Dickie Betts had an image as just some kind of outlaw cowboy country boy, and yet wrote this elegant, sophisticated, complex modern symphony, equal parts rock, jazz, blues and country, greatest masterpiece of modern American music imo.
Man, Danny Toler was a great, great guitar player. A Killer solo from him. Dickey chose guitarists who could push him and Danny, Jack Pearson and Warren Haynes prove that. This is terrific mid-ABB version.
The only issue with Dickey though was that when he was hammered he abused the daylights out of Warren and constantly physically fought with him accusing Warren of showing him up on stage. Dickey was asked to take a very long hiatus from the ABB and unfortunately never returned. Though he remains still an honored Brother. It's just him and Jaimoe left now and both are not in the best of health due to age. Hey it happens to us all. But this tune is the diadem in the crown of tunes by The ABB, because it essentially allows the spirit to soar. Oh there are another 50 tunes I love by them since I am a fan since 1971, but this tune has a special place in my heart.
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Thanks for not calling him "underrated" Your words are so descriptive, and so true. Everyone over uses underrated, not sure which way to go with that word anyway. A good or bad compliment?
all of us that lived thru this era with the Grateful Dead and Allman Bros were really lucky. I don't know if the USA will ever see something like this ever again....
Omg You are soooooo lucky to have lived through this time in the 60s and the 70s. It says something about the kids of that era.... the music you guys had was the real deal!
In 1971 this group of musicians were ahead of time then and since then they have become eternally ledgendary thanks to men like Dickey Betts. Thanks!!!
In my life I got to see the Dickey Betts band and the Gregg Allman band and the Allman brothers band 65 times starting in 1981 and my last show was 2012 I'm 51 years old. And they were the best live band I ever saw
Saw them in 71 at Foster Auditorium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. People were literally in the rafters it was so packed. Not a rock band, not a southern rock band, not a jazz or blues band. An Allman Brothers Band, a genre unto themselves. How good are you when Dickie Betts is the number two guitarist in the band? They were still awesome with just one Allman Brother.
I made that Foster Auditorium show as well! And Boutwell in Bham too. It was such fun to cruise around and get in on the concert action in those days! So much less complicated! No Pre Sales, Ticketbastard, Stub Hub, etc. etc. etc. Few bucks at the local record store or box office and you were in! Damn I miss those days!
I used to have a record player next to my bed as a youngster, I’m 67 now, and I’d go to sleep EVERY night listening to this side of live at the Fillmore album! Never tire of this great album. It’s in my group of five that I’d take with me if I ever were to be stranded on a desert island...Frampton live; the White album; Chicago CTA; live at the Fillmore east, perhaps all of Stevie Wonders albums(counts as one)...oh well it’s a start.
Words cannot describe the memories this song brings back to a 60 year young old hippy, so much fantastic music came from our 70s heros of Southern Rock. It WILL never be replaced just kept alive by the likes of Dereck Trucks and so many others. RIP brother Gregg!
Some of y'all got it partly right. Duane told it like this: "Fkn Dickey wrote this fkn song about fkn a girl in a fkn cemetery." And to Dickey's chagrin, Duane spilled the beans on who was that girl - Carmella, Boz Scaggs' women, whom he later married. During one of their trysts, Dickey looked up to see the inscription on the tombstone: tIn Memory of Elizabeth Reed." Dickey told the Sarasota reporter, Wade Tatangelo, that he couldn't exactly call this song Carmella since he was slipping around with her. So people, it is basically a love song for his "beautiful Italian" lover.
@@nancykelley9541Chuck's Grand Larceny organ solo in the post Allman band Sea Level is one of his best. My favorite keyboard player, along with Chester Thompson of Santana. None better!
The whole band was awesome. I always liked the sound of a dirty blues organ. The guitars are awesome especially the unison playing. So right. The piano just perfect. What amazing synergy. How these kindred spirits found each other over the arc of time was a blessing to all of us listeners and fans.
I saw The Brothers at Bonaroo, long after Dickie's exit. It was then I realized my favorite songs of theirs were the ones they weren't playing.....Dickie's songs.....
