At Fillmore East

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Me gustan los Allman Brothers, pero demasiada música instrumental.

Classic boomer music

Great if you like blues jams.

"At Fillmore East" is the first live album by American rock band the Allman Brothers Band. This album was released in July 1971 (a mere 3 months before the tragic motorcycle death of brother rocker Duane Allman) and falls under the following genres: blues, rock, country, and jazz. This jam album is 76 minutes long (that's two albums!) and features the following track list: Statesboro Blues Done Somebody Wrong Stormy Monday You Don't Love Me Hot 'Lanta In Memory of Elizabeth Reed Whipping Post "Statesboro Blues" opens up this jam fest with a cheering audience and a rockin' fun guitar. I see pool halls filled with cigarette smoke and I can smell the scent of tepid Budweiser on tap when I hear this song. It's fun, jammy, and unapologetically Americana. Track 2 is "Done Somebody Wrong," and features more of the beloved Americana rockin' tunage. Per Wikipedia: Thom Doucette takes a solo on blues harp, and by the end of the song, the band breaks out of the shuffle and builds up to a dual-lead guitar, triplet-based crescendo on this track. It's rockin'! "Stormy Monday" is next up on this album. This song was written by American blues electric guitar pioneer T-Bone Walker in 1948. The Allman Brothers make this song their own, with their strong guitar work and bluesy/rocky style. The next track, "You Don't Love Me," is 19 minutes long and is a cover of a 1960 release from Willie Cobbs, which was adapted from Bo Diddley's 1955 song "She's Fine She's Mine." Per Wikipedia: Duane Allman chose "You Don't Love Me" to create a special tribute to recently slain R&B saxophonist King Curtis, interweaving Curtis' signature "Soul Serenade" into a rendition of the song played at a band show at the Academy of Music in Manhattan on August 15, 1971. This track is fun and rockin' and makes me want to go for a long drive down a country road. "Hot 'Lanta," is the next track on this live album. It's a 5-minute instrumental piece that contains elements of progressive rock, jazz, and blues. It's full of energy, with heavy guitar, drum, bass, organ, and timpani [kettle drum]. It has a wonderful crescendo buildup near the end of the song. "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" comes next. This track is another instrumental track with co-writing credits to the Allman Brothers' backup guitarist Dickey Betts. Betts named it after a headstone he saw in Rose Hill Cemetery in the band's hometown of Macon, Georgia. The song is smooth and jazzy with cool guitar work throughout. There's a segment at 2 minutes and 40 seconds that reminds me of the Wii Shop Channel, and I'm not sure why that is. It reappears at 12:30. "Whipping Post," is the final track on this live album, and at 22 minutes and 40 seconds, it's undeniably the longest. This song launched the brothers into the airwaves, as it was a popular track to play to ensure DJs had ample bathroom time. Per wikipedia: ...as The Rolling Stone Record Guide wrote in 1979, "no wasted notes, no pointless jams, no half-realized vocals--everything counts." And per VH1, "an endless climb of heightening drama staked out by the twin-guitar exorcisms of Duane and Dickey Betts and the cool, measured, almost jazz-like response of the rhythm section." This track truly has a life/energy of its own. I enjoyed listening to this album, despite its length. It serves as great background noise for work, and allows the listener to periodically daydream about summertime in America. Favorite track: In Memory of Elizabeth Reed Honorable mention: Whipping Post

I'm not into live albums

I usually don’t like Live albums, but I actually enjoyed this one!

It was good but all the songs kind of blended into one by the end.

Bluesy jams - decent enough not life changing

Not bad

Just never gonna be my cup of tea, but the skill is definitely apparent

Country music!!!! Excelent!

Decent album, probably better as a live show

This is a very good live album, but it's still a live album and I prefer studios over it. Reading the Wikipedia link, I understood the reasons for a live album, but I still prefer the studio versions

Didn't listen this time but I have before - a good album

I am sure it was cool to see it live, but a song is a song and a jam is a jam.

Anooother live album

Blues more than rock. Well done but hardly inventive, progressive, novel etc...

My worst nightmare: a live album with only 7 songs clocking in at over an hour!!! Not terrible, just interminable. 2.5 rounded up.

All the guitar solos

Pretty good live album, haven't heard Allman Brothers Band too much to comment on how it compares to their studio albums.

Good life concerts, with style. It doesn't convince me, way too long and similar. It is good for some groove though.

Cool guitar but otherwise nothing too special

Their guitar playing is on point for sure. I'm still not sold on them entirely though.

Good live album. Would have loved to see them live but for an album it goes on a bit.

Hip!

Jam band with great sound.

Good rock even though long live songs like this are better appreciated live.

Not the greatest live album I’ve heard. I felt like there was no need for this? Other live albums are capturing the sound and energy of the crowd, which I think is a big part of live albums, but this had none of that. Maybe if I knew the songs better beforehand, then I’d appreciate the live versions better? But as it stands, it was just okay.

Taký južanský blues rock... Milujem blues, ale toto mi nesedí...

It’s jam band. It’s good jam band, but it’s jam band

A 78 minute live jam session? Not for me, baby! Each song starts well, but my ears would glaze over after ten minutes of noodling.

not my style of music

LIVE ALBUMS DO NOT COUNT.

