Paul Rodgers possesses one of the hardest blues/rock voices in rock history. Free was a seminal band in the late 60’s/early 70’s. That riff or something similar was probably used by many bands during that time. 🔥🔥
The whole Free back catalogue is a joy to hear. Can't think of another band that sounded like this. Robin Trower had a great singer with a similar vibe, his name is James Dewar. RIP. Worth a visit.
Jimmy Dewar - YES, one of the best voices in rock, and an amazing hard hitting bass. Loved Robin Trower in those days! I always recognize his sound and voice immediately.
This isn't the kind of music that they create university courses to study, and hold up as works of art. This is the kind of music your mechanic listens to while he fixes your car. The music that plays while your homes are built. This is the sound of blue jeans and dirty boots. This is the sound of the working class. That's why it sounds so relateable and real.
Free's Mr. Big official live video captures what they were all about and the lead in to one of the first "super groups" in Bad Company with the singer/songwriter Paul Rogers and drummer Simon Kirke joining Mick Ralphs from Mott The Hoople and Boz Burrell from King Crimson.
Every now and then.... one of THE BEST SONGS EVER comes out from the shadows... awakens from its slumber... and gets a reaction on YT. This happens to be one of them. This jam is sooooooo goooood!!!!!! Man, does it hit! LOVE the depth of the drums....
Paul Rodgers was the lead vocalist of numerous bands, including Free, Bad Company, The Firm, and The Law. Rolling stone ranked him number 55 on its list of the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time
Great reaction guys! Free was such a good band and then Paul Rogers joined Bad Company and had much more success as they became one of the top bands on the world.
Great song from their last studio album 1973. No Andy Fraser on bass anymore for this song but still a great record. good job for the person who requested this one!
Hard to believe Paul Rodgers, Lead singer was 23 years old when this was recorded. Way ahead of his time. He played in a supergroup band called The Firm. Midnight Moonlight Lady is a track you may want to hear...thanks dudes
He wrote the song for Paul kossoff the lead guitar player for Free who died on an airplane after landing at Kennedy airport. The song was written before he died but Kossoff was in bad shape, it was abusing mandrax which is the British version of quaalude and some say he was on heroin too. Great band . You guys got to check out the live concert footage. Check out mr. Big and Be My Friend
Love Free!!! Dig deep into their music. I would suggest I'll Be Creepin, Fire and Water, Walk in My Shadow, The Stealer, Heartbreaker, etc. A band called Blackfoot did a good cover of Wishing Well.
One of the most Influential bands ever and the springboard to an amazing career of the vocalist extraordinaire, Paul Rodgers. They have many great songs, the album this comes from is fire! You should react to the whole thing. Try from their live album, Mr Big, it is a killer rock song that builds through guitar and bass playing that reaches a crescendo. Great tune and band, enjoy! 🎶🎸🎤🎹🎶
The beautiful Paul Rodgers singing... he's so dang good. One of the best concerts I have ever been to (and I have been to many) was Bad Co, 1979 Oakland Coliseum. So good.
Paul Rogers vocals & Simon Kirk drummer who later formed Bad Company . I totally dig this album Paul is such a soulful singer Paul Kossoff play a little on this album because of addiction issues and original bassist Andy Fraser left and they brought in bassist Rabbit. If I remember all that correctly. It’s been awhile. Lol. Anyway cool band & sound.
Paul Rogers has one of the most soulful voices in rock history. I've never heard it scream like Roger Daltry, or hit high notes like Ian Gillan, but wow. Free had a couple of hits, but he didn't enjoy great success until he helped form Bad Company. The riff you are hearing in this song, sounds like something Bad Company would have played.
You guys are blowing me away with the Hidden Gems your comming up with, Like " Wishing Well" from Free. Easily one of my top twenty Heaviest songs of all time. Nobody else is reacting to alot of the tunes your doing. Its refreshing to say the least. Alot of us grew up with these great classic songs, but you never hear them anymore. Its great to see you appreciate and react to the songs for what they are. They affected us then, the same way its affecting you now. Timeless!! From about 65 to 78 was like the Golden Age of Rock. It was so experimental. No body really sounded the same, unlike today. Thanks Guys! Keep it up! Heres one for ya. "Fat Man in the Bathtub" by Little Feat, from the live album " Waiting for Columbus" it was know as one of the best sounding and recorded live albums of all time. From one of the best bands of all time!
Really like you vids and reviews, this is one of my favourite bands, Paul Rodger’s also sang with Queen big vocal boots to fill there Keep up the good work lads👍🏻
Australia’s first big outdoor concert back in the early seventies saw these guys, Manfred Man and Deep Purple on the same bill. There’s a lot stuff I am struggling to remember but not this gig. Wish I could say the same for the lady I had taken to it!.
Damn, I had forgotten this one, and it is a real banger! Thank you guys! He is one hell of a singer! If you haven’t done “bad company“ by Bad Company, check it out (studio first, then live if you want)! This is gonna sound weird but he played in at least two excellent bands (your knowledgeable subscribers will know more than I) but, like John Fogerty, with Creedence, Clearwater revival, he just IS who you think of when you drop those names of the bands!
If y'all want to see what Free was capable of, react to their song, "Mr. Big." Excellent song that highlights each member of the band. Rodgers incomparable vocals, the heavy vibrato but bluesy guitar of Paul Kossoff, Andy Fraser's outstanding bass work, and Simon Kirke's rock-solid drumming.
Y’all need to react to Paul Rodgers singing the Song Bad Company live at Woodstock in 1994 with Slash. It was his vocal peak and unmatched! Y’all won’t regret it! F’ing unbelievable!
Haven’t heard this song in awhile- love it!! I think it sounds like a song by Lenny Kravitz, or maybe he coved it. Another great reaction! Thanks guys for playing a blast from the past!!
Great reaction guys! I know Paul Rodgers more from Bad Company the man can sing his a** off...if you like check out (burning sky) by bad company they're live videos are something to see and hear. Also bad company song called bad company in which you may have heard before...
Yall should check out Rory Gallagher, i recommend "Bad penny" or "shadow play live". To start. I think yall will dig him. Considered one of the best guitarist of all time.
Brilliant song, brilliant blues-rock singer (Free, later Bad Company, ... a tour with Queen ...) brilliant riffs, but unfortunately it wasn't enough for a long time and several albums. In the 70s I would have said to incorporate instrumental middle parts, bridges, transitions into one or the other song, which they sometimes did live; listen to the live versions.👍 in the 80's The Stone Roses was another promising band. Today with the totally changed music industry and listening habits - where composition and creativity are often not in the foreground - I don't know if this would be enough.
Two other standout tracks from this album are "Heartbreaker" and "Seven Angels," though I think it's all good. "Common Mortal Man," written by then new member, keyboardist John Bundrick, is another.
I think I know where you might have heard that Riff and I believe it's from the Song. .."I Want To Take You Higher" By Sly and the Family Stone! Give it a listen! 👂👂
I'm sure 1,000 people will mention the version of Wishing Well by Blackfoot. A big "southern rock" hit a few years down the line, & a group strongly related to Skynyrd...give it a try you'ĺl be glad you did.
After you check out Bad Company check out the first album by The Firm. Paul Rodgers on vocal, Jimmy Page on guitar, crazy bassist (Tony Franklin) and Heavy drummer (Chris Slade). Bad Company was, I believe, the only band besides Zeppelin to be produced by Swan Song, Zeppelin's own record label. So Jimmy and Paul had history, and did the Firm project in 1985. Closer Make or Break Someone to Love Radioactive Money Can't Buy Satisfaction Guaranteed
You two are doing GREAT work !!! But, you've GOT TO do their song Alright Now. Everyone has heard it and/or MUST HEAR that song before they die, and I'm sure, if you haven't heard it, you're going to love it and it will be burned into your mind forever. Paul Rogers' voice is as driving there as it was here. As others have pointed out, he is also the lead singer in Bad Company, and I highly recommend that you go down that rabbit hole. Songs of theirs that I would shoot for are (Rock on !!!): 1. Bad Company 2. Can't Get Enough 3. Movin' On 4. Rock Steady 5. Seagull 6. Ready for Love 7. Gone, Gone, Gone 8. Feel Like Makin' Love 9. Burnin' Sky
Paul Rodgers is the rock voice many vocalists wish they had, he never pushes it, it is just pure emotion. Even when he was Queen's vocalist, he didn't try to do Fred Mercury (who could, though Adam Lambert clones Freddies sound) he let them know upfront they were getting him not a mimic. Not to say Robert Plant, Roger Daltrey, Ian Gillan to name few aren't excellent frontmen. Rodgers is just perfect, also a great pianist (he plays guitar also).
Paul Rodgers possesses one of the hardest blues/rock voices in rock history. Free was a seminal band in the late 60’s/early 70’s. That riff or something similar was probably used by many bands during that time. 🔥🔥
Paul Rodgers could sing the phone book.
One of the best voices in rock till this day
THE voice of rock. lots of clones about but he's the man!
The whole Free back catalogue is a joy to hear. Can't think of another band that sounded like this. Robin Trower had a great singer with a similar vibe, his name is James Dewar. RIP. Worth a visit.
I've always thought Dewar and Rogers were similar, definitely different but the vibe. Good ear Russell
❤️ James Dewar too!!!!!!
Yes, Robin Trower & Bridge of Sighs
Too Rolling Stoned 🤘🤘Robin Trower
Jimmy Dewar - YES, one of the best voices in rock, and an amazing hard hitting bass. Loved Robin Trower in those days! I always recognize his sound and voice immediately.
Just about ten years ago, Paul Rodgers was voted in England, the best rock and roll blues singer in history.
England being smarter than Rolling Stone, obviously.
The rest of Britain not just England.
All I can say is THANK YOU. LOVE this song ✌️, you guys make this boomer smile.
Never thought I'd see a reaction to this song. Great pick! What a great fckn song!!!
So good...Paul Kossoff (RIP) one of the great and massively underrated guitarists that really never got the due he deserved!
A great voice from Paul Rodgers, also when he did the vocals with Queen. Great music from Bad Company. 🎶🎶🎶❤️❤️👍
This isn't the kind of music that they create university courses to study, and hold up as works of art. This is the kind of music your mechanic listens to while he fixes your car. The music that plays while your homes are built. This is the sound of blue jeans and dirty boots. This is the sound of the working class. That's why it sounds so relateable and real.
Love and a Peaceful World brings tears to my eyes...
Free's Mr. Big official live video captures what they were all about and the lead in to one of the first "super groups" in Bad Company with the singer/songwriter Paul Rogers and drummer Simon Kirke joining Mick Ralphs from Mott The Hoople and Boz Burrell from King Crimson.
Every now and then.... one of THE BEST SONGS EVER comes out from the shadows... awakens from its slumber... and gets a reaction on YT. This happens to be one of them. This jam is sooooooo goooood!!!!!! Man, does it hit! LOVE the depth of the drums....
this tune just kinda came and went in Chicago. But having heard it only once or twice, it has since then been one of my favorite tunes.
Famous singer. Known for having top 10 vocals - although in many circles not given his due respect at times.
The infamous Paul Rodgers, who has melted the hearts of us teenage girls from the 70s👍🥰
My wife would kick me out of bed for him lol
Paul Rodgers was the lead vocalist of numerous bands, including Free, Bad Company, The Firm, and The Law. Rolling stone ranked him number 55 on its list of the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time
55 is shockingly low.
Rolling Stone 🙄Here’s one more slight to Paul. Bad Co, not in the RRHOF.
