@@AngeloSantelliMusicmy guess is this musical landscape, where everyone from any background could enjoy a show that combines musical elements like, country, jazz, and soul. Not to mention, music played with real instruments that aren't layered with backing tracks and other technologies of today. At least thats my interpretation.
Baby Fat! Love you Jimmy Hall! I was attending the front door while you were recording this song. How could i ever forget that ? Man you have such a righteous set of pipes! Keep on singing and Smiling!
I saw Wet Willie first time in B'ham AL and guess who opened? Lynyrd Skynryd. Wet Willie was one of my favorite bands as a 13-year old. I read about them when Stereo Review's Joel Vance reviewed their second album Wet Willie II. I bought it and was hooked. Not too long after I got deeper into them with Drippin' Wet which is still one of the best live rock albums ever. Jimmy Hall was the most funky white boy soul singer ever. Ricky Hirsch was a wonder on guitar. And their secret weapon was John Anthony on electric piano. This great BBC time capsule shows Marshall Tucker at a time when they were red hot and really killin' it. It's kind of a wonder we have to rely on the BBC for our filmed rock. The US was slow on the up-take instead giving us shows like Shindig. For the real germ-infested rawer stuff we have to thank our Brit cousins (don't forget Rockpalast). This is the best video/audio of this show I've seen. I've got an download that was likely sourced from someone's primitive video recording of this so this one bests that easily. Capricorn was one unique hothouse of Southern rock and roll. Great bands like these and Grinder Switch, Cowboy, Captain Beyond, and White Witch among others. We can than the Allman Brothers for giving Capicorn all the money and clout. I'll always have to say Toy Caldwell was one of the best and most under-rated rock guitarists of all-time.
First band of 70s white boys playing funk! I performed this song (singer) at a prom at Ashley Hall in Charleston back in 1977. We played a lot of southern and western rock ... Les Dudek too, if you ever heard of him.
I was only about 7 or 8 years old when this was filmed but I have very fond memories of growing up in Macon around that time. In those pre-Walmart days, Macon was where all of the people from smaller towns would come to shop as well as to see live events. Sadly Macon is now merely a ghost of it's former self. Most of the prominent people that made Macon what it was have either died off or their kids have moved on to more affluent areas to raise their own families. Those days are gone, but not forgotten!
I live in Macon now, the Big House is cool, there is a celebration of Duane"s every November. Not many of us old timers left. I've not been able to find anyone who remembers Duane and the Byron festival to share stories. When we closed on our house in 2009 the lawyer's office was the old Capricorn office on Cotton Ave.
That was Little Phil from Hotlanta on the harmonica jamming with Elvin, Bonnie and Dickey after Stillwater played. His band "Bandit" played Uncle Sam's fairly regularly like Stillwater and Steamboat Springs in the mid 70's. Those were some special times!
epic guitar solo from 8.20 onwards. I love the 70s for these endless guitar solos, you don't get them anymore except in metal/prog which is pretty much sidelined by the mainstream media but whatever, long guitar solos like this are exampes of real musicianship beyond the "attitude/image" nonsense of popular music today. Bring back infinite guitar solos I say!
This is one of the greatest things ever-Capricorn Records had the best artists- Wet Willie,Marshall Tucker Band,Sea Level,Dixie Dregs and so many amazing bands-- Thanks for posting this, you made my year this is outstanding stuff man
I love watching this video. I think a lot of these would be very popular as clips on their own - Dickey playing on his front porch is very cool - love Sea Level and Elvin, Marshall Tucker, all of it!
oh my...if I could've been there for this...the good ol' boys from MTB! I was cruising around the cornfields of Indiana with my friends cranking their music having no idea what was going on down in Macon....if we had social media then we would have known LOL!
O my what a piece of great history of the greatest folk..tears of joy flowing,iam so thankful to have been a part of this...thank you Jesus for bringing me thru..Peace n Love to all readers💜🤴
Wet Willie - first band of 70s white boys playing funk! I performed "Baby Fat"(as singer) at a prom at Ashley Hall in Charleston back in 1977. We played a lot of southern and western rock ... Les Dudek too, if you ever heard of him.
