Derek Trucks plays Duane's 1957 Les Paul Gold Top as Allmans perform "Fillmore East" album in NYC

[Amerigo Vespucci]

POSTED: MARCH 15, 2:55 PM ET | By DAVID FRICKE

Allman Brothers Reignite 'Fillmore East' Album on Stage in NYC



On March 12 and 13, 1971, the Allman Brothers Band rolled tape at New York's Fillmore East for their third record, a double LP that became their first Top Ten seller and one of the greatest live rock albums ever released, a gold standard of electric-blues ecstasy and improvisation. Forty years later, on March 12th at the Beacon Theater – three nights into their annual New York spring residency – the group celebrated that album, At Fillmore East, by performing it in sequence and its entirety, from "Statesboro Blues" to "Whippin' Post." And that was just the first set.

There was a special guest too, right at the opening notes. When guitarist Derek Trucks hit the intro lick to the supercharged arrangement of Blind Willie McTell's"Statesboro Blues," it was not on Trucks' usual red Gibson SG but a gold-topped 1957 Les Paul – one of the late Duane Allman's original guitars.

The Beacon resurrection of At Fillmore East was, in one sense, dynamite illusion. The current-day Allmans – singer-organist Gregg Allman and drummers Jaimoe and Butch Trucks, who all played on the record; Derek (Butch's nephew), guitarist Warren Haynes; bassist Oteil Burbridge and percussionist Marc Quiñones – inevitably played the album as it was immortalized, not as it happened in real time. The original seven-song track listing jumped back and forth between March 12th and 13th shows; the side-long expansion of Willie Cobbs' "You Don't Love Me" was a composite of versions from both nights.

But in performing the ideal, the band put flesh and immediacy on durable bright moments, like the falling molten harmonies of the guitars in "Hot 'Lanta," while writing new dramas in the long soloing passages. Derek and Haynes were both raised on the meat and mysticism of At Fillmore East and have spent their respective careers pursuing their variations on its promises. Haynes' slide work in Elmore James' "Done Somebody Wrong" was a hard-muscle spin on Duane's '71 fluidity, while Derek's slide break in "Stormy Monday" was an Indo-Coltrane blowout of grace on fire. The two locked into tight heated conversation in the railroad-drumming section of "You Don't Love Me," and Haynes threw in an extra bow to ex-Allmans guitarist Dickey Betts – a quote from the latter's "Les Brer in A Minor" on 1972's Eat a Peach – in the middle of Betts' "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed".

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/blogs/alternate-take/allman-brothers-reignite-fillmore-east-album-on-stage-in-nyc-20110315

[hifiguy]

1. Man, that had to be something to see/hear

And I just heard the Stanley Clarke and Victor Wooten bands last night in Minneapolis.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. The show's available online as an MP3 download for 15 bucks

It's the show right at the top. This is the "official" Allmans site for CDs and downloads...not a bootleg:

https://www.munckmusic.com/wms/allman/index.html

New York, NY
BEACON THEATRE - "Live at Fillmore East" 40th Anniversary
12 Mar 2011

Buy Downloads $14.95

Disc 1 Disc 2 Disc 3

1. Statesboro Blues (5:57)
2. Done Somebody Wrong (3:58)
3. Stormy Monday (9:33)
4. You Don't Love Me (12:41)
5. Hot 'Lanta (5:34)
6. In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed (18:05)
7. Whipping Post (15:22)

1. Mountain Jam (13:33)
2. Trouble No More (3:55)
3. The Sky Is Crying (13:22)
4. Don't Keep Me Wonderin' (5:49)

1. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl (9:35)
2. Every Hungry Woman (5:02)
3. JaMaBuBu (11:27)
4. Every Hungry Woman - reprise (3:30)
5. Mountain Jam - reprise (6:42)
6. Crowd noise (3:19)
7. No One To Run With (6:04)

Review Comments: This concert took place exactly 40 years after the Allman Brothers recorded the now legendary "Live at Fillmore East" double album. If you look at the first set it is the exact same playlist as the album!! It was a throwback to ol' times and by the time the band launched into the 16 minute long "Whipping Post" the crowd simply "foamed over". Second set picket up likewise, and David Hidalgo (from Los Lobos) added a nice touch sitting in on "Don't Keep Me Wonderin'" and "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl". A definite MUST HAVE for all music aficionados!

[Bake]

3. Must be infinite mojo in that Gold-Top!!

Wowzer!

Bake

[old mark]

4. AV- I was fortunate to see the original AB's onstage in 1970. They are still

my favorite stage band, and I am very glad they seem to have survived some bad times to get to this. They are really underrated and onstage are just stunning musicians.

And them 2 old drummers can kick some ass!
This is the band I saw live in 1970, doing "Whipping Post";

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHhKnc0XZrs&feature=related

mark

[Amerigo Vespucci]

5. I saw them at Shoreline in Mountain View on the 1991 "Shades of Two Worlds" tour...

...Dickey Betts was still in the fold and they had just recorded their second album with Warren Haynes.

Betts only took two lead vocals that night, "Blue Sky" and "Ramblin' Man," telling the audience he was "getting over a cold."

The high point of the evening was Warren channeling Duane in an extended slide solo on "Dreams." Gregg also had a lot more power that night than one would have expected...he really had the "growl" in fine form and played the hell out of his keyboards.

From 1975 ("Win, Lose or Draw") through 1981 ("Brothers of the Road"), it was tough to be an Allman Brothers fan. Either the principal players were going through some form of addiction or other personal crisis, the material was weak, or the musicians chosen to supplement them weren't up to snuff (especially Dan Toler (guitar) and David Goldflies (bass) during "the Arista Years," which produced two of their weakest albums, "Reach for the Sky" and "Brothers of the Road").

Nine years later, when Warren, Allen Woody and Johnny Neel came on board (after a tenure in Dickey Betts' band) for "Seven Turns," the band of legend was back.

Unfortunately Betts flamed out, but Derek Trucks has grown remarkably and plays well with Haynes, so it's all good in the present day.

:toast: