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{{Distinguish|At Fillmore East}}
{{Infobox album
| name       = Fillmore East, February 1970
| type       = live
| artist     = [[The Allman Brothers Band]]
| cover      = ABBFillmoreEastFebruary1970.jpg
| border     = yes
| alt        = The box for a reel-to-reel tape
| released   = 1996
| recorded   = February 11–14, 1970
| genre      = [[Southern rock]], [[blues rock]]
| length     = 71:20
| label      = Grateful Dead
| producer   = [[Owsley Stanley]]
| prev_title = [[An Evening with the Allman Brothers Band: 2nd Set]]
| prev_year  = 1995
| next_title = [[Mycology: An Anthology]]
| next_year  = 1998
| misc = {{Extra chronology
| artist     = Bear's Sonic Journals
| type       = live
| prev_title = Bear's Sonic Journals: Never the Same Way Once
| prev_year  = 2017
| title      = Bear's Sonic Journals: Fillmore East, February 1970
| year       = 2018
| next_title = Bear's Sonic Journals: Before We Were Them
| next_year  = 2019
}}
{{Extra album cover
| type    = live
| cover   = Allman-Brothers-Band-Fillmore-East-February-1970.jpg
| alt     = A colorful mushroom
| caption = ''Bear's Sonic Journals: Fillmore East, February 1970''
}}
}}
'''''Fillmore East, February 1970''''' is a live album by the rock group [[the Allman Brothers Band]]. It was recorded by [[Owsley Stanley]] at the [[Fillmore East]] in [[Manhattan]] on February 11, 13, and 14, 1970. It was released on CD in 1996.
In 2018, the album was remastered and rereleased by the Owsley Stanley Foundation, with the title '''''Bear's Sonic Journals: Fillmore East, February 1970'''''.  There are two different versions of this release.  One contains the same material as the original album.  The other is the Deluxe Edition, on three CDs, with two discs containing all the music that was captured on tape at the concerts.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bernstein |first1=Scott |title=Previously Unreleased Allman Brothers Band Recordings from February 1970 Fillmore East Run Coming |url=https://www.jambase.com/article/previously-unreleased-allman-brothers-band-recordings-february-1970-fillmore-east-run-coming |website=JamBase |access-date=July 9, 2019 |date=July 19, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Doug |last=Collette |date=May 29, 2019 |url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/bears-sonic-journals-fillmore-east-february-1970-deluxe-edition-the-allman-brothers-band-the-allman-brothers-band-recording-company-review-by-doug-collette.php |title=The Allman Brothers Band: Bear's Sonic Journals: Fillmore East February 1970 – Deluxe Edition |website=All About Jazz |access-date=May 31, 2020}}</ref>
==The February 1970 concerts==
On February 11, 13, and 14, 1970, the Allman Brothers Band, along with the [[Grateful Dead]] and [[Love (band)|Love]], played at [[Bill Graham (promoter)|Bill Graham]]'s [[Fillmore East]] auditorium in [[New York City]].  The performances were taped by the Grateful Dead's [[audio engineering|sound engineer]], [[Owsley Stanley|Owsley ("Bear") Stanley]].
''Fillmore East, February 1970'' is composed of selections from those concerts.  The album was produced by Stanley, who also wrote the liner notes.  It was [[audio mastering|mastered]] by the Dead's recording engineer, Jeffrey Norman.  It was released on the Grateful Dead label, in cooperation with the Allman Brothers' record company at the time, [[PolyGram Records]].
Performances by the Grateful Dead from the same set of shows have been released on two albums – ''[[History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear's Choice)|Bear's Choice]]'', and ''[[Dick's Picks Volume 4]]''.
