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Fillmore East, February 1970
Fillmore East, February 1970
Live album by The Allman Brothers Band
Released	1996
Recorded	February 11–14, 1970
Genre	Southern rock, blues rock
Length	71:20
Label	Grateful Dead
Producer	Owsley Stanley
The Allman Brothers Band chronology
Bear's Sonic Journals chronology
Alternative cover
	Bear's Sonic Journals: Fillmore East, February 1970

Fillmore East, February 1970 is a live album by the rock group the Allman Brothers Band. It was recorded by Owsley Stanley at the Fillmore East in Manhattan on February 11, 13, and 14, 1970. It was released on CD in 1996.

In 2018, the album was remastered and rereleased by the Owsley Stanley Foundation, with the title Bear's Sonic Journals: Fillmore East, February 1970. There are two different versions of this release. One contains the same material as the original album. The other is the Deluxe Edition, on three CDs, with two discs containing all the music that was captured on tape at the concerts.^[1]^[2]

The February 1970 concerts

On February 11, 13, and 14, 1970, the Allman Brothers Band, along with the Grateful Dead and Love, played at Bill Graham's Fillmore East auditorium in New York City. The performances were taped by the Grateful Dead's sound engineer, Owsley ("Bear") Stanley.

Fillmore East, February 1970 is composed of selections from those concerts. The album was produced by Stanley, who also wrote the liner notes. It was mastered by the Dead's recording engineer, Jeffrey Norman. It was released on the Grateful Dead label, in cooperation with the Allman Brothers' record company at the time, PolyGram Records.

Performances by the Grateful Dead from the same set of shows have been released on two albums – Bear's Choice, and Dick's Picks Volume 4.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
All About Jazz	^[3]
AllMusic	^[4]
The Music Box	^[5]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[6]

On AllMusic, Lindsay Planer wrote, "There is no mistaking the unbridled fervor of the original line-up of the band. Rising to the challenge of exploratory psychedelia – while remaining ever faithful to their Southern blues roots... Likewise, the Allman Brothers were beginning to ascend as not only premier interpreters, but purveyors of a revolutionary new electric guitar-driven blues movement".^[4]

In The Music Box, John Metzger said, "... the disc opens with a scorching rendition of "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" that simply grooves. Dickey Betts and Duane Allman are magnificent, as they play with reckless abandon, yet tightly in synch. The highlight of this album, however, is the nearly 31-minute "Mountain Jam" that drips with a colorfully electrified intensity."^[5]

In Glide Magazine, Doug Collette wrote, "Almost a year after the formation of the seminal Southern rock band... the original sextet was homing in on the sound that would lend itself to At Fillmore East, the epic recordings done thirteen months later at the same venue. Yet even as the group... was honing the influential style that would make them famous, they were stretching themselves as well, shuffling novel and well-established material in and out of their repertoire."^[7]

Doug Collette of All About Jazz commented: "At its most dramatic peaks, the Allman Brothers Band's collective musicianship was nigh-on miraculous to behold and never more so than with its original personnel. As the septet approached the first anniversary of their formation, the accelerated process of their growth supplies only more evidence to that end."^[3]

Track listing

Original album

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Recording date(s)	Length
1.	"In Memory of Elizabeth Reed"	Dickey Betts	Feb. 14	9:19
2.	"Hoochie Coochie Man"	Willie Dixon	Feb. 14	6:01
3.	"Statesboro Blues"	Will McTell	Feb. 11	4:18
4.	"Trouble No More"	McKinley Morganfield	Feb. 11	4:12
5.	"Outskirts of Town"	William Weldon, Roy Jordan	Feb. 13 & 14	8:28
6.	"Whipping Post"	Gregg Allman	Feb. 14	8:12
7.	"Mountain Jam"	Donovan Leitch, Duane Allman, G. Allman, Betts, Jai Johanny Johanson, Berry Oakley, Butch Trucks	Feb. 14 & 13	30:48

Deluxe Edition

Disc 1 – Compilation (same as original album)
No.	Title	Recording date(s)	Length
1.	"In Memory of Elizabeth Reed"	Feb. 14	9:22
2.	"Hoochie Coochie Man"	Feb. 14	6:05
3.	"Statesboro Blues"	Feb. 11	4:17
4.	"Trouble No More"	Feb. 11	4:11
5.	"Outskirts of Town"	Feb. 13 & 14	8:30
6.	"Whipping Post"	Feb. 14	8:11
7.	"Mountain Jam"	Feb. 14 & 13	30:46

Disc 2 – Chapters 1 & 2
No.	Title	Recording date	Length
1.	"In Memory of Elizabeth Reed"	Feb. 11	11:58
2.	"Statesboro Blues"	Feb. 11	4:17
3.	"Trouble No More"	Feb. 11	4:42
4.	"Hoochie Coochie Man"	Feb. 11	4:35
5.	"Mountain Jam" (reel-change gap)	Feb. 11	18:49
6.	"In Memory of Elizabeth Reed"	Feb. 13	7:50
7.	"Outskirts of Town" (end cut)	Feb. 13	7:48
8.	"Mountain Jam" (start cut)	Feb. 13	18:29

Disc 3 – Chapter 3
No.	Title	Recording date	Length
1.	"In Memory of Elizabeth Reed"	Feb. 14	9:26
2.	"Hoochie Coochie Man"	Feb. 14	5:08
3.	"Outskirts of Town" (reel-change gap)	Feb. 14	7:57
4.	"Whipping Post"	Feb. 14	8:11
5.	"Mountain Jam" (reel-change gap)	Feb. 14	35:01

Note: "Discs 2 & 3 contain the sonic journal reels of the three shows as recorded each night, unaltered. Portions from these three chapters were used to create the compilation album (disc 1)."

Personnel

The Allman Brothers Band

Duane Allman – lead and slide guitars
Gregg Allman – vocals, Hammond B-3 Organ
Dickey Betts – lead guitar
Berry Oakley – bass, vocals on "Hoochie Coochie Man"
Jaimoe – drums, percussion
Butch Trucks – drums, tympani

Production

Owsley Stanley – producer, sound recording
Jeffrey Norman – digital editing
John Chester, Jamie Howarth, Plangent Processes – tape to digital transfer and speed correction
Dick Latvala – tape archivist and facilitator
Kirk West – associate producer and logistical coordinator
Bob Johnson – photos
Gecko Graphics – design