Me & Allen Woody

Scott Baxendale

Scott Baxendale

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When I lived in Nashville I spent a lot of time hanging with Allen Woody here is a track we recorded on my 4track TEAC 3340. We used an album called ‘Drum Drops’ for the drums. These were records of studio drummers playing grooves on a record that you could edit into drum tracks. Alan and I improvised 2 tracks me on rhythm and Alan on bass, then we immediately improvised two more tracks over the first two trading 8’s on lead. This was a few years before he was in the Allman Brothers or Govt. Mule.

 
Scott Baxendale said:
When I lived in Nashville I spent a lot of time hanging with Allen Woody here is a track we recorded on my 4track TEAC 3340. We used an album called ‘Drum Drops’ for the drums. These were records of studio drummers playing grooves on a record that you could edit into drum tracks. Alan and I improvised 2 tracks me on rhythm and Alan on bass, then we immediately improvised two more tracks over the first two trading 8’s on lead. This was a few years before he was in the Allman Brothers or Govt. Mule.

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He had a collection of over 150 instruments and he had every kind of bass. His alembic he played a lot had a long scale.
 
Scott Baxendale said:
He had a collection of over 150 instruments and he had every kind of bass. His alembic he played a lot had a long scale.
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Woah, that's some ferocious playing! I wish I still had my Alembic Orion, though. When I sold about 13 years ago, £1,300 was about the going rate. I doubt that anyone would part with it for £4,000 today. :( It was beautifully made, but I sold it because I seldom found much use for a Low B.

I also had this fretless Alembic for a few years…

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simoncroft said:
Woah, that's some ferocious playing! I wish I still had my Alembic Orion, though. When I sold about 13 years ago, £1,300 was about the going rate. I doubt that anyone would part with it for £4,000 today. :( It was beautifully made, but I sold it because I seldom found much use for a Low B.

I also had this fretless Alembic for a few years…

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I don't know how I ever played the bass without LED fret markers...I suffered through a depraved childhood.
 
That was excellent. I met Allen and Warren with the Allman Brothers at the Orpheum Theater in Boston. When they started Government Mule a couple of years later, and also on Warren's solo shows, they would spot me at the show and call me over to the side of the stage to shoot the bull. They both were/are absolutely wonderful folks. I always felt very special to have someone yell "Hey John" from the side of the stage at various shows over the years.
 
SG John said:
That was excellent. I met Allen and Warren with the Allman Brothers at the Orpheum Theater in Boston. When they started Government Mule a couple of years later, and also on Warren's solo shows, they would spot me at the show and call me over to the side of the stage to shoot the bull. They both were/are absolutely wonderful folks. I always felt very special to have someone yell "Hey John" from the side of the stage at various shows over the years.
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Me and Woody used to go to his house for lunch everyday to eat a fast lunch, listen to records and get stoned. Then we got wrist rockets and terrorized Nashville with slingshots and fishing weights. We shot out a bunch of signs and windows. Then we took a van full of vintage guitars to Dallas for the guitar show and accidentally blew out the van window with the slingshot while going 75 down the interstate trying to shoot at semis passing us. It ultimately ended up with me losing my job at Gruhn’s, even though it was woody who blew out the window. I think it was a southern thang, since I wasn’t from Nashville and woody was. This was all before he was in the Allman Bros. When he died I was supposed to meet him in Denver two days after he OD’d.
 
Scott Baxendale said:
Me and Woody used to go to his house for lunch everyday to eat a fast lunch, listen to records and get stoned. Then we got wrist rockets and terrorized Nashville with slingshots and fishing weights. We shot out a bunch of signs and windows. Then we took a van full of vintage guitars to Dallas for the guitar show and accidentally blew out the van window with the slingshot while going 75 down the interstate trying to shoot at semis passing us. It ultimately ended up with me losing my job at Gruhn’s, even though it was woody who blew out the window. I think it was a southern thang, since I wasn’t from Nashville and woody was. This was all before he was in the Allman Bros. When he died I was supposed to meet him in Denver two days after he OD’d.
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Just from the couple of brief conversations that I had with him, I thought he must have been a howl to hang out with. I guess he was.
 
Scott Baxendale said:
When I lived in Nashville I spent a lot of time hanging with Allen Woody here is a track we recorded on my 4track TEAC 3340. We used an album called ‘Drum Drops’ for the drums. These were records of studio drummers playing grooves on a record that you could edit into drum tracks. Alan and I improvised 2 tracks me on rhythm and Alan on bass, then we immediately improvised two more tracks over the first two trading 8’s on lead. This was a few years before he was in the Allman Brothers or Govt. Mule.

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This is fantastic! And yea, the mighty 3340s!
 
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