The multimedia section of this excellent page has six film clips of Duane Allman soloing at Fillmore East and Love Valley for your viewing and listening pleasure. Unfortunately, it's only from those two venues that we have footage of Duane performing.
The dude just didn't stick around long enough.
Thank you so much for the time machine ride. Wow. Wow. Wow.
Posted by: carl in atlanta at May 1, 2005 01:29 PMYou've got permanent Duane video in your head in the form of memories, which makes us green with envy.
I was wondering where the heck you were, Carl.
Big case been eatin' all my time. I just crashed yesterday and am chillin' today, enjoying some perfect spring weather: High 70's- light breeze, low humidity. Perfect for Atlanta. The hot season will be here soon (the worst time of year in the Deep South (which the Yankees here can't understand but I know Donnah will).
That guy's got a very informative web site-- it's way over my head. It never occurred to me that there was almost no video of the early ABB. I'm at my old home computer today and can't get a very good feed, but I played the clip from Whipping Post and man! that took me right back to the backwoods stage at Byron and that concert on Lexington Va! That's him all right- - I remember how he would lean his head and shoulders over, "rocking" his hair back and forth like that, and Lord, the open mouth!-- had I forgotten the open mouth?! I don't think he was your basic "mouth breather" -- Neal Stephenson's or William Gibson's term for rednecks, btw -- I think Duane Allman kept his mouth open to better hear/channel/enjoy his own sound (I read somewhere that the quality of your hearing is improved if you slightly open your mouth when you're listening hard).
I wonder who owns the Bill Graham empire now? I never saw the Filmore East but I did visit the Fillmore West during the summer of 1970. It's oh-so-dim because of, well, you know, but I do remember that Janis Joplin (and the Holding Company), Quicksilver Messenger Service and the Grateful Dead all played that night. Wish I had a video of THAT!
Youth is so wasted on youth! I figured they'd all always be around. One good thing is my 15 year old son is into 1963-1973 golden decade of rock music (maybe as late as 74, but IMHO is was already all over by then).
My compliments Donnah: That slidejules site was a Major Find!
Most of Jule's stuff is over my head too. Download those clips; you never know when stuff like that will disappear.
Carl, how'd you do the stuff you did and still have brain cells left over for law school?
Speaking of empires, come four posts down where we're discussing the Walden's.
Yeah, a lot of us wish Duane coulda'/woulda' stayed around a while longer. I'm on several copies later of the CDs, 33s long since gone.
My favorite part of the coverage of the pre-GWI kidnappings back in 1990, was when the hostages were released and they said their Iraqi captors had brought them music to listen to: "Really old Allman Brothers," they said.
Posted by: Donnah at May 2, 2005 11:35 PM