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Robin Sheppard's avatar

I really love Gov’t Mule. Warren Haynes has a fabulous voice and is a great guitarist and songwriter to boot. I love the ABB too but haven’t heard the albums you mention above. I stopped in the early 70s. I did see the ABB in the UK at Knebworth in 1974/75. John Peel was the announcer and when they came he said words to the effect that the music had to stop by a certain time. One of the band then said “there’s no curfew on boogie”. And, there wasn’t…..

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Michael Elliott's avatar

That's fantastic! "There's no curfew on boogie" should be on an official ABB T-shirt immediately and made available through the Big House Museum.

https://shop.thebighousemuseum.com/

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Long Live the ABB's avatar

this band ABBsolutely destroyed me multiple times in the (relatively) brief time Allen Woody was in lineup. The loudest group I ever heard live.

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Michael Elliott's avatar

I saw 'em in the Woody years open for ABB in '96, '97, and '98, and I agree! (I've lost count of how many times I've seen them over the last 25 years post-Woody.)

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Long Live the ABB's avatar

Caught them last summer on the Dark Side of the Mule tour. Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin experience opened. It was suddenly 1975.

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