Quien es mas macho?

That KISS tat is mighty fierce. I don't know who the guy is, though. Randy Rhoads I recognize.

So what's Skydog doin' in the background? I believe the fella in the foreground is Dimebag Darrell, from the band Pantera.

Top: "Guitar World" cover gets a big F for missing the whole point.

Bottom: portrait of Skydog gets an A for capturing a piece of his soul.

It is written.

Oh, If Starla stops by, tell her I said Hi.
She's neat.

Sure are a lot of boys crushin' on Starla.
BTW, the second pic makes a neat wallpaper!

Man, skydog will always be the best slider in the world, but lets face it, in the few videos out and pictures he never looked this good! I have a new wallpaper! (In case your wondering I have posted here for a few years under several alias. I am and have always been female for those who have a need to know...hehe

But seriously, he was a good looking man, but his hair was usually in his face and most pictures didnt bring out his best qualities. This here picture is niiiiicccceeeee!

Cant wait to hear Starla's comments, and I will try to be good lest she dumps me out of my chair or puts red ants in my oatmeal. um shades of Andrew Zimmern. I will definitely quit puttin raisins in...they might be bugs with their little legs pulled off!

Fresh Skydog..!! The artist that did this deserves
an 'art grammy'. It is a good rendering, in my opinion..very good. I am a little confused, because
I too, recognize the guy on the right..but there are
a passel of rock God's that *really* could have been used that I don't see. *But*, I guess people have grown weary of Jimi and Jim, and Janis..

I *know* what you meant by boyS, Donnah..but I know you're not the jealous type. Besides, MY wallpaper is that cute little blonde girl in the BDU and bilateral foot casts..*sigh*.

On another note, the piano player that survived the plane crash of Lynyrd Skynyrd in 77, Billy Powell, passed away from untreated heart disease at home yesterday morning. He was 56.

RIP, Mr Breeze..

His intro to Freebird, along with Gary Rossington's 'slidechirp' was one of the most anticipated portion's of their concerts for years..*that* chirp is probably the only other time one can hear Duane's signature.

Yo intiennde poquito espanol..

Billy! The roadie that made good. I'm sorry to hear he passed away.

You gotta be kidding me about the Jerry's Kids pic. LOL. Geez, I'd like to hug the neck of whoever invented the gel cast. Wonderful things.

*blinks, gapes* RD is a girl?! I be gah-dam!
And RD, I love Andrew Zimmern's show. Definitely a case of "better him than me" when I watch him hand-feeding hyenas, drinking a cow-urine tonic or eating teriyaki cockroaches, but I can't tear my eyes away.
The pic... yeah, Our Hero does look great here. It doesn't hurt he's got Randy Rhoads and Dime, among others, to compare favorably with. Yeah, he's definitely the best-looking guy there.
Kiss Tattoo... yuck.
Oh, and shout out to Paco!

You all know I am a Duaneiac in the first degree...so remember that when I say...this rendering looks better than any pic I have ever seen of our guy. I think it's the clear eyes thing.....too 'straight' to be real. But a great big kudos to whoever drew this. It is amazing, right down to the peacock shirt. If the eyes were a little more, shall we say, 'out there' and the hair weren't quite so styled, it would be dead on!

Thank you Donnah....I like this one more than last weeks...too much controversy last week. Excepting the swamp part...that was good. Your service to our little group is immeasurable.

And as always....Wail on, Skydog!

Well, it's obviously a pic of him of once I'd gotten him squared away.
I keep trying to read his lips. He's saying something, can't make it out.

Wow! When I first looked at the actual magazine cover I thought "what a great "shot" of Duane." But then when I scrolled down & saw the close up that Donnah cropped I was even more in awe. Cindy & RD took the words right out of my mind as to what I was thinking. I couldn't have said it any better. He looks just plain gorgeous!

Thanks Donnah!

Donnah, I think he may be saying 'Your place or mine?" At least that's what I'd like to think anyway. :)

Donnah is this a pic or a drawing? I thought it was a drawing but you said a pic....hummmm....either way, it is terrific. It reminds me of the pic of him, Berry and Gregg before a show...I'm sure you know the one I mean. I think he's saying would you crazy females stay outta the swamp and leave me & Donnah alone!;D

No, no, no! I know lips, and he's saying "Who is that cute little Indian girl in all those pink feathers? Donnah, won't you introduce me?"
I think it's a drawing, Cindy. You can draw a pic, after all. :)

I may b mistaken but the posts from last weeks picture were so numerous it might have been the highest number of comments I have ever seen here.

