Reviews (page 12 of 13)
Just not a fan of jamming out for 17 minutes
I like the Allman Brothers. I really do. And I like the bluesy rock they make. But I do NOT need to listen to 15-20 minute guitar solos, which is hard for me to say because I love guitar. But the jams were just a bit too excessively long. I really do think I would have given this a 4 or 5 if the songs were a lot shorter, but I gotta cut the rating solely due to the obscene length.
Don’t know much about the Allman Brothers or this album. Another one which a bit of a mystery as to why it has appeared on this list. It’s just a run of the mill live album. The musical content is nothing notable. Having said that I do enjoy extended bluesy guitar solos and there’s enough of them on here to choke a donkey. But I return to my original point that there are hundreds of albums not on this list I’d rather listen to. 2/5 11/4/24
This is some serious drinking music. Privileged white man blues. Yes, they could play. But at what cost?
Jam bands are fun live while drinking and chatting, I don't care much for leisure album listening
Third live album this week, someone's taking the right royal piss
This is a lot more bluesy than I expected, but still just not a sound that like at all.
Like the music, but not so much of the guitar solos
not for me really I cant lie its not bad it just doesn't sit with me too well some of these tracks are WAY too long tho I'd give it maybe a 2.4/5
Not my type of music.
Heard before
I could tolerate an hour and twenty minutes of a jam band if the jam was good. This is not good however. I saw that the 2014 (or 15 or whatever) rerelease of this bum is 6 hours long. Anyone who'd willingly listen to this for 6 hours needs their hard drive checked ASAP.
I wouldn't even call this bad, but like... What was the point? Especially for 78 minutes...
must've been cool to be there, i guess. also cool how good it sounds for long ago it was, and that this was all live. not really something i could get into on a weekday while working though.
I find this sort of music so boring but it gets the obligatory 2 stars because it's not worthless or horrendously bad, plenty of people love it and I try not to be too harsh on music people hold dear
This album is nothing more than an hour and a quarter long guitar solo. What is the point of it being on this list? The list is literally called albums you need to listen to *before you die*. This is one of the most pointless, empty albums I have ever heard. Boring.
It was okay, tho nothing too special
1. boro bluez - 1.5 2. done zomebody uurong - 1 3. ztormy monday - 1 4. you dont love me - 1.5 5. hot lanta - 1 6. elizabeth reed - 1 7. uuhipping pozt - 1.5
A band I've always been meaning to give more time to, they are so well loved, they must be worth a listen. Well there's things to like about this album, lovely recording, lots of live atmosphere, the guitars and vocals are excellent. That's about it though, it's a well recorded and well played load of country blues, with forgetable songs and boring extended musical work outs. Enjoyably free of Lynyrd Skynyrd's country-blues cliches, but lacking the muscular boogie and catchy tunes of early ZZ Top. You probably had to be there. Nice enough but marred by the endless noodling.
I was expecting less blues and more classic rock- like what comes after the first few songs. It’s entirely too much jamming for me. I can’t argue with their talent, but ungggh, I hate a jam band. It’s just not for me. 2.6
Best Song: Hot 'Lanta. Brief. Hits the points it needs to hit in a short enough time span (even thought it could be an easy minute shorter with nothing lost). Worst Song: Whipping Post. I was sure that this song (and the album) was done at 11 minutes in, but boy was I deceived. Overall: Music that's meant to be played in the background, preferably live, while you're in a park drinking beer. Occasionally you realize that music is still playing and you ask, "Is that still the same band?", to which the one guy that's listening to the music says, "It's actually still the same song."
I like the Allman Brothers, I really do. But I just didn’t really enjoy this album. Too long winded, even if it sounded nice.
Couldn’t dig this at all for the Bluesy bop stuff towards the beginning, came around for the jammy excursions later on, got lost again by that version of Whipping Post (a song I actually like a lot) which didn’t gel for me at all. Overall disappointing despite musicianship clearly being there. Just not a performance that comes together in an effective way for me. Top tracks: You Don’t Love Me, In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed
Live albums are tough when its a jam band. I know thats where they thrive musically but if youre not into it then its just an extremely long version of a song you already dont really care about
Not bad, but long. Definitely meant to be see live and not listened to on vinyl
Voor zulke chaotische rock is 78 minuten wel een aardig taaie. Had het na 3 nummers eigenlijk wel weer gezien voor vandaag
Oh boy wat ging deze eindeloze gitaarsolo erin als stroperige ketjap. Kijk, ik begrijp de charme van live albums, en dit optreden is echt uitzonderlijk goed vastgelegd, maar als het een jam-band als de Allman Brothers betreft dan wordt gewoon elk nummer getransformeerd tot één lange rits aan 'white blues' wat soms aanvoelt als een parodie op het moedergenre. Er zaten best fijne passages in, waar verrassend genoeg soms zelfs gespeeld werd met jazz-ritmes. Ik kan je alleen niet vertellen welk nummer dit was, want ja, de luisteraar kreeg niet even rustig de tijd om een begin en een einde van een track te identificeren. De blues-train moest blijven rijden. Nee, dit is niks voor mij, en de dooddoener 'je had er bij moeten zijn' is vast op z'n plek. Ze hadden ongetwijfeld een hoop plezier, maar zelfs een 'lange nummers' connaisseur als ik ging gebukt onder deze uitzichtloze tunnel. Net een voldoende, door de blues-classics en Whipping Post, ondanks dat dat nummer mijn gehele pauze in beslag nam. 5.5/10 Highlight: Whipping Post
Lots of jamming- if you love recorded live music, this is for you, if you do not enjoy the improv, this is not the album for you (I am not a fan).
