Gov't Mule is a side project for Allman Brothers Band guitar extraordinare Warren Haynes. Formed in 1994 with Matt Abts on drums and Allen Woody on bass. I was fortunate to see this line up in concert where they backed up Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes at the Marcus Ampitheatre in Milwaukee on 6/29/2000. Allen died two months later.
The band carried on looking for a new bass player. This search resulted in three LP's worth of music containing famous bass players like Roger Glover from Deep Purple,Les Claypool from Primus,Jack Bruce from Cream,Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers,Jason Newstead from Metallica,Phil Lesh from the Grateful Dead,and many many more. They settled on an unknown bass player Andy Hess. Danny Louis joined the fold as the keyboardist.
They recently released a live DVD, A Tale of 2 Cities,which I acquired about 2 weeks ago. This song is on it. It also can be found on their 2006 classic,High and Mighty
My friend Irregulars,I present Brand New Angel. Enjoy!
More information on Gov't Mule.
Information on their setlists
The LP's I recommend are:their debut LP and High and Mighty.
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I love the Mule and I love Back Door Slam and I wish I could see them on this tour!!
Thanks for the Angel :)
Wow, that is some incredible guitar playing.
Whew, I can see why they needed to take a break...that's a lot of guitar playing!
You guys,you ain't seen nothing,yet. I have a couple of versions of ABB's Jessica that is literaly MIND BLOWING. Warren Haynes and Dickey Betts would feed off of each other.One would play lead and the other rythym and then switch and then come back together.
I was unable to find a version of Jessica off of YouTube to give a good example for. Here's a version of Blue Sky. It might be a little out of synch,but hopefully you'll get the idea that they're a team.
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