Live at the Fillmore East and West: Getting Backstage and Personal With Rock's Greatest Legends
In 1968, rock promoter Bill Graham launched the Fillmore East in New York City and the Fillmore West in San Francisco, changing music forever. For three years, every major rock band played the Fillmores, performing legendary shows: Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, Santana, Jefferson Airplane, Led Zeppelin, Cream, the Allman Brothers, and many more.



John Glatt tells the story of the Fillmores through the lives of Bill Graham, Janis Joplin, Grace Slick, Carlos Santana, and an all-star supporting cast. Chronicling the East and West Coast cultures of the late 1960s and early 1970s-New York City with its speed, heroin, and the Velvet Underground versus San Francisco with the LSD-drenched Summer of Love-Glatt reveals how Graham made it all possible.



But why did Graham shutter both Fillmores within weeks of each other in 1971, during the height of their popularity? Live at the Fillmore East and West reveals how Graham's claim that "the flowers wilted and the scene changed" was not quite the whole story.
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Live at the Fillmore East and West: Getting Backstage and Personal With Rock's Greatest Legends
In 1968, rock promoter Bill Graham launched the Fillmore East in New York City and the Fillmore West in San Francisco, changing music forever. For three years, every major rock band played the Fillmores, performing legendary shows: Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, Santana, Jefferson Airplane, Led Zeppelin, Cream, the Allman Brothers, and many more.



John Glatt tells the story of the Fillmores through the lives of Bill Graham, Janis Joplin, Grace Slick, Carlos Santana, and an all-star supporting cast. Chronicling the East and West Coast cultures of the late 1960s and early 1970s-New York City with its speed, heroin, and the Velvet Underground versus San Francisco with the LSD-drenched Summer of Love-Glatt reveals how Graham made it all possible.



But why did Graham shutter both Fillmores within weeks of each other in 1971, during the height of their popularity? Live at the Fillmore East and West reveals how Graham's claim that "the flowers wilted and the scene changed" was not quite the whole story.
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Live at the Fillmore East and West: Getting Backstage and Personal With Rock's Greatest Legends

Live at the Fillmore East and West: Getting Backstage and Personal With Rock's Greatest Legends

by John Glatt

Narrated by Peter Berkrot

Unabridged — 13 hours, 38 minutes

Live at the Fillmore East and West: Getting Backstage and Personal With Rock's Greatest Legends

Live at the Fillmore East and West: Getting Backstage and Personal With Rock's Greatest Legends

by John Glatt

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In 1968, rock promoter Bill Graham launched the Fillmore East in New York City and the Fillmore West in San Francisco, changing music forever. For three years, every major rock band played the Fillmores, performing legendary shows: Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, Santana, Jefferson Airplane, Led Zeppelin, Cream, the Allman Brothers, and many more.



John Glatt tells the story of the Fillmores through the lives of Bill Graham, Janis Joplin, Grace Slick, Carlos Santana, and an all-star supporting cast. Chronicling the East and West Coast cultures of the late 1960s and early 1970s-New York City with its speed, heroin, and the Velvet Underground versus San Francisco with the LSD-drenched Summer of Love-Glatt reveals how Graham made it all possible.



But why did Graham shutter both Fillmores within weeks of each other in 1971, during the height of their popularity? Live at the Fillmore East and West reveals how Graham's claim that "the flowers wilted and the scene changed" was not quite the whole story.

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"Narrator Peter Berkrot delivers a knockout performance himself, capably voicing a wide variety of characters." ---Library Journal Audio Review

Library Journal - Audio

03/15/2015
Glatt presents a fascinating but disjointed history of the two rock music venues that legendary promoter Bill Graham (the subject of the author's last book, Rage & Roll) founded in 1968—New York City's Fillmore East and San Francisco's Fillmore West. The Fillmore story is told through a series of short biographies of some of the major rock acts who graced a Fillmore stage during the theaters' three-year existence. Glatt jumps between profiles of Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, the Velvet Underground, the Grateful Dead, and other legendary performers as well as some lesser acts, with each brief chapter covering a different artist and detailing their association with Graham and Fillmore. Glatt also touches briefly on the famously abrasive but passionate rock promoter's debatably questionable business decisions in the face of tremendous changes in music trends and his various rock industry innovations, but the focus is squarely on the musicians and their Fillmore gigs. Narrator Peter Berkrot delivers a knockout performance himself, capably voicing a wide variety of characters. VERDICT While serious music buffs are sure to bemoan the lack here of new information, Glatt's scattershot but entertaining chronicle is a worthy companion to his previous book on Graham and a good place to start for casual music fans interested in this key chapter in pop music history.—Douglas King, Univ. of South Carolina Lib., Columbia

Product Details

BN ID: 2940170441150
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Publication date: 12/02/2014
Edition description: Unabridged
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