Started strong for me, enjoyed the first couple of tracks with my general impression was this was something I might listen to a few times and earmark for the future. It then fell off a cliff for me with the extended tracks and solos which is no doubt great when live but under no circumstances would I ever listen to this again despite the early promise
When I first put this album on, I started to enjoy it and get into the vibe of what must have been an excellent concert to attend. However, as the album continued and the improvised guitar solos got longer, I started losing interest. It was like listening to a very long rehearsal, just a bunch of dudes jamming. This album has me questioning my love of guitar solos!
For a start, I’ll admit I’m not a fan of live albums. Live music in person I love - but very few live albums capture the atmosphere of the performance or the energy of the musicians. I think I would have loved this if I’d actually been there! No doubt they are talented musicians and have a whole jamming thing going on which would be incredible in person! But listening through this as a recorded album got more and more tedious the further through I was. Started out great, but I was actually quite grumpy by the end. In my last review I said I didn't like guitar solos - that's not entirely true, what I don't like is self indulgent solos. Self indulgent solos is the glue that held this album together - zero desire to revisit.
I wanted to like this more than I did. It just kept going on and on. Like I walked from the bus to my house, closed the blinds, fed the cat and put the bin out. And it was still on the same track and I kind of zoned out by then
anstrengend
In order for this to be your jam you need to like blues rock. Unfortunately for The Allman Brothers Band that is a genre I have a fraught and complicated relationship with. So I can recognize the quality of playing here and appreciate some of the tracks or parts of songs within. But overall, it's not compelling to me.
I wasn't particularly excited about going into this one. Mainly because I'm not a jam band guy OR a southern rock guy. So of course I'm not the world's biggest Allman Brothers fan. And coming out of it, I can the level of technical skill on display is obviously astonishing, but I'm not a convert. If you like jams, this one won't let you down. If you want a bit more substance in your albums, don't look for it here. I will say this, around 2:35 or so into In Memory of Elizabeth Reed, there's a transition that made me stop what I was doing. Groovy.
3/10 Rough week this, closed off with a jam blues rock album, so very much not appealing to me 2 20-minute jams were pretty difficult stuff I can hear these are good musicians, crazy that this is live, must have been a total vibe in that room But honestly I couldn’t stand it & only listened to the original 7-track version. No way I was doing 2 hours+ of that
Could never get into this and this time was no different. It’s fine. Good stuff in each son - just too much. I feel like Barbie having the guitar played at me. Quite the jam but not my jam.
my initial thought was gonna be “wow, yk its gonna be good when a band is called the ___ brothers” but then it was more jam band than i was hoping. if i am not there in person, i do not want to listen to a 10 minute instrumental jammin in my free time, personally. i like other stuff by the allman brothers, but this live album is just not for me unfortunately
so dang repetitive, it's not a pain to listen to but it's not interesting either and I wish there were more lyrics
It isn't for me, but it's not bad. It's something my friend Tommy would like.
5/10 Doesn't go anywhere
J'étais pas dans le mood
J'ai aucun souvenir depuis hier. Je sais que j'ai bien aimé, et je crois que j'avais une petite sensation de ville tranquille au Far West (mais pas certain de ça).
Kinda long and not too interesting
classique
Jam Session aus Western, Rock und Jazz Elementen. Man spürt die Power in den. Songs und die Wirkung auf das Publikum der Live-Abende. Insgesamt fesselt das Album zu wenig und hat keinen prägenden Highlight Song.
Allman Brothers are one of those bands where I only like the album tracks; and only some of them at that. I feel the same way about Grateful Dead. I don't need long, drawn out wank from either.
Long winded
Somehow remarkably forgettable
There's some good musical talent here but it's far too long and self indulgent. You can't be having a 23min track where it sounds like you're just fucking around. It ended up becoming just background music which to me isn't the sign of a great album. Highlights: Statesboro Blues Done Somebody Wrong
Blues jazz rock. Rollo. Todo el rato igual.
I enjoyed the guitar tones and driving drums. There were moments where I was like, dang, this has been going a minute and then I'd look and it would be like a 20 minute track. I did like where sometimes a song would end with just a single instrument finishing out its line.
It was fun at first. Then there was the rest of time.
Irgendwelchi blues songs, i glaub ihne nöd dass die würkli so sad sind. Tönt scho guet für e live Album aber ... (Wenn das würkli en jam sötti sie, wieso hend sie denn immer nur eis gitarre solo uf eimol??) (I hass jam musig i hass jam musig i hass jam musig i hass jam musig) 78 min lang neeeii Geg de Schluss vo "you don't love me" nutzets d ziit guet und bauet was cools uf, lönds denn aber eifach verpuffe. Wegem song titel mues ich ahneh, dass das so denkt isch. Joy to the world lick ganz am Schluss au en nice touch, ich bin froh ischs verbi. Hot 'lanta gfallt mir, isch nur 5 minute lang, schön. Do gfallt mir sogar s orgle solo mol, wo mir sus immer biz zu spontan tönt.
Felt very Elvis-era. Interesting to hear, but a live album isn’t the best introduction to a band. Certainly wasn’t bad but it didn’t feel monumental.
blue rock bcp trop long 5.5/10
I knew I was in trouble when I saw it was a live album with only 7 tracks but nearly an hour 20 in length....
i'd love listening to a bluesy jam band live, but as an album it just kept fading into the background as they riffed, as impressive as they were. god, do i love that album cover though.
Boring. This is HS white boy guitar rock Two white guys from the south that had some good licks and some soul. This live album has nothing that made the Allmans great. And God damn, whipping post needs to be whipped by now.
I have nothing to say on this. It washed over me and left no impression. It didn’t hurt though.
2.5
I'd be real chuffed watching these guys at a local fair for 6-8 minutes. Then I'd get a hotdog. I could see this album making any roadtrip feel like a real great-american-novel roadtrip. For that and Stormy Monday + a few other tracks that live somewhere between Gil Scott-Heron, Steely Dan and the Dead it's almost a 3 (great) but let's pace myself. 2.75 (good and 3/4)
The last two songs are consistently great, but other than that the truly transcendent moments are few and far between for me. Cut it down to that last 35 minutes and you'd really be cooking with gas.
I didn’t know anything about Allman Brothers before listening to this album. The closest thing I’m familiar with is Phish (I had a Phish phase), though Phish is more whimsical while Allman Brithers are more bluesy. To me this album makes for good background music - I can listen to it while working with no trouble. It’s kinda like baseball - when I’m at a game, I’m not really paying attention most of the time, it’s just there in the background.
Not my speed, maybe a different day
Blues jazz rock. Rollo. Todo el rato igual.
Maybe it would be different if I drove a beaten up 68 Chevy pickup, but the whole jam band movement really passes me by. Yeah, you guys can play guitar, but I just don't care that you can play guitar.
I don’t know why blues based jam bands of this era had so little faith in their own original material that they felt the need to fill an entire record of a live album with noodly covers from the 1920s. The instrumentation is obviously great but man is it boring hearing the same 12 bar blues for 40 minutes. The 2nd half is much better but still has a bit of an overindulgence problem that is a staple of the genre.
I love the Allman Brothers, but boy do I hate rambling jam bands. And I get it, even their studio albums get a little "jammy", but god damn I need some structure through 60 minutes of music.
Some kind of diet blues? Meh.
I like some of this but blues albums are t really my thing.
These guys are clearly talented blues musicians, but any album where the majority of tracks are longer than five minutes is gonna lose me sooner rather than later. I’m not a jam band guy, give me the studio cuts.
Far from my favorite Allman Brothers material. Way too much time dedicated to endless guitar solos, feels like a jam session.
A 2 at the most, not too impressed with the music on these tracks.
Not as famous as people thought back in the day.
Boring.
Meh
Blues jazz rock. Rollo. Todo el rato igual.
Beaucoup de longs morceaux lives, vraiment pas terrible
This album was fine. I'm not really a blues rock person, so a lot of it just felt very generic to me. I recognized a couple of songs but only one really stood out. Standout Tracks: You Don't Love Me
Tiene cosas buenas, pero medio embole despues del tercer tema. Entiendo porque esta.
Debe ser divertido estar jameando 20 minutos un tema. Escucharlo no tanto.
Pretty boring
Statesboro Blues- 4.3/5 Done Somebody Wrong- 3.7/5 Stormy Monday- 3.4/5 You Don't Love Me- 2.3/5 Hot 'Lanta- 1.8/5 In Memory of Elizabeth Reed- 1.5/5 Whipping Post- 2.4/5 Total- 2.7/5
Very good white man blues - but I don’t like the genre and it is a bit too long for me.
Meh..too long. Don't do blues jams all that much. 1.5/5
It must be great to hear it live but it doesn't resonate well in a recording.
2.5 The band is laughing on the cover because Duane just ran over, grabbed some drugs from a dealer, and stashed it in his lap. There, fun fact out of the way. In traditional Luke fashion, despite having a familiarity with the album, I’ve never listened to it. I am familiar with a handful of the group’s songs though, including Midnight Rider, Ramblin’ Man, Listen to the Music, Jessica, and China Grove (note: some of these might be Doobie Brothers songs). While I’m not necessarily a big fan of any of those, fortunately none of them are here, so I went in with an open mind. Well, it’s definitely much bluesier and probably better than anything of theirs I’ve heard prior, but that’s not saying much coming from me. From the limited knowledge I have of the band and what I heard here, it does seem they’re the kind of group that is probably better live, so I see why this album was a success. That to say, while some of the freestyling jam out moments were cool, I don’t think keeping them up for 10+ minutes made them any cooler. Like, come on guys, I thought that there was an unspoken concert rule that you get to do one extended version of a song if you so choose, but three?? It turns a setlist of seven songs into a marathon. At one point I checked in on my status of Whipping Post to see how far I had made it in and learned it had only been four minutes. Then when I thought for sure I had reached the end I checked again and was only 13 minutes in. While I don’t really have anything negative to say aside from the runtime, I don’t have a ton to say that’s positive for me either - the jam out moments were the only remarkable aspects for me, each of which started strong then started to lose me the further they went on. So, I’d say it’s okay overall, but I’m probably not likely to return.
So goddamn boring
The Allman Brothers sound like the most generic blues rock band in the world with predictable song structure, boring and technically unimpressive solos, meandering and self indulgent songs that overstay their welcome, and nothing else interesting or unique going on. On the drive home from work today I was listening to the end of Stormy Monday and thinking “Okay okay, I get it. Wrap it up already, guys”. But they didn’t wrap it up.. they just kept on playing aimlessly. Forever.
Meh
Meh
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed is a vibe but otherwise this is a massive slog. The shorter songs are bang average and the other two longer ones go well beyond their natural ending point
Oh great, a live album. I know the Allman Brothers have some classic tracks ("Ramblin' Man"?), but there doesn't seem to be any on here. I was about four minutes into "You Don't Love Me," and I looked at the runtime: 15 minutes left, ouch. I did like "Whipping Post," there was a vague Calypso feel to that, reminiscent of Dr. Terror's House of Horrors and the voodoo music that the musician tried to steal. Obviously, this is just a rock jam sesh. Not a bad thing, if I had gone to a concert to experience a rock jam sesh. Instead, I'm listening to this on a stereo, or in my car, or whatever. And it's just out of place. It's also out of place on this list. Nothing really essential to this at all. Musicianship is great, that keeps this from falling to less than 2 stars, but damn do I not care at all. Favorite tracks: Whipping Post, Statesboro Blues. Album art: They've discovered something worse than a band photo: a "band outside the venue" photo for a live album. 2/5
I listened to this and enjoyed it for what it was, and I'm going to move forward with my life unaffected. No shade though. I actually knew the studio version of "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed". Why it's in my library I have no idea. Just another aspect of my life that I really can't nor feel the need to explain.
