''Live at the Fillmore'' is a live album by American band
Cypress Hill
Cypress Hill is an American hip hop group from South Gate, California. They have sold over 20 million albums worldwide and have multi-platinum and platinum albums. They are considered to be among the main progenitors of West Coast and 1990 ...
. It was recorded at
The Fillmore in
San Francisco on August 16, 2000 and released on December 12, 2000 through
Ruffhouse/
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music, Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese Conglomerate (company), conglomerate Sony. It was founded on Janua ...
. Production was handled by member
DJ Muggs. It contains several songs performed from the group's previous studio albums: ''
Cypress Hill
Cypress Hill is an American hip hop group from South Gate, California. They have sold over 20 million albums worldwide and have multi-platinum and platinum albums. They are considered to be among the main progenitors of West Coast and 1990 ...
'', ''
Black Sunday'', ''
IV'' and ''
Skull & Bones'' with the exception for the songs from ''
III: Temples of Boom''. It features contributions from members of
SX-10
SX-10 is an American alternative metal band formed in 1996 by rapper Sen Dog.
History
SX-10 was formed in 1996 in Los Angeles, California by Cypress Hill member Sen Dog. According to Sen Dog, SX-10 was formed because he had wanted to perform a di ...
. In the United States, the album peaked at No. 119 on the
''Billboard'' 200 and No. 72 on the
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. It also reached No. 47 in
Austria and No. 82 in
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
.
Reception
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Rolling Stone'' - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "B-Real, Sen Dog, Bobo and DJ Muggs are in top form here."
*
''Q'' magazine - 3 out of 5 stars - "Captures
hemin somewhat ebullient mood…on the pumped and primed beats…they sound at their most relaxed and…their most potent."
*''
Melody Maker
''Melody Maker'' was a British weekly music magazine, one of the world's earliest music weeklies; according to its publisher, IPC Media, the earliest. It was founded in 1926, largely as a magazine for dance band musicians, by Leicester-born ...
'' - 4 stars out of 5 - "Intense lunacy and sonic dementia.… It must've been mad - absolutely insane."
*''
NME'' - 7 out of 10 - "The frenzy of the crowd feeds back into the immediacy of the performance and - Boom Shanka! And there are moments of such delicious madness here."
Track listing
;Sample credits
*Track 3 contains a sample of "Tramp" composed by Louis Fulson and
Jimmy McCracklin
Personnel
*Louis "
B-Real
Louis Mario Freese (born June 2, 1970), known by his stage name B-Real, is an American rapper. Since 1991, he has been one of two lead rappers in the hip hop group Cypress Hill, along with Sen Dog. He has also been a part of the rap metal band ...
" Freese – vocals
*Senen "
Sen Dog" Reyes – vocals
*Lawrence "
DJ Muggs" Muggerud – arranger, producer, mixing
*
Eric "Bobo" Correa – drums
*Andy Zambrano – guitar
(tracks: 6-12, 16, 17)
*Jeremy Fleener – guitar
(tracks: 6-12, 16, 17)
*Frank Mercurio – bass
(tracks: 6-12, 16, 17)
*Troy Staton – mixing, live mobile recording
*Richard McKernan – live mobile recording
*Doug Field – live mobile recording assistant
*Jay Resnick – live mobile recording assistant
*Phil Kneebone – live mobile recording assistant
*Mike Gonzales – live board engineer
*
Westwood One – mobile recording
*Brian "
Big Bass" Gardner – mastering
*Arlene Owseichik – art direction
*Estevan "
Scandalous" Oriol – design, photography
*Mark "
Mr. Cartoon
''Mr. Cartoon'', originally titled ''Steamboat Bill'', was a television program for children that aired for nearly 40 years on WSAZ-TV, the local NBC affiliate in Huntington, West Virginia. The show was hosted by George Lewis until 1969 and by Ju ...
" Machado – design
*Sonny Gerasimowicz – design
*D. Sean MacDonald – artwork
*Gerard Babitts – A&R
*
Paul D. Rosenberg – management
*Cara Lewis – booking
*Scott Thomas – booking
*Jim Halogen – booking
*Theo Sedlmayr – legal
*Paul Furedi – editing
Charts
References
External links
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{{Authority control
2000 live albums
Cypress Hill albums
Albums produced by DJ Muggs
Columbia Records live albums
Ruffhouse Records live albums
Albums recorded at the Fillmore