RIP Dickey Betts

[wc1934]

https://www.freep.com/story/entertai...0/73370684007/

Rambling man has passed on.

[pinkshogun]

His "Blue Sky" solo was one of the best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSMubgZoL58

[OtayBW]

WHOA!
I'm surprised and very sorry to hear this. This somehow seems particularly symbolic to me for reasons that I can't quite put my finger on.....
RIP.....

[Mr. Pink]

The motorcycle didn't get him.

[wc1934]

Originally Posted by pinkshogun

His "Blue Sky" solo was one of the best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSMubgZoL58

Yup - I wore out that Eat a Peach album!

[LegendRider]

I love this version of Blue Sky with a Franklin's Tower intro.

https://youtu.be/lZg9MWLQ5_c?si=lElHaONIGcnPv5Jv

[clyde the point]

Wow I could write volumes about the ABB. Grew up listening to their tunes. Still play them on spotify. Loved loved loved their style. Sad to hear about Dickey; and they are sort of the Kennedy's of southern bands with streaks of bad luck/misfortune. Thanks to digital media for preserving these and other sounds forever. RIP.

[tv_vt]

Originally Posted by clyde the point

Wow I could write volumes about the ABB. Grew up listening to their tunes. Still play them on spotify. Loved loved loved their style. Sad to hear about Dickey; and they are sort of the Kennedy's of southern bands with streaks of bad luck/misfortune. Thanks to digital media for preserving these and other sounds forever. RIP.

Yeah, ditto here. Saw them in Chicago in August 1971 - the original lineup. Special night, remembering who I saw them with, too.

[Marvinlungwitz]

Bummer.

B & S was a fave.

(We were just in Atlanta, and every time we passed a highway 41 sign, I’d sing that line from RM to the missus.)

[bironi]

After reading a pretty detailed obit, I think Dickie and Gregg were no angels.
Loved them both.

[Mr. Pink]

Originally Posted by bironi

After reading a pretty detailed obit, I think Dickie and Gregg were no angels.
Loved them both.

Name me a decent rocker who was.

[KJMUNC]

First job out of college (late 90's in Atlanta) I got paired up with an old engineer who grew up in Jacksonville, had connections to ABB and was a massive fan. I knew their music, but didn't REALLY know their music. He would schedule "meetings" for us in his office and we'd sit and listen to every ABB album we could get our hands on for hours. Still partial to the Ludlow Garage albums. Then we'd go for lunch at the Rusty Nail on Buford Hwy, which was a known haunt of Gregg's. Never saw him, but always looked...it was always "he was here yesterday...."

Both Dickey and Duane brought their own unique soul to ABB, so while I'm ultimately more of a Sky Dog fan, I respect that after his death ABB wouldn't have had the longevity they did without Dickey. He took the job of two guitarists and ultimately made them one. He also wrote some of their greatest songs.

Still remember exactly where I was when I heard Gregg died (sitting in a hotel in London on a missed connection to Joburg....sad day).

Good reason to put on my ABB playlist while I fly back across the country today....god speed Mr. Blue Sky.

[Marvinlungwitz]

Originally Posted by bironi

After reading a pretty detailed obit, I think Dickie and Gregg were no angels.
Loved them both.

Did you ever happen to read Cameron Crowe’s ‘73 RS article?

I thought it was interesting how he titled In Memory of Elizabeth Reed.

(He had an encounter with a young lady (later ID’ed as Boz Scagg’s wife) on Ms. Reed’s grave.)