RIP the two members of Free Paul Kossoff (September 14, 1950 - March 19, 1976), aged 25 Andy Fraser (July 3, 1952 - March 16, 2015), aged 62 You both will be remembered as legends.
Best bassist, you don’t have to be fancy, be fast or slap, he was the back bone of the band and at such a young age, pure talent RIP andy fraiser you are massively missed
Scott Ryan well said Scott. Always was my favourite bassist. Backbone was the best word you used. He could also take the lead with that mother too when he felt like it
Just a great band and a great feel.and then the voice of Paul Roger's. I am 68 years old.seen all the best.thes guys are in my top 10 bands of all time ✝☮
I know 🤘🏼 they were my favourite group in the 70s they were so young and talented, I’m now 70yrs and still absolutely love them, we were so lucky to have them, 🎸🎤❤️
Paul Kossoff really “sang” thru that guitar. When Paul Rodgers leaves off and Kossoff begins his solo, it’s like listening to a second human soul, bringing his own passions into the conversation.
This footage is Bloody priceless!!!! Led Zeppelin played Madison square garden for the first time that year!Free didn’t have that monstrous stage presence and sound that Bonzo gave them but had the music to make them just as impactful and successful as Peter Grants boys.
Andy Frazier, great bass tone with that EB3 him and Jack Bruce that's why my first bass was a Gibson EB3 over 40 years ago Paul Kossof very underrated he is never mentioned with JP EC JB and Townsend Great Band
Kossoff was such an underrated guitar player. You know it's a complete joke when a band like free, still isn't in the rock hall of fame, when groups like NWA already are. It's a parody in and of itself. When you hear bad company, not taking anything away from their guitar playing whatsoever, as it's actually a compliment and sounds amazing, you know that guitar tone and style, is derived and inspired directly from Kossoff.
Whenever I think of songs by Free that influenced Lynyrd Skynyrd, this is one of the first that come to mind. Skynyrd performed a lot of Free songs when they first gigged, and I can totally imagine Ronnie Van Zant singing this one
@@jplew138 learning song for the badman made me start wanting to get into free again it is so reminiscent of free's sound and style, needle and the spoon too altho everyone says it's like cream, I hear free.
@@joejones9520 "Comin' Home" is another one that reminds me of Free from the 1971 Muscle Shoals sessions. And "Broad Daylight" and "Get Where I Belong" are two other Free songs that I think influenced Skynyrd's style
Tony Wilson I’m amazed at the audience 😬 they’re sat there like they’re listening to a poem recital and not one of the best rock groups In the world 🎶✊🏼🎸
Someone commented in another vid... Bad Company was the commercial version.. and Free the artistic version.... good description.. But I would like to add this Free... extreme drug use... Bad Company no drugs after Fraser's death. But one of my top 5 bands EVER! This band was a band of ALL STARS at every spot. I still get emotional listening after 51 years of listening... Im 68
"Bad Company no drugs" is rather inaccurate. After their massive success in America, by the early 1980s the band were washed up and had drug abs alcohol problems, as Simon Kirke has stated in interviews after getting clean.
wow! discovered this band through my dad some 24 years ago (via the free story album). they really are a one-off and so groovy and talented. paul rodgers’ voice is just incredible ... must be the best to ever hail from these shores?? okay, craig david as well?? 😉😎
So many guitarists who are really good sound so alike. You don t have to be technically brilliant to make a good impression. I was around in that productive period when you knew instintively certain players who just had their own sound and feel. Paul Kossof Leslie West Carlos Santana and Ollie Halsall not forgetting Roy Buchanan immediately spring to mind. I saw Free at the Fox and Greyhound in Croydon in 1970 and it is firmly etched in my memory.
They put everything they had into their performance. The intensity is frightening. To have seen them live at this time would have stayed with you. Truly memorable.
