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Post by billypilgrim on Feb 27, 2007 16:14:07 GMT -5
When Mule played in '05, Warren was all over the place. Playing with Mule, Allman's, WSP, DMB, etc. Remember, Warren's a slut. This is going to be sweet.
"They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon."
Post by BrokenLight on Feb 28, 2007 1:45:18 GMT -5
i was at that show, taft theatre 2005 in cincinnati, frampton lives here, tea leaf green opened, warren played with them, frampton came out towards the end and did some humble pie and ray charles with mule
Allman Brothers Band/Gov't Mule guitarist/vocalist Warren Haynes formally relaunched his Evil Teen Records label last night (March 28) with a show featuring short sets from both of his bands, as well as appearances from friends like Edwin McCain, Kevn Kinney and Susan Tedeschi.
The show publicly kicked off Evil Teen's resurrection via a new distribution deal with RED. Through that deal, the label, which Haynes runs with his wife, Stefani Scamardo, is issuing a string of live recordings from Haynes' annual Christmas Jam benefits in Asheville, N.C.
Last night's show featured many of the artists captured on the first album release through that deal, "The Benefit Concert, Volume 2," a two-disc live recording of the 2000 Christmas Jam. The shows have raised more than $600,000 for Habitat for Humanity in Asheville.
In addition to the Allman Brothers Band and Gov't Mule, the Derek Trucks Band, former Black Crowes guitarist Audley Freed, Kinney, McCain, Patti Smith Band guitarist Lenny Kaye, Col. Bruce Hampton and Soulive guitarist Eric Krasno were among the guests at Irving Plaza.
On a night off from their annual residency at New York's Beacon Theatre, Haynes' Allman Brothers bandmates played "Come and Go Blues" and "Jessica." Earlier, Gregg Allman joined Haynes center stage for a pair of acoustic duets, including the recent Allmans ballad "Old Before My Time."
Fellow Allmans guitarist Derek Trucks led his eponymous band through a brief set that found his wife Tedeschi joining in for a version of the Band's "The Weight."
Former Drivin 'N' Cryin' frontman Kinney corralled Haynes, McCain and Kaye for his DNC sing-along "Straight to Hell. Earlier, he joined Haynes, McCain and Tedeschi for Bob Dylan's "I Shall Be Released." A recently ailing Hampton made a late-night appearance to lead Haynes and company through the Dead/jam scene staple "Turn on Your Love Light."
I am a huge Mule fan. I've seen them about 20 times. I will see them twice more before Bonnaroo.
I was at Bonnaroo in '04 and '05. I felt the '04 show was a little flat by Mule standards, '05 was dead on. Both were too short, so it's cool they'll be playing a longer set this year.
I'll definitely have to pace myself on saturday so I can hang for the full Mule show.
Gov't Mule was the first band I ever saw at Bonnaroo. After partying all night in traffic and finally getting to my spot on Friday morning I set up camp and got ready for the weekend. I passed out in the shade of my car and woke up to realize I had missed Col. Claypool's Flying Frog Brigade and was currently missing Mule. I ran to Centeroo to find that Warren was running late and I had only missed one song. Great set and if this years late night is supposed to be "special" than I will definitely be there.
Post by famousblueraincoat on Apr 10, 2007 9:17:02 GMT -5
This is an interesting article from Rolling Stone about the Allmans show on April 7th at the Beacon Theatre. Note the stage time shared between Gov't Mule and (drum roll please)... The Meters. Also notable: the presence of Mr. Robert Randolph.
--------------------------The Allman Brothers Band opened their April 7th show at New York’s Beacon Theater — the fourteenth and next-to-last night of the 2007 edition of their annual spring residency here — with a brilliant surprise: Dr. John’s acid-voodoo crawl “I Walk on Gilded Splinters.” Behind the organ, Gregg Allman growled like a man who has spent much of his life defying death and evil — which he has. In the breakdown after the chorus, guitarist Derek Trucks emulated the zombie-angel chorale on Dr. John’s original recording with swandive-bottleneck runs while Warren Haynes, also playing slide guitar, peeled off licks that sounded like the helpless cries of the undead.
It was a startling blast-off to a night that, in this town, at this time of year, is so easy to take for granted. The Allman Brothers Band have made themselves at home at the Beacon for three weeks each spring since 1989. It is a hallowed local tradition, and the closest thing anywhere, certainly in this century, to the aura and lift-off that the Allmans trademarked in their legendary 1971 appearances at Bill Graham’s Fillmore East. Indeed, for the first dozen of those Beacon runs, it was enough to have the historic might of Live at Fillmore East resurrected in Allman’s voice, the drum circle of Butch Trucks, Jaimoe and Marc Quinones, the bass-guitar authority of the late Allen Woody and (since 1997) Oteil Burbridge and the serpentine double-guitar ballet of (depending on the year) Dickey Betts, Warren Haynes, Jack Pearson, Jimmy Herring and Derek Trucks. But the Allmans were, from the start, an improvising band, dedicated to the magic and lessons of change, and April 7th was a night of dynamic hairpin turns. The second-set overture “Don’t Want You No More” — the Spencer Davis Group cover that opened 1969’s The Allman Brothers Band — was followed not by its usual sister song, the blues “It’s Not My Cross to Bear” but by the jazzy meditation “Dreams,” stretched to ecstatic length by an extraordinary Trucks bottleneck reverie in which long, vocal-like notes materialized from a fuzzy ocean of sustain. The full-blown “Mountain Jam” that emerged from the extended drum-army break suddenly, on Haynes’ cue, braked and veered into Led Zeppelin’s “Dazed and Confused” — with Trucks, Jaimoe and Quinones tumbling in tandem like three John Bonhams — then U-turned back into “Mountain Jam.” Frankly, this night belonged to Trucks. Allman, who can sometimes appear sidelined by the instrumental prowess of the rest of the band, came alive vocally in the encore, a cover of Bobby “Blue” Bland’s “Turn On Your Lovelight.” And Haynes was in fine, muscular form; near the end of his solo in “Rockin’ Horse,” he skid into a thrilling patch of hammered-staccato squeals, as if he was broadcasting from the middle of the live “Spoonful” on Cream’s Wheels of Fire. But Trucks repeatedly wowed with singing solos and exchanges with Haynes that combined golden tone, slalom-raga flow and near-human incantation with a seamless, luminous grace.
The guest list on stage included pedal-steel guitarist Robert Randolph and a short, steamy intermission set by what is best described as Gov’t Meters — Haynes and the rest of his band Gov’t Mule with guitarist Leo Nocentelli and percussionist Cyril Neville of the Meters. But the action that mattered most always flowed between brothers. At the Beacon, the Allmans played like a band bonded by blood, history and a life-long love of chance. May their road go on forever — through this room, this time every year.
I've sent in my application to the Real World. So I'm hoping to hear back from that. I'm putting A LOT of my eggs into that basket, the MTV basket. I'm also thinking about getting a gun, and dealing crack. Being a crack dealer. Not like a mean crack dealer, but like... like a nice one. Kinda friendly like, "hey, what's up guys? Want some crack?"
