Warren Haynes | Door Open For Allman Brothers Reunion

Last October The Allman Brothers Band ended an illustrious 45-year career with a monster three-set show at the Beacon Theatre in New York City. While making it clear there’s nothing in the works, guitarist Warren Haynes told Rolling Stone “the door’s always open” to a reunion of the legendary band.

Haynes explains that he still keeps in touch with his old band mates and has fond thoughts on the final Allman Brothers show. “I think everybody rose to the occasion. Everybody gave 110 percent. We were all tuned into each other. It was just a great night. We all knew that we wanted to leave it all on the stage that night and we wanted to go out with a bang and do a show that was indicative of what that band is all about. We did three sets, which we had never done since I’ve been there for 25 years. But it wasn’t just quantity, it was quality, and everybody rose to the occasion, and everybody was in tune with each other, and it was a great experience,” Warren told Rolling Stone. When asked about the possibility of the Allmans doing a one-off series of shows ala Fare Thee Well, Haynes responded, “You know, I would never rule anything out. There’s no talk of that, but you know, I think the door’s always open.”

Warren also revealed he hasn’t yet listened to the Fare Thee Well -Celebrating 50 Years Of Grateful Dead shows and that his favorite memory from touring with “The Dead” was a version of “Viola Lee Blues” played at a July 4th show that reminded him of Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew. “Myself and Phil and Bob all pointed at that particular six minutes of music and were like, ‘That’s the shit,'” Haynes said about the jam which may have taken place at the 2009 installment of Rothbury.

The guitarist also said a new Gov’t Mule record isn’t far off. “I think as soon as I’ve finished touring behind this solo record, we’re going to go into the studio and start on another Gov’t Mule record. We just finished our 20th anniversary, which was a lot. We did a lot of touring. We still have a couple of tours left. I think the 20th anniversary and all those archival releases will cause us to figure out what kind of record we really want to make and try to make something different than any of the records before and especially quite different from Shout, which we’re all very proud of. It was very representative of our 20-year journey, but now we’re starting on the next part of that journey and I’m curious to see what kind of record we’re going to make.”

Head to Rolling Stone for more of Haynes’ revealing chat.