Fuchs went on to present several other concerts at Villageast including, New York Dolls and Teenage Lust on December 23, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley on December 27, Steve Miller Band and Seatrain on December 28 and Roy Buchanan and Crazy Horse on December 30 and 31, 1972. On December 16, 1972, the bill was Bloodrock, Foghat and The Fabulous Rhinestones. After a short run the Rock Opera closed and on December 15, 1972, Jerry Fuchs presented the opening night of concerts with a performance featuring Bloodrock, Elephants Memory and Trapeze. On Novemthe Fillmore East reopened as Villageast with "Virgin: A New Rock Opera Concert by The Mission". The concert was simulcast live by New York City radio stations WPLJ and WNEW-FM, with between-set banter by many of New York's then-trend-setting disc jockeys – WPLJ's Dave Herman and Vin Scelsa and WNEW-FM's Scott Muni and Alison Steele (AKA the Night Bird) among them.
Geils Band, Albert King, and special surprise guests – Edgar Winter's White Trash, Mountain, The Beach Boys, and Country Joe McDonald – in an invitation-only performance. The final concert took place on June 27, 1971, with the billed acts: The Allman Brothers Band, The J. Rubinstein, trading duties until the venue's closing in 1971 with Joe's Lights, made up of former members of the Joshua Light Show.īecause of changes in the music industry and large growth in the concert industry, Graham closed the Fillmore East. From the summer of 1970, Thereafter, the Pig Light Show became the house light show under the direction of Marc L. The Joshua Light Show, headed by Joshua White, was an integral part of many performances, with its psychedelic art lighting on a backdrop behind many live bands. Led Zeppelin made four appearances in early 1969, opening for Iron Butterfly. Jefferson Airplane performed six shows and Taj Mahal played eight shows at the venue, while Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young did four shows in September 1969 and six performances in June 1970. The Allman Brothers Band played so many shows at Fillmore East that they were sometimes called "Bill Graham's House Band" additionally, the Grateful Dead played a total of 43 concerts at the theater from June 1968 through April 1971. John Lennon and Yoko Ono sat in with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention at the theater on June 6, 1971. The Kinks played October 17th and 18th, 1969, supported by the Bonzo Dog Band. However, even before Hendrix hit the stage, The famous British blues-rock trio Cream played the Fillmore East when it was called the "Village Theater" on September 20 & 23 1967 featuring the virtuoso guitar wizardry of Eric Clapton who later along with Hendrix, would lead the world of guitar as the two foremost innovators with legions of followers and copyists. His album Band of Gypsys was recorded live on New Year's Day 1970. Until early 1971, bands were booked to play two shows per night, at 8 pm and 11 pm, on both Friday and Saturday nights.Īmong the notable acts to play the Fillmore East was Jimi Hendrix. Graham would regularly alternate acts between the East and West Coast venues. Opening on March 8, 1968, the Fillmore East quickly became known as "The Church of Rock and Roll," with two-show, triple-bill concerts several nights a week. The venue provided Graham with an East Coast counterpart to his existing Fillmore in San Francisco, California. Despite the deceptively small marquee and façade, the theater had a capacity of almost 2,700. When Graham took over the theatre in 1967, it had fallen into disrepair.
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and became a movie theater, the Loews Commodore.
Called the Commodore Theater, and independently operated, it eventually was taken over by Loews Inc. The theatre at 105 Second Avenue, was originally built as a Yiddish theater in 1925-26, designed by Harrison Wiseman in the Medieval Revival style, at a time when the section of Second Avenue was known as the "Yiddish Theater District" and the "Jewish Rialto" because of the numerous theatres that catered to a Yiddish-speaking audience. The Fillmore East was a companion to Graham's Fillmore Auditorium, and its successor, the Fillmore West, in San Francisco, Graham's home base. It was open from Mato Jand featured some of the biggest acts in rock music at the time. The Fillmore East was rock promoter Bill Graham's rock venue at 105 Second Avenue near East 6th Street in the (at the time) Lower East Side neighborhood, now called the East Village neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan of New York City.
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