As far as live albums go, this one sucks. 90% of the album is filler music and none of this accurately represents their songs. Color me disappointed.
D+ Statesboro Blues - 2 Done Somebody Wrong - 3 Stormy Monday - 2 You Don’t Love Me - 1 Hot ‘Lanta - 2 In Memory of Elizabeth Reed - 2 Whipping Post - 1 Incredibly boring and too long. Multiple songs over 10 minutes? Seriously? And this live album BS. I don't care if I can hear the crowd cheer every now and then. It adds NOTHING. Record you sh** in the studio and keep your tracks under 6 minutes.
Dit is intrinsiek muziek waar ik wel van hou. Maar doordat het voornamelijk 1 grote jamsessie is en er vaak te weinig in gezongen wordt, verzandt het op een gegeven moment wel een beetje in gejengel op de gitaar. Doe mij dan maar gewoon een album met de nummers an sich, ipv dat oeverloze gepiel. Een album als Second Helping van Lynyrd Skynyrd bijv (dat natuurlijk weer niet in de 1001-lijst staat).
Blues jazz rock. Rollo. Todo el rato igual.
Much too long. The jams are nice at points but too much of something makes it irritating.
2.5
This is really really really well done blues-rock. But I'm really really really bored with blues-rock. I think to properly enjoy this I'd need a beer belly and a red MAGA hat and be wedged into the back booth of a bar in Tennessee downing Buds and contemplating calling my ex wife to discuss again who gets the dog.
Sure, it must've been awesome to see these guys jam live. But this is a record that's only impressive to people who are actually fans of The Allman Brothers Band (and maybe by extension, fans of blues & southern rock). For most other people, this would have zero resonance. Like, if I wanted to hear a band jam and have fun on stage I'd just go see an artist that I actually enjoy?
Heard it before?: No Enjoy it?: Some really decent elements but the runtime towards the end is ridiculous Favourite song: Track 4 - You Don’t Live Me
80 minutes of very impressive but ultimately unmoving blues improvisation. The core songs here don't do much for me anyway, but extending them out to 20 minutes of noodling just made the whole fade into background music. It's better than other souther blues rock, can't deny how well these guys do it, but it's too long.
Too long
Went on a bit
I kind of enjoyed the first two songs. The rest was just an hour of blues soloing, and I even had to skip through much of it, it was so boring. It wasn't bad musicianship or anything, on the contrary the Allaman Brothers Band sounds great live, but an hour of blues soloing gets really old, real fast.
Okay this is a hard no at least until I remind myself why that’s a need jerk reaction
sometimes enjoyable, sometimes painful
I thought the length was unnecessary. You could tell that this group had a lot of talent but the length of the songs and the overall album kind of ruined it because it got worn out. I thought it was alright.
[reviewing the original 7 track album, not the week-long reissues...] So. I like the Allman Brothers, and was lucky enough to see a later period show of theirs around 1991. Great musicians - each of them, and there was a chemistry on stage that was unique. To be more specific...I like their songs. THEIR songs. I like the beautiful melodies, the intricate time signatures, the dual guitar shredding. All of it came out in their original music....in a *slightly* ;) more concise formatting. This is a long-winded way of me getting around to saying this: while this album is a nice timestamp of their "legendary jams" in the early days.... most of it isn't their music, and just long long LONNNNNNNG blues jams. Which sounds cool and all but at best ends up as background music for me. Jamming for 10 minutes over one chord... man. It's a bit odd because it seems to work out more than fine in a live setting (i.e. when you're actually there) and is fun and you feel part of that on-the-spot creative performance. But on record....ok. come on. It's like get on with it already. I'll say it: it's *boring* - do i need 20 minutes of "You Don't Love Me" - no I do not. I do not love you. Next song. NEXT song. NEXT. It's occasionally nice to listen to and again - great chemistry - but this is definitely not for everyone, or I'd even say most. I'm not a huge jamming fan so I can get through it once every few (many) years. If you love the jams oh man you MUST hear this. And. if you hate jamming well don't even bother:) I hate to do the Allmans dirty like this because their 4 albums around this are great and if this is playing somewhere...sure, I'll be good with it - but I'm not reaching for it by choice. Ironic highlight: "Hot 'Lanta" (ironic because after I rip the long jams....this is one long-ish ("only" 5+ minutes) jam piece but it's original and jazzy and absolutely sticks out from the rest of the mediocre material) In a word: meandering. 5/10 2 stars.
The guitar solo... the endless solo... the squeeling... the wailing.. the solo... there is only solo... all is the solo.. we are the solo... all praise the solo... please make it end...
boring blues rock
Album felt repetitive, but it made for a good Sunday drive.
I just do not care about the heady jammy blues rock at all. I get why people love this, very much not for me, and I find listening to this to be pretty boring.
Blues not my thing
I don't actually dislike this, but I'm annoyed it's on this list. It's a fine, well-recorded live album. Maybe I'd get more out of it if I knew or cared more about Allman Brothers...
it's good but man...i could use some sense in the music I listen to. But I believe their non live albums are great and if I was there live it sure would've been something.
It is good blues, I guess. I'm just used to blues being an influence in modern music, not just blues alone without anything else. Not my vibe.
Is it the album that's the game changer, or the band, or the performance? This seems to be a common refrain about how the categories were created. I love the compilation albums, but I guess you have to put it into context of everything.
Nothing stood out.
70’er bluesrock, laaange jam-udgaver, live-optræden
some moments; but my bias prevents me from liking this
I can appreciate the musicianship but 19 and 23 minute long jams bore the fuck out of me.
