so you were in chi town in the 60s---i bet you got to see some serious OG heavy hitters, in their prime no less... did you get to see Wolf? Little Walter? Willie Dixon? tell me a story/share a memory...if ya want---sorry, i don't mean to be all bossy/presumptous--i'm just being overly enthusiastic:)
My only objection to PB is that he tended to hog all the song time blowing the harp instead of letting MB play a lot more. I could listen to MB all day. PB not so much.
Harvey, Michael and Paul! Bloomfield is the guitarist who surprises me every time no matter how many times I've heard that version. Solos are nice but his background fills and gentle walks are just so laid back, layered and educated.
Me had the delightful experience to see these great Musicians Jam- there Was No Color Barriers with them- just play with the deep Respect of Jamming Together- Thanks All That Made These Memories Arise Forever- Twirlin On😮
@@mejustme6944no They own the copyright to this one the watermarks there so nobody else can post it And not give credit for somebody else's work uploading.
REALLY GOOD QUESTION! Mike Bloomfield didn’t want the spotlight he just wanted to play.. He was from old Jewish New York Money. His family owned Blooming Dales in New York. His father was really disappointed when he heard Mike just wanted to play the blues. The fame and money didn’t matter. Mike was a humble and kind man. I got to see the Butterfield blues band at the Fillmore East.❤ they played for over three hours. I couldn’t get up to leave. He lived and died the blues.☮️
No they did not His family started the famous Bloomfield coffee makers. migrated from Russia to Chicago I got nothing to do with New York at all get your facts straight
I have a very nice Mike Bloomfield Biography by Ed Ward! Check it out. There is a lot on his background. How Mike had a living trust from his family which basically made him financially independent…..
The only time I ever saw The Paul Butterfield Blues Band was at the FILLMORE East in December 1968. They were the headliners & they brought the house down. Butterfield; Gene Dinwiddie & David Sanborn on sax along with Elvin Bishop on lead guitar provided some of my more memorable moments at the great concert venue. But that evenings highlight, for me, came during the second acts performance. That group was Super Session with Al Kooper & Mike Bloomfield. Like Butterfield's band they were outstanding. But the best part was when Bloomfield introduced an unknown Blues guitarist named Johnny Winter. Unbelieivable!!!
Little Walter is the original source of "Last Nigh"t, yet no one is acknowledging him. All of this was learnt from Little Walter and the guitar players , Dave and Louis Meyers, south side Chicago blues. I was there in 1975, much later, playing second guitar in the Byther Smith Blues Band and the Jimmy Mayes Street Depot.
Saw them in Detroit twice I moved to Frisco in 1969 Had a chance to see Michael in Sausalito several times, but failed I didn't know he was on Heroin. Have several of Butterfield albums, and Bloomfield albums, with AL Kooper... Last show I saw, Butterfield with Alvin Bishop, but Michael had left the band... If I had to do it again, I'd correct those mistakes Also saw Butterfield in Chicago..saw him drinking at the table..too shy to talk to him..did talk to Alvin B. In Chicago, in OLD TOWN
Paul Butterfield and Mike Bloomfield came from opposite backgrounds. Bloomfield from a very wealthy Jewish family, class, manners, that stuff. Paul's religion was the street. His drug of choice seemed to be truckers, little white pills, that were poorly manufactured in bathtub and unsanitary conditions. Mike summed it up with this quote, Paul was a hard cat, I ducked, when shooting started, Paul had his own gun. The thought of Mike Bloomfield hurting a fly is laughable. If you met him, he would say, well man, Flys are groovy. You know l am right, if you met, or knew him. To Mike everything was groovy, because it WAS. BOTH had their blues, and I bet you do too. They both were accomplished performers, in their own styles. THIS is what I think, don't know. They sure fit together, regardless of family, or conditions.
I always felt the best lineup for the Butterfield band was the original lineup of Mike Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop on guitars. Without Elvin the band still sounds fine, with no huge loss of quality. But having Elvin on that second guitar really filled out the sound nicely. It just bothered me when a new band would come out and played well, Then a player would leave. Jethro Tull had that happen on their 2nd album.
Wish you could have heard The Fabulous Thunderbirds when they were playing the Onenite and were the house band at Antone's Jimmy Vaughn, Keith Ferguson, Mike Buck , and Kim Wilson, they were as good as any Blues Band that ever took the stage
I saw the Butterfield Blues Band in the late '60s and Bloomfield was already gone from the band...Elvin Bishop left the band in 1968 but he was in the lineup that I saw...