==Critical reception==
{{Album ratings
| rev1      = ''[[All About Jazz]]''
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="aaj">{{cite web |url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/bears-sonic-journals-fillmore-east-february-1970-deluxe-edition-the-allman-brothers-band-the-allman-brothers-band-recording-company-review-by-doug-collette |title=The Allman Brothers Band: Bear's Sonic Journals: Fillmore East February 1970 - Deluxe Edition |first=Doug |last=Collette |date=May 29, 2019 |website=All About Jazz |access-date=May 17, 2023}}</ref>
| rev2      = [[AllMusic]]
| rev2Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name=AllMusic>{{cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/r547360 |title=Fillmore East, February 1970 - The Allman Brothers Band &#124; AllMusic |first=Lindsay |last=Planer |work=allmusic.com |access-date=August 6, 2011}}</ref>
| rev3      = ''The Music Box''
| rev3Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name=Music-Box>{{cite web |url= http://www.musicbox-online.com/all-2-70.html |title=The Music Box: Allman Brothers Band - Fillmore East, February 1970 (Album Review) |first=John |last=Metzger |work=musicbox-online.com |date=August 1997 |access-date=August 6, 2011}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev4Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}</ref>
}}
On [[AllMusic]], Lindsay Planer wrote, "There is no mistaking the unbridled fervor of the original line-up of the band. Rising to the challenge of exploratory psychedelia – while remaining ever faithful to their Southern blues roots...  Likewise, the Allman Brothers were beginning to ascend as not only premier interpreters, but purveyors of a revolutionary new electric guitar-driven blues movement".<ref name=AllMusic/>
In ''The Music Box'', John Metzger said, "... the disc opens with a scorching rendition of "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" that simply grooves. Dickey Betts and Duane Allman are magnificent, as they play with reckless abandon, yet tightly in synch. The highlight of this album, however, is the nearly 31-minute "Mountain Jam" that drips with a colorfully electrified intensity."<ref name=Music-Box/>
In ''Glide Magazine'', Doug Collette wrote, "Almost a year after the formation of the seminal Southern rock band... the original sextet was homing in on the sound that would lend itself to ''At Fillmore East'', the epic recordings done thirteen months later at the same venue. Yet even as the group... was honing the influential  style that would make them famous, they were stretching themselves as well, shuffling novel and well-established material in and out of their repertoire."<ref>{{cite web |first=Doug |last=Collette |date=August 13, 2018 |url=https://glidemagazine.com/210984/the-allman-brothers-band-bears-sonic-journals-fillmore-east-february-1970-album-review/ |title=The Allman Brothers Band Bear's Sonic Journals: Fillmore East February 1970 |website=Glide Magazine |access-date=November 28, 2019}}</ref>
Doug Collette of ''[[All About Jazz]]'' commented: "At its most dramatic peaks, the Allman Brothers Band's collective musicianship was nigh-on miraculous to behold and never more so than with its original personnel. As the septet approached the first anniversary of their formation, the accelerated process of their growth supplies only more evidence to that end."<ref name="aaj" />
==Track listing==
===Original album===
{{tracklist
| headline =
| extra_column = Recording date(s)
| title1   = [[In Memory of Elizabeth Reed]]
| note1    =
| writer1  = [[Dickey Betts]]
| extra1   = Feb. 14
| length1  = 9:19
| title2   = [[Hoochie Coochie Man]]
| note2    =
| writer2  = [[Willie Dixon]]
| extra2   = Feb. 14
| length2  = 6:01
| title3   = [[Statesboro Blues]]
| note3    =
| writer3  = [[Blind Willie McTell|Will McTell]]
| extra3   = Feb. 11
| length3  = 4:18
| title4   = [[Trouble No More (song)|Trouble No More]]
