A proper rock band, didn’t need any fancy special effects, no fancy dress or light shows, no gimmicks, just 4 English lads with long hair playing bloody good rock music.
I agree. I have been scratching my head. Befuddled and bemused at the fact that here in America radio doesn't saturate the classic rock airwaves with FREE. As they do with loads of one hit and one album wonders. FREE is unquestionably one of BRITISH BLUES/,ROCK exports.
I agree 100% . I absolutely love Bad Company but this band Free is just phenomenal. I never paid much attention to Free because classic rock stations played All Right Now so many times that I became fed up with Free. I had never heard all these other great songs!! Thanks to You Tube I was able to see all I had been missing and how explosive these guys are!! I now have to say Free is a better band than Bad Company . I could kick myself in the ass for depriving myself of this incredible music for all these years!! The musicianship is just stunning. Andy Fraser bass playing is beyond words. When Simon Kirk talks about seeing Fraser play bass for the first time and said he's better than McCartney, he wasn't exaggerating. The bass in Free songs sounds like a lead instrument. Alot like McCartney bass playing on Rain and the entire Abbey Road album. Paul Kossoff puts his heart and soul into every note! Simon Kirk is a beast on drums and Paul Rodgers is right up there with Steve Marriott, Robert Plant and Joe Cocker. This band should have become legends like Zeppelin, Cream and The Stones, it's a shame they disintegrated because they wrote their own music and it was that damn good ,beyond good!! I thank god whoever recorded the Granada TV special had the brains to not erase it. There isn't much video available but I'm not complaining. It's kind of the same situation with The Allman Brothers Band with Duane. There is maybe 30 minutes of video available showing the original band. With the hundreds of shows both bands played in 69-71 it's a shame that this is all we have. Probably the 2 bands that if fate had been kinder god knows what masterpieces they would have created. Although The Allman's continued on and off as a band with different variations , it was never as good when Duane was in the band. Just like with Free, Kossoff never got the longevity he deserved,he lived a little longer than Duane but after Free broke up,Kossoff was basically finished and that is a tragedy. He was lost without Free and to capture the magic of a band like that is a once in a lifetime occurrence. Let's face it, 50 years later and there has never been a band like Free since. We can wait another 50 and there still won't be!!! Amazing is too weak a word!
Underrated by who? They received a lot of airplay in their day. Maybe underrated by the boring Classic Rock stations of today. We all loved this band that played heartbreaking Blues Rock.
That’s what you call a fucking ROCK band. I heard them in 69. And Alright Now is my anthem. So if you live on the Gold Coast in Australia and hear alright now blasting from a silver and black wrangler Jeep its me. Giving it my all. Thank you and good night ❤️🏴
Man! What was in the water in England that produce so many outstanding bands like Free? So many riches they laid on us. God bless Free and all the others. Love from Texas!
@@bbqeatinbuckeye yes indeed and what a wonderful cross play it has been, but I do worry about the state of the current music scene, must be my age lol
@@markstedman8186 I too, am greatly concerned over today's music scene. It seems free of any inspiration or heart. Perhaps it is my age as well. I try to be open minded about it but find most of todays music basically souless.
Andy Frazier was one of the best bass players in rock history.Paul Rodgers is the best.paul kossoff could do more with one note that most could do with ten.
Andy Fraser - one of the finest ever bass players - and a great song writer to. The crescendo towards the end of Mr Big demonstrates his brilliance on the bass.
THE band all joined through the mind ......and all fab in their own right ........there could never be another free ....glad i was around to hear them ....
For me Free were a supergroup, 4 of the most talented musicians around and together there was no one like them, the mood and emotion in all their songs was something special. God I miss that band and those times.
The major core of the band free was Paul and Paul . That's the meat n potatoes, the drummer ,Simon was nothing but a back beater keeping a beat and the bassist was good but the 2 pauls were absolutely great . The vocals and guitarist ,so incredibly gifted that they were the band ,them 2 .
This band is the essence of melodic rock, sheer genius with the best singer ever. The seventies would not have been the same for me without their music.
@@canesvenatici4259 OK whatever. I saw Free, Peter Green´s Fleetwood Mac, Hendrix , Billy Boy Arnold, Pink Floyd, Stones, The faces and numerous other bands Live back in the days. Inexplicable if you haven't experienced it
@@canesvenatici4259 Give the bird a name. Free, Badco, The Firm. I saw Free, Peter Green´s Fleetwood Mac, Hendrix , Billy Boy Arnold, Pink Floyd, Stones, The faces, Spooky Tooth and numerous other bands Live back in the days. Inexplicable if you haven't experienced it. TH-cam is a surrogate, but a nice one.
I'm 70 now and remember when I got my first bass in 2006, the first thing I played was Andy's stupendous lead line from the All Right Now solo as it had been in my head all those years. Bless his memory.
