When talking about the group of Allmann Brothers is this record that always comes up. A double live the epic rock of the fixed one of the largest ever made. That is the disc by which everything begins for ABB, but also one in which everything ends. Indeed, it raises the Macon Georgia to the rank of precursors, but especially stars, southern rock, it is unfortunately the last appearance of Duane Allman, virtuoso guitarist, group founder (with Dickey Betts) that Clapton Derek & The Dominos wanted to recruit, and died tragically in a motorcycle accident three months after its publication. This legendary disc has no equal in its register. Placed on the market in July 1971, the same year that the legendary parties that feed it (the 12 and 13 March 71), it lists seven titles some of which stretched as it should, serve as territory of brilliant improvisations. Thus, In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed tipped over 13 minutes, You Do not Love Me is around twenty minutes, while beyond the Whipping Post. The ambiance of this testifies to the intensity of the moment that the public anthological the Fillmore East Yorker Bill Graham lived. Gregg Allman unveils a beautiful voice of bluesman, bass Oakley highs once thought book for the elite, the tandem of hitters JJ Johanson and Butch Trucks bump with energy and precision, continuously while Dickey Betts and Duane Allman hover over this beautiful world. This disc is a feast that opens to the boiling Statesboro Blues and ends 76 minutes later, when the frantic Whipping Post finally deigns to stop. Between these two classics of ABB, a few shorter pieces and funky require special attention: Stormy Monday and In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed (13 minutes). Left to go to the end of the night, crying like a privileged spectator at a time of the disc (Play All Night!) At The Fillmore East is an invaluable and unfailing paper (PLO54).
