Allman Brothers Band – Eat A Peach｜Vinyl Monday
First, there is a mountain. Then there is no mountain, then there is.
Welcome (or welcome back) to Vinyl Monday! This is my weekly series where I give the who/what/when/where/why and how I feel about classic albums in my collection. My thoughts on the Allman Brothers Band’s Eat A Peach (released 1972) Subscribe for more Vinyl Monday and vintage fashion!
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Timestamps:
intro – 0:00
Eat A Peach – 1:45
track listing/release – 16:31
duane – 23:15
my thoughts – 26:26
thanks for watching! – 42:54
This episode was crafted in memory of Duane, Berry, Butch, Gregg, and Dickey, with love and peace extended to Jaimo.
Music:
Intro Music: Yeah Yeah Yeah (Long) by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/…) Artist: http://audionautix.com/
Outtro Music: Ticket To Nowhere Man by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/…) Artist: http://audionautix.com/
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@abigaildevoe
October 23, 2024 at 11:51 am
well this episode started with a bang!! what’s your favorite allman bros song? comment below!
@TajBlues
October 23, 2024 at 11:51 am
Mountain Jam is sequenced the way it is so when one side ends, the record changer can just drop the next side without the listener having t get up and flip a record. Hope this helps…
@dadmateryn8092
October 23, 2024 at 11:51 am
Smart idea putting Mountain Jam on separate vinyls because you can stack therefore drop albums on your turntable
@dadmateryn8092
October 23, 2024 at 11:51 am
Greg got writers block so he took a break to the grocery store for some milk and there was this little brat running up and down the aisle’s and her grandmother was screaming for her MELISSA….MELISSA! Greg had an aha moment went back and finished the song. True story 😎
@martinmarron3798
October 23, 2024 at 11:51 am
Hi Abigail I love your videos,
Thanks for all the information about this group and all the other ones that you talk,
Very helpful have a great week ☮️🍄✨☀️
@colinrobert6766
October 23, 2024 at 11:51 am
Im partially colorblind so i had no idea the cover was pink until the 3rd time I watched this video. I always thought it was white!!! I only noticed on your vinyl copy.
@s.henrlllpoklookout5069
October 23, 2024 at 11:51 am
"Hi, I'm Abby, I have a lot of records"
With the implication that you, the viewer, don't have a lot of records.
Which is 100% true in my case
@stratfanstl
October 23, 2024 at 11:51 am
I would love to see you analyze the ABB debut album, which I think is their best. To think Gregg WROTE those songs at 21 and SANG them with that voice at 21 is mindblowing, even 55 years later. How adept at learning was Duane? Duane is famous for being a phenomenal slide player, even from their debut album in 1969. However, per Gregg's autobiography, Duane had only started playing slide after hearing Taj Mahal's record from 1968 with Statesboro Blues that had Jessie Edwin Davis playing slide. If you listen to the two versions, it's clear the ABB version is an homage to the Taj Mahal version. But then you realize Duane had only been playing slide for a year when the rest of the world began viewing him as "the best" at it. That being said, I am a huge fan of both Clapton and the ABB and a huge fan of Layla and other assorted love songs but…. I am one of the few who is not of the opinion that LAOALS became epic because of Duane's appearance. The track order of LAOALS is pretty much the order in which the materaial was recorded and per Bobby Whitlock, they had the first 5-6 songs (I Looked Away thru Andyday) on tape before they attended the ABB show and invited Duance back to jam then participate in the rest of the sessions. Also, it can be argued that whatever hole Duane left in the slide guitar universe in the rest of the 1970s was more than adequately covered by Lowell George of Little Feat. Great analysis on all of these. I think I've watched 40 of these in the last week.
@robertwoodward9231
October 23, 2024 at 11:51 am
The brothers in A minor, is so great with all the layers of that unmatched percussion. My favorite is One Way Out that's from the show that closed down Fillmore East. Dickey in the main solo kills it! It's to bad that somebody dropped the ball on the engineering, and recorded to low. This is one that the music is so good that it outweighs the less than steller mastering.
@hbron112
October 23, 2024 at 11:51 am
In 1965, fresh out of High School and owner of a combo organ, I joined a surf music band to bring in the new songs from England. Our first gig was house band for a nightclub in Panama City Beach. When our two weeks was over we were packing up as the new band were unpacking and setting up. That band was, "The Allman Joys" with Dwayne and Greg. After listening to them I almost quit then and there. They were a cover band, but my god they were good!
@williamlangan5902
October 23, 2024 at 11:51 am
First of all, Abigail, your blouse perfectly matches the inner gatefold.
A great review! I had reviewed this album on Facebook just after we lost Dickey Betts. Like all your reviews, you make it fun. Those listening to CD have the benefit of not having to get up, turn the record over and listen to the rest of Mountain Jam!
What’s sad is there’s only one original member standing.
I’d love for you to review John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton.
@EltonKvale
October 23, 2024 at 11:51 am
Whipping Post!
@budsmoker4201120
October 23, 2024 at 11:51 am
Awesome vid bud. Love your channel
@SuperStrik9
October 23, 2024 at 11:51 am
Wonderful album. I'm a big Allman Bros and Dickey Betts (RIP) fan. Glad I was able to see the Allman Bros in the summer of 98 with Dickey Betts and Jack Pearson on guitar(s). Jack played in Gregg Allman's solo band and is an incredible guitarist in his own right. That concert is in my top 5 concerts I've seen list.
@danfurr1907
October 23, 2024 at 11:51 am
Blue Sky is also the name of Dickies first wife. Great wonderful song. As always you did an amazing review of it.