Thank you for this. I found it very moving. I remember watching them on Top of the Pops as a girl and knowing instantly that they had "IT". I've loved them ever since. They are so good it HURTS!! Free reaches the parts other bands cannot reach! FOREVER FREE!!!
The live footage and interviews on here are dynamite. I really love that raw, groove based, bluesy sound of Free. Such a fine band. And of course, bringers of that bluesy rock that sits there at the top for me as my favorite kind of rock to listen to.
What a terribly sad tale it was about Koss. I think Simon hits the nail on the head with his assessment of “Alright Now”. It was probably to soon to hit such a zenith. Sadly people were always going to compare everything else they did with it. I actually think “Wishing Well” was a better song. I think with Koss it was similar to Brian Jones. In those days there was nothing like the support around that these days we take for granted. Koss would have gone into rehab, cleaned up,the band would have had a hiatus and would have carried in at a later date. That didn’t/couldn’t happen in the 60s/70s. Instead we got more and more casualties as management squeezed every last drop out of bands. Koss is indeed in very good company of lost talent from that era. But his music will always live on, he’s still in my top 3 Guitarists of all time after nearly 50 years. Great documentary, thanks for posting.
Mr. Valentine, I agree wholeheartedly with your thoughts concerning Paul Kossoff and I thank you for sharing it. Not only did Free have an all time top 3 guitarist with Koss, they had "
25 ITS NO AGE ATALL IS IT TO DIE SO YOUNG DRUGS THE KILLER OFF MANY I HATE THE SHIT RIP PAUL AND ANDY THEY CUD TEAM UP WITH BON SCOTT AND JOHN BONHAM ON DRUMS AND JAM IN HEAVEN 😢
There cant be anything to add they were the best band ever. The group I was in at the time APPLE SPICE BAND supported them at The Spa Royal Hall BRIDLINGTON. Meeting them was one of my lives greatest moments.
God I miss him. I asked for my first electric guitar when I first heard Koss in 1969. Such a tragic loss.. Not just Koss, but the whole band. Free had so much more to give. Made me the guitarist I am today. Still inspires me to this day, even after 43 years of playing.....Godspeed my friend...
My 18 year old daughter doesn't play guitar (yet), but she listens to a lot of old and modern rock music, and she is discerning and has her own mind. She has already appreciated the fact that nobody else played the guitar with as much soul and feeling as Paul Kossoff.
Was convinced that drugs were the ruination of musical inspiration because of his tragic end. I owe my "vibrato" to him. Even before I properly tuned up to an A-440. Hit a note and pull it up and wring that neck! Thank you Koz!!
Simon was one of a very select few who played drums with John Bonham on stage, enough said there. Paul Kossof of has more feeling in one note than any shredder today, Andy Fraser Mr big solo brilliant, Paul Rodgers best rock/blues vocalist ever.
Really hadn’t listened to them in years since 69-72 until recently. After watching them and listening to them over the last year my god but they are all such incredibly great musicians! Fraser was an incredible bass player! Wow! Great Band!
....I'm 66 now and remain a great fan since buying your records long ago as they came out......I remain a great fan of the Byrds as well and Gram Parsons....we watched Parsons decline over a very short couple of years went from being handsome and young and bright to looking young and old and terrible in his early twenties when a friend said to me....."see what drugs do to ya,".....I'm so sorry for all of us who loved them.
My favorite band of all time . As a bass player I loved Andy's playing. I was very fortunate to meet him. Had a chat and I shook his hand. I still can't believe it. If someone told me that I would meet him one day. I wouldn't of believed it. Get the book ( heavy load) worth it's weight in gold. Thank you FREE
The first band I heard live. At the Argus Butterfy Peterlee. I say heard as could not get through the door. So listened at the back door. A few years later Graham the roadie saw us outside again when we could not get in at Sunderland. This time we got to be roadies for the night. to see them .Great Band Great people. The best band I ever saw.
One of the few greatest foursomes ever.. just listen to those bass lines, that voice.. the beat and the licks...what else is there to say.? saw them a few times back in the 70.s and at the "Isle of White".. atomic.......
yes very fortunate,, saw Dylan, Hendrix, CSNyY, The band, The who The beatles when I was 12.. you name it... didn't get to see Elvis neither Sinatra though.. yes very LUCKY.... @Jeanette H
They were slightly before my time, but I can remember coming home with a (German import) copy of 'The Free Story', at the age of 14 (in 1980). From then on, all other rock bands just paled by comparison. I will never tire of listening to their albums. Oh for a time machine, so I could see them play live. . . just once!
