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Fillmore East: Closing Night

60 songs / 298:09

By: anonymous

Playlist Description

Bill Graham opened the Fillmore East in March, 1968 at 2nd Avenue and 6th Street in New York City. With spectacular light shows, dancing, and extraordinary performances from rock's biggest names, it quickly became legendary. Graham's success with his Fillmore's East and West contributed to the changing demands of the musicians he featured, opening the door to a commercial atmosphere of bigger salaries and larger venues. Anticipating those changes, Graham closed the Fillmore East with a month-long celebration that culminated in the June 27, 1971 concert featured in this playlist.

With Albert King, the J. Geils Band, Edgar Winter, Mountain, the Beach Boys, Country Joe McDonald, and the Allman Brothers Band all featured on the bill, it was an appropriately epic and genre-spanning line-up. Admission into the venue was invite-only, but it was broadcast in New York over WNEW-FM and WPLJ-FM; fittingly, Don McLean's "American Pie" received its first radio airplay during those broadcasts, as a bit of music history died in the early morning hours of June 28, 1971 when the Fillmore East finally shut its doors. We hope you'll join us in remembering the legendary venue with this fond farewell from Bill Graham.

  1. 1 Albert King / Bill Graham Introduction 0:06
  2. 2 Albert King / Knock On Wood 5:03
  3. 3 Albert King / Got To Be Some Changes 6:13
  4. 4 Albert King / Nothing But The Blues 3:26
  5. 5 Albert King / Crosscut Saw 5:53
  6. 6 Albert King / Personal Manager 6:23
  7. 7 Albert King / Bye Bye Blues 2:10
  8. 8 J. Geils Band / Bill Graham Introduction 0:10
  9. 9 J. Geils Band / Sno-Cone 3:21
  10. 10 J. Geils Band / Wait 3:19
  11. 11 J. Geils Band / First I Look At The Purse 4:51
  12. 12 J. Geils Band / Whammer Jammer 3:00
  13. 13 J. Geils Band / Homework 3:31
  14. 14 J. Geils Band / Pack Fair And Square 2:19
  15. 15 J. Geils Band / Cruisin' For A Love 4:03
  16. 16 J. Geils Band / Serves You Right To Suffer 12:44
  17. 17 J. Geils Band / Hard Drivin' Man 3:51
  18. 18 Edgar Winter's White Trash / Bill Graham Introduction 0:59
  19. 19 Edgar Winter's White Trash / Where Would I Be (Witho… 5:17
  20. 20 Edgar Winter's White Trash / Let's Get It On 7:35
  21. 21 Edgar Winter's White Trash / Tobacco Road 15:47
  22. 22 Edgar Winter's White Trash / Turn On Your Love Light 9:09
  23. 23 Mountain / Bill Graham Introduction 0:25
  24. 24 Mountain / Never In My Life 6:03
  25. 25 Mountain / Theme From An Imaginary Western 5:44
  26. 26 Mountain / Dream Sequence (guitar solo) 2:44
  27. 27 Mountain / Roll Over Beethoven 6:18
  28. 28 Mountain / Dreams Of Milk And Honey / Swan Theme 15:34
  29. 29 Mountain / Silver Paper 7:48
  30. 30 Mountain / Mississippi Queen 6:41
  31. 31 The Beach Boys / Bill Graham Introduction 0:07
  32. 32 The Beach Boys / Heroes And Villains 3:53
  33. 33 The Beach Boys / Do It Again 2:52
  34. 34 The Beach Boys / Cotton Fields 2:42
  35. 35 The Beach Boys / Help Me, Rhonda 4:14
  36. 36 The Beach Boys / Wouldn't It Be Nice 3:00
  37. 37 The Beach Boys / Your Song 4:58
  38. 38 The Beach Boys / Student Demonstration Time 5:16
  39. 39 The Beach Boys / Good Vibrations 4:28
  40. 40 The Beach Boys / California Girls 3:29
  41. 41 The Beach Boys / I Get Around 2:31
  42. 42 The Beach Boys / It's About Time 3:50
  43. 43 Country Joe McDonald / Bill Graham Introduction 0:21
  44. 44 Country Joe McDonald / Kiss My Ass 2:31
  45. 45 Country Joe McDonald / Entertainment Is My Business 3:31
  46. 46 Country Joe McDonald / The Fish Cheer 0:10
  47. 47 Country Joe McDonald / Fixin-To-Die-Rag 1:02
  48. 48 Country Joe McDonald / Rockin' All Around The World 6:53
  49. 49 Country Joe McDonald / Hold On It's Coming 3:31
  50. 50 The Allman Brothers Band / Bill Graham Introduction 0:55
  51. 51 The Allman Brothers Band / Statesboro Blues 4:13
  52. 52 The Allman Brothers Band / Don't Keep Me Wonderin' 3:36
  53. 53 The Allman Brothers Band / Done Somebody Wrong 3:52
  54. 54 The Allman Brothers Band / One Way Out 4:56
  55. 55 The Allman Brothers Band / In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed 14:58
  56. 56 The Allman Brothers Band / Midnight Rider 2:47
  57. 57 The Allman Brothers Band / Hot 'Lanta 5:52
  58. 58 The Allman Brothers Band / Whipping Post 19:00
  59. 59 The Allman Brothers Band / Crowd 1:23
  60. 60 The Allman Brothers Band / You Don't Love Me 16:51