The DU Lounge
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rubbersole
(9,688 posts)Bill Graham said they were the best band to play there. Among the many greats to grace his stages.
Casady1
(2,133 posts)On the closing weekend.
lark
(24,893 posts)I was never at such a momentous occasion for them, just saw them in & around my hometown 4 times. Had tickets for the 5th time when Greg died and the concert was cancelled.
I will always remember that first time though. I had never heard them but a friend had been a roommate of theirs and was on me about you have to go. I dropped and sat through the first band, feeling heavy and sitting on the floor. Then Allman Brothers started, Statesboro Blues, and at Duanes first firey notes of the slide I was on my feet, just pulled way up with their brilliance and bluesiness and breeziness and jazz beats. I knew this was the best music I'd ever heard, by far!! Never quit thinking that and I was 18 then, and am 70 now.
lark
(24,893 posts)Hearing it live on acid for the first time at age 18 - stupendous.