LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

• 4CD Commemorative Set
• Brilliant performance live from The Fillmore East last three nights in June 1971.
• Includes the entire WNEW-FM broadcast
• Digitally remastered for greatly enhanced sound quality
• Background liners

Bill Graham’s Fillmore East Last Three Nights, featuring major artists; Albert King, J. Geils Band, Edgare Winter, Mountain, the Beach Boys, Allman Brothers Band & Country Joe McDonald, June 1971.

The Fillmore East opened in Manhattan in March 1968. Over the next three years it hosted almost every major rock artist of the era, as well as giants of soul, blues, folk, gospel and jazz. Bill Graham decided to close it in June 1971, but before doing so he assembled a remarkable 3-day bill featuring some of the most iconic and influential acts in America, spanning pop (the Beach Boys), blues (Albert King), rock’n’roll (the J. Geils Band, Edgar Winter, Mountain, the Allman Brothers Band) and folk (Country Joe McDonald – a nod towards the venue’s psychedelic roots). Presented here is the the entire WNEW-FM broadcast of these historic closing shows, together with background notes and images.

Track listing:

Disc One

1. Graham Intro - Albert King
2. Knock On Wood
3. Got To Be Some Changes
4. Nothing But The Blues
5. Crosscut Saw
6. Personal Manager
7. Bye Bye Blues
8. Bill Graham Intro - J Geils Band
9. Sno-Cone
10. Wait
11. First I Look At The Purse
12. Whammer Jammer
13. Homework
14. Pack Fair And Square
15. Cruisin' For A Love
16. Serves You Right To Suffer
17. Hard Drivin' Man

Disc Two

1. Bill Graham Intro - Edgar Winter's White Trash
2. Where Would I Be (Without You)
3. Let's Get It On
4. Tobacco Road
5. Turn On Your Love Light
6. Bill Graham Intro - Mountain
7. Never In My Life
8. Theme From An Imaginary Western
9. Roll Over Beethoven
10. Dreams Of Milk And Honey-Swan Theme

Disc Three

1. Silver Paper
2. Mississippi Queen
3. Bill Graham Intro - The Beach Boys
4. Heroes And Villains
5. Do It Again
6. Cotton Fields
7. Help Me, Rhonda
8. Wouldn't It Be Nice
9. Your Song
10. Student Demonstration Time
11. Good Vibrations
12. California Girls
13. I Get Around
14. It's About Time
15. Bill Graham Intro - Country Joe McDonald
16. Kiss My Ass
17. Entertainment Is My Business
18. Fixin-To-Die-Rag
19. Rockin' All Around The World
20. Hold On It's Coming

Disc Four

1. Bill Graham Intro - The Allman Brothers
2. Statesboro Blues
3. Don't Keep Me Wonderin'
4. Done Somebody Wrong
5. One Way Out
6. In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed
7. Midnight Rider
8. Hot 'Lanta
9. Whipping Post
10. You Don't Love Me