[ProfessorM]

If you listen to just the first 3 tunes I posted you will see they were as good as any southern band of the time and had the chops to hang with any of the heavyweights of that time. 1st,2nd and the 3rd tunes are very Allman Brotherish and the 2 drummers help along with the great keyboards. I do agree he had a gimmicky style to a lot of his commercialized tunes but not those 3 and there are quite a few more that are just great tunes. I am not a real big fan of the later part of his career but I am sure he was trying to make a buck so he had to have some tunes to appeal to the masses. He is a great live show and his band of back then was awesome.