At Fillmore East

Like okay man I get it. Good for you but... I got stuff to do

The legendarily talented Allman Brothers meander their way through 80 minutes of directionless jamming, demonstrating to me that I enjoy a little (or a lot) more structure in my tunes. Gave it three listens out of respect and couldn't rise above a neutral rating. Still looking forward to the studio albums. 5/10

Look... live albums often feel like your friend showing you a video they took at a concert; but here is where context matters... The Allman brothers band is a jam band. Just like the Grateful Dead. Sure studio albums are fine if you want to hear the polished copy of their songs; but bands like these are important; because they are performing artists. Dead heads and hippies didn't travel with these bands because they really liked their 5 set songs and wanted to hear them performed over and over again. They followed these bands across the US and beyond; because each time these bands played a song, it was different, it was greater, it was grander, it was the spirit of blues and improvisation. That being said... I'm not really a fan of live albums. I am however a fan of blues. This album has some great solos 'on done somebody wrong' . You can feel that they are having a blast jamming together on stage.

Technically good but pointless

Ranking (in ascending order) of male vocalists who have had sex with Cher (allegedly): Sonny Bono Gregg Allman Gene Simmons Val Kilmer This album is just proof that Phish had much stronger weed.

Found it irritating so turned it down and then forgot it was playing

Production: 4/20 Songwriting: 4/20 Innovation: 2/20 Bangers: 0/20 Emotional response: 2/20 =12 get teh fuck white man blues

Live At Fillmore East is a great example of The Allman Brothers Band's intention to fuse Blues and Jazz in a soulful way with a country rock vibe. Although I very much respect traditional blues and dig them live, I am often not drawn to listen away from the stage. However, The Allmans' style has always helped bridge that gap for me and cause me to appreciate the genre more and awaken me to their influence on many artists that I know and love. After the first 3 more traditional blues tunes, for me the album just gets cookin' 4 songs into the album with You Don't Love Me. This epic 19 min. blues rock saga gets all cylinders hummin'. Cool jams Hot 'Lanta and In Memory Of Elizabeth really keep it rollin' to the pinnacle of the whole set, Whipping Post. Damn, it's so good! **I would love to see My Morning Jacket cover You Don't Love Me at Red Rocks someday!!! (eyes bugged)

I like this. Bluesy. I had no idea. I thought they were country and Neil Young was more like ummm folk music or blue grassy. This is not what I expected. Traditional blues riffs everywhere. I had this cd in high school that was all backing blues stuff for you to do improvised solos over the top of it. I'm sorry...maybe they'd hate this...but this is what that sounded like. Also look how happy they look in this album cover but like you can tell....this group does drugs. Gregg Allman married Cher. What? Whipping Post is 23 minutes long. 23 minutes. How does that work? Like how did that song ever get exposure? In Memory of Elizabeth Reed is 13 minutes. How...did ....that ....ever ....work? Whipping Post is the best of the album. All 23 minutes. Wild man, wild. It stands out with it's opening. Blues can sound like the same song over and over and over...but Whipping Post is blues and then this unique heavy tripping triplet feeling bass-line. Fast moving base lines in general are memorable.

Live music that's so well recorded and performed that you can barely tell. Classic!

Not as onanistic as the worst blues wanks of the era but still guilty of viewing solo length as equivalent to generosity of feeling, which is something the blue masters they respectfully cover had in abundance. This is all pretense, guard, posture. When Elmore James strikes a cord it sounds like the truest thing you ever heard. These guys have to shroud theirs in fuzz, or turn the songs into arena rockers, to disguise the attenuated feelings beneath.

Superb raw blues with pockets of ambience amidst layers of quality musicianship. Every string reverberates into your soul, and if you close your eyes, you're in that dive bar and can almost taste the bourbon and smell the smoky air. This is awesome.

