It took alot of mamma's spit to get Duane's hair to lay that flat on his head! Or a dallop of brellecreme! lol He should have saved some of that stick down stuff for his future wild hair days. We coulda got a better look at his face, when he was gracing our ears with his masterful melodies!

Little Duane's already got that come hither look of a Guitar god, dontcha think? Wail on little Brothers, wail on!

A little dab'll do ya.

I don't know from 'come hither'.......but he certainly looks determined. A quality that he would always have.

Exactly how old was he in this pic?
He's a doll at any age.
Just the pic I need to brighten up a chilly, rainy morning.

An early Easter gift for us all. He was practicing those looks for the future alright. Furrowed brow, a little bite on the lip. Your right Mike.......when he was "into" something it always showed. In this case it was chocolate bunnies! Notice too how even in Tennesse he had Florida on his mind.....pail with sea fishies! Too cute!

Thank you Donnah, our "Bunny" of Wednesdays.

Forever and always.......Wail on, Skydog!

Rumor has it that Duane's early guitar years were retarded by this Easter experience when he tried to use a hollow bunny ear for a slide. Wail on, Everyone.

Maybe if Duane could've put all bikes behind him like in this picture, we'd still have him round today.

Chocolate bunnies! I didn't know what those were.

This may be the only time the brothers couldn't wear each other's clothes. Regardless, they shared a taste for natty stripes.

See the way Duane's fingers curl around the pail and press the frets on that bunny box? It's a portent.

Wail on, Skydog!

I love the hollow chocolate bunnies. The solid ones are just way too much chocolate, as are the filled chocolate Easter eggs.

Even Gregg looks happy in this one. Duane looks kinda like "Ok. Sure. No real problem, but hurry & take the pic mom...got some things to do..." :)

Great pic Donnah! Too sweet.

And Starla, another thing about those darn solid chocolate bunnies is they aren't real teeth friendly! (as in "Ouch, son of a hell!")

This also gives you an idea of Gregg as a bald man. No wonder he wears his hair long.

The Easter Bunny did me wrong one year with the hollow bunny. I found my treat high in a pine tree (well high to me, I wasn't over 5 feet tall yet) The bunny was facing East in the morning sunrise and the cellophane on the package magnified the sunlight and turned my bunny into a melted puddle of chocolate with candy eyeballs. Quite tramatic.

Oh no Willard! How terrible! *wipes away tears of sympathy* No wonder they call it a "dumb bunny." Only a rabbit would do something so bone-headed!
Another Easter candy I loved was chocolate coins. They just don't seem to taste the same now as they did way back when. And I remember just once getting a bunch of those tiny wax bottles full of sweet juice. Those were the best, but they were never encountered again.

Aw, chocolate -- their first opioid.

Chocolate footballs! I know they're supposed to be eggs but they always looked like footballs to us so that's what we call 'em.

Sorry about the trauma Willard but I couldn't help but laugh at the visual. (sorry)

And the best one too.
Yum, now I have a chocolate craving so I'm going to go and see what I have...
Hah! I have some squares of dark chocolate with coffee sprinkled on them! Oh boy! I forgot I had these.
Ya know, I always knew the Wednesday pics made my mouth water, but this is a whole nother kind of watering.

You know you can get dark chocolate squares that have, not only coffee sprinkled on them, but also have bits of cranberries and/or blueberries in them? And even soe that have chili pepper?
The chili ones are delicious too. You don't even really taste the pepper, you just feel some heat when you've got it all melted and swallow it.

I'm hearing rumors that Dickey may be at the Beacon tonite. I was hoping so much that he would be there tonite. For Duane.

Hopefully, Sheila can give us the low down.

Sheila, keep us posted! I've really been hoping Dickie might show up sometime this month.

Now thanks to Starla and y'all I'm headed back to the fridge for that 85% dark choco bar. No sprinkles or berries, but good just the same.

Candy eggs with little cardboard diaramas inside -- those were the best.

