very good musicans, that is not my view. Technically in some ways they may be better than Duane, Dickey and Berry Oakely. But I'm not sure about that. I'm taking about creative, adventures in the playing of the songs and new material. Technical level is important and maybe Jeff Beck, Gary Moore, Steve Vai and Eddie Van Halen are technically better than Warren & Derek. I'm taking original ABB vibes.

[boblackey1]

@LesPaulAllStar This lineup has been together now for 10 years. It's a fucking tribute band. They have added covers that killed it for me. And NO original material that comes close to Ain't My Cross To Bear, Black Hearted Woman, Every Hungy Woman, Dreams, Whipping Post, Revival, Midnight Rider, Elizabeth Reed, Ain't Wastin' Time No More, Mellisa, Les Brer in A Minor, Standback, Blue Sky, Wasted Words, Ramblin' Man, Southbound, Jessica, Pony Boy, High Falls, Seven Turns, True Gravity etc etc.

[boblackey1]

@LesPaulAllStar HORSESHIT!!! Today's Allman Brothers is but a tribute band and is NOT as adventureous. The recording of Statesboro Blues on Fillmore East is the standard and it could not possibly be tighter. Same for Trouble No More on Eat A Peach. After seeing the original band over 30 times and other lineups over 100 times, I finally walked out on this version of the band in 2004 and I will NOT be back. There is a Statesboro Blues from Germany in 1991 on YouTube that is much hotter than this.

[LesPaulAllStar]

@boblackey1

Come on. I understand you are old and cannot appreciate because it is not "original." I have heard damn near every live recording of the band (and of course the studio albums) and this is just as good. If anything the band is much tighter than it ever was. Let go of the past and embrace what the guitar world has to offer now. If DT could go back in time Duane would shit himself.

[LesPaulAllStar]

I almost hate to say it but WH is every bit of Dickey and damn near Duane.