Word: allmans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BACK IN 1968, people around Atlanta were saying that the Allman Brothers Band was as good as any other rock group in the U.S. It was true, but not many people knew...
...Duane Allman is dead, and with him died much of the group's potential for growth...
...failure illustrated the basic drawback in the technique: very few musicians have the musical vision, the expertise, or the experience to pull off long jams. Long improvisations are extremely boring unless the musicians have something to say and the context into which to fit it. The Dead and the Allman Brothers are the only rock bands so far to succeed with this format, and Garcia's failure to make the technique work with Wales proves that one musician's expertise cannot be grafted onto another inexperienced band with real hope of success...
First of all, it was a year of change, a year of death. The casualty list of rock stars grew as Jim Morrison sang his last song and Duane Allman played his last note. But as if to show the world that rock would live despite its losses, the Doors released an album and went on tour, and the Allman Brothers said they too would continue to tour, although they would try to replace Duane (as if it were possible). Reprise posthumously released two Jimi Hendrix albums, The Cry of Love (representing his last studio work) and Rainbow Bridge...
Some of the best--if not most orthodox--blues music to emerge last year came from younger artists. In addition to the deaths of Otis Spann and Magic Sam, the world suffered the losses of King Curtis and Duane "Skydog" Allman last year. Allman was a guitarist of both incredible technical virtuosity and unerring taste. As a studio musician for Atlantic Records, he played on countless albums, ranging from those of Aretha Franklin to Boz Scaggs, Herbie Mann to John Hammond. He is best known, however, for his work in the Allman Brothers Band. After two good albums, a third...