DVD/CD Review - Dickey Betts & Great Southern - Back Where It All
Begins: Live at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Museum
In the wake of his unceremonious dismissal from the Allman Brothers
Band, Dickey Betts could have succumbed to the personal and substance
abuse problems that, at the time, seemed to pervade his life. Being a
survivor, however, Betts not only delivered his first solo outing in
more than a decade -- the wobbly but no less promising Let's Get
Together -- but he also reconvened his band Great Southern for a series
of sojourns across the country. Augmented with interview footage as well
as an array of rehearsal and soundcheck performances, his latest effort
Back Where It All Begins: Live at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame +
Museum was recorded in September 2004, and its official release as a
CD/DVD package undoubtedly is an attempt to prove that Gregg Allman
needs him more than he needs Gregg Allman. Unfortunately, it isn't a
terribly successful endeavor. In the end, what Back Where It All
Begins: Live at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Museum makes crystal
clear is that the Allman Brothers Band and Dickey Betts really need each
other -- if only so Betts can save his former partners from their
increasing one-dimensionality and his former partners can save him from
sloppy performances such as this.
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