Bit of a drag by the end
Easy listening, groovey and bluesy, and it got some variation in energy, and I think this specific style gets repetitive fast if not. Which is exactly what it does later on. I like it. But it's just so much soloing. 3 2
A long live album of Southern Rock blues. Blimey it goes on a bit. To be honest it could be one track that goes on for 2 hours. I wouldn't notice. It just turns into background noise. I mean they can play their guitars well....but really...i popped out to the local shop halfway through Whipping Post and the same guitar solo was still coming out of the speakers when I came back .....2.5.
Did not enjoy that much. This genre is not for me, and this is probably not the best entry point to get into the band. I enjoyed the more free playing more than the bluesy stuff. The playing is obviously great. Favs: You Don't Love Me, In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
If Muddy Waters's Newport album taught me anything, it is that blues - especially live performed blues - requires personality. Muddy waters have this charisma that instantly connects with audience as he sing. And if Led Zeppelin's The Song Remains the Same live show taught me anything, it is that live performances that are driven by loud and hard-rocking instrumentals and goes at as long as twenty minutes requires much more than generic blues fiddling. Nahhh, I lied. I realized these when I listened to this album. I learned it in the same way a bad book teaches a lot of stuffs that are useful for authors.
Didn't give this as much attention as it probably deserved but wasn't that nice to listen to
I hate live albums and I hate bloated, overindulgent track run times. This is way more bluesy than I expected, which is great. But I still can't enjoy the tracks that are over 8, 13, 19, and 23 minutes long. It's just so self-gratifying of the artist and demanding of the listener.
my favourite, a live album from a band i don't really know. wooooooo! yeeeeaaaaah! hello denver.
Dull, dull, double dull.
Long, sometimes laborious, jam band-ey live album. Nothing particularly wrong with it, just not something I tend to gravitate towards. Also, doesn't have any of my favorite Allman Brothers songs.
rad but repetitive
Didn’t care for this album. I thought the music was good but it’s mostly them jamming along for minutes on end. It’s always difficult to recreate that live experience and it doesn’t happen here with me. Not saying it’s bad. Just something I won’t revisit. 4.7/10
Inte för mig, för långt, gillar i allmänhet inte långa ass gitarrsolon... helt ok bakgrundsmusik
I don't know what happened? I like The Allman Brothers Band, but this just felt aimless and boring. 'You Don't Love Me' is TWENTY MINITES, and unfortunately that's, like, 18 too many. Same problen with 'Whipping Post.' It's all too much of them just jamming, which I guess makes sense since it was over 3 nights, but still. Not feeling it.
Op zich niet slecht, maar niet mijn ding, helemaal niet toen ik op de Wikipedia pagina zag dat er een 2014 release was van dit album met een lengte van 365 minuten en 03 seconde. Hou nou eens op zeg!
Schijnt een legendarische southernrock band geweest te zijn. Ik vond het vooral erg langdradig.
I started the album last week and it's still going Monday morning. Someone make it stop!
What is even the point of this utter nonsense? Goes beyond wankery, you almost have to wonder if they all realised they should stop about a tenth of the way through each track, but were too embarrassed to be the one to say anything.
p230. 1971. 2 stars On the plus side: if you want an example of why Duane Allman rates alongside Clapton and Hendrix as the greatest guitarist of all time, look no further. This is it. On the negative side: if you want an example of excessive, overly long, wankage filled early '70s southern blues/rock, look no further. This is it. Don't get me wrong, the musicianship is great and Duane Allman is fantastic but... it's too much, and too long. Seriously, did anyone actually enjoy 15-20 minute "jams" on a live album unless they were stoned? Maybe you had to be there.
Got kind of tired of the music by the end
If I really wanted to hear 15 minutes of mediocre noodling over blues scales at a time, I would just go to my living room and play guitar myself.
God, that was dull
La musique en soi n'est pas mauvaise, mais tellement de long passage instrumental qui ne vont nulle part et qui font plus flashy qu'autre chose. Un bon musicianship, mais c'est long longtemps.
Is it bad? No. Is it good? also no. It's just kind of... rambly. As expected of a jam session blues band live album.
Meh
Not another live album! This stuff is for fans only - not great sound quality - I have said this before, for a live album to make this list it has to be really special and capture a particular special moment in time. This is not that. I’d rather listen to their studio albums.
No way to justify the length of this album, these cunts cannot improvise well enough to fill a 15 minute solo.
Not a lot of noteworthy tracks on this one, they all kind of blend together. Also, Whipping Post lol
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Eh, I like the way these guys play in the studio. Let loose in a live environment, however, and they become self-indulgent. There's simply not enough present in their undoubted facility with blues rock to keep me hooked on these lengthy jams. And the longeurs are a shame, because in more concise forms 'Statesboro Blues' and 'Whipping Post' are damn fine songs
Too much
The only time I get excited to hear Allman Brothers Band is when it means I’m about to watch an episode of Top Gear. Unimpressive, but not offensive.
Jam bands are not my jam.
This album is a perfect example of why I don't like live albums. Far too much self indulgent jamming.
A very professional live performance by a tight band. Easy background music, but 19 and 23 minute long songs may get a bit boring if I'm not distracted by other things. 2.5/5.
