Fillmore East acts to play the Fillmore East was Jimi Hendrix. His album "Band of Gypsys" was recorded live on New Year's Day 1970. However, even before Hendrix hit the stage, British blues-rock trio Cream played the Fillmore East when it was called the "Village Theater" on September 20 & 23 1967. The Kinks played October 17th and 18th, 1969, supported by the Bonzo Dog Band. John Lennon and Yoko Ono sat in with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention at the theater on June 6, 1971. The Allman Brothers Band played so many shows at Fillmore East that they were
Fillmore: The Last Days of Santana's 1971 album "Santana III" includes three bonus tracks from the July 4 show. The 2006 "Legacy Edition" of the CD has a second disc with all 11 songs that they played at the concert. The 2003 CD reissue of the 1971 studio album "New Riders of the Purple Sage" has three bonus tracks from the band's Fillmore West performance. Allmusic praised "Fillmore: The Last Days", saying "When the venerable San Francisco rock and roll mecca the Fillmore West packed it in on the Fourth of July 1971 an era in pop music history had also passed... The discs