I'm fortunate to be the guy who re-claimed/remastered these recording's ( now on Rhino Records as The Blues Master's) The producer asked me if there was any value in "these old tapes" & I got to transfer 27 hours of performance from 1967 recorded over 3 days in the main studio at CBC in Toronto, Canada. The 2" tapes were laid back from a 2" AMPEX tape desk in 1995 to a digital format. I re-mastered the audio on a Dyaxsis work station. Very rare performances - Willie, Muddy, Sunnyland, & more.
They showed the show you're talking about on CBC archives one night on TV. It was Barry Callaghan who narrated it and it was an incredible show. It was from a show called From The Vault and it was on a Wed. night on the CBC History Channel. Lucky you, Thx. for sharing.
You want to know the secret of how Willie was such a great bass player? Don't watch his hands, look at his face. He's having the time of his life there. If you're not having fun playing, you won't ever be great no matter how much you practice. He loved it, and that's why he was the man.
I'm an upright bassist, a crap one at best but a bassist none the less. Can't preach enough how much this guy revolutionised the way Bass was seen, probably one of the first blues musicians ever to go on a big stage and slap an upright like that
At almost 75 I am learning to play bass. 3 yrs of private lessons and - so far - 2nd semester of playing with a youth jazz group. What a discovery for me to find Willie Dixon. This version is exciting and gives me some ideas. The 1st minute or so reminds me of the boogie-woogie bass line in Duke Ellington's "Saratoga Swing".
When I was a kid my mom, who worked at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga , Ca) said, " there's someone playing this weekend you might want to see. I can get you tickets, his name is Dirty River". I said , "Mom you mean Muddy Waters?" . I got to see Willie Dixon, Pine Top Perkins, Willie "Big Eye" Smith, James Cotton... Johnny Winter came out and played, too.
Andrew Luandrew on the piano. went by the name -Sunnyland Slim Willie Dixon??? one of a few who can/could say - I am the blues without anyone contesting THX for this gem, ragbaken! gl2all
"Blues are the roots, everything else is the fruits." - Willie Dixon :) Sure, Blues is just essence of life into a musical context. And everything in music come from life, so from the blues.
great bassist, producer, writer and all around musician. i live in chicago so i went to the former Chess records building which is now a blues museum, learned a hell of alot about him there
It’s amazing the among Willie’s amazing musical talents and arguably the best bassist to ever play, he was a Golden Gloves boxing champ and Joe Louis’s sparring partner. So Willie must have been a beast with his hands, yet the nice, gentle guy.
This must be what you get from years of playing with duos and trios with no drummer for a room full of great dancers....amazing, it's just like breathing to him. Sunnyland Slim is wonderful here too.
Haaa el maestro del blues. aquel blues de esos tiempos contrabajo un buen piano y unas percuciones exlentes :D y por supuesto que buenos musicos muy buenos diria yo.
Man this one of the most impressive bass playing I have ever seen. I play the bass and after viewing Willie, I know what it will be to be the best. God rest your soul Willie. I loved this.
Man Willie is just the best, he was like the conducter of the blues movement back then and he's an amazing musician, just look at his hands move around!
The godfather of the blues! His songs are blues and rock history! The most famous musicians of the 20th century covered his songs. The list of bands that have covered his songs is long and significant. Dixon deserves greater credit for his influence on music over the last century.
Feel and attitude is what its all about....Just cause some of the jazz players are great readers and have fast chops doesn't mean they have soul and can put the notes where they belong..Willie is the man with the plan!
music is all about a feeling ,everyone has them now the expressions used to convey them to the masses, well thats the talent of the great musiciansand vocalist through the years tribal, operas orchestras,jazz,r&b,rock, and country their all about expressions???? all music has soul thats where it come from!!!!!can you say express yourself,thats what they do;
Great direction setting up the shot so that Willie's hands and the pianist's are visible in the same shot - from two directions. Somebody knew how to film musicians.
You can find a live record of this song, recalled "rocking and rolling the house", with Memphis Slim on piano, "live in Paris" Enjoy! In my opnion, that's Sunnyland Slim playing piano there.