OKé maar ik hou niet zo van live albums
Cool jams but songs are too long... Ça devient interminable... And I don't like live albums. La musique finit par juste être une trame de fond. 2.3/5
Clearly good, but not for me
not my jam
Not my kind
Ik ben nog steeds geen liefhebber van blues en ook niet van live registraties. Toch heeft dit best iets swingends. **
eh, didn't really do anything for me
Was about to write 'Why in the hell is this album included in the list', and then read on wikipedia that it's actually because they're a leading jam band. In fact, if you google "A band that jams", The Allman Brothers Band is the 2nd hit. And this is then their top album. Also, Rolling Stone ranked them at 52/53 in their lists of the greatest artists of all time. Taking this into consideration, it kind of makes sense this is on here. It also makes sense why it'd be a live album. That being said, this doesn't mean I like it. I don't haven an affinity for live records. I enjoy live music, but part of the feeling of a long live jam is that you feel connected to the musicians in front of you on the stage, and that is obviously not going to happen when listening to a recording. If there was less jamming and got recorded in studio rather than live I'd probably like it more, but that would mean it would not have deserved to be on the list. I'd rated it a 3 or 4 if it wasn't so looooong and not recorded live, but hey here we are. Weirdly it is my type of music, and I would enjoy seeing them live -- though I realize that is both never going to be a real possibility and if I could, then it'd probably be to pricey for me. (As a side note, I felt like I was listening to a zydeco band while listening to 'You don't love me', which I liked)
not exactly my style
Meh
This was weirdly quite good but also a massive drag. Everything sounded the same and I didn't really like the bits songs you do get every so often.
2.5 for the awesome guitar playing
I think this is what the inside of Jeremy Clarkson's head sounds like
meh
It was ok but so long and samey
2/5
I really like the Allman Brothers. They were a first rate blues band in their early days and they pretty much invented Southern rock. I love their sound. Their arrangements are tight and tasteful. And they could do it all live. For example, there is little to criticize about the opener of this album, Statesboro Blues. Greg Allman is an underrated singer and Duane Allman, contained in a short radio format as he is here, is an unbeatable slide guitarist. The problems come when they try to stretch out. Someone like John Coltrane or John Scofield can solo for half an hour and never repeat himself, relentlessly spinning out fresh melodies and variations. Or, to take an example from rock, Eddie Van Halen had the kind of imagination and chops to pull off an extended improvisation. But on a tune like You Don't Love Me, it becomes painful to listen to the soloists vamp, trying to ring something vital out of a stunted vocabulary of the small handful of pentatonic phrases. So, how to rate? The shorter songs are terrific. The epics are torture.
This really faded into the background. Seemingly some pretty serviceable bluesy rock. Well done fellas. Go smoke a fat one. I’ve got my day to be getting in with.
To be fair, this has made perfectly fine background listening. The guitars have an eagerness of sorts, and the whole sounds pretty urgent, more than mere technical show-offery (though plenty of that). I can see this existing as an important album of that white-guys-play-the-blues genre. It’s just not an especially compelling genre to me.
Live country rock. Am I missing something?
Went from a 4, then a 3, then a 2 after 78 minutes of the same solos
really not for me, the rifts where jazzeque as times and that is not my cup of tea, the bluesy parts were good
not for me
Buen disco, muy buen sonido rock jams eternos buenas guitarras
Great musicians just not my genre
Songs just blended in with each other. I heard all these songs separately out of album and I think they're better that way.
Not my jam. Songs were long and repetitive, and I can go to other sources for better blues. Two stars instead of one because it was inoffensive background music when I wasn't paying attention to it.
Not my cup of tea
Just kinda boring for me
Een beetje té.
Southern rock/blues played live at the classic venue. If you're not into side long jams then this isn't for you. Best Tracks: Statesboro Blues, Stormy Monday, Hot 'Lanta,
I had to bail about 20 minutes in as it was just a continuous blues-country-rock jam, and while it sounded technically accomplised/well played, it just wasn't my cup of tea. There's no way I could take the full 76 mins of it.
Classic live rock but it's not really my thing. 4/10.
Not my favorite
Jam band
Meh.
ok instrumental
Warum ein live Album? Soll ich das als milderne Umstände von der Soundqualität abziehen? Und dann auch noch 134 Minuten... Smooth Blues, aber nichts, was zum hören Aufmerksamkeit fordert. Streckenweise sehr gute längere melodische Einlagen, die eher jazzigen Charakter haben, aber erst nach ca. 30 Minuten Blues. Wenig Text, aber wenn dann häufig penetrant über Gott. Das Publikum nervt stellenweise und der Smacktalk zwischen einigen Liedern auch. Ganz klar nicht noch mal hören, aber tatsächlich vor allem weil es Live ist. Die Band ist okay, teilweise sogar gut.
Gave it a listen but it’s just not my vibe
Can hear it's good but not my style of music. Some very long tracks.
not my fav genre
Not exciting in any way. Boring jam band music for hippies.
Nothing for me here. Boring trad American blues rock. It filled an hour of a car journey, at least the drive distracted me from the tedium of this record.
It might feel unfair, but the older I get, the less I enjoy blues music. Even the tedeschi trucks band I used to dig doesn’t hit the spot anymore. Oh nice it’s only seven tracks, I’m sure I won’t have to listen to noodling for too long….it’s 80 minutes 💀
ça pu bien
boring and uninspiring
Jesus Christ this was boring. What a masturbatory album. I try not to get too much into critiquing art forms I don’t enjoy; but jam bands just seem like the most absurd, pointless, and annoying concept of all time. If you release an album in 1974 that 80 minutes, and the 2014 rerelease is 300 minutes, just kill yourself. The guitarists just fucking around through one chord progression in 4 minutes while everyone else has a smoke. Being in the crowd for this would be absolutely tedious were I guess it not for huge amount of drugs. If I could rate this 0 I would. I started to like the first sign thinking it was an okay jazz rock album and just hated it.
um ya i dont think a 19 minute song is ever necessary. oh... i didnt realize there's also a 23 minute song until just now :(
1. ★ Statesboro Blues - Good start to the album, great recording and guitar 2. Done Somebody Wrong - Is groove… maybe not much else 3. Stormy Monday - Like nighttime jazz in a cafe 4. You Don’t Love Me - Nice breakdown in beginning; almost halfway through, feeling done 5. Hot ‘Lanta - It’s nice to listen to and all, but it’s just not for me, really I could say this for the whole album so far 6. In Memory of Elizabeth Reed - … okay that’s enough 7. Whipping Post - Okay I’m done! Never really heard of this band before. I think they’re talented, but just not for me. One star for talent and one star for passion… then minus one star for dragging it out too long. Just something that I would never listen to again.
Inte alls itressant att lyssna på
awful
Pretty cool at first and then it reeeeealllllyyy dddrrrrragggedd onnnnn . And then suddenly there’s Christmas music and then is kept draaaaginggg onnnn gosh it just never ends UGH I was falling asleep and praying for this album to be over
Is it over is it over is it over yet
O thought I would like it but then I didnt
Jazz bar vibes. Aber in zu garage band type. Fuzzy chameleons.
this was just dull
“ At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it.” In my own personal telling of the Divine Comedy there’s an additional, tenth ring in the Inferno over whose gate is inscribed simply, “Allman Bros.”
Day 234 I like what I’ve heard of Allman Brothers on studio albums but I didn’t get along with this at all, kind of hated it tbh
Pas aimé
Not for me.
Was not in the mood for an hour of noodling guitars and boring beats. Sure, they're skilled but come on man, 20 minutes of just some repetitive backing track with a whiny guitar? 'Stormy Weather' was nice since it wasn't so in-your-face but the rest of the album I had to skip through because fuck that man. 1.5/5
More 70s pub rock. I quite enjoyed You Don't Love Me, but thought they'd strung it out a bit after it had come to a natural finish. Looked at the app and it still had 12 minutes of aimless noodling to go on that song alone. Just STOP. Would have been bearable if it hadn't been a double album made up of only 7 songs stretched out for ever. I feel like I deserve a medal or something for making it through.
1*
pointless. jamais que vão me ver elogiando white man blues. 0/5.
I hate jam bands. There’s two minute songs on here that last for twenty.
Background music at best. Can’t be arsed writing anything about it
I’m sorry but this was just too indulgent for me and I didn’t need to be hearing 19 minute tracks. Maybe also harsher on this one because THERE’S JUST BEEN TOO MUCH THIS WEEK I’ve spent probably 4 hours listening to live albums from the 70s that I didn’t enjoy Also a confession that I skipped four minutes out of the middle of the last song but don’t think I missed much
Ok
😀
1. Okay, not really my kind of music. Okay, i'm so sorry but i'm bored. Yeah on the description it says it's just rock but I looked it up and it does have blues elements which are....................................not my thing unfortunately. I just cant listen to men sing absolutely incomprehensible lyrics with a 10 minute guitar solo after every verse. 2. I don't know what it is about the 70s but i've never really liked them, I don't know why. I mean it's not that I don't like the 70s but I just feel like the 70s were like the 60s but a little more mellow and like the 80s except a little less refined. I like some 70s music but not because it's from the decade, because I like the bands themselves, regardless of the decade, unlike 80s and 90s and even 50s music that has a specific sound that i've always liked, but I just hate men with long hair and moustaches growling. I'm so sorry. 3. Yeah no I hate this. And it's 8 minutes long. Oh my god the next song is 19 minutes long, im so sorry i cant do this. 4. Okay I decided to do it and ill be honest this is maybe one of the better songs that ive heard? But it's still not my thing. Why is this song 19 minutes long? Oh my god it's just guitar, it's just 19 minutes of electric guitar. Jesus Christ. God forgive me ONCE AGAIN, but absolutely not.
No one, and I do mean no one, has any reason to turn a 3 minute song into a 21 minute song. Ever.
Anyone that says they enjoyed this was pretending, I love some of their other stuff but this was just endless noisy blues purgatory
para nada mi estilo, me gusta como suena en sí la grabación y las guitarras pero la voz del chabon me aburre siento q es un disco q si o si te compras el vinilo y fantasmeas que escuchas esto pero ni bola me dieron muchas ganas de sacarlo entonces lo escuchaba mientras leía twitter not gonna lie
Bullshit live album blues jam band crap by white people (plus a black drummer!) The AllWhite Brothers solidified my stance that talent is fucking overrated as a measure for greatness. Supreme Clientele by Ghostface Killah - 3.5 stars.
People paid money to watch these guys play the same riff over and over. I bet the Allwoman Sisters Band would be less annoying
Boring
Ihan varmaan hyviä soittajia, olisi pitänyt olla paikalla kuulemassa, niin ehkä olisin tälle paremmin syttynyt. Musiikkilaji ei ole itselleni mieluisinta
definitely not my genre
Hoped it might be quite Blues Brothers-ish… no such luck. Oh dear.
I really don't like blues. I typically hate live albums. This was the worst of both worlds...couldn't finish it.
i don’t believe that any song should be over 8 minutes. why are they so long but this could just be me listening to the expanded version
Boring blues rock that is now hackneyed and played to death but just won't die.
too country no me copa
Pretty old for my liking 😵💫, also only found the live version
20 minutes songs? GTFOH...
why the FUCK were some of the songs over 20 minutes long.
Not for me
nah
Couldn’t get through it. Just hate jam bands.
I am going to become the joker
Music to fall asleep to. Extremely boring and unbearably long. Fuck this "jam band" bullshit. I wish i could rate it as zero.
Boring.
After several good and great albums in a row, this is the hangover. I've been been picking one song from each album and adding it to a playlist, and for this one, I based my choice on length, because every song is horrible and some are extremely long. The album ends with a 23 minute blues song in which a white songwriter compares a bad relationship to being whipped. He's talking about a pillory rather than being enslaved, but it's ill-judged and you certainly don't feel any sympathy for him. Just before the end, one of the guitarists plays Frere Jacques, which is the one but of light relief during this awful slog of an album. I've heard Lynyrd Skynyrd albums better than this. Honest to god, Lynyrd Skynyrd! I'd give it zero if I could.
Ooof this was a slog. To many long guitar solos and instrumental sections.
20 минутный джем - кому это вообще надо?
It's a live jam album. Not my thing x2.