Love lead guitar but cant help putting that to the side to listen to AF's bass. Whod ever imagine a lead singer, lead guitarist, bassist and drummer could produce stuff of magic like this? I❤the 70s
Es wird über Supergruppen gesprochen und das Free wohl die einzigartigste ist wird zu wenig gewürdigt. Einer der besten Gitarristen der damaligen Zeit,der damals am modernsten funkyblues Bassisten,ein auf den Punkt trommelnden Schlagzeuger und als ein Höhepunkt der hervorragende Sänger....bis heute ist der herzlich warme,unter die Haut gehende Klang und Ausdruckskraft sowie growing Bluesrock von Free nicht Übertrumpft werden...und auch ein Dank an Alex's Körper ,daß er Free gefordert hat...Free werden immer ein Vorbild sein für junge Musiker. Für uns Fans ein unerschöpflichlicher musikalischer Genuss. Dr.Ilja Lasaroff aus Bulgarien das Land von Orpheus der Rosen und Weins....
Funny…..i never “got” free until recently. Now I realize this band was pure feeling and sex. That dragging behind the beat and open spaces in the song….pure sex. Super tight rhythm section…..that smoking guitar….and paul Rogers….belting on top. Being a bass player, Andy Fraser …..man…..the epitome of a rock bass playing legend. That Gibson eb-3 sounded amazing in his hands. That’s my bass tone and style that I am working on now……amazing….
Yeah, I listen to an my comment by Simon Kirke be and said that Andy Frazer was only 15 years old. First played with John Mayall band before joining supergroup " FREE".
I think Andy might’ve studied the playing of Jamerson and other Motown masters to hone his own syncopated countermelody playing. However he got there, it was a signature of the band’s sound and still feels so fresh.
Grew up in the middle of this music. It was an awesome time. My buddies and I would travel from Beaver County, PA to Youngstown Ohio to hear bands play this kind of music. There was some ass kicking rock-n-roll coming out of NE Ohio in those days. Free would have felt right at home there.
Free were excellent. The space, raw feel, rhythm and great playing unencumbered by technology. Each band member contributes an essential feature to the overall sound.
----this is a sexy dance of Paul Rodgers to a good hardrock blues---Do you agree,Diana ?--I missed to see "FREE" live in the 70ies in Germany--I am 61 years old----------Your photo is very beautiful,Diana----
Back in 1987 I had a girlfriend from Liverpool who came to visit me in London. I put on a VHS video tape, a compilation of music, that included this performance by Free. I don't think I've ever seen a woman get worked up so quickly. I put the video on slow motion for a joke and she was practically writhing on the seat. As a man I don't know what Paul had that had such an effect on women, but I wouldn't have minded just a little of it😂
Wasn't Andy Fraser something like 16 when he joined the band? Insane. One of my fav Rock bassists. He really gave Free a funky swing unusual for hard rock bands of that era.
Will any of Millennium puppies be ever able to make at least one song like these guys?... Wish the Free Band was back to save us from what we hear today...🤘🏻
They made the album heartbreaker with tetsu on bass in my opinion a fantastic album tetsu was ALOT heavier than Fraser he didn't have Fraser's groove or fluidity on bass Fraser was just magic on the bass
RIP the two members of Free
Paul Kossoff (September 14, 1950 - March 19, 1976), aged 25
Andy Fraser (July 3, 1952 - March 16, 2015), aged 62
You both will be remembered as legends.
Best bassist, you don’t have to be fancy, be fast or slap, he was the back bone of the band and at such a young age, pure talent RIP andy fraiser you are massively missed
Scott Ryan well said Scott. Always was my favourite bassist. Backbone was the best word you used. He could also take the lead with that mother too when he felt like it
Just a great band and a great feel.and then the voice of Paul Roger's. I am 68 years old.seen all the best.thes guys are in my top 10 bands of all time ✝☮
Best band I ever saw at van dyke in plymouth
He got such lush bass tone from that Gibson bass and a Marshall. Truly one of the best....andy fraser
WORD!
Mr. Rodgers still sings like that. None ever better.
BEST SINGER, BEST GUITARIST, BEST BASSIST, BEST DFRUMMER..........BEST BAND.
I sincerely agree
Get their 3 cd set. Transmission Impossible. It's all their live from TV and radio shows. It's INCREDIBLE
Yep and we're all here watching abd listening for FREE😎
Amen to that, the best band ever I listen to them everyday
Free and the Band of Gypsies the best ever in blues rock,huh.
This was the standard they set in 1970, 50 years later still unmatched!
I know 🤘🏼 they were my favourite group in the 70s they were so young and talented, I’m now 70yrs and still absolutely love them, we were so lucky to have them, 🎸🎤❤️
You are a superb judge and I like and agree
I totally agree!!
