ALLMANS SET 07 BEACON RUN

I never missed a brothers show in Atlanta until 2004 when they started playing with lynyrd skynyrd. Please please please play the south again without that racist crappy band and their throngs of confederate flag-draped, alcoholic redneck morons. Derek Trucks 4 President!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Sorry, thats just my soul letting out a big sigh.

Bring it again boys!!!

please oh please tell me this doesn't mean gregg wants to knock derek off clapton tour right when they're entering the triumphal home stretch back to columbus on good friday!!!

that would not be cool, man!

heck-- bring back dickey for the beacon run!!!

don't derail the historic midwest leg of eric & derek, man!

Clapton sucks fellas, save your money. I hope his cheesiness doesn't rub off on Derek. I'm sure it won't.

Derek, Eric and the Beacon



Yesterday we reported on the Allman Brothers Band 2007 Beacon Theater run. Since the dates fall during a leg of the Eric Clapton North America tour and Derek Trucks has been gigging with that band, a number of our readers sent us emails inquiring who would join Warren Haynes on guitar for these shows (a question we raised ourselves a number of weeks ago). Given the music coming off the stage at the Beacon in 2006, we are happy to report that Trucks will be back with the ABB for its spring run. As for future commitments, at present, neither Clapton nor the Brothers have confirmed any dates beyond April of this year.

why couldnt jambase have this much info on it jambands is outdoing them

did all of these shows SELL OUT last year?

wait i dont really understand . . . why 13 nights in the same place? does anyone actually go every night?

I love these guys like they were my own brothers, and the Derek/Warren combo is a smoker. But please. Dickey? Please? I don't know what the bad feelings/disagreements are but he's a founding member, a fantastic guitarist and the author of many of their greatest songs (which they no longer play). I say lay the egos down and play together while everyone still can. There'll be plenty of time for squabbling in the nursing home when the music's over.

-greycloud

Actually they don't perform most Dickey penned songs that Dickey also sang like: Seven Turns, Back Where It All Begins, Change My Way of Living, Blue Sky(although they did it a few times in late 2004 with Gregg on lead vocals), Nobody Knows(which Gregg and Dickey have both sang lead on at different times), Back Where It All Begins, and their biggest hit ever Ramblin' Man.

In Memory of Elizabeth Reed, Jessica, Revival(which Gregg sings lead vocals on) are still regularly performed.

I agree. CAN Haynes and ADD Dickey Betts back. Doubtful that it will happen though.

Derek Trucks last performance with Eric Clapton is March 18.

From there I imagine he will fly over to NYC from CA and have three full days of rehearsals with the band before the run starts.

Way down on the Suwanee River! Can't wait for Wanee Fest, my personal fav. I too would love to see Dickey back, or at least play some of his old songs. The band is really clicking right now though, no need to bring in bad vibes. Wanee needs to hurry up and anounce the bands, i'm getting really anxious. I hope Jack Pearson comes back and sits in with the Brothers, that man is bad!

CAN Warren? ADD Dickey???? obviously you dont know the power of Warren "the robot" Haynes or your just a country boy.
i cant belive that all these shows will sell out considering the tickets go for $50-$100 a pop. should be a great time though.

I too would enjoy a Jack Pearson appearance, he is a musical madman. The summer 1997 to Beacon 1999 shows were the greatest ABB musically since March 1969 - October 1971. He plays rhythm, lead, slide(which he performs in multiple open tunings), composes songs, sings, produces. He plays multiple instruments(guitar, bass guitar, Hammond B-3, and mandolin just to name a few) and writes or has co-written EVERY single song on all three of his solo albums. And he does all of this very well!

I also have to say that I hope very much that Derek Trucks does not sign on with Eric Clapton for anymore tours, EVER. I am so glad to read that the ABB are only planning on performing about 25 shows total for their summer tour. Derek needs to push his band to public more so than in the past, it has been neglected.

If i lived anywhere near NY i would sure would go to every show.

Over 165 times at the same venue! Damn they must really love the Beacon. Sounds like I need to catch the Allmans at the Beacon sometime.

If I am not mistaken the below is the line-up for the Wanee Festival:

Allman Brothers Band, Gov't Mule, Derek Trucks Band & Susan Tedeschi, The Radiators, Keller Williams, Sister Hazel, Rusted Root, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Oteil & the Peacemakers, Nickel Creek, Devon Allman's Honeytribe, Rose Hill Drive, Backyard Tire Fire, Phonograph, Scrapomatic, Bonobos Convergence(Vaylor Trucks band-the boy on the cover of Brothers & Sisters and Butch's first kid).

Believe it - the weekend shows will be completely sold out and the weekday shows will be almost if not completely full houses.

Need to eat your Wheaties before these shows - the ABB always bring it hard, be it the Beacon or elsewhere. Go and enjoy.

yes a, that is the intial line-up, well at least i hope there is going to be more announced. for me that's a little bit weak compared to the past festivals. i think donovan frankinriter, or however you spell it, is going to be there too. i can't wait, i love this festy!

i am super pumped about getting to see the radiators, it will be a first for me. a lot of those bands i've never seen live so i'm sure i'll be leaving once there once again with new bands to catch up on. back yard tire fire is another one i'm looking forward too.

Don't Go to the Wannee! Seriously It is one of the most beautiful Venues I have been too when the weather is right, But the land is owned by the sheriff's dept. and they are STRICT! ZERO tolerence in florida is no joke. $4500 1yr 1/2 probation. sucks ass for alittle cap left over from the night before. You can't burn one at the stages either. Not that, that is all i go to shows for but watch out for that place. They put you straight into general population. IT SUCKS!!

i have to disagree with you there markg. i went to 06 and 05. didn't really much of the law in 05, last year was a bit different. some of my buds did have a run in with some undercover DEA guys inside the gates, but i mean they tried to pass a piece to a frickin' federal agent, duh! that thing will happen to you, you know if you play with fire, you'll get burned. but they were crawling all over the place. out in the campground area i've one cop, the same cop, both years. some fat sheriff deputy who just rode up on down the road every hour or so and didn't give a damn as to what was going on. so i will have to disagree with ya, and say Wanee is one of the more laid back festies as far as law enforcement goes, but you are right about the beauty of the Suwanee Music Park, just plain beautiful.

Just read another article this one with Gregg from 1/9 he says:

"We're sort of on hiatus. We have a lot of people who have their own bands, including myself. They want to go and spend some time with those bands. Some of them are leaders, some of them are in different parts in different bands. Derek (Trucks) has his own band. Oteil (Burbridge, bass) has his own band," Allman said.

This is even more encouraging for dTb. Hopefully ARU will get some more touring in as well.

The 1aw wasnt bad at a11 1ast year at Wanee, they stayed w1th each 0ther and wernt b0ther1ng n0 0ne. 1t was d1ff than the year bef0re, they were h0t that year

Oteil Burbridge from the Allmans will be at Lion's Den tonight. Then...Devon Allman's Honeytribe is doing a Monday March 26th Post-Allman Bros. show too...at Lion's Den.
The Allman Family is invading New York.

Beacon is the only reason I ever want to go to NYC. But seriously, I don't think there's a snowball's (or should I say eight-ball's) chance in hell that Dickey will rejoin with the Allmans. It would be the end of Gregg for sure, he can't handle the temptation. The music would be NASTY NASTY NASTY though. I heard someone describe the dynamic of the ABB (post Duane of course) as Dickey being the heart and Gregg being the SOUL.

i ran into some cops at wanee last year. they came up on me smoking and politely asked me not to make them do their jobs. wanee is great, every fan of the ABB family should experience it