I sure don't see those eggs in the stores, though I haven't ever looked for them very hard. :)
My aunt makes these "carrots" for Easter baskets. She takes some kind of cone-shaped clear plastic bag, fills it up with either orange M&M's, orange jelly beans, or even those little round Cheeto type things, and ties it shut with a bunch of green Easter basket grass. They are really cute.
Two Easter candies I never liked: Peeps and jelly beans. Peeps just taste like gritty rubber coated in sugar to me. The only jelly bean flavor I ever liked was Toasted Marshmallow, and I only saw those in a fancy assorted bag somebody gave me one year.

It's Bryl-Cream.

and I see spokes, another vision of the future.

I'm with you on Peeps and jellybeans, Starla! I've hated the little buggers since I was a tot.

Hey, I thought Peeps WERE rubber, no? A whole village in South America lives on the profits. Sometimes they have to wait for payout, though, since most peeps are aged at least two years before hittin' the shelves of the local dollar store. ;>

Peeps are the evil cousins of gumdrops. Yeccckkkkhhhh! I especially hate how Peeps seem to swell up in your mouth as you try to eat them. *shudders*
And anything made of white chocolate is a serious blasphemy on the entire candy industry. That stuff is like eating soap.

Dont bogart my chocolate bunnies! White chocolate doesnt taste like anything familar. Dont know why they call it that, is there any chocolate in it? I love the little chocolate bunnies, I love em too death as I smush their little heads...mmmm chocolate...I will eat peeps, i never liked em. Why do I eat em? I have no idea?

Unfortunately, havent seen the last 3 shows, ran out of dough, made me mad and sad...
Something called bandwidth, it gets expensive thats why im so pensive..
I dont wanna talk about the $265.00 bill i got cause I live in the boonies with no dsl or cable. cant watch moogis on hughesnet, so I bought a sprint air card. 5 gb a mo.. only a show takes a little over a gb. eeps, learned to switch it off on breaks, got it down to .5 gb a show, but still over my limit by 5gb. each gb is 54.00 extra..got 5 extra..eek, eek eek
Crapeloa!!!!!!!!!!

Swampland does a better review than me since this show tonight had sons onboard and very special guests.. Im guessing Dickey isnt showing. tomorrow is the last night and so far no Dickey.

Hopefully Swampland.com wont mind me doing this.

The Allman Brothers Band at The Beacon, March 27, 2009
Posted: Mar 27, 2009
The Duane slide show never gets old, and you never know what song The Allman Brothers will play while it is being projected. Tonight it all began with a rousing “Ain’t Wastin’ Time No More,” with Derek Trucks hittin’ the note on some fine slide guitar. Trucks was puttin’ the Skydog mojo all over that little ol’ Gibson SG. Sounded so good. It was clear that our next to last Beacon show was gonna be another good one. What? Did I say “next to last?” Say it ain’t so, Joe! I feel Beacon withdrawal coming on.

“You Don’t Love Me” was next, and it was rocking. The band seemed a bit mellower tonight, without the teeth-gritting intensity of last night’s round. Warren Haynes was playing the Les Paul with maximum taste. Gregg Allman suffered another “senior moment,” forgetting when to come in, but hey, no biggie. He is probably more than a little burned out after thirteen shows in a row. No harm. No foul.

Next came that awesome new instrumental, “Orpheo,” taking us far past the ozone into some sort of space time continuum. I closed my eyes, and for just a skinny minute, I thought I saw Spock. No kiddin.’ Young Mr. trucks again stood and delivered. He has really blown my mind over and over during the Beacon run. Maybe they should call this song “Beaconfreakin.”

Next was “End of The Line,” making its first appearance of the run. What a great song. I had not heard it in far too long. Great playin’ all around, and Gregory nailed the vocal.

For the first guest of the evening, out came none other than my buddy Jimmy Hall of Wet Willie fame. “The Sky is Cryin’” raised the roof about three inches, with Jimmy blowing harp and sharing vocals with Warren. I was tripping on having just been with him down at The High Lonesome, and now Jimmy was onstage with The Brothers. How cool.

