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The thing is, when you finally replace Duane with the ultra talented Warren Haynes (who wrote it) and then eventually replace the legendary Dickey Betts with the phenomenal Derek Trucks...well that's a legendary band. Gregg, Butch, and Jaimoe just kept the spirit constant throughout. Thank you for posting this...I love this song too. Great stuff between Derek and Warren on this performance - wow! BTW other versions of this on a couple of Gov't Mule albums are also very good and you might enjoy them (if not already familiar). I have it on The Deep End, Volume 1 and really like it. Actually I just went to Youtube to save this to my list of liked videos and saw the date and location...Beacon Theater in 2008...it's possible I was at that show! Or at least I was at a show in the same Beacon run that year.

Passed away with friends and family at his side today, aged 69 years. I have a very personal emotional connection to the music of the Allman Brothers Band and Gregg Allman. Live at Fillmore East of course gets a lot of love but Brothers and Sisters, Eat a Peach, and even some of the comeback albums like Seven Turns and Shades of Two Worlds are fantastic. I love Gregg's solo effort Laid Back and enjoyed his fairly recent album Low Country Blues. My understanding is that a new album is set to be released, now posthumously, in September. I lived in Macon, GA for two years, literally a block away from the building that once house Capricorn Records where the first Allman Bro's albums were recorded. We used to eat at the H&H Restaurant where the band ate in their early days. During the heyday they used to fly Mama H with them to cook. Gold records and pictures adorned the walls as a result. One night, I was reading the excellent bio of the band "Midnight Riders" by Scott Freeman and saw that Gregg's second marriage had been presided over by Judge Taylor Phillips, in Macon. I leapt off the couch and called my fiance (now ex-wife) as she and I had just met with Judge Phillips and he agreed to marry us that June. When we met with him again I asked about the Allman marriage. He told us about it and mentioned that Gregg left his chewing gum in the ash tray. After he left, the Judge's secretary asked him if she could have it! They were 'as big as the Beatles' (at least in some places) at the time. Got to see the band four times, twice with Dickey, twice with Trucks & Haynes. I'd argue they were the greatest Southern Rock band, and one of, if not the greatest, rock bands the United States has ever produced. RIP Gregg and enjoy hanging with Duane again after all these years.

Except for statistics. And Reinhart.

I don't know...seems like a joke made by a Robot

Watching the playoffs and how those games are played reminds me, again, of how much we need guys like Kane when we finally reach the promised land of the playoffs again. It's such an intense and physical version of NHL hockey, without guys who play as fast and hard and Kane, there is no chance. They don't grow on trees. So although I am in tune with the "sell high" argument and support it, my support is conditional on getting a haul in return that contributes to the team's chances to be a playoff contender in the near term; i.e. I think it has to be a solid puck moving defenseman in return (like Vatanan), which is what we need. Hopefully, if this happens then guys like Bailey, Carrier, Fasching, and/or Baptiste can step up and in some way partially fill the scoring/checking forward slot Kane occupies (not 1 for 1, but at least in part). Agree with the "Okposo deal" post above in terms of trying to keep him.

I hope the colonoscopy is not based on suspected problems and just proactive. I need to go get another one soon as I have a family history of colon cancer. Sorry to hear about everyone's pet and health trials. Thanks for sharing. Helped me keep perspective this morning on my daily trials and tribulations at work and home. My daughter is a senior in HS. She's a great kid. Puts way too much stress on herself, in addition to the real stress kids face these days. And of course school is winding down now as she's completed all her final exams. Anyway, she drove to my house from her Mother's house and was having a rough morning and running late. I live next to the HS so she just walks over from there. I printed out and signed a note for her explaining that she had car issues (which is sort of true...the car was late) that made her 10 minutes late. She texted me an hour later that the note wasn't accepted as car trouble is not a valid excuse, even if explained by a parent. My school tax dollars at work! So...I wrote her another note saying I required her to help me out with something so she was unable to be there on time (which is a 'legal' excuse I believe, and not in conflict with the first note). I also left her 4 more notes to choose from when she comes home for lunch, all printed out and waiting for her on the kitchen table. They involve various scenarios which made her late including driving a dying child to the hospital for emergency treatment, being pinned down by ISIS artillery fire whilst defending a Syrian village, alien abduction, and needing a few extra minutes to recover from Ebola. I'm hoping she enjoys them.

Good eye! My iPhone 6S couldn't pick it up that well, it was more visible live.

