"All I wanted was something more lasting, than a ticket stub, and an ever fading memory" My first show at 'A Warehouse' New Orleans was Thursday September 16, 1971. I saw the Allman Brothers Band with some friends. I don't remember that the Wet Willie Band was there, as I've since read that they were; I do remember from the ticket stub that the opening band was Cowboy, but that they weren't there that night. 'The Brothers' came on around 10 o'clock or so and played a little over four hours, so I heard. We left around 12:20 AM or so because my friend had to get back home. He was my 'ride' so I had to go. There weren't anymore buses running along Tchoupitoulas Street that late...and the neighborhood was a little too tough for me. They hadn't even played "Whipping Post" yet, when we had to leave.
We got back to Greg's car, and as we were driving past the building going back uptown along Tchoupitoulas Street, I could hear them well into playing it right then...this has hounded me through the years, that we left too soon! I remember some things about the show, but not really that much.
I do remember that Gregg had just gotten married and that Duane had jokingly excused his singing because of it...for me, and their sound, there was nothing further from the truth, had he not been joking! They have been my lifelong favorite band since that year! About 6 weeks later we lost Duane. It was devastating! We went back to see The Allman Brothers Band again at the Warehouse New Years Eve. It was still a great show; but the one thing that really stuck with me, was how quickly the memories fade...you have that great feeling of having been there; but even that feeling, and the details of the show, can erode over time. It was because of this , that I began to want to have something more lasting from these shows...and my love of photography, along with a Pentax Spotmatic camera, was the means to that end.
Peaches and Willie
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