I think there is one very important lesson here.
It's not always beneficial to Cher your Allmans.
Only Sonny would (Bo)know.
It's not always beneficial to Cher your Allmans.
Only Sonny would (Bo)know.
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Gregg Allman has died.
- Thread starter Binney on acid
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Many said this was a sign.
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/04/hhgregg_closing_all_220_stores.html
Well, it is a SIGN!
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/04/hhgregg_closing_all_220_stores.html
Well, it is a SIGN!
Good point. Cheap Trick, Live at the Budokan, and Kiss, Alive, are the only other ones I can think of.
it's one of my favourite albums. I started a thread about live albums a year or so ago and there was a lot of chat about this particular record. Surrender especially, is such a brilliant song.Kick Out the Jams?
EDIT, Thought of another - Frampton Comes Alive was everywhere in 1976. Every second person seemed to have it
Of course. And it was, oddly, their debut album.
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I saw the Allmans live at the first Knebworth Festival in 1974(?). They were very good, but sadly already lacking Duane........
Edit - I came on here earlier this (Sunday) afternoon to start a thread about this, expecting to be very much a lone voice. When I did a search, I was very heartened to see others who were Allmans cognoscenti
In this marvellously diverse platform which is NSC, I should have known better.
Yes, there can't be many bands who have kicked off with a live album. The only other one I can think of is Misty in Roots ... but I'm sure there are others
When I read threads like these they often lead me onto little journeys of discovery where I uncover interesting little snippets as I look at the life of not only the artist being posted about but also those they've collaborated with as I jump from one name to another via the various links that crop up. Two such snippets I learnt today:
1. Jim Gordon, the drummer with Derek and the Dominoes murdered his mother with a hammer as a result of previously undiagnosed schizophrenia.
2. Bonnie Bramlett of Delaney and Bonnie once punched Elvis Costello in the face after he made derogatory racist remarks about James Brown and Ray Charles.
1. Jim Gordon, the drummer with Derek and the Dominoes murdered his mother with a hammer as a result of previously undiagnosed schizophrenia.
2. Bonnie Bramlett of Delaney and Bonnie once punched Elvis Costello in the face after he made derogatory racist remarks about James Brown and Ray Charles.
1234andcounting
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HMV in Churchill Square? Spent my Saturday lunchtimes in there when I was doing a Saturday job at Waitrose.
LamieRobertson
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Thats the one.....took no money home....they handed my wages over...i got discount on the vinyl..i gave the cash back to them....ended up with a large LP collection though
1234andcounting
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Thats the one.....took no money home....they handed my wages over...i got discount on the vinyl..i gave the cash back to them....ended up with a large LP collection though
Happy days. Don't think I got a discount in Waitrose as a weekend boy, but all the broken biscuits you could handle, including those packets which got "accidentally" damaged in transit.
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This is Jackson Browne's tribute to Gregg Allman. I was hoping that he'd come up with something really poignant, and he hasn't let me down:-
Gregg Allman was one of the most gifted singers of the last fifty years. We became friends in LA in the late sixties when he and Duane were in The Hourglass. He was a blues singer first, and he was so natural, and so soulful, that when he sang songs that were written in a major scale, he found all the most soulful and expressive passages through those changes. It was just how he heard it. That's how it was with my song, These Days. He slowed it down, and felt it deeply, and he made that song twice as good as it was before he sang it.
I got to speak with him in the week before he passed, and I got to tell him how much his music and his friendship has meant to me. He recently recorded one of my early songs, Song For Adam, and he and Don Was sent it to me to sing on, and I did. That song, the way he sang it and where he sang it from - at the end of his life - well, he completed that song, and gave it a resonance and a gravity that could only have been put there by him.
I will miss him. I send my deepest condolences to his family, his bands and crews, and all those who knew him and loved him.
Gregg Allman was one of the most gifted singers of the last fifty years. We became friends in LA in the late sixties when he and Duane were in The Hourglass. He was a blues singer first, and he was so natural, and so soulful, that when he sang songs that were written in a major scale, he found all the most soulful and expressive passages through those changes. It was just how he heard it. That's how it was with my song, These Days. He slowed it down, and felt it deeply, and he made that song twice as good as it was before he sang it.
I got to speak with him in the week before he passed, and I got to tell him how much his music and his friendship has meant to me. He recently recorded one of my early songs, Song For Adam, and he and Don Was sent it to me to sing on, and I did. That song, the way he sang it and where he sang it from - at the end of his life - well, he completed that song, and gave it a resonance and a gravity that could only have been put there by him.
I will miss him. I send my deepest condolences to his family, his bands and crews, and all those who knew him and loved him.