"The best live album of all time," huh? Fine. 1,000,000 * 0 = 0 Seriously, this was absolutely pointless.
This was rough.
Pardon my french, but this is boring af. Fav: rien
Oh god please just be less long than this. I don't even know if it's really bad to be honest, but I do know I can't face 76 minutes of endless, ceaseless, relentless blues guitar action, never going anywhere or doing anything. You're a bit lulled at first, because the first two songs are standard four minuters, and are vaguely OK, and then it just descends into inanity.
Uhhh sooo repetitive and boring this stinks
Oh no, it's live. And it was going fine until You Don't Love Me. The sparse faffing about on guitar doesn't appeal. Jams are fine, but 75% of this album is jam. That's like, 30 minutes too much jamming. This gets a 1.
Bloated Blues Rock often going into jams. Being a live album is devalueing the music.
I just don't really like jam bands and never have. Live albums of jam bands is sorta torture for me. Only part i liked was at the end of one of the songs where they did a play on Joy to the World
Largely the same riff repeated over several songs with the odd "Oh lord" thrown in for food measure.
How do you turn a 3 minute song into a 21 minute song? Pad it out with 85% self indulgent drivel. I thought the album would never end and was so exhausted by the end of it I stopped listening to music altogether.
22 min, 19 min, 12 min hillbilly bluesjam...give me a fucking break. Finns inte en möjlighet i helvete att jag överlever att lyssna på hela albumet, Pink Floyd framstår ju som sympatiska i jämförelse. Så jag lyssnade inte på varje ackord på den här skivan ska erkännas, jag tror det spelar mindre roll i sammanhanget. Det fanns små små partier där något påminde om The Band, det är nog det mest positiva jag kan säga, annars skrev Jonas det bra. Kan vi ha fått nog med bluesrock för ett sekel nu tack och nog med 70tal (och möjligen sent 60tal). Det här är så vanisinnigt skräddarsytt för de gruffiga gringa iklädda män man stöter på i second hand skivbutiker att det är skrattretande. Lyssna hellre på Nature - Nature, The Band - Stage fright
Det kunde ha varit fler riktigt långa gitarrsolon.
Pernha blir genast bönhörd av slumpgeneratorn! Ännu mer bluesjam. Ett vitt bluesband i mängden som spelar bluesstandards. Om man ska spela standards så bör man tillföra något, så som Peps gör med sina texter. Det ända det här bandet bidrar med är svag sång. Ett live-album inspelat inför en sittande/sovande publik (?). Mellansnacket är underhållande: "vi ska spela en ny låt, det är en Elmore James-låt" (Elmore James dog 1963). Eller: "vår nästa låt är en blues". Sistaspåret är plågsamt långrandigt. Lyssna hellre på At Newport 1960 med Muddy Waters.
i think this album gave me both a tummy and head ache..... i love stormy monday though! the rest is exhaustingly bad......
Hate jam bands
I hate live albums.
My first time listening to The Allman Bros and boy was it a bad idea to start with a live album. I'm not the biggest fan of bluesy stuff in general but having to sit through songs that are a 10+ minutes long guitar solo is a torture for me 1/5
It’s like a masterclass in guitar that I never want to hear again.
Hard to rate. This genre isn’t for me.
In no way will I ever believe a live album belongs on this kind of list.
these boys can play! get them one million dollars
A very long winded record for me personally. I like a bit more structure to songs. These all sounded the same and went on for far too long!
Pretty awful. 10-20 minute solos, barely even songs. Maybe they're better on the studio record, but I hated this.
Whoopty-do. The Allman Brothers Band are a jam band….
It’s fine, probably won’t come back to it
Live album.
Can’t say I’m much of a blues fan. Pretty much every track sounds the same
Klingt nach alter Western Musik. Nicht meins auch viel zu alt gefühlt.
Obviously these guys are musical virtuosos and legends and all that, but this is a type of music I just have absolutely no fun listening to. And my rankings are primarily based on personal enjoyment.
Yeah, nah man. I'm good. My favorite part of the Logan's experience has always been the food. Never the music, and I don't necessarily want to bring Logan's music outside of the establishment.
Not for me. 1/5
As my friend Lou once said, “too jammy man” zzzzzz
Aw yeah I knew this one! It's the famous album by "who gives a shit"..
Someone said ”live recording so good you can’t tell it’s live” but oh I can. Also, is this such a pivotal album that it is necessary to be on 1001 albums?
This was a very long listen. The music itself wasn’t that bad tbh but the mix of 20 minutes songs, it being a live album and 10 minute long guitar solo this was shit. Now I’ll give it too them fusing blues, jazz and rock together but ppl have done it x10 better over the years. Just a very boring listen and had to split it up thru out the day and still barely got thru. For me it’s a 2.7/10 1.3/5
I didn't enjoy this album at all. Too much guitar, too repetitive.
This is the 55th album I’m rating. I’ve heard one song by the Allman Brothers Band but I can’t remember which one it was. Adding to my Playlist - Statesboro Blues and Done Somebody Wrong. Not Adding to my Playlist - Stormy Monday, You Don’t Love Me, Hot ‘Lanta, In Memory of Elizabeth Reed, and Whipping Post. All in all I liked 2/7 songs. Live double albums are almost always terrible. Who needs a 22 minute song?
Overall wasn't that influential on me...
Generic bluesy jam-rock nonsense
very boring
Liveplatta och låtar som tar slut imorgon. Nix!
I think I would have enjoyed the not live version of this a WHOLE LOT more.
Mais uma vez, é difícil ouvir e gostar de um álbum sem estar no estado de espírito certo. Não achei nada de especial. E apesar de muitos álbuns ao vivo serem espetaculares, prefiro conhecer a obra que deu origem em estúdio. Um disco de 1971 que carrega o peso dos anos.
White guy blues is so fucking boring.