Absolutely. 😎

I saw Tedeschi Trucks in July and it was magical. May the Spirit of The Allman Brothers live on forever 🙏

Your so right

But the common denominator is Dickey 😎

@@Rational_Mind I think they were still amazing during the many years that Warren & Derek were the two guitarists, after Dickey's unfortunate departure. But I agree that we have to give a ton of credit to Dickey. He is an amazing guitarist, he provided needed leadership to the band, and he wrote some great songs -- including what is arguably the best rock instrumental ever (In Memory of Elizabeth Reed).

He is one of the GREATEST.

Nelson Holt Grateful Dead 💀

And three drummers at once rockin

Duane, Dickie, Derek, & Warren.......?

@@gr8fullstar i'm hoping you're joking.....

I am grateful that my son and I were able to see Greg and Warren at the Peach Fest 2015. Greg was the last one on my bucket list. Warren -- hell, I see warren any day of the week. Hardest working man in show-biz

The very best music to my hearing . Every one a journey man.

Uncle Dub is The Man

Yeah really Duane-y, hits his rhythms and motifs while still keeping it his own

I think that this song and Jessica are the two best instrumentals ever written I love this band I saw that many times and I think that this lineup is every bit as good as the original lineup I also like Marshall Tucker very well I saw their original band many times those are my two favorite bands but I think the Allman Brothers has the best band in the world ever having three drummers incredible . Probably the best percussion ever

@@paullepage9484 The original lineup created something new. Impossible to be as good as the creator of the genre. Just be happy that we had more music over time and that it didn't all die with Duane.

I believe he was an academic ;he had a masters degree in European History.

@@jakethomas3205 I really do think playing drums at this level requires superior intellect. It's a scientific marvel.

Dickey is probably the most under-rated guitarist ever. He lived in the shadow of the great Duane Allman, who admired him and his playing technique tremendously. Then Duane was gone and he must have felt somewhat abandoned by his untimely death but he still had the talent and the belief in the dream to step up and save the band from the immense tragedy they suffered, and did he ever! But he has been a cantankerous asshole at times and he's burned too many bridges, needless to say, along the way. I was glad to hear he made peace with Gregg before he died...

Saw Dicky with Johnny Winter once...Johnny was embarrassingly outclassed next to Betts.

Not only a great guitarist but a great writer also

Southern Rocker how was Dickey an asshole? I don’t know much specific history thanks

SteveOMaddog read the book, one way out, by alan paul, a lot of it is in there...

Underrated? I think they are universally somewhere in just about everyone’s top 5 rock and roll bands of all time. I am extremely grateful for them, as well. And Dickey probably was in Duane’s shadow - I guess that’s what happens when you are arguably the second-greatest guitar player of all time and you are in a band with arguably the greatest guitar player ever. What a band!

@@williambuchanan4623 Really good post. I feel as you do. ABB has ALWAYS been in the top five WORLDWIDE performing bands of all time...IMO!

And a huge thank you to Dickey Betts for writing the best rock-and-roll instrumental song of all time!

@@Paul71H Boy isn't that an understatement!! I'm am often blown away listening to In Memory (right now probably the 300-something time) at the uniqueness, the complexity, the synchronicity of the instruments and the artistic geniuses to deliver it all. This is the last sounds playing- full tilt in my head before sleep arrives. Peace.

Yeah, ya know man I agree this version is truly killer and yet Live At The Fillmore East remains the In Memory of Elizabeth Reed "gold standard"!

Who is considered 1st guitar, who's second? Doesn't matter- the way they weave the dual leads, I doubt it mattered that much when Duane played.

woody was awesome and seeing the mule the nite after many brothers shows in a club in the same city woody was a beast but i love otiell

Otiell is awesome no doubt

otiell playd a bass version of lil martha when he first joined the band

ha, u mean woody allan, hahahahha

great...

I got to interview him as well, and it was so cool to talk to the man! And, I totally agree.

Where did your interview appear? is it still available? would love to read it.

Where did your interview appear? I'd love to read it.

They all were southern gentleman. get a ego nasty. You got it all back!

Something I've noticed in watching videos of interviews with members of the ABB... they all seem to be very approachable, likeable people. Not one of them came across as pretentious at all.

I agree 100% they reached the mountain top, and fell down, and climbed back up to the top and went out on the top. no equals.

@@howardk6031 I thought the same thing just in the moment.Awesome playing.I love it.

No doubt

Maybe there is a band now that can run the gamut like ABB did - TTB. Not quite as deep on the roster, but damn close

@@georgeanderson3779 : Your second thought is indeed worthy of attention. Aren't you glad that the new ABB (that's the Allman Betts Band featuring Devon Allman, Duane Betts, and bassist Berry Oakley, Jr.)has entered our lives? The group includes slide guitarist Johnny Stachela, keyboardist John Ginty on B-3, etc., and two of rock's finest drummers John Lum and R. Scott Bryan. Their band's numerous thrilling moments portend wonderful listening ahead as they mature throughout their present tour. Give them a listen if you haven't already. Whatna gift for us original ABB fans I think you will agree.

Done like the topline pros they are... incredible.

perhaps the greatest band of all times.

Agree.

well said - Beatles definitely more influential and longer lasting- but no denying this band's genius.

@@otherworld11 no band more influential than the yArdbiRds 🎸🎸🎸

brilliant jam band song - Betts and Duane brought this to life. this version is fantastic

Its his song ! always been !

