RIP Butch Trucks

[Big Circus]

Butch Trucks, Allman Brothers Band Co-Founder, Dead at 69

Very sad. Brilliant drummer. I'm going to go listen to "Whipping Post."

 

[Inky_Wretch]

DAMN IT!

 

[Michael_ Gee]

When Duane was alive, Allman Bros. were best concert rock and roll band that ever lived. This is sad news indeed.

 

[CD Boogie]

When Duane was alive, Allman Bros. were best concert rock and roll band that ever lived.

that basically lasted a hot minute

 

[Michael_ Gee]

that basically lasted a hot minute

I know it was a short time, but being historically great for a short time means a lot. It's like Bill Walton.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

The Allmans continued to be a pretty damn good band for many years. I saw them several times in the last few years before they quit. They were incredible.

(Of course, I'm a jam band guy so my view is tainted.)

 

[Huggy]

Saw the Allmans twice in 2013, including a show at the Beacon in NYC which is easily one of my top five all-time shows.....I shall crank Fillmore East in his memory....

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Saw the Allmans at Red Rocks. Double win.

 

[Buck]

I had a chance to see the Allman Bros. at Montclair in 1990 on the anniversary of Duane's death.
And I didn't go.

I was very dumb.

Still am, actually.

 

[albert777]

A band playing with more than one drummer can be tricky, if they're not totally in sync all the time, and they can overpower the rest of the band if the mix isn't right. The Grateful Dead, the other prominent rock band that employed two drummers, often had problems in that regard, especially in Mickey Hart's first tenure with the band in the late '60s and into 1970. When Mickey returned after a 5-year hiatus, he and Billy Kreutzmann were much more like Trucks and Jaimoe: in rhythm and more in the background, where a good rhythm section should be. Honestly, there were times with the Brothers when you really couldn't tell there were two drummers playing. That's how seamless Butch and Jaimoe were.

Anyway, RIP to one of the great drummers who ever lived.

 

[Huggy]

Ever since the Allmans called it a day in October 2014 Gregg has been hinting at a reunion but those hints should come to an end with his recurring health problems, the refusal of Derek Trucks and Warren Haynes to be involved and now Butch's death.

 

[User 4332]

I went to about a dozen Allman Brothers concerts from '95 to '10. They consistently put on a great show, especially after picking up Butch's nephew Derek.

Really sad to hear this news. Butch was fantastic.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Richmond Coliseum, spring of 1973. Hell of a show. Love the ABB.

 

[Riptide]

A band playing with more than one drummer can be tricky, if they're not totally in sync all the time, and they can overpower the rest of the band if the mix isn't right. The Grateful Dead, the other prominent rock band that employed two drummers, often had problems in that regard, especially in Mickey Hart's first tenure with the band in the late '60s and into 1970. When Mickey returned after a 5-year hiatus, he and Billy Kreutzmann were much more like Trucks and Jaimoe: in rhythm and more in the background, where a good rhythm section should be. Honestly, there were times with the Brothers when you really couldn't tell there were two drummers playing. That's how seamless Butch and Jaimoe were.

Anyway, RIP to one of the great drummers who ever lived.

The Tedeschi Trucks Band, led by Derek Trucks, has continued the ABB tradition of two drummers, and it's a seamless percussion act, too. Also a lot of fun to watch when yours eyes stray from Trucks' guitar work or Susan Tedeschi's lead vocals.

 

[Huggy]

The Tedeschi Trucks Band, led by Derek Trucks, has continued the ABB tradition of two drummers, and it's a seamless percussion act, too. Also a lot of fun to watch when yours eyes stray from Trucks' guitar work or Susan Tedeschi's lead vocals.

I am a huge TTB fan and the drummer interplay is incredible, like guitarists they find their way around each other without getting in each other's way. Suspect it is much easier said than done.

 

[Huggy]

Great TTB tribute to Derek's uncle Butch: "Statesboro Blues"....

 

[Big Circus]

Saw this posted elsewhere today. Great story.

Butch Trucks Talks Music After Allman Brothers, And The Farewell Tour That Never Happened

L4LM: You recently told us about the moment of epiphany you had on the day Duane Allman “reached into [you] and turned [you] on.” Can you tell us more about that?

BT: As you may know, I had played with Duane and Gregg about two years before Duane began putting together the ABB. I wasn’t the most self-assured drummer around back then and when things weren’t really in a groove, I tended to pull back. When Duane showed up with Jaimoe and began putting his band together, at some point he decided he needed two drummers. He had Jaimoe and Jaimoe kept telling him that I was the guy.

Knowing Duane, I don’t think he wanted an insecure player in his band and one day I think he decided to see what I was made of. We were jamming at a top 40 AM radio station outdoors. We started a shuffle and it just didn’t go anywhere. I pulled my usual stunt when that happened and pulled back. Duane whipped around at some point and looked at me dead in the eye and played a very strong lick with little misunderstanding that he was calling me out. My first reaction was to pull back more and then he challenged me again. Then he did it again and I noticed that he was showing me up in front of a lot of people.

I got mad and Duane and I got into a musical fist fight for a while. I was hitting my drums like I was hitting Duane upside the head and he would keep coming back at me. After a few minutes of this, he stepped back smiled at me and said, “there ya go.” The band was soaring. Duane had gotten me so angry I forgot to be scared, and that made all the difference in the power coming from the group. It was like he reached inside me and flicked a switch. The light went off in my head and I realized that I may not be the greatest drummer in the world, but I could play and from that moment on I have never played in fear. After seeing how I handled myself, Duane added me to the mix he had and I have never looked back. If that moment had not happened, I am certain that Duane would have chosen another drummer and my life would have taken another route. That was the kind of man Duane Allman was. He changed people that were lucky enough to know him.

 

[maumann]

Did not know that Detroit Tiger pitcher Virgil "Fire" Trucks was Butch's uncle.

 

[Riptide]

Great TTB tribute to Derek's uncle Butch: "Statesboro Blues"....

There ain't much that beats watching Derek Trucks play guitar.

 

[CD Boogie]

Holy ****. He shot himself in front of his wife

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