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Apart from the Allman Brothers, you could argue that the line-up for his 2006 tour was never bettered. Go ahead - find someone else to argue with, I'm agreeing with you. I'm not going to list the musicians - d0ur0w r3srcH ya lazy-ass schnook!
This double live CD is a career high point. Even allmusicdotcom wets its knickers: "His finest moment on tape, period. It also rivals any post-Duane Allman live set by the ABB. For Betts fans, and actually any rock guitar flameout fan, this set is indispensable." He ain't whistlin' Dixie!
So how come you never see this in lists of Best Live Doubles? Here's what did they do to cripple the album's chances:
☠️ "Dickey Betts & Great Southern"? Nobody ever gave a shit about Great Southern, and these guys aren't remotely the same band that cut the disappointing Great Southern albums back in the 'seventies. Did anyone ever say "I gots tix fer Great Southern, man!" Nope. "I gots tix fer Dickey Betts, man!" - if they were being formal.
☠️ An unmemorable mouthful of a title: "The Official Bootleg 2006 North American Tour". Couple this with "Dickey Betts And Great Southern" and you've got enough reading matter to furrow the dainty brows of a (North) American High School class. Also, calling it any sort of bootleg, even an official one (whatever the fuck that is), is strictly low budget.
Does this matter? Of course it matters. But the music is ... fantastic. Mostly consisting of Dickey's greatest Allmans tunes, including a phenomenal half-hour version of Elizabeth Reed and a none-better version of Southbound, it's a total blast.
To round out the loaddown, it's bundled with the great man's finest studio album, Highway Call. No, don't thank me. Just be swell, dude!
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Last piece of clothing you bought, and how long ago? Enjoy shopping for clothes? Me, I go to the twice-weekly local clothes market, which is mostly used but occasional factory seconds. Dress better than I ever did when I had money, because Thais don't know real from fake, and to them all brands are the same (and they're right).
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ReplyDeleteDoes footwear count? If so, I bought new running shoes (Brooks Adrenaline GTS 22), on Monday.
If not, I bought a new dress, on Sunday.
Wearables is clothes, Babs! Might one be so bold as to enquire if the new dress has a peplum, or mayhap a bodice of shirred silk?
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Why Babs! That frock is to die! I adore the ruched look!
DeleteWell Babs you missed your chance there, you could have been modelling for The Hollies track of yesterday.
ReplyDeleteIndigenous Art T shirt from Broome Saturday Market.
ReplyDeleteIngenious art? What's that about?
DeleteSupporting local Aboriginal artists.
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DeleteUpload it to imgur (drag and drop - no account necessary), paste link here.
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DeleteThat is a beautiful shirt.
DeleteThanks Farq
DeleteMahdy Purdy, indeed...
DeleteCool tee!
DeleteWhy is it, that when the subject of "Great Rock Guitarists" comes up, Dickie's name seldom gets mentioned? Even though, he can "run rings around" the usual suspects.
ReplyDeleteAlso, getting thrown out of The Allman Brothers Band for drugs and drinking, is like getting thrown out of the Girl Scouts, for being a girl.
"Getting thrown out of The Allman Brothers Band for drugs and drinking, is like getting thrown out of the Girl Scouts, for being a girl." - this is brilliant.
DeleteHe was more than just a guitarist, too. His songs were the ones that broke the Allmans into the big time, just after the loss of two of their core players. He stepped up and saved the band, basically. Most of Brothers & Sisters is his, their best-selling album at that time. That's an incredible accomplishment, and one that Gregg never forgave him for.
I'm assuming you have this album, Babs - you have everything!
DeleteActually, I do not.
DeleteHere you go, and a warning - if you're wearing socks, take them off before listening to avoid getting them blown off.
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I can listen to Dickey all day if need be (though there rarely is), but can only stand to listen to Gregg's voice for about two and a half tunes, if even that...
DeleteI'll always listen to the Allbetts Band any day, love 'em, but Gregg's style of blues-groaning hasn't dated well (nor have Bob Weir's blue-eyed soul grunts). Strangely, Dickie's adenoidal twang has held up well.
DeleteThis is one fine show!
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ReplyDeleteThanks for the Dickey Betts Official Bootleg album. May I also say that I enjoy your blog. The conversations are fun. Now that I got the niceties out of the way, may I ask for the link for the aforementioned "Highway Call" album. Never listened to any Betts separated from the Allmans before. Looking forward to the opportunity. Thanks. Gbrand
Here you go, Gbrand!