Jimmy ruled the stage, as always, and sounded like a million bucks in large bills. He introduced what I call my theme song, Little Milton’s “Grits Ain’t Groceries,” which Jimmy recorded with Wet Willie back in the day. It sounded great, with Jimmy blowing sax and wailin’ the blues like only he can.

He introduced his biggest Wet Willie hit with a story about the late Tom Dowd, and how Dowd heard the song for the first time and said it would be a hit. Cool. “Keep on rollin’ with the changes, ‘til the sun comes out again.”

Speaking of .... without any intro whatsoever, “Soulshine” began, with Kid Rock onstage singing. The great thing for me was seeing another dear friend on Jaimoe’s drum kit. Paul T. Riddle, the founding drummer of The Marshall Tucker Band. Kid did a pretty good job, actually. It seemed like they were putting a square peg into a round hole, but it wasn’t too bad. I guess I’m just used to Gregg or Warren singing that one.

To close out the first set, they added Jimmy Hall back into the mix, and absolutely blew my mind by playing “Can’t You See,” with photos of Toy and Tommy Caldwell and George McCorkle projected on the back screen. Awesome. Kid Rock seemed to hog the vocal, and at one point Warren looked like he was trying to take a verse. Same with Jimmy Hall. But Mr. Rock dominated. Oh, well. Jimmy can sing the soup out of that one. Still, a great tribute to Toy, Tommy and George in the middle of a wonderful tribute to Duane. And it was cool seeing Kid Rock bowing and saluting Paul Riddle and Jimmy Hall at the end.

Speaking of tributes. Butch Trucks opened the second set saying, “I’m not playing on this one, so I am introducing it. This is a song that was written about Duane and we want to do it our way,” Yep. “Free Bird.” (Although Butch was wrong. It was written before Duane died and dedicated to him after the fact.) Gregg sang the soup out of it. During the song, photos of Duane, Berry Oakley, Lamar Williams, Ronnie Van Zant and others were projected. Downright awesome. At the point where Lynyrd Skynyrd does the fast jam, the Brothers went straight into “Nobody Left to Run With.” How cool. The band was cooking on an open flame, with absolutely breathtaking guitars from Derek and Warren, and Oteil just plain outdoing himself.

Ivan Neville joined in on keyboards for the next one, “Who’s Been Talking.” Warren lead the pack in an amazingly beautiful extended jam to lead into the song with a real honest to God Carlos Santana vibe. Just beautiful. Then when it came time for the lead during the song proper, Warren knocked it out of the park.

Family night at the Beacon. Gregg’s son Devon Allan came out to join in on “Midnight Rider,” even singing a few lines solo and sounding mighty fine. Then came the jam of the night, well, at least to that point. “One Way Out” featured Devon, with Berry Oakley, Jr. on bass in for Oteil and Jimmy Hall returning on harp. Talk about cookin.’ Derek was smiling. Warren was smiling. Gregg was smiling. The guys were having a large time. Devon’s lead break was pretty great, and Jimmy Hall just strutted all over that stage, a master of the harmonica. A master showman.

With all the guests safely offstage The Brothers took a ride with “Les Brers in A Minor.” At one point, Oteil was grinning from ear to ear. You just know it has been a fun night for them as well as us. But wait! Paul T. Riddle sat in on Butch’s drum kit, and during the marathon “drums” section, they wheeled a huge bass drum out front and Butch played along with Paul T., Jaimoe and Mark in a four-man drum assault for the books. Then came the onslaught of guitar from Warren, kickin’ it “Old Mule” style. Off the charts. Amazing. Mind blowing. Yep. You bet your sweet bippy.

For the encore, the sound of acoustic guitar filled the air, as Gregg delivered “Melissa,” and boy howdy it was good, but it was not over yet. For the first time this run, the ABB pulled out a second song for the encore with a full tilt “Southbound.” Jimmy Hall on harp, Berry Oakley, Jr. on bass, and Paul T. Riddle on drums joined in for what had to be the most killer version of the song so far during the Beacon run. Wow. A simply majestic end to another great show. Southern rock night. I love it.

Keep it Real. Keep it Southern.

Donnah please excuse using up all this space...but this was special kiddos were there!

