EAT A PEACH
Eat a Peach is the third studio album by American rock band the Allman Brothers Band. Eat a Peach contains live recordings from the band’s famed Fillmore East performances, but primarily functions as a group studio effort. The album contains the extended, half-hour-long “Mountain Jam”, as well as vocalist Gregg Allman’s tribute to his brother, “Melissa”, plus “Blue Sky”, which became a radio staple. Issued as a double album in February 1972, Eat a Peach was an immediate success and peaked at number four on Billboard’s Top 200 Pop Albums chart. The album was later certified platinum and remains a top seller in the band’s discography. (More from Wikipedia)
You might notice at the very end of “Whipping Post” the opening notes of the next song that they play at the concert, “Mountain Jam”, an improvised jam that is based on a Donovan song, “There Is a Mountain”. If you want a real treat, and you also own a copy of the band’s next album, Eat a Peach (originally a double LP), you should play the side-long “Whipping Post” from At Fillmore East, followed by “Mountain Jam”, which takes up two album sides of Eat a Peach. Those three album sides constitute nearly an hour of top-notch live rock and roll where there is not a single wasted note or pointless solo. This is evidently how the Allman Brothers Band closed their set at Fillmore East that night, and what a show it must have been!
(February 2013)
