My finger just clicked on this YouTube clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uACfGFxS ... ure=g-vrec

Someone thinks that's the "best" lick Duane Allman played. I'm not going to argue - but it got me thinking about all the great, great moments that gentleman recorded.

Lotta love for Duane on this Forum: anyone feel like nominating their favorite licks, passages - whole damn solos if you like?

I could pick so many. Just for shucks, howsabout the bit on One Way Out (Eat a Peach version) when Dickie has played his nice solo, then they trade lines for a moment - and then Duane lets go and just burns it down in about 16 bars flat? From around 3.15 here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIY8CoMILgU

Share and enjoy...

Cheers - C

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My favorite solo of Duane's is the one on Whippin' Post,from the Fillmore East album.I've listened to many versions of the song over the years,lots of them from audience bootleg tapes and none are as perfect as that one.
My all time favorite lick of Duane's is from Mountain Jam on Eat a peach,it's after the drum and bass solos and he is playing slide,it's only two notes,the second played twice...it's the perfect combination and feel....I'm at work so I don't know exactly the time he plays it....but I've loved it for 40 years,my favorite guitar player.
A friend of mine who wrote songs with Dickey Betts once told him he ought to make a DVD showing his music style and Dickey told him,"Hell,everybody knows all my licks already."

My favorite is his playing on 'It's Not My Cross To Bear"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-3hSoiFPFM

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I'd have been amazed not to see you on this thread, Rebelsoul!

So I just listened through Mountain Jam (it's a tough job but someone has to do it). I don't know if I'm correctly identifying the two notes you're thinking of, but for sure that section when the guitars come back in after Berry Oakley's solo always makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. The slide playing is up in the stratosphere at that point. Good call.



Mine too.

Cheers - C

EDIT: typo

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Thing about this topic: there's no wrong answers!

Thanks for that, Mike. More pleasure.

Cheers - C

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I like a lot of Duane Allman licks, but I got to go with his and EC's playing on the D&TD Song "Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad" from the Layla album!

Those two push, prod, and buzz around each other to the point it is like one guy playing two guitars with 20 fingers! The fact that those two were only together for a couple weeks to maybe a month playing together like they did is simply amazing!

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I love all of Duanes work....simply just a gentle giant on the slide.What a great man.He did more recordings in the few years he played guitar than most people do in a lifetime

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Yep Ceri....I see anything about Duane and I have to read it!
That slide after the bass solo has always thrilled me,I think it is some of the best playing he ever did.
T2Stratman mentioned "Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad"...I've seen that song debated several times on how much lead Duane played on it,but if you know his playing you can tell which solo he burns on all the way through,and his signature "Joy To the World" lick is stamped on the tail end...I loved how he would let you know where he was.
I know I've mentioned this before,but bears repeating,Duane was left handed,so is Gregg,Duane's right hand was so agile not to be his dominant hand,and then the fretted notes at the amazing speed he had when he kicked it in,had to have been helped by being left handed.

the end of "layla"

As far as I am concerned, it doesn't get any better than this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTFvAvsHC_Y

So long since I last heard that one - thank you for that! That's what this thread is for.

At 7.44 I hear a very obvious Dave Gilmour lick - about four years before Dave played it. If you get what I'm saying...

Cheers - C

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I hear what you're saying Ceri!
The first time I ever saw anybody use a "tapping" technique,was Dickey Betts,and you can hear both Duane and Dickey using that mainly for effects in interludes of songs on the Fillmore album.
Far more people than will ever admit were influenced by these guys and I saw an Eddie Van Halen interview one time where he said he saw the Brothers in the early days,make of that what you will.
One thing that has happened sadly over the years is the way Dickey was kicked out of the band,and surely his playing has had it's ups and downs....but in the years after Duane died,Dickey was the central figure in many songs and had the burden of being the only guitar player in a band known for twin leads,he picked up the slack,played slide....which in it's self would be a very hard spot to be forced into,I mean,who wants to follow Duane Allman on slide?? I've met Dickey and have friends who really know him,and he can be hard to deal with at times and has a very forceful personality,but it's bcome somewhat "out of fashion" to say he's influenced your playing....Dickey is and has been a very recognizable guitar player,"a what you see is what you get" player,it's real and sometimes raw,but I've loved his playing,and in the years when Derek Trucks and Dickey were in the band you could sometimes close your eyes at a concert and flashback to the original Brothers.

Ha - that's such a good post.

Personally, I've stolen all the licks my lousy fingers can play from both Duane and Dickie. No shame in that!

Hard work for Dickie after Duane died, and frankly a pretty thankless task playing second fiddle to him when he was still alive, I'd have thought. I think Dickie's a beautiful player, but most of the time we're just waiting for Duane to take over. Which is a bit unfair.

In addition to what you say, Dickie also wrote so many of the best numbers. There'd be a whole lot less to listen to without him.

I so agree about Derek Trucks. I adore his playing though I have kinda mixed feelings about some of his own band's material. But when he's playing the Allman's stuff... it's the first time I've felt the spirit of Duane might be alive in someone else's fingers. A gorgeous player.

Now then. Dickie/Dickey. I wish my album covers could make up their minds.

Cheers - C

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Oh, by the way. Just to hijack my own thread ( ), I do think this Derek Trucks Band number is heart-stoppingly lovely. This Sky:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZdOZWYNjik

Wish my fingers could do that with a slide. But they can't.

Cheers - C

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The lick that goes, DOING, DOING DOING DOING, DOING. DOING, DOING DOING DOING, DOING..

Oops, wait up, no sorry, that Duane Eddy..

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