This is the first time I seen this and I loved the very young and talented Dickey Betts. It's just fascinating to watch him. Thanks for sharing this treasure.
Oh yeah, there were two Jimmy Hall's. Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and Jimmy Hall from Stillwater. Both were the lead singers for their respective bands.
@@dennisconrad6124 thats how i found this video, watching that clip of Dickey playing Jimmy Rodgers on the porch. To think of all the laid back jams that were never recorded....
I have grown to love Sea Level. They were more Southern Jazz than Southern Rock. They were in the same vein as Marshall Tucker Band (just listen to This Ol' Cowboy, you'll hear the jazz styling) and Dixie Dregs
Put this in a time capsule, put it in a rocket a launch it to the end of the solar system. If there is intelligent life out there, they will transmit a message back "Send more Dicky Betts"
great video...I live outside macon...moved there couple years ago. I remember driving lost one day in macon, and finding the closed down Capricorn records office.
This is wicked good, never knew this footage existed, is it available on DVD it could be a goldmine for us old farts who would love to revisit it in the confines of our homes..
I think the picnic was at a place called Lakeside Park ( I think that was name) in east Macon off Jeffersonville Road and Emory highway. Do not think it is open any longer to public.
I was there at the "May-con" Capricorn Picnic. A bit of chaos, if i remember correctly. But what they did capture was some damn good music anyway! As you can hear.
How did they get Jimmy Carter to wear the Old Grey Whistle Test badge! Old Grey Whistle Test was the serious rock music show here in the UK presented by "Whispering" Bob Harris - I wasn't allowed to stay up late to watch it when I was a kid! Lol.
Pres. Carter would wear Allman Brother T-Shirts and posed for a photo putting a headlock on legendary wrestler Mr. Wrestling II (Johnny Walker, who was a favorite of the president's mother, Miss Lillian). He's truly a down-to-earth person.
I was just becoming a teen in 76 but I remember the scene very well. I didn't know it then but right around then, whatever was leftover from the 60's was pretty much played out by the mid 70's and on its way out.....be it hair style, clothes style or music, a new style was coming in, and with that, the 60's was getting pretty much gone. Hello Farrah and goodbye Joe Namath. Hello Journey, goodbye Santana. Hello Rocky, goodbye whatever
IT WAS THE 1976 PICNIC~!!...and it ended on a HAPPY & SAD note; the debute of "SEA LEVEL", and the permanent closeing of "UNCLE SAM'S" niteclub, with STILLWATER signing out with "SAM'S JAM"~!!....i know cause i was there also, sitting right behind WILLIE PERKINS, SEA LEVEL'S MGR.
Brilliant - I have been looking for this specially Stillwater, for ages The song the do is Sam's Jam. Missed the re-broadcast though! Any chance of uploading a full quality version somewhere?? Many thanks in any case
The guy you're talking about looks more like George McCorkle than Dangerous Dan. Apparently some of the Marshall Tucker guys showed up, because you'll see Jerry Eubanks on stage with the sax toward the end.
This is an amazing piece of footage on two different levels. First of all you have an early version of sea level chuck Lavelle, Jamo, and Jimmy Nalls, and Lamar Williams. There is no Randall Bramlett or Davis Causey who later became members of sea level and that band put out some phenomenal albums. But never got the recognition because it was the end of Capricorn records and the southern so-called rock sound, but they were beyond that and I always hate the term southern rock just because these bands were from the south and in their playing styles, you can hear, blues soul, gospel, it’s just a sad thing to label that so-called southern rock
Just awesome... wow.( Anybody know the Bonnie song at 33:43? It grabbed me now, and won't let go. Help!) On another topic, I can't even imagine being at a picnic with this magnitude of performers and songs. It must have been epic.
Stillwater is the band at the 40:46 mark. I wanna say the band after that 48:50 is Elvin's band? (Maybe) and Bonnie joined in and then, I think Jimmy Hall from Stillwater on the harp/singing at the end w/ Bonnie. I also think (pretty sure) Dickey Betts is the one the Guitar and Smokin'.
