Hey Randy, we're not old, we're just getting to be better players with the benefit of more practice time, right BTW, RickS, Derek Trucks is about as close to channeling Duane Allan as I can imagine. The latest DTB CD is on permanent assignment in my car CD player rotation. Killer player.

Uh.......Allman. Alright, I'm banning my fat fingers from the keyboard for 24 hours as a penalty.

My one time to see Eric Clapton live was with Derek and the Dominos. The Layla LP was just two or three days old. Duane Allman performed with them that night and it was a cuttin' contest all night long. Every time one of them would finish a solo they would look at each other with a grin as if to say "Top that!". Easily in my top five concert experiences.

You want old? I saw the Allman Bros. when they were Allman Joy at the Avalon. And I also turned down tickets to see the Beatles in SF in August of 66, which turned out to be their last concert ever (not counting the Apple roof bit). I'm pushing highway 61 with a short stick. Ouch.

The Allman Joy was before my time. I did get to see the Allman Brothers twice - once before their first LP when they opened for John Mayall back when Sugarcane Harris was in the group. We were concerned that a band with a name like the Allman Brothers would sound like the Everly Brothers. We were wrong.....

Fast Forward to 2007. John Mayall's newest lead guitar player is Buddy Whittington. We go to church together - and his wife is my 6 year old son's Sunday school teacher. How times change.

Wesley S
right you are "How times change" for some of us I imagine we have put on some hard miles
as a younger man I used to sing "Hope I die before I get old", now I sing I hope I get old before I die, yea how times have changed

Sonoman, I think I got ya beat on the "old" in this case.
How about before they were the Allman Joys ???
Grew up here in Daytona with the likes of the Allmans, Pete Carr, Lenny LaBlanc etc.
First exposure to the Allmans was them opening for the Beach Boys at Memorial Stadium, about a mile from where I lived. Gregg played lead and Duane sang??? Sort of. They were called the Escorts and shared the stage with the Nightcrawlers. (whose guitarist Sylvan Wells now builds guitars up in Virginia)
Later on I got to really know them better.
Some great jams at the Pier after the doors closed. Lots of memories here.
BTW, I think I called you the wrong name the other day, got the "handles" mixed up. Sorry.

Trivia, they did two records under another name in between the Joys and the Brothers ?/

Hourglass was the name of the band.



I DIDN'T Google it!

We have a winner Randy.

That was an interesting group. They even had Pete Carr playing bass for them a while. And that ole Fender was bigger than Pete was.

Ah......The Nightcrawlers who can forget them.Learnt my 1st song from them,"Little Black Egg"
On another note Oct of 67 Band showed up at a rec center on the base my Dad was stationed at(Mather AFB Sacramento)Band's name were the "Golliwogs)stood next to the guitar player to try to pick up some chords.Six months later they changed their name and released their first album,Name they chose "Credence Clearwater Revival"Hey Does anyone remember " Happenings Ten Times Years Ago? Had the 45.

Very cool Walt.
And somebody who actually remembers Litle Black Egg. WOW !
It always takes me by surprise when someone othee than a "local" here talks about that song, and it's happened more than once. I guess that did get some air play back in it's time.

On the west coast of Florida where I grew up -"Little Black Egg" was the "Stairway to Heaven" of it's day. If you hung around a guitar shop long enough someone was bound to pick up a guitar and play it.