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being created in the studio. Without question, the number one live album of all time. It is hard to believe the crispness of the sound is live vs. The blend of Dickie Betts guitar along with Duane Allman, and the rhythm created by Berry Oakley's bass and Greg Allman's keyboards create an unmatched sound. The 13:04 minutes of In Memory of Elizabeth Reed are the finest minutes in all of rock music.
Just got nostalgic. bought this great cd, adding this to Eat a Peach for my Allman Bros. must haves. a great live cd by a great band, can't go wrong here.
This is one of the best guitar-driven albums ever. I don't think there's a weak spot. Should be required for any student of rock/blues/jazz guitar.
Great CD. Never get tired of listening to it. You forget just how good the band is.
When it was released, "At Fillmore East" was a double album, yet still did not contain all of the incredible performances from March 12/13, 1971 (the group supposedly jammed until dawn, which isn't too far-fetched when one considers the wealth of unreleased Fillmore material dished out on recent expanded editions, and on the band's 1972 album "Eat a Peach"). Sure, bands like Cream had dug into the trunks of blues for their work, but five-sixths of the Allman Brothers Band were actually natives of the dirty South, and could therefore express those roots better than their English counterparts. By 1971, the live/extended improvisational rock album was nothing new, but it hadn't yet been crystallized with the beauty of Southern rock and roll. Through the blistering extended jams, one never loses interest, and there are no "live album cliches" to weigh down the music. But unlike their British rock and roll colleagues, the Allman Brothers Band breathed new life into what would have normally been called drawn-out noodling. But staleness was not the case with the fire and passion instilled by the still-unmatched pairing of guitarists Duane Allman and Dickey Betts, the keyboards and tormented vocals of Gregg Allman, Berry Oakley's muddy genuine bass, and the double-percussion of Butch Trucks and Jai Johanny Johanson. Dickey Betts' stirring instrumental "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" is a must, the opening "Statesboro Blues," as well as the Elmore James tune "Done Somebody Wrong," are educational for the blues beginner."You Don't Love Me" and "Whipping Post" both clock in at nearly or over twenty minutes, but are never tiresome, the latter being both beautiful, rousing, and haunting all at the same time, without a doubt one of Duane Allman's finest moments on record.On a side note, the album also showcases how the Allmans were one of the few rock bands who could make having two drummers useful, as the sounds of Trucks and Johanson compliment and feed off one another (Modest Mouse also recently made the two drummers concept listenable).To quote an old reviewer cliche, "If you don't already own this album, buy it now." It's a testament to arguably the greatest point in the Allman's early career, and the evidence that Duane Allman was probably the greatest guitarist of the 20th Century, a musical gift that could only come from God. Don't miss this one.
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