Yesterday I finished the K’s so I thought I would listen to my various artist records at this point.At almost 950 records listened to I am a little over halfway through. I thought it would be rather anti-climatic to listen to these after the last ZZ Top record was played so I thought I would take about three weeks and listen to these now. These records include concert albums,soundtracks,and tribute albums, listened to in no particular order. I’m starting out with this one a three record box set of songs by bands that played the last week of the Fillmore. It closed on July 4th 1971. The bands are all from the San Francisco area some well known others more local. Bands like Lamb ,Stoneground,and Cold Blood I had never heard of and they are the weakest songs on the record. All the songs from the more well known bands are great and their inclusion were picked by the bands themselves according to the liner notes, “White Bird” by It’s A Beautiful Day is different than the studio recording with more guitar and organ and less violin. This is followed by two songs by Quicksilver “Fresh Air” and Mojo” on side 2. Side 3 has a good song by Boz Scaggs, “Baby’s calling Me Home” with a nice instrumental break with some trumpet playing. Side 4 after a song by Stoneground has one by The New Riders Of The Purple Sage and two by The Grateful Dead,”Casey Jones” and a ripping cover of “Johnny B Goode”. Side 5 has Hot Tuna playing “Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning” and Santana doing two instrumentals “Incident At Neshabur” and Miles Davis’s “In A Silent Way”. Side six is a jam session on the closing night headed by Taj Mahal,Elvin Bishop,and Boz Scaggs, with members of Hot Tuna and Santana. Most of the bands are introduced by Bill Graham the owner and operator of The Fillmore. Graham died in the helicopter crash that also killed Stevie Ray Vaughn in the early 90’s. This set came out in 1972 but I bought it used in ’76 or ’77. Stores didn’t sell used records back k then but the store at the Tri-State Mall always had a few in a bin by the cash register. These are some really great records and the sound quality is also very good. A couple of skips and some scratchy spots here and there but good overall. Unfortunately the box has only the front and back cover with no sides on the box. It just fell apart over the years. It came with a 24 page booklet with photos of the bands and a history of the venue written by Bill Graham. There is also a list of who played at every show from 1966 to 1971. It also came with a 22″ by 14″ copy of one of the posters used to advertise the shows which became quite popular as works of art. I had the poster advertising Jefferson Airplane and The Grateful Dead hanging on my wall in my bedroom at home for a while. I don’t know what became of it.