Dickey Betts in critical condition after accident at his Sarasota County home
Source: Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Dickey Betts has been hospitalized after a freak accident at his home.
Betts, the Ramblin Man singer-songwriter and founding Allman Brothers Band guitarist, went out to his backyard on Little Sarasota Bay and while playing with the family dog, slipped and cracked his head, causing bleeding in his brain.
Betts has been sedated at an undisclosed local hospital following the accident that occurred Monday evening at the Osprey home he shares with wife, Donna.
David Spero, Betts longtime friend and manager, said the beloved rock legend is listed in critical but stable condition.
Read more: http://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20180919/dickey-betts-in-critical-condition-after-accident-at-his-sarasota-county-home
He's reportedly scheduled to undergo brain surgery Friday.
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)MaryMagdaline
(6,856 posts)Docreed2003
(16,878 posts)Thoughts to Dickey and his family during this!
NBachers
(17,146 posts)Eko
(7,364 posts)Just nope. Hard enough without the Bros together,,, get well brother.
marble falls
(57,265 posts)stations including WMMS and WNCR in the late sixties and seventies.
Interesting guy himself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Spero
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)appalachiablue
(41,177 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,874 posts)3 with Duane and 2 after.
I grew up near the GA/SC line so they played a lot in the area in their early days.
I never saw Hendrix or Stevie Ray Vaughan live, so I have to say the Duane was the best guitarist I ever saw, with Alvin Lee and Johnny Winter just behind him.
jalan48
(13,888 posts)GentryDixon
(2,962 posts)I was walking my dog in the early morning & did not see the raised concrete. My toe hit it & down I went. I did not go to the Doctor until 12 days later, & by then my bleed was quite large. They took me by ambulance to the hospital where they monitored me for two days, then sent me home. Two days later my husband found me non responsive when he got up in the morning.
I had a crainiotomy after they were able to stabilize me. I had some speech difficulty & a little weakness in my left side for a few weeks. I am now back to my old self. My hair is about 1/4 inch all around. Still not enough to cover the incision scar. And I still have a tender scalp, but no feeling above my ear, if that makes sense.
Loryn
(945 posts)This sounds very recent. Glad you are on the mend.
Be well.
GentryDixon
(2,962 posts)getagrip_already
(14,838 posts)john657
(1,058 posts)One of my all time favorites.
Best song, IMO, One Way Out.
Get well soon Mr. Dickey Betts.
Ligyron
(7,639 posts)He and Duane's twin guitar attack was one of the very best in rock. The interplay between Duane and him on Dickey's song "Blue Sky" for instance is just a joy to listen to.
I hope he can recover. Not too many left in that genre.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)Dicky and Warren Haynes (second and third from left) knock it dead with one of my favorites, Melissa:
Allman Brothers Blues Band - Melissa - Acoustic - Live Music - Gregg & Dickie Betts - Video
Get well soon, Dickey!........ ........
Loryn
(945 posts)Such skill. Thanks for posting this.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)It works every time I hear those two pickers playing in harmony toward the end.....
JohnnyRingo
(18,650 posts)I read an interview from him in Rolling Stone and I just saw his son Duane play with Devon Allman last month at Kent State U. It was a sad interview of a man at the end of his career.
Dickey Betts is not a particularly wealthy man, so I hope he gets good care, and now he'll be unable to return on tour in November, so he'll have no income unless we all go to Amazon and buy 35 year old CDs.
I've seen him with the original band and on solo tour. He was astounding.
djg21
(1,803 posts)And Bonnie Bramlett almost 40 years ago when I was a 16 year old kid. I had an uncle who worked for the Allmans and he took me to a show when they came through my town. I watched from back stage, and drank a lot of free beer. We ended up going to a local bar/concert venue after the show and tipping a couple more. Dickey was interesting, but I couldnt take my eyes off of Bonnie Bramlett, who I crushed on for years. I miss the Allmans and always hoped that Dickey and Greg would reunite one last time. I saw Greg perform a short time before he passed, and he sounded great and looked like he really had gotten his shit together. Its sad to see your heros grow old, but it happens to all of us.
JohnnyRingo
(18,650 posts)What a cool rock & roll memory you had! The closest brush I've had was getting high in the back seat with Stiv Bator on our way to a bar. Steve was from here and we had mutual friends.
Too bad there weren't selfies back then... or maybe that's best.
world wide wally
(21,755 posts)No one ever just blew me away like the original Allman Brothers Band.
The road goes on forever.
Get well, Dickie!
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)on this planet e v e r award, wally! WOW
One of my all-time favorite rock stories is from Bill Grahams book...of course, Im paraphrasing, as Im too lazy to look it up, BUT ANYWAY:
One fine day in I think 1969, some people who worked at Fillmore East were gathered out back taking a break (the toking kind, most likely).
While theyre standing there, this beat-up piece of shit van slowly rolls up and stops. Out tumble these unbathed, scrappy-looking guys, and as they exit the van, empty beer cans and candy bar wrappers fall out along with them - I mean, these guys are one scurvy, sad-assed mess!!
The Fillmore workers look on in disgust as they mutter, Oh, who in holy hell booked these fuckin yahoos?? and Aw shit, this is gonna be one dead weekend, man - etc. They wander back into the venue, leaving these trailer-trash brothers to fend for themselves.
So then its about 5pm - soundcheck.
And then HOLY SHIT WHAT IS THIS?!?!? - the employees, and Graham himself, all come running out of their little offices towards the theater, unable to believe the music theyre hearing.
Of course, when they got closer to the stage, they saw it was those trailer-trash Southern yahoos making this unfuckinbelievable sound and
none of them were ever the same again
AMEN!!
world wide wally
(21,755 posts)I was never the same after seeing them either. It was like a symphony. Movements, crescendos, all the back and fourth interplay. Simply fucking amazing! I was pretty lucky.
ProfessorGAC
(65,212 posts)Get well Dickie.
He was a master of the flowing 8th note leads. Just a flowing stream of 8 notes per measure with a great tone and a mix of ideas.
Great player.
sellitman
(11,607 posts)Signed a Fan.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)karma my ass
Soxfan58
(3,479 posts)You have giving me a lot of enjoyment. While Ive tried to make a living and doing the best I can.
brewens
(13,622 posts)Of all the old classic rock bands I can think of, that was the finest work of them all for later in their career. It's loaded with great stuff, including a couple real good Betts tunes.
Guppy
(444 posts)I saw him multiple times including the closing weekend at the Fillmore east and the Stonybrook show where they played "blue sky" the first time and the next to last show before Duane died. get well Dicky