About This Book
There are venues, and then there are shrines. The Fillmore East was a shrine. Located on Second Avenue in New York City, it hosted some of the most important performances in rock history between 1968 and 1971—the Allman Brothers, the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, and dozens of others who defined an era. I have always believed that music and literature share the same soul—both are attempts to say the unsayable. Reading this book, I felt the loss of that era deeply, but also the gratitude that it happened at all and that someone cared enough to document it so beautifully.