What a complex, intricate, time traveling, fusion of so many genres of music interpreted by a hell raising Southern rocker, artist, poet dedicated to the memory of a headstone in Rose Hill cemetery Macon, Ga....RIP DB
Good Lord, every note is transcendent. That groove hits so effin hard layering in those guitar solos is just bananas. There is just no bad incarnation of this band.
This has been my favorite song of all time since I first heard it in 1970. I have listened to this song hundreds of times. I will never get tired of it. I love The Allman Brothers. They are my very favorite band! I was lucky to see them twice.
Is it legal to have that much talent on the stage at once ? Phenomenal guitar solos, killer bass, primo keyboards then 2 top shelf drums. Stop it !!!😎👍
This beautiful song brings back sooo many memories. Espeically the beginning guitar of Dickey Betts. He is a GREAT songwriter as well as Great Guitar master.
If you listen hard you can hear Dickie cookin out on the rhythm guitar in the back. He and Johnny Winter do some of most amazing back ground guitar ever!
My first concert was the brothers in 1992 at Lakewood amphitheater in Atlanta I was 12 years old. I’ve seen them at least 5 times. God bless my parents.
In 2015, I gave him and his then-girlfriend-assistant a ride in my Uber to his gig in Daytona Beach. Apparently, picked him up from his grandma's house. I had a pic on FB somewhere. It was the highlight of the year though it lasted 5 minutes.
Hauntingly beautiful piece that seems to have some kind of intangible, mysterious, maybe otherworldly, feel or quality about it. Dickie Betts is a brilliant composer and player. Played to perfection by the entire band.
Just...DAMN! When I was much, much younger, I played this song, and a good many others of extraordinary complexity and requiring an almost twin-like connection between the guitar players. While learning it (over 3 or 4 months of practice sessions), I remember thinking "Jesus, they made this look so easy!" It isn't. They were, as a band, so far ahead of their time, and as individuals so intertwined musically, that it was like listening to a single organism breathing, and running just for the joy of it.
I never realized it until I watched this, but playing those two identical guitars in locked harmonies occasionally is what gives this band part of its unique sound. My ears aren't smart, but they know what they like. ;-( :-0 ;-) Great to listen/see some of this really good music again from my youth.
This is an amazing composition, and this rendition is possibly my favorite, although I love so many of Dickie's other performances of Liz Reed. I've even come to love an early and rather rough version by his son along with Berry Oakley Jr. (available on TH-cam) as well as their beautifully polished performance in the Allman Betts Band. I guess you could say that I'm a sucker for this composition in any format. Let's put in a word even for the one performed by the Big Band of Brothers, an absolute knockout, while we're at it.
It is amazing to me that one band could accomodate and promote two virtuoso guitarists, like Duane Allman and Dickie Betts, an increadible voice and keyboard player like Greg Allman, and two drummers that each could have been masters in separate bands. IMO they are one of the best rock bands of all time. Others below have mentioned the many other players that came later in the band. Each of them were top notch. Imagine if they never would have lost Duane and Barry? I saw them several times and they were always as tight as their recordings. They were some of the best musicians in the history of rock music, IMO.
Well, he's rated No. 61 of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of all time, so that ain't really too bad. www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitarists-20111123/dickey-betts-20111122
Saw so many great shows at Starwood~~I grew up a few miles down the road. I was a bit young to see this one, but I did catch them there a couple times in the early 90s.
This is great but I was there three years later when they came back to Starwood with Allen Woody and Warren Haynes and played one of the best shows I've ever seen.
Well I don't know about Jessica, but I heard the story about this tune is that they used to hang out in a graveyard in their home town, and one time Dickey was getting it on with a lady friend of his and looked up and saw the name on the headstone....
Came here to say RIP to the legendary Dickie Betts. Thank you for this masterpiece. May your soul sore and your music live on forever.
Absolutely on of the greatest.
And he was a legend.
In memory of Duane Allman, Berry Oakley, Butch Trucks and Gregg Allman.
R.I.P. brothers.
And now today, Dickie Betts
R.I.P. Dickey.😔One of the best and baddest to ever do it
So true ! we gonna miss him so badly!
In Memory Of Glorious Mr. Betts, this tune will always be. RIP and thank you for beautiful music.
