I'm listening to the Allman Bro's...

[rasputin1952]

Live at the Fillmore East.

I know, I'm dating myself...but are there any groups left that can really play like they used to?

Everything now just shows me a complete lack of real talent.

Where is the talent of:

Eric Clapton
Carlos Santana
The Greatful Dead
Mountain

You can add to the list....but where are the real musicians these days, those that can play for 15-20 minutes, and never seem to get tired?

I mean no offense to the younge gen at DU...but you hvae no idea what $5-$10 dollars could buy you back then, a night filled with extraordinary music that you didnb't leave until 4 in the AM.

Is it just me.....my age.....or am I "Tied to the Whipping Post"?

:shrug:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. Eat a Peach was always my fav...but that is a great LIVE

disc

[toddzilla]

2. gov't mule

eom

[rasputin1952]

3. Oh God yes.....

Remember the Marshal Tucker Band?

All night concerts, never seemed to end....just the joy of music and good people.

Just what the heck happened?

Now we are stuck in a world of prefab junk

:hi: :loveya:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

5. Yes and now Marshall Tucker is a freeper from what I have heard

can't confirm but I thought I read it here

[rasputin1952]

6. OMG!...

If that were true! I's stick icepicks in my ears!!!!!!


I've got to research that....PLEASE, don't let that be true!

[TriadLeftist]

7. Marshall Tucker

Headlined the "Anti Dixie Chicks" concert in SC the same night as the Chicks opened. The name was changed to "Support the Troops" concert or something like that. I'd like to think Toy Caldwell is spinning in his grave about that.
And Gov't Mule is the greatest thing going on musically right now.

[rasputin1952]

8. Damn!

I only have one icepick! On way to store to get the second one!

:nuke:

[supernova]

11. Blech!

I've heard rumors about MT turning freeper. Dammit, this is sickening!!! x(

[supernova]

10. Heard "Fire on the Mountain"

on the radio as I was driving back to my now-electrified place, post Isabel.

I love that song. Haven't heard it for ages. And I play the flute, so I was always looking for popular artists who play flute. MT Band was one of the few. Yes, I know Ian Anderson, but he's not really that good.

[proud patriot]

4. That's a great one

My dad has the original LP he bought when it first came out .

As far as new bands YES YES YES ...However they are not usually
played on the radio ...But they are out there playing gigs..

[kanrok]

9. Did you write this

In the Memory of Elizibeth Reed?

[rasputin1952]

13. In Memory of Elizabeth Reed!....

By far one of the finest pieces ever written.



Just the thought takes me back a million years to when timnes were just so much better.

Dicky Betts, Duane Allman, Butch Trucks, Jai-Johnnie Johnson, Greg Allman.............It is so hard to imagine that there were TWO excellent drummers in that band!

I always wanted to meet "Elizabeth Reed"....she must have been, or still is, quite the woman!

Here is an aside for two, of what I believe to be some of the finest music ever recorded:

In Mememory of Elizabeth Reed and Layla; both started off as riffs, and the others just joined in....unreal what REAL talent can do!

I still get teary eyed when I listen to Bobby Whitlock play the piano in Layla, and then that slide guitar comes in....(and the little "bird" at the end)!

Me thinks I am becoming a romantic.

[mitchum]

17. I think that is actually crazyass Jim Gordon playing the piano...

during the coda of "Layla" (the best part of the song)

Elizabeth Reed is buried in Rose Hill Cemetary in Macon, GA. The same place where Duane and Berry rest.

[rasputin1952]

20. Thank you for telling me that...

She is someone I would have loved to have met.

[rasputin1952]

21. Bobby Whitlock...

just looked at the jacket: Piano, Organ, Vocals

That is such a beautiful piano piece, I could think of it forever.

[mitchum]

24. But jacket credits don't tell the whole story...

while Whitlock was certainly the keyboard player in the group, Gordon wrote and recorded the piano coda. Who would have ever thought that a voices-hearing mother-killer had so much beauty in his hands?