I just missed seeing them live, however hooked into their music and it's part of my DNA now. What used to bug me were the slightly older bods at work (I was 18, they were in their twenties) who would reminisce on seeing them at the Newcastle City Hall and a few Sunderland gigs were mentoned. Seething green envy.
I was at "The Felt Forum" (Madison Square Garden, with a rotating stage!) for their show in 1969: I came in just as FREE launched into their first song! Although I was there to see Blind Faith, by the time FREE were done, I was a hardcore fan and didn't even care so much about staying to see Clapton play; for me, at all of 16 years old, that night became all about FREE, and listening to Winwood sing and play guitar and keys (he's a brilliant guitar player still, and that night gave E.C. a real run for his money as well...). I mean, watching Koss savagely hit his Les Paul behind at stack of Marshalls was bloody breathtaking: never will forget it-what POWER!!!
Free will always be one of my all-time favourite bands. So much so that I ration myself to listen to them not quite as often as I'd like, so that I never get sick of hearing them. I feel exactly the same way about Uriah Heep. Love 'em far too much to over-listen to them.
@@johnryan3913 . . I saw Uriah Heep in Brisbane in 2015, a couple of days prior to attending Bluesfest in Byron Bay. Unfortunately for Bluesfest, I watched every band there through the lens of my recent concert experience with Uriah Heep. It took me a couple of days to lower my standards enough in my mind to accept the often mediocre performances I endured. That was good because on the Sunday night I watched John Mayall and Tony Joe White and thoroughly enjoyed them. Then it was over to another tent to see Joe Bonamassa!! On the Saturday we were watching one of Australia's highest profile and highly regarded Blues-Rock players strut his stuff. My girlfriend dug me in the ribs and said: "You're better than him , , by a country mile!!" I replied: "Yet here I sit, a spectator".
I mixed monitors for John Mayell at a Blues Festival that I mixed for for about 20 years and he blew me away. He actually teched his own stage. Very cool and orofessional instead of paying some on e else to do it and then being pissed off because something is not to your liking during the show.
Seeing this brought back memories. Saw Free maybe 4 times and at the Isle of Wight Festival. Saw them in a club just outside London and guess I was maybe 3 metres away from the stage. Indelibly etched in my memory, I was 3 Metres away from this incredible musical force of nature.
You were very fortunate indeed to have seen this band live. I came in during the Bad Company era, and they were superb but Free completes the picture for Rodgers and Kirke. It makes you realize that Bad Co was merely their vehicle to keep the music going, and they did so with great panache.
What makes Free's music so great is it's simplicity... that's what alot of people don't understand about great music..a lot of snob's say ohh it's just three or four chords or whatever....well they are missing the point..it's music it's not rocket science...if it moves you and makes you move then the band or artist has accomplished what they need to....such a great band ...🎸🎸🎸
Now listen up kiddies! This is how it was properly done back in the day!! Even though Paul Kossoff was lost in a Mandrax fog, He unlike Syd Barret(who went off into the Stratosphere and never came back) was still able to throw out those beautiful blues-rock riffs,leads and melodies!! Free Forever!!
Much appreciated. As individuals they come across as lovely people and together they were a real force. You sense the real pang of sadness with the decline of Koss. I love the story of the Newcastle crowd encouraging him to get it together rather than getting angry and demanding their money back. Thanks Phil White for putting this up.
A truly, truly great band, so sad they couldn't keep it together, the potential they had was endless. Every member was extraordinary, like Zeppelin, the Beatles and the small faces. Thank god we have some recordings.
I loved free from the first opening note of their first song on their first album. I was struggling to learn guitar and was drawn to blues music .free gave me the inspiration to keep trying.
thanks so much for uploading. i really like Free, so very talented. My Brother Jake is an all time favourite of mine, although I guess most would say Alright Now is the great classic, which of course, it is. Very sad that this talented young man died so young.
I’ve always said if I got stuck on a desert island and had to pick one album to take with me it would be fire and water. It’s quite simply the perfect album. It’s perfection.
I agree with Fraser, "My Brother Jake" was such an under-rated 45...highlighted each member of the band from Kirke's metronomic rhythm, Fraser's bass and piano, Rodgers' vocal but specifically Kossoff's economy with his two, three and four note riffs/fills. I never tire of listening to this wonderful single....as far as I recall, the only ever non-album single they released ?
When you're just a kid there is so much that just goes over your head. In 1970 I still recall vividly being at Royal Randwick racecourse in Sydney. Free was on with Deep Purple and Manfred Mann. Paul Rodgers was in black jeans and shirt belting out Alright Now. Looking at this and understanding the behind the scenes stuff. They were a great band though. When you get on a bit everything seems to be in the past. Sadness and nostalgia. It's all in there somewhere.
Ed King (early Skynyrd guitarist) said on his old website, they went to Miami and saw Free play on Rented!! instruments (there's got lost in transit) and they were so good it blew away the whole band. Never forgot it.
