Wipe the Windows, Check the Oil, Dollar Gas
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| Wipe the Windows, Check the Oil, Dollar Gas | ||
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| Live album by The Allman Brothers Band | ||
| Released | November 1976 | |
| Recorded | 1972-1975 | |
| Genre | Southern rock | |
| Label | Capricorn Records | |
| Producer(s) | -- | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| The Allman Brothers Band chronology | ||
| Win, Lose or Draw (1975) |
Wipe the Windows, Check the Oil, Dollar Gas (1976) |
Enlightened Rogues (1979) |
Wipe the Windows, Check the Oil, Dollar Gas is a 1976 double live album by The Allman Brothers Band.
It collected a variety of performances from the mid-1970s line-up of the band. Songs from their popular 1973 Brothers and Sisters album were heavily featured, but each of their other studio albums were represented by a selection as well.
Released after the group had already dissolved in acrimony, the album did not attract much praise or even attention at the time. The band did not like the selections, the sound mixing on the album was poor, the packaging was substandard, and the record also inevitably suffered by comparison to their classic 1971 At Fillmore East, generally considered one of the best live albums of all time.
Nevertheless, some of the 1973 performances, such as of "Southbound", are strong, and the energetic 1975 run-through of "Can't Lose What You Never Had" shows why it was considered the best track off of that year's disappointing Win, Lose or Draw. The gem of the album (and the only track from it included on their 1989 box set Dreams) is the New Year's Eve 1972 nightclub performance of "Ain't Wastin' Time No More", a number originally recorded shortly after the band lost Duane Allman and now being played shortly after the band lost Berry Oakley; the song's mixture of lament and resolve was never stronger.
The album's title is derived from the song "Too Much Monkey Business" by rock icon Chuck Berry.
[edit] Track listing
Introduction by Bill Graham – 1:05
- "Wasted Words" (Allman) – 5:10
- "Southbound" (Betts) – 6:03
- "Ramblin' Man" (Betts) – 7:09
- "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" (Betts) – 17:19
- "Ain't Wastin' Time No More" (Allman) – 5:41
- "Come and Go Blues" (Allman) – 5:05
- "Can't Lose What You Never Had" (Waters) – 6:43
- "Don't Want You No More" (Davis, Hardin) – 2:48
- "It's Not My Cross to Bear" (Allman) – 5:23
- "Jessica" (Betts) – 9:05
Tracks 1 - 4 recorded at the Winterland, San Francisco, September 26, 1973.
Track 5 recorded at The Warehouse, New Orleans, December 31, 1972.
Track 6 recorded at the Summer Jam at Watkins Glen, July 28, 1973.
Tracks 7 - 9 recorded at the Bakersfield Civic Auditorium, Bakersfield, California, October 22, 1975.
Track 10 recorded the Oakland Coliseum, October 24, 1975.
[edit] Personnel
- Gregg Allman — lead vocals, organ, clavinet, guitar
- Richard Betts — lead vocals, lead guitar, slide guitar
- Chuck Leavell — piano, electric piano, background vocals
- Lamar Williams — electric bass
- Jaimoe — drums, percussion
- Butch Trucks — drums, percussion, tympani