What I've learnt from reading their wikipedia pages is that I shouldn't ride a motorcycle until I'm 25. Also despite two of the band members dying at age 24 the band still managed at least 15 marriages between them. I can't cope with eighty minutes of guitar licks, it's too much for me. The "Jam sesh" is just the rock version of self indulgent Jazz improv- maybe one day I'll meet a 20 minute song that I like but today isn't that day. Favourite song: Statesboro Blues Least: You Don't Love Me

It's OK as a background noise, i think. Thank you, Mr. Dimery.

I'm rarely (never) convinced by live albums.

As someone who doesn't like when guitar solos go on too long, this was a hard record to get through. Their swampy and dirty brand of southern rock does sound good on the shorter songs and I can admire the talent on show here. This thing is just too damn long. I was happy when I got to the last song, but my happiness was short lived when I saw that closer "Whipping Post" was over 23 minutes long! Jam bands just aren't going to be for me. If this record was shorter and only had one lengthy song to round things off, I could maybe get behind this.

You know how I feel about super long songs. And live albums. Obviously super talented, but not my vibe x10

Album #273 Allman Brothers Band: At Fillmore East Ok yes, I’m sure that the Allman Brothers are pound for pound the most talented rock band of all time; I really don’t care enough to argue against that, and seemingly that’s all any positive review of this album has to say. That being said, almost every single artist who is deemed a virtuoso of their instrument, I find, ends up believing their own hype and creates musical self-felatio. Add to that this is a live album, and like I said in my review of Deep Purple’s live album, these albums are only really enjoyed by hardcore fans of the band, familiar enough with the material to appreciate all of the unique changes made within one specific live show; otherwise I’m just sat here listening to an 80-minute-long album with 70 minutes of guitar noodling. I feel like the only audience for music like this are both ends of the bell curve, those that themselves are incredibly proficient at an instrument and are able to actually enjoy the intricacy on display, and on the other end those that have never heard any music in their life and decide to listen to skip over all the beginner stuff and listen to over-the-top bullshit to feel smart. I’m not saying that people don’t enjoy this, honestly, and I will admit that I already don’t really care for blues, southern rock, or jam bands, which makes me especially hesitant about this band specifically; but I definitely fall within the middle of the bell curve. I have no problem admitting I’m too dumb or impatient, but I enjoy my fair share of experimental stuff, and I enjoy my fair share of pop; unfortunately to me, this is just plain boring. Points for the talent on display, but I can’t see myself returning to this one until I’m middle-aged and own a porch. Best Songs: Statesboro Blues, Whipping Post, Done Somebody Wrong Worst Song: In Memory of Elizabeth Reed Score out of 10: 5

Long form and meandering. Was ok in the background I guess.

I had some close friends in college who were into all these jam bands and it drove me a bit nutty. So this album dredged up some bad memories.

I have heard of the Allman Brothers, but never really listened to their music. At first, it seems like Southern Rock. Then jazz creeps in. Then some rockabilly. And then some blues. WTF? How am I supposed to review this? I guess this is just a band that plays whatever they feel like, unconstrained by anyone else's idea of boundaries. Unfortunately, I did not really jam to any of it. Fine as background music, and probably REALLY good times for those who were at this or another Allman Brothers concert with friends and mood-altering substances. But it does not work so well for listening in the car or living room...

I’m so sick of dudes from the 70s. This list. Come on out of your fucking man cave.

The music is pretty good, but when you stretch songs to the lengths that was done here everything just becomes repetitive. I understand the whole point of this is long, rambling tunes, but I don't want it.

#237/1001 🇺🇸 Well this all felt a bit unecessary. There is some great playing on here but it soon becomes tiresome. That said my favourite bit was the 20 minute long final track. Best track: Whipping Post.

im not a fan of instrumental music but i admit that its not bad

Oh my lord besties hurrryyyyyy up. I wanna go to bed. It's sleepy time. Nut up or shut up you know what I'm saying. Should live albums be on the list? Well that's not up to me to decide, but honestly they could do with some editing. Music is emotion and movement, and I felt little and twas too slow for my liking. If I were at this concert, I'd be checking my watch, making sure I had enough time left on the car park. Perhaps wondering when someone might give us a lyric. It's not awful, but it's not for me x

The irony of a song about being tortured and suffering being 20 minutes long is not lost on me

(Scene is set in a record store, 1971) “Hey dude, the Allman Brothers just put out a new double live album from the Fillmore, far out!” “A double album? That’s like an hour and half of music! That’s gotta be like 15 songs at least” “Nah it’s actually only 7.” “Well surely they played a lot of different stuff and it’s very musically varied?” “Not really, it’s just bluesy jams man. You gotta smoke the right stuff and it’s incredible man, you need to get this “ “I’m cool man, have you heard of this guy named Hendrix?” ⭐️⭐️

An album of great musicians just not for me

Mollo sur les solo là

If you told me this was the grateful dead I would have believed you.

No, you don't need to listen to this before you die. LONGGGG jamming sessions. A fun listen but nothing vital.

Good! Solid sounds, which became slightly monotonous. In memory of Elizabeth redd is by far the best song.

