Jane, thanks for providing links to those clips. There were so many great scenes from the Johnny Cash show; I really wanted to include even more – especially the one of Derek and the Dominos! Ah, poor old Skydog! Rolling Stone magazine lists him as the #2 greatest guitarist of all time!
]]>But a decent video of D&D’s Cash performance IS on Youtube. Seems odd to me that they play the song note for note from the recording. But maybe they didn’t think they could improve on perfection:
Depending on what month it was, Duane Allman might have been gone already as he died the year the Johnny Cash program was on the air. It still gives me chills to think that from the day Skydog played his first high school gig in Daytona Beach, to the day he died, was only a period of only TEN short years.
I’ll always consider The Allman Brothers Band: At the Fillmore East to be the greatest live album in the history of rock. A range of human emotion like no other. I especially admire the restraint and delicacy when they could easily be crowd-pleasingly blowing everyone’s heads off. Nine years from practicing in the back bedroom of Mamma’s house to THIS: