Classic Rock - Blues

The List:

noreply@blogger.com (Larry) — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 01:38:00 +0000

Grateful Dead Live at Barton Hall, Cornell 1977:

Grateful Dead Live at Boston Garden 1977
Grateful Dead Live at Boston Garden 1977 (2nd set)
Grateful Dead Live at War Memorial 1977
Grateful Dead The Closing of Winterland 1978
Grateful Dead Live at Radio City October 31, 1980
Grateful Dead Hampton Coliseum October 8, 1989
Grateful Dead Hampton Coliseum October 9, 1989
More Grateful Dead shows HERE
Top 30 Grateful Dead Shows HERE

Last Days of the Fillmore 1971:

Cream - Reunion (2005) Live At Royal Albert Hall

noreply@blogger.com (Larry) — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 03:23:00 +0000

Cream Biography HERE

Mountain at Fillmore East 12-31-70

noreply@blogger.com (Larry) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:47:00 +0000

Humble Pie at Fillmore East 1971

noreply@blogger.com (Larry) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:42:00 +0000

Quicksilver Messenger Service

noreply@blogger.com (Larry) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:38:00 +0000

Mike Bloomfield

noreply@blogger.com (Larry) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:37:00 +0000

"He didn't get a chance to expand the mission of his soul, but those few albums he played on – those are enough," says Carlos Santana, referring to Mike Bloomfield's death in 1981, of a drug overdose at age 37, and the key recordings Bloomfield left behind. Bloomfield helped Bob Dylan go electric with his work on Highway 61 Revisited (those are Bloomfield's skyward spirals on "Like a Rolling Stone") and two albums with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, including 1966's raga-blues monster, East-West. (Check out Bloomfield's winding, epic solo on the title track.) A native of Chicago, Bloomfield studied the local electric-blues legends like Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf up close while he was growing up, and he packed those lessons into a piercing clean-treble tone and solos that took off with fluid, modal-jazz ecstasy. "Michael always sounded like a salmon going against the current," Santana says. "He comes from B.B. King. But he went somewhere else."

Butterfield Blues Band

noreply@blogger.com (Larry) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:35:00 +0000

Paul Butterfield was born and raised in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. After studying classical flute as a teenager, he developed a love for the blues harmonica, and hooked up with white, blues-loving, U of Chicago physics student Elvin Bishop. The pair started hanging around black blues musicians such as Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Junior Wells. Butterfield and Bishop soon formed a band with Jerome Arnold and Sam Lay (both of Howlin' Wolf's band). In 1963, a watershed event in introducing blues to a white audience in Chicago occurred when this racially mixed ensemble was made the house band at Big John's, a folk music club in the Old Town district on Chicago's north side. Butterfield was still underage (as was guitarist Mike Bloomfield, who was already working there in his own band).

Classic Climax Blues Band

noreply@blogger.com (Larry) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:33:00 +0000

It's a Beautiful Day

noreply@blogger.com (Larry) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:09:00 +0000

Michael McDonald

noreply@blogger.com (Larry) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:07:00 +0000

Jimi Hendrix

noreply@blogger.com (Larry) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:01:00 +0000

Classic Jethro Tull

noreply@blogger.com (Larry) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:59:00 +0000

Blind Faith

noreply@blogger.com (Larry) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:32:00 +0000

Steve Winwood - Classic Traffic

noreply@blogger.com (Larry) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:31:00 +0000

Traffic Biography HERE

BONUS: Live at the Fillmore East 1970

John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers

noreply@blogger.com (Larry) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:29:00 +0000

Classic Savoy Brown

noreply@blogger.com (Larry) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:28:00 +0000

Today I present Savoy Brown. Savoy Brown was founded by Kim Simmonds; with Guitarist "Lonesome" Dave Peverett, bassist Tony Stevens, and drummer Roger Earl. After leaving Simmonds in December 1970, the 3 added Rod Price on slide guitar and formed Foghat.

Chicken Shack was a band founded in the late 1960s by Andy Silvester (bass guitar) and Stan Webb (guitar and vocals), with Alan Morley (drums) and later joined by Christine Perfect (vocals and keyboards). Perfect left the band in 1969 when she married John McVie of Fleetwood Mac. Pianist Paul Raymond, bassist Andy Silvester, and drummer Dave Bidwell all left in 1971 to join Simmonds and his Savoy Brown. Confused?

BONUS MUSIC:

I'd rather go blind - Chicken Shack
Long Way To Go - Foghat
Slow Ride - Foghat
Ride, Ride, Ride - Foghat
Feel So Bad - Foghat

Lost and Lonely Child and The Boogie Part 1 & Part 2

Fleetwood Mac's Founder: Peter Green

noreply@blogger.com (Larry) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:26:00 +0000

In late 1966, Peter Green had the job of replacing Eric Clapton in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. Mayall told his producer, "He might not be better [than Clapton] now. But you wait... he's going to be the best." Soon, with the original Fleetwood Mac, he was Britain's most progressive blues guitarist, with a Chicago-informed aggression heightened by the melodic adventure on albums like 1969's Then Play On. Green soon entered a dark age of mental and health problems, returning in the Nineties with more subdued but recognizable gifts.