RRHOF is a joke!!!!!
@@PhilPastor seriously. He's #1 in my list, so, I got that going for me.
Great reaction guys! Free was such a good band and then Paul Rogers joined Bad Company and had much more success as they became one of the top bands on the world.
Great song from their last studio album 1973. No Andy Fraser on bass anymore for this song but still a great record. good job for the person who requested this one!
Great tune. Always good to hear. Paul Rogers with outstanding vocals.
Hard to believe Paul Rodgers, Lead singer was 23 years old when this was recorded. Way ahead of his time. He played in a supergroup band called The Firm. Midnight Moonlight Lady is a track you may want to hear...thanks dudes
I had forgotten that one. You guyz be da bomb. "Mr. Big" is a good one by Free. Heavy Blues influence.
They done another song "All right now" due to Kossof's troubled life his Dad had that put on his grave stone.
Always loved this song, especially the line - " love in a peaceful world".
He wrote the song for Paul kossoff the lead guitar player for Free who died on an airplane after landing at Kennedy airport. The song was written before he died but Kossoff was in bad shape, it was abusing mandrax which is the British version of quaalude and some say he was on heroin too. Great band . You guys got to check out the live concert footage. Check out mr. Big and Be My Friend
Get ready to be blown away by this amazing band. ❤
and they were so young when they recorded this too. amazing.
The first concert I ever saw was FREE. You gotta give it up for Paul Rodgers. He’s a master vocalist!
Love Free!!! Dig deep into their music. I would suggest I'll Be Creepin, Fire and Water, Walk in My Shadow, The Stealer, Heartbreaker, etc. A band called Blackfoot did a good cover of Wishing Well.
One of the most Influential bands ever and the springboard to an amazing career of the vocalist extraordinaire, Paul Rodgers. They have many great songs, the album this comes from is fire! You should react to the whole thing. Try from their live album, Mr Big, it is a killer rock song that builds through guitar and bass playing that reaches a crescendo. Great tune and band, enjoy! 🎶🎸🎤🎹🎶
Free was underrated
The great Rock Band all time
The beautiful Paul Rodgers singing... he's so dang good. One of the best concerts I have ever been to (and I have been to many) was Bad Co, 1979 Oakland Coliseum. So good.
Damn good song, haven't heard it in years! Thank you!! 👍❤🤙
Haven't heard this in many many years. Thanks it's back on my play list. Peace ✌️
Paul Rogers vocals & Simon Kirk drummer who later formed Bad Company . I totally dig this album Paul is such a soulful singer Paul Kossoff play a little on this album because of addiction issues and original bassist Andy Fraser left and they brought in bassist Rabbit. If I remember all that correctly. It’s been awhile. Lol. Anyway cool band & sound.
The vocalist Paul Rodgers is one of the best in rock. Listen to the first four Bad Company albums. Bad Company is a great band as well.
Keep the Free coming yall!
Paul Rogers has one of the most soulful voices in rock history. I've never heard it scream like Roger Daltry, or hit high notes like Ian Gillan, but wow. Free had a couple of hits, but he didn't enjoy great success until he helped form Bad Company. The riff you are hearing in this song, sounds like something Bad Company would have played.
You guys are blowing me away with the Hidden Gems your comming up with, Like " Wishing Well" from Free. Easily one of my top twenty Heaviest songs of all time. Nobody else is reacting to alot of the tunes your doing. Its refreshing to say the least. Alot of us grew up with these great classic songs, but you never hear them anymore. Its great to see you appreciate and react to the songs for what they are. They affected us then, the same way its affecting you now. Timeless!! From about 65 to 78 was like the Golden Age of Rock. It was so experimental. No body really sounded the same, unlike today. Thanks Guys! Keep it up!
Heres one for ya.
"Fat Man in the Bathtub" by Little Feat, from the live album " Waiting for Columbus" it was know as one of the best sounding and recorded live albums of all time. From one of the best bands of all time!