The importance of Willie is deep. He was A&R at Chess, a writer of extreme lasting influence and accomplished in every aspect of the late 40's through the 60's Chicago Blues sound. Don't overlook Sunnyland Slim on this post.
being a bass player, he is making it look extremly easy but trust me it definitly isnt! and watching this video is such a breath of fresh air i know i amp roably behind but i am so glad that i finally found out about him
I just don't understand how a good boxer could become a great songwriter and dexterous bass player. He's that great. Sunnyland Slim is the front line piano player as well. Thx!
Twenty years before the Red Hot Chilli Peppers came out with their first LP, and a few years before Sly & the Family Stone even originated, this guy was laying down some seriously funky grooves. A real master, no doubt. For those who didn't like this...What is wrong with you people???
@ItzhakWoolf I'm very grateful that Willie's music provided cover inspiration for Foghat, Zepp and the Doors; of which they in turn paid serious justice to the maestro in the form of their arrangements, along with hundreds of others musicians. The evolution of music is the grandest of things until you run into artists that don't 'get it;' of which everyone can name a few covers that represent that catagory
You can find a great live version on 'Memphis Slim Aux 'Trois Maille -:- Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon'. One of my all time favourite live blues albums. Enjoy.
I'm fortunate to be the guy who re-claimed/remastered these recording's ( now on Rhino Records as The Blues Master's) The producer asked me if there was any value in "these old tapes" & I got to transfer 27 hours of performance from 1967 recorded over 3 days in the main studio at CBC in Toronto, Canada. The 2" tapes were laid back from a 2" AMPEX tape desk in 1995 to a digital format. I re-mastered the audio on a Dyaxsis work station. Very rare performances - Willie, Muddy, Sunnyland, & more.
That's awesome! You may not be around 7 years later but do you know if any of these went from cd's to vinyl?
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They showed the show you're talking about on CBC archives one night on TV. It was Barry Callaghan who narrated it and it was an incredible show. It was from a show called From The Vault and it was on a Wed. night on the CBC History Channel. Lucky you, Thx. for sharing.
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we love you Brian! thanks!
I wish more people played bass like this. He wrote great songs, too.
All that matters is one.
Eu rambem queria.
You want to know the secret of how Willie was such a great bass player? Don't watch his hands, look at his face. He's having the time of his life there. If you're not having fun playing, you won't ever be great no matter how much you practice. He loved it, and that's why he was the man.
I know nothing about playing stand up bass, but come on, man, Willie is absolutely rippin' it up.
I'm an upright bassist, a crap one at best but a bassist none the less. Can't preach enough how much this guy revolutionised the way Bass was seen, probably one of the first blues musicians ever to go on a big stage and slap an upright like that
@@isetta4083 he revolutionized it along with pops foster
Willies whole demeanor is " another day at the office" while he changes the weather on that bass.....love it !!!!
At almost 75 I am learning to play bass. 3 yrs of private lessons and - so far - 2nd semester of playing with a youth jazz group. What a discovery for me to find Willie Dixon. This version is exciting and gives me some ideas. The 1st minute or so reminds me of the boogie-woogie bass line in Duke Ellington's "Saratoga Swing".
I started playing bass when I was 45 years old!
RESPECT !!!!
I'm 59, thank you for the inspiration.
When I was a kid my mom, who worked at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga , Ca) said, " there's someone playing this weekend you might want to see. I can get you tickets, his name is Dirty River". I said , "Mom you mean Muddy Waters?" . I got to see Willie Dixon, Pine Top Perkins, Willie "Big Eye" Smith, James Cotton... Johnny Winter came out and played, too.
lol @ Dirty River
Andrew Luandrew on the piano.
went by the name -Sunnyland Slim
Willie Dixon???
one of a few who can/could say -
I am the blues
without anyone contesting
THX for this gem, ragbaken!
gl2all
one of the best double bassist ever ...
and blues song writer ...
I just disliked your comment trying to press like again from different time. 👍
Damn, that percussive slapping while still plucking away a steady groove. Gotta love it
Without Willie Dixon , so much music that we know would not exist . He truly was the backbone on so many levels.
This is the best music in the world!!!
"Blues are the roots, everything else is the fruits." - Willie Dixon :)
Sure, Blues is just essence of life into a musical context.
And everything in music come from life, so from the blues.