[Frank_Person]

12. Mountain! Leslie West. one of my fave guitar players!

[rasputin1952]

14. God yes!

n/t

[sspiderjohn]

15. speaking of "whippin' post", confess now, do you

come in with Greg (after the big guitar break) on Greg's vocal chord stretching, screeching "sometimes I feel, whoa, sometimes I feel. . . . " --

after, of course, you played air guitar on the break: dum dum, WHAAOOOOOOO, dum dum, WHAAOOOOOOO, dum dum, WHAAOOOOO, dum dum, WHAAOOOOOO. . . .

Me? No, of course not. That's not why my kids (grown) literally drag me out of stores if "whippin' post" starts playing over the speakers.

[catzies]

16. Ha ha! You embarrass your offspring! In public!

Here's a :thumbsup: to a good job well done!

[Cheswick2.0]

18. Embarrassing your offspring in public is one of the pleasures

of getting older.

When my kids were little we used to blast the car radio, sing along and do what we called "car dancing", roll down the windows, head banging, playing air drums and guitar, singing to the people in the next lane and waving at them.

If the kids didn't behave in the car, we threatened to do it driving through our neighborhood.

[sspiderjohn]

27. Good work! My kids hate my "Joe Cocker" impression.

"You are so beautiful . . . to me . . . "

[rasputin1952]

22. Yes, I do...

as rarely as I hear it in a store; I am the "Whippin' Post God"!

And yes, my kids, now grown, run and look at ANYTHING, including Beethoven, to get away!

[Sophree]

19. Whoa, rasputin!

I've been listening to the same double disc set for the past coupla days. I love that One Way Out!

[rasputin1952]

23. All of that talent...

today's kids will never know unless we show them.


BTW: I'm listening to Derek and the Dominoes now...coming up next:

LAYLa, and I'm gonna BLAST IT!

then comes the beauty of Thorn Tree in The Garden.


AHHHHH...sweet life!

:bounce:

[catzies]

25. WHY DOES LOVE GOT TO BE SO SAD?

That song gets me very time. Duane Allman we lost you too, too soon.

[rasputin1952]

29. Ain't that the truth...

n/t

[sexybomber]

26. woah dude, you're not dating yourself

all those bands you list are in every self-respecting college student's album collection, albeit in CD form. (I, for one, have at least one of all of those bands' albums :D )

But if you're looking for incredibly talented modern bands, look no further than Phish, the Dave Matthews Band, String Cheese Incident, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, and all those great jam bands that I think really carry on the spirit of what the Dead and the Allman Brothers, etc. created.

Still, I wish I could have been this age 30 years ago.

[rasputin1952]

28. Let me tell you...

I don't care what anyone says...those were the days of some pretty headdy music.

I never went to a Stones concert, but living in NYC at the time, and spending large amounts of my time in the Village, I can tell you; I saw some fmatastic bands at dirt prices.

Bob Dylan, $2 covercharge at the Purple Onion.
The Byrds, same.
The Stone Ponies, (Linds Rondstadt, shear beauty), same.
Went up to $3 for The Dead.

I saw Rory Gallagher, at My Father's Moustache, for FREE! (2 drink Min). Rory played the DC area for years, and was VERY shy, cut only one album that I know of, and his, "The Messiah Will Come Again", has one of the best guitar rifts ever!

Went to the Fillmore East for my second Dead concert, $5.

The Fillmore was by far the premier place to see some great groups.

Never made it the Fillmore West....but I did get to see Jefferson Airplane, and instantaneously fell in love with Grace Slick; (not just the looks either), she could, and still can, use that voice to bring down the hoouse.

Let's see....Todd Rundgren, NAZZ; Steve Miller Band; Blood, Sweat and Tears.

Yes, those were the days; Judy Collins, CArly Simon, both free.

Streisand in Central Park, twice!

I even saw Sonny and Cher and The Momma and the Papas in the same show! $4. Strange, I find Cher, (besides the outrageous costumes), better now than then, she was kind of shy.

Well...guess I can die in peace now.

The Doors, Hendrix, Jim Croce....and now Cash...must be a hell of a band in Heaven.

edited: to add a couple that have left us, and yes, I know there are many more.