Fillmore East, February 1970 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 – "Bear's Choice", and "Dick's Picks Volume 4". Fillmore East, February 1970 Fillmore East, February 1970 is a live album by the rock group the Allman Brothers Band. On February 11, 13, and 14, 1970, the Allman Brothers Band, along with the Grateful Dead and Love, played at Bill Graham's Fillmore East auditorium in New York City. The performances were taped by the Grateful Dead's sound engineer,
At Fillmore East doing the [studio] records, and I think, consequently, our next album will be ... a live recording, to get some of that natural fire on it." "We were not intentionally trying to buck the system, but keeping each song down to 3:14 just didn't work for us," remembered Gregg Allman. "And we realized that the audience was a big part of what we did, which couldn't be duplicated in a studio. A lightbulb finally went off; we needed to make a live album." "At Fillmore East" was recorded over two nights — March 12 and 13, 1971 — for which