allman brothers band - whipping post
live @ the fillmore east, september 1970
sometimes I feel … sometimes I FEEL
like I been tied to the whipping post
TIED to the whipping post
TIED to the whipping post
good Lord, I feel like I’m dyin’…
musically, the composition was immediately noticeable for its use of 11/4 time signature in the introduction. as Gregg Allman later said:
I didn’t know the intro was in 11/4 time. I just saw it as three sets of three, and then two to jump on the next three sets with: it was like 1,2,3—1,2,3—1,2,3—1,2. I didn’t count it as 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11. it was one beat short, but it didn’t feel one short, because to get back to the triad, you had two steps to go up.
you’d really hit those two hard, to accent them, so that would separate the threes.
…Duane said, ‘that’s good man, I didn’t know that you understood 11/4.’
of course I said something intelligent like, ‘what’s 11/4?’
Duane just said, ‘okay, dumbass, I’ll try to draw it up on paper for you.’”