Damn i worked at Capricorn Studio and knew some of those guys and still don't know the real name of that song!? There was a Butch Trucks side band called Butch's Brew or Tall Dogs that played at Grants Lounge and they always played this song! I'd ask them the name of that song and they would say, "I dont know, we just call it George of the Jungle." And I'd say why? And they would say, "That's because it sounds like the beginning music for the George of the Jungle cartoon", which i had never seen! So to this day, i still call it George of the Jungle. It does sound like a Neil Larson tune, but i do not know who wrote it.
@@joleneloveland2942 you must of witnessed some interesting stuff. In the early 90s I bought a crate of records at a garage sale for a couple bucks and Sea Level was in there. Great band, Lamar Williams was a beast.
Oh Yes!!! My family was INTO the Carter campaign. It turned out a bit patchy, but to get a genuine Southerner into the White House was such a big deal. It meant the world to my parents and grandparents. They were Scots-Irish and from that class. And of course, they were all conservatives, but that was secondary. They were rural, farm people and they proved a point! (Yes, they all voted Reagan after that:)
Wet Willie - first band of 70s white boys playing funk! I performed "Baby Fat"(as singer) at a prom at Ashley Hall in Charleston back in 1977. We played a lot of southern and western rock ... Les Dudek too, if you ever heard of him.
There was no Jimmy Hall in Stillwater. I know some of those guys. I'm pretty sure that the guy you referring to is Randall Bramlett (no relation to Bonnie),
Yes ma'am that Is the inceedible Ms. Bonnie Bramlett! Her cover of Sam and Dave's "Hold On, I'm Coming". I was working at Capricorn Srudio at the time, and she was recording this very song. Johnny Sandlin, her producer, handed me a cassette tape and said would you please write down the lyrics to these songs? Wow, Im from South Dakota, i was lucky i knew who Sam and Dave were, and this was way before the internet, but all tbe words to their songs? Well i did the best i could from listening to the tape. I assume i did alright lol.
I would like to thank whoever left a comment under a Dickey Betts video mentioning this show. This is incredible!
This is a fascinating glimpse into a U.S. that unfortunately does not exist anymore.
you can say that again
What part do you think doesn’t exist anymore?
It does, it's just like in remission
Bro or sis, you ain't lyin'
@@AngeloSantelliMusicmy guess is this musical landscape, where everyone from any background could enjoy a show that combines musical elements like, country, jazz, and soul. Not to mention, music played with real instruments that aren't layered with backing tracks and other technologies of today. At least thats my interpretation.
Baby Fat! Love you Jimmy Hall! I was attending the front door while you were recording this song. How could i ever forget that ? Man you have such a righteous set of pipes! Keep on singing and Smiling!
I saw Wet Willie first time in B'ham AL and guess who opened? Lynyrd Skynryd. Wet Willie was one of my favorite bands as a 13-year old. I read about them when Stereo Review's Joel Vance reviewed their second album Wet Willie II. I bought it and was hooked. Not too long after I got deeper into them with Drippin' Wet which is still one of the best live rock albums ever. Jimmy Hall was the most funky white boy soul singer ever. Ricky Hirsch was a wonder on guitar. And their secret weapon was John Anthony on electric piano. This great BBC time capsule shows Marshall Tucker at a time when they were red hot and really killin' it. It's kind of a wonder we have to rely on the BBC for our filmed rock. The US was slow on the up-take instead giving us shows like Shindig. For the real germ-infested rawer stuff we have to thank our Brit cousins (don't forget Rockpalast). This is the best video/audio of this show I've seen. I've got an download that was likely sourced from someone's primitive video recording of this so this one bests that easily. Capricorn was one unique hothouse of Southern rock and roll. Great bands like these and Grinder Switch, Cowboy, Captain Beyond, and White Witch among others. We can than the Allman Brothers for giving Capicorn all the money and clout. I'll always have to say Toy Caldwell was one of the best and most under-rated rock guitarists of all-time.
First band of 70s white boys playing funk! I performed this song (singer) at a prom at Ashley Hall in Charleston back in 1977. We played a lot of southern and western rock ... Les Dudek too, if you ever heard of him.
Dickey Betts is just so talented.
