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That LP release drew three songs each from the Friday late show (“Hallelujah (I Love Her So),” “Rollin’ Stone” and “I Don’t Need No Doctor”) and Saturday late show (“Four Day Creep,” “I’m Ready,” and “I Walk on Gilded Splinters”) plus one from the Saturday early show (“Stone Cold Fever,” the band’s lone original composition played during the two-night stand). Based on the evidence here, however, it wasn’t for lack of quality. The original Performance completely overlooked the first set. Each set is presented in complete form, including the enjoyably cheerful between-song banter.Īfter the jump, we'll take a closer look!

John’s “I Walk on Gilded Splinters” into a jam more than three times that long - and captivate an audience in doing so. These four muscular sets are a potent trip back to the days when a band could bravely and somewhat self-indulgently transform a 7-minute song like Dr. Electricity surges through all four sold-out sets which originally occurred on the bill between opening act Fanny and headliner Lee Michaels. In fact, Hendrix’s frequent collaborator Eddie Kramer originally recorded the concerts. It’s no wonder that Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix, The Allman Brothers, and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young all recorded famed albums there. Not only were the band members some of the most exciting instrumentalists on the blues-rock scene, but the Fillmore East itself created a certain frisson that translated particularly well to live discs. It’s easy to see why in Omnivore’s deluxe presentation. When manager Dee Anthony (whose diverse client list also included Peter Allen and Joe Cocker) suggested a live album, the band jumped at the chance. Performance followed four studio albums, none of which captured the total majesty of the band’s full-throttle stage act. The resulting band was a four-piece combo with power to spare. One of the first bands for whom “supergroup” was an accurate appellation, Humble Pie brought together three great vocalist-instrumentalists – Steve Marriott of The Small Faces (rhythm guitar), Peter Frampton of The Herd (lead guitar) and Greg Ridley of Spooky Tooth (bass) – with drummer Jerry Shirley of the lesser-known The Apostolic Intervention. The new 4-CD box set from Omnivore Recordings includes all four of the band’s complete performances at the Fillmore East from which the original LP sequence was derived: two shows on Friday, May 28 and two more on Saturday, May 29. It remains a fiery, visceral live document of the quartet in concert, and it’s just gotten better – four times better.

Recorded in May 1971, just weeks before the venue’s demise, Performance was a double-album of electric blues fury, with just seven lengthy tracks spread over four sides.

One of the most celebrated albums recorded at the Fillmore was Humble Pie’s Performance: Rockin’ the Fillmore.

Though the building no longer exists, with the bank occupying its former lobby and apartments built on the site of the auditorium, much of the music played during its days as The Fillmore East has endured on record. The grandiose 2,830-capacity venue built in 1925 as a Yiddish theatre was sadly demolished around 1996, having survived transformations into The New Fillmore East and the landmark gay disco The Saint. But for just over three years, between March 1968 and June 1971, that address was home to Bill Graham’s Fillmore East. Today, 105 Second Avenue in New York City looks inconspicuous enough, housing a branch of a savings bank.