Every track on this album crackles with energy. This is clearly a band that honed their craft and spent countless hours playing together. Everyone is on point through songs that wind upwards of 10 minutes. The songs wind expertly from rootsy blues of Stormy Monday to the frentic uptempo rock of You Don't Love Me Anymore. Its hard not to get caught up in the energy that this band channels into every second. Its fun to hear the band react to the music and yell at the band between songs. Theres nothing not to love here. The dueling guitars, the manic drum sets, the pumping bass, and Gregg Allman's piano and lyrics tying it altogether. The album isn't perfect but its imperfections are often an artifact of the fact that it is a live album and help make it better.

Now, this is an interesting mix of musical genres that I've never had the opportunity to hear before... Rock + Blues + Country + so much more. I enjoyed the whimsy of it all, swinging between the different styles, and weaving them into a single fabric, making you feel like you're listening not to one band, but to a strange one-time fusion event.. which I suspect it was? I may be wrong, and I will be happy if it wasn't... it means more music like this I can look forward to in the future! It's always a pleasure discovering new flavour combinations in food, and style combinations in music, and this was no exception. This was totally my jam, and probably my new favourite flavour of it (pun intended).

GOAT love album. Guitars don’t get much better than this

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Live albums are bad albums

I'm not a big fan of the "jam band" thing, but this is pretty good. Some incredible guitar work in the midst of some long, pointless jamming. Must have been amazing to see them live. 3 stars.

It's crazy that this is the first album this generator gave me. It's one I've listened to at least a dozen times already, and a hard one to write about because of how connected it is to my dad. My dad died last year, and he was maybe the biggest music lover I've ever known. When he was dying of cancer I did two really important things that made his last few weeks on Earth more enjoyable. I bought him Bluetooth earbuds so that he could listen to music without bothering my mom, and she could watch TV that he didn't really want to watch. And I bought him edibles. Truly, a match made in heaven. Anyway, The Allman Brothers Band was probably my dad's favorite band, and one of the bands that we really connected over. We weren't always the most aligned on musical tastes, but did bond over a strong love for blues and blues rock, and this album is maybe the most blues rock rock has ever been bluesed. Easy 5/5 or 10/10 or whatever the rating system on this infernal contraption is. Fuck Ya Life, Knicks in 5, Knicks vs Hicks but the Hicks wish they were Knicks Wu Tang Forever Ya Mother

Guitar w*#nkery at it’s finest!

I don't have the musical sense to understand why this is good. I'm sure that to many people, this is an objective masterpiece -- otherwise it wouldn't be on this list. But I don't really have the patience for twenty minute-long jam band sessions. At best, I'd put it on as background study music.

Pour que vous compreniez ce que j'ai ressenti pendant l'écoute de cet album, je vais vous partager une anecdote. Vous savez que j'ai pour habitude de manger régulièrement dans des restaurants japonais proposant une formule de sushis à volonté (l'un d'eux est évoqué dans ma critique de l'album Led Zeppelin). Dans celui que je fréquente le plus souvent, une annonce est faite pour chaque client qui souhaiterait choisir la formule dite "All you can eat" : "ne commandez que ce que vous pouvez manger, tout gâchis sera facturé". Un certain vendredi, je décidai de m'y rendre accompagné de trois espagnoles, leur nombre ayant été choisi par mes soins. Après nous être installés, nous commençâmes à commander les tant attendus sushis. Seulement voilà : chaque tournée de sushis apportée à notre table me semblait incomplète. Je décidai donc de commander de nouveaux sushis pour compenser ce qui me semblait être un oubli de la part de la serveuse. C'est alors que les problèmes commencèrent. Alors que je n'avais bientôt presque plus faim, les tournées de sushis oubliés nous furent servies. D'immenses plateaux de se succédèrent dès lors, me provoquant de fortes envies de vomir. Ce qui devait être un déjeuner sympathique se transforma en cauchemar. Je calculai bientôt combien de sushis j'avais la capacité d'ingurgiter et répartis le reste entre les espagnoles. Gobage après gobage, envie de vomir après envie de vomir, nous arrivâmes à bout de notre commande, laissant trois pauvres makis au tofu sur le côté d'une assiette. La morale de cette histoire est qu'il faut savoir doser les bonnes choses, et elle ferait bien d'être entendue par l'Allman Brother Band. Leur album de quatre heures a réussi à me faire dégobiller plus d'une fois, c'est la raison pour laquelle ils obtiennent de ma part la note de deux sur cinq.

