RIP Dickey Betts dead at 80

[~dave~~wave~]

I don't know/remember if Derek Trucks played the Wanee festival. He might have been a little young but just don't remember now.

That's why the interwebs is our friend, we don't have to remember diddly, just look it up.

Dickie was out, Derek was in from 1999 on.

 

[tahoeh2o]

You gotta love this...

 

[GOS]

I always liked Dan Rather's ability to get out of the way, and let the folks talk. Just great.

 

[Bruce00]

RIP......Iam taken aback by "our" loss

 

[~dave~~wave~]

“After playing his second show with the Dominos the next night in Syracuse, New York, Eric approached Duane about his offer.
“I said, ‘You know, we really need you in the band now—I don’t really want to go on as a quartet. Would you join us?’
He said, ‘I don’t think I can do that,’ and at that point, he went straight back to the Allman Brothers.”

“Joe Dan Petty picked up Duane at the airport, and he strutted up, pulled out a roll of bills, and said, “JD! I got Big Daddy bucks!”
Once they were in the car, Duane said, “I’ll tell you one thing, Clapton’s got nothing on Dickey Betts.”

From “Please Be with Me: A Song for My Father, Duane Allman" by Galadrielle Allman

 

[proufo]

So sad.

 

[ar surround]

I always liked Dan Rather's ability to get out of the way, and let the folks talk. Just great.

Thanks, Gene. This interview is definitely worth the 9 to 10 minute listen. Unfortunately, Dicky Betts is yet another artist that I did not know much about until he was gone.

 

[Willie Wilson]

Throughout my life, I have been connected to the Allman Brothers Band. From first hearing “Ramblin’ Man” coming from the dashboard speaker in my Dad’s Gran Torino to attending many shows over 35 years beginning with the Enlightened Rogues tour to now listening to Idlewild South in 5.1 in memory of Dickey Betts.

Marvelous tone, a true sense of adventure and the willingness to dig in and push everyone around him to new places. He was a melting pot of influences and could move from blues to swing to country to jazz to rock with equal skill. Such a shame he and Duane didn’t do more together. Happy that Dickey and Dangerous Dan Toler, and later Warren Haynes, kept it going and gave us all more great music and concert experiences.

RIP to a true master.