Dickie Betts had an image as just some kind of outlaw cowboy country boy, and yet wrote this elegant, sophisticated, complex modern symphony, equal parts rock, jazz, blues and country, greatest masterpiece of modern American music imo.
Dicky betts amazing talented guitar player always in duaines shadow my favorite
Outlaw cowboy country boy,in a Kimono shirt.Too cool
My favorite of all time!
Yes, in total agreement
Amen, brother. Never tired of listening.
Give Dan Toler credit for being a "Badass!" Thank you.
Yeah! I remember Dan and Frank from Sarasota, and was happy he got to hit the big stage. Those brothers also died way too young.
They didn't call him "Dangerous Dan" Toler for nothing!
Total Badass
Dickie Betts - filling our lives with music for so many years. RIP.
Sad Day but what a Terrific Life. God Bless Richard Betts
How good was dangerous Dan!!
RIP !!!
Man, Danny Toler was a great, great guitar player. A Killer solo from him. Dickey chose guitarists who could push him and Danny, Jack Pearson and Warren Haynes prove that. This is terrific mid-ABB version.
The only issue with Dickey though was that when he was hammered he abused the daylights out of Warren and constantly physically fought with him accusing Warren of showing him up on stage. Dickey was asked to take a very long hiatus from the ABB and unfortunately never returned. Though he remains still an honored Brother. It's just him and Jaimoe left now and both are not in the best of health due to age. Hey it happens to us all. But this tune is the diadem in the crown of tunes by The ABB, because it essentially allows the spirit to soar. Oh there are another 50 tunes I love by them since I am a fan since 1971, but this tune has a special place in my heart.
@@loucontino4804 where’d you get that info pal
I definitely heard he was a problem when drunk, never heard the professional jealousy thing with Warren. Hell, Warren was in Dickey’s band first.
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w/ dangerous dan toler, underrated in his own right.
Those guys were both great. What tremendous teamwork.
He's so underrated I've never even heard of him.
Precies wat er staat. Natuur
Lijk staat daar bovenaan aan de top Dickey Betts zelf. Maar vlak Dangerous Dan niet uit. Volg ook Dickey Betts and the great Southern.
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In this clip, I swear, Dan Toler gave a masterclass in how to construct a guitar solo.
Ladies and Gentlemen....the undeniable, unstoppable, incomparable Dickie Betts
Thanks for not calling him "underrated" Your words are so descriptive, and so true. Everyone over uses underrated, not sure which way to go with that word anyway. A good or bad compliment?
My favourite song by them. Learning about Dickey Betts' passing really hurts. Thank you for the beautiful music!
Dickie with those harmonics - what a cool sound.
all of us that lived thru this era with the Grateful Dead and Allman Bros were really lucky. I don't know if the USA will ever see something like this ever again....
all of us who know this music need to educate those who don't even know about it.
Amen
Nope.....Never again.
Omg You are soooooo lucky to have lived through this time in the 60s and the 70s. It says something about the kids of that era.... the music you guys had was the real deal!
@@audreyann1975 Thanks that was the era to be alive.
Dangerous Dan Toler appreciation comment
hes a fine guitarist that was awsume
Dangerous Dan need zero arms on his shirts... zero. Dude was awesome
In 1971 this group of musicians were ahead of time then and since then they have become eternally ledgendary thanks to men like Dickey Betts. Thanks!!!
I loved the tone of Dickey’s guitar. He was an incredible talent. Thanks for the memories RIP.
In my life I got to see the Dickey Betts band and the Gregg Allman band and the Allman brothers band 65 times starting in 1981 and my last show was 2012 I'm 51 years old. And they were the best live band I ever saw
Amen, brother!
Man , Richard than you are close friend all in the band, are you part of rowdys or whatever !!!
Saw them in 71 at Foster Auditorium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. People were literally in the rafters it was so packed. Not a rock band, not a southern rock band, not a jazz or blues band. An Allman Brothers Band, a genre unto themselves. How good are you when Dickie Betts is the number two guitarist in the band? They were still awesome with just one Allman Brother.
Dickie Betts is the man. His guitar and mind seem as one. I love his interviews he's so laid back. Still water runs deep.
I made that Foster Auditorium show as well! And Boutwell in Bham too. It was such fun to cruise around and get in on the concert action in those days! So much less complicated! No Pre Sales, Ticketbastard, Stub Hub, etc. etc. etc. Few bucks at the local record store or box office and you were in! Damn I miss those days!
I've loved this haunting tune since the release of the Filmore East Live album. This version is also top notch!
I used to have a record player next to my bed as a youngster, I’m 67 now, and I’d go to sleep EVERY night listening to this side of live at the Fillmore album! Never tire of this great album. It’s in my group of five that I’d take with me if I ever were to be stranded on a desert island...Frampton live; the White album; Chicago CTA; live at the Fillmore east, perhaps all of Stevie Wonders albums(counts as one)...oh well it’s a start.
Words cannot describe the memories this song brings back to a 60 year young old hippy, so much fantastic music came from our 70s heros of Southern Rock. It WILL never be replaced just kept alive by the likes of Dereck Trucks and so many others. RIP brother Gregg!
I still have their " Live at Fillmore " double album from college in 1971. That's my Favorite version of " In Memory Of E Reed "
RIP Dangerous Dan
@@robertwhitcomb6105 The Toler Brothers were great! RIP to both.
Were you in Douglas, AZ?
lol this is what keeps you young
This song speaks of pathos, loss and finally overcoming heartbreak. Yes, Dickie Betts is one heckuva guitar player.
I always heard it was about graveyard fucking......
@@lkr1956 not exactly, Duane and Dickie used to jam in a cemetery and there was a tombstone that read in memory of Elizabeth Reed
Ah, so that was just an old myth....@@garygerkin9988
@@lkr1956 it's still cemetery related
Some of y'all got it partly right. Duane told it like this: "Fkn Dickey wrote this fkn song about fkn a girl in a fkn cemetery." And to Dickey's chagrin, Duane spilled the beans on who was that girl - Carmella, Boz Scaggs' women, whom he later married.
During one of their trysts, Dickey looked up to see the inscription on the tombstone: tIn Memory of Elizabeth Reed."
Dickey told the Sarasota reporter, Wade Tatangelo, that he couldn't exactly call this song Carmella since he was slipping around with her.
So people, it is basically a love song for his "beautiful Italian" lover.
Smooth and haunting. Takes my mind to peaceful places. They are normally bluesy but this is jazzy. Very ambidextrous band.
This rock tune will never grow old. Thanks for the memories!!!
I met Dan Toler at a Gregg Allman solo concert.He was very nice.Gregg was cool to meet also.
I have played this masterpiece almost everyday for my grandson since he was born. He is now 4 years old and is picking up the guitar. Yes!
Only "The Allman Brothers" could rock so hard on a twelve minute instrumental. Superior performance and endurance.
they were great no doubt about it
When I saw one of their 70s show in Fla--they played this for 40 mins!!!!
Dickie Betts is a genius!! In my opinion one of the best of all time! He wrote a lot of the Allman Brothers big hits as well.
Gimme some skim broette you got that right
That piano solo was incredible
That is Chuck Leavell. No one better!!
@@nancykelley9541Chuck's Grand Larceny organ solo in the post Allman band Sea Level is one of his best. My favorite keyboard player, along with Chester Thompson of Santana. None better!
The whole band was awesome. I always liked the sound of a dirty blues organ. The guitars are awesome especially the unison playing. So right. The piano just perfect. What amazing synergy. How these kindred spirits found each other over the arc of time was a blessing to all of us listeners and fans.
I saw The Brothers at Bonaroo, long after Dickie's exit. It was then I realized my favorite songs of theirs were the ones they weren't playing.....Dickie's songs.....
They were far better than most people realise !
Yes, you are right there! They were much better than people realized!
Dangerous Dan Toler is right there with them.
So incredible and sooooooo underrated ❤️🙏❤️
Out of ALL the Allman Bros songs, this one is the best.
Even at 12 minutes ... it's still not long enough !
My favorite song from the Allman Brothers Band, one of the greatest guitar solos of all time
Dan Toler’s solo here is so fun and nice to hear
Omgoodnessssss the
PIANO alone- WOW--
SO POWERFUL!!! MY Ears
really appreciate such great music!!!!
