[Slowhand] EC slated to appear at the Beacon on 19th. & 20th. March

[John Mills]

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/03/13/last-night-at-the-beacon-with-the-allman-brothers-phish-edition/

Last Night at the Beacon With the Allman Brothers . Phish Edition
3/13/09, 2:35 pm EST
Photo: Scwartz/Getty

As the Allman Brothers Band get more comfortable in New York's Beacon
Theatre, their home for the rest of March, more friends are stopping by each
night to jam. Rolling Stone brought you a full report from night one, which
featured Taj Mahal and Levon Helm. Night two brought Johnny Winter and David
Hidalgo and Cesar Rojas of Los Lobos, who guested on cuts ranging from Jimi
Hendrix to Bob Dylan.
Last night's show upped the ante with living legend Buddy Guy, who led the
band through a pair of blues standards before being joined onstage by Trey
Anastasio and Page McConnell of Phish for first set-closer "Southbound."
Fresh off their highly successful reunion shows, Anastasio and McConnell
later added their own sound to "I Know You Rider" and "In Memory of
Elizabeth Reed."
Boz Scaggs has been confirmed to appear tonight, and Rolling Stone's Smoking
Section broke the news that Duane's old Derek and the Dominoes bandmate Eric
Clapton will be appearing on March 19th and 20th. The newest list of rumored
cameos counts Sheryl Crow, Billy Gibbons, Kid Rock, Bob Weir and Phil Lesh
among the possibilities. Many of the guests were chosen to help honor fallen
guitarist Duane Allman, whose sudden death in 1971 left a gaping hole
finally filled by slide-guitar prodigy Derek Trucks in 2000.
Gregg Allman, the band's patriarch, has denied on multiple occasions that
founding guitarist Dickey Betts will appear. Betts left the band after an
ugly dispute in 2000, but rampant speculation suggests an offer may have
been extended. His presence on the Beacon stage would reunite the four
surviving members of the original lineup (Allman, Betts, drummer Butch
Trucks and percussionist Jaimoe Johanson).
The sold-out, 15-night residency runs through March 28th. Live streaming
video of the entire rest of the run can be purchased at Moogis, a
live-concert video service started by the band's own Butch Trucks. The shows
mark 20 years of visits to the Beacon for the Brothers, who are celebrating
their 40th anniversary in 2009.

John Vilanova