You are so right
Paul Rodgers always great whether with Free, Bad Company or The Firm. He's no Geddy Lee but he's right up there!
What a sound. Koss was an incredible guitar player.
Paul Rodgers voice is unmatched.
If you are watching this you are looking at the dream team. Cause you can't get no better
One of my favorite free songs brilliant groove ageless unlike me! Time passes free keeps me young ✌️
Paul Kossoff really “sang” thru that guitar. When Paul Rodgers leaves off and Kossoff begins his solo, it’s like listening to a second human soul, bringing his own passions into the conversation.
Absolutely love Andy Fraser's bass playing
and style
Everyone does 👍👍👍💯💯
they had nothing no effects and totally destroy most bands of today raw power free!!!!!!!!
These guys are just superb musicians. Incredible talents
Free the best britisch rockband...all time..
you really don’t see full flowing heads of hair like that anymore.
💙🤘
They'll always be one of my favorite bands.
Mine too💕
Love Andy Fraser's bass sound and bass playing. He really made Free special.
Fraser was definitely up there with Macartney, Wilson, Bruce, Sting, Jones, Waters, Lee, Lane, Entwistle, Simons ...
Just magnificent - none better
Jesus, so raw and so great.
The bass line 👍👍👍❤️.. fabulous..
So good, never get bored listening to Free.
So much talent in this band. Just unreal.
Kossoff had the best insane natural vibrato i ever heard R.I.P
and Rip Andy Fraser
So good, it's scary.
He really did kill vibrato! Crap
Kossoff was an unbelievable talent
Yeah, I was in awe when I first heard him when I was a kid. I immediately bought a sheet book with some Free songs and started playing. @@donjohn2695
How beautiful does that guitar play !!????
This footage is Bloody priceless!!!! Led Zeppelin played Madison square garden for the first time that year!Free didn’t have that monstrous stage presence and sound that Bonzo gave them but had the music to make them just as impactful and successful as Peter Grants boys.
Brilliant what a band
FREE IS SO UNDERRATED
Andy Fraiser and Simon Kirke could lay down the coolest grooves!! Simplicity at its Finest!!!
Absolutely Fantastic.
By far one of the best guitarist that ever lived! Very underatted. Shame his life was cut so short
How can 4 people not like this Free song shame on them.
Can't shame ignorance ,pity sucks.
Andy Frazier, great bass tone with that EB3 him and Jack Bruce that's why my first bass was a Gibson EB3 over 40 years ago Paul Kossof very underrated he is never mentioned with JP EC JB and Townsend Great Band
Wow, fantastic!!
Never gets old :)
That quote is so simple but so true
I had this on VHS 5yrs before the internet. I loved that tape & wore it out. But it’s a lot more convenient this way. All of them are outstanding!
Luvvvvv them 60's 70's , this song is still a bomb 2020✌️😎✌️
Kossoff was such an underrated guitar player. You know it's a complete joke when a band like free, still isn't in the rock hall of fame, when groups like NWA already are. It's a parody in and of itself. When you hear bad company, not taking anything away from their guitar playing whatsoever, as it's actually a compliment and sounds amazing, you know that guitar tone and style, is derived and inspired directly from Kossoff.
Now this is how I remember rocknroll . It didnt get any better than this band...front and center
I love playing this in my car and you can feel that bass a mile away 🔥
Superb!!!!
Everything about this - bass /guitar/drums/vocal = Perfect- Seriously
MÚSICA DE MÍ ADOLESCENCIA PRECIOSOS AÑOS 70'S ❤❤❤❤❤
Great performance of one of my favorite bands.
Wish these guys produced more songs, love the sounds
They were very young and too good to last. Their six studio albums and the live album sound better as the years roll by.
Hey is this heaven , no better than that its FREE ❤
Whenever I think of songs by Free that influenced Lynyrd Skynyrd, this is one of the first that come to mind. Skynyrd performed a lot of Free songs when they first gigged, and I can totally imagine Ronnie Van Zant singing this one
Like "Song For The Bad Man" and "On The Hunt" 😉
@@jplew138 learning song for the badman made me start wanting to get into free again it is so reminiscent of free's sound and style, needle and the spoon too altho everyone says it's like cream, I hear free.