Every day is an ALLMANBETTES DAY!!!!🐲🍀🌳😎😍
Chuck's piano my favorite part too.
Chuck surely ranks in the top three of pianist in the rockfield.
BEST BAND EVER!!! Dickie Betts best guitarist ever!
Numerous people in & out of the group through the years...but all were more than capable of holding up their part....bravo...
Never saw this version.Boy does it rock.What a superhero band.Just simply amazing.
What a complex, intricate, time traveling, fusion of so many genres of music interpreted by a hell raising Southern rocker, artist, poet dedicated to the memory of a headstone in Rose Hill cemetery Macon, Ga....RIP DB
Chuck Leavell is a badass on the ivories! Love the spin off band from ABB - Sea Level.
37 year of age and I've just heard this for the first time. Amazing
Play on, Dickey. No one can stop you now.
Dan Toler!!
Good Lord, every note is transcendent. That groove hits so effin hard layering in those guitar solos is just bananas. There is just no bad incarnation of this band.
This has been my favorite song of all time since I first heard it in 1970. I have listened to this song hundreds of times. I will never get tired of it. I love The Allman Brothers. They are my very favorite band! I was lucky to see them twice.
This is one of the most beautiful instrumentals EVER....brings back 70's memories big time.
This sounds jazzy but we all know rock and roll will never die. Great music!
Great playing by 'Dangerous Dan'.
Love that solo so much; and all of it.
This makes me cry tears of joy
One of rock’s best songs ever
Still the best sounding Les Paul I have ever heard!!!
The tightest guitar harmonies and to nail them that in sync live!!!!! So damn good!
These guys defined so much about music, life, and just putting the "sunroof open and driving!" My go to music anytime in GA! Tammy
Is it legal to have that much talent on the stage at once ? Phenomenal guitar solos, killer bass, primo keyboards then 2 top shelf drums. Stop it !!!😎👍
Chuck's piano really makes this one of the best versions ever
tram84mvp gregs sounds better
I have to agree, Chuck Leavell is both insanely talented AND has great feel and groove.
I was at this show. It was awesome. 🎸
Hat's off to Dickie Betts !!! Last man standing for this beautiful tune! Allmans gone but Betts wrote this one!!!!
This beautiful song brings back sooo many memories. Espeically the beginning guitar of Dickey Betts. He is a GREAT songwriter as well as Great Guitar master.
Greg Allman is an Angel. During his organ solo, he hides his left hand from view of the camera as it transforms into gold.
Rock at it s most dramatic ever. Thank you Dicky and the guys.
Wow 30 years ago...and still just as good as it was in 1970. ....thank you for this post. ....
Timeless for sure. So many different live cuts and each one a Timeless masterpiece.
If you listen hard you can hear Dickie cookin out on the rhythm guitar in the back. He and Johnny Winter do some of most amazing back ground guitar ever!
My first concert was the brothers in 1992 at Lakewood amphitheater in Atlanta I was 12 years old. I’ve seen them at least 5 times. God bless my parents.
Chills.... Rest in Paradise Dickey.
For years I would whistle the beginning of this song as I pushed two wide dustmops down the wide hallway of the MN main library!
One of the best post-Duane renditions of Liz Reed that I've heard....although not crazy about having Gregg's solo first.
Rest in peace, Gregg Allman.
In 2015, I gave him and his then-girlfriend-assistant a ride in my Uber to his gig in Daytona Beach. Apparently, picked him up from his grandma's house. I had a pic on FB somewhere. It was the highlight of the year though it lasted 5 minutes.
RIP Dangerous Dan
RIP Butch
Dickey isn't just a Great guitar player but a great song writer as well
An amazing composition by Dickie Betts!
Dickey is amazing! He was also really nice looking. He still is!
I thank God every day, whoever be, for appreciate things like that in my time of life.
Hauntingly beautiful piece that seems to have some kind of intangible, mysterious, maybe otherworldly, feel or quality about it. Dickie Betts is a brilliant composer and player. Played to perfection by the entire band.
