The City's Backyard Ep 38: The 50th anniversary of The Fillmore East podcast documentary Part 1 with the performers! Special guests: Henry Gross from Sha Na Na and Corky Laing from Mountain!

Fans of live rock, folk and blues music streamed through the entrance down in the East Village of NYC during a brief but memorable life of The Fillmore East! The great concert promoter Bill Graham brought The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, Sha Na Na, Mountain and many more into a concert hall beloved by artists and audiences alike for its intimacy, acoustics and psychedelic light shows. ( this is taken from a plaque by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation)...in this part one podcast documentary series we chat with two performers about the days at the Fillmore East! Henry Gross from Sha Na Na and Corky Laing from Mountain! https://thehenrygross.com/https://www.corkylaingworks.com/In the future Kenjamin Franklin at Radioactive Talent Inc. will have a website that will feature various Fillmore East interviews...including the 12 part Amalie R. Rothchild(unofficial Fillmore East photographer) video interview...taped at the exact location of the Fillmore East! (Amalie is interviewed as well in Part 2 of this podcast documentary series) If anyone would like to be on the mailing list to receive  Fillmore East updates you can email Ken at > [email protected] ...he can also be reached on Facebook.www.facebook.com/muchmusic