I was only about 7 or 8 years old when this was filmed but I have very fond memories of growing up in Macon around that time. In those pre-Walmart days, Macon was where all of the people from smaller towns would come to shop as well as to see live events. Sadly Macon is now merely a ghost of it's former self. Most of the prominent people that made Macon what it was have either died off or their kids have moved on to more affluent areas to raise their own families. Those days are gone, but not forgotten!
I live in Macon now, the Big House is cool, there is a celebration of Duane"s every November. Not many of us old timers left. I've not been able to find anyone who remembers Duane and the Byron festival to share stories.
When we closed on our house in 2009 the lawyer's office was the old Capricorn office on Cotton Ave.
I was there then! I worked at Capricorn Studio and lived on High St near Gregg's place on Orange Terrace
That was Little Phil from Hotlanta on the harmonica jamming with Elvin, Bonnie and Dickey after Stillwater played. His band "Bandit" played Uncle Sam's fairly regularly like Stillwater and Steamboat Springs in the mid 70's. Those were some special times!
epic guitar solo from 8.20 onwards. I love the 70s for these endless guitar solos, you don't get them anymore except in metal/prog which is pretty much sidelined by the mainstream media but whatever, long guitar solos like this are exampes of real musicianship beyond the "attitude/image" nonsense of popular music today. Bring back infinite guitar solos I say!
Toy & Tommy Caldwell. Incredible.
This is one of the greatest things ever-Capricorn Records had the best artists- Wet Willie,Marshall Tucker Band,Sea Level,Dixie Dregs and so many amazing bands-- Thanks for posting this, you made my year this is outstanding stuff man
I love watching this video. I think a lot of these would be very popular as clips on their own - Dickey playing on his front porch is very cool - love Sea Level and Elvin, Marshall Tucker, all of it!
Marshall tucker band , that les Paul sounds so raunchy and brilliant !
Rest in peace Dickey Betts
Damn i remember that Stillwater performance vividly from 44 years ago...damn time sure has flown in
oh my...if I could've been there for this...the good ol' boys from MTB! I was cruising around the cornfields of Indiana with my friends cranking their music having no idea what was going on down in Macon....if we had social media then we would have known LOL!
hi
thank you brother. what a cool time to be alive.
O my what a piece of great history of the greatest folk..tears of joy flowing,iam so thankful to have been a part of this...thank you Jesus for bringing me thru..Peace n Love to all readers💜🤴
Wet Willie - first band of 70s white boys playing funk! I performed "Baby Fat"(as singer) at a prom at Ashley Hall in Charleston back in 1977. We played a lot of southern and western rock ... Les Dudek too, if you ever heard of him.
Wow that was priceless.Great all the way through!
This is the first time I seen this and I loved the very young and talented Dickey Betts. It's just fascinating to watch him. Thanks for sharing this treasure.
Oh yeah, there were two Jimmy Hall's. Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and Jimmy Hall from Stillwater. Both were the lead singers for their respective bands.
Wet Willie's Jimmy Hall was underrated. Charlie Daniels said that Jimmy had more soul in his little finger than most people had their entire body.
Worth it just for watching Dickey on the porch....
I totally agree!
@@dennisconrad6124 thats how i found this video, watching that clip of Dickey playing Jimmy Rodgers on the porch. To think of all the laid back jams that were never recorded....
My favorite part also, that and Jimmy Carter. He was such a real and down home guy
Love this! Thought I'd never see live footage of some of these bands. Sea Level are ridiculously underrated...
I probably saw Sea Level 10 times in the 70s the most memorable was when they formed together with Cowboy to become Sea Cow or alternately Cow Level
I have grown to love Sea Level. They were more Southern Jazz than Southern Rock. They were in the same vein as Marshall Tucker Band (just listen to This Ol' Cowboy, you'll hear the jazz styling) and Dixie Dregs
Michael Causey - oh YESSSSS
Put this in a time capsule, put it in a rocket a launch it to the end of the solar system. If there is intelligent life out there, they will transmit a message back "Send more Dicky Betts"
Caught half of this last night on TV and was banking on someone uploading it. Thanks
" May-con"
This is brilliant. So glad I found it.
I'll be darned, Billy Joe Shaver @ 27:10. This is some awesome footage... A time capsule from 1976.
I was at Lakeside that day. What a trip down memory lane!