Did not listen very attentively but was not captivated

ehhhhh favorite: Stormy Monday

Not my cup of tea but I also appreciate its good music. 2/5

Would have been a three if the tracks weren’t so damn long

Off the bat, I was already annoyed at the fact that this was 7 songs but 80 minutes long. I only know a limited amount about the Allman brothers, but from what I did know my expectations were not high going into this. And I think it's fair to say that my expectations were met. This album doesn't sound bad per se. There's just nothing of note that sticks out in this album. All the songs blend in to each other,and they just don't end. I mean, this is basically a jam session just extended, and for me this got boring really fast. Fav Track: Statesboro Blues

Jams and blues that go nowhere and do nothing. Actually quite tempted to give this one star for seriously overstaying its welcome. Quite grating by the end.

Meandering guitar solos almost lasting 15 minutes, no thanks

I dunno why but this music reminds of a game called "Neighbours from Hell" (2003). Just heard it one time, maybe I need to hear it again.

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Notable Textzeile: It was all my fault, I musta' did somebody wrong Everything that happens, you know I am to blame Everything that happens, you know I am to blame I'm gonna find myself a doctor, perhaps my luck will change Ich mag Bluesstandarts. Und manches sind wirklich gute Bluesstandarts, von meinem unwissenden Standort aus gesehen. Aber schon wieder ein 13 und ein 19 und ein 23 Minuten Song, mit dem langweiligsten Gitarrensolo seit langem. Puh. Kurz gesagt (anders als die es spielen): Normales Songs gut bis besser als gut. Ewiglanges Gedöddel doof. 2.

Ich frage mich hier: Wozu der ganze Boogie? Wofür? Wozu Rock'n'Roll wenns nur rollt und nicht rockt? Als Studioalbum stelle ich mir das noch schlimmer vor. Daher

Generisch. Kenn ich bisher nur aus dem Almost-Famous-Soundtrack weiß aber nicht wo der vermeintliche Kultstatus herkommt.

Started out nice, then all sounds the same.

Very proficient but just not my thing. Had a few cool moments but they were few and far between

This was an ordeal. A double live album of proggy Country/Blues/Rock Made by Hairy White Men in the Seventies. I actually enjoyed the first half though, which felt like hippies making loose creative blues. Then the second half shifted into endless 20-minute prog/jazz wankfests.

Super mid I can’t say I love listening to 20 minute songs for an entire album 2.5/5 Favorite: you don’t love me

žešći smor... talent, da, ali uživanje gotovo nikakvo. ide u nedogled s dosadnim i generičnim solažama. možda sedamdeset i prve godine nisu bile generične, ali danas nažalost jesu. ni rijetko pjevanje nije neš... dijelove sam slušao aktivno, sa slušalicama, dijelove s pola mozga i u oba slučaja me umaralo. sinulo mi je, a i jedan je ocjenjivač to čak i zapisao prije mene, da valjda ovako zvuči progresivni rok ljudima koji ga ne vole

Technically it's very well done, but I'm unfortunately not a fan of the bluesy genre, so it felt like a bit of a slog.

Nicht furchtbar, aber ich hatte schnell keine Lust mehr darauf.

2 for too long

Hueh

I never really followed those guys (it’s not really my taste) but they’ve got talent.

Let’s take the good parts of live performances and the good parts of studio recordings and leave all of those out entirely

Kjedelig

Sidrompa rock.

Great, classic bluegrass album

This makes 3 records this week that are challenging. The first two were absolutely horrendous piles of shit that never should have been committed to tape in the first place. This is a live show that appeals only to those who would actually attend an Allman Brothers concert. Blues based redneck rock is just not that interesting. I’m not opposed to the idea of extended jams - as these tracks certainly are, but similarly jamming for the sake of jamming without adding to the tracks emotional core, seems rather pointless. To be fair, some of these jams work and overall the technical aspects and musicianship are first rate. The real issue is the sameness of the tracks which for a live show leads to boredom. They key to any live show really is pacing and using songs to change the listener’s engagement and activity throughout the show. That doesn’t happen here. As for live shows, there are much better live recordings, for example, Thee Oh Sees - Live in San Francisco comes to mind immediately- that get how it is all connected and engage the audience throughout. When I listen to live albums I truly want to immerse myself in the album as if I was there. Live at Fillmore East doesn’t do that at all. It’s kind of meh. 2/5

Too much noodling. Their studio work is far better

boring not at all my style

still not a fan of live albums. while the Allman Brothers are a classic this album is not. much better choices exist than this album. but then I have a severe anti-live album bias.

Didn't grab me

Boomer Bend: The Musical

Good riffs and shredding.

Country jazz

Whipping post will always be one of my all time favorite songs. This specific live album was a bit ....Click to Read More...

Another live album on the list, get this shit outta here

Another blues rock jam band from the '70s? Please, sir, I'd like some less

What I like about this challenge is that it’s making me consume music in a different way. I would never usually listen to a ten minute song that is mostly guitar. Historically I’ll find a song I like and repeat it again and again; preferring the predictably exciting over letting an album play in its entirety and following it through its ebbs and flows. Listening to an album as an ambient experience makes sense with albums like this, but I’m not really used to it, having grown up with an ipod that I can cherry pick the songs I like on. I don’t know why I’ve said all of this but I hope I can be more open minded to all different genres and eras of music in the future. It’s one thing to WANT to like new music but obviously what we actually DO like is shaped by everything we’ve heard before and the way we’ve heard it, to a certain extent. Anyway, all of this is to say that this is a 2 for now, but maybe not forever.