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I bought some shorts a couple of weeks ago. Clothes buying isn't really a thing with me. I'm very easy to please - t shirts, jumpers, shorts, jeans. That's about it.
ReplyDeleteAah ... "jumpers". I keep a couple for the couple of days every year I need one. I never buy long-sleeve shirts any more, never wear them. Jeans, yes, but mostly shorts.
DeleteI hate having my arms covered. It has to be very cold for me to wear a jumper in winter, even. Likewise, my legs, but I draw the line at shorts in winter.
DeleteWhen my husband and I relocated to England ('73-'74), the first time we heard the term "jumper", we had no Idea what a jumper was, until someone said to me "I like your jumper".
DeleteIt was the same with tights and knickers.
Two countries, divided by a common language...
The best jumper song there is!
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxmZZBJQAKM
It's a "pull" here - short for pullover.
DeleteHere, the generic term is: Sweater.
DeleteWhere's me jumper is too funny
We have "sweat" here - a sweatshirt.
DeleteGansey is a jumper in geordieland - technically a fisherman's jumper
DeleteLook no further than Val Doonican for jumpers or cardigans in rock music
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrq5fBY-ZgU
However if you watch any Undertones video at least one of them will have a jumper on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgqa3cVOxUc
Steve, I imagine with here you mean your adopted home of France.
DeleteThe French, notoriously bad in English, wouldn't know much about pronounciation, so they pronounce " a sweat" as " a sweet". I might have suggested once or twice that sugar has nothing to do with it, but sweat does - obviously to no avail...
Definitely sweat as in English. Even sweatshirt exists and is said almost the same way as in English, just with that phlegmy "r" sound in the shirt bit.
DeleteSuite is said like "sweet".
"Where's me jumper is too funny"
DeleteOr you know, an Australian fella going "All I had was me jocks on..." will never not be funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QCgqQdmr0M
Steve, the French folk around you seem more apt at English then than most of my mine (even though we're both based in the greater Paris region if I remember correctly). Since most don't make the connection with the word "sweat" and it's short :e:-sound as a basis, they pronounce a sweatshirt as "un suite". I tend to think I may have never heard a French person around me pronounce it correctly. On, you know, the two or three occasions that word came up. So, uh, my statistics aren't scientifically reliable or anything...
DeleteI'm a ways from Paris. I'm in dept 53 - about equidistant from Rennes, Nantes, Laval and Angers. My only encounter with sweat in French is when a French friend used it. Perhaps she picked it up from another British immigrant.
DeleteOBG me n the missus cracked it watching the filem!
DeleteI like a nice shirt, but I have enough, so haven't bought any for a couple of years. I have a few jumpers ready for an expected cold winter in England.
ReplyDeleteI've got a wardrobe full of shirts & ties but haven't worn them since I now work from home.
DeleteThere's a song for every occasion.
DeleteShirts? I've got plenty at home.
A man's not dressed unless he's got a nice shirt on, is he guv'nor?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWrU3kROXww
My mind is definitely not what it was. I could gave sworn that was the b side to viv's The Young Ones but turns out it was The Question - which isnt about shirts. Anyway its a good excuse to play the A side-
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honestly can't recall kids got me a t shirt xmas before last
ReplyDeletedoes bondage gear count as clothes?
ReplyDeleteDid Mistress Babs, give you permission to speak?
DeleteI've got a good one: a custom printed t-shirt for a concert(s) I attended in 1979. The Clash played Berkeley Community Theater (Bill Graham gig...) and played Temple Beautiful uncredited (as the Bill Graham contract said "no other gigs in town.") There was no "merch" at a punk concert back then; no tour shirt, Clash key-fob that has a flashlight, bumper sticker, hoodie, satin jacket, faux cloisonné pins, Clash coffee mugs, woven blankets, posters, beer koozies...no souvenier Give 'Em Enough Rope Ladders.
ReplyDeleteSo....online I tracked down the ad in the SF Chronicle ("The Clash / Bo Diddley / Pearl Harbour & the Explosions) lettered by Randy Tuten for the Berkeley gig, got a copy of the New Youth poster for the SF gig from the artist over on the Mabuhay Gardens page, and printed up my own shirt.
That's cool, draftervoi!
