It’s neither his nor the Miller Band’s finest moment, but it’s a great historical document, a hand-shaking of two generations of rock ’n’ roll. – Fun Time and Lots (and Lots) of Covers, Roger Daltrey to Host Front Row Live Event, Gregg Allman shares a Fillmore East secret, Randy Bachman of the Guess Who & BTO: Interview, https://bestclassicbands.com/10-great-fillmore-live-albums-8-11-16/, Radio Hits in November 1967: Take a Look, #1 Singles of 1972: Nothing But Blue Skies. Goddbye: live tracks were recorded at The Forum in LA (10/19/68) Just how many were recorded at THE Fillmore, not West or East? Hey, it was a strange, strange time, man. The Fillmore brand was also attached to Irving Plaza in New York City from 2007 to 2010. All Rights reserved. Full-stop. Booked for three nights in March 1971, Aretha, playing her own piano and backed by the R&B saxophone great King Curtis and his band (who released their own terrific Fillmore album from these shows), plus Billy Preston and others, opened with “Respect,” did her thing with tunes like “Bridge Over Troubled Water” and “Eleanor Rigby,” and then, as if that wasn’t enough, welcomed Ray Charles to sing with her!
These innovations were to become part of the Fillmore Auditorium's prestige and image and served as the basis for the systems subsequently used at the Fillmore East and Fillmore West venues. 4) Joe Cocker—Mad Dogs & Englishmen (A&M, 1970). It measures 14" x 21 3/4". Your e-mail address will not be published. Next month, on June 14, a new venue named SVN West will open its doors at 10 South Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco, California. ""Fillmore Scene Moves To New Carousel Hall," Rolling Stone vol. Beginning in 1968, it was briefly operated by a collective formed by the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Big Brother and the Holding Company as a social/musical "laboratory experiment". 1969’s Live/Dead has to make this list, and then there’s expanded (sadly, out of print) Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings.
Great albums all, but they don’t meet our criteria. Like these two…. They just don’t make rock tours like this anymore. Re: Cream’s “Wheels of Fire” and other live tracks, Actually, all the live material on said Cream album, as well as “Goodbye”, was recorded at the Fillmore East, over two nights, True, it was spread over two albums that included studio tracks, But in the box set of their work released a few years ago, all the studio tracks were put on two discs, (think it was two) and all the LIVE FILLMORE material was put in its original order on two discs, as recorded on those two incredible nights in March of 68, I believe.