Excellent documentary . Like everyone else here , I loved them when we were kids , back then . But I had no idea they were such a lovely bunch of human beings , humble and true . God bless em 🙏
Thanks for posting this. Watching it was agony and ecstasy. Free have been my favourite band from the first time a friend brought Tons of Sobs to school through seeing them at the Isle of Wight in 1970. I still play my vinyl copy of Fire and Water and get emotional. When a candle burns it burns brightly but it doesn’t last long, though the memory of the light lives in for ever.
A proper rock band, didn’t need any fancy special effects, no fancy dress or light shows, no gimmicks, just 4 English lads with long hair playing bloody good rock music.
4 ridiculously talented musicians. Incredible band. Most underrated band ever.
missing a really talented songwriter if I'm going to be really harsh
I agree.
I have been scratching my head. Befuddled and bemused at the fact that here in America radio doesn't saturate the classic rock airwaves with FREE. As they do with loads of one hit and one album wonders.
FREE is unquestionably one of BRITISH BLUES/,ROCK exports.
I agree 100% . I absolutely love Bad Company but this band Free is just phenomenal. I never paid much attention to Free because classic rock stations played All Right Now so many times that I became fed up with Free. I had never heard all these other great songs!! Thanks to You Tube I was able to see all I had been missing and how explosive these guys are!! I now have to say Free is a better band than Bad Company . I could kick myself in the ass for depriving myself of this incredible music for all these years!! The musicianship is just stunning. Andy Fraser bass playing is beyond words. When Simon Kirk talks about seeing Fraser play bass for the first time and said he's better than McCartney, he wasn't exaggerating. The bass in Free songs sounds like a lead instrument. Alot like McCartney bass playing on Rain and the entire Abbey Road album. Paul Kossoff puts his heart and soul into every note! Simon Kirk is a beast on drums and Paul Rodgers is right up there with Steve Marriott, Robert Plant and Joe Cocker. This band should have become legends like Zeppelin, Cream and The Stones, it's a shame they disintegrated because they wrote their own music and it was that damn good ,beyond good!! I thank god whoever recorded the Granada TV special had the brains to not erase it. There isn't much video available but I'm not complaining. It's kind of the same situation with The Allman Brothers Band with Duane. There is maybe 30 minutes of video available showing the original band. With the hundreds of shows both bands played in 69-71 it's a shame that this is all we have. Probably the 2 bands that if fate had been kinder god knows what masterpieces they would have created. Although The Allman's continued on and off as a band with different variations , it was never as good when Duane was in the band. Just like with Free, Kossoff never got the longevity he deserved,he lived a little longer than Duane but after Free broke up,Kossoff was basically finished and that is a tragedy. He was lost without Free and to capture the magic of a band like that is a once in a lifetime occurrence. Let's face it, 50 years later and there has never been a band like Free since. We can wait another 50 and there still won't be!!! Amazing is too weak a word!
Underrated by who? They received a lot of airplay in their day. Maybe underrated by the boring Classic Rock stations of today. We all loved this band that played heartbreaking Blues Rock.
@@haroldburke9278 If you consider radio playing only 1 song, then I guess you could call it receiving a lot of airplay.
That’s what you call a fucking ROCK band. I heard them in 69. And Alright Now is my anthem. So if you live on the Gold Coast in Australia and hear alright now blasting from a silver and black wrangler Jeep its me. Giving it my all. Thank you and good night ❤️🏴
This band was the real thing from the beginning, I still believe Paul is the greatest blues / rock singer ever and he is just as good today
nearly as good as Jim Morrison.
He payed his dues, best white blues singer ever
@@Wuei108 are you taking the piss???
@@benpotaka5893 I am not taking any pins.
Jim Morrison was a pop singer, that's the difference!!!
Man! What was in the water in England that produce so many outstanding bands like Free? So many riches they laid on us. God bless Free and all the others. Love from Texas!
When you've grown up in post - war Britain living on rations amidst the rubble, you get a quick feel for what the Blues is about.
Two years late here but just wanted to say your welcome and thanks for giving it to us in the first place, back at ya from Britain
@@markstedman8186 When we share what inspires us musically it just steel sharpening steel. It can only get sharper and better. Healthy competition eh?
@@bbqeatinbuckeye yes indeed and what a wonderful cross play it has been, but I do worry about the state of the current music scene, must be my age lol
@@markstedman8186 I too, am greatly concerned over today's music scene. It seems free of any inspiration or heart. Perhaps it is my age as well. I try to be open minded about it but find most of todays music basically souless.
Andy Frazier was one of the best bass players in rock history.Paul Rodgers is the best.paul kossoff could do more with one note that most could do with ten.
