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Any Alabama fans here?  Just saw them in concert last night. Maybe some other locals on here were there?  Great band/great time.  Legends, for sure.

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4 minutes ago, jass1660 said:

One of them passed last year.

Jeff Cook.

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2nd concert I ever saw was them, in about '82.  They're from north east Alabama (I'm in north west area, and work in the middle).  They did a lot of philanthropic benifit kind of work too.  

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Thought they retired from the road and making new music 8-10 years ago and then lost Jeff last year. Didn’t realize that the they were still performing.

A lot of great songs from them!!

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We saw them once in Sioux Falls.  I won tickets from a local radio station.  George Strait opened for them at the time.  (Was a long time ago!)

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Met them once when they spent the night at a friends house sleeping on the couch and living room floor and touring in a camper.  Back before they were called Alabama. 

Anybody know what their name was then?  

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1 hour ago, dads706 said:

Met them once when they spent the night at a friends house sleeping on the couch and living room floor and touring in a camper.  Back before they were called Alabama. 

Anybody know what their name was then?  

Wild country

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I saw them at one of the big D.C. concert venues back in the late 80's. Great show. My girlfriend at the time was a complete groupie. We lived in TX for a short time and broke up, driving back east separately. I visited my kinfolk in MS and then stopped at the Alabama museum after that. Sure enough, her name was in the guestbook a couple of pages back, just like I knew it would be.

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1 hour ago, mrfred54 said:

Wild country

You are the winner.  We are showing our age.

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49 minutes ago, dads706 said:

You are the winner.  We are showing our age.

 

4 hours ago, axial_al said:

We saw them once in Sioux Falls.  I won tickets from a local radio station.  George Strait opened for them at the time.  (Was a long time ago!)

George Strait opening for ANYBODY is showing your age!  That would be a concert for the ages. 

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Wife and I saw them about 12 years ago. Was a great show. I’m pretty sure we wore out our cassette that mom and dad got when they went to their concert sometime in the early 80’s. “Roll on 18 wheeler!”

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Good band for sure!!  In my youth I really liked Dixieland Delight and still do. Take Me Down is my all time favourite to date, it's got rhythm, in it's time of release when "country was going pop" it ticks both boxes tastefully, and I feel it has that funny dirty vibe like Conway Twitty singing Tight Fittin Jeans or You've Never Been This Far Before

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21 hours ago, russ_alabama said:

2nd concert I ever saw was them, in about '82.  They're from north east Alabama (I'm in north west area, and work in the middle).  They did a lot of philanthropic benifit kind of work too.  

Fort Payne. Loaded cattle at that sale barn a lot years ago and been by their yard.  Been across northern Al almost every week back then

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This was good for a memory jog, even though I had to phone a cousin for details.

I had thought Alabama played the Hodag in the latter part of the '80s. Nope! Was the Oak Ridge Boys. Also seen Strait & No Show there. The first time there Eddie Rabbit played. Think Reba played that one too.

Mike

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