Sicher ein gutes Live Album aber nicht mein Geschmack

Enjoyable to work to but not a huge stand out for me

Pretty dull and samey

Boring not my type at all. Very bluesy.

Yet more jam band dross, yet another live album filled with noodling. I can hear the talent from outer space and I don’t mind the lack of structure but I do mind the unending public masturbation.

I did not get it. Too bland?

Just end the damn song...

I don’t like live albums and I don’t like jam bands. This is unfortunately both. To top it all off, it’s also very long. There’s great talent on display, but I get no real enjoyment from it. Because I have to listen to a minutes long section of a 18 minute song with tiny guitar licks and nothing else. And all I can think during this is that this is on the list when so many other amazing albums aren’t. It could be transcendent for some, but for me it was just a struggle.

Meh.

Viimeseen asti revittelyä ja fiilistelyä soittimilla. Biisit voi olla yli 20 minuuttisia. Sopii varmaan jonku tekemisen taustameluksi. Ei täysin mun musaa.

Esse tipo de blues rock não é para mim. É muito chato esse troço.

Guitar go burr wang Wong

Prefer the whipping post tbh.

I have 1000000 different options to choose from if I want to listen to something like this.

I made it like two songs in and technically speaking it’s really good I was just really not in the headspace for over an hour of this

They're really good, and I don't know if they've written a bad song, but none of their best stuff is here. The stuff that is all feels a bit forgettable.

this is long and bluesy. As a blues man its a bit too much for me and its long as heck. 22 minutes for Whipping post? come on man.

An hour and eighteen minutes of bluesy guitar solos. Not for me at all but I get why folks would dig it. I could handle about 15 minutes total

20 minute songs are absolutely outragous

**An ok album, very blusy

Too crunchy

track 1 : 3.5/5 track 2: 3.5/5 track 3: 5/5 (fav) track 4: 2.5/5 track 5: 4.5/5 track 6: 5/5 track 7: 4.2/5

Southern. Meh.

I can respect this but it's all a bit polished for my tastes. I like my blues to sound like it's being played by a virtuoso who is a dozen beers and bottle of rye deep and he's had to tape his guitar back together because a good old boy thought he looked at his woman the wrong way - it's held together now by rage, torment and gorilla tape and damn it sounds good. This is not that. They don't sound like they made a bargain with the devil. They sound like they practised for thousands of hours, dialling their tone, their rhythm, their cohesiveness. And, as I said, I can respect that, but it's not what I like in the blues. After the first few tracks it turns very jam-band. Again, I'm not opposed to jam music but I feel there are two styles - this is the "let's vibe on this for a while before resolving back to the original song" style jam. It's wandering, noodly, and it creates a vibe but doesn't tell a story. I prefer the jam that is telling the story - think some of the stuff on the Elder album Dead Roots Stirring, or maybe Hendrix (or even better - Uluru Rock by Earthless). Jams that are telling the tale - they feel free form but they have a structure: an escalation, a variation, a climax, then a resolution. One is saying "we're having fun, let's just hang out for a while longer" while the other is actively moving the story forward. Both have a place, but only one of them do I actually enjoy.

I feel like live albums are never a good idea. There are more people that don't have a good time than people that do from listening to live albums. Think about it. If you know the songs, you likely know them played a particular way. Live albums don't guarantee you that. Or if you don't know the songs, like me here, you can't learn to like them properly. Or you can't join the experience of the band and audience as the concert took place, because you're always left wondering what's next. My first decree as Dictator shall be to politely ask all bands to rerecord their live albums as studio albums.

#16 A live album of long blues rock jams. None of these songs did anything for me. I wouldn't say it's bad, it just feels long-winded and aimless.

Sweaty, white-guy blues.

nie mój styl

A live blues jam album. It’s not good is it

While this album is sonically and technically lovely, every song sounds the same, and the entire album ends up feeling very unimpressive and “fine”. I shudder to imagine the boredom I would get from being sat in the audience as this set was played at me, as I simply would have had to locate the fusebox, and jammed my finger into an open socket to shorten the thing for the greater good. Don’t worry, I’m sure another rock album will be given to me next, to add to the growing plethora that seems to make up this entire list!

Kinda just the definition of mid

I don't like blues and I don't like live albums, so this isnt for me. In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed grew on me, but the rest was rather forgettable.

meh

I don't like guitar solos and here we have a fine example of how awful they can be. Self indulgent egotistical noise. Santana it ain't.

I’m not opposed to this style of 70s hard Southern rock. In fact, it’s something I’ll occasionally put on. This was just ludicrously long and self-indulgent, though. Had it been 30 minutes shorter, I’d have given it a much more favourable review.

Not for me. Feels too much directionless noodling to me. Fav track: Stormy Monday

more blues

Not for me.

I am not a big fan of southern rock.

I found it real boring. The track I liked the most I guess was In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed

Segt i längden

Var säkert kul att vara där och höra det på plats, men som album kändes det bara alldeles för utdraget.

