Vince Gill playing Duane Allman's Gold Top LP

Mike Neer · Post by **Mike Neer** » 10 Jun 2011 7:22 am

Sounds splendid in Vince's hands and the experience is enough to give chills.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuC8gNv6pD0

Chuck S. Lettes · Post by **Chuck S. Lettes** » 10 Jun 2011 8:49 am

Long live Duane and the Allman Brothers Band.
Chuck

Ron Whitfield · Post by **Ron Whitfield** » 10 Jun 2011 9:25 am

Duane swapped the PUs from this Gtop into the tobacco-burst that he became synonymous with. Even back then dicerning ears had their preference for one HB PU over another (who but a few could tell any difference?), and Vince makes it sound beautiful. Nice to see the Gtop getting some hands on again.

Stephen Gambrell · Post by **Stephen Gambrell** » 10 Jun 2011 9:39 am

Chuck S. Lettes wrote:Long live Duane and the Allman Brothers Band.
Chuck

The REAL band. How ya doin', Chuck?

Joey Ace · Post by **Joey Ace** » 10 Jun 2011 9:57 am

Thanks for the link. It's great to see historic instruments being used as intended.

Who's the Steeler?

Bo Borland · Post by **Bo Borland** » 10 Jun 2011 10:32 am

Joey... That's Paul on the yellow & red Franklin .. but you knew that didn't you ?

Vince & Paul are playing their Little Walter amps

Olli Haavisto · Post by **Olli Haavisto** » 12 Jun 2011 10:33 am

I wish the guy who filmed this had bought a ticket.

Andy Sandoval · Post by **Andy Sandoval** » 12 Jun 2011 2:00 pm

That was great!

Jerry Hayes R.I.P. · Post by **Jerry Hayes R.I.P.** » 14 Jun 2011 8:13 am

Thanks for posting that Mike, ol' Vince is quite a picker isn't he? I wonder what that old Les Paul would bring if it was put on the market? Probably a "small" fortune?........JH in Va.

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 14 Jun 2011 1:17 pm

Besides Paul, who are the other current members of Vince's band? Great players.

Kevin Hatton · Post by **Kevin Hatton** » 14 Jun 2011 4:04 pm

Outstanding band, outstanding arrangement.

David Mason · Post by **David Mason** » 14 Jun 2011 8:17 pm

Twiggs Lyndon traded an old car to Gregg Allman for Duane's tobacco sunburst Paul, the "Live at the Fillmore" and "Layla" guitar. That's the one that Duane liked best. Steve Morse frequently played it on recordings. It's in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, for some inane reason. Now that one would fetch a pile... more than "Tiger" or "Brownie", I'd bet.

http://forum.gibson.com/index.php?/topi ... -les-paul/

P.S. I am not always an ecstatic fan of the modern Allman Brothers - they often sound safe, sometimes even plodding - but when Warren and Derek get their howl on, they again touch the flame - here's a good'un -
http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/Allm ... terNYC.asx

John Macy · Post by **John Macy** » 14 Jun 2011 9:05 pm

I sat about 20' from Duane when they played the Boston Tea Party in November of 1970...I was seventeen and that moment is seared in my brain and have been a fan ever since...great story about the sunburst...

Ron Whitfield · Post by **Ron Whitfield** » 15 Jun 2011 10:09 am

Gregg doesn't seem sentimental over Duane's guitars, knowing he could have probably gotten the Tele that Duane had and gave him, but wasn't worth more than $500 to him a coupl'a years back. I found that rather odd.

David Mason · Post by **David Mason** » 16 Jun 2011 12:00 pm

Then again, people like Gregg might be most aware that an old guitar is still just some boards and wires... musicians as diverse and legendary as Redd Volkaert, John McLaughlin, Danny Gatton, Eric Clapton just treat 'em like furniture you make noises with, and it's the fans and wannabee "experts" - who, ummm, maybe can't play quite so well - who go so derangedly orbital over provenance and the number of turns of wire on the pickups and the identity of the wiring tech and all the other crazy stuff.

I am sometimes almost awestruck with the reviews of guitars that go into the detailed creaminess of the muscular string separation blooming in the mid-to-upper midrange, you can get kinda sucked under by the rap sometimes. Whereas your Becks and McLaughlins and Paisleys will just start playing music on it...

Ron Whitfield · Post by **Ron Whitfield** » 16 Jun 2011 7:34 pm

David Mason wrote:Then again, people like Gregg might be most aware that an old guitar is still just some boards and wires...

True, until someone worth a real damn plays it for any stretch of time.