 Perhaps even because of its length, as especially long songs were popular as a means of allowing a DJ time to use the bathroom.Such airplay led to "Whipping Post" becoming one of the band's more familiar and popular songs, and would help give "At Fillmore East" its reputation as having, as "The Rolling Stone Record Guide" wrote in 1979, "no wasted notes, no pointless jams, no half-realized vocals—everything counts", and of being, as "Rolling Stone" wrote in 2002, "the finest live rock performance ever committed to vinyl.