Product Details
Artist : The Allman Brothers Band
Format : Best of, Live
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0731451729423
Label : Polydor
Number of Discs : 2
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 1992-11-24
UPC : 731451729423
ASIN : B000001E0D
Track Listings for
Disc-1
1. Statesboro Blues
2. Trouble No More
3. Don't Keep Me Wonderin'
4. In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
5. One Way Out
6. Done Somebody Wrong
7. Stormy Monday - The Allman Brothers Band
8. You Don't Love Me
Disc-2
1. Hot 'Lanta
2. Whipping Post
3. Mountain Jam
4. Drunken Hearted Boy
Customer Reviews
FE deluxe instead (2004-06-28)  This was released in order to put together the best of their Fillmore shows not to take the original Fillmore east and eat a peach songs and put them together. The sound is not that great and although the performances are obviously great, it is not the original Fillmore east. The DELUXE EDITION that came out in 2003 is the vital one to own. It has The original Fillmore East plus the Eat A Peach songs. (mountain jam, one way out, and trouble no more) The sound is of phenomenal quality as well. The booklet also has great photos and an essay. This a vital purchase even if you have the original.
Worth savoring and reissuing in a fuller, richer form (2004-01-25)  Like many of my age (47), I have returned to some--not all!--of the music of my teenage years. Despite being a jazz fanatic, some rock still attracts and delights the aging sensorium. Somehow most of the old albums disappeared, but the memories did not. I owned and often played the original double-album in high school, and was amazed at the proficiency and creativity of this group: the tight double lead lines, precise double drumming, extended improvisations, and Duane Allman's inimitable slide guitar. About ten years ago, I purchased the cassette of the original album and played it off and on, still appreciative of this original and unique achievement. This CD version, however, raises it all to a still higher level of excellence. I heard things in this mix I never heard before. It's not hype; it's true. There are new versions of songs on the original and few shorter pieces not on the original at all. The only unimpressive number is "Drunkin Hearted Boy"--a jam with Elvin Bishop (who sounds like a street urchin who accidently wondered on stage) around 6:00 AM. Elvin may be instantiating the lyrics. Duane evinces some good chops (of course), nonetheless, on this classic blues format. But it doesn't add much--especially considering the stellar hights of virtuosity exhibited elsewhere on these recordings. While many lable this version of the Allman Brothers (when both Duane and Berry Oakley were alive--both would be die in motorcyle accidents within about two years) as blues/rock, the work is better understood as blues/jazz/rock. This judgment rests on the extended improvizations and the more jazz-like time-keeping of the two drummers. I remember Duane Allman being quoted somewhere (how's that for a precise attribution?) as saying he was influenced by Miles Davis and modal jazz. The improvisations make this clear. Perhaps he was the John Coltrane of slide guitar. Lastly, the blues, at their best, approximate the biblical genre of lamentation (see The Book of Lamentations, many of the Psalms, etc.). The blues would not exist in an unfallen world. Think particularly of "Whipping Post." Cries go up to heaven for release: "Sometimes I feel like I've tied to the whipping post. Good Lord, I feel like I'm dying." Greg Allman's voice is the perfect vehicle for these wailing supplications. (How his voice has changed on the newest release, "Hitting the Note," over thirty years later! But it's still fitting for the genre.) Doug Groothuis
This album is meant to be played LOUD! (2003-11-23) Wow. I do not see how anybody could rate this album lower than 5 stars. Shame on anybody who did. It was recorded when the Allmans were at their peak; Duane Dickey, Greg, Berry, Butch and Jaimoe are tighter than 10 virgins in a volkswagon. If you own one ABB album this should be it by all means. The ABB should be felt and experienced in a live setting and this is the closest thing you'll ever get to the original lineup in this day and age. Studio albums are all well and good, but this my friends, this, is the epitome of the brotherhood. The remastered version is incredible, far better than just Fillmore East. Anybody that can't tell the difference in the quality either has a lousy ear or a lousy stereo. But hey, why take my word for it, buy both versions and listen for yourself. I did.
wow, just wow (2003-10-20) there are a few albums i've heard in my life that floor me, and make my style of music change dramatically. this is one of those albums. from the moment it starts to the moment it ends, its non stop amazement. from the opening song statesboro blues, to the very riff oriented trouble no more, to the greatest instrumental ever written, in memory of elizabeth reed. the first time i heard this song, it was almost orgasmic. the whole song is like a big long orgasm every time you listen to it. that song alone is worth the price of the whole album. this version is much better than the original version of it, because this contains more material. jus tbuy it, you'll never regret it
Here's the real deal (2003-10-19) This is a great recording, played perfectly by the band and mixed perfectly by Tom Dowd. The orignal album (At Fillmore East) is also great. So is the DTS Audio mix. This is a magic record that captures the band at it's peak. Everyone should own it and the original. P.S. I don't care about the deadheads vs peachheads. The Dead were a freeform jam band, while the Allman Brothers were a Blues/Rock band with Jazz leanings that worked within arrangements. its like comparing Sun Rah to Weather Report. They aren't the same type of bands, so comparisons are fruitless. Just enjoy each for what they are.
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