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Monday, October 31, 2011
Live Reviews Live review: Brody Douglas Hunt
Posted By Jenny Lou Bement on Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 1:22 PM
Brody Douglas Hunt, Crow Quill Night Owls, Blind Boy Chocolate & The Milk Sheiks, Geoffreaux and Avian Law
The Milestone
Oct. 26, 2011
As I walked into the door of the Milestone, although the crowd was small, I had never seen so many crust punks and hippies ever before. It was almost like Asheville had taken over the joint. Kids that seemingly hadn't bathed or drank anything but alcohol in at least a week were at the forefront of the audience. Although they sometimes have a reputation for trouble, as I've seen several kicked out in more recent times, most seemed pretty at peace and compliant, awaiting the music that they had come to see, something that we usually don't have in Charlotte, country rag-time blues.
Blind Boy Chocolate & The Milk Sheiks hailing from Asheville, N.C. along with The Crow Quill Night Owls and Brody Douglas Hunt from Washington State were making their way through our town to bring us back to the early 1900s with good-old ragtime to get our bodies moving and our faces smiling. That was exactly what they did when we had reached our final destination in time travel after our Charlotte solo acts Avian Law and Geoffreaux warmed us up and progressed the transition to this era.
Videos Puscifer releases director's cut of "Conditions of My Parole"
Posted By Jeff Hahne on Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:27 AM
Puscifer, who will perform at Ovens Auditorium on Nov. 27, released the director's cut of the video for "Conditions of My Parole." Maynard James Keenan kicks off the video as a man who had his "Airstream stolen by dopers." The song kicks off with an acoustic riff before driving into a heavy groove thundered on by Keenan's vocals. While the band's first album strayed into electronic repetition, this single offers far more melody and musicianship.
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Friday, October 28, 2011
Opinion All hail Duane Allman, who died 40 years ago
Posted By John Grooms on Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 2:14 PM
- Ed Berman
- Duane Allman at the Fillmore East in NYC, 1971
There’s an advantage to being a baby boomer from the South. Namely, I was lucky enough to see the original Allman Brothers Band, with Duane Allman, seven times before he died at age 24 from a motorcycle crash in Macon, Ga. One of those seven shows took place in a club in Spartanburg, S.C., called The Sitar, just after the August 1970 release of the band’s second album, Idlewild South.
Some friends and I were seated about eight feet from the low stage, with Duane right in front of me. At one point I was nearly hypnotized, focusing on Duane’s hands as he smoothly wove his way in and out and through a series of complicated slide guitar lines. I suddenly looked up from his hands, and was dumbfounded to realize that while he was producing those intricate, speed-of-sound licks, Duane had been leaning over, having a casual conversation with bass player Berry Oakley — as if his mind-blowing guitar breaks were effortless.
I saw the band three more times after that, including the two legendary Love Valley Pop Festival shows, but that one moment is what I first think of whenever Duane’s name is brought up. The original Alllman Brothers Band lineup is generally recognized as one of the finest, and most finely honed, touring bands of all time. I imagine that’s true; all I can tell you is that the times I saw them, they were never less than fantastic, every single time.
Check out the excerpt below of Duane and the boys in 1970 playing one of their signature songs, “Whipping Post.”
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