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The Allman Brothers Band At Fillmore East onNumbered Limited Edition Hybrid SACD from Mobile Fidelity!
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time – Rated 105/500!
Telepathically Executed Double Album Among Five-Best Live Records Ever Made
Peerless Sonics: Mobile FidelityEdition Provides Fifth-Row Seat to Historic March 1971 Concerts
Fillmore East is synonymous with some of the greatest concerts ever staged. Yetthe vaudeville venue belongs to one group: The Allman Brothers Band. Thisgroundbreaking double album is why. As the collectives breakthrough, itbroadcasts to the world wowing improvisational flights and seamless musicalfusion the likes of which no one had ever heard. In communion with the crowd,the band establishes an interactive blueprint for all shows that followed, whileits high-wire displays of powerhouse soloing and time-stretching arrangementsremain the stuff of hall-of-fame legend.
Mobile Fidelitys collectable hybrid SACD of At Fillmore East joins theunparalleled reissue imprints other Allman titles in presenting the inimitableensembles music in the most lifelike, uncompromising fidelity possible. Myriadversions of the 1971 set exist, yet none possesses the audiophile sensibilitiesfound heresonic traits that whisk the listener to the midst of the FillmoreEast for four gigs performed on March 12 and 13, 1971, plunking them down in afifth-row seat surrounded by fervent fans and a smoke-filled atmosphere. Everyslippery bottleneck note, every aching vocal moan, every soulful purr from theorgan, every gritty interlocking riff comes across with unfettered clarity andrealism. Mobile Fidelity has seldom been prouder of a reissue.
While the record features multiple works the band never laid down in a studio,At Fillmore East is a meticulously conceived affair. The Allmans prepped roughsketches and layouts of the tunes, carving out spaces for each members solos,and leaving the direction of such entirely up to the individual. As a result,the effortanchored by iconic producer Tom Dowds stellar productionpresents ajazz-drifting rock band benefiting from both a sense of assured direction aswell as opportunistic freedom.
Indeed, At Fillmore East is the rare sounds of a group letting it all go,fearlessly maneuvering through bluesy shuffles, exquisite laments, gracefulinstrumental passages, and frenetic swamp-laden boogies. Achieved via acombination of virtuosic skill, visionary ambition, and natural chemistry, thesix-piece burns white-hot with intensity and persuades via a padlock-tightrhythm section on which Duanes searing slide playing and Greggsbottom-of-the-stomach vocals glide, each aural utterance coaxing on theirrespective mates to strive for new heights.
The evidence abounds on the rollercoaster thrills of the dipping and divingWhipping Post; the biscuit-and-gravy purity of an aptly tempestuous StormyMonday, complete with harmonica from guest Tom Doucette; the flaming inertiaestablished on the celebratory Hot Lanta; and the jam-heavy hopscotch of anelastic In Memory of Elizabeth Reed, one of numerous standout moments for leadguitarist Dickey Betts. It seems as if everyone knew what they wereexperiencing.
The audience would kind of play along with us, revealed Gregg Allman,years later. “They were right on top of every single vibration coming fromthe stage. Add to this symbiosis hallmark front-and-back cover photographyby Jim Marshall, and you have a record so steeped in lore, its almost myth. Butits real. And oh, how it now sounds so glorious.
Features:
Super Audio CD
SACD Stereo SACD Layer
This Hybrid SACD contains a ‘Red Book’ Stereo CD Layer which is playable on most conventional CD Players!
Numbered, Limited Edition
Selections:
1. Statesboro Blues
2. Done Somebody Wrong
3. Stormy Monday
4. You Dont Love Me
5. Hot Lanta
6. In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
7. Whipping Post