Jazz isn't my style but I liked some of the songs

Dull.

boogie woogie

ok if you enjoy guitar drifts. Otherwise I'd say you can skip it

My appreciation for the Allman Brothers meets my dislike for jam bands, and my dislike for jam bands wins out.

no es mi estilo

would much rather listen to the Quicksilver Messenger Service album at the Filmore that I gave 2 stars. psychedelic way better than blues. the more you can 'boogie' to a jam band the worse the music is

What’s the baby boomer equivalent of Cheugy? Is it Square? Maybe. This is music for squares. Maybe someone gets excited when they go to a show and it opens with a prolonged Blues Jam, but not me.

Honestly don't know what to think of this. Music seems good but more as a collection of sounds then an album in the traditional sense. Something I would probably enjoy live but I wouldn't enjoy listening at home.

Good live rock and roll. Entertaining, but felt a bit empty. Only moment in certain songs got me excited.

A blues jam album that I'm really not into.

Probably too much electric guitar for a knucklehead like me

ok

A great band playing boring music.

Rough listen, couldn't stick with it. Might have to revisit it sometime later, but it might be a bit of burnout from blues.

I mean I get it, they’re good at what they do. They know how to jam but seriously, it’s interesting for the first two songs and that’s it. Another hour with screams and yapping thrown in between, was not necessary.

Less blues, more greeny-purple.

Fine as background fodder, bit too long and the guitar solo on the final track was pure overindulgence

To release a live album it needs to be exceptional - this isn't

Audio equivalent of giving yourself a pat on the back, very technically impressive but as a collection of songs… decent at best

If I lived through the 70s, all the white man blues might have ruined ripping endless white rails.

ehhh

2/5

Damn I really disliked listening to this. One long noodly electric blues-rock guitar solo drilling into my brain. I felt like I was sitting in a gentrified BBQ restaurant for 75 minutes. I'm assured this is an important/influential album for many later improv-based bands -- sure, fine.

I am aware of some excellent Allman Brotherds songs; unfortunately, none are on this live album. It’s mostly long blues meanderings with moments of fusion sprinkled here and there.

fine but i just don't enjoy jamming that much...2 stars since i don't think i would ever return to this

I like a bit of blues, and they sound like a fun and talented band. However, this is a live album so should already fail the test for 1001 albums, and secondly they go full on guitar wankery at this show. We’re talking 17 minute tracks, presumably large parts of which were improvised. Give me a proper album by these guys with less of the pretentiousness and they might score more than a 2

Enjoyed the guitar work on it, but I found the extensive jam aspect to it to overstay it's welcome, just not to my taste

Most the songs are VERYYY LONG, like 18 minutes is insane and mostly purely instrumental but very jammy instrumental so one can appreciate!! It’s not necessarily my thing so can’t say I see myself rushing back to it but the beat is good I enjoyed it and the guys voice is very satisfying just not necessarily my thing but nothing wrong with it ! I am a lyric enjoyer and these songs like precisely that but could be a good listen when im reading or something and lyrics are distracting! Though when there is lyrics in the songs I did enjoy them.

Don’t you just love it when things go on and on and on and you never know when they’re gonna stop and you can’t wait until they do?

meh

Álbum en vivo. Estilo rock/blues. La música en sí es buena, podría ser algo que suene en la casa de mi papá tranquilamente. Pero en sí, se me hace muy largo (temas de 18 min y más) y bastante repetitivo. Not my kind of music.

I agree with other reviewers. There's just nothing compelling about this album.

This was better than I expected. I like a lot of classic rock bands but not a fan of the more overtly bluesy ones. It certainly felt like it was a bit more accessible but I still can't get on board with songs of 23 mins though.

This was not fun to get through. Only 8 songs on the album and three of them over 15 minutes is not great. "Statesboro Blues" and "Hot'Lanta" were fine

There were some ok tracks on here but mostly this was just BORING. Like 20 minutes of guitar noodling boring. Who would willingly pay to listen to this, let alone go see it live?

As a guitarist, I’ve always felt like I ought to love the Allman Brothers… but this endless faffing about over standard blues patterns does little to maintain my interest. At times, it seemed like it would never end. Some say they’re still playing “Whipping Post” to this day.

Eu queria mt dar pelo menos 3 estrelas, é um som que me ganhou no inicio e todas as faixas individualmente são interessantes. Porem se escuta o album todo, é dificil saber a diferença entre as faixas, parecem ser a mesma sendo repetida. O fato de ser live tb nao ajuda a nota. 2.5/5

Jam bands with 20 minute tracks are not it.

Talented, but live rock albums just aren’t my thing, and going on 1 ½ hours didn’t help this one. I need to either have attended or watched a video of the concert. Just listening to an album without seeing it first never really does it for me. 2.25 / 5

4/10

Holy shit this album is long. 50 minutes for an album sometimes feels like a chore to sit through, but 78 minutes is just straight torture. The music is pretty good, it really is, but if a song is 20+ minutes and I'm constantly waiting to see if it's close to ending, then it's not something I'm EVER going to even consider listening to again. I will not rate this album a one star only because I know there's going to be something later in this entire experience that I'll absolutely despise, and I don't think a one star rating would be very fair.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ the same song played for 1 hour 18 minutes ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Instrumental Forgettable 2/5

4/10 - I am not a jam band guy. I like more structure and less length to my albums and songs. I’m sure these guys are very technically talented, but it did not hold my interest.

