Bill Graham's Fillmore East house band, the Allman Brothers Band: "On the strength of their two previous albums and, more recently, a string of knockout live performances from coast to coast, the Allmans have come likewise to be known as 'musicians' musicians,' a band's band.⁠ In fact, the only criticism I've heard from other musicians seemed quite frankly to have its roots very firmly in the time-honored practice of hollering sour grapes—over the last year the Allman Band played the Fillmores so frequently that some people were calling them Bill Graham's House Band.⁠ Whatever else one may have to say about Graham, though, his taste in music has been largely unassailable, and hence it came as no surprise at all to anyone in the music business when Graham selected the Allman Brothers (and the Geils Band) to close out the Fillmore East." George Kimball