DEDICATE TO PAUL KOSSOFF From "HIGHWAY" Love this very very much!!! Vocals：PAUL RODGERS Electric Guitar：PAUL KOSSOFF Electric Bass：ANDY FRASER Drums：SIMON KIRKE
So soulful, organic, honest and pure, and all of them between 18 and 20 years of age when this was performed and recorded. Doesn't get any better than this, folks -- 4 young guys writing all of their own songs and performing them live with no gimmicks, no live monitors, no fancy light/stage shows. Just to reitererate, Free were using amateur equipment here with no live monitors in front of around 600, 000 people . . . WOW! Can you imagine any young band doing this now? Don't think so. GR8 band!
Kosoff's guitar gives me goosebumps, and Paul Rodgers voice has as much soul as Otis Redding or Wilson Pickett, The bass and drums are a solid unit tighter than granite
Gorgeous song. Gorgeous times. So organic, live and real. No gimmicks, pedals, front monitors . . . nothing. Just raw talent. And, of course, Paul Rodgers at the centre with his masterful vocals.
Just to share a thing. 1968 was the first time I heard this band's sound emanating and loud from someone's house as I was walking the neighborhood. I stopped and heard the music of FREE. I was 14 then. Straight. Go straight. 🎭
Hard to disagree When you hear the sh1te that kids today think is talented thank god for Paul Rodgers and his merry band of musicians . By a mile the best Free song
They had such a clever gimmick: just get the best singer, then add the best guitarist, bassist and drummer. Seems like it worked. It helped that the audience weren't interfering, they were actually listening. Band sets the mood, everybody shares it. Beautiful!
I had a colleage from London. Back in the day as a teen she was a huge fan of Free and would always see them life in the London club scene . Such a pity how Paul Kossofs life ended so tragically at such an early age. His Father David Kossoff, a well known British movie actor, would travel the schools afterwards warning the young people of the dangers of drug abuse
As a seventy ear old man this still hits all my senses, just like the first time I heard it, what a great band. his music was raw and at its best. Before this gig very few knew their music, just so great to hear this live music again.
All feel brother from Rodgers vocals, to Fraser's bass lines to Kossoff pure emotion in every note and Simon Kirke on drums. No gimmicks, no auto tune, nor even monitors just pure talent and true ability. What more can I say. Today's music is shit. These guys are barely in their 20s. Andy Fraser was 16 when they cut the first album, Kossoff 17 and Kirke and Rodgers 20. Hard to believe they were that good at such a young age!! Imagine what they could have done 10 years down the road??? A shame what happened to Koss!! A tremendous loss to the music world!!! Huj
Thinking back 50 years, this record stood out to me as having a great lyric, (which you could attribute to a brother you are concerned about), superb piano (Andy Fraser) harmonising with Paul Rogers vocal. I also like Paul Kossoff guitar, and the strings accompaniment.
Me too, since I was 11 years old. Yeah, I wanted him as my husband without even knowing what he looked like. Just by what he sounded like. Then I met him on Daytona Beach during the '86 Firm tour when I was 24. He is the sweetest man on earth, I think. Only hours later he talked about meeting me over the local radio and said "hey to the lady I just met on the beach, and now she and I are friends and she knows who she is." I was so honored to be called friends by him. And over the radio too. I did almost die right there and go to heaven. I was really was on cloud nine. ❤️
@@AbleBodied I'm so jealous. I used to play their albums over and over. I even got to see them in concert a few times. He has music running right through his body. I still listen even now. It must have been Love. Lol 😍❤️
Look at the drum kit. Awesome what rhythm he gets out of it and look at behind which massive drum sets they are sitting now and are not that much better. :D Also an awesome bass player. Most important parts in a band: A flawless rhythm section. Simon Kirke and Andy Frasier.
Totally agree without doubt the best band this country has ever had When koss played you knew the feel he had just by his facial expression I was at isle of white in 1970 grew up listing to Jimi Hendrix since I was 14 amazing time Good luck
It's just an all time great performance. Rodgers voice he's singing so within himself, but with wonderful control, mood, emotion, style. Everything.Everything. His hair is annoying him with that breeze blowing it in his face - but what a mane. Good to see Clapton in the background taking photos. LOL.!!