Cet album m'a permis d'établir une nouvelle règle faisant désormais loi: si un album comporte des chansons de plus de 10 minutes, c'est forcément un album de merde. En effet, proposer une chanson d'une durée supérieure à 10 minutes démontre un égo surdimensionné, l'artiste pensant pouvoir nous captiver sur une durée aussi longue. C'est d'ailleurs pour ça que l'ignoble Frank Zappa s'évertue à proposer des horribles morceaux interminables. Cet album n'échappe pas à la règle, et vient récolter un 2/5 bien mérité.

It’s soooooo long… meandering, self indulgent… watch as the band congratulate one another for the thirteenth solo in the same track! There is no denying the talent and skill of the musicians is first rate, but it’s a hard one to enjoy.

Hot 'Lanta: Questa è stata divertente. In conclusione: Non c'ho molto da dire, sapevo cosa aspettarmi perché nel mio periodo chitarristico da 15 anni un po' me li so sentiti insieme ad altri gruppi come loro. Diciamo che considerando che è un album live è più tosta perché sti gruppi fondamentalmente suonano solo per questioni masturbatorie dei chitarristi che li ascoltano e quindi live la situazione diventa ancora meno compositiva e più circense. Ce so stati rari momenti in cui magari mi sono un po' fomentato ma in 1 ora e passa de cazzeggio almeno un momento in cui suonavano tutti insieme statisticamente capiterà. Gli vorrei dà più di due ma meno di tre.

Too bloated, self indulgent and long. Sounded like a band rehearsing.

Despite the apparent iconic nature of this album, I don’t think I’ve ever listened to it before. Unfortunately I can see why. There’s a few tracks that really get going, in that driving, bluesy, rock way, but then there’s a whole load of noodley wanking off that just turns me right off. Not for me.

These kind of blues jams are very much not my thing. Couldn't make it through most tracks. I find this kind of stuff utterly boring and tedious. Can't even imagine trying to make it through the deluxe edition .

"Sometimes, I feel Like I've been tied to the whipping post"

Legendary live album by a legendary live, jamming band. Exquisit record.

A classic. 6 songs over 2 records. The genesis of jam band records?

Love the jamming. Never cared much for their studio albums, these live versions are great though.

This is one of my favorite albums! I remember hearing "Hot 'Lanta" for the first time and I was immediately taken aback by the musicianship of the group. It's still one of my faves by them! After hearing the live versions of their music, their studio albums just don't do it for me, haha.

Wow! This was a fun listen. From the first minute to the last this was an exploration journey. Some of the tracks feel like they're an album on their own. Going in the library and will listen again. Get's a solid 5*

At Fillmore East is the first live album by the Allman Brothers Band, originally released in 1971. Probably the best live album ever? Here the Allmans are perfectly captured in what is their best era (in my opinion). The dueling guitars and duel drummers really make their sound so heavy. I couldn't imagine having the privilege of seeing them live in this era. The band is tight and firing on all cylinders. Those who don't like jam bands probably won't dig this record but I find it is an easier live album for the average music fan to digest rather than something like Live Dead. The jams are structured for the most part and are rocking. A highlight on here for me is "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed", which was sure to get the crowd out of their seats.

Very good live band and a pity that Duane (and Berry) died so young.

I've been aware of the Allman Brothers all my life, apparently in name only. What a great album and an instant classic to be sure.

Reggae

Super long songs but mostly a jam set. Really good stuff in there but it is a mood. Good background jam sesh.