Tommorrow is the last show. Wish we all could be there! We go out Starla for some real chocolate, no peeps allowed!!!! lol

csason csason I know, I know Im a goober! Cant smell er spell bryl-cream! But, I can always Wail on, Brothers and Sisters, Wail on to the Great Skydog in the Sky! (I bet Duane didnt eat peeps either lol)

As a side note, might check out the pictures of Devon Allman at the Beacon last night on www.swampland.com, look for the Beacon run updates.. he looks eerily like Duane!

Sheila, if I could I would organize a march down to Texas and protest your lack of DSL and the ridiculous Sprint Air Card situation. Seriously.
But I am glad you got to see the shows you did see.
IT'd be so awesome if we on this board could all go up to NYC together and catch a few Beacon shows. Man, we'd have a ball!
And no, white chocolate is not "real" chocolate. I just read about this the other day, in fact. It has cocoa butter in it but no chocolate liquor, the liquid from the cocoa bean that gives a chocolate flavor.
Somehow I can see Duane eating Peeps, maybe on the sly. Or doing what a young friend of mine did: she didn't want anybody else eating her Peeps, so she bit the head off each one so nobody would want to touch them. lol
What Duane needed was one of those big peanut-butter-filled chocolate Easter eggs. Those would have put some meat on him.

Last night was my seventh and last show of this run. Tonight is supposed to feature the Grateful Dead Dynamic Duo of Bobby and Phil.

It's been a lot of fun. Great music, great energy, and some of the stickiest floors I've ever had to walk on.

I'm sorry that it's over. I hope it happens again next year........

So true Starla! My sister and I used to argue all the time about white chocolate. I told her it didnt look or taste like chocolate so it couldnt be chocolate! We'd go round n round on that one! lol
Recently, she had a very belated admission, she read no chocolate in white chocolate as well! Kid sis finally won one! check! She is currently in Jackson Ms visiting Paula Deen at the Center. Maybe she will come home with a chocolate receipe, but she says she doesnt like chocolate...hmmmm. my chocolate always gets bogarted my her...lol

A big pile of Reese's eggs or peanut butter cups would have done Duane a world of good for sure! It always amazed me how skinny all of them were!

If you havent done it check out the pictures I mentioned on the previous post. Devon Allman sure looks like a living breathing Duane! Except his hair isnt red, its blonde like his Dads hair. (Gregg)

Rock on Y'all and maybe some day we will all share some Reesies and a live concert of ABB! And drink a toast to Duane Allman!

I appreciate your sympathy for my situation and do love living here, just who would guess watchin a video would be so expensive in boonies!

Devon is definitely very Duane-like in looks, though he looks like he might possibly eat better. lol And he did get the "good" hair.
Talking about hair: in some pics, Duane's hair looks more blond. In others, more red. I would probably call that strawberry-blond, but how come that term is almost never used for guys?

I'm sure Paula Deen has some chocolate recipes to die for. There's a lady who would fatten up anybody. I just don't like watching her lick her fingers while she's cooking on TV. Ick.

Thanks for all the great pics, Donnah!

Hey Starla, my sis had a ball in Jackson, Ms seeing Ms Paula at the center. She didnt lick her fingers even once! She didnt cook at all. Appears she was laid low with being sick. A local chef did some cooking, but the stories she did tell! According to my sis a fine time was had by all!

Since, the majority of us didnt make it to the Beacon for the 40 Annivesary and tribute to the man, Mr Duane Allman, hurry up and click here to see the shows pictures and a little chat about what transpired. See Gregg and all in zz top beards! http://jazzamatazz.wordpress.com/2009/03/29/allman-brothers-40th-beacon-updates/

They have a habit of moving the links so act quick, if its gone look to the right to see the new link about the ABB shows and click.

No, I missed 4 of them but 11/s not too bad, and I still can watch them up to Aug 30. So, evenually I will get to see them all.

Loved em all, and although no film of Duane's daughter she was there every night as well.

Y'all i kinda feel related to all the Duaniacs here at crackerland and anyone else any where whose a true fan of the brothers!

Rock on y'all and have you a good time!