Really liked this quote
If you discount classical and baroque music and the invention of polyphony and everything before the 20th century, yeah blues are the roots
everything else is fruits of classic music...
@@oscartravis5740 roll over Beethoven
@@Wolf-ds6es and tell Tchaikovsky the news
How could a 6' 5'' boxer could produce such delicate music beats me.A true gem.
great bassist, producer, writer and all around musician. i live in chicago so i went to the former Chess records building which is now a blues museum, learned a hell of alot about him there
The Original Slap Bass. The man is Funkin" it up.
Willie Dixon is the most mysterious and underrated bluesman!
Wrote most of blues influential hits lol, that's why sued zeppelin and won! Because of all the songs melodies he wrote.. man was a genius.
I was fortunate to have seen at the old Fillmore, in one show, Willie Dixon, Clifton Chenier, and Buddy Guy. Life has never been the same
The kind of footage that jazz lovers swoon over. I’m swooning. 😊
But it's the blues?
This one man did so much for popular music!
It’s amazing the among Willie’s amazing musical talents and arguably the best bassist to ever play, he was a Golden Gloves boxing champ and Joe Louis’s sparring partner. So Willie must have been a beast with his hands, yet the nice, gentle guy.
Yep.
I was going to say something like, “He must have incredible eye-hand coordination” but then I realised he doesn’t look at the strings.
Legend !
jacquelineandron Exactly, he never looks down ! I love watching stand-up bass players, but he's in a different league.
Greatest Blues bass player...
a true talent...
This must be what you get from years of playing with duos and trios with no drummer for a room full of great dancers....amazing, it's just like breathing to him. Sunnyland Slim is wonderful here too.
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Thanks for posting this. Lest we forget what a great blues bass man Willie Dixon was! He was the MAN.
Greatest songwriter ever !!!
and bass player too !!!!!
This inspired me to pick up my bass!
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That was some of the best bass playing that I've ever heard and seen.
If people still played bass like that these days, I might actually listen to today's music.
Haaa el maestro del blues. aquel blues de esos tiempos contrabajo un buen piano y unas percuciones exlentes :D y por supuesto que buenos musicos muy buenos diria yo.
Man this one of the most impressive bass playing I have ever seen. I play the bass and after viewing Willie, I know what it will be to be the best. God rest your soul Willie. I loved this.
Now that's some kind of talent - I hope we as the human race can get blessed by God and have a million more years on planet Earth.
Man Willie is just the best, he was like the conducter of the blues movement back then and he's an amazing musician, just look at his hands move around!
All hail the greatest bass player of all time.
Wow!!! What a privilege to hear! Priceless! Thanks!
Man this is assome !!
I'm guitar player but what bass can do on blues is just stunning :D
I miss you Willie Dixon. RIP. Willie will inspire generations to come.
Amazing! Had the privilege of seeing him live early 80’s
Thank you for posting this. This is stuff every bass player should be familiar with.
I got Willie's "I Am The Blues" on vinyl when it came out in 1970. I was just a pup. TItle says it all. He is the blues. R.I.P. Mr. Dixon.
He was a real bass machine. I'm watching and learning and hope to have that kind of power in my right hand when I play for years to come.
I ' m a non professional bass player and this video is a real treasure ... Thanks for share ..
The godfather of the blues! His songs are blues and rock history! The most famous musicians of the 20th century covered his songs. The list of bands that have covered his songs is long and significant. Dixon deserves greater credit for his influence on music over the last century.
such calm, grace, and little effort in the fingers. Awesome!
Gr8 bass player and that yamaha piano sounds beautiful.
Wow, what a bass player, fantastic!
Pocas veces se oye a un bajo como protagonista, este señor era un gran maestro..., deberían hacerse mas canciones de este estilo.
He is the man!
all those great songs he wrote
and no one plays his songs better than him
Willie's intonation is fantastic
grazie per la divulgazione della musica!
What a creativity!!!! What a TALENT!!!!!
Feel and attitude is what its all about....Just cause some of the jazz players are great readers and have fast chops doesn't mean they have soul and can put the notes where they belong..Willie is the man with the plan!
Willie Dixon, the quintessential 'behind the scenes' bluesman. This is sensational!!
