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Title: The Fillmore East: Recollections of Rock Theater by Richard Kostelanetz, Raeanne Rubenstein ISBN: 0-02-871847-X Publisher: Museum of Our National Heritage Pub. Date: January, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.50

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (3 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: lousy, pretentious, uninformed....
Comment: as the previous reviewer noted, the book has some great photos. that's about all there is in terms of recommending this work. this guy really knows very little about the bands and performers of the era, most of whom he trashes. his voice is arrogant throughout. there is one passage where he claims to have a crush on the female sax player from sly and the family stone's band, who i'm sure if she knew that would have decked this uninformed, delusional braggart...buy some other, better book on the music of the period instead of this poor nonsense.

Rating: 3
Summary: Great Pics Abound But Author Is Out To Lunch
Comment: Would rate highly for the many great pics and from a general historical sense.As for the authors take on many of the shows,all credibility is lost when he spews the likes of this: "Hendrix guitar playing is so full of wrong notes that I suspect he is less than musical or the amplitude of his sound has made his ear stone deaf".In writing about many other shows and great groups,some of which I saw myself he shows a profound lack of knowledge of the music coupled with an inherent lack of respect,appreciation and more than a little gall based on the fact that he was fortunate enough to have obtained a free lifetime pass and didnt pay a dime to witness all he had.For those who were there,Im sure you will remember it as it truly was and for those who were not,use your imagination.Despite this,a more than worthwhile book just dont pay up for the priviledge.

Rating: 5
Summary: A window into a by-gone era of Americana
Comment: The 1960's were a time of experimentations in the areas of music as well as spirituality and collective consciousness,One of the forefronts of the music end of this phenomenon was New York Cities Filmore East (Rescued from its fate of a second run movie house by the late-great Bill Graham as his East coast version of his Fillmore West of San Francisco), located on the corner of Second Avenue and East 6th Street,Almost every night of the week had performances by the soon to be legendary musicians of that era such as:Led Zeppelin;JimiHendrix;The Doors.etc. Unfortunantly the building is gone and replaced by exspensive condo- miniums brought about by Guilliani-esque gentrification,but atleast this book remains as a window into that by-gone era of American History. The author of this book has answered some of my questions (and hopefully will answer yours too) indirectly due to the publiclation of this book ,there are notes on every performance from the Filmore East he a! ttended and tons of pictures of those artists as well ,this book is excellent and well worth the read .............The End Vlad END