@@joejones9520 "Comin' Home" is another one that reminds me of Free from the 1971 Muscle Shoals sessions. And "Broad Daylight" and "Get Where I Belong" are two other Free songs that I think influenced Skynyrd's style
What a time. Koss........................the heart bleeds tears of joy.Loved him then and I love him now.
Man I dig FREE , my all time favorite band by far… and Kossoff was so funky, his attack was so cool.
Free is just so fun to watch live! Not to mention the music is simply the best
Can you imagine what it sounds like right where Kossoff is standing?
Tony Wilson I’m amazed at the audience 😬 they’re sat there like they’re listening to a poem recital and not one of the best rock groups In the world 🎶✊🏼🎸
Kin epic
Must’ve been like sitting inside a formula one car. What a buzz! No wonder he pulled such facial expressions! My all time favourite.
I've got a decent size amp and all. And it shakes my pant legs. He was FEELING it. Lol. Rock!!!!!
Brilliant❤😊 Best rocker voice 🎉❤😊❤🎉🎉
Someone commented in another vid... Bad Company was the commercial version.. and Free the artistic version.... good description.. But I would like to add this Free... extreme drug use... Bad Company no drugs after Fraser's death. But one of my top 5 bands EVER! This band was a band of ALL STARS at every spot. I still get emotional listening after 51 years of listening... Im 68
"Bad Company no drugs" is rather inaccurate. After their massive success in America, by the early 1980s the band were washed up and had drug abs alcohol problems, as Simon Kirke has stated in interviews after getting clean.
So much stress having to perform. Intense rock-and-roll is hard on the body and mind. It's a body basher. Drugs and alcohol gave repose.
A good summary.Never get sick of free.Unbelievable sound. I'm 67 and glad I was born when I was. 🤗🥰
I heard a rock journalist once say " when free were on their game, there was no one to really touch them". I think he was right.
wow! discovered this band through my dad some 24 years ago (via the free story album). they really are a one-off and so groovy and talented. paul rodgers’ voice is just incredible ... must be the best to ever hail from these shores?? okay, craig david as well?? 😉😎
Don't forget Steve Marriott, Small Faces, Humble Pie.
^^^
Craig David ?
You on some sort of wind-up ?
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Awesome Free
This is exceptional
No matter how old or young, you have to love this.
Jeez they were Y O U N G! ❤The even younger Andy Fraser was some bassist!!
the Voice kicked ass since inception
And an incredible frontman
So many guitarists who are really good sound so alike. You don t have to be technically brilliant to make a good impression. I was around in that productive period when you knew instintively certain players who just had their own sound and feel. Paul Kossof Leslie West Carlos Santana and Ollie Halsall not forgetting Roy Buchanan immediately spring to mind. I saw Free at the Fox and Greyhound in Croydon in 1970 and it is firmly etched in my memory.
Как же оБожаю Free .теперь еще и могу их видеть.Спасибо.
One of the bands to come out of England bar none !
Amen.
They put everything they had into their performance. The intensity is frightening. To have seen them live at this time would have stayed with you. Truly memorable.
Love lead guitar but cant help putting that to the side to listen to AF's bass.
Whod ever imagine a lead singer, lead guitarist, bassist and drummer could produce stuff of magic like this?
I❤the 70s
very unique bass playing... superb stuff
Es wird über Supergruppen gesprochen und das Free wohl die einzigartigste ist wird zu wenig gewürdigt. Einer der besten Gitarristen der damaligen Zeit,der damals am modernsten funkyblues
Bassisten,ein auf den Punkt trommelnden Schlagzeuger und als ein Höhepunkt der hervorragende Sänger....bis heute ist der herzlich warme,unter die Haut gehende Klang und Ausdruckskraft sowie growing Bluesrock von Free nicht
Übertrumpft werden...und auch ein
Dank an Alex's Körper ,daß er Free
gefordert hat...Free werden immer
ein Vorbild sein für junge Musiker.
Für uns Fans ein unerschöpflichlicher musikalischer Genuss.
Dr.Ilja Lasaroff aus Bulgarien das Land von Orpheus der Rosen und
Weins....
