![]() At Fillmore East represents the band’s original lineup at the height of their prodigious powers.Īlbert Leornes Green was born forty-seven miles east of Memphis in Forrest City, Arkansas, a town named for Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest. Duane and Berry are buried next to one another in Rose Hill Cemetery, a few yards from where Gregg was buried in 2017. Barely a year later and just three blocks away, bassist Berry Oakley was also killed in the same manner. A few months after the breakthrough live album was released, Duane Allman-who had started out as a session guitarist at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals-was killed in a motorcycle accident in Macon. 1971 certainly changed everything for the Allman Brothers. ![]() The Allman Brothers Band, The Allman Brothers Band at Fillmore Eastġ971 was, according to a recent documentary film, the “year that changed everything.” (It certainly did for me: I was born that October.) That film revolves around the phenomenal run of music produced that year, beginning with Marvin Gaye’s brilliant What’s Going On? The otherwise excellent documentary does not mention an unlikely multi-racial, jazz-influenced, six-piece outfit from Macon, Georgia, whose recorded performances at The Fillmore on the Lower East Side that March and released as a double album that July are widely regarded as one of the greatest live rock-and-roll sets ever recorded.
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