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 led to what I suppose are inevitable comparisons to the Dead in its better days." In a less enthusiastic review for "The Village Voice", Robert Christgau gave "At Fillmore East" a "B–" grade and said the songs "sure do boogie", but ultimately found it musically aimless: "even if Duane Allman plus Dickey Betts does equal Jerry Garcia, the Dead know roads are for getting somewhere. That is, Garcia (not to bring in John Coltrane) always takes you someplace unexpected on a long solo. I guess the appeal here is the inevitability of it all." In a retrospective review, AllMusic editor