Bootleggers Beware

10/31/2025

It's been over a year since my last photo hang with our friends The Machine. And we're just a few hours away from a Halloween party...completed with a Pompeii tribute show, AND a costume party! 🎃👻

10/31/2025

We're gettin' spooky at The Listening Desk for Halloween with Pink Floyd at Pompeii...while I get my head ready for The Machine at Higher Ground tonight!

Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii is a 1972 concert film directed by Adrian Maben with the English rock band Pink Floyd performing at the ancient Roman amphitheatr...

10/30/2025

Ringing in the afternoon at The Listening Desk with this Dickey Betts Band show that I picked up recently

Dickey Betts BandBuckeye Lake Music Center9-2-2000Hebron Ohio

10/30/2025

I think I'll bust out some trio-era Gov't Mule to start the day! One of my biggest music bummers is that I wasn't old enough to see the trio...they used to come to Burlington all the time in the early days!

Gov't Mule - Cotton Club, Atlanta, GA - September 15, 1995 00:00:00 - Introduction00:00:00 - Mule00:00:00 - Rocking Horse00:00:00 - Mr. Big00:00:00 - Tempor...

10/29/2025

While Mrs. Bootlegger and I were in Macon a few weeks ago, we made a stop at Rose Hill Cemetary, so I could pay my respects to Duane, Berry, Butch and Gregg.

I could have stayed there all day. Lost in thought. About all four of them. But Duane's resting place exudes a different energy. A magnetism, not unlike what I imagine he carried with him when he was alive. I remember standing quietly for 10 minutes or so. The only other sounds being those of a fellow ABB fan singing and strumming Soulshine a few yards away. Duane was only 24 when he passed. Yet he had accomplished so much. Hundreds of shows, hundreds more recordings. A musical legacy that will live on forever, as long as there are musicians and music lovers interested and willing to take the trip.

Down the road that goes on forever.

Rest In Peace, Brother Duane. Thank you for everything. We'll never forget you. 🍄

10/29/2025

Duane Allman accomplished a hell of a lot in his 24 years on this earth...

“There’s a lot of different forms of communication, but music is absolutely the purest one.” Duane Allman Gone but never forgotten. Thinking about you on this day Uncle Duane & Galadrielle ❤️

10/29/2025

I'm planning to bust out as much Duane-era Allman Brothers Band as I can handle today, in honor of the anniversary of Duane's passing...54 years ago today.

The road does/will indeed go on forever. 🍄🍑

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupWhipping Post (Live At The Fillmore East, March 1971) · The Allman Brothers BandAt Fillmore East℗ 1971 UMG Record...

10/28/2025

The new-look GA-20 freakin' ROCKED on Sunday at Higher Ground! 🤘🏻

10/28/2025

I'll share more GA-20 photos tomorrow...for now, know this: The new-look GA-20 killed it at Higher Ground last night.

Whatever you do, don't sleep on these dudes!

10/28/2025

It took a while, but I finally made good on a photo hang with Black Joe Lewis at Higher Ground last night!

If you haven't heard these guys...do it. Now.

10/28/2025

Tonight's editing soundtrack is getting weird and jazzy...

Fiery set at the home of hippie cultureApril 12, 1970Fillmore West,10 South Van Ness Avenue,San Francisco, CaliforniaMILES DAVISMiles Davis- trumpetSteve Gro...