The smell of the hemp..
the haze of the liquor..
the throbbing of the speakers..
the gentle lull of one more Stormy Monday..this
time from the tie-dyed, burst wielding, giant from
Florida..

even a screenie has it's merits.

per Owen (csason):

"The smell of the hemp..
the haze of the liquor..
the throbbing of the speakers..
the gentle lull of one more Stormy Monday.."

I can't think of a better way to decribed my early seventies concert-going days, so I'll just quote Comment One, above.

"Ritz" is a cracker (too)... The dye is "Rit". http://www.belly-timber.com/photos/rit_dye.jpg
Have a great Wednesday!

Ahhhh....poetry in motion.....and words from our resident poet(s). Thank you Donnah for finding these special tidbits.....but mostly thank you Howard Duane Allman!!!!

Wail on, Skydog!!!!

Blues in the morning;
blues at night..
fingers across the fretboard
took him to some ethereal place.

Red hair tangled up,
eyes closed and we were transported too.
Traveling together in time and space.

He left us long ago.
But its as if it were yesterday;
when we close our eyes
and hear him play.

Wail on Skydog, Wail on!

I love all the beautiful writing we get on Wednesdays.

hot damn, no wonder i named my daughter Howard Duane! :)

Wail on!

Thanks Cindy and Donnah.

Great job "remembering Duane".

Thank you all for the comments! Your poems were great! Paco you may know me! (no hint, yet)

Casson, you sure can play the blues man! :>

Thanks .. I have mellowed much in my antiquity.

Donnah, I got a subscription update yesterday, and noticed we were mutual admirers of a bald slide player on Youtube. He actually plays Statesboro blues in the same tuning I did for many years, then
some wise idiot informed me that Duane played it in open E. I have since gone back to the way I think Skydog played it, it is easier..and it is reasonably
doable. In other words..Derek may be chasing the wrong rainbow since he stays in E.

I almost forgot..

Thank you very much for the nice Duane Alman picture Mrs. Cracker...

(shades of Good Morning Miss Dove, courtesy of Mrs. Csason)

hmm, Csason what tuning do you play Statesboro Blues in? Just curious.

Dear "remembering Duane",

No hint, unless you're are mike.

Me llamo Jim; solve this little mystery, dude.

I have been trying to play it in open E, but I learned it in standard. Someone convinced me DA played it in open E, but I think they're full of it.

I almost forgot something really cool.
The other day I got a PM on another forum from a guy who swears his little brother (who dated Big Linda after Berry Oakley died) has Berry's bass. He says the bass was torn down and in a box, and was overlooked. He says he is giving it to Berry's son ?
(born out of wedlock ??) It all sounded very intriguing to me..I need to learn how to spell intriguing, I think.

From the details of the pm it seemed real..who knows.

RememberingDuane, I still think DA played it in standard.

CSason,

That's a way cool story about discovery, we hope, of Berry's bass. I pray it doesn't end up in a Hard Rock Cafe in Saudi Arabia.

don't make me come down there and whup your fingers for you. statesboro is in open e, as is done somebody wrong and you should know it. :)

arrrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhh!!!

picture Charlie Brown on his back....

not jim, dont know jim. Thanks for the update on the tuning. also Warren Haynes plays in standard on everything...he sounds pretty authentic to me, but thats just my opinion. I think Derek rocks but cant be compared to Duane. like Dickie said in a interview, different eras and Derek has been alive longer than Duane. Also Derek started playing earlier and has Eastern influences. I think Derek rocks, but you cant beat Duane for pure emotion...the old Dickie too had that!

Regarding Derek and Duane -- let's just dig it,see:

http://goldcoastbluenote.blogspot.com/2006/12/essential-albums-derek-and-dominoes.html

Paco, that was exactly my point! :>

Dear Remembering Duane:

Thanks, bro'.

Paco (Jim)