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At Fillmore East
Live album by The Allman Brothers Band
Released July 1971 (1971-07)
Recorded March 12, 1971 (1971-03-12)–March 13, 1971 (1971-03-13) Fillmore East, New York
Genre Blues-rock, southern rock
Length 76:26
Label Capricorn
Producer Tom Dowd
Professional reviews
* Allmusic 5/5 stars link
* Robert Christgau (B-) link
* Q 4/5 stars July 1998
* Rolling Stone 5/5 stars August 2002
* Blues.ru 4/5 stars link (in Russian)
At Fillmore East is a double live album by The Allman Brothers Band. The band's breakthrough success, At Fillmore East was released in July 1971. It ranks Number 49 among Rolling Stone magazine’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time[1] and remains among the top-selling albums in the band’s catalogue. It is often cited as being one of the most well-known live recordings in history. The original album was released in both conventional 2-channel stereo and 4-channel quadraphonic mixes.
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History
Duane Allman at Fillmore East, 1971
Recorded at the Fillmore East concert hall, the storied rock venue in New York City, on Friday and Saturday March 12, 1971–March 13, 1971, it showcased the band's mixture of blues, Southern rock and jazz. The cover of Blind Willie McTell's "Statesboro Blues" which opens the set showcases Duane Allman's slide guitar work in open E Tuning. "Whipping Post" became the standard for a long, epic jam that never lost interest (opening in 11/8 time, unusual territory for a rock band), while the ethereal-to-furious "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed", with its harmonized melody, Latin feel and burning drive invited comparisons with John Coltrane (especially Duane's solo-ending pull-offs, a direct nod to the jazz saxophonist).
The album was produced by Tom Dowd, who condensed the running time of various songs, occasionally even merging two performances into one track. For example, the first seven minutes of "You Don't Love Me" is from the first show on March 13 and the rest (Starting at Duane's solo without the band) is from the second show on March 12. At Fillmore East peaked at #13 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart.
The album was also specially remixed for 4-channel quadraphonic sound. In the 4-channel mix Duane Allman is heard in the left rear channel, Dickey Betts in the right rear channel, Jai Johanny Johanson in the front left channel, Butch Trucks in the right front channel and Gregg Allman and Berry Oakley both spread out over the front and center channels. The 4-channel version uses some different edits and or performances of the songs taken from the same concerts. Some of these alternate versions appeared in the 1989 compilation Dreams, although in that release the 4-channel recordings have been reduced to 2-channels. In 1998 the entire 4-channel edition was re-issued on CD as a 4.0 (not 5.1) surround sound DTS disc.
Two other songs recorded during the same set of shows, "Trouble No More", and the memorable "Mountain Jam", were later released on Eat a Peach, the latter spanning two sides of the double album.
Those songs were later included in their entirety, along with uncut versions of some, re-edited versions of others, and some previously omitted tracks, on a new release of the Fillmore material entitled The Fillmore Concerts (1992). "Stormy Monday" gained back a harmonica solo; "Don't Keep Me Wonderin'" and "Drunken Hearted Boy" were included as well.
2003 saw the release of a two-disc edition entitled At Fillmore East Deluxe Edition. It compiled all the released versions of the Fillmore material, some material from the collection Duane Allman: An Anthology and the Dreams box set, and remixed the material with a better "soundstage" than the 1992 release.
In 2003 the TV network VH1 named At Fillmore East the 59th greatest album of all time. That same year, it was also ranked #49 by Rolling Stone on their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. It was one of 50 recordings chosen in 2004 by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry. The song "Whipping Post" is part of the The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list.[2]
Album cover
None of the pictures of the band for the cover were actually taken at the Fillmore East. The photographer Jim Marshall took the cover shot near the band's headquarters in Macon, Georgia, where the band had relocated from Florida to be near manager Phil Walden's new Criteria Studios.[3]
Normally the band hated being photographed; the cover of The Fillmore Concerts shows them displaying terminal boredom. However, during the session, Duane spotted a dealer friend, raced over and grabbed a bag of contraband, then returned to his seat, discreetly clutching the stash in his lap. This cracked up all the members, resulting in a memorable image.[citation needed]
The back cover shows their road crew gathered in the same spot with 0.47 lt (16 oz.) cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer provided by the photographer as a reward to the roadies for lugging out and stacking the band's heavy equipment for the photo shoot. Their expressions clarify their thoughts about the brand.[4]
Track listing
At Fillmore East
Side one
1. "Statesboro Blues" (Will McTell) – 4:17
2. "Done Somebody Wrong" (Clarence L. Lewis, Bobby Robinson, Elmore James) – 4:33
3. "Stormy Monday" (T. Bone Walker) – 8:44
Side two
1. "You Don't Love Me" (Willie Cobbs) – 19:15 ("Soul Serenade"/"Joy to the World" medley in the ending portions)
Side three
1. "Hot 'Lanta" (Gregg Allman, Duane Allman, Dickey Betts, Butch Trucks, Berry Oakley, Jai Johanny Johanson) – 5:17
2. "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" (Dickey Betts) – 13:04
Side four
1. "Whipping Post" (Gregg Allman) – 23:03
Credits
* Duane Allman – lead guitar, slide guitar
* Gregg Allman – organ, piano, Vocals
* Dickey Betts – lead guitar, Vocals
* Berry Oakley – bass guitar
* Jai Johanny Johanson – drums, congas, timbales
* Butch Trucks – drums, tympani
Special Guests
* Thom Doucette – Harmonica on "Don't Keep Me Wonderin'", "Done Somebody Wrong", "Stormy Monday" and "You Don't Love Me"
* Jim Santi - Tambourine
Production (At Fillmore East)
* Tom Dowd – Producer, Liner Notes
* Aaron Baron – Engineer
* Larry Dahlstrom – Engineer
* Dennis M. Drake – Mastering
* Jim Marshall – Photography
Also Included Midnight Rider From Duane Allman Anthology II
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