Thank You and Farewell - The Closing of the Fillmore East, Fillmore East, New York City, 6-27-1971, Part 3: Edgar Winter's White Trash

The final concert at the Fillmore East in New York City in 1971 continues. The third act to appear was Edgar Winter's White Trash.

Edgar Winter is the younger brother of Johnny Winter. Both were born with albinism. Johnny Winter became famous in the late 1960s for his blues guitar playing. Edgar, who sings and plays keyboards and saxophone, started out in his brother's band, and the two of them often appeared on the others' albums. In 1970, Edgar released his first solo album, "Entrance." Then he formed the group "Edgar Winter's White Trash." They released a studio album in 1971, also called "Edgar Winter's White Trash," then a live album in 1972, "Roadwork." 

Then the band name changed again, to the Edgar Winter Group. Under this name, the band found huge success with the singles "Frankenstein" (which hit Number One in the U.S.) and "Free Ride." Also, the lead guitarist for all these projects was Rick Derringer. He put out a solo album in 1973 while staying in Winter's band, and had a big hit with the song "Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo."

Most of that success was still to come, however. At the time of this concert, Winter had yet to have a single or album reach the Top 100 in the U.S. charts. But his band was increasingly well regarded for their live performances.

This concert has a lot in common with the live "Roadwork" album from a year later. In particular, both feature long versions of "Tobacco Road" and "Turn On Your Love Light." But "Roadwork" is a double album, so it's almost twice as long as this. However, the other two songs here are not on that album.

Like most of the other sets from this concert, the lead vocals were rather low in the mix. So I used the UVR5 audio editing program to boost them relative to the instruments. By the way, the lead vocals are shared between Edgar Winter and a member of his band, Jerry LaCroix.

This album is 38 minutes long.

24 talk by Bill Graham (Edgar Winter's White Trash)
25 Where Would I Be (Edgar Winter's White Trash)
26 Let’s Get It On (Edgar Winter's White Trash)
27 Tobacco Road (Edgar Winter's White Trash)
28 Turn On Your Love Light (Edgar Winter's White Trash)

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 The cover photo is from this exact concert. That's Edgar Winter on the left and Rick Derringer on the right with the guitar.