Not a huge fan of this kind of jam band music. It's not offensive but it's not something I would want to listen to again. 4/10

Not bad music by any means, they have a pretty good blues sound going but it feels very unremarkable.

On Harry Styles release weekend? I have better things to be listening to. (I’m starting to think that live albums shouldn’t be included in this exercise 🤔)

These guys could play their instruments well and they certainly ‘jammed’ but my life is no better for having heard this.

This was just ok

A decent start, but this soon got into noodling territory. I’m sure that air guitar wankers would enjoy it. Too long, too little impact.

There’s no reason this record should be preserved and honored. They’re not even a “band who jams.” This was unbearable after 10 minutes. Live albums shouldn’t be on this list anyway.

I didn’t mind it at first but then it went on… and on… and on.

I didn't think that was ever going to end. Holy crap.

I have a suspicion I will not like this. "Extended jams". Yup. More white blues covers that never end yet never get interesting. 2.5 rounded down Heard before? No Owned: No 48/214 (22%) Will I get: No

Blues band with lots of heavy guitar solos .barely barable

Soft Rock, ok

thought this album was short and sweet HOW WRONG I WAS when every track was like 8 minutes. it is just a standard blues album nothing stands out to me and other people have done it better. wont be revisiting. found it boring

Man, I don't have time for jam rock

Not really for me. I get the skills but just sounded like one long jam session.

They've got the blues. Now I have.

eh fine

Not my kind of thing … too long and rambling

Quietly flowing music. An average of 11 minutes per song.

my issue with a jam album like this is that i feel like it's pointless to package into an album? i don't think i feel like this about live albums in general because i think different performances of a song can have a lot of artistic merit. an album like this though feels meandering and unfocused. it feels like background noise. to me the primary value as jamming for an audience is the experience of *feeling* live music in a way that you fundamentally cannot get while sitting at home. it's not even that any of this outright sounds bad to my ear and more that it feels like nothing.

Its a live double album with a song over 20 minutes long on it. Any good part of this is buried under the noodling and jam-session versions of songs that I'm sure sounded great live in person with the atmosphere, but sitting at home and just listening to feels like someone riffing for far too long. Its well recorded, and the structured parts do really work and sound great, I just think this being the live album actually hinders it so much then it helps.

tight, but closer to elevator music than to any kind of statement

The guitars really carry this album haha. It’s a live album, which I don’t have a problem with, but for me personally the songs are maybe a little boring. Cool guitar skills, tho.

Not another live album. And a double album nonetheless. First LP consists only of covers, while the second one bloats the studio version of a song (5 minutes) to a 22 minutes monster. Those are jam sessions. While I do like some improvs or extended solos, this is way to much. And definitely nothing I nead to hear before I die.

As a drummer, I detest bands with two drummers. If you really want that sound, pipe your drummer through a chorus plugin or some shit. Sounds sloppy.

Impressive playing, but it all pretty much just blended into one long song after a while

I don't like blues rock, but this album wasn't that bad. Found one song that I really enjoyed, the rest was just a little bit boring.

#263/1001. To quote Stevie Ray Vaughan: "I might be white, but I ain't stupid". I ain't stupid enough to like white man's blues. All blues songs sound like they didn't wake up this morning.

The Allman Brothers are good, but this is a mid live album like the majority of the ones recorded in this era.

Ramblin' Men playing THE BLUES .... sigh ... 2/5

честно я старался прочувствовать эту атмосферу но мне не зашло(

This is the type of shit that will play while Stephen Seagal beats up a bunch of hicks in a bar -- but there's no Seagal nor barfight in this album, so it's boring and pointless.

Meh not for me

I was surprised by this! This album had a lot of things against it. Jam band, live album, BUT the first few songs were such sweaty authentic blues rock that I was pleasantly surprised and excited to listen to more! Okay and then after the first few tracks it dissolved into the nonsense jam band live album snoozefest. Based on this album, if I'm rating jam bands: Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers, Phish. In that order.

The more blues rock sound in the beginning is a lot better than the rest of the jam band crap

There's little I dread so much in this challenge as the words "live jam band double album". I mean, look, it's impressive. It popularized jam bands. It sounds like a blast to have seen *live*. But listening at home, this is a chore. There are some brilliant moments but there's a lot of slog to get through in between. I can also understand that the blend of genres is innovative, but let's not overstate it. This is 99% southern rock jam sessions with a bit of jazz in the mix. I don't begrudge anyone for loving this though. I get it and I'm glad you enjoy. But for me, both the songs and the album just dragged in far too long.

I understand this album is held in high regard, but I am not a fan of indulgent 20 and 30 minute long jam sessions...I don't care who the band is. This is just not for me.

Siting in a nice shady bar having a few beers I probably would have a nice evening with those guys… sitting on my couch completely sober this really becomes boring very fastly…

Statesboro Blues 5/5 Done Something Wrong 3/5 Stormy Monday 2/5 You Don't Love Me 1/5 Hot'Lanta 2/5 In Memory of Elizabeth Reed 1/5 Whipping Post 1/5 Overall Album 2.14

Bit too bluesy for my taste. And yet another live album.