Best ever blues guitarist. Sad loss, poor lost soul in the drugs hell. Wouldn't it have been great if he had survived. Saw the band in the '70s.....awesome!!!
My Favourite song of All time by anyone paul rodgers' voice on this is astonishing & uncanny guitar from Koss wonderful performance song&performance pebstill brings tears to my eyes & I'm 61 😢but I adoreethis song so much other vocalist don't get close not Plant but he was very very good Chris stapletonhas a lot of soul I like him lot too but even he comes nowhere close to this simply wonderful ❤️
Hearing this makes me sad of how popular music has deteriorated so much since then. Nothing is played or written with soul or feeling anymore, no emotion, no uniqueness, everything is over-produced and bland and all sounds the same. No one has desire to play actual real instruments, they'd rather let a computer do it all for them so they don't have to. And what's worse is they don't even have to have a great voice due to auto-tune. No this music, the music of Free and incredible groups like them, are lost to the sands of time. Thank goodness we have TH-cam so we can relive the golden era of music, when talented young musicians were making history and moving millions across the world instead of "dropping beats" and "sampling" someone else's work to call their own as they do today.
You are so right, but thank God that those musicians gave us timeless music which we can revisit forever and no matter how many times we hear we still feel the same strong emotions.
Love this song, one of my favourites from my favourite band! Never get tired of listening to it! Free are legends!! have an old cassette with this live performance on it, I listen to it when cruising in my mopar muscle car. Takes me back to the good times when I first got the car back in the road!
This is just the purest form of rock ever !!! No effects, just raw talent, feeling, soul and controlled power. It just makes you want to come in your pants.
@@americangirl7595 Free had a WAY stronger songwriting potential than Bad Company and - yeah - that Paul Kossoff´s guitar :-)… Bad Co made some great songs (Rock Steady, Deal Witch the Preacher) but is (at least for me) too "easygoing" and "vanilla" at some moments (...you know what I mean). Free was soulful, deep and rough at the same time which is awesome. Not accidentaly the best Bad Co songs are those that are the most Free-like...
hey kids... that's what a real band sounds like.🎸🥁🎤🎸😎
I cant believe Rodgers is not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He's been the worlds top vocalist for the past 40 years.
53 years now😊
Who cares,the R&R HOF is bullshit anyway
Rock and roll hall of fame is 💩 Rodgers doesn't need it
That's why he is known and called in the music industry as "The Voice"
This stuff is epic and sadly we will never see it again.
Koss's playing just make me wanna weep.
maccafan10 I'm late the the game here and just now started feasting on all that is Kossoff. I wept the first time I heard him solo.
flows like honey..... RIP Paul Kossof
So soulful, organic, honest and pure, and all of them between 18 and 20 years of age when this was performed and recorded. Doesn't get any better than this, folks -- 4 young guys writing all of their own songs and performing them live with no gimmicks, no live monitors, no fancy light/stage shows. Just to reitererate, Free were using amateur equipment here with no live monitors in front of around 600, 000 people . . . WOW! Can you imagine any young band doing this now? Don't think so. GR8 band!
18 to 21
Talent is talent.
Literally damn
Slow blues with buckets of soul. Fantastic.
Kosoff's guitar gives me goosebumps, and Paul Rodgers voice has as much soul as Otis Redding or Wilson Pickett, The bass and drums are a solid unit tighter than granite
And Sam Cook too. Awesome smooth.
Kossoff is one of the greatest and the band in general is one of the most underrated and unknown bands out there...I like em better than bad company
I’m the arsehole with my windows down cranking these fellas in daily Hollywood bowl traffic.
FREE WHERE ONE OF THE GREATEST ROCK BLUES GROUP,S AROUND, SAD IT WAS ONLY FOR A FEW YEARS. PEACE TO YOU ALL MY FRIEND'S. 🙏✌️😎🏴
If Kossoff was alive today, he could show many guitarists how to play the guitar with so much fitness so under rated but so great
This song always gives me hope.
Man, I wish this type of music would get a come back... :(
God that guy can sing. Rips your heart out
Gorgeous song. Gorgeous times. So organic, live and real. No gimmicks, pedals, front monitors . . . nothing. Just raw talent. And, of course, Paul Rodgers at the centre with his masterful vocals.
