Today marks the 10th anniversary of The Allman Brothers Band's final concert -- October 28th, 2014 -- at the Beacon Theatre in New York.
Despite being from Jacksonville, Florida and making their mark while based in Macon, Georgia, the Brothers did an annual residency at the Beacon starting in 1989. They played 237 shows there, which is why they decided that's where they would do their final show.
To celebrate the anniversary, the recording of that show has been remastered with improved sound quality and was released digitally onFriday.
Titled Final Concert 10-28-14, it will also be available as a three-CD package with a 16-page booklet featuring exclusive photos and liner notes on November 22nd.
For that show, guitarist Warren Haynes put together a career-spanning 28-song set list that they played over three sets, which ended early in the morning of October 29th, the 43rd anniversary of Duane’s Allman’s passing.
The final song they did was the first one they ever rehearsed on March 26th, 1969 -- a cover of Muddy Waters' "Trouble No More." When they finished, and the audience giving them a standing ovation, Gregg Allman, one of the three original members on stage that night along with Butch Trucks and Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson, reflected on that moment when he stepped up to the microphone for a final word.
Track listing for Final Concert 10-28-14
Disc 1:
- Little Martha
- Mountain Jam
- Don’t Want You No More
- It’s Not My Cross to Bear
- One Way Out
- Good Morning Little School Girl
- Midnight Rider
- The High Cost of Low Living
- Hot ‘Lanta
- Blue Sky
- You Don’t Love Me/ Soul Serenade/ You Don’t Love Me
Disc 2:
- Statesboro Blues
- Ain’t Wasting Time
- Black Hearted Woman
- The Sky Is Crying
- Dreams
- Don’t Keep Me Wonderin’
- In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
- JaMaBuBu
- In Memory of Elizabeth Reed (reprise)
Disc 3:
- Melissa
- Revival
- Southbound
- Mountain Jam (reprise)
- Will the Circle Be Unbroken
- Mountain Jam (reprise two)
- Whipping Post
- Farewell Message
- Trouble No More
A brief look at the formation of The Allman Brothers Band and their six original members:
- First song they did at their first rehearsal on March 26th, 1969 in Jacksonville, Florida was a Muddy Waters' cover, "Trouble No More."
- The original lineup lasted two-and-a-half years until Duane's death in a motorcycle accident on October 29th, 1971. He was 24.
- Berry Oakley met the same fate on November 11th, 1972. He was also 24.
- Butch Trucks committed suicide on January 24th, 2017. He was 69.
- Gregg Allman succumbed to liver cancer on May 27th, 2017. He was also 69.
- Dickey Betts was booted from the band in 2000 and died this past April from COPD at 80.
- Jaimoe, the last surviving member of the original lineup, is 80 and leads his own group, Jaimoe's Jasssz Band.
- The Allman Brothers Band were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.