Although we got off Duane as the subject of the posting, I enjoyed those swamp posts so much! The humor was way out there and tickled my funny bone so much I nearly fell off my chair!

Thanks guys for your vivid imaginations...I will never think of a swamp in the same way again.
Wail on all you Duaniacs! And beware the swamp, you never know what may be lurking there.

This is definitely a picture I'm gonna have to print for my big brother. The reason I even mention this is cuz a few years back I printed one of my very favorite pictures of Duane where he's leaning on a counter with his guitar in what looks like a bathroom & I put it in a frame for my brother & gave it to him for his birthday(he's the brother I mentioned a few weeks ago who was kind enough to discover Duane when we were young). Anyway, he doesn't own a computer & knows nothing about them so every so often when I see a good pic of Duane (many from here), I print it & put it in a frame for him. He now has a designated area to hang Duane pics in his apartment. He calls it his "Duane Wallman". I've always found that kinda humorous so I thought I'd share the story with ya guys.

P.S. Every time I come back here I can hardly stop STARING at that picture! I swear you guys, I think he really is gonna talk soon, most likely of the off-color nature, if I don't quit gawking at him! It's just sooooooo cool! Whoever the artist is, he/she is VERY talented! Thanks again Donnah for that close up. Most excellent.

His Duane Wallman... oh boy, that is a GOOD one! You tell him I said so too!
This is a fabulous pic. I wish the artist could retouch my senior picture... the one where I look like I'm trying to smile through getting a tetanus shot or something, and my complexion looks like Morticia Addams with liver failure.
And RD, glad you are having fun in the swamps! I know they tried to revamp the image of such places by calling them "wetlands" but I think we've done some pretty good PR boosting right here.

I'll definitely tell him you liked that one Starla!

lol about your senior picture. That's so funny! Did you have to lean on a big fake log as a prop? That's all I even remember about my senior picture cuz I've probably tried to block it out.

What exactly was going on with the Morticia Addams appearance? :D

The Morticia Addams look came about because for the indoor shots where you get draped in some fabric, the hotshot "artiste" taking the photos insisted I use a drape he called "gold" but I call mustard. I have light olive skin, and mustard, to say the least, doesn't work for me. I had requested to use the purple or the blue drape, and he let me use blue but kept saying "No, not purple! Purple is not you!" I guess I could have insisted, but I figured he was the expert, right?
And the outdoor shots? No fake log, but a big fake rock. It was in the evening and the light wasn't the best, and he had me sitting on the ground leaning up against the rock. I am too short to be photographed sitting flat on the ground like that, never mind with a huge rock looming up behind me.
And he kept going "Be beautiful, Starla, c'mon, be beautiful for me!" Ick, ick, ick.
So even the pics with the blue drape, where my skin doesn't look like an ad for hepatitis, aren't very good because my smile is strained to the breaking point.
Where do they GET these people? The rejection list from a third-rate photography-diploma mill?
And I didn't have the money to get them redone either.

Lisa/Starla they were preparing you for the swamp trips that would be coming in your future with those logs and rocks!

Ya'll must be alot younger than me because we had to wear those stupid fake velvet capes for our senior pictures. You had a choice of either blue, black or red if you were really racey.The things didn't have a back so if a guy was in line behind you he got to see your bra strap...oh the horror;O... they put you in front of a painted backdrop, put you on a string of pearls and wala, you were a lovely young woman. Of course most of me and my friends were either hippie types or athetes so we thought the whole thing was a crock.

I'm guessing ya'll must be talking about the 80's what with the fake logs/rocks, Mortitia Adams makeup and all. What do they do now for those pictures? No velvet capes or logs I bet.

Our drapes were velvet. And yeah, they were backless but I managed to get mine all the way around me so nothing showed. This was back in 1997, the start of my senior year.
And no Morticia makeup. I only wore lipstick and nail polish. If he'd wanted to put makeup on me there'd have been what is known as An Ugly Incident.

I was a senior in 1977-78. I don't remember the velvet drape thing although something seems really familiar about it. The main thing I remember is the photography studio where we got our senior pictures taken was owned by a man who lived around the corner from us & I used to smoke dope with his son on numerous occasions. No wonder the whole ordeal is somewhat "foggy". lol.

