The downstairs concession stand at the back of the orchestra provided sodas, hot dogs, and the usual movie theater-style provisions, but upstairs was a different story. We want to get all that vibe on the LP.” Johnny Winter was the headliner and he didn’t want a lightshow so we were not on the bill. As I recall about 10th row center. In 2014, a six-disc set featuring the Allman Brothers Band's early and late shows at the Fillmore East of March 12 and 13, 1971 and including their performance on the venue's final night of June 27, 1971 was issued as The 1971 Fillmore East Recordings. We brought everyone up here for the Fillmore East experience! The band had played a saturday night in North Carolina, then at CCNY Sunday afternoon, then on to a Sunday night gig at Hofstra. Comment below or Send us a Tip. [10] From the summer of 1970, the Pig Light Show under the direction of Marc L. Rubinstein performed at the theater from time to time trading duties until the venue's closing in 1971 with Joe's Lights, made up of former members of the Joshua Light Show which remained the de facto house light show. [7][8] Led Zeppelin made four appearances in early 1969, opening for Iron Butterfly. You Don’t Love Me is the final track and features more of the same, totally fluid with each player roaming the musical landscape. National Educational Television taped a show on September 23, 1970, for broadcast. The Mothers of Invention were right there for a while; I saw The Dead come close once; I’m sure if I think about it longer, I could come up with a few more. He shut the Fillmore East down in June 1971 with a three-night run headlined by the Allman Brothers Band, joined on the closing evening by an all-star cast that included Country Joe, Mountain, and the Beach Boys. The only change during this set was the addition of two more songs in Whipping Post and Hot ‘Lanta which they finished on. Le Allman Brothers Band a joué tellement de fois au Fillmore East qu'on l'appelle parfois le « groupe de chez Bill Graham », en anglais « Bill Graham's House Band ». ( Log Out / I was not into all the gear back then, so I did not focus on that.”, Love everything you post Tom…love ya, Jama, what a fantastic article !! Fillmore was a great room- a serious tone to the scene there, very buttoned up an pro.”, Vincent Lanza – Audience Member, Present At All Three Nights. Since the concert didn’t start until 11:30PM, we took a late train from Glen Cove to Penn Station and roamed around the city for a while to kill time. We gave them, and their friends and family the full on Fillmore East experience. The classic shows happened frequently in front of the tough New York crowds. Of course, Hendrix and Clapton were jazzy with their long barely structured solos. I say barely structured because they ended where they started but, very much like Miles, they went all over in between. “Up on the balcony level was the perfect stoned-hippie-food concession,” Gary Lambert remembered in Steve Silberman’s vivid reconstruction Primal Dead at the Fillmore East. Needless to say, they stole the show! Open through August, the exhibit offers a moving and detailed overview of Graham’s life and career, including ephemera from his early life in the Bronx (where he appropriated his new name in the phone book), lots of psychedelic poster art, and documentation of Graham’s quarter-century as rock’s preeminent live promoter. By the time 1970 turned to 1971, Bill Graham was ready to be out. Disc reads: Live At The Fillmore East Inside left panel photo courtesy of Cashbox Magazine.