Hey Bob Harris, That was a great picnic. You even interviewed Jimmy Carter just before he was elected President!
I met and got to shake the hand of then Governor of Georgia Jimmy Carter. He is a very smart man. He was a nuclear physicist or so i heard back then.
great video...I live outside macon...moved there couple years ago. I remember driving lost one day in macon, and finding the closed down Capricorn records office.
I "reserve the right" to say Michael Coursey is the greatest !!!
Man this is gold,where the h--l did you got this,pleas moore,marsll tucker would be fine.
Dangerous Dan Toler!!
I love Lightnin hopkins, hes my fave
This is wicked good, never knew this footage existed, is it available on DVD it could be a goldmine for us old farts who would love to revisit it in the confines of our homes..
+Donnie Maxwell Go on line to the big house they may have copies, don't know for sure but might
The marshall tucker band were on the posters for 1979 Knebworth Festival (Led Zep) but where a no show.
I think the picnic was at a place called Lakeside Park ( I think that was name) in east Macon off Jeffersonville Road and Emory highway. Do not think it is open any longer to public.
Granta Lounge now has a sort of outdoor venue there as well aa the usual location downtown.. yes that is Lakeside Park
I was there at the "May-con" Capricorn Picnic. A bit of chaos, if i remember correctly. But what they did capture was some damn good music anyway! As you can hear.
Love Elvin Bishops dance moves.
How did they get Jimmy Carter to wear the Old Grey Whistle Test badge! Old Grey Whistle Test was the serious rock music show here in the UK presented by "Whispering" Bob Harris - I wasn't allowed to stay up late to watch it when I was a kid! Lol.
Pres. Carter would wear Allman Brother T-Shirts and posed for a photo putting a headlock on legendary wrestler Mr. Wrestling II (Johnny Walker, who was a favorite of the president's mother, Miss Lillian). He's truly a down-to-earth person.
Awesome! Made in USA gold. Jimmy Hall!
Jimmy Hall is so awesome! 👍 What a set of pipes!
I was just becoming a teen in 76 but I remember the scene very well. I didn't know it then but right around then, whatever was leftover from the 60's was pretty much played out by the mid 70's and on its way out.....be it hair style, clothes style or music, a new style was coming in, and with that, the 60's was getting pretty much gone. Hello Farrah and goodbye Joe Namath. Hello Journey, goodbye Santana. Hello Rocky, goodbye whatever
Way to represent at the time! God bless Capricorn Records.
Maycon, GA. Maycon, GA.
great documentary. Really hope the Capricorn Records building in Macon survives current plans to demolish it
It has survived, renovated, now owned by Mercer I.
Have studio and rehearsal rooms for local bands.
@@mikefannon6994 yes and even a museum of sorts of the old atudio and the timea. I worked there!
IT WAS THE 1976 PICNIC~!!...and it ended on a HAPPY & SAD note; the debute of "SEA LEVEL", and the permanent closeing of "UNCLE SAM'S" niteclub, with STILLWATER signing out with "SAM'S JAM"~!!....i know cause i was there also, sitting right behind WILLIE PERKINS, SEA LEVEL'S MGR.
Chris, you are right and I am wrong. There was a guy named Jimmy Hall in Stillwater. I still believe the guy at the end is Randall, though.
Brilliant - I have been looking for this specially Stillwater, for ages The song the do is Sam's Jam. Missed the re-broadcast though! Any chance of uploading a full quality version somewhere?? Many thanks in any case
Dickey and Dan, too...on stage at 53:25. :-)
The guy you're talking about looks more like George McCorkle than Dangerous Dan. Apparently some of the Marshall Tucker guys showed up, because you'll see Jerry Eubanks on stage with the sax toward the end.
This is an amazing piece of footage on two different levels. First of all you have an early version of sea level chuck Lavelle, Jamo, and Jimmy Nalls, and Lamar Williams. There is no Randall Bramlett or Davis Causey who later became members of sea level and that band put out some phenomenal albums. But never got the recognition because it was the end of Capricorn records and the southern so-called rock sound, but they were beyond that and I always hate the term southern rock just because these bands were from the south and in their playing styles, you can hear, blues soul, gospel, it’s just a sad thing to label that so-called southern rock
Just awesome... wow.( Anybody know the Bonnie song at 33:43? It grabbed me now, and won't let go. Help!) On another topic, I can't even imagine being at a picnic with this magnitude of performers and songs. It must have been epic.
