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Five musicians, Duane Allman, Dickey Betts, Berry Oakley, Jaimoe (Johnny Lee Johnson) and Butch Trucks get together for the first time to jam in Jacksonville, Florida, USA. A few days later they will be joined by Gregg Allman, and go on to form the Allman Brothers Band.Full article:
Duane Allman : We set up the equipment and whipped into a little jam. It lasted two-and-a-half hours. When we finally quit, nobody ever said a word, man. Everybody was speechless. Nobody'd ever done anything like that before - it really frightened the shit out of everybody. Right then I knew - I said, 'Man, here it is!' I told Rick I didn't want to do session work full-time anymore. I had found what I really wanted to do.
Dickey Betts : As we started jamming, we realized that Duane and I playing harmony guitars together was something that we weren't expecting to hear. Western swing bands from the '30's always used that twin-harmony guitar.
That influence was probably what I offered Duane. Like when we did things like Blue Sky, which is one of the last things Duane played on, he's playing that kind of western swing. Jerry Garcia is into that kind of playing, too. I, of course, learned an immense amount about playing slide from Duane. I guess my whole thing with the electric slide guitar comes from him.
Gregg Allman : Duane called and said he had this band together with two lead guitar players and I thought, 'Well, that's weird.' Then he says, 'And two drummers.' And I said, 'That's real weird.'
Then Duane said, 'Why don't you come on down here and round this thing out and send it somewhere,' which is probably the finest compliment he ever gave me in my life. I said, 'Let me hang up this phone, man! I've got to get going.'
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Dickey Betts : As we started jamming, we realized that Duane and I playing harmony guitars together was something that we weren't expecting to hear. Western swing bands from the '30's always used that twin-harmony guitar.
That influence was probably what I offered Duane. Like when we did things like Blue Sky, which is one of the last things Duane played on, he's playing that kind of western swing. Jerry Garcia is into that kind of playing, too. I, of course, learned an immense amount about playing slide from Duane. I guess my whole thing with the electric slide guitar comes from him.
Gregg Allman : Duane called and said he had this band together with two lead guitar players and I thought, 'Well, that's weird.' Then he says, 'And two drummers.' And I said, 'That's real weird.'
Then Duane said, 'Why don't you come on down here and round this thing out and send it somewhere,' which is probably the finest compliment he ever gave me in my life. I said, 'Let me hang up this phone, man! I've got to get going.'