Awesome Jam
Free are one of uks best ever bands loads good songs. Most mornings I listen to free getting my breakfast ready never tire of them.
Try their songs 'Woman', 'Lady', and 'Sail On'. I discovered this band in the early 90s and these songs still fully hold up for me to this day.
Thanx guys for this one- from the times when men wore jeans well 🇦🇺
Free was one of the bluesiest bands ever, and Paul Rodgers one of the all time great vocalists.
Didn't know Free sang this song....I've only heard the Blackfoot version. Thanks for sharing.
So emotional
Great reaction to a great tune
Southern Rock band BLACKFOOT did a great cover of this song on their STRIKES album! I think its probably the version you heard clips from
All Right Now their one hit that you will definitely know. Most played in commercials next possibly Born To Be Wild in commercials and movies.
Blackfoot covered a couple of free songs in the late 70s and early 80s they were on the album Blackfoot strikes
Nice gentlemen! A similar genre Mr.Alvin Lee and Ten Years After, its dope lol.🙏🍁
The Heartbreaker album is my all time favourite rock/blues album of all time. Every track is excellent.
Great tune
Blackfoot really kills this one as well!
You guys went D E E P here💯❗️👍
Fantastic. One of my all-time favorite bands. Another band ya'll might like, from the same era, is Trapeze.
Dudes really need to do Jeff Healy live “as the years go passing by”. That will blow you away
Best Free single IMO,brilliant stuff!
Paul Rogers has (or one of) the best rock voices EVER!
I love his phrasing. Now try,
FREE:
"Seven Angels"
"Don't Say You Love Me"
Really like you vids and reviews, this is one of my favourite bands, Paul Rodger’s also sang with Queen big vocal boots to fill there
Keep up the good work lads👍🏻
Australia’s first big outdoor concert back in the early seventies saw these guys, Manfred Man and Deep Purple on the same bill. There’s a lot stuff I am struggling to remember but not this gig. Wish I could say the same for the lady I had taken to it!.
Paul Rodgers is on my Mt Rushmore of rock singers with RJ DIo, Robert Plant and David Coverdale
Damn, I had forgotten this one, and it is a real banger! Thank you guys! He is one hell of a singer! If you haven’t done “bad company“ by Bad Company, check it out (studio first, then live if you want)! This is gonna sound weird but he played in at least two excellent bands (your knowledgeable subscribers will know more than I) but, like John Fogerty, with Creedence, Clearwater revival, he just IS who you think of when you drop those names of the bands!
paul Rodgers did a stint with QUEEN not to long back his range is up their with the best
Another undeniable unique voice that is Paul Rodgers.... I really love that he can still turn it out on Muddy Water Blues, the electric version.
Great band
You must check out Mr Big by Free from the Fire and Water album
One of my favorite Free songs. Darn, what could have been…
Now you're talking. Great music, man. Rodgers has gotten even better over the decades. The Hunter
good choice
You guys know how to rock..
If y'all want to see what Free was capable of, react to their song, "Mr. Big." Excellent song that highlights each member of the band. Rodgers incomparable vocals, the heavy vibrato but bluesy guitar of Paul Kossoff, Andy Fraser's outstanding bass work, and Simon Kirke's rock-solid drumming.
My dawgs be goin deep. As usual. 👊
Free wrote that riff, they were the best band to ever walk the earth.
Y’all need to react to Paul Rodgers singing the Song Bad Company live at Woodstock in 1994 with Slash. It was his vocal peak and unmatched! Y’all won’t regret it! F’ing unbelievable!
Been covered by a lot of rock groups
Love Free. 'Ill be Creepin'.
Anything Paul Rogers is bluesy, funky rock fire! Free & Bad Company. Try Rock Steady by Bad Company & the song Bad Company
Haven’t heard this song in awhile- love it!! I think it sounds like a song by Lenny Kravitz, or maybe he coved it. Another great reaction! Thanks guys for playing a blast from the past!!