Catchy. Also, weirdly, sounds like the band The Outfield from the 80's. (A guilty pleasure of mine)

Yeah, but when is he going to generate some art to share with the world? Guy's a chronic underperformer even among the underperformers.

I like this comment...just focusing on the performance on the ice. Leino was clearly drifting, not working hard to get out of this slump. Contrast that with say, Matt Moulson. Now, MattyMo didn't entirely forget how to score but it got pretty bad. I think he doubled down on training and effort and at least made the most of what he's got left. He's still not great by any means, but he saved himself from being binned with the likes of Leino the Lame.

Here you go...girls 12U softball practice

Good call on "Kind of Blue". I considered it too, as well as "Take Five" as an option for those days on the desert island requiring jazz...

It's bad enough in the regular season...playoffs just get worse. Third period gets even worse. I hate it. Would love to see more skating and scoring and fewer injuries that would result from a long term policy of calling it tighter. I like the legal hitting and scrums for the puck or position, it's just the slashing, spearing, interference, hooking, and holding that brings nothing to the game whatsoever.

We get 10? 6) Johnny Cash - Live at San Quentin 7) Led Zep - Physical Graffiti 8) ELP - Trilogy 9) Beatles - The White Album 10) Lowest of the Low - Shakespeare My Butt

My desert island picks: 1) The Who - Who's Next 2) Waylon Jennings - Honky Tonk Heroes 3) Boston - Boston (first album) 4) Allman Brothers - Live at Fillmore East 5) George Harrison - All Things Must Pass

Agree. There is a dearth of discussion about Zydeco music in this thread.

I love Duane Allman...have to say though Derek Trucks has sort of surpassed him in terms of breadth and depth...Duane just didn't live long enough to fulfill that destiny. Granted, Derek tread on the path Duane paved, so there is that. He's just gone down new paths as well. No one has mentioned Derek Trucks yet (I think) so I'll throw it out there; is there a better blues/rock guitarist touring today? I don't know all the guitarists on Earth so maybe there is, I just haven't seen it yet. Check out at the 3:20 mark...gets a nice compliment later from a pretty good player, BB King. John Mayer watches on in amazement.

And the Moody Blues are not!

Thanks for sharing that! If I could buy stock in The Regrettes, I would do so. Love the name too. But they need a chick drummer too. Just to complete the overall effect.

I don't know what JBOT is going to do but I thought Ex-GMTM's strategy might have been to make Falk expansion draft eligible so he could protect him, and thereby leave Bogosian unprotected, and make a deal with McPhee to either draft or take in a trade Bogosian and his 3 years of no-hockey-sense-over-paid-contract off Buffalo's hands. There are probably holes with that theory... Anyway, Falk is a nice affordable 6/7 sort of guy, superior to Josh Gorges in every way.

Michael Lewis wrote the book. Beane agreed to give access. The thing about the competitive advantages the A's were exploiting at the time was they were largely all open to the public to see. The type of players they signed, the way they ran the team, etc. Those competitive advantages were going away regardless and new market inefficiencies would need to be identified and exploited. Anyway, it's not clear to me if Beane made money off the book or the movie Moneyball (I really have no idea, but it seems unlikely) but he actually did turn down a massive pay increase to go to Boston as GM, so it wouldn't appear as if money was his primary driver.

http://buffalonews.com/2017/05/12/sabres-increase-season-ticket-prices/

The NHL's Fred Flintstone is already on TV: https://twitter.com/fakejonesy

Four women who can really sing. I don't always appreciate the song choices (esp. Reba) but with the right songs, good lord they are good. I'll throw Martina McBride in there too.

Buck Owens was a serious talent. One of his musical off-spring, Dwight Yoakam, is a direct reflection of that. Very little 'modern' country music works for me due to the intentional dumbing down and red-necking of it (aside from lack of talent). There are some gems out there but at this point they may fit more in the 'roots' music category than country, I think. Agree on the point about talent within the mainstream. It's possible, just unlikely. For example the uber popular mainstream pop singer Adele, does in fact sing like a goddess/genius. In my car and on my iPhone these days I am pretty much cycling endlessly through Howlin' Wolf. Sort of came to Chicago Blues in a big way only recently so I'm working through major artists, depending who catches my attention. The raw intensity of emotion and musical craftsmanship of those Howlin' Wolf records is stunning. Hubert Sumlin has to be one of the most underrated guitar players of the last century. Interesting tidbit: http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/464802/rolling-stones-jagger-richards-pay-for-hubert-sumlins-funeral