Andy Fraser - one of the finest ever bass players - and a great song writer to. The crescendo towards the end of Mr Big demonstrates his brilliance on the bass.
Yeah he almost plays lead guitar on the bass sadly missed
yes he was brilliant as were all the members .There were no weak musicians in that band
His bass play on I'll be Creepin' is sublime.
THE band all joined through the mind ......and all fab in their own right ........there could never be another free ....glad i was around to hear them ....
For me Free were a supergroup, 4 of the most talented musicians around and together there was no one like them, the mood and emotion in all their songs was something special. God I miss that band and those times.
well summed up .I saw them in Glasgow in 1972 and even though Koss was not at his best ,they were light years ahead of many blues bands
Rock perfection. No fancy effects. just raw talent.
I can never decide whether focus on the guitar or the bass on their songs...both incredible.
The major core of the band free was Paul and Paul . That's the meat n potatoes, the drummer ,Simon was nothing but a back beater keeping a beat and the bassist was good but the 2 pauls were absolutely great . The vocals and guitarist ,so incredibly gifted that they were the band ,them 2 .
This band is the essence of melodic rock, sheer genius with the best singer ever. The seventies would not have been the same for me without their music.
Blues, soul and R&B based hard rock, not Arena Rock.
What's arena rock? I was 19 in 1970, so figure out how old I am now, not knowing all the labels they put on music nowadays
@@novaestrella2571 You said FREE was a melodic rock band. Melodic rock is just a euphemism for arena rock.
@@canesvenatici4259 OK whatever. I saw Free, Peter Green´s Fleetwood Mac, Hendrix , Billy Boy Arnold, Pink Floyd, Stones, The faces and numerous other bands Live back in the days. Inexplicable if you haven't experienced it
@@canesvenatici4259 Give the bird a name. Free, Badco, The Firm. I saw Free, Peter Green´s Fleetwood Mac, Hendrix , Billy Boy Arnold, Pink Floyd, Stones, The faces, Spooky Tooth and numerous other bands Live back in the days. Inexplicable if you haven't experienced it. TH-cam is a surrogate, but a nice one.
March 19th 1976: Paul Kossoff.
March 19th 1982: Randy Rhoads.
Both 25 years old when they passed. Eerie & both my favorite guitarists, R.I.P.
I didn't realize they died the same day.
I'm 70 now and remember when I got my first bass in 2006, the first thing I played was Andy's stupendous lead line from the All Right Now solo as it had been in my head all those years. Bless his memory.
Never too late to take up the bass. Been playing one since I was 15.
Each one of these guys is a master musician, an incredible band who I have come to appreciate more over time
Thank you for this. I found it very moving. I remember watching them on Top of the Pops as a girl and knowing instantly that they had "IT". I've loved them ever since. They are so good it HURTS!!
Free reaches the parts other bands cannot reach! FOREVER FREE!!!
This is the greatest singer in rock
The live footage and interviews on here are dynamite. I really love that raw, groove based, bluesy sound of Free. Such a fine band. And of course, bringers of that bluesy rock that sits there at the top for me as my favorite kind of rock to listen to.
What a terribly sad tale it was about Koss. I think Simon hits the nail on the head with his assessment of “Alright Now”. It was probably to soon to hit such a zenith. Sadly people were always going to compare everything else they did with it. I actually think “Wishing Well” was a better song. I think with Koss it was similar to Brian Jones. In those days there was nothing like the support around that these days we take for granted. Koss would have gone into rehab, cleaned up,the band would have had a hiatus and would have carried in at a later date. That didn’t/couldn’t happen in the 60s/70s. Instead we got more and more casualties as management squeezed every last drop out of bands. Koss is indeed in very good company of lost talent from that era. But his music will always live on, he’s still in my top 3 Guitarists of all time after nearly 50 years. Great documentary, thanks for posting.
yes a sad waste of a brillianr musician
Mr. Valentine, I agree wholeheartedly with your thoughts concerning Paul Kossoff and I thank you for sharing it. Not only did Free have an all time top 3 guitarist with Koss, they had "
25 ITS NO AGE ATALL IS IT TO DIE SO YOUNG DRUGS THE KILLER OFF MANY I HATE THE SHIT RIP PAUL AND ANDY THEY CUD TEAM UP WITH BON SCOTT AND JOHN BONHAM ON DRUMS AND JAM IN HEAVEN 😢
What a bass player... those bass lines are so clever and highly original.
And he makes it look so effortless.
They're funky. Without being Funk. Fraser was a bass genius.
Fire and water one of the greatest albums ever made
Tons of sobs is still one of my all time favourite albums.
Mine too. 'Over the Green Hills', 'Worry', 'Sweet Tooth' . . . Wonderful stuff.
@@portcullis5622Don't forget Goin Down Slow! My personal favourite on the album anyway...
Very bluesy I only like am a mover on it the 2nd album free was ace women il b creeping broad daylight trouble on double time 🤘👍
There cant be anything to add they were the best band ever. The group I was in at the time APPLE SPICE BAND supported them at The Spa Royal Hall BRIDLINGTON. Meeting them was one of my lives greatest moments.
FREE......one of the best bands ever!
A band is a VERY difficult thing to be in,if you last a few yrs together you’re very lucky...
Kossof was a tortured soul. Incredibly talented, genius actually, he was looking through people, beyond, somewhere. Bet he's jamming even now.
Fantastic rock band, brilliant song writing, British rock at its best.
God I miss him. I asked for my first electric guitar when I first heard Koss in 1969. Such a tragic loss.. Not just Koss, but the whole band. Free had so much more to give. Made me the guitarist I am today. Still inspires me to this day, even after 43 years of playing.....Godspeed my friend...
My 18 year old daughter doesn't play guitar (yet), but she listens to a lot of old and modern rock music, and she is discerning and has her own mind. She has already appreciated the fact that nobody else played the guitar with as much soul and feeling as Paul Kossoff.
Was convinced that drugs were the ruination of musical inspiration because of his tragic end. I owe my "vibrato" to him. Even before I properly tuned up to an A-440. Hit a note and pull it up and wring that neck! Thank you Koz!!
@@robinluck2922 Sounds like Angus awes his vibrato to Paul as well. I've spent a bit of time copying it too.
The only solo that I learned note for note
Hi from New Zealand!🇳🇿’Wishing Well’. best song ever!!!🎸🎤🥁🎼
Thanks for this ! RIP Paul Kossoff, what a legend
My favourite band. Wonderful. Miss Paul and Andy
The ragged edge of total meltdown for most guitar players was Paul Kosssoff's ' comfort zone '
Simon was one of a very select few who played drums with John Bonham on stage, enough said there. Paul Kossof of has more feeling in one note than any shredder today, Andy Fraser Mr big solo brilliant, Paul Rodgers best rock/blues vocalist ever.
Always loved the band, the great music..... but what a fantastic people..... great storytellers..... thanks.....
Really hadn’t listened to them in years since 69-72 until recently. After watching them and listening to them over the last year my god but they are all such incredibly great musicians! Fraser was an incredible bass player! Wow! Great Band!
Very fortunate to have seen them live in UK. Still have their original vinyl albums. One of my favorite band forever!
Dear dear Andy. Such a sweet person....and a what a bassist!
monster bass player
So true Kate.
....I'm 66 now and remain a great fan since buying your records long ago as they came out......I remain a great fan of the Byrds as well and Gram Parsons....we watched Parsons decline over a very short couple of years went from being handsome and young and bright to looking young and old and terrible in his early twenties when a friend said to me....."see what drugs do to ya,".....I'm so sorry for all of us who loved them.
I’m choked almost in tears
How fortunate we all are to have the best band ever in our lives 🇬🇧
My favorite band of all time . As a bass player I loved Andy's playing. I was very fortunate to meet him. Had a chat and I shook his hand. I still can't believe it. If someone told me that I would meet him one day. I wouldn't of believed it. Get the book ( heavy load) worth it's weight in gold. Thank you FREE
I've looking for a bio on Free for years.
Free..sind für mich die beste Rockblues..band aller Zeiten....
The first band I heard live. At the Argus Butterfy Peterlee. I say heard as could not get through the door. So listened at the back door. A few years later Graham the roadie saw us outside again when we could not get in at Sunderland. This time we got to be roadies for the night. to see them .Great Band Great people. The best band I ever saw.
People go on and on about the Beatles, 👌 put it this way ,, I didn’t buy one Beatles record back then. Guess what I did buy?
Lots of drugs, it sounds like.
RIP Paul and Andy . Loved alot of your music and was inspired by Free. Hope you guys have found your true Freedom- Jesus Christ.
Paul Roger is not dead yet
@@arajoaina Paul Kossoff (d 1976)
That's classic Rock/Blues..... I'm still waiting for something remotely close!! Thanks for posting this
One of the few greatest foursomes ever.. just listen to those bass lines, that voice.. the beat and the licks...what else is there to say.? saw them a few times back in the 70.s and at the "Isle of White".. atomic.......
One of the tightest, yet powerful outfits ever.
yes very fortunate,, saw Dylan, Hendrix, CSNyY, The band, The who The beatles when I was 12.. you name it... didn't get to see Elvis neither Sinatra though.. yes very LUCKY.... @Jeanette H
Yet … you don’t know how to spell it ?
yes,,so sorry about Wight..sure it means alot.