@alexkorby
October 23, 2024 at 11:51 am
Thank you for this video! Allman Brothers are my favourite band along with JH Experience
@joeshoe6184
October 23, 2024 at 11:51 am
IMHO there is no better song than Little Martha to mark the coda of the Duane led ABB.
Loved the review!
@ogam5
October 23, 2024 at 11:51 am
…..at your tacit direction in the 'Q & A' segment, checked out Humble Fish's "Awake", as well as liked their FB page, Abby – evokes Alice's "Only Women" texturally a BIT for me – also THIS classic CT album rock radio mid-70's track from Jasper Wrath, which you JUST might like ; ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jfF0XQk_iI
@jordanrivers7736
October 23, 2024 at 11:51 am
Yes, two drummers. But also TWO LEAD GUITARS! Dicky Betts (RIP 2024) stood toe to toe with Duane and they became as one.
@ThomasJackMoore
October 23, 2024 at 11:51 am
Just found the channel. Great job. New sub here. 😊
@DoctorInsomnia-qw7us
October 23, 2024 at 11:51 am
Back in the late 70s, during my crazy frathouse days (the house near Washington square park where Edgar Allan Poe once lived), a bunch of us found out the Allman brothers band was going to play a surprise unannounced gig at the lone star cafe (13th St 5th Ave the bar with a giant iguana on the rooftop). We got really close to the stage, and sure enough,the band came on, and we were drunk by then & cheering like it was the super bowl. It was the whole band, minus Gregg who was partying with Cher at studio 54. So Dickie Betts was in charge, and he mostly played stuff from eat a peach while he bummed cigarettes from us, and even paid for one round of beer. It was absolutely amazing, and I'm sure Duane's spirit must've been smiling down upon us all on that magical night. The high points were In Memory of Elizabeth Reed & Rambling Man, and by then we were going nuts. Afterwards, we met them outside the entrance, and in a real 70s moment, Jaimo pulled out a big fat joint and passed it around while we stood in circle. So we not only drank with the band, but got stoned with them too. Sorry I didn't have this ready for eat a peach, but if you ever cover Brothers & Sisters, you can use this story for that video. And Yes, you really did a great job of paying tribute to Duane & Berry, only a real life Layla could've pulled that off. Now for another blue sky Monday 🌞😎
@wowster-so8sx
October 23, 2024 at 11:51 am
Crosby Smokes that Hash
@stevenmarkeveys864
October 23, 2024 at 11:51 am
Hello Abby! Nice work here. Thanks-you
@davidfont2513
October 23, 2024 at 11:51 am
My copy, which I bought in 73, is in better condition than yours😄
@hattman2010
October 23, 2024 at 11:51 am
Well that was really REALLY nice. Taught me a few things I never knew as well. I love your passion. May I suggest you rethink your opinion of the end of Mountain Jam. It's a full 90 seconds long! Double that and you have a couple of their early songs in their entirety. It strikes me as EPIC!
@pilotgi
October 23, 2024 at 11:51 am
I've never watched one of your videos before. Very well done.
@Vinylfromtheunderground
October 23, 2024 at 11:51 am
You are the female version of Anthony fantano but better! Fantastic
@ApolloSuns
October 23, 2024 at 11:51 am
Great epi🎉sode!
@danielwilliams1921
October 23, 2024 at 11:51 am
I’m 74 and saw/heard all the best bands in realtime, and wouldn’t change a thing. Well, having you around back then would’ve been groovy.😉❤️🎶
@gregangus9961
October 23, 2024 at 11:51 am
Us oldies had record players that had a big tall spindle and disc holding arm that let you stack up albums, so when one side would finish, the needle arm would go back off the disc and the next disc on the stack would drop down. Like a primitive playlist queue. Why is this relevant? “Hey, man… Mountain Jam is too long for one album side. Wait! Dude! Put the first half on side TWO and the second half on side FOUR and stack ‘em up on top of each other! That way we don’t have to get off this couch!” “Duuude… that’s genius…” It was not uncommon for classical, jazz or experimental albums to use the same trick to let the listener enjoy up to 45 minutes with minimal interruption. Have a look at “stackable, multi-stack or stack-o-matic “ record players. Beautiful old things. Love your channel and your deep analysis. Keep doin what yer doin!
@jamescox2822
October 23, 2024 at 11:51 am
The reason mountain jam is on 2 different Records instead of on the same one on different sides.It's because You play one side of a record as soon as it's over.The next record will drop down Off the carriage and Plays the second half of the song with only a very short pause In Between the 2.That's how record players used to work Back then..I don't know how they work now.I can't find one
@dechanteluv
October 23, 2024 at 11:51 am
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY ABBY 🎉🎉🎉 many more to come! I greatly appreciate your channel, keep rockin!
@dennismason3740
October 23, 2024 at 11:51 am
Derek Trucks picked up the slide evolution.
@dennismason3740
October 23, 2024 at 11:51 am
@13:50 – Duane actually talked like a valley girl.
@dennismason3740
October 23, 2024 at 11:51 am
It WAS entirely impossible for the tech to match both pitch and speed on the masters. Believe me both George Martin and I have invested many hours in the attempt. When bands are digitally torn apart and put back together they don't sound right. Electromagnetic tape also picks up the space between in the recording process and I am not going to explain "the space between" (see Avalon). When you remove the space between the band begins to sound like not-so-much a band. Jimmy Page's remixes are actually good and he is the exception and he knows how to play a studio.