Yes yes yes yes yes. Total perfection. This performance of "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" is one of my absolute favorite pieces of music ever recorded. One of the more important albums of my lifetime. 5/5

Love. Perfect for a day riding around New Orleans!

Second-best live album in history. Wore out the grooves on this one.

Classic album. Full of great jams.

"ah, o de hoje é rapidin-" 23 minutos de musica rockzinho anos 50-60 purinho, bem gostoso in memory of elizabeth reed x água viva !

Yep you got me with this album. Love the endless jam feel - the gift of feeling right on stage in on immersive almost Binaural recording of extraordinary clarity and quality given the 1971 vintage. Even the drum kit is in stereo. This introduced me to whole new dual lead guitars playing in synch and replying. A rule breaking band mixing jazz blues rock and country blender. A wonderful indulgence. My tips. #1 DEFINITELY headphones. it's like being in stage with them, almost Binaural. #2 read the Wikipedia entry. The cover art story alone is gold. #3 find something to do while listening to this. It's gonna be long.

Heard of the group - don't know any of their songs.

Some may think this album might have Done Somebody Wrong, but I think they were just having a Stormy Monday in Hot ‘Lanta.

Album 527 of 1001 The Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East Rating : 5 / 5 Awesome album. One of the few live albums I really enjoy. As another reviewer shared, "The album isn't perfect but its imperfections are often an artifact of the fact that it is a live album and help make it better.". I couldn't agree more.

Classical classic rock.

Nothing short of brilliant. The guitar alone merits a five.

Nice live blues music

даже не читая отзывов критиков и вообще не зная об этом альбоме ничего я сразу понял, что это шедевр. великолепные произведения, дополненные взрывающими голову гитарными соло, если говорить совсем кратко. достойно прослушивания каждого, даже если вы не любите тяжелый блюз.

Soulful blues on one of the best live albums I’ve heard!

Rock, Soul, Blues Feels classic Dad likes this band I think

No lo termine de escuchar, ya lo había oído y en este momento no tuve el interés

This album taught me I don’t have the attention span for 20 minute long songs. You’ve got to respect the talent here but a little too much “jamming” going on for this to be something I’d regularly listen to.

Questo è un 3.5 perché devo dire che l’ho ascoltato divertendomi e sentendomi coinvolto. Non mi ha emozionato particolarmente e a tratti capisco essere progressive ma la tirano un po’ per le lunghe.

Mad props to this generator for giving me a 80-ish minutes live album on one of my busier days of the week. Extra thanks for it being a jam band live album, so I get submitted to a meandering experience that threatens to persist until the heat death of the universe. There are some good parts to this album (lost probably somewhere in the solos), but jam band concerts are perhaps better experienced in person. Not on record. Favorite track: Hot ‘Lanta Other hits: Everyone other song that is not more than 10 minutes.

One thing I've learned from this project is that I don't like jam bands. I imagine this is what prog music sounds like to people that don't like prog.

I bought this years ago on the recommendation of a close family member who thinks it's fire. Having the same childhood grounding in blue rock, I can understand why and enjoy this as wallpaper, but the long hair on the cover belies the band's deadening formality: members dutifully queue up for their exhibitions before stepping gracefully aside, everything tasteful and in place, listen it's the organist's turn, the crowd cheers and my ears droop. Pretty moments intrude - the last 90 seconds of "You Don't Love Me" - but otherwise this is faithful to its aspiration to be all about musicians chatting to each other in accepted modes; it's a little like a circle of Star Trek nerds quoting their favourite Star Trek quotes to each other in character. Heartfelt and of limited interest to this audience. There is a place for lounge jam, but I live in no lounge and like salt with my bread.

well that certainly was 76 minutes of music

That combo of undeniably good but totally uninteresting to me

Forgettable jam band nonsense

“I guess the appeal here is the inevitability of it all.”

Quality recording and playing, it just didn't sound very interesting.

