BETTS ITS BEEN OVER 25 YEARS SINCE I WAS AT A SHOW AND WE AST HUNG OUT AT DAVE PASTORES (RIP) WEDDING. BECAUSE OF MY RELATIONSHIP WITJ DAVE AND PASTORE MUSIC I WAS CONSIDERED 'FAMILY' BY MANY ROADCREWS AND ALWAYS GOT CREW PASSES FOR SHOWS. I ALWSYS ENJOYED GOING DOWN EARY TO WATCH THE CREW SET UP AND WOULD HELP WHEN I COUD. I ALMOST ALWAYS DID SECURITY FOR THE CTEW. PLEASE SEND ME AN E-MAIL SO I CAN GIVE YOU MY NUMBER. I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE MY GRANDSON TO A SHOW. IF SOMEONE IS READING THIS FOR BETTS PLEASE JUST MENTION DAVE PASTORE TO BETTS. HE WILL TANK YOU FOR IT. THANX JOHN

You'd never catch me playing in jeans during the summer. That's just HOT!

Hey back at you Savannah!! You are so right Dan. Dug the post Pinto. ! Best wishes to your Father Jim. I hope your mother is feeling better Rainy. It is a good day to be alive!! 😎 Peach.

Dan, Luke, and Savannah, sure wish you guys could have made it to Macon.

Morning Dan,yes we have had some GREAT times through the years Brer.Luke will always be my BROTHER & I miss hanging out with Him on the Dark Backroads,We sure did travel down some strange places together.Hello J.K.,Nicster,Rain Lady,PaulR,Heidi and all G.B. Folks :bounce:

Good morning!!mid 70's today..mother nature is really putting a different spin on things this year!!! Ever notice how when Savanah or Luke shows the other is just around the corner? Use to be when when I was on this site in the early hours I 'ld get these morning message's from one of these two or someone else..kinda of thinking of all the fun and enjoyment I have had on this site for the last 10-11 years going on now. S

Nic, you are a very big inspiration to me and I was delighted to help Dan Toler on your behalf and would do it again in a minute! I haven't been able to capsulize my feelings about the Macon weekend yet, but the concert itself was one of the best I have ever seen. I knew Barry Richmond was a big hairy gorilla of a guitar maniac and I discovered that was an understatement. I knew Dan Toler had the sweetest smoothest licks this side of Dickey Betts and even from his wheelchair he was the best I ever heard him and I had seen him on three other occasions. I did not know about Caroline Aiken and I think she can capture a stage about as well as any entertainer and I wish I had been listening to her for the last thirty years. And I knew Jimmy Hall had the biggest loudest most powerful set of lungs in the whole world but I did not know that it was physiologically possible for anyone his age to sing the same way he did when he was in his 20's. I knew there were a lot of attractions in Macon for Allman Brothers fans but I didn't realize the town has spirits and ghosts and a soul of its own that envelopes you as you walk down its streets. And I knew there were a whole lot of really terrific amazing people who show up here on the GB regularly, but there's no way to calculate how it really is a brotherhood and a family. Once there, everybody put his/her own agenda aside and cared more about what everybody else wanted to do. I totally enjoyed everybody I met. I don't hear about those kinds of things too often. To me, especially on the wings of my trip to Mt Pleasant the Thursday before, it was Nirvana.

Thanks to innereye and Rainy for the Beacon 7 Turns. 2008? Geez. I traded a copy of No Saints No Saviors with Pedro for a backstage pass - that's me behind the curtain, stage right, along with the Bomberry's. Last beer I ever had - went up to the "green room" and no one had touched a thing - not a beer, not a chicken finger - guess no one was hungry. The house wasn't full and it was such a great show. Memories...sweet memories. Oh yeah, thanks Pedro. Did you EVER get to read the book? - Bud Snyder snatched it up and then it went on to Mom last I heard.

Dickey might be playing Germany in July: This is a post about Gov't Mule... but look at the last line: Two Dates in Germany have been confirmed by eventim.de: > 14.7. Winterbach/Stuttgart Salierhalle 19.7. Isernhagen Bluesgarage > The Isernhagen date is labeled as a club concert and ridiculously priced at 68€. However, you can get a combi ticket together with Dickey Betts the following night. I'm just sayin'... Peace & Ride The Mule, Tom :smoke: