Think that's an exaggeration? On a given night you would've seen Sly & The Family Stone OPEN for Jimi Hendrix. Or Miles Davis OPEN for the Grateful Dead. Or Led Zeppelin OPEN for Iron Butterfly. (Obviously that arrangement didn't last long) Or The Dead play second fiddle to Janis Joplin.
It hardly stops there.
J. Geils on the same bill with Black Sabbath. Frank Zappa and The Mothers with some new opening act called Chicago. The Who with Chuck Berry. The Jeff Beck Group and Jethro Tull. Derek & The Dominoes with Humble Pie. And my vote for sickest lineup of all: Miles Davis (opening!) with The Steve Miller Band and Neil Young with Crazy Horse.
Then there were the times The Allman Brothers set up shop. Their first appearance at The Fillmore was December 26-28, 1969, third on the bill behind Appaloosa (good luck finding their stuff on iTunes) and Blood, Sweat & Tears. By the time the Brothers had returned to finally headline in March, 1971, they'd already played the Fillmore four times. And they'd play four shows on March 12th & 13th, having agreed like many artists to two performances each night--one at 8:oo p.m. and the next at 11:30. The Allman Brothers at Fillmore East double live album was taken from those shows and released four months later in July.
On June 27th, 1971, The Allman Brothers played the final show at The Fillmore, with guests J. Geils, Elvin Bishop and Albert King jamming until six the next morning. This isn't footage of that night--it's from nine months earlier--but it only recently surfaced via the folks at Wolfgang's Vault--Bill Graham's concert archives. You can see what the Allman Brothers at Fillmore East looked and sounded like here.
(Note: The other two videos have problems with Gregg's microphone audio, but not the instrumentation coming through the soundboard)
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