Kossoffs Gibson/sound the deep resonance. We were totally robbed of this guitar genius. Not a technician actually feels the blues
Loving you since age 14 in 70 to present !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
♥️☮️🌹
He ended up #51 out of top 100 greatest guitar players. Pretty impressive considering his relatively short time playing.
@@robertmcsorley4001 kossoff should have been placed in top 10
I love blues Rock
They got a great groove 🎸
Great band.
a great bass player he was !
Great stuff. Never got to see them. Did go to a Bad Company gig at Earls Court. Paul Rogers has an amazing voice.
Great music
Funny…..i never “got” free until recently. Now I realize this band was pure feeling and sex. That dragging behind the beat and open spaces in the song….pure sex. Super tight rhythm section…..that smoking guitar….and paul Rogers….belting on top. Being a bass player, Andy Fraser …..man…..the epitome of a rock bass playing legend. That Gibson eb-3 sounded amazing in his hands. That’s my bass tone and style that I am working on now……amazing….
Yes folks, television used to be THIS good!
Natural suond..natural band🎉🎉❤❤....this is Mather of all rock bands ever
Yeah, I listen to an my comment by Simon Kirke be and said that Andy Frazer was only 15 years old. First played with John Mayall band before joining supergroup " FREE".
Love this
I think Andy might’ve studied the playing of Jamerson and other Motown masters to hone his own syncopated countermelody playing. However he got there, it was a signature of the band’s sound and still feels so fresh.
So mesmerising ❤️🤟
Grew up in the middle of this music. It was an awesome time. My buddies and I would travel from Beaver County, PA to Youngstown Ohio to hear bands play this kind of music. There was some ass kicking rock-n-roll coming out of NE Ohio in those days. Free would have felt right at home there.
So cool ! 👏
I watched this on live TV in 1970. Doing Their Thing used to be on every Friday night featuring a different band every week. A great show.
Free were excellent. The space, raw feel, rhythm and great playing unencumbered by technology. Each band member contributes an essential feature to the overall sound.
OMG..those moves (Paul Rogers)! His white pants should've been outlawed..but not really! Great performance by the whole band..hands down 🙂🙂☮☮✌✌💕💕
I hear ya. I always had a crush on Paul Rodgers and those white pants are 👀! This band is pure gold. 💖🤘💋👍
----this is a sexy dance of Paul Rodgers to a good hardrock blues---Do you agree,Diana ?--I missed to see "FREE" live in the 70ies in Germany--I am 61 years old----------Your photo is very beautiful,Diana----
A lovely frontman, and what a beautiful physique he had! Impressive voice and excellent band 😀❤️
Back in 1987 I had a girlfriend from Liverpool who came to visit me in London. I put on a VHS video tape, a compilation of music, that included this performance by Free. I don't think I've ever seen a woman get worked up so quickly. I put the video on slow motion for a joke and she was practically writhing on the seat. As a man I don't know what Paul had that had such an effect on women, but I wouldn't have minded just a little of it😂
Bass incredable
Wasn't Andy Fraser something like 16 when he joined the band? Insane. One of my fav Rock bassists. He really gave Free a funky swing unusual for hard rock bands of that era.
15, and the maturity he displayed as the arranger of the band was really impressive.
One Tom and makes it sound like four! Kossof and Fraser amazing, RIP!
This is pure rock , thank you for putting it out .
Saw Free in 1972 or 73 at Winterland. Kirk, Fraser, Kossoff and Rogers were Fantastic
Great stuff
Awesome crisp footage
Thank you so much
I mean Paul kossoff, what can you say about the man. Sheer class!
Will any of Millennium puppies be ever able to make at least one song like these guys?... Wish the Free Band was back to save us from what we hear today...🤘🏻
You had to live it. Too much desperation now daze.
He, hehe,..
🎵🎼✌️😎✌️🎵🎼oh hell yeah
Short answer no. Long answer noooooo.
Amen
Most great bands are the total of all members, but it would be very hard to imagine Free without Andy Fraser.
They made an album without him that many people like
They made the album heartbreaker with tetsu on bass in my opinion a fantastic album tetsu was ALOT heavier than Fraser he didn't have Fraser's groove or fluidity on bass Fraser was just magic on the bass
Danke..fürs..Senden
Simply the best! IMHO
THE epitome of rock.
That bass line
J'adore ce titre ....Quelle merveille époque! !!!