Just...DAMN! When I was much, much younger, I played this song, and a good many others of extraordinary complexity and requiring an almost twin-like connection between the guitar players.
While learning it (over 3 or 4 months of practice sessions), I remember thinking "Jesus, they made this look so easy!"
It isn't. They were, as a band, so far ahead of their time, and as individuals so intertwined musically, that it was like listening to a single organism breathing, and running just for the joy of it.
Duane Allman and Betts are the reason I play the guitar.
Me too!!!!
Duane Genius
A big part of why I play too!
Max... Me also....
If All great music comes from within, these gentleman are one deep well.
drew camero 8.2.19. “Well put”™️ ......... 🎸
yes.. Dangerous Dan greeted Gregg at the gates....just great that we have these videos...ugh.
Oh, I thought you meant that's how he got into the band--waited for Gregg at the concert venue---now I got you...:)
Dan was great, but I’m pretty sure he’d have the class to leave the gate-greeting to Duane.
I believe you're right!!
The Allmann Brothers are/were incredible American musicals (i dan’t spell)
I never realized it until I watched this, but playing those two identical guitars in locked harmonies occasionally is what gives this band part of its unique sound. My ears aren't smart, but they know what they like. ;-( :-0 ;-) Great to listen/see some of this really good music again from my youth.
Yes indeed & it all started with Duane, it was his vision
This is an amazing composition, and this rendition is possibly my favorite, although I love so many of Dickie's other performances of Liz Reed. I've even come to love an early and rather rough version by his son along with Berry Oakley Jr. (available on TH-cam) as well as their beautifully polished performance in the Allman Betts Band. I guess you could say that I'm a sucker for this composition in any format. Let's put in a word even for the one performed by the Big Band of Brothers, an absolute knockout, while we're at it.
absolutely loved the Allman Brothers growing up in the seventies, and eighties!
Didn't realize Dan Toler had passed,an awesome guitar player, Dicky Betts at his best in this one.....
The band is back together! RIP Duane, Greg and Dickey
It is amazing to me that one band could accomodate and promote two virtuoso guitarists, like Duane Allman and Dickie Betts, an increadible voice and keyboard player like Greg Allman, and two drummers that each could have been masters in separate bands. IMO they are one of the best rock bands of all time. Others below have mentioned the many other players that came later in the band. Each of them were top notch. Imagine if they never would have lost Duane and Barry? I saw them several times and they were always as tight as their recordings. They were some of the best musicians in the history of rock music, IMO.
Dicky Betts is probably the most over looked guitar player in the history of rock n roll
Well, he's rated No. 61 of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of all time, so that ain't really too bad. www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitarists-20111123/dickey-betts-20111122
he is exactly where he needs to be 61. perfect.
Rolling stones magaziney does not count for shit. And no he is not overlooked, he is credited for inspired many guitarists and writing fine music.
Managed to land a fairly decent gig in spite of it, though, didn't he?
So 51 spots behind Kurt Cobain? Yup, that's a joke. If Duane considered him his peer, then I really don't care what Jan Wenner thinks...
One of the best songs ever! Live? even better. Love it, thanks.
No words can describe what took place on that stage in 1986.
This IS Music At Its Best! It don;t Get Better Than This!
Great musician we lost he is with Duane Jamin now and will be missed
Saw so many great shows at Starwood~~I grew up a few miles down the road. I was a bit young to see this one, but I did catch them there a couple times in the early 90s.
I got to see these guys many times and was never disappointed.
saw him one time in my life, at Watkins Glen with 600,000 other people it was a charged atmosphere. never forget it.
Always love bands with two great drummers!
Not to mention a couple pretty good guitar players too!
This is great but I was there three years later when they came back to Starwood with Allen Woody and Warren Haynes and played one of the best shows I've ever seen.
Lucky you..
Great video
One of my All time favorite Allman Brothers!!!!!!...this and Jessica...these had to be about women in his life...Passionate .....
Well I don't know about Jessica, but I heard the story about this tune is that they used to hang out in a graveyard in their home town, and one time Dickey was getting it on with a lady friend of his and looked up and saw the name on the headstone....
You are correct sir. As for Jessica, it is about the littlest woman in his life, Dickey's toddler daughter, Jessica Betts.