I remember the days of sneaking cameras into concerts and coming away with, by professional standards, imperfect images. You had to wrap your imagination and memory around the picture and, sure enough, it would bring back a part of what you felt being there.

Take another look at the second image in this series. To my mind, Duane's on fire!

Thirty Six years.

Don't they go in a blink.......

Guitar fans might like this.

Apparently some guy dubbed bad, boring guitar solos over video of Guitar Legends. (No Duane, though.) It tickled me for some reason.

http://www.youtube.com/user/StSanders

OMG! Those were freakin' hilarious.

Thank you Miss Donnah for the pictures you give us....thank you Duane for the lifetime of pleasure you have given us. Remembering Duane as always and especially at this time of year....left us way, way too young and way, way to soon.

Wail on, Skydog!

Awesome pictures Donna! I'm good to go now for the week!

Read Claptons new book...3 lousy non-descript paragraphs about Duane! Very disappointing! No personal insights about the man at all. I wonder why?

I have always wondered why Eric Clapton has never shared his personal memories of Duane? He sure talks about everything else in his book!

I read that Duane was so good, it scared him. Guess we will never really know why he doesnt share. (Maybe, just maybe he was jealous of Duanes chops! Truth be know, he smoked Eric when he played)

Maybe Eric only talks about Duane to his therapist, as he's working out his inadequacies.

LOL at that last comment..how true is that..

Duane probably scared a lot of people with that corcidan bottle get-up..not the least of them EC.

At least he had the presence of mind not to try to
one up DA when they recorded..else EC just might not have the legend status he does today. I think he probably just got used to being 'quiet' about Duane Allman many years ago, and had stayed quiet ever since.

He has thoughtfully and carefuly avoided any authentic attempt to redo Layla (except for the dumbed down acoustic version) since they walked out of Miami.

That looks like a Junior Dicky is playing..very small, almost Melody Maker sized headstock ??? weird.

sry.. I forgot to look for the trapezoids..

Regarding the issue of why Slowhand is so silent about the chemistry created in Miami with Duane:

Remember -- Jimi Hendrix, Duane Allman, and Eric Clapton were the masters of their trade back in '69. Clapton knew this all too clearly after the Criterion Sessions. Then, as I heard the story, after Jimi and Duane died, Clapton was quite traumatized and felt he had been left all alone. Therapist material for sure.

Wow some nice pics Donnah!
(yea i like the 2nd one where hes laying into it!)
Just look at all those Marshall heads... HAHA I always hear the phrase in my head from Atl Pop Fest banter; 'You heard what he said, TURN it up!'

Thanks again, Donnah, for more excellent photos!!

Thanks, Donnah. Good to know that the Wednesday Duane pics are still going strong!

Clapton is easily the most over-rated guitar player that ever lived. I always thought he was a bit of a hack myself. Hendrix, Duane, Beck, all about a million times more original than Clapton.

I don't know..... The hair on the back of my neck still stands up every time I hear the live version of 'Crossroads' on the Wheels of Fire album.....

I saw the allman brothers play in nov.1971 at the hofstra college gym less than a month after Duane passed.I could not believe he was gone.When i first heard them on the radio back in 1970 i was blown away. I agree,Duane was so great he scared clapton.

In my job as a cable television salesman/installer, I meet many different people. I recently came across a guy from New Jersey, who claims to have met Duane backstage at the Fillmore East because of his connections to New Jersey druglords. He said Duane was the "nicest guy you'd want to meet."

He told me something else, which is why I'm writing this.

He claimed that because the Fillmore was such a small venue, Duane arranged to have speakers set up so that people outside that couldn't get in were also able to listen to the concerts. Does anyone know if this is true or is this a question of missing brain cells making their presence sorely noticed?

...hmm sounds like somethin Duane would do if he thought of it. He was the most kindly, generous guy. Wish I could have met him. Really wish I could have jammed with him, just to stand by and watch and hear him rip it up and then look over n smile at me and I'd just crap myself cuz I cant play beside that HAH!