Stillwater is the band at the 40:46 mark. I wanna say the band after that 48:50 is Elvin's band? (Maybe) and Bonnie joined in and then, I think Jimmy Hall from Stillwater on the harp/singing at the end w/ Bonnie. I also think (pretty sure) Dickey Betts is the one the Guitar and Smokin'.
I saw Wet Willie open for The ABB in August 1971. I really liked them but the NY fans booed the hell out of them. Go figure!
Right. But I was talking about the dude off stage with his back to the wall, wearing the cowboy hat.
That is Stillwater. 1976 Capricorn Picnic. I believe Elvin Bishop & Bonnie Bramblett jpined in.
Sea Level is awesome.
Yes, 110%!
Damn i worked at Capricorn Studio and knew some of those guys and still don't know the real name of that song!? There was a Butch Trucks side band called Butch's Brew or Tall Dogs that played at Grants Lounge and they always played this song! I'd ask them the name of that song and they would say, "I dont know, we just call it George of the Jungle." And I'd say why?
And they would say, "That's because it sounds like the beginning music for the George of the Jungle cartoon", which i had never seen! So to this day, i still call it George of the Jungle.
It does sound like a Neil Larson tune, but i do not know who wrote it.
@@joleneloveland2942 you must of witnessed some interesting stuff. In the early 90s I bought a crate of records at a garage sale for a couple bucks and Sea Level was in there. Great band, Lamar Williams was a beast.
Oh Yes!!! My family was INTO the Carter campaign. It turned out a bit patchy, but to get a genuine Southerner into the White House was such a big deal. It meant the world to my parents and grandparents. They were Scots-Irish and from that class. And of course, they were all conservatives, but that was secondary. They were rural, farm people and they proved a point! (Yes, they all voted Reagan after that:)
40:45 Stillwater! Hell Yeah
Wet Willie starts it off sounding like Sly & Family Stone.
Wet Willie - first band of 70s white boys playing funk! I performed "Baby Fat"(as singer) at a prom at Ashley Hall in Charleston back in 1977. We played a lot of southern and western rock ... Les Dudek too, if you ever heard of him.
May-Kahn
Bridges was here Ohio rocks sneakers n shades
Where is this? Lake Tobesofkee?
How about the unexpected cameo by Billie Jo Shaver!
Dangerous Dan Toler is guitar player off stage of Dickie Betts.
Chris Man, you gotta change the title or at least add the band names to this so more people will find it.. What a great vid. Thank you very much!!
It really is great, I stumbled across this watching Delaney&Bonnie videos and I'm glad CZcams recommended this. It deserves more than 40 000 views.
MTB forever! 🌈
There was no Jimmy Hall in Stillwater. I know some of those guys. I'm pretty sure that the guy you referring to is Randall Bramlett (no relation to Bonnie),
There definitely was. I know him.
Wouldn't for Duane this would have never happened!!!!
Does anyone know who is singing the song at 33:45 ? Is it Bonnie Bramllet?
Yes
Yes ma'am that Is the inceedible Ms. Bonnie Bramlett! Her cover of Sam and Dave's "Hold On, I'm Coming". I was working at Capricorn Srudio at the time, and she was recording this very song. Johnny Sandlin, her producer, handed me a cassette tape and said would you please write down the lyrics to these songs? Wow, Im from South Dakota, i was lucky i knew who Sam and Dave were, and this was way before the internet, but all tbe words to their songs? Well i did the best i could from listening to the tape. I assume i did alright lol.
From 1976, I believe. Can anyone confirm?
Maybe . But Likely 75. Jimmy Carter was campaigning for president in 76 and would not likely have had time for this. But I'm merely speculating.
dickey was so pretty
yur very intelligent & wise if u never understood or cared for this type of ignurt noise
Good vid,esp sea Level ! Man,Stillwater sucked though(from NY).
Stillwater doesn't suck, try Mindbender if you want to change your mind
37 minutes in , great player , horrible strat sound !