Guest Book

TerriB is correct Mike07- the beloved Fillmore East Location:105 Second Avenue at E. 6th Street, NYC is indeed...ehh, not even a friggin bank- it's an ATM location where we used to stand on line and watch *(and listen) to Bill Graham go ballistic on jerks out in the street! TanDan is correct also- the only thing remaining of the sacred dwelling of all musical spirits is the friggin marquee! Sometimes I have to cross over to the other side of 2nd Ave because it nauseates me to see a line of East Village transplanted Yuppies drawing out their bags of money from where the sacred box office was! Shoot, Fillmore was (and is-and will always be) one of the greatest acoustic halls where so many of the greatest live events were captured live on record at the time. WE witnessed New Years Eve with Band of Gypsies; Humble Pie; Cream; the Very Original Real Grateful Dead- and of course-Duane's Original Band of Brothers! Shoot- I even recently copped a great CD version of the closing night when Duane said-" Awful quiet out there"! Oh well, truthfully-I don't ALWAYS walk across the street. Sometimes- coming home late from some other event- I will walk up to the side of the sacred Shrine and rest my head up against the new brick-and if I try real hard I can block out the sounds of cabbies honking and cursing at everyone- and I can almost swear that I hear Jimi's "Machine Gun" or Leslie West's fat (no pun Mr. Weinstein!)- very fat feedback on "Long Red" . But I can always hear Raymond Berry's ghost rumble the start of "Whipping Post"! Or is that a subway down deep below the street instead? 🙂 LOng Live Fillmore East! And the memory of the $5.50 Orchestra seats! TAB