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The Allman Brothers Band - Live at Ludlow Garage 1970 Audio CD

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Title: Live at Ludlow Garage 1970
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Release Date: 1990-04-20
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Dreams 2: Statesboro Blues 3: Trouble No More 4: Dimples 5: Every Hungry Woman 6: I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town 7: (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man 8: Mountain Jam [Theme from First There Is a Mountain]

Get it!
If you already some live stuff of these guys and you're thinking you don't need any more then you don't know what you're missing. Get it! Its a great Allman Brothers concert. Personally, every time I purchase another live Allmans I find that the band's in a different mood and hence you get different grooves and a different approach to the songs. All of the band is cooking on this one.


great great great
i'm on a huge allman brother kick right now, just saw them live last month and been listening to their entire career. ok. didn't know this cd existed till trolling around amazon right here! last week. the cd arrived friday and i've been playing it a lot.

the sounds is not perfect, but still pretty good. sounds like a board mix, so not much reverb. easy therefore to hear what duane, dickie, gregg and berry are doing. dicky was having some amp buzz/humm problems that night (he's panned hard right so it's easy to tell it's him. )

anyow. the playing is tight, solid, relaxed and like a steamroller on hi-test.

liner notes say the allmans played at this venue a lot and felt comfy and at home there. it sounds like it.

right from the start with a 10 minute version of dreams it's clear they're there to play, not to impress anyone. the solos are long. the band is tight and patient.

this was recorded after the first album and before idlewild south.

ok. mountain jam. 44 minutes. i think this version is more alive than the main versions i've heard on filmore east or eat a peach (i forget which one, but i'm sure you know. )

the solos. really great. duane takes a fresh, extended solo. then dickie. solid solo. then dual solo interplay. sounds like they touched on ideas that would someday become blue sky. just incredible.

drum solos. actually more aggressive and interesting than i expected. they were definitely on fire.

then the bass solo. berry tears into it, much more aggresively than the "fillmore" solo.

then they just keep taking if further and further with new sections. my guess is by the time they got to the fillmore (a year or so later) they'd tuned it in and actually cut the jam down to under 30 minutes. (maybe cause they wanted to fit it on two sides of an lp. )

anyhow. a great cd for collectors and fans.

the two tracks i've never heard before don't kill me, but i've only been listening for a couple of days.

absolutely recommended. an incredible and very satisfying document of a hugely influential band before they were hugely influential.
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Allmans Live at Pre-Peak
While not nearly as powerful as the Fillmore Concerts, this release shows off the band at a somewhat raw but growing more confident stage in their live performances. Live at Ludlows shows off the Allmans in a great informal setting at a small club around the time between their first and second albums. Gregg's vocals are a little hoarse, but still gritty. It's amazing how this 21 year white kid from Daytona Beach could sound like a 65 year old black bluesman.

The 45 minute version of Mountain Jam which takes up the entire second CD shows what the band would soon become a year later - incredible musical interplay which show off the individual talents of the original line up. Any fan of the band for the short lived phase with Duane Allman will be pleased with this release. .


The Boot is Better!
The Swingin' Pig bootleg offers a smokin' 14 min. A great, inspired set from the Allmans -- as if anything from this time wouldn't be? Not on the level of their Fillmore masterpiece (why aren't the entire recordings released?), but great nonetheless and makes today's "jam bands" by comparison so unneccessary. version (weren't they all) of In Memory of Elizabeth Reed, for some strange reason not on the "street legal" release.


RAW...that has good and bad points...still recommended!
This seems like an "informal" version of the Fillmore performance to come. This album is a fascinating look at the ABB before they hit their peak at Fillmore a little later. . . the improvisation is great. . . it just shows how off the cuff these guys were. The sound quality?--ehh. It sounds like a straight soundboard recording, very dry. The cymbals sound harsh and brittle--to the point where it sounds like radio static. The guitars are out of tune here and there, particularly during the structured riffs. It's not so noticeable during the improvised solos, thanks to the expertise of Duane and Dickey. Most of the songs on this collection appeared on Fillmore, but here some of the songs are longer--more improvising--that's really cool.

So overall--great album! The sound quality is not up to the standards of the Fillmore CDs, but for true ABB fans, this would be a great addition.


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