“Whipping Post”
Song by The Allman Brothers Band
Album	The Allman Brothers Band At Fillmore East
Released	1969 (studio), 1971 (live)
Recorded	1969, 1971
Genre	Blues rock, Improvisational
Length	5:19, 22:56
Label	Capricorn Records
Writer	Gregg Allman
Producer	Tom Dowd

"Whipping Post" is a song by The Allman Brothers Band. A song is a Musical composition. Songs contain vocal parts that are performed 'sung' and generally feature Words ( Lyrics) commonly followed The Allman Brothers Band is a Southern rock band based in Macon, Georgia. An album or record album is a collection of related audio or Music tracks distributed to the public The Allman Brothers Band, released in 1969 was the Eponymous debut album of Southern rock group The Allman Brothers Band. At Fillmore East is a double Live album by The Allman Brothers Band, universally regarded as their breakthrough success A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other Blues-rock is a hybrid musical genre combining Bluesy improvisations over the 12-bar blues and extended Boogie jams with Rock Jam bands (or jambands) are musical groups whose albums and live performances relate to a fan culture which originated with the 1960s group Grateful Dead and continued In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music Capricorn Records is an independent Record label which was launched by Phil Walden, Alan Walden, and Frank Fenter in 1969 in A songwriter is someone who writes the Lyrics to songs the Musical composition (chords or Melody to songs or both Gregory Lenoir Allman (born December 8, 1947 in Nashville Tennessee) known as Gregg Allman (sometimes spelled Greg Allman) is a In the Music industry, a record producer or music producer has many roles among them controlling the recording sessions coaching and guiding the musicians organizing Tom Dowd ( October 20, 1925 – October 27, 2002) was an American Recording engineer and producer for Atlantic The Allman Brothers Band is a Southern rock band based in Macon, Georgia. Written by Gregg Allman, the five-minute studio version first appeared on their 1969 debut album The Allman Brothers Band. Gregory Lenoir Allman (born December 8, 1947 in Nashville Tennessee) known as Gregg Allman (sometimes spelled Greg Allman) is a The Allman Brothers Band, released in 1969 was the Eponymous debut album of Southern rock group The Allman Brothers Band. But the song's full power only manifested itself in concert, when it was the basis for much longer and more intense performances. This was captured in a classic take on the Allman Brothers' equally classic 1971 double live album At Fillmore East, where a 23-minute rendition takes up the entire final side. A double album is an audio Album which spans two units of the primary medium in which it is sold (especially records and Compact Discs. A live album &ndash commonly contrasted with a Studio album &ndash is a recording consisting of material (usually music recorded during stage performances At Fillmore East is a double Live album by The Allman Brothers Band, universally regarded as their breakthrough success It was this recording that garnered "Whipping Post" spots on both The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list and Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list.

Contents 1 History 2 Other artists 3 See also 4 References

History

Gregg Allman was only 21 years old when the song was first recorded. It was written shortly before he joined his brother Duane Allman to form The Allman Brothers Band. Howard Duane Allman (November 20 1946 – October 29 1971 was an American, Lead guitarist of the Southern rock group The Allman Brothers Band According to the liner notes of Allman's compilation album One More Try: An Anthology, the song was inspired by his despair over his failure to make a name for himself as a musician during a late-1960s stint in Los Angeles. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West Gregg was on the verge of quitting music altogether when Duane called and said his new band needed a vocalist.

The blues rock song's lyrics center around a metaphorical whipping post, an evil woman and futile existential sorrow. Blues-rock is a hybrid musical genre combining Bluesy improvisations over the 12-bar blues and extended Boogie jams with Rock Writer Jean-Charles Costa described the studio version's musical structure as a "solid framework of [a] song that lends itself to thousands of possibilities in terms of solo expansion. . . . [It is] in modified 3/4 time, building to a series of shrieking lead guitar statements, and reaching full strength in the chorus supported by super dual-lead guitar. "

Despite its length, the live "Whipping Post" received considerable progressive rock radio airplay during the early 1970s, especially late at night or on weekends. Progressive rock is a Radio station programming format that prospered in the late 1960s and 1970s in which the Disc jockeys are given wide latitude

The song also acquired a quasi-legendary role in early 1970s rock concerts, when audience members at other artists' concerts would jokingly yell out "Whipping Post!" as a request between numbers, echoing the fan captured on At Fillmore East. Jackson Browne took note of this occurring during his concerts of the time, and another such instance from 1974 is captured on Frank Zappa's You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2 live album, that caused Zappa to play a southern rock version of his song "Montana", subtitled "Whipping Floss" (Zappa's band would later learn "Whipping Post" and add it to their repertoire). Clyde Jackson Browne (born October 9, 1948) is a German -born American rock Singer-songwriter and Musician. Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21 1940 – December 4 1993 was an American Composer, Electric guitarist Record producer and Film director You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore Vol 2 is a live album by Frank Zappa. Montana is a Song composed by Frank Zappa for his 1973 LP Over-Nite Sensation. Zappa recorded a studio version of the song for the 1984 album Them or Us. Year 1984 ( MCMLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar) Them or Us is an album by Frank Zappa, released in October 1984 Later this same concert "role" would be taken over to a far greater extent by Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird". is a song by the American rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. It was first featured on the band's debut album (pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd in 1973 and Lynyrd Skynyrd (ˌlɛnɚdˈskɪnɝd is an American Southern rock band is a song by the American rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. It was first featured on the band's debut album (pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd in 1973 and

With the advent of album oriented rock radio formats in the 1980s and later, "Whipping Post" became less visible in the rock consciousness, but upon the reformation of the Allmans in 1989 and their perennial touring it held a regular slot in the group's concert set list rotation. Album-oriented rock (sometimes referred to as Adult-oriented rock or as West Coast Rock) abbreviated AOR and originally called album-oriented radio

Other artists

The most well-known rendition of "Whipping Post" by any other artist came in the most unlikely of circumstances, during Season 4 of the massively popular television competition American Idol in 2005. The fourth season of American Idol premiered on January 18, 2005 and continued until May 25, 2005. American Idol, with the full title American Idol The Search for a Superstar for the first season only is an American reality-competition Contestant Bo Bice gave a shot in the arm to Southern rock with an impassioned performance during the show's semi-finals round, pleasing show judge Randy Jackson no end and propelling Bice towards an eventual second-place finish. Harold Elwin "Bo" Bice Jr (born November 1 1975 in Huntsville Alabama) is an American singer and musician who became a runner-up in the fourth season Southern rock is a subgenre of Rock music. It developed in the Southern United States from Rock and roll, Country music, and Blues Randall Darius "Randy" Jackson (born June 23 1956 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is best known as a judge on American Idol; he is Since then other Idol contestants have tried their hand at the song as well, leading to it gaining renewed visibility.

Rock cult figure Genya Ravan produced the best-known recording by a female singer. Genya Ravan, aka Goldie Zelkowitz (born Genyusha Zelkowitz, April 19, 1940, in Łódź, Poland is an American

Gregg Allman himself performs "Whipping Post" with his outside-the-Allmans Gregg Allman and Friends group's concerts, but in a style that he describes as "its funky, real rhythm n’ blues-like" and in which he plays guitar rather than organ. ^[1] Allman re-recorded the song for his 1997 album Searching for Simplicity, giving the song a jazzier groove.

See also

• Musical improvisation

References

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