Allman Brothers Fillmore East on Vinyl

Vinylvin

The Fillmore Concerts is the best. No contest. This thread has got me thinking about finding a vinyl copy.

I have the Capricorn and a copy of the Nautilus Super Disc and I found the Nautilus to be the better copy,in any case still one of the greatest live recordings ever.steveboeck

talk about az great 'jam' record....any recording on cd or vinyl will make you forget all the audiophile bs....a classic in every sense.

Amen Jaybo,
audiophileizem is a fun hobby, but music comes first for me.
cause first there was a mountain dun dun dnuua da.

Jaybo… you speakith the truth brother. The words audiophile and Fillmore don't belong in the same sentence. I try not to ask too much of my rock albums... just not too much compression and some thickness in the midbass and I'm usually happy. I was thinking about what cleanehippy said about the lack of bass as I listened to the disc in my car today. I suppose Barry is a little light in the mix but lets face it, Duane and Dickey are the stars of the show here. Also, with three drummers, Barry, and Duane’s deep organ notes, there is plenty of low frequency drive.

I know this started out as a vinyl request, so I apologize for the following cd recommendation (you may find this on vinyl though). I just picked up a remastered, deluxe edition cd of “Eat a Peach” that is also a big improvement over my original. This is a two disc version with the bonus cd titled "The Allman Brothers Band: The Final Fillmore East Concert, June 27, 1971." Another pretty good sounding live disc with some great songs.

I also highly recommend (I seriously doubt you’ll find this on vinyl) a live 4 disc cd called "The Allman Brothers Band 12/31/73 Cow Palice San Francisco Ca. with special guests Boz Scaggs, Jerry Garcia and Bill Kreutzman". The title says it all. Sonics are marginal but as you can imagine the back and forth between Betts and Garcia is some serious fun. The best song by far is a Duaneless/ instrumental version of Whippin Post. If you’re a fan of Jerry Garcia and the Allman Brothers, which kind of go hand in hand, you will thoroughly enjoy this.