I started off with the cd's of these album non-remastered. I bought mine from BMG and except for this deluxe edition, which is remastered and The Fillmore Concerts, which is also remastered, the actual albums they sell are not. After realizing this I sold the originals in favor of the remasters and it's like falling in love with the music all over again! I don't recommend this for everyone ofcourse but for you audio philes I do. Read reviews first ofcourse.

Now I started with The Fillmore Concerts and while that's a very interesting release and not bad in any way I prefer this release by far over that one. I've grown up listening to The Allman Brothers here in Austin, TX but I never owned any of their albums except for A Decade of Hits 1969 - 1979 until the last year.

Now I 'could' go and buy the remastered original release of Live at the Fillmore (with 7 tracks instead of 13) just to hear the original track order that everyone heard back in the day but there's no need since all the songs are present on the deluxe edition. One can just make a compilation of the original 7, which I do plan on doing today. If you're a purist this new "deluxe" edition might offend you. But I'm just comparing this to The Fillmore Concerts more than to the original 7 song release. This is the original mix remastered, nothing altered on the songs you know and love. With that in mind, this deluxe edition feels like a concert! The added reverb on The Fillmore Concerts was NOT necessary! And while it was the work of the original producer it was not a release put out by the original band. If you're a completist you'll probably want those alternate mixes found on The Fillmore Concerts. Heck, by the end of this journey I may want them! But for now, I just got "Dreams" the box set and all my remastered versions of Allman Brothers Band up thru Brothers & Sisters and like is good.

And I've heard very good things about a couple of recent releases. This band is still around in a slightly different format kicking a** and taking names! But I want to submerse myself in the classic stuff first because I prefer 60's and 70's music the most.

Between Dreams, Allman Brothers Band, IdleWild South (I had Beginnings before non-remastered), Live at the Fillmore East [Deluxe Edition], Eat A Peach, and Brothers & Sisters I feel set for the moment. But I do plan on checking out their newer releases as well as more Govt. Mule.

I am a pretty experienced ABB listener and and have listened to three different versions of At The Fillmore East. This is definitely the best available and is one of the best live album ever recorded. If you like the Allman Brothers, Blues-Rock or Southern Rock BUY THIS ALBUM. There are no bad songs or filler. Yeah the songs are long but not drawn out, dont confuse the two, every minute is intense. This is the pioneers of Southern Rock, the White Kings of the Blues and some of the best musicians in the history of rock at their peak and in their complete element. A lot, if not all, of the songs on this album were available on previous albums becasue theyre arguably the best live versions of these songs recorded. If Im not mistaken this whole album was compiled of 4 performances at the Fillmore over one weekend. This is the only place where you can get them all at once (trust me Ive looked, no Ive scoured). This deluxe edition is essentially a Greatest Hits album of their 1971 material from the Fillmore. Its as close as you can come to being there. Pick this album up and then go to a Brothers concert, you can thank me later.

This repackaged double-disc reissue of the Allman Brothers Band's classic 1971 Fillmore West concert restores the original mixes, and presents them in truly stellar sound quality.

On the original CD issue of the Fillmore album, producer Tom Dowd chose alternate takes and messed around with them, trying to create the ultimate listening experience by mixing bits of various takes together. However well-intentioned his attempt was, it didn't always improve the music (and sometimes it ended up doing the oppostite).
Now, this is not a complete end-to-end recording of one of the four Fillmore shows either, but it does restore the original un-tampered-with LP mixes, presenting a more authentic picture of what it was that people heard on those two days in March, 1971. And it is magnificent. The sound is crystal clear, with depth and nuances, and each instrument, Thom Doucette's harmonica in particular, sounds better and crisper than ever before. Honestly, I'm listening to it right now on my computer, with its standart-equipment speakers, and it sounds GREAT!

The first disc opens with a biting four-minute "Statesboro Blues", followed by an equally lean and mean rendition of the riff-driven "Trouble No More" with searing slide guitar by Duane Allman and Dickey Betts (wonderful solo about half way through the song). And then comes Gregg Allman's "Don't Keep Me Wondering", a superb performance with lots of great harp playing and a galvanizing slide guitar solo.

Gregg Allman then introduces "an old Elmore James song" (James had been dead less than eight years at the time), and the band lay down a terrific, muscular rendition of "Done Somebody Wrong" with more wonderful harmonica playing, including a solo, after which the tempo goes down for a nine-minute "They Call It Stormy Monday".
Rice Miller's "One Way Out" is performed up-tempo with a rock n' roll-like urgency, and then comes "In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed", Dickey Bett's classic instrumental, and a 19-minute (!) take on Willie Cobbs' "You Don't Love Me", which breaks down half way through to allow for a lengthy instrumental jam. (The Allmans' lenghty jams sometimes have the ability to bore casual listerers to tears, but this one is actually really good.)

Disc one winds down with a lovely, mellow, three-minute version of "Midnight Rider", and disc two opens with "Hot 'Lanta", a slightly psychedelic instrumental which isn't the most memorable thing the Allmans ever did, followed by an extravagant 22-minute take on the epic blues lament "Whipping Post".

Also featured here is the relatively rare "Drunken Hearted Boy", and the same never-ending "Mountain Jam" which first appeared on "Eat A Peach", including Duane Allman's stunning solo after the drum break, culminating in his moving take on "Will The Circle Be Unbroken". Everything is logically sequenced to resemble an actual 1971 Allman Brothers set list with the tight, bluesy stuff coming first.
This is the defintive reissue of the Fillmore tapes, nicely packaged (a bit too new-age, perhaps, all grey and black) with a fine essay and allround excellent liner notes, and it blows the 1994 CD version out of the water. The sublime first disc earns it all five stars.