The Fillmore East -- guitar instrumental -- acid rock

[wnorcott]

I call this instrumental Fillmore East because it is inspired by the legendeary New York music hall.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9D02Wv1RwQ&fmt=18

I was plagued by a crackly guitar cord on the lead in a few spots -- just like being at a show at the Fillmore East haha.

I built the guitar amp and all the guitar and bass effects used here.


Enjoy.

Bill

[BluesTele]

Nice! good atmospheric music to go along with the pics.
Loved the Fillmore. Old pics bring back memories.
I left a comment under your video on youtube (bluesstrat1).
BTW - aren't you too young for the Fillmore East ?

[Wally]

I enjoyed the clip. I would classify that music as San Francisco acid rock....Fillmore WEST....of course, it went worldwide, but it started in San Francisco. Freak out, man.....
Qicksilver Messenger Service with John Cippolina on guitar is one of my favorites from those days and that genre...
STeve MIller Band hit some of it in the early days......
"I'm a six-string strangler,
A psyhcadelic ranger...
And there's no place I can't go!
I'm a Space Cowboy"

[wnorcott]

First famous band I ever saw in concert was Ten Years After (with Cactus and Humble Pie as the opening acts!) , April 16, 1971 at the Boston Garden -- four days before they played at Fillmore East for the last time, and two months before the Fillmore closed for good. It changed my life forever. My friend's dad was a jazz and blues record collector and took us and had the tickets. He was a writer for the Boston Globe. He already had all the TYA albums since their original one. May he rest in peace, that was the coolest friend's dad a 14 year old kid could have in 1971. He had an old component system with the huge KLH speakers and a tube amp and a library with a wall of albums mostly swing, jazz and blues but a lot of 60's rock. 5,000 LP's would not underestimate his collection. The dad was a writer and the mother an artist. On my 15th birthday I started playing bass.

Bill


I was 14 years old at the time.

thanks for listening

Bill

[Wally]

wnorcott, I saw Ten Years AFter in San Francisco in late '71??early'72 at Bill GRaham's other San Fran site....I can't remember the name now....hahahahha
Alvin Lee was fat and healthy and they tore it up. Big Brother and the Holding Co.. was the front band with Janis' replacement singing lead. Killer Show.....the liquid light show and the environment...

[wnorcott]

I will tell you the reason I became a bass player. This is a true story. The Boston Garden concert Ten Years After concert in April, 1971, 14 year old little punk I was, it was the greatest thing I had ever seen. Even today it is one of the greatest concerts I ever saw.

Can you imagine seeing Cactus, Humble Pie, and Ten Years after in you first concert, when you are 14 years old. I had never even heard Cactus or Humble Pie before.

We were sitting pretty close my friends Dad worked at the Boston Globe took us and he got us really good seats. Anyway in the middle of a song Alvin Lee broke a guitar string he just smiled, looked at Leo Lyons on bass who suddenly launched into this unbelievable impromptu bass solo for several minutes while Alvin changed the guitar string. It was the greatest thing I ever heard. Then Alvin Lee tuned up the new string like it was part of the song and like a magic cue they launched back into the song. The crowd went nuts. I decided right then and there I was going to be a bass player and next birthday I got a bass and an amp. Leo Lyons is still one of my all time influences on bass.

Bill

[Wally]

wnorcott, Alvin LEe is hard on strings. This is true, too. That night in San Francisco, his high E broke. He didn't miss a beat. He just moved up the fretboard and played the lead on lower strings. He must have lost the B or the G when you saw him. That complicates things a bit more than losing the high E. I had a good standing area.....5 feet form the stage right there in front of Alvin. took us all home....Cute little San Francisco girls didn't mind my GI hair cut. We all danced and grooved.

[FirstBassman]

Bill, I always like your stuff.

Have very fond memories of the Fiillmore ...

Jefferson Airplane (of course) - twice
Hot Tuna - twice
Byrds
Delaney and Bonnie
Leon Russell
Buddy Guy

Uhhh, a couple more I can't remember.

Wish it was a lot more. But just not that many opportunities for a (reasonably) well behaved underage kid like me to be hanging around in the East Village at one in the morning.

[Louthunder]

I noticed one of the posters said Rotary Connection. A friend of mine, Bob Simms was in that band. The lead singer was the late Minnie Ripperton!

[Wally]

Well, I even owned a Rotary Connection album. I think I bought it overseas. I wonder if it is still in the vinyl collection?

[HighTower]

I'm at home now and my internet connection is too slow to stream your vid properly, but what I heard was excellent my friend!
My favorite acid rock solo was Sam Andrew on Ball and Chain. To me that defined the era in one fall swoop. Will he ever be on the top 100 guitarists of all time? Where did RS place him [ hahahahah]