Shoot, I somehow had a feeling I was the baby of this group. :)
Our indoor pics were taken in the school auditorium, and the outdoor ones in the ball field. The photographer wasn't a local guy like yours was, I think it was some company that does yearbook pictures and stuff.

Starla Im so old my bones used to creak when I walked. Not mentioning my age here, but its easy to figure out. I was a teenager when i first heard Duane and Bros play on late night radio from Little Rock Ark...I lived in Iowa at the time and there were no hip stations nearby. Only top 40 stuff. Am radio static and all was the gateway to a new world of sounds late night when 500,000 watt stations broadcasted Abb, blues and band I had never heard before..Abb had me hooked the first time I heard In Memory of Elizabeth Reed. Wail on skydoggers everywhere. We will keep the flame burning bright for all you babies...including Starla...:>

And i dont know if Im the only one,(I doubt it) but everytime I hear Duane play it sounds brand new and even after all these year "Live at the Fillmore East" is my all time favorite album.

Finally !!! sheesh.. what eleventeen posts about
*fabulous* drapes, and someone..with a very tricky
name who now belongs to the Donnah's Girls Skydog Club..says the magic 'Fillmore East' words..*ears pop up*

Donnah, I am most certainly NOT kidding..Mr. Cracker
deserves a tip o the hat :).. I think Duane would have approved of those fatigues also.

I KNOW for a fact he wouldn't be interested in
percale. In fact, if he was like most accounts of
what I have heard..if his girl couldn't find the compression release on his Harley, he probably wouldn't take her drinking.

Oh and one more thing before I go scratch my ass..
Could we please change the font around here to pink for wimmin and blue for men ??

"Duane is so pretty in this photo..oh my"

Raise yo window baby, so I can ease out soft and slow..No yo neighbors no they won't be..talking that stuff that they don't know.. *Dickey's break*

Oh Owen! *flips off cause you know you want it* And what makes you so sure I *can't* find the compression release on a Harley? Truth is, I can; maybe not as quickly as some, but I can find it. Thank you very much, boy cousins, for letting me tag along and watch you when you did your man things.

sheesh csason...we are just having a little fun...and we never said the drapes were *fabulous*....you're right though. Duane wasn't into all the silly high school stuff...I think he knew he didn't have the time to waste.

Fav album of all time.....I am with RD Filmore!!!!He def didn't like the 'beauty queen' type...after all he said it in front of the world with the famous radio interview on WABC-FM 12/9/70. Gives you a whole new insight into the man. 23 years old and very perceptive fellow...even though he was wasted.

We will now restrain ourselves and concentrate on Skydog only. Everyone repeat in chant like state....Eat a peach for peace, eat a peach for peace, eat a peach for peace.......

That radio interview was wretched. A moral low.

I see Owen had taken his usual dustbath in my comments. Just for you, Owen, the pretty version of Duane:

http://tinyurl.com/bzggof

Lisa, loved the bit about your bro's wall!

BTW...
Wait. Timeout. Owen, go search for flint, or perhaps carve something out of a mastodon tusk.

OK: In '79 we used the black velvet drape for HS pics too!

Thanks Donnah! My brother is actually the original Duaniac in my life. And he of course plays the guitar & says Duane was his teacher. If it wasn't for him I may have never heard some of the greatest music ever made! So I feel the least I can do is frame a few pictures for him.

Black velvet, huh? What is with this velvet stuff anyway?! What did the guys have to drape around them? Rawhide!?

Velvet drapes, girls with their bra straps exposed... I think those phtographers were probably nursing a perverted streak.
As I recall, the drapes were all velvet. And no distinction was made between male and female drapes.
What I want to know is, why use drapes at all? We had pictures taken in two different outfits, why not just use a third outfit instead of that drape, which looked like no actual article of clothing ever worn?
And Lisa, your brother needs to get him some PC know-how and join us here. He'd probably like it.

I used to drink Black Velvet.. I bet Duane had a snort in between honkey tonk's too.

I'm not sure I even *want* to look at that url, Donnah.. probably something that will stick with me for a long time..I try to avoid those things.

But, I bet you already knew that..hence, the bait.

Well here goes.

Oh my blessed Lord..

She is just wonderful. Duane, you done so good..If anyone ever deserved her, he did. And if anyone ever deserved to peek from Heaven and see their offspring, he does..And I am so sure it has got to
be so wonderful for him.

