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Live at the Fillmore East and West: Getting Backstage and Personal With Rock's Greatest Legends Audiobook
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In 1968, rock promoter Bill Graham launched the Fillmore East in New York City and the Fillmore West in San Francisco, changing music forever. For three years, every major rock band played the Fillmores, performing legendary shows: Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, Santana, Jefferson Airplane, Led Zeppelin, Cream, the Allman Brothers, and many more. John Glatt tells the story of the Fillmores through the lives of Bill Graham, Janis Joplin, Grace Slick, Carlos Santana, and an all-star supporting cast. Chronicling the East and West Coast cultures of the late 1960s and early 1970s—New York City with its speed, heroin, and the Velvet Underground versus San Francisco with the LSD-drenched Summer of Love—Glatt reveals how Graham made it all possible. But why did Graham shutter both Fillmores within weeks of each other in 1971, during the height of their popularity? Live at the Fillmore East and West reveals how Graham's claim that "the flowers wilted and the scene changed" was not quite the whole story.
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“As a reference tool, music buffs and casual fans alike will find this volume indispensable. Glatt has spent the better part of twenty years assembling a truly staggering amount of information on a period of music that is often oversimplified as a haze of drugs and sex. Influential though those elements may have been, Glatt focuses instead on a triumphantly thorough chronicle of the business decisions and industry trends that affected the music of a generation.”
— Publishers Weekly
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“You had to be there, and…Glatt finds people who were behind the scenes, from secretaries and stage hands.”
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“An entertaining overview of the rock scene in the late ’60s and early ’70s…The most fascinating part of Live is the detailed explanation of how the Fillmore East came to be born.”
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Narrator Peter Berkrot delivers a knockout performance himself, capably voicing a wide variety of characters.
— Library Journal Audio Review
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About John Glatt
John Glatt is the author of more than thirty books, including Lost and Found, Secrets in the Cellar, Playing with Fire, and many other bestselling books of true crime. He has more than thirty years of experience as an investigative journalist. He has appeared on television and radio programs all over the world, including Dateline NBC, Fox News, ABC’s 20/20, BBC World News, and A&E Biography.
About Peter Berkrot
Peter Berkrot, winner of Audie and Earphones Awards for narration, is a stage, screen, and television actor and acting coach. He has narrated over 450 works that span a range of genres, including fiction, nonfiction, thriller, and children’s titles. His audiobook credits include works of Alan Glynn, Eric Van Lustbader, Nora Roberts and Dean Koontz. In film and television, he appeared in Caddyshack, America’s Most Wanted, and Unsolved Mysteries. He performs in regional and New York theaters and directs the New Voices acting school.