Allman Brothers Fillmore East on Vinyl

I can't help you with your lp selection but I have to disagree with Mechans. I bought the redbook reissue a couple of years ago called "The Fillmore Concerts" and it sounds fantastic with lots of air and good bass. I don't know if it is "audiophile" but it is certainly one of the better sounding live rock cd's I own. If they have this version on vinyl I bet it also sounds good.

I never get tired of hearing this concert. The brothers play loose and tight simultaneously if you know what I mean. To me , it has alot of the same feel as "Kind of Blue" which I understand was very influntial to Duane.

The pink Capricorn smokes the Classic.

However, like "Live At Leeds", the charm of this recording lies in the energy and intensity of the performance, not the sonics.

I've not heard this recording in any digital form.

I gotta agree with Lokie. The Fillmore Concerts in a great set of disc's. I have it and the SACD "Live At The Fillmore". After getting them I sold my very rare red book MFSL LATF copy. It just didn't sound good any more.

The Fillmore Concerts is re-engineered and re-mastered. Tom Dowd and Bill Levenson names are all over the place. Heck the liner note are worth the price. There are slight differences/variations in almost every song from the original LP and tunes not included that package. For the first time you can hear "Whipping Post" and "Mountain Jam" together back to back, the way it was played.

I will look for it. All I have ever heard are pretty much reissues of the original engineering.

I disagree with "The Fillmore Concerts" being a great disc. And I say that because you can barely hear Berry Oakley's bass in the mix. As a person, who saw the "orginal" Allman Brothers on three different occasions, with the last being a show in a similar size theater in Fayetteville, NC the Saturday before they recorded at the Fillmore East, I can tell you for a fact, his bass and the bottom that he provided was an intregal part of the Allman Brothers sound. and for some reason that got mixed way to low on the "The Fillmore Concerts", other than that it was a good recording.

btw Mechans, Tow Dowd was the producer on both the orginal "Live at the Fillmore East" and "The Fillmore Concerts".

Also, since Tom Dowd's name as got mentioned, I would highly recommend the DVD "Tom Dowd & the Language of Music". It's facinating and entertaining documentary, and Tom Dowd really did know how to capture "lighting in a bottle".