Just to share a thing. 1968 was the first time I heard this band's sound emanating and loud from someone's house as I was walking the neighborhood. I stopped and heard the music of FREE. I was 14 then. Straight. Go straight. 🎭
Lol im from 1999, Never Had the Chance to hear Them in that Time, but their Songs Are so beautiful, much better than the modern stuff
Indeed they had a front monitor it was Paul.
@@devinhood7340 YES ! THANK YOU ! 💯💕🥰😍🤩🎶🏆
Living life as it should really good Paul and the guys
The days of classic rock like this are gone forever. Sad but true.
Correct how music gone down hill where's the musicians nowadays
Thank the lord this music is preserved in some way. I’d almost lost all hope. Magnificent
No one cooler than Andy Fraser, look at those epic shades!
Love the sound of Paul's voice, Nobody can sing like that but him.
Coverdale
@@romali6717David Coverdale sings nothing like paul
Jeez! They were sooo good!
Speechless............. Probably the best rock band EVER.....
The Best band ever
The Chosen 4 🎶
👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Cant argue with you there
Kossof & Rodgers at their best , can't beat 70s rock , great music 🎶👍👍👍👌
Dont forget Fraser and Kirke!
The best track in the history of music. fucking stunning.
Tom Wright I like this comment can't argue with the truth
Buena bansa
Hard to disagree
When you hear the sh1te that kids today think is talented thank god for Paul Rodgers and his merry band of musicians .
By a mile the best Free song
I love Paul Rodgers voice. What a great Musician!!
Goosebumps every time
Love this song…it says so much 💕
Love Paul Rogers....saw him singing live with Bad Company in 1975....amazing!
I saw Free and Bad Company play live on several occasions each. Amazing!!
Not one person on this planet can beat this voice ever.
Si, hay voces superadoras a estas😎🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷
Paul Rodgers. That rock voice, unbelievable.
And it's live too!!
As a 15 year old I was sat somewhere in the crowd I am 60 and will never
Forget it IOW festival great days great band
fattwat1 r
the hunter by free
I am one too! I am 77 next week. But, decades younger watching and hearing one of the best tight bands ever.
Sadly the guitarrist died too early.
Great song by a great band....Koss had soul...this band were very special!!!!!
They had such a clever gimmick: just get the best singer, then add the best guitarist, bassist and drummer. Seems like it worked. It helped that the audience weren't interfering, they were actually listening. Band sets the mood, everybody shares it. Beautiful!
Music that reaches your heart and soul, possibly more so now than when I was teenager. Paul Rodger’s voice is sublime and the best there is 🤩
AMAZING BAND.
Paul is on fire 🔥
Hats and hearts off to KOSS!!!!
Best band ever and Paul is still rockin' it!
This band.......that voice..........
What an emotional song. It doesn't get any better than this. RIP Koss
Probably their best and most enduring song.
*It blows my mind that the band was so young and played with so much soul and how they are NOT in the r.n.r h.o.f is absolutely fn ` ridiculous!!*
h.o.f is for mediocre bands
Yup..when they started they ranged from 15 to 18.. crazy..
Rock & Roll Hall of Shame!
Agree! Still not right.
Andy Fraser was just 17 here...unbelievable 👏👏👏👏💯
The guitar solo is one of my all time favorites. So much feeling in this one.
I just wish he had stretched it a bit longer! Maybe for an hour!
So beautiful it all tone and expression. Such a subtle and beautiful touch kossoff had. His note placement is 2nd to none
Only Peter green could match him in terms of feel.
There was no other band like um and there never will be❤
Voice and guitar cry - impressive, touching the heart
coolest band on the planet in their day
I second that. At their peak they were untouchable
They were so so good ! That tone and rhythm just beautiful
and timeless ! I am 64 now and sounds as fresh as relevant as when I first heard it 👌😎
True great band
I had a colleage from London. Back in the day as a teen she was a huge fan of Free and would always see them life in the London club scene . Such a pity how Paul Kossofs life ended so tragically at such an early age. His Father David Kossoff, a well known British movie actor, would travel the schools afterwards warning the young people of the dangers of drug abuse
Out of this world! The singing, the bass, the guitar, the drumming!
amazing band,paul has a incredible voice
AMAZING TALENT! Timeless. ❤️
As a seventy ear old man this still hits all my senses, just like the first time I heard it, what a great band. his music was raw and at its best. Before this gig very few knew their music, just so great to hear this live music again.