They were slightly before my time, but I can remember coming home with a (German import) copy of 'The Free Story', at the age of 14 (in 1980). From then on, all other rock bands just paled by comparison. I will never tire of listening to their albums. Oh for a time machine, so I could see them play live. . . just once!
I just missed seeing them live, however hooked into their music and it's part of my DNA now.
What used to bug me were the slightly older bods at work (I was 18, they were in their twenties) who would reminisce on seeing them at the Newcastle City Hall and a few Sunderland gigs were mentoned. Seething green envy.
What a fantastic, soulful, tight band! Love FREE! RIP Koss & Andy. Thank you for the great music!
Kudos to Andy Fraser, apart from being a prodigy, his efforts to save Koss were inspiring. He would have been 20 years old if that
I was at "The Felt Forum" (Madison Square Garden, with a rotating stage!) for their show in 1969: I came in just as FREE launched into their first song! Although I was there to see Blind Faith, by the time FREE were done, I was a hardcore fan and didn't even care so much about staying to see Clapton play; for me, at all of 16 years old, that night became all about FREE, and listening to Winwood sing and play guitar and keys (he's a brilliant guitar player still, and that night gave E.C. a real run for his money as well...). I mean, watching Koss savagely hit his Les Paul behind at stack of Marshalls was bloody breathtaking: never will forget it-what POWER!!!
Free will always be one of my all-time favourite bands. So much so that I ration myself to listen to them not quite as often as I'd like, so that I never get sick of hearing them. I feel exactly the same way about Uriah Heep. Love 'em far too much to over-listen to them.
You are the only one to describe rationing their favorite music so it remains powerful when we hear it - I fo it with Free and the Stones
@@johnryan3913 . . I saw Uriah Heep in Brisbane in 2015, a couple of days prior to attending Bluesfest in Byron Bay. Unfortunately for Bluesfest, I watched every band there through the lens of my recent concert experience with Uriah Heep. It took me a couple of days to lower my standards enough in my mind to accept the often mediocre performances I endured. That was good because on the Sunday night I watched John Mayall and Tony Joe White and thoroughly enjoyed them. Then it was over to another tent to see Joe Bonamassa!! On the Saturday we were watching one of Australia's highest profile and highly regarded Blues-Rock players strut his stuff. My girlfriend dug me in the ribs and said: "You're better than him , , by a country mile!!" I replied: "Yet here I sit, a spectator".
Andy's bass solo on Mr Big on Free Live is outstanding!
yeeesss
one of the best
this takes me back to my youth, great music of those days, thanks for uploading
Who needs wrists to play the drums when you got elbows. Wow. I've never seen a drummer play with that much arm. Respect.
Definitely not a wrist drummer.
Raw ! pure unadulterated Blues rock at its very best !!
I mixed monitors for John Mayell at a Blues Festival that I mixed for for about 20 years and he blew me away. He actually teched his own stage. Very cool and orofessional instead of paying some on e else to do it and then being pissed off because something is not to your liking during the show.
Paul Kossof r.i.p 🎵🎼🎶🎸🙏👊
Andy Fraser r.i.p 🎵🎼🎶🎸🙏👊
Paul Rodgers long live 🎵🎼🎶🎤😎👊
Simon kirke long live 🎵🎼🎶🎼🎶😎👊
This is a fabulous documentary. I’ve watched it several times already. Simon Kirk is a trip. Woolly Bully. 🤣
Well uploaded sir, been a fan of Koss, since the 70's !!
Seeing this brought back memories.
Saw Free maybe 4 times and at the Isle of Wight Festival.
Saw them in a club just outside London and guess I was maybe 3 metres away from the stage.
Indelibly etched in my memory, I was 3 Metres away from this incredible musical force of nature.
Wow, you are so lucky to have been born at a time to appreciate them first hand, awesome.
You were very fortunate indeed to have seen this band live. I came in during the Bad Company era, and they were superb but Free completes the picture for Rodgers and Kirke. It makes you realize that Bad Co was merely their vehicle to keep the music going, and they did so with great panache.
Cool story. Thnx for posting.
What a tremendous band. Their song "Come Together in the Morning" is one of my faves.
Ghengis Papadragon a truly magical number
Probably my favourite Free song. A desert island disc for sure!
What makes Free's music so great is it's simplicity... that's what alot of people don't understand about great music..a lot of snob's say ohh it's just three or four chords or whatever....well they are missing the point..it's music it's not rocket science...if it moves you and makes you move then the band or artist has accomplished what they need to....such a great band ...🎸🎸🎸
Free one of my favorite bands bought the singles as they came out still play free most days never tire of them. ☮️✌️😎
Highway is my favourite FREE album.
My favourite band, and Free 'Live' my favourite album. Thanks boys. The had all the right stuff. For me Paul Kossoff was the dogs bollocks.
