The Fillmore East: Recollections of Rock Theater

by Richard Kostelanetz

From 1968-1971, New York's Fillmore East was the greatest rock palace in the world. Kostelanetz, who attended the Fillmore religiously, has assembled a collection of his original program notes and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 002871847X
• ISBN13: 9780028718477
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Schirmer G Books
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.3" x 10.4"

Customer Reviews

A window into a by-gone era of Americana

The 1960's were a time of experimentations in the areas of music as well as spirituality and collective consciousness,One of the forefronts of the music end of this phenomenon was New York Cities Filmore East (Rescued from its fate of a second run movie house by the late-great Bill Graham as his East coast version of his Fillmore West of San Francisco), located on the corner of Second Avenue and East 6th Street,Almost every night of the week had performances by the soon to be legendary musicians of that era such as:Led Zeppelin;JimiHendrix;The Doors.etc. Unfortunantly the building is gone and replaced by exspensive condo- miniums brought about by Guilliani-esque gentrification,but atleast this book remains as a window into that by-gone era of American History. The author of this book has answered some of my questions (and hopefully will answer yours too) indirectly due to the publiclation of this book ,there are notes on every performance from the Filmore East he a! ttended and tons of pictures of those artists as well ,this book is excellent and well worth the read .............The End Vlad END