Last Days of the Fillmore - Full Documentary - (Official)

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Bill Graham, the guy that created the San Francisco Sound. He was a business guy dealing with great musicians, but limited business insight. A great mix of Bill and his management issues,,,,somehow pulls off the closing of Winterland in 1978

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&si=JH0CgzZQ19iUpsqperland in a great musical production.

It's long...1:45 Hrs

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1. I'll have watch another evening, but I was lucky enough to get to The Filmore East (NYC) a few times when I was 15, 16..

yrs old. My dad didn't want me (and a friend) going to the big, Ole bad East Village at night so he drove us down, parked, and waited for the show to finish.
It irked me at the time, but kind of sweet in a way.

▪︎The Allman Brothers Band (w Duane)
(don't remember who was 2nd bill, possibly The Edgar Winters Band, or they were a different show)

▪︎A Benifit Auction ?with a musical guest or two of Rock & Roll Items to help fund Anti-Viwtnam War Groups. A fun night!

▪︎ Best of all (I'd already'd seen them 3Xs in '68) in Oct '69 - The Who playing Tommy with The Joshua Light Show! Sooo powerful!

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2. Those were the days, weren't they?

Every week a new band would drop....or a new mix of insanely great musicians.

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5. They were great times. I had just as much fun during the earlier CBGB's years '76 - ?'79...

Patti Smith Group, Television, Talking Heads, The Ramones, Blondie, and all whom they inspired!
Caught The Clash elsewhere in an old ballroom later

The important factor was I had agency vs at 15, so I could go where I wanted to. For some very local bands (one almost got signed) me, and some neighborhood rock fans 4, or 5 of us would go, and then pile in a cab to go all the way from The East Village up to upper Washington Hgts. Great times.

Also a bit later The B-52's. My sis and I headed across town on a bus on a hot, humid night to get to a packed CBGB's so we couldn't get in, but we could hear them; so it was great time anyway.

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6. Saw Lou Reed at the old Boston Garden in 73.

The bathroom breaks were memorable.

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7. Heh...

Lou!

My sis, and I went up to the Boston Garden in '76, and got tixs outside to see The Who that night! Such fun! I think I snuck in my portable cassette recorder. And my camera.

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8. The best live show I ever saw was the Grateful Dead, the 1st time.

Fall of -71 at the Boston Garden. Wall of Sound. New Riders of the Purple Sage....in glitter cowboy suits. Started at 6:30 ended at 1:30.

Like LSD, the 1st trip is always the best.

[electric_blue68]

9. Sounds like a great time!

So many great shows!
Sometimes the very first. Other times a favored, then current album along w other older favorite songs.

Off hand my favorite shows would be:
•The Who at the Filmore East 10/69 Tommy,
Forrest Hills Tennis Stadium 7/31/71 WN Tour, and their reunion show ?'89
•Springsteen my first show at ?The Academy of Music in ?'76 where I became a rabid fan, and The Darkness Tour at MSG.
• The Patti Smith Group - The Bottom Line
Radio Eithiopia
•U2 - AB Tour Giants Stadium ?'92, or '93, 360° Tour Giants Stadium '09, and Phillidelphia stadium '11
• my first full Midnight Oil show


The best concert "run" was seeing U2, and then Springteen within 8 days of each other in ?"93....
Both at Giants Stadium on *gloriously low humidity* Summer evenings, nights!
Fabulous!!!

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10. As an addendum to my ealier post.....

Saw the NRPS play at Clark Auditorium (Worcester, MA) 2 nights later. The Dead were there hanging out and playing in the background. Around 500 people. Pretty awesome show, different than the Garden. No Wall of Sound, but terrific - just a bunch of great musicians enjoying the moment.

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11. Ah, a different musical experience. Nice!

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3. Bookmarking for later.

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4. I've Seen This Before

Well worth watching, especially if one is into that West Coast sound of the day.
Fun fact: the Jefferson Airplane footage is NOT from those final series of shows.
They didn't play the farewell series. The footage is from about a year earlier.