the ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND - AT FILLMORE EAST

also is it or is it not the greatest (rock-adjacent) live album ever released

Voting for Elizabeth Read

i agree that this is the definitive take of it (and saddened by dickey subsequently becoming all cornpone, because it is fucking brilliant)

playing this for my pre-boomer parents inspired them to go see the allmans at an exurban shed in the mid-90s

i *think* they enjoyed it(?) but i know for certain they were struck by both the sheer volume and the overwhelming smell of w33d

"Hot 'Lanta" and "Elizabeth Reed" are my two least favorite tracks, but pretty much everything else is amazing. The first version I ever heard was the 2CD deluxe edition that also had the tracks from Eat A Peach included. Now I have the 6CD The Fillmore East 1971 Recordings, which has everything recorded for the album plus some other tracks from later in the year.

(Voted for "Whipping Post," because c'mon.)

we gotta little number from our first album we're gonna do for you; barry starts it up

'(whippin' POST)'

you guessed it

(oh no, whippin posty)

"also is it or is it not the greatest (rock-adjacent) live album ever released"

GOAT status is subjective, but I would say that for it's time that this LP is both something that took advantage of the 2LP live album format perhaps best in both quality and popularity making the "DOUBLE LIVE ALBUM" a very big thing in the 70s.

And for the Allman Brothers itself it was the perfect mold to actually show what was unique and of high quality about the band. In this they were so successful the album is still playing on whatever is left of rock radio every day and uniquely nearly every cut well over 50 years since release. In the canon of rock music, what other live album could say the same?

How would you compare it to Frampton Comes Alive!?

I think Frampton's early studio LPs did not really capture some of the songs. When I checked them out, they sounded kinda slower and just don't have the energy of the live record. Both of the LPs then went hugely popular.

"Live Dead" was a similar release for the Dead in a way too.

will hear nothing bad about 'do you feel like we do' but i'm pretty sure/hope james redd was making a joek

I'll vouch for Frampton Comes Alive and also the four studio albums leading up to it - the renditions there are slower and simpler but have a low-key charm.

There's an abundance of riches on At Fillmore East too - I'll take "Elizabeth Read" slightly over "Stormy Monday".

it's one of these for me:

STORMY MONDAY fucking love it and it has personal meaning to me
ELIZABETH REED respect the hell out of it and wish there were more things like it, but
WHIPPING POST well, yeah

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"Whipping Post", I guess, thought with 10 extra minutes I could listen to their entire debut album - any song on which I prefer to anything on here.

that's your cross to bear

what, no love for

YOU DON'T LOVE ME (Willie Cobbs) 19:19

and its great coda?

I love pretty much every AB related project through 1974–and that includes Laid Back, Highway Call, Layla.

xp prefer the version on the DREAMS box set that they apparently played at king curtis's funeral

!! never heard that one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahvSDqqFrrc

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