The Incredible Peter Green Story: Man of the World

The demo HERE
The film trailer HERE
Jam Session HERE
Original Man of the World HERE (with words) and HERE

PETER GREEN BONUS: SUPERNATURAL & MY DREAM

Classic Fleetwood Mac

noreply@blogger.com (Larry) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:24:00 +0000

Band's history: story: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5

Listen to Dust HERE
Sentimental Lady HERE
Dragon Fly HERE
Sands of Time HERE
Bare Trees album HERE
Mystery To Me album HERE
Future Games album HERE

BONUS MAC: Spare Me a Little, Say You Love Me, Morning Rain, Over My Head, Homeward Bound, Future Games , Woman of 1000 Years & Sometimes

Jeff Beck

noreply@blogger.com (Larry) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:22:00 +0000

Jeff Beck Biography HERE

Jeff Beck with the incredible Tal Wilkenfeld:

Wishbone Ash: Argus

noreply@blogger.com (Larry) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:19:00 +0000

Sometime World: HERE

And: Phoenix, Blind Eye, Handy, Valediction, Alone, Sorrel, Lullaby

THE BEST BAND EVER: The Allman Brothers Band

noreply@blogger.com (Larry) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:12:00 +0000

Live at the Fillmore East 1971

HOF INDUCTEES

"The group's marathon concerts, best captured on the classic The Allman Brothers Band At Fillmore East (1971), are the stuff of rock legend." I saw them 7 times, twice with the original lineup.

Eat A Peach 1972

The Allman Brothers 40th Anniversary Tour Ends

noreply@blogger.com (Larry) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:09:00 +0000

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In 1970 and 1971, 38+ years ago, I had the good fortune of seeing two concerts that shaped my love of rock music: Derek and the Dominos (Eric Clapton) in London and the Allman Brothers Band in Boston. I later learned that the late great Duane Allman held a link (Jam 4) & (Jam 5) between the two. The Allman Brothers remain the best band ever in my mind. Click photos below for full view:

Last night I was treated to a wonderful night of dancing and music with Widespread Panic and The Allman Brothers Band at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavillion outside of Houston.

Before Sunset

"Dreams" (live from 2003)

"In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" (live from 1970)
"Whipping Post" (live from 1970)

Additional Classics:

Going Down Slow
Loan Me A Dime
Dimples & Every Hungry Woman Live
Black Hearted Woman
Not My Cross to Bear
Midnight Rider
Les Brers in A Minor
Statesboro Blues 3/12/71
Blue Sky Live
Blue Sky Live
Done Somebody Wrong
Hoochie Coochie Man
Stormy Monday
Trouble No More
Hot 'Lanta
One Way Out
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
Stonybrook 9/19/71
Soul Serenade 8/26/71
The Final Fillmore East Concert 6/27/71
Whipping Post Fillmore East: HERE
Mountain Jam: HERE (27 minutes)
You Don't Love Me
Ain't Wastin' Time No More
Melissa
Little Martha
Wipe the Windows, Check the Oil, Dollar Gas
Peakin' At the Beacon
High Falls

Albert King

noreply@blogger.com (Larry) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:29:00 +0000

When Rolling Stone reporter Jon Landau asked Albert King in 1968 who his guitar influences were, King replied, "Nobody. Everything I do is wrong." A pioneer of electric blues, King (who was left-handed) played a right-handed 1959 Gibson Flying V upside down, with the bass strings unconventionally facing the floor. He used an indecipherable secret tuning, hitting notes with his thumb. The six-foot-four, 300-pound King was able to bend notes farther and more powerfully than almost any other guitarist, and his records influenced a generation: Eric Clapton lifted the "Strange Brew" solo from King, and Duane Allman turned the melody of King's "As the Years Go Passing By" into the main riff of "Layla." Jimi Hendrix was star-struck when his hero opened for him at the Fillmore in 1967. "I taught [Hendrix] a lesson about the blues," said King. "I could have easily played his songs, but he couldn't play mine."

Freddie King

noreply@blogger.com (Larry) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:14:00 +0000

In a 1985 interview, Eric Clapton cited Freddy King's 1961 B side "I Love the Woman" as "the first time I heard that electric lead-guitar style, with the bent notes... [it] started me on my path." Clapton shared his love of King with fellow British guitar heroes Peter Green, Jeff Beck and Mick Taylor, all of whom were profoundly influenced by King's sharpened-treble tone and curt melodic hooks on iconic singles such as "The Stumble," "I'm Tore Down" and "Someday, After Awhile." Nicknamed "The Texas Cannonball" for his imposing build and incendiary live shows, King had a unique guitar attack. "Steel on steel is an unforgettable sound," says Derek Trucks, referring to King's use of metal banjo picks. "But it's gotta be in the right hands. The way he used it – man, you were going to hear that guitar." Trucks can still hear King's huge impact on Clapton. "When I played with Eric," Trucks said recently, "there were times when he would take solos and I would get that Freddy vibe."

Eric Clapton

noreply@blogger.com (Larry) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:17:00 +0000

Eric Clapton Biography HERE