Live at the Fillmore East (Jefferson Airplane album)

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Live at the Fillmore East
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Live album by
ReleasedApril 28, 1998
RecordedMay 3–4, 1968
Venue Fillmore East, New York City
Genre Psychedelic rock, blues rock
Length75:52
Label RCA
Producer Paul Williams
Jefferson Airplane chronology
Jefferson Airplane Loves You
(1992)
Live at the Fillmore East
(1998)
At Golden Gate Park
(2006)
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Live at the Fillmore East is an album by the rock band Jefferson Airplane. It was recorded on May 3 and 4, 1968, at the Fillmore East in New York City. It was released on April 28, 1998. It is not to be confused with the similarly named Jefferson Airplane album Sweeping Up the Spotlight: Live at the Fillmore East 1969 .

Contents

The song "Thing" is an experimental freeform instrumental that later morphed into "Bear Melt", which appears on Bless Its Pointed Little Head .

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Intro / The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil" Paul Kantner 8:35
2."She Has Funny Cars" Jorma Kaukonen, Marty Balin 3:56
3."It's No Secret"Balin3:41
4."Won't You Try / Saturday Afternoon"Kantner5:07
5."Greasy Heart" Grace Slick 4:05
6."Star Track"Kaukonen7:36
7."Wild Tyme"Kantner3:21
8."White Rabbit"Slick2:58
9."Thing"Kantner, Kaukonen, Jack Casady, Spencer Dryden 11:28
10."Today"Balin, Kantner3:29
11."The Other Side of This Life" Fred Neil 5:13
12."Fat Angel" Donovan 9:04
13."Watch Her Ride"Kantner3:12
14."Closing Comments" 0:46
15."Somebody to Love"Darby Slick3:21

Personnel

Jefferson Airplane

Production

References

  1. Owens, tHOM (2011). "Live at the Fillmore East - Jefferson Airplane | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
  2. Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0195313734.