I've listened to this one probably a hundred times, and I never get sick of it. this is music, baby! with real soul, that's what it's all about.
All feel brother from Rodgers vocals, to Fraser's bass lines to Kossoff pure emotion in every note and Simon Kirke on drums. No gimmicks, no auto tune, nor even monitors just pure talent and true ability. What more can I say. Today's music is shit. These guys are barely in their 20s. Andy Fraser was 16 when they cut the first album, Kossoff 17 and Kirke and Rodgers 20. Hard to believe they were that good at such a young age!! Imagine what they could have done 10 years down the road??? A shame what happened to Koss!! A tremendous loss to the music world!!!
Huj
@@edwardcapobianco2975 Zackly...
True.
I can listen to this everyday.
Andy Frazer was just 18 at the time. One of the Great Bass Players and also fantastic Songwriter.
Thinking back 50 years, this record stood out to me as having a great lyric, (which you could attribute to a brother you are concerned about), superb piano (Andy Fraser) harmonising with Paul Rogers vocal. I also like Paul Kossoff guitar, and the strings accompaniment.
I used to think of this man as my future husband when i was young! At least i got their albums! MUSIC FOR MY SOUL!!!
Me too, since I was 11 years old. Yeah, I wanted him as my husband without even knowing what he looked like. Just by what he sounded like.
Then I met him on Daytona Beach during the '86 Firm tour when I was 24.
He is the sweetest man on earth, I think. Only hours later he talked about meeting me over the local radio and said "hey to the lady I just met on the beach, and now she and I are friends and she knows who she is."
I was so honored to be called friends by him.
And over the radio too. I did almost die right there and go to heaven.
I was really was on cloud nine. ❤️
@@AbleBodied I'm so jealous. I used to play their albums over and over. I even got to see them in concert a few times. He has music running right through his body. I still listen even now. It must have been Love. Lol 😍❤️
Free was just pure Rock! Just so damn Raw and Bad-Ass, have to love this cut!
Such a great feeling listening to Free!
Absolutely Orgasmic!! 💜🎼👏🏻👏🏻
Look at the drum kit. Awesome what rhythm he gets out of it and look at behind which massive drum sets they are sitting now and are not that much better. :D Also an awesome bass player. Most important parts in a band: A flawless rhythm section. Simon Kirke and Andy Frasier.
Simple set up my fav
Beautiful songs..just love Free
The finest band to ever grace these British Isles.
Totally agree without doubt the best band this country has ever had
When koss played you knew the feel he had just by his facial expression
I was at isle of white in 1970 grew up listing to Jimi Hendrix since I was 14 amazing time
Good luck
1=Zeppelin, 2=floyd, 3=deep purple, 4=free imho
@@Tonysmithmusic deep purple were discount Zeppelin, and you're ignoring Clapton, Gallagher, and Alvin Lee
Free and the Mac
It's just an all time great performance. Rodgers voice he's singing so within himself, but with wonderful control, mood, emotion, style. Everything.Everything. His hair is annoying him with that breeze blowing it in his face - but what a mane. Good to see Clapton in the background taking photos. LOL.!!
If i had a time machine that i could use one time, i would go back to this concert and tell the camera men to record Kossoff during the solo.
Precise, clean, elegant music to highlight the soulful voice of the best blues - rock voice ever.
Best ever blues guitarist. Sad loss, poor lost soul in the drugs hell. Wouldn't it have been great if he had survived. Saw the band in the '70s.....awesome!!!
I was lucky to see them live a great group vocally
My Favourite song of All time by anyone paul rodgers' voice on this is astonishing & uncanny guitar from Koss wonderful performance song&performance pebstill brings tears to my eyes & I'm 61 😢but I adoreethis song so much
other vocalist don't get close not Plant but he was very very good Chris stapletonhas a lot of soul I like him lot too but even he comes nowhere close to this simply wonderful ❤️
Very Very Very cool song... I love Paul Rodgers vocals on this song.....
