Oh yes. 50 years today since the best live rock album, I think and others too,  was released. 

Reaching number 13 on the top 200 album sales chart. Duane Allman got a nice royalty check and news the album had earned a gold record just before he died. It went on to earn a platinum record (sales in excess of 1 million copies) and continues to be a best seller in their catalog selling several thousand copies every year. 

On March 25th and 26th 2003, the ABB tried to do it again but at the Beacon Theater in New York City. One Way Out live at the Beacon Theater became the last new album the Allman Brothers put out being released in 2004. 

While containing good performances from the last lineup and selling a little better than the panned by critics 2000 live release Peakin' At The Beacon*, this live album unfortunately was a flop for the band,  reaching only 190 out of 200 positions on the chart and selling an anemic 50,000 copies. 

Low sales of Hitting the Note the year before, their last studio album, and worse commercial performance of this live album was one reason sighted by Butch Trucks why not put out additional new albums. But who knows. The right material and studio and producer may have sold surprisingly well around 2008 when Gregg said they were doing another studio album and they would do it without Butch Trucks if necessary. But unfortunately it never happened. 

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I always thought this track from the, according to critics and Butch, the dismal Peakin' At the Beacon, to be hot. Extremely HOT slide from Derek and a nice solo from Dickey and good vocals from Gregg. 

Peakin' didn't have good planning apparently but Epic agreed to release it to fulfill their recording deal with the lable. The band reportedly wanted a better deal which Epic rejected so the band refused to go into the studio for Epic again  resulting in nothing released from 1995 to 2000. Moving forward the band was to release future new albums on its own lable. 

In interviews in the very early 2000s Butch laid the performance and commercial failure of Peakin' at the feet of Dickey Betts. 

@robertdee Without a doubt, the best live rock album of all time. After 50 years, nobody else has been able to match this for creativity and fire!

I have more versions of this album on CD and vinyl than any other album in my music collection,.

I was a sucker and bought every new version and remix on CD and have 5 copies of the first pressing pink Capricorn vinyl. 

I grab one anytime I see a copy used always looking to upgrade what I already have as used copies are still very reasonably priced IMHO.

I finally grabbed a NM pink label Monarch first pressing off of ebay several years ago with a near perfect cover and what looked to be virtually unplayed vinyl  so think I found my holy grail copy. Paid a little extra above the usual prices for an EX condition copy but was worth it for me to get such a nice condition  copy of my favorite album.

Interesting to me my vinyl copies were pressed at 3 different pressing plants and not sure I hear much difference but the Monarch pressing sure sounds sweet to my tattered ears.

@billastro Amen brother. I'm bias because the Allman Brothers has been my favorite band since 1970 but all critics I've encountered over the years list Fillmore East as either the best rock album or one of the best. 

Here is a gentleman who decides to critique In Memory of Elizabeth Reed from the album. 

Amen.

I’m not gonna debate myself, or others, on whether this is the best album or even my favorite album.  

Bit needless to say, it’s a superlative, important, album.

And I love it. 

@bill_graham 

I have the pink vinyl Capricorn version, which is cool. To me, can't really tell a difference in sound quality. The best copy I ever had of this was one pressed in Japan. It had one of the OBI strips I think they call them and I donated it to one of the auctions that were held at The Beacon. 

Besides, everyone knows Live Bullet by Bob Seger is the greatest live album of all time. 😎 

@lee I have the Bob Segar live album on vinyl. It is a rocking high energy album.  

When I bought At Fillmore East it was the pink lable too. Kind of a spaghetti letter logo that curved around the top of lable. 

I bought Idlewild South the year before the day it came out. Had discovered the band at a live show a friend talked me into earlier in 1970 and shortly after getting Idlewild South, found the first album. They were on the Atco lable with small letters "Capricorn Series" on them. Eat A Peach was distributed by Warner Brothers, not Atco/Atlantic and that was the first time I saw the familiar Capricorn Records logo.

I remember seeing the 5 man band in January, 1972 and just before Ain't Waisting Time No More, a song I had not heard at the time, Gregg said " This is from our new album on the Warner Brothers lable due out in two weeks. Called Eat A Peach". 

I got Eat A Peach the first day it was available and it wasn't on the familiar Warner Brothers lable with the famous W-B shield. It was Capricorn Records! In small print "distributed by Warner Brothers Records". 

Phil Walden had moved from Atlantic to Warner Brothers for distribution and they claimed by then that is why Tom Dowd couldn't produce Brothers and Sisters. Atlantic wouldn't let him. 

If you have Dean Reynolds' excellent ABB Discography book you'll see At Fillmore East was released six ways on LP (I have two), three 8-tracks (I actually have one), the book says three on cassette but I have one on Polydor not in the book, and three ways on CD. I have one. Of course this doesn't include a myriad of foreign releases. There are a ton of them and they are tough to find (expensive too!). I spent a lot of time and money searching for anything I could find years ago and it is really amazing how much stuff is out there. Ever try to find something from Brazil or Argentina? Apparently they exist. Not just LAFE but all their releases.

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If you have Dean Reynolds' excellent ABB Discography book you'll see At Fillmore East was released six ways on LP (I have two), three 8-tracks (I actually have one), the book says three on cassette but I have one on Polydor not in the book, and three ways on CD. I have one. Of course this doesn't include a myriad of foreign releases. There are a ton of them and they are tough to find (expensive too!). I spent a lot of time and money searching for anything I could find years ago and it is really amazing how much stuff is out there. Ever try to find something from Brazil or Argentina? Apparently they exist. Not just LAFE but all their releases.

You can see a pretty comprehensive list on Discogs of the various releases in all media formats.