The Fillmore East

Bill Graham's meca of American Rock acts closed 41 years ago today. The tiny 2600 seat venue in The East Village boasted more major acts in a short 3 years than any other venue of it's time .

Zappa, Allman Brothers, Lennon, Albert King, The Byrds, Taj Mahal, The Airplane, Miles Davis, Neil Young, with CSNY, Neil Young with Crazy Horse, The Dead, The Chambers Brothers, Humble Pie, King Crimson, Hendrix, Ten Years After, Johnny Winter, Edgar Winter, Mountain, J Geils Band , Zeppelin all played there numerous times and all recorded live sets there because of the outstanding acoustics. RIP Rock n Roll.

Here's my contribution.

The Allman Brothers @ The Fillmore East, 1970 - Whipping Post - YouTube

Rolling Stone's 49 Best Album of all time......but that's when when Greg had soul for a white boy....He could sing the blues....then he married Cher and now does incoherent interviews with Piers Morgan. It was all Cher's fault I tell ya....not the drugs !

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Originally Posted by Dino Velvet

Here's my contribution.

The Allman Brothers @ The Fillmore East, 1970 - Whipping Post - YouTube

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Epic.

Too bad no one had the foresight to make video/film recordings of all these live performances. The surest sign of the decline of western pop civilization when the Filmore closed down.

There are still IMO great live groups still out here today, just not as many.

Who Knows (Live at the Fillmore East) - Jimi Hendrix and the Band of Gypsys - YouTube

Bit premature to suggest Rock'n'roll died with the closure of the Fillmore - great as its roster of acts was. Lots and lots of great rock music still to this day.

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Originally Posted by Prospero

Lots and lots of great rock music still to this day.

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Yes sir. We agree on that.:rock2

Oh we agree about a lot Dino - just not on guns and what constitutes GOOD music

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Originally Posted by Prospero

Oh we agree about a lot Dino - just not on guns and what constitutes GOOD music

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I'm into a lot of Classic Rock from the 1970s. You seem good with a lot of that. Much of the music I listen to is needed for the task at hand. Nothing like marching into the gym on leg day with Slayer's Reign In Blood mercilessly pounding in my ears. I'm Ted Bundy and the weights are gals with straight brown hair parted down the middle.

Slayer - Criminally Insane (Music Video) - YouTube

Ah.... i can see that pounding stuff works in the gym or if you're boxing

Shame that the building on Second Ave between 6th and 7th Street has become an Emmigrant Savings Bank and has no tribute of the classic establishment it once was. I believe sometime in late 90's however NYCDOT recognized 7th Street on Second Ave as Bill Graham Way with a sign on the Southeast corner of that block.