Friday’s Leftovers: ABB Plotting 40th Anniversary

One of the best benefits of living in Manhattan’s Upper West Side has to be the ability to walk over to the Beacon Theater for the Allman Brothers’ annual mega-run of shows every March. While Gregg Allman’s fight with Hepatitis C put the kibosh on this year’s run, the band is already making plans to celebrate their 40th anniversary of the historic theater in March of 2009 with a slew of special guests.

We can’t wait to see who the Brothers invite to the stage. Hopefully they’ll bury the hatchet with former member Dickey Betts in honor of the anniversary.

Let’s take a gander at what else is cookin’ today…

• The Yankees are eyeing Springsteen and/or Macca to close their stadium
• Corporate papa Glide Magazine takes a look at Maine’s UpNorth Festival
• Wolfgang expands its Vault by adding memorabilia from LA’s Ash Grove
• The Doors finally appear ready to settle their long-running bitter law suit
• WCAX TV examines the increasing likelihood of a potential Phish reunion
• Leona Lewis and Jimmy Page to perform a Led Zep tune at the Olympics
• Bob Lefsetz pays tribute to moe.’s management and Al approves
• Traveler’s John Popper and Producer Steve Lillywhite remember LeRoi

Finally, Olympians in Beijing who tried to access the iTunes store have found that access to the site has been cut off. Apparently a few athletes downloaded a Free Tibet compilation prompting Chinese officials to put the iTunes Store behind the Great FireWall of China. Seems a little overzealous to us.