If you had to rank live rock albums, this would easily be the best. But what you really need to know about this album is that it captures the Allman Brothers at their peak with their complete lineup (Duane Allman and Berry Oakley present). The guitar interplay between Duane Allman and Dicky Betts is brilliant, but it doesn't stop there because this was a band, a great band, with a complex rhthym section (two drummers), a soulful bluesy singer/organist, and everyone contributed with musicianship at the highest level, more comparable to a classic jazz band than anything else in rock n' roll. This is really more than rock n' roll, it's blues-jazz-rock fusion, it's dazzling. Once you hear it you'll never forget it.

I've listened to this album for many years (first started with an actual vinyl recording), and it never grows stale.

The Allmans are the ultimate "live JAM band", and this is their ultimate album, PERIOD.

I'm a "Deadhead", I love old Springsteen, I like "Phish", but nobody does it like these skinny white southern hippies who somehow learned to play the blues.

I've read a review that called the fadeout at the end of "Whipping Post" something like "Sheer musical orgasmic bliss", but that is incorrect... every song on this album fits that description, it's unfair to allocate it to only one tune.
The perfect live recording, jaw-dropping musicianship, yada, yada, yada... THIS IS THE ONE for live tunes. A legendary album by a legendary band. It gets no better than this.

This is the crowning achievement of live recordings during the decade of the seventies. The Allman Brothers surprised the world with this one. The song writing and musicianship on their two previous studio recordings was tight and right, but the jump in quality to this one was enormous.

I know folks will say the Dead was the premier live band of the seventies, but one open and fair listening to this jem, will change many minds. Just as Cream provided the best guitar, bassist, and drummer from the sixties, the Allman Brothers provided the best singer, bassist, guitarists, and drummers of the seventies. All clearly evident on this set of cds. No one ever played slide guitar like Duane Allman, Berry Oakley hit every note and some in between. Dickie Betts was awesome and the drumming was original and set the tone for the whole performance.
Some say Greg Allman was he best white blues singer of his era. I say he was the best blues singer of his era.

Yes drugs hit the band hard, but you know, you would not notice any let up here. It was a band with a mission and their flair, dedication, and musicianship is way above anyone who challenged them.

When one looks at musicians today, one could not even begin to compare anyone today to this group. There are good musicians out there...don't get me wrong. But this group, like the Beatles in their era, were simply beyond anyone else.

If you can't get into this as either a jazz or rock fan, then sell your soul to the devil, cause you have nothing else left to lose. This is the defining record of the decade. Bar none.