I have his CD "I Am The Blues"
it's an awesome recording of his greatest hits
Highly recommended if you like this
I bought that CD at a flee market in the mid 80,s. I still play it all the time.
Amazing!. Thanks for sharing!. This man was amazing!.
Cookin man, this is cookin! If you play bass I defy you to not wanna play this. Inspiring stuff. I'm off to get lost in the world of this man.
I was 4 when this was filmed, love it alot!!!
never been a huge willie Dixon fan, but this video has made me rethink that position.
I saw Willie in Mexico City. Gerat concert, great bass player!!
effortless !!! thats amazing ! i love it
music is all about a feeling ,everyone has them now the expressions used to convey them to the masses, well thats the talent of the great musiciansand vocalist through the years tribal, operas orchestras,jazz,r&b,rock, and country their all about expressions???? all music has soul thats where it come from!!!!!can you say express yourself,thats what they do;
Masterwork they played all with great talent.(rip) but this music we keep it alive.
I am so jealous of his hands! They're HUGE!!
Acoustic bass, very rare in blues. I had the chance to shook is wonderful hand one day, in Mexico. Chicago blues forever!
Great direction setting up the shot so that Willie's hands and the pianist's are visible in the same shot - from two directions. Somebody knew how to film musicians.
That's real music !
You can find a live record of this song, recalled "rocking and rolling the house", with Memphis Slim on piano, "live in Paris"
Enjoy!
In my opnion, that's Sunnyland Slim playing piano there.
Very Good Music,So Nice Blues !! Wooowo!!
willie dixon was a master at taking simple bass lines like this vid and making them sound cooler
I love it ,it is so beautifull what a great talent he was,and for ever whe keep it alive.
Willie is Bloody Good,all you young Bass playres take note
My hero. Thank you.
The importance of Willie is deep. He was A&R at Chess, a writer of extreme lasting influence and accomplished in every aspect of the late 40's through the 60's Chicago Blues sound.
Don't overlook Sunnyland Slim on this post.
Best I`ve ever seen or heard...
So fluid and clean! Love the below the bridge part.
He's wailing on that thing, without frets. Mind blown
The King of Blues bass! Master!
What a player! Willie is fantastic!
I've only resently discovered Willie Dixon and i'm hooked.
Thanks Mr. Dixon for your Brilliant work.
This is from a DVD called Blues Masters-I highly reccomend it. Great DVD from early 60;s with Muddy Waters,et al.
Thank you Mr. Dixon.
and muddy the king of blues and well really the best of the best he helped shape the music we know today for sure
Damn. . The Mount Everest of Bass playing . . and with room to climb higher . .
being a bass player, he is making it look extremly easy but trust me it definitly isnt! and watching this video is such a breath of fresh air i know i amp roably behind but i am so glad that i finally found out about him
Super Legend!!!! LOVE!!!!!
And that... Is what bass is about. Awsome post.
I just don't understand how a good boxer could become a great songwriter and dexterous bass player. He's that great. Sunnyland Slim is the front line piano player as well. Thx!
The Legendary Willie Dixon, one of the great pillars of Chess Records.
RIP, Great Man.
he's wearing a sweater... and not sweating. he's one of my absolute favorites.
Twenty years before the Red Hot Chilli Peppers came out with their first LP, and a few years before Sly & the Family Stone even originated, this guy was laying down some seriously funky grooves. A real master, no doubt. For those who didn't like this...What is wrong with you people???
Thanks so much for saving these
THIS IS SIMPLY AWESOME
This video makes me happy very nice, I like it.
@ItzhakWoolf
I'm very grateful that Willie's music provided cover inspiration for Foghat, Zepp and the Doors; of which they in turn paid serious justice to the maestro in the form of their arrangements, along with hundreds of others musicians.
The evolution of music is the grandest of things until you run into artists that don't 'get it;' of which everyone can name a few covers that represent that catagory
Willie Dixon- Jul 1 1915- Jan 29, 1992.
RIP
Emperor of the chicago blues +etc.
Terrific Bass playing.
You can find a great live version on 'Memphis Slim Aux 'Trois Maille -:- Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon'. One of my all time favourite live blues albums. Enjoy.
This is THE REAL DEAL!
I cant even play any instrument but playing a contrabass is my dream...gotta do smth about it before 40s...
The best blues any time!