Andy is a monster on bass !!!
The finest body of work of any British rock band.
mojobag01 😂😂😂😂😂😂 you obviously missed Queen’s first 7 albums
Not even close.
the crazy thing is just as free died they did an amazing last album so ahead of its time heartbreaker
Love Free. Very interesting that they loved The Band, as do I. Never knew.
"Heartbreaker" is a damn good album. I wish there had been more coverage about it in this documentary, but the rest was great.
Particularly considering that Andy was gone and Koss was barely holding on.
Went to same school as Paul lived round the corner from him in Middlesbrough
Obviously, you mean Rodgers, not Kossoff.
Now listen up kiddies! This is how it was properly done back in the day!! Even though Paul Kossoff was lost in a Mandrax fog, He unlike Syd Barret(who went off into the Stratosphere and never came back) was still able to throw out those beautiful blues-rock riffs,leads and melodies!! Free Forever!!
Much appreciated. As individuals they come across as lovely people and together they were a real force. You sense the real pang of sadness with the decline of Koss. I love the story of the Newcastle crowd encouraging him to get it together rather than getting angry and demanding their money back. Thanks Phil White for putting this up.
A truly, truly great band, so sad they couldn't keep it together, the potential they had was endless. Every member was extraordinary, like Zeppelin, the Beatles and the small faces. Thank god we have some recordings.
Like all the best bands : great guitarist and world class singer backed by a completely unique rhythm section
Awesome to hear about music from big pink
I loved free from the first opening note of their first song on their first album. I was struggling to learn guitar and was drawn to blues music .free gave me the inspiration to keep trying.
They hooked me on All Right Now. Totally awesome song and great music from every member of the band!!!
thanks so much for uploading. i really like Free, so very talented.
My Brother Jake is an all time favourite of mine, although I guess
most would say Alright Now is the great classic, which of course,
it is. Very sad that this talented young man died so young.
Mr. Big for me.
I’ve always said if I got stuck on a desert island and had to pick one album to take with me it would be fire and water. It’s quite simply the perfect album. It’s perfection.
Free Were Perfection! R.I.P. Paul And Andy!
Theres very few singers that just make you stop and wonder if they're even human. Paul rodgers is one of those
Bands are two a penny, But bands like Free, are not so easy to find !!
First live act I saw when I was 15 in 1970. So good!
I agree with Fraser, "My Brother Jake" was such an under-rated 45...highlighted each member of the band from Kirke's metronomic rhythm, Fraser's bass and piano, Rodgers' vocal but specifically Kossoff's economy with his two, three and four note riffs/fills. I never tire of listening to this wonderful single....as far as I recall, the only ever non-album single they released ?
How come 31 people voted against this band. must not have music in their heart.
When you're just a kid there is so much that just goes over your head. In 1970 I still recall vividly being at Royal Randwick racecourse in Sydney. Free was on with Deep Purple and Manfred Mann. Paul Rodgers was in black jeans and shirt belting out Alright Now. Looking at this and understanding the behind the scenes stuff. They were a great band though. When you get on a bit everything seems to be in the past. Sadness and nostalgia. It's all in there somewhere.
I hope Paul Rodgers does write a book about it one day. He looks genuinely sad when talking about the band's demise
'Tons of Sobs' remains a landmark album. Koss was a wunderkind and much underrate still.
Thanks for posting this gem!
A great band, great musicians. Andy Frasier was do talented st s young age, they all were very young. Very raw and ine of my favorite bands.
Such a great band.
Thanks for this, really enjoyed watching
Never got to see them as the gig was cancelled due to Koss being ill. My favourite band of all time. They were so talented it was frightening!
Ed King (early Skynyrd guitarist) said on his old website, they went to Miami and saw Free play on Rented!! instruments (there's got lost in transit) and they were so good it blew away the whole band. Never forgot it.
Brett __ we
RIP Ed King... ex-Strawberry Alarm Clock & Skynyrd.
Free was a major influence on Skynyrd: check on 'On the Hunt'.
@@markhunter8554 you're so right
Excellent documentary .
Like everyone else here , I loved them when we were kids , back then . But I had no idea they were such a lovely bunch of human beings , humble and true .
God bless em 🙏
Very very talented musicians ! Timeless class 👌
Thanks for posting this. Watching it was agony and ecstasy. Free have been my favourite band from the first time a friend brought Tons of Sobs to school through seeing them at the Isle of Wight in 1970. I still play my vinyl copy of Fire and Water and get emotional. When a candle burns it burns brightly but it doesn’t last long, though the memory of the light lives in for ever.
Anyone who knows music knows these 4 young kids were truly exceptional and our glimpse of their work was way too tragically short 👌
What a fuckin great band they were that voice on that first album my God paul rodgers what a singer