7.20.19. Make that 🎸 inimitable ™️

11.25.15. @ Tested Truths, I concur with you!........On Sept. 4th 2004, I seen Dickie with Great Southern at "Blues on the Cass" in Frankenmuth MI. As they played this song, I closed my eyes, and I thought ABB were playing!............It was superb! 😎🎸

I must have been tired the night I wrote this. Very badly written! Anyway, I guess that to some, they might equate such type statements as like an old man telling the kids to stay off his lawn. But there is a lot of truth that in many ways, the dancing bears killed good music.

Yes and he didn't miss a beat when he came back, these Guy's were amazing the way they played together.

Tested Truth: BINGO! And while much of Germany in its effete arrogance sneers at America..."But the music, American music, will never die! From this great land such music was berthed." -but one more reason for them to despise us for our incomparable greatness. For the lovers that night in Germany, however, they to this day wax fondly as they likely often do telling friends of that night when they were transported to a place they'd never been before or since.

Over 50 years and I totally agree Marty!

As I re listen (and watch some) to this for the now the fourth time as I'm reading through all the comments... you're right, "the Bestest!"

wow, my wife says its the best band she ever blew, yeeehaaaa,but i have to say, sher is kinda homely lookin. ahahahahahaaha

You got that right Mr Lumpy. I put this on once real fucking loud and my missus shouted from another room "I never knew you liked Santana" I took that as a complement but needless to say i did beat her a bit and left her in the broom cupboard for a week with nothing but Allman Brothers songs till she knew the difference. I will just add that i did feed her if anyone thinks im a heartless bastard, she had bread, pizza,s and sliced cheese, well, it was the only stuff i could slip under the door!! Nice upload Tonfoi.

takes me back to my teens. loved this then....love it still.

It is my favorite instrumental too. I never tire of it.

Mike Van - "Elizabeth Reed Napier." 😃

To Mike Van: Not actually. There is a telling of how this tune came about by DB to Dan Rather-- a story of how Dickey used to take a lady friend to that cemetery "to romance her" as he didn't have much money then to take her out properly. And then the X-rated version of the carnal pleasures DB enjoyed there with somebody's lady he was sneakin' around with, as told by Duane Allman. Their gravestone rendezvous was indeed inscribed "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed." No matter the telling, an amazing inspiration for this amazing rock instrumental.

Yvonne Laurenty Yvonne not exactly - the grave stone in reference is from Rose Hill Cemetery - Macon, Ga. The Grave stone simply says “Elizabeth Jones Reed” - wife of Briggs H.Napier. Dickey did indeed hang there with his gf, and the song is “In Memory of her” bc that was his spot etc. I have a picture from my last visit but can’t upload. Do a search - plenty of pics out there. Beautiful place if you ever visit.

The grave just has her name on it, Elizabeth Jones Reed. It also has Wife of Briggs H. Napier. Her date of birth, and her date of death. I saw it two weeks ago. I think there was more hanky-panky going on there than jamming...

Dicky didn't leave the cemetary until the song was written.

So then you could have been drafted and died in Vietnam. You are focusing on the good music of the time and pretending everything made was good. You could do that with any decade. Throw away your phone and computer if you don't like today's times

It's funny. It's exacrly the kind of thingJohn Goodman would have said in The Great Lebowskii

@@cody8804 I wonder too if 50-60 years from now somebody is going to say, "I wish I was born in the 2020's" ( those shitty years when the effete, uber arrogant Progressives (oxymoron) and the left over 60's radicals turned neo Socialist-Communist were fixing what was wrong with the country)... Oh wait! No, they wouldn't say that because there was no great music being created like in those shitty 60's. Drafted. Didn't die over there. This music got us through.

YIP! Fact!

Right On Steve, It takes you away and brings you back !!

Wow that is a grand statement but I want argue it is great !!!

Kind of Bird close, close runner up!!!

Greatness

that was fucking insane!!!

I may get crucified by the purists, but for me the best guitar partnership in ABB was Warren and Derek. They would touch the sky every gig.

They're all good.

nah your too young too know...but this was great,,,awesome

+Lumpy Q Ditto

+Lumpy Q Between Liz Reed, Jessica, and Mountain Jam, I think it's safe to say that the Allmans cornered the market of amazing instrumental songs.

Yes indeed!!

+AOB FACT AND ILL FIGHT IF ANYONE DISAGREES. Damnit

I'm up there with you, saw them at the Fillmore East early 70s and my 2 daughters are named Melissa & Jessica.

After reading Gregory's book... I doubt it will happen...

eggzactly, Chuck

And now its their last year playing together as is, so sad :(

Great comment Chuck:) Yeah I wish Greg would just forgive and forget then reunite with Dickey and give us just 1one more Amazing kick ass, classic jamming& slammin kick ass AB tour to cherish 4Ever

check out Melissa in 1992 in Hollywood. Across the chasm comes the handshake that will spill your tears. I know you are the real deal fan and are aware of their many struggles. Let me just turn you on to this so you won't feel like maybe Greg and Dickie ended in a rough place.....if you feel anything like I do, you will want to hold that moment in your heart. I only found it recently, Please ENJOY brother!

i believe this is Betts band from 91 it is Great Southern and it basically introduced a young Warren Haynes to the world who went on to play with the Alman Brothers .

If you ever had the chance to see them at the Fox Theater in Atlanta, GA, that was the show to see,nothing compares to that show, plus the acoustics, OMG, absolutely the best! Thanks for the autograph!!!!!

Dickey is my favorite player ever. His style just speaks to me more. I love Duane and he is rightly regarded as possibly the best ever, but unfortunately that rep has largely resulted in Dickey's genius being overshadowed.

There is no rhythm, there is no lead. There's only guitar genius.

if you think dickey dont get the respect he deserves, youre hanging with the wrong people.

Cause he is the damn MAN!

Dickey was....and still is The Allman Brothers Band.....Duane had he lived would still be a God......but not without Dickey.