East Village, Manhattan St. Marks Place. On June 27, 1967, the Electric Circus opened in the same space with a benefit for the Children's Recreation Foundation whose chairman was Bobby Kennedy. The Grateful Dead, The Chambers Brothers, Sly and the Family Stone, and the Allman Brothers Band were among the many rock bands that performed there before it closed in 1971. On March 8, 1968, Bill Graham opened the Fillmore East in what had been a Yiddish Theatre on Second Avenue at East 6th Street in the Yiddish Theater District. The venue quickly became known as "The Church of Rock and Roll", with
At Fillmore East CD on September 23, 2003. It contains the same songs, in a slightly different order, as "The Fillmore Concerts", and one additional track, "Midnight Rider". The Deluxe Edition is based on the master recordings for "At Fillmore East" and "Eat a Peach", and so it sounds more similar to those albums than "The Fillmore Concerts" does. "The 1971 Fillmore East Recordings" was released on July 29, 2014. This six-CD boxed set contains the four complete concerts—the early and late shows from March 12 and March 13, 1971—from which the songs included on "At Fillmore East" were selected, plus the Allman