Kultur: (About) 100 Words on...Joe Cocker and Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA 04/26/1970

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Kultur: (About) 100 Words on...Joe Cocker and Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA 04/26/1970

(About) 100 Words on...Joe Cocker and Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA 04/26/1970

Joe Cocker and Mad Dogs and Englishmen

Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA 04/26/1970

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This concert took place about one month after Cocker and company stormed the Fillmore East in New York City for the recording of what would become the two-LP release Joe Cocker and Mad Dogs and Englishmen. That collection has gone through several evolutions finally releasing the performances in their entirety on Mad Dogs and Englishmen - The Complete Fillmore Concerts. The set lists changed little during this short tour but these soundboard recordings from Cocker's concerts wrapping up his MDAE tour did sport the welcome inclusion of "The Weight" in better performance than the released extended MDAE. Cocker proves to be the best of interpreters of other's music. He slays John Sebastian's "Darling Be Home Soon" and Leon Russell's "Delta Lady." Largely absent from these soundboards is Leon Russell, who contributed no sotto voce asides as he did on the official release. Cocker sounds tired but anything but defeated. A little piece of history.