DeleteAround fifteen years or so ago, a friend was going to see Motörhead at B.B. Kings, here in Manhattan, so I asked her to get me a Motörhead tee. We met up a few days after the show, and she gave me the highest quality concert tee I have ever seen. Not only was it a high quality tee (it never shrank after years of washings and drying), it was one of the cheapest at $15.00. There was an interview with Lemmy I read, in which he said that he didn’t make money on the tees he sold at his shows, because he wanted to give his fans good tees at a fair price. A true man of the people! I wore that tee for a good ten years, until my granddaughter “borrowed” it.
Hi, Babs...I was listening to Motörhead yesterday and regretting not going with my son to see their show here in S.F. back in 2012. Missed opportunities.
DeleteIn the early '90's, Bill Graham Productions had a factory outlet a block from my office south of Market Street. This was literally a factory outlet as the silk screening for concert and promotional t-shirts sold all over the world was done in the building. Concert t-shirts were $6.00/shirt.
So...I went over about once a month and bought lots of 'em. Often enough that the employees knew me well, and would ring me up as cheap as $2.00 a shirt. For Christmas, I'd give out as gifts Springsteen's 1992 European Tour shirt, Clapton's gig-specific 24 Night Stand at the Royal Albert, Cheap Trick's Japanese Tour. All sorts of ridiculous stuff. I've still got a bag of Rolling Stones 1982 tour pins around here somewhere that are priced on Ebay between $17.00 and $80.00...so the $5.00 I paid for them was probably a good deal.
The shop is long gone, along with the factory above it, and my office...swept away by blue-grey glass residential towers that have transformed "south of the slot" from a sketchy declining industrial and warehouse district into the City's second highest income zip code over the last thirty years.
I see that "vintage tour t-shirts" are now a "thing" on Ebay, commanding ridiculous prices for previously worn low-quality faded memorabilia.
Your comment inspires a topic: what is the OLDEST concert t-shirt that you still own?
I have a liquid blue Dancing Bears tee, from the Dead's '95 tour.
DeleteMy oldest shirt is a 2006 Radio Birdman tour shirt..their first tour of North America. It was my 16 year old son's first rock concert.
DeleteOldest T shirts are all 1996 and all unworn : Babybird - You're Gorgeous, Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go, Alabama 3 - Exhile on Coldharbour Lane . Must have got carried away with getting back to watching bands in clubs again after 15yr lay off but never was ono for wearing logos hence they are still in their wrappers!
DeleteMy oldest Tee is Motorhead Bomber tour 1979, it is un-wearable the armpit area has fallen apart, but front and back ok. I must frame it. Also Black Sabbath, Heaven and Hell 1980, similar problem.
DeleteI bought a sleeveless shirt to hang out at the beach on my summer vacation, but rarely (or never?) used it. A couple of days before I had bought a nice-looking floral print summer button-down shirt that I wore all the time though.
ReplyDeleteI went to see Zappa at Wembley Arena in 1988 and bought a Titties 'n' Beer T shirt. It has Titties in large pink letters. I still have it. It doesn't fit but I can't bring myself to throw it.
ReplyDeleteI too attended one of the Zappa Wembley gigs, and didn't realise I had an awful side view, it was very disappointing, I only attended Wembley twice after, but made sure I had decent seats. Anyway I bought the Broadway the Hard Way sweatshirt, just checked, still good condition, but short in the arms.
DeleteWe were pretty much straight on, but a way back. Horrible place. Saw him at Hammersmith in 84. Much better. More intimate.
DeleteWhat really annoyed me about those massive venues was generally you payed the same price for front block as you did right at the back. At least at Hammersmith Odeon even the balcony was pretty good. I was at Neil Young at 02 Arena about 10 years ago, watched the gig on the screen. I'll never go to another arena gig, I'd rather watch a gig on tv at home with a reasonably priced beer.
DeleteDo Depends qualify? (Asking for a friend in Siam.)
ReplyDeleteTell your friend about the new heavy duty adult diapers called "Pangaea Pull-Ups".
DeleteThey're for the super-incontinent.
It took me a while to get your drift...
DeleteAn incontinental drift?
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHmH9lQZq6I
DeleteWell played, Steve!
DeleteI'm going to shelve that video for now, Clarence.
Dickey Betts joins Spirit 1978 Rockpalast
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Just been watching this - 30+ minutes of live Allmans with Dickey.
ReplyDeleteHe plays a lovely solo in Whippin' Post.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsjzV8sOdXU
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ReplyDeleteIf anyone is interested in Neil Young's new album 'Noise and Flowers' you can get it here.
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DeleteThanks Farq the Dickey Betts live is great, I've been listening to a Charlie Daniels Band live radio show from the late 70's, this goes well with that.
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