Live At The Fillmore (EARLY SHOW)

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LIVE at the Fillmore - The Definitive Original Allman Brothers Band Tribute
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Live At The Fillmore (EARLY SHOW)
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A FEW WORDS FROM LOU MARESCA, LIVE AT THE FILLMORE’S FOUNDER:
The original Allman Brothers Band performed regularly at New York’s Fillmore
East Auditorium run by legendary promoter Bill Graham and often referred to as
the ‘church of rock and roll.’ The Allman Brothers Band played often enough at
Fillmore East to be called ‘Bill Graham’s house band.’ It was here and at other
New York metropolitan area venues like Passaic New Jersey’s Central and Capital
Theaters, New York’s Central Park’s Schaefer Summer Concert Series where I and
other members of LIVE AT THE FILLMORE first heard the Allman Brothers Band
perform beginning in 1970. On June 26, 1971 I was at Fillmore East for the
Saturday night late show, the last public concert at Fillmore East, the one the
ABB band calls ‘THE SHOW,’ the one they feel is the greatest performance they
ever gave. I’ve never heard them or any other band give a better performance
before or since. Sadly, the next time I heard the band was a few months later at
New York’s Academy of Music. It was without its leader, Duane Allman, who had
died only weeks before in a motorcycle accident near his home in Macon, Georgia.
His guitar was onstage on a stand and it was the most solemn rock concert I have
ever attended. I had already formed ‘Skydog,’ what may have been the very first
Allman Brothers tribute band earlier that year. These shows left an indelible
impression on me and others in LIVE AT THE FILLMORE.
LIVE AT THE FILLMORE is the continuation of our devotion to performing the music
of the original Allman Brothers Band as it was performed in those early years
before the untimely deaths of Duane and Berry Oakley and the departure of Dickey
Betts. For me, those years were the ‘glory days’ of the Allman Brothers Band.
Unlike others who believe the band was a jam band, I share the view of Gregg
Allman, who has been quoted as recently as 2003 by fellow band member Butch
Trucks in stating that rather than being a jam band The Allman Brothers are “a
band that jams”. My perspective on the music is that rather than free-form in
its structure, form and content it is a body of work largely composed after much
trial and error and ‘jamming’ in order to extract those elements which
ultimately became part of the finished songs. Anyone like myself who had the
good fortune to hear the Allman Brothers shows ‘back in the day’ on the same or
successive nights will corroborate that though they did leave room for
improvisation and personal expression, for the most part the songs remained the
same. This has continued to be our approach to performing their music. Along
with the other highly talented and committed musicians in LIVE AT THE FILLMORE,
this is our attempt to bring back authentically the performances of the original
Allman Brothers Band for those who were there to hear and still remember them
along with those who have a similar love of this music and wish they had been
there with us. We hope you enjoy listening to LIVE AT THE FILLMORE!
My best,
Lou
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