{"id":1950,"date":"2019-02-06T20:14:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T20:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/?p=1950"},"modified":"2019-02-06T20:15:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T20:15:12","slug":"arachnophonia-the-allman-brothers-band-at-fillmore-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/2019\/02\/arachnophonia-the-allman-brothers-band-at-fillmore-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Arachnophonia: The Allman Brothers Band: At Fillmore East"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s note:<\/strong> Arachnophonia<\/a> is a regular feature on our blog where members of the UR community can share their thoughts about resources from the Parsons Music Library<\/a>\u2018s collection.<\/p>\n

All links included in these posts will take you to either the library catalog record for the item in question<\/a> or to additional relevant<\/a> information from<\/a> around the web<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s installment of Arachnophonia<\/a> is by student worker AJ (class of 2019) and features a live recording of the Allman Brothers Band at the Fillmore East<\/a>. Thanks, AJ!<\/em><\/p>\n

The Allman Brothers Band<\/a><\/p>\n

At Fillmore East<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Allman<\/p>\n

When I was 12 years old, my mother took me to my first concert. My love for music had become exceedingly apparent to my parents, and they figured that 12 years old was an appropriate age to expose me to live music. <\/p>\n

My mother is a huge classic rock fan, so growing up I was fed a strict diet of Fleetwood Mac, Rolling Stones, Beatles, and other such legendary bands. However, my favorite band growing up was The Allman Brothers<\/a>. Gregg Allman<\/a>\u2019s lyrics and Duane Allman<\/a>\u2019s guitar (later Dickey Betts<\/a>\u2019 guitar) constantly played over our car\u2019s sound system during rides short and long. They were coming to our area around my birthday, so my mother decided to get us tickets. Now, although the members were in their old age, and weren\u2019t in their prime anymore, I still believe that to this day it was one of the best concerts I have ever been to.<\/p>\n

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The Allman Brothers Band circa 1971 – Butch Trucks, Gregg Allman, Berry Oakley, Jaimoe Johanson, & Dickey Betts (L-R)<\/p><\/div>\n

I wish I had a recording of the night, but unfortunately they weren\u2019t taping this particular concert. The Music Library, however, has The Allman Brothers Band at Fillmore East<\/a> on CD. A CD that I believe my mother and I listen to quite frequently on trips. There\u2019s nothing better than live music, and nothing better than The Allman Brothers live; I highly recommend listening to this particular recording because it ends with two of my absolute favorite Allman Brothers songs: “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed<\/a>” and “Whipping Post<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

“In Memory of Elizabeth Reed” is the first instrumental track the Allman Brothers Band wrote. It was written by Dickey Betts who dedicated it to a woman with whom he had had an affair with after she had passed away. This woman was actually Boz Scaggs\u2019 girlfriend, but Dickey changed the name to keep their tryst a secret. Fun fact: the woman is buried in the same graveyard where Duane Allman is buried, and Dickey frequently visited to pay his respects and to write songs. He lifted the name \u201cElizabeth Reed\u201d from a tombstone near where he used to write.<\/p>\n