Davidramsey 2009-12-02

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

This is alot of 70s guitar music fans go to CD. It certainly is mine.I pick the best of my favorites and sometimes go through a number of CDs to find it.

artist-cat 2009-07-02

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

Despite what some reviewers have said - I think there's nothing wrong with taking the ORIGINAL recordings as they were on the LPs and recreating it in its entirely on a single set collection.
The concerts were originally spread across multiple albums, which was a pain. So it's good to to have them all together.
If you had to have ONE Allman Brothers recording, this is the one to have. Along with the Rolling Stones "Get Your Ya Yas" and Cream's "Wheels of Fire" - this has to stand as one of best live recordings of the 20th century.
After that, buy the 2CD "Gold" Anthology OR get ALL the first 5 albums (this is #3). (Note: you can acutally get the first two albums on a single disc called "Beginings" which may be cheaper than buying 'the Allman Brothers Band' and 'Idelwild South' separately - but you miss out on the nude pics in the first LP, ha, ha...)
There is another version of the Fillmore Concerts, a remixed version (missing "Midnight Rider") and you can toss a coin as to which one you prefer - they are both worthy.
This version has a slightly more raw sound and the guitars are up in the mix a bit.
Me, I love the screaming at the end when they were yellling "Whipping Post" - and wish I'd been there. Duane Allman was a *genius* player.

aspiring saint 2009-05-24

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:

This is the music that motivated me to play the guitar, along with countless others. To think Duane was just 23 yrs old is astonishing. His passion and sense of urgency are matched only by his technique! BLUES AT ITS ELECTRIC BEST !!! This album and Otis Redding "Live in Europe" are the standards for live recordings.

Grigory's Girl 2009-05-02

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

At Filmore East is one of my all time favorite albums, and this deluxe edition does justice to it. As some have said here, there are no new unreleased tracks. There are the original 7 tracks that appeared on the original, 2LP edition that was released back in 1971. Trouble No More, One Way Out, and the monstrous Mountain Jam all appeared on Eat a Peach, and the others appeared on various compliations throughout the years. But here we get to hear all the songs together, which is really cool.

The opener Statesboro Blues, an old Blind Willie McTell song, is an awesome song, a great way to start out this fabled concert album. The monstrous jam You Don't Love Me runs an incredible 19 minutes, and it never gets boring at all. In Memory of Elizabeth Reed is one of the Allman's best songs ever, and there's never been another live version that has topped this one. Whippin' Post is as great as you've heard, and one of the best things about this box set is that you get to hear the concert as it was originally one. At the end of Post, you hear the opening strands of Mountain Jam, but it had originally faded out at the 22:58 minute mark on the original LP. Here, there's no fade out, and Whippin' Post goes right into Mountain Jam, which is incredible to say the least. Essentially, the Allmans jammed for one hour straight, a breathless jam with hardly a quiet moment. Many make hay of the Dead's long jams, but I think the Allman Brothers Band are the best jam band ever, as their jams are much more dynamic and exciting than their contemporaries. Their invention and dynamism never grows old, and you marvel at their creativity.

One might label The Allman Brothers Band Southern Progressive Rock, though I'm not sure. Regardless, this is a truly great album, one of the best rock albums ever, and it never grows old or tired.

Sedge 2009-01-17

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

You can't help being a bit confused at this point. This is the 2nd of 3 re-issues of songs from the 1971 Fillmore concerts that made this band famous, and it has the exact same title of an album released in 2004, which should at least have been called Deluxe Edtion II. I think this is a result of the record companies belatedly catching up to the importance of this music, along with the inconvenient timing of digital technology. Here's the history:
1. The Allman Brothers At Fillmore East - original issue, double vinyl LP (September 1971, subsequently released in a 2 CD version, and an abriged single CD version)
2. The Fillmore Concerts - re-edited and re-mastered for CD, added songs (October 1992)
3. The Allman Brothers At Fillmore East (Deluxe Edition) - back to original edits with plus the new songs from the 1992 album plus "Midnight Rider" (and the issue this review is related to)
4. The Allman Brothers At Fillmore East (Deluxe Edition) - the original version, now in hybrid SACD format

For the true fan, there's something to be enjoyed in all of them. For the concert purist, 1992's The Fillmore Concerts is the one. For hi-fi fans, this SACD release is the one.