| note4    =
| writer4  = [[McKinley Morganfield]]
| extra4   = Feb. 11
| length4  = 4:12
| title5   = [[We Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town|Outskirts of Town]]
| note5    =
| writer5  = [[Casey Bill Weldon|William Weldon]], Roy Jordan
| extra5   = Feb. 13 & 14
| length5  = 8:28
| title6   = [[Whipping Post (song)|Whipping Post]]
| note6    =
| writer6  = [[Gregg Allman]]
| extra6   = Feb. 14
| length6  = 8:12
| title7   = [[Mountain Jam]]
| note7    =
| writer7  = [[Donovan|Donovan Leitch]], [[Duane Allman]], G. Allman, Betts, [[Jai Johanny Johanson]], [[Berry Oakley]], [[Butch Trucks]]
| extra7   = Feb. 14 & 13
| length7  = 30:48
}}
===Deluxe Edition===
{{tracklist
| headline = Disc 1 – Compilation (same as original album)
| extra_column = Recording date(s)
| title1   = In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
| extra1   = Feb. 14
| length1  = 9:22
| title2   = Hoochie Coochie Man
| extra2   = Feb. 14
| length2  = 6:05
| title3   = Statesboro Blues
| extra3   = Feb. 11
| length3  = 4:17
| title4   = Trouble No More
| extra4   = Feb. 11
| length4  = 4:11
| title5   = Outskirts of Town
| extra5   = Feb. 13 & 14
| length5  = 8:30
| title6   = Whipping Post
| extra6   = Feb. 14
| length6  = 8:11
| title7   = Mountain Jam
| extra7   = Feb. 14 & 13
| length7  = 30:46
}}
{{tracklist
| headline = Disc 2 – Chapters 1 & 2
| extra_column = Recording date
| title1   = In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
| extra1   = Feb. 11
| length1  = 11:58
| title2   = Statesboro Blues
| extra2   = Feb. 11
| length2  = 4:17
| title3   = Trouble No More
| extra3   = Feb. 11
| length3  = 4:42
| title4   = Hoochie Coochie Man
| extra4   = Feb. 11
| length4  = 4:35
| title5   = Mountain Jam
| note5    = <small>reel-change gap</small>
| extra5   = Feb. 11
| length5  = 18:49
| title6   = In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
| extra6   = Feb. 13
| length6  = 7:50
| title7   = Outskirts of Town
| note7    = <small>end cut</small>
| extra7   = Feb. 13
| length7  = 7:48
| title8   = Mountain Jam
| note8    = <small>start cut</small>
| extra8   = Feb. 13
| length8  = 18:29
}}
{{tracklist
| headline = Disc 3 – Chapter 3
| extra_column = Recording date
| title1   = In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
| extra1   = Feb. 14
| length1  = 9:26
| title2   = Hoochie Coochie Man
| extra2   = Feb. 14
| length2  = 5:08
| title3   = Outskirts of Town
| note3    = <small>reel-change gap</small>
| extra3   = Feb. 14
| length3  = 7:57
| title4   = Whipping Post
| extra4   = Feb. 14
| length4  = 8:11
| title5   = Mountain Jam
| note5    = <small>reel-change gap</small>
| extra5   = Feb. 14
| length5  = 35:01
}}
Note: ''"Discs 2 & 3 contain the sonic journal reels of the three shows as recorded each night, unaltered.  Portions from these three chapters were used to create the compilation album (disc 1)."''
==Personnel==
'''The Allman Brothers Band'''
*[[Duane Allman]] – [[lead guitar|lead]] and [[slide guitar]]s
*[[Gregg Allman]] – [[singing|vocals]], [[Hammond organ|Hammond B-3 Organ]]
*[[Dickey Betts]] – lead guitar
*[[Berry Oakley]] – [[bass guitar|bass]], vocals on "Hoochie Coochie Man"
*[[Jai Johanny Johanson|Jaimoe]] – [[drum kit|drums]], [[percussion instrument|percussion]]
*[[Butch Trucks]] – drums, [[timpani|tympani]]
'''Production'''
*[[Owsley Stanley]] – producer, sound recording
*Jeffrey Norman – digital editing
*John Chester, [[Jamie Howarth]], Plangent Processes – tape to digital transfer and speed correction
*[[Dick Latvala]] – tape archivist and facilitator
*Kirk West – associate producer and logistical coordinator
*Bob Johnson – photos
*Gecko Graphics – design
==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Allman Brothers Band}}
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[[Category:Albums recorded at the Fillmore East]]
[[Category:1996 live albums]]
[[Category:The Allman Brothers Band live albums]]