Meandering... but good

not my thing

Gear: Hifiman HE6se v2 SE Artwork: 😁😁😁 Production: 🥩😐👍 Music: 🎸🔂🤔 Rating: 🧭🧭/5

Not bad, just not really for me

Objectively, they are extremely talented musicians. Clearly pioneered jam music in a lot of ways and I can respect that. As an album, it was just so long and the instrumental periods were felt so long. Was ready for it to end and unlikely to relisten.

First two songs were good but the rest of the album was boring.

tooo long, good instrumentals tho!

Live rock gave a sense of what it was like to be there!

A excepcion de la Freak on the Leash y Got the Life que son bangers esto es puro griterio con algunas canciones q son bastante flojardas

I don't know these guys, but this wasn't a bad album. However, I'm not sure why it's on this list.

Not a big fan of live albums.

it's blues rock, it's ok, but i'm not a fan of live albums and also i really don't like 20 minutes long tracks with just guitar rambling

Don't like live albums by anyone.

This is almost like hearing Mariah Carey sing: Highly technical and well performed, but it can definetly be too much. Listening to this jam session gets very tedious in the long run, and I had to do stuff on the side to get through it. My favourite experience of todays challenge was reading reviews of the album. Some of them are hilarious!

Music like this is the artistic equivalent of photorealistic pencil drawings of celebrities to me. There’s nothing interesting going on here any more than watching somebody solve a Rubik’s Cube. I get it. You can play guitar. Whatever

Generic slog of a live album

The gold standard in southern blues rock, the Allman Bros Band is awesome, but good lord some of these songs go on forever on this record. If I were seeing them perform this live, would probably be great. But the overly indulgent jams are too much on a recording. Just a bit tedious. Also, TOO much organ.

The beastie boys are an original rap group. I enjoyed it but it wasn’t an over the top enjoyment.

doceniam, ale styl muzyczny jest zbyt blusowy

Not a fan of live albums and while it started of great 35min of guitar solos is a bit much

I’m sure this was awesome to see live, but I don’t care for the recording.

Impressive at times, but drawn out.

Listening to this, I was astounded at the leads and how the songs all melted together. I looked up and it was the last track. Honestly, this is why I'm not in love with some blues and this album has some highs but it's too repetitive for me.

Good sound. Songs couldn't be longer than 10min though. Especially 3 of them on one album.

Okay I think I have a mixed relationship with this one because on the one hand I do really like the music and vibes and I loved the first song but I feel like my preference for albums with vocals over just instrumentals makes it a bit less appealing to me. Plus there are some LONG songs where it's just like instruments playing for 10-25 minutes so I'm not particularly inclined to revisit or care for it.

Meh. That’s all I can muster for this.

Plenty of Allmam I like. The record with songs like Jessica is great. This though have been little difficult for me to grasp, although great live recording. It feels like a recording filled with boomer bends, and nothing else.

Jam band, Live album. Hard to like unless you're a fan from prior releases.

Uhh... sure. Maybe I'll revisit when I'm older and wiser.

Not really my jam.

Not my style

It's rare I'll ever love a live album and this record is no different. There's no doubt it's a strong live performance and I enjoyed some of the songs, especially as this was my first time listening to anything at all from Allman Brothers Band. However, live music should only be enjoyed in person, and I found myself getting tired of this album past half way.

Ploddy noddy dad music

Meh..

Ok. Blues / bluegrass, but not my thing

7 songs. 78 minutes. 😅 Well, the first song is Statesborough Blues which is a classic bluesy sound. Generic, but it bops. Stormy Monday is mellower, but still rooted in the Blues. When they are playing proper tunes they're interesting, but some of the solos are just odd. The longer songs have these sections that just are a bit pretentious. Plock plock plock...shut the fuck up. Jazz Wankery.

I just simply don't like jam bands, but I can behind some good blues. But I can't take this much of it

Definite sounds of the 70's. It's not bad; it just doesn't stand out to me. The kind of 70's music I've heard most of my life and would be ok not hearing again. The self-indulgent length of some of these songs without ever actually going anywhere makes it apparent why punk music became necessary.

First of all, I am an avid listener to music and have a wide taste across a lot of genres. I am also of an age where this album has been known to me since it's launch. Maybe it's just me, but I just find it incredibly dull and a really hard listen to get any enjoyment out of this album. Not for me I'm afraid, I know it rocks a lot of your boats, mine is safely still in the harbour.

Much too blues forward for my liking. I can see how people would enjoy this but definitely not my cup of tea. Best: Statesboro Blues Worst: Hot 'Lanta

Cliché. Bonne musique mais une peu générique. Overrated. Album live qui n'apporte rien.

That guy could play some mean slide guitar, shame they couldn't write any songs.

slow rock beats to fall asleep to

Very instrumental

not really my thing, but feels like its right up dad's alley

I'm not much for redneck rock, but Duane Allman was a hell of a blues player.

For a live album on this list, nothing special.

Oh boy! A Hammond B-3 organ! Twelve-bar blues repeated ad infinitum! Extended soloing! Gruff faux-soulful singing! Tracks that take up the entire side of an LP! Duane Allman and Dickey Betts both have great guitar *tone*, but like Santana, Clapton and the numerous other guitar slingers that show up on this list, the soloing doesn't have any real direction and ends up just sounding like texture. Spread that over a 22+ minute song and it's a bit much.

