So, the ABB will be going on stage in ca. 10 minutes, opening up the first of 15 shows this month at the Beacon Theater in New York.

The band will be streaming each show live on the internet on the website www.moogis.com. The fee to subscribe is $125.00. With it you can watch each show live or later, as they will be archived until the end of September this year.

Being the big ABB fan that I am I just subscribed about an hour ago. This year's run is dedicated to Duane Allman and a host of special guests are expected (Levon Helm is rumored for tonight) such as Boz Scaggs and Eric Clapton.

I know some of you here are big ABB fans (well, maybe not as big as I am). Let's get ready for a wild three weeks to come. Well, the show's about to start. I'm out of here (I never thought I'd live to see the day that I'd be watching the ABB live from my living room in Frankfurt).

Peace,

E-Duane

I always loved Duane's work with Aretha, Pickett, Delaney & Bonnie, and so many others, and the first few ABB records - when Greg wrote most of the songs. Especially dig Idlewild South (now on gold disc - hear it!), Eat A Peach, parts of Brothers & Sisters, Fillmore, and then 1979's Enlightened Rogues. But with so many personnel changes and eratic albums after B&S they have become ID'd (ghettoized) as a 'Jam band' rather than one of the best and biggest American r&r bands of their era.

I became a fan in the early 90's during their umpteenth comeback. I saw them for the first time in 2003 with Warren and Derek. Fantastic show! HAVE FUN!!!

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john r, yes they are a "jamband."......and your point?

Well,this should make for some good boots then huh...

"It's just some friends of mine and they're busting down the door"

First guest tonight was Taj Mahal - he came out and did Leaving Trunk, 44 Blues and Statesboro Blues. The band opened up with Little Martha. By the looks of it this Beacon run is smoking already!

My point is that's a rather diminished category, befitting groups like Blues Traveller and many lesser bands, that certainly doesnt do them justice - or their legacy justice, as they were vastly influential and wrote many classic songs as well as (still, live) posessing an exciting and remarkable telepathy live...

Levon Helm is onstage right now. They just did Ophelia and are now doing I Shall Be Released.

They finished the mini-set with The Weight. Taj Mahal came back out to take a verse as well. Awesome stuff!

john r, you made a good point when you said that the Allman Brothers "posessing (sic) an exciting and remarkable telepathy live..." Thanks john r, that's a great definition of jam bands. I've had the pleasure of being a guest on the Allman's side stage (as a spectator) twice in the last few months, including an epic performance with John Paul Jones as a guest in December. They are one of the best jam bands out there. To me, "jam bands" is what I look for in a live performance. By the way, john r, are the Blues Travelers even still a band? I don't think so.

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john r, you made a good point when you said that the Allman Brothers "posessing (sic) an exciting and remarkable telepathy live..." Thanks john r, that's a great definition of jam bands. I've had the pleasure of being a guest on the Allman's side stage (as a spectator) twice in the last few months, including an epic performance with John Paul Jones as a guest in December. They are one of the best jam bands out there. To me, "jam bands" is what I look for in a live performance. By the way, john r, are the Blues Travelers even still a band? I don't think so.

Lukester,ya didn't get the invite to the big apple. I love Levon Helm doing old The Band material. Don't really want to pay $150 to listen to live.....But wouldn't mind if someone posted this on Hot Stuff.

"It's just some friends of mine and they're busting down the door"

....and electric-duane, when I saw them in December, they did a killer version of "The Weight" with Derek's wife Susan Tedeschi singing some of the verses.

And thanks again for the Beacon reminders (as you have done in previous years)



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They played Dazed and Confused very well a while back.

A VERY special guest will be there March 24th. No mentioned on any site I have seen. It will happen! Sorry, not one of the Stones, but a Hall of Famer and a HUGE name.

MEATLOAF!!!!



ROCKMAN

No, it's not Prince. That would be kind of WEIRD though...

Dickey Betts!!

bury the hatchet, boys, life's too short

Why did all these "southern rock" bands have two drummers? Can't one handle the job?

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Dickey Betts!!

bury the hatchet, boys, life's too short

That would be great. I'm thinking maybe Dylan as the guest.

