Mar Y Sol Pop Festival, Manati, Puerto Rico, 4-1-1972, Part 3: The Allman Brothers Band

Here's the third out of three albums I made from the first day of the 1972 Mar Y Sol Pop Festival. This one features of the headliners from the festival, the Allman Brothers Band.

On October 29, 1971, Duane Allman, one of the key members of this band, died in a motorcycle accident. But the band carried on. In February 1972, they released the double album "Eat a Peach," which was their biggest success so far at that point in their music career. While Duane Allman isn't on this recording, bassist Berry Oakley is. He also would die in a motorcycle accident later in 1972.

Only one song from this set has been officially released. "Ain't Wastin' Time No More" appeared on the album "Mar y Sol: The First International Puerto Rico Pop Festival." The rest comes from bootlegs. Luckily, they sound very good, so much so that you probably won't notice the difference between the officially released track and the rest.

It seems that while most of the set is presented here, it may not be all of it. Two of the songs were incomplete, "Statesboro Blues" and "You Don't Love Me." I used a bootleg of a concert from Jackson, Alabama, on March 23, 1972, to fill in the rest of those two songs. For "Statesboro Blues," I didn't have to fill in much. But for "You Don't Love Me," most of it actually comes from the other concert.

One interesting fact is that Gregg Allman always played a Hammond organ in concert. But for this show, the organ promised by promoters didn't show up in time. It is rumored that he asked to borrow Keith Emerson's organ, but was denied. Thus, he played most of the set with an electric piano instead. Only near the end of the set was that replaced by a Hammond organ, due it finally showing up. 

This album is an hour and three minutes long. 

01 Done Somebody Wrong (Allman Brothers Band)
02 talk (Allman Brothers Band)
03 Ain't Wastin' Time No More (Allman Brothers Band)
04 One Way Out (Allman Brothers Band)
05 Stormy Monday (Allman Brothers Band)
06 Statesboro Blues [Edit] (Allman Brothers Band)
07 You Don't Love Me [Edit] (Allman Brothers Band)
08 Whipping Post (Allman Brothers Band) 

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The cover image is from this exact concert. It would have been nice to find a photo of the entire band. But I've only seen a small number of good photos from the festival, and I was lucky to find anything that fits here at all. The photo shows Dickey Betts, of the band's two main singers and lead guitarists. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it with the help of the Kolorize program.