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From the onset, the Allman Brothers Band was a live performance group. The attitude was that they would play anywhere, anytime, for anyone who would listen. Their free shows at Central City Park in Macon and Atlanta’s Piedmont Park soon became legendary for the sheer intensity of the music. When playing live, it was clear that the sum was even greater than the formidable parts of the Allman Brothers. They were a band - a band that created dynamic, visceral music that no other group had played before. True road warriors, they played over 300 shows in 1970 alone, and always left the crowds wanting for nothing.
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The story of the Allman Brothers Band is one of triumph, tragedy, redemption, dissolution, and a new redemption. Over nearly 30 years, they've gone from being America's single most influential band to a hasbeen group trading on past glories, to reach the 21st century as one of the most respected rock acts of their era.
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For the Allman Brothers Band, the road goes on forever. But when spring comes around, the veteran touring group pulls into the venerable Beacon Theatre in New York City for its annual "March Madness" run of sold-out performances.
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Not many groups have been around as long as The Allman Brothers Band. Of those that have, most have either lapsed into a nostalgia-act coma or withered on a weary vine. If you're talking about a band that has both legs and heart, whose experience feeds an intensity that's rare even among the greenest music newbies, that narrows the field pretty much down to these psychedelic sons of the South.
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In the spring of 1997, Warren Haynes and Allen Woody left the Allman Brothers Band. Their successors were Oteil Burbridge on bass and Jack Pearson on guitar. Acclaimed by critics and fans alike as the rising star of electric bass, Oteil ... performs with his own band, the Peace-makers, and on occasional reunion shows by his former group, Aquarium Rescue Unit.
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