"No Anchovies, Please"

So, here's last night's setlist:

1. Little Martha (tribute to Duane)
2. Don't Love You No More >Not My Cross To Bear >
3. I Walk On Gilded Splinters
4. Same Thing
5. Instrumental (new song?)
6. Midnight Rider
7. Leave My Blues At Home
8. Leaving Trunk w/Taj Mahal
9. 44 Blues w/Taj Mahal
10. Statesboro Blues w/Taj Mahal

Break

11. Ophelia w/ Levon Helm, drums & vocals; Teresa Williams, vocals; Larry Campbell, guitar; Brian Mitchell, keyboards
12. I Shall Be Released w/Levon Helm, drums & vocals; Teresa Williams, vocals; Larry Campbell, guitar; Brian Mitchell, keyboards
13. The Weight w/Levon Helm, drums & vocals; Teresa Williams, vocals; Larry Campbell, guitar; Brian Mitchell, keyboards; Taj Mahal, vocals
14. Black Hearted Woman
15. Stormy Monday
16. Mountain Jam (Warren inserts a bit of "Birdland")

Encore:

17. Southbound


There are many rumored guests: Eric Clapton is the biggest hope, although Dylan and Aretha Franklin have also been thrown around. Dickey Betts was also even asked to come back but there are no confirmations yet.

On to night 2 - only 12 and a half hours to go.

Best regards,

E-Duane

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The band will be streaming each show live on the internet on the website www.moogis.com. The fee to subscribe is $125.00. With it you can watch each show live or later, as they will be archived until the end of September this year.

E-Duane

Did the feed(stream) sound and look good.

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The band will be streaming each show live on the internet on the website www.moogis.com. The fee to subscribe is $125.00. With it you can watch each show live or later, as they will be archived until the end of September this year.

E-Duane

Did the feed(stream) sound and look good.

The audio quality was awesome - It couldn't have been better. The video quality was good in full screen mode and fantastic in the small "you-tube" sized mode. There were moments when the video was damn near perfect but, depending on the lighting, the colors were kind of muddled here and there. I can't complain, though, as I'm getting 15 concerts (ca. EU 6.90 per show) and I'm watching them from a completely different continent.

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The band will be streaming each show live on the internet on the website www.moogis.com. The fee to subscribe is $125.00. With it you can watch each show live or later, as they will be archived until the end of September this year.

E-Duane

Did the feed(stream) sound and look good.

The audio quality was awesome - It couldn't have been better. The video quality was good in full screen mode and fantastic in the small "you-tube" sized mode. There were moments when the video was damn near perfect but, depending on the lighting, the colors were kind of muddled here and there. I can't complain, though, as I'm getting 15 concerts (ca. EU 6.90 per show) and I'm watching them from a completely different continent.

Thanks. My neighbor and I were thinking signing up for the feed. I guess I need to talk to him, again.

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Why did all these "southern rock" bands have two drummers? Can't one handle the job?

how many southern rock bands have 2 drummers? just the allman bros. as far as i know and they aren't techinally a southern rock band but more like an east coast grateful dead.



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The Dead have two drummers, and so does Widespread Panic.....but these are jam bands.

the allmans are a jam band - the "southern" tag is just a geographical thang...

Greg Allman has lost it

such a shame ABB is a NAB band...

Jam Bands - were Coltrane's classic lineups "jam bands" - it's imo a marketing handle..As such it narrows the scope when it comes to the real cream of the (so called) genre. The ABB used to be considered a great rock n roll band, like the dead or Airplane. All these bands wrote a body of brilliant SONGS (unlike imo that group of instrumentally very proficient, but overly precious and song deficient, Phish), but also obviously improvise(d) in concert...The Meters reunited and instead of being perceived as a classic band, shapers of New Orleans funk, they get ghettoized as a jam band.

john r, obviously you have disdain for the moniker "jamband." I guess it's just a matter of opinion. I'm not sure why you refer to jambands as "ghettoized," but that moniker sounds kind of cool too. When I get home late tonight I'm gonna get ghettoized.