This album is so good

I guess I have to be in the mood for the Allman Brothers,, at times I like them, but I wasn’t feeling it today. Maybe it was a selection of songs. I’m actually a big fan of live music so I’m sad that this didn’t tickle my fancy.

A live Allman Brothers Band, what a chore! Honestly what is this doing here? Whether this show has some historic significance I don’t know, but as an album it was just boring. Really meandering with the same guitar lick played again and again. Not for me.

i'm sure this would've been a fun show to be at. unfortunately i'm just sitting here at my desk getting more and more annoyed. WRAP IT UP!

well, i went into this thinking that i liked the allman brothers band. i've never been more excited to see a song that's *only* five minutes long. favorites: statesboro blues, hot 'lanta

Eh

Just too jammy for my tastes. Like there is nothing wrong with the playing or singing its just the proportions of both. Most of the tracks go like this, start with an instrumental opening for 2 minutes, get a verse for 30 or 40 seconds, back to noodling around guitar for 8 minutes, to a refrain for 20 seconds, back to an hour of guitar ad nauseum. Its just not my style. It feels directionless in a way. Its funny to listen to the crowd try and clap and cheer for the end of a song only for it to go on for 15 more minutes every time. I felt that in my soul. Id much rather listen to album versions of any of these tracks.

Meh

Not my style.

Liked it personally but took an effort to really enjoy it.

They're a great jam band. No disrespect to them or what they did for jam bands, but I'm just into weirder stuff. The Allman Brothers can feel... uninventive and repetitive.

decent

Was feeling a bit ill while listening to this one. It took several songs to realize that my brain associates the Allman Brothers with long car rides my parents took me on as a kid, so unfortunately this music is the sound of carsickness to me. Couldn't finish the album, but the music itself was fine!

I note this is ranked number 2 in Rolling Stone's list of the greatest live albums of all time. If someone asked me what I thought of this album I'd say I found it long and boring. The musicians are accomplished and they are clearly a tight band but southern rock just doesn't really connect with me.

The Allman Brothers Band has never really been my cup of tea as far as '60s and 70's rock goes, however, I liked this a little more than I thought. Let's talk about the shorter songs first. The problem is that I just don't really gel with any of them regardless of how good the performances are. Sure, they are technically doing a great job, but I've previously mentioned that this sort of blue rock is kind of whatever to me. Now, of greater interest is the jams here. And I will say, I like a good jam, but I am kind of picky. These songs, comprising nearly 3 full sides of the album are a mixed bag to me. I don't think You Don't Love Me is really worth the 20 minute for example. However In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed is something I can connect a little more to. The playing is super emotive, and I think the pacing and instrumental phrasing makes the whole song work really well. And Whipping Post is somewhere in the middle. I think the performance is a little overlong, and the pacing is a little uneven, but there are some pretty transcendent moments of full band guitar music across the 23-ish minute piece. The highs here are interesting enough that it saves At Filmore East (a little bit) to me. However, I still don't get a ton out of the full package.

Like ya knowww, whatever! It’s for others, it’s not for me. The jam band + live album thing will be forever missed on me, sorry all!

Not mine

Sometimes less is more.

Looking at the Wikipedia entry, successive modern era releases of this album seem to have grown like topsy, reaching 6 hours by 2014. I'm wondering if that's justified. I played the original release (which I used to have in my collection), and as far as I can see this is largely a vehicle for Duane Allman's slide guitar virtuosity. The trouble is that extended tracks with over the top guitar heroics don't really make for great listening. I think this is bad enough as a regular double album. I certainly couldn't countenance playing a 6 hour long version of it.

Whipping post is ok

This is a case of good musicians but music that just didn’t interest me.

3 stars normally, it being a live album and not a particularly well done one drops it a star

Lots of wandering disjointed mostly instrumental jam tracks, and not even a studio recorded version. Not my thing.

Eh, 1.5 stars would probably be most apt

The Allman Brothers still aren't for me.

We got a long album yesterday, too. please stop this, algorithm. This album was, again, fine. I like this genre, and the music was fine, but I've never cared much for live albums. If I go to a live show, I'm there for live music. If I listen to an album, it's because I want a studio version. Recordings of live albums are just never as good as actual live music.

This album feels pointless. I would feel ripped off if I went to this concert. I get that it's not all about vocals and whatnot, but there could be some more. The guitar and drums playing is really good, but the same throughout the whole album. Do something else. It leaves me wanting more and less at the same time. And what's the point of this being live? There are a few instances of talking to the crowd and a few instances of cheering from the audience. But other than that, we get full 20 minute stretches of the boring playing with some admittedly beautiful vocals. Like, there really is nothing wrong with this album. It's just boring and pointless.

There is no world where a 20+ minute version of Whipping Post is needed. Overly long and pointless.

September 15, 2025: The Trump administration has changed the name of the hit song on this album to "Voluntarily Hugging the Nifty Post." The band must now be referred to as the All Man Band. Thank you for attending to this matter.

Jam band that I didn't have the patience for. Felt like the songs blended together in a way that was more sameness instead of cohesive.