When MUSIC had a soul ...
cosmicowboy111 Enjoyed this! Reminds me of Lynyrd Skynyrd...Simple Kind Of Man
Also added to my playlist....thanks for the share!
Awesome, you bet ... music from a musical decade! ;)
@@dianneharrison5760 there is an interview somewhere where they mention they were influenced by bands like Free.
@@dianneharrison5760 Skynyrd loved Free
Czesto powracam do tego utworu . Gitara , wokal zachwycajace !
Kossoffs tone is wonderful.... such great playing by him and the band. Best in the business
oh to be alive then. To have so many great bands producing great music unlike now. So sad really... Genius
I wasn't born until 1977 so I missed all the good stuff.I feel your pain.
Love this on so many levels - nothing better!
All right now is the classic and remembered Free song BUT... this is Free at their best.
Baby baby be my friend. Good to see Paul
Gooooooooooooodddddddddddd !!!!!!!!!!!! This is Heaven on Earth... I love these guys music.. Soooooooooooooooo much... To the very end :-)
Hearing this makes me sad of how popular music has deteriorated so much since then. Nothing is played or written with soul or feeling anymore, no emotion, no uniqueness, everything is over-produced and bland and all sounds the same. No one has desire to play actual real instruments, they'd rather let a computer do it all for them so they don't have to. And what's worse is they don't even have to have a great voice due to auto-tune. No this music, the music of Free and incredible groups like them, are lost to the sands of time. Thank goodness we have TH-cam so we can relive the golden era of music, when talented young musicians were making history and moving millions across the world instead of "dropping beats" and "sampling" someone else's work to call their own as they do today.
So true
You are so right, but thank God that those musicians gave us timeless music which we can revisit forever and no matter how many times we hear we still feel the same strong emotions.
Agree 100%.
So much soul and talk about bringing a song to life, Koss and Rodgers at their best... Love it...
pur music, no gimmicks.
Timeless, awesome track, Free at their best...
Rodgers' voice at its best. The man was flawless back then.
And still is..
Melhor que todas as outras versões. Tudo perfeito !
Isle of Wight 1970..super stuff
Paul is still great! One of his more recent CDs is always in my car player!
Love this song, one of my favourites from my favourite band! Never get tired of listening to it! Free are legends!! have an old cassette with this live performance on it, I listen to it when cruising in my mopar muscle car. Takes me back to the good times when I first got the car back in the road!
This is just the purest form of rock ever !!! No effects, just raw talent, feeling, soul and controlled power. It just makes you want to come in your pants.
The absolute very best version kossofs face while killing it on the guitar one of the greatest live performances ever
Jedna z najlepszych kapel lat 70. Absolutne piękno
there's no enough words to explain how much i love this song
Still got some of their albums on records but nothing to play them on these days!
Hell, they were great! Don't see any like them today.
flysouth1 buy them again on cd! I did and don't regret it! I still love them! I also have the records!
You can still find new turntables that they will play on. Google it.
I Long for a time machine xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
So powerful ! Such feel from both Paul Rodgers and Kossoff !!! Truely Amazing and thanks for sharing : ) Will love you to the very end Paul Kossoff !
best brit male voice i ever heard
Kevin Tyler i
Terry reid
@@americangirl7595 Free had a WAY stronger songwriting potential than Bad Company and - yeah - that Paul Kossoff´s guitar :-)… Bad Co made some great songs (Rock Steady, Deal Witch the Preacher) but is (at least for me) too "easygoing" and "vanilla" at some moments (...you know what I mean). Free was soulful, deep and rough at the same time which is awesome. Not accidentaly the best Bad Co songs are those that are the most Free-like...
- Simply Awesome / Simply Amazing 🎵🎼🎶🎸😎👊
kossoff what a master
Wonderiffic ! Absolutely ! Wonderiffic ! Takes me back ! I Was there IOW
A beautiful soul singing a beautiful song !!❤
So so so.............. so so so gooooooooood
Always brilliant .Very few bands sound as good live .
THE Best male rock vocalist to ever pick up a fuckin' mirophone! FACT!!!
✌😎❤
who is listening in 2018? love this song and band.
2019
I’m listening! When music was music. You either played an instrument or sports. Now everyone is on their damn phone!
One of my Favorite Bands
Paul Rodger il miglior cantante rock di sempre..!!!