This was written about the Guitarist Paul Kossoff who died in 1976 it was written before he died
Great reaction guys! I know Paul Rodgers more from Bad Company the man can sing his a** off...if you like check out (burning sky) by bad company they're live videos are something to see and hear. Also bad company song called bad company in which you may have heard before...
Yall should check out Rory Gallagher, i recommend "Bad penny" or "shadow play live". To start. I think yall will dig him. Considered one of the best guitarist of all time.
Brilliant song, brilliant blues-rock singer (Free, later Bad Company, ... a tour with Queen ...) brilliant riffs, but unfortunately it wasn't enough for a long time and several albums. In the 70s I would have said to incorporate instrumental middle parts, bridges, transitions into one or the other song, which they sometimes did live; listen to the live versions.👍
in the 80's The Stone Roses was another promising band. Today with the totally changed music industry and listening habits - where composition and creativity are often not in the foreground - I don't know if this would be enough.
Jimmy page formed a band with this singer after Zeppelin...THE FIRM. 😎
Lol😂 “If I was a boxer, this is the one”!!
I thought this was Gary Moore - Love it !!
Mr Big live from Free Live! You have to react to THAT
Two other standout tracks from this album are "Heartbreaker" and "Seven Angels," though I think it's all good. "Common Mortal Man," written by then new member, keyboardist John Bundrick, is another.
I think I know where you might have heard that Riff and I believe it's from the Song. .."I Want To Take You Higher" By Sly and the Family Stone!
Give it a listen! 👂👂
You'll love their live version of Mr Big from 'Doing their Thing'
Paul's got the best rock voices all time! Can definitely hear Bad Company here.
Some people have gotten this song as to be Bad Company when first hearing it
I'm sure 1,000 people will mention the version of Wishing Well by Blackfoot. A big "southern rock" hit a few years down the line, & a group strongly related to Skynyrd...give it a try you'ĺl be glad you did.
After you check out Bad Company check out the first album by The Firm.
Paul Rodgers on vocal, Jimmy Page on guitar, crazy bassist (Tony Franklin) and Heavy drummer (Chris Slade).
Bad Company was, I believe, the only band besides Zeppelin to be produced by Swan Song, Zeppelin's own record label. So Jimmy and Paul had history, and did the Firm project in 1985.
Closer
Make or Break
Someone to Love
Radioactive
Money Can't Buy
Satisfaction Guaranteed
You two are doing GREAT work !!! But, you've GOT TO do their song Alright Now. Everyone has heard it and/or MUST HEAR that song before they die, and I'm sure, if you haven't heard it, you're going to love it and it will be burned into your mind forever. Paul Rogers' voice is as driving there as it was here. As others have pointed out, he is also the lead singer in Bad Company, and I highly recommend that you go down that rabbit hole. Songs of theirs that I would shoot for are (Rock on !!!):
1. Bad Company
2. Can't Get Enough
3. Movin' On
4. Rock Steady
5. Seagull
6. Ready for Love
7. Gone, Gone, Gone
8. Feel Like Makin' Love
9. Burnin' Sky
I hope you guys check out the amazing Marcus King. Any of his live stuff from the "In the Van" series will blow you away.
Thanks fellas
Rebob Kwaku Baah on congas ripping it up in the back And the sublime Paul Kossoff on lead (and don't @ me)
I recommend you listen to Blackfoot's cover of this song.
You guys need to listen to the title song from this album, "Heartbreaker"
Paul Rodgers is the rock voice many vocalists wish they had, he never pushes it, it is just pure emotion. Even when he was Queen's vocalist, he didn't try to do Fred Mercury (who could, though Adam Lambert clones Freddies sound) he let them know upfront they were getting him not a mimic. Not to say Robert Plant, Roger Daltrey, Ian Gillan to name few aren't excellent frontmen. Rodgers is just perfect, also a great pianist (he plays guitar also).