No me convence eso de recomendar un disco en directo como imprescindible de un grupo. Creo que los directos son un complemento a los discos de estudio pero no lo principal. Aunque también es cierto que muchos grupos tienen discos "meh" y luego brillan en directo. Después de este rollo vamos a hablar de este disco. Este disco me da igual, no es malo pero no es algo que escucharía ni recomendaría. Le doy 2 estrellas y ya.

This had some hostage vibes

*sigh*

Live albums can fuck all the way off. Seriously, though, listening to a live album is a lot like watching someone’s concert footage. Like, good for you? I guess you had to have been there. That said, I really don’t like jam bandy noodling. It does less than nothing for me and quite irritates me. I do like some Allman Brothers studio work, but this ain’t it.

No interesting ideas in sound

I have listened to this album multiple times before starting this list. It took a while to grow on me, but the driving beat makes it a listen I cannot let go off. Especially the bass is working magic driving the music onward

Surprised at the low ratings. One of the best live albums ever with some of the greatest guitarists ever. 5 stars. Easy

Amazing live band playing 5/5

I fucking love old school bluesy rock music

Classic. I love this album so much!

Loved it!

What can I say about the greatest official live album

great live album

23 minute version of Whipping Post makes this an automatic 5. Everything else is just gravy, the best gravy you've ever had.

1971. Florida. Blues rock. Southern rock

Classic.

If someone asked for the prototype of blues rock, this is what I would reach for.

What a f-ing record this is – searing, magisterial, transcendent. The soloing is expansive and patient, but also insistent and frequently sizzling. No jam band has ever excelled this. Greg A was as good a singer as his brother was a guitarist, though the long instrumental passages are what makes this. How is Eat a Peach not on this list?

What a grower! What a find! In memory of Elizabeth Reed? Wow! This is a sure fire playlister at the Café Kelvinos’ afternoon Espresso sessions.

Some songs have some long drawn out parts, otherwise I loved it! Great blues rock!!

Iconic album. Rightly considered one of the greatest live albums. I miss the album days with one song taking an entire side. Duane was a huge loss for music lovers. Jamming and extended solos all day.

Outstanding collection of live tracks highlighting the classic lineup of the ABB. Listening to Duane Allman playing slide guitar never seems to get old.

Country blues jams aren’t normally my thing but this album has a lot of gems. The Allman brothers were a gift to American music. Betts and Oakley are brilliant as well. For me it’s a 4.5 so rounding up.

I'm not super into jam bands but this really worked for me. Some quality organ sound. Some really good guitars. Even in the longer jam sessions, they never felt 'lost'.

Ahhh, the souths Grateful Dead. I understand if y'all don't like jam oriented bands. But these songs minus the jam sections are some of the greatest rock forward genre blending songs of all time. Live at the Fillmore East captures the Brothers knee deep in a USA and World tour in 1971 on the curtails of their sophmore releases Idlewild South. Reaping success from being one of the tightest most talented group of musicans to come from the southern states. Its a peak inside the blistering rythmn and lead sections of live ABB shows. They weren't just a novelty. These dudes can play.

Quintessential Noodly

I can listen to the guitar by this band all day. Are they a “jam” band? I suppose they are but it sure doesn’t feel like it. Well Whipping Post clicking in at 23 minutes constitutes “jam” for sure. Always loved seeing them live. Give me this over lynard skynard all day long.

I used to feel tortured by this album when my husband would play it, with jams that went on forever. Years later I recognize the brilliant improvisation, like a blues-jazz-rock fusion. Outstanding.

An old favorite. It can ramble at times but that's part of the beauty.

Really enjoy jam sessions like these, although I can understand others may not. I regularly play long tracks from Grateful Dead, phish, Allman brothers, Pink Floyd… so track lengths didn’t bother me either. 4.5/5 rating up

Fun!

Great album - sad to hear of their fates

Bluesrock der Extraklasse!

Great album

What a masterclass in southern rock blues. The solos on this thing are so good and the band is tight throughout. Whipping post is unbelievable. Not a lot to complain about here