At Fillmore East is the first live album by American rock band the Allman Brothers Band, and their third release overall. Produced by Tom Dowd, the album was released in July 1971 in the United States by Capricorn Records. It features the band performing extended jam versions of songs such as “Whipping Post” and “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed”. When first commercially released, it was issued as a double LP with just seven songs comprising four vinyl sides. At Fillmore East was the band’s artistic and commercial breakthrough, and has been considered by some critics to be one of the greatest live albums in rock music. In 2004, the album was selected for preservation in the Library of Congress, deemed to be “culturally, historically, or aesthetically important” by the National Recording Registry. (More from Wikipedia)
Missing Links by Link Protrudi and the Jaymen is an unusual album in that Side 1 is at 33 rpm, and Side 2 is at 45 rpm. I know of only one other such album, a retrospective album by the Allman Brothers Band simply called The Allman Brothers. This was a release by the band’s label Capricorn Records in the UK as an introduction to the Brits by one of America’s best. In this case, Side 1 is a few early songs by the band and is at 45 rpm, while Side 2 is the side-long performance (at 33 rpm) of “Whipping Post” as taken from their live album, At Fillmore East. The latter might be the Allman Brothers Band’s best known song, at least among those familiar with all of their work.
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 they closed their set at Fillmore East that night, and what a show it must have been!