I need to shut up..I could go on for hours.

Thank you.. But, no..this will not replace my wallpaper.

Spitting image.

Yes.. but I wouldn't say Duane was pretty..She is
gorgeous.

She couldn't look any more like him unless she was born a boy.
What's she do, does anybody know offhand? I mean, for a living?

I met Galadriell at Phil Walden's funeral. Very nice lady. She sure does have her Daddy's eyes.

The next day at the burial in Rose Hill she paid a visit to her Dad and uncle BO.

*chokes, snorts, bursts out laughing*
Steve, I'm sure you didn't realize it, but your last line was absolutely hysterical!
OF course, I know who you're talking about, but do you know how funny the term "Uncle BO" is?
Hint: Put a period in between those two letters.

Starla, you never know.....maybe that's how I meant it to read. I may have been down in the swamp a little too long.

Smoking too much Spanish moss, methinks.
Definitely not bathing enough, to have meant that on purpose.

You both need to report to the office this morning.

As ofr what she does for a living..I'd hope she doesn't *have* to do anything. If she *does*, I sure
hope it isn't the living hell a lot of kids who's Dad passed away before they even knew him wind up living.

The last I read, she and her Mom had a boutique of some sort.

If *I* was her Uncle, I would have put Hot Lanta in her hands at about six. *Then* who knows..She may have been collecting platinum records for living.

HE started it! On purpose, just to make me laugh when I shouldn't. What are you sending ME to the office for?! *slouches down on the chair-in-the-hall and pouts*
I would certainly expect somebody who went to Sarah Lawrence (from my understanding a pretty prestigious school) to be doing something for a living, whether they "had" to work or not.

Starla, I agree my brother would like it here. Aside from being a Duaniac he is very funny! We laugh a lot. He'd fit right in.

I thought it kinda odd how Galadrielle's myspace doesn't even mention Duane or anything to do with the Allman Brothers. She had Devon's band as one of her friends but that was pretty much it. :/

Lisa, take it from an estranged father subjected to
'parental alienation syndrome' by my first two
children's Mom... When kids only get one side of the story..they only get one side of the story.

Thankfully, my eldest will come and spend my birthday this weekend with me, but it has been twenty years in the making.

As for Duane, he can't do anything about it, regardless if he wanted to or not.

Lisa, maybe she wants to be known just for herself and not for who her relatives are? Or not have random strangers be all up in her business?

I think both of you are right.

Anybody know the exact year she was born or her actual birthdate? Just curious.

Late August of 1969, near as I can figure. Looked like some of her myspace friends wished her happy birthday around that time. Also looked like she doesn't bother with the page very much.
It always makes me a little uncomfortable looking at people's myspace pages. I mean, it's on the internet, but it seems more private, like eavesdropping on a phone conversation. As opposed to someplace like this where we're all talking together.
Maybe I'm just weird.

It's no different than a billboard on the highway, Starla. If she wanted to set her profile to private, she could. Top friend and fellow ABB kid Brittany does. It's a choice.
I'm glad she doesn't mind sharing with us. She's writing a book, I've heard.

Like I said, I'm weird.
At least her page doesn't embarrass me the way the pages of some people do. Some people just spill their guts. Like this lady I used to work with. Oh my god, she didn't leave ANYTHING out of her profile!
I looked at her page once and felt like a Peeping Tom.

I know what you mean. Some people don't have a functioning super-ego. You can find more personal info on a single profile than you'd find in over five years of my posts.

Re: Donnah's personal life..

You can say THAT again.. which I admire, btw.

Could use a few more WAC shots, though..just to round out my collection..;)

There's Owen, feelin' left out of the Hot Pics Club! And since his birthday's coming up, I guess he's angling for something WAC-ky.

I know..you're just chompin at the bit..aren't you
Dahling..?

I don't have birthday's anymore..total waste of emotion. I am forever cemented around thirty eightish.

My eldest is coming to see me this weekend..so that should be nice..I love her very much.

Well, happy birthday from me anyhow. Happy 39th. Hey, that was Jack Benny's permanent age, why not?

Yeah..but I really am..Every time I get around some bald freak who has one of those retired peoples application's already filled out who is my age (or younger) I want to puke..

50 something is a great age.. I wouldn't trade it for anything..I damn sure wouldn't want to be fretting about which hat I hat I was gonna wear backwards, and how low my pants looked good.

Fiftyz rulz !