@@coinneachmaclellan3121Bloomfield's last with Butterfield was "East-West". The next, "Pigboy Crabshaw" (1967) was Elvin Bishop -- which I've always preferred to Bloomfield. I'd read an interview with Bloomfield in which he said that it isn't how many nores one plays, oor how fast, but how each note is played. And then he'd PLAY fast and tons of notes, belying that comment. In this video he actually somewhat lives up to his word. Meanwhile, most of my peers ignored "Butterfield Blues Band" because there were Blacks in the band -- preferring non-Chicago "Chicago" "blues" player "Clapton is god".
@@jimmyhawkins5357 I’m guessing you never bothered to read the words on the screen in big letters before the performance starts? Had you done that you would see that it’s there so people don’t steal it and air it without licensing it from us.
These guys played the blues, or rather copied people who played the blues, but Page, Blackmore, and many others transcended or maybe in Hegelian terms sublated the blues, to create something new. Clapton never got where Page got much less Blackmore but he was better than this guy simply be use of his freedom and fluidity as opposed to this guy’s rote recitation.
Fantastic blues, great groove, great feeling: beautifull soulfull music.
Sweet😂🎉
Mike Bloomfield had everything: inventiveness, phrasing , subtlety .What a pity he died so soon
Same with Paul. What a harp player!!!
Man, I was there during those days and Paul Butterfield was a BEAST!
& so was Mike Bloomfield!!!
@@michaelgreen5206Yes!
Michael Bloomfield!
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so you were in chi town in the 60s---i bet you got to see some serious OG heavy hitters, in their prime no less... did you get to see Wolf? Little Walter? Willie Dixon? tell me a story/share a memory...if ya want---sorry, i don't mean to be all bossy/presumptous--i'm just being overly enthusiastic:)
OMG. Butter and Bloomers. The blues just doesn't get any better.
If anyone dislikes this then they have no SOUL.
Nice listening before going to the dentist! Yes!
Thats some of the best Harp I have ever heard. 🎶
The guy who played harmonica sounded much better.
Just one PRIME example of why these two were THE BEST at what they do.
My only objection to PB is that he tended to hog all the song time blowing the harp instead of letting MB play a lot more. I could listen to MB all day. PB not so much.
That harp sound takes us all right back.
And only Butter can get that mouthy breakup, one note and you know it's Paul.
Blues with a feelin ! Both at their best, Bloomfield burnin it up, Paul is demonstrating harp ability to the world.
Harvey, Michael and Paul! Bloomfield is the guitarist who surprises me every time no matter how many times I've heard that version. Solos are nice but his background fills and gentle walks are just so laid back, layered and educated.
I agree, a rich boy can play the blues. Good stuff!
I’m glad someone mentioned Harvey , guy was phenomenal !
It's not Harvey that's playing the bass.
Que maravilla!!!!
I bought their first album and East West in the mid '60s. Haven't been the same since.
East West was their second album
@@philipgreenegreene3454 I'm pretty sure that's what I said. "I bought their first album AND East West......"
great stuff
Good Music.Thanx👍👍
Me had the delightful experience to see these great Musicians Jam- there Was No Color Barriers with them- just play with the deep Respect of Jamming Together- Thanks All That Made These Memories Arise Forever- Twirlin On😮
So good for the soul! ❤
If beauty was a minute this would be a HOUR!!!!❤❤❤❤
Bloomfield is god of blues guitar
Simplesmente fantástico
So nice
Nobody had phrasing like Bloomfield. Maybe Roy Buchanan came close. Thanks for this.
Damn they knocked my socks off WOW
get rid of the channel logo blocking the performance...
I know right? Advertising $$$ Ya know😢
@@mejustme6944no
They own the copyright to this one the watermarks there so nobody else can post it
And not give credit for somebody else's work uploading.
@@truckerkevthepaidtouristIt could be done a little more discreetly, in a corner perhaps.
This is meant to avoid unauthorized duplication
CAN'T YOU READ WHY? it's explained right at the start why they did it-so NO ONE COULD TAKE IT AS THEIR OWN!
Great Paul Butterfield🎉
Love the fender amps taking up center stage
Wow! So glad I caught Michael 1 year later at Winterland in SF. :-)
Didn’t he play with Rhinoceros after?
I'm now crying my eyes out💙
These guys brought the blues 'uptown' and made them accessible for many that, otherwise, wouldn't have experienced them.
REALLY GOOD QUESTION! Mike Bloomfield didn’t want the spotlight
he just wanted to play..
He was from old
Jewish New York
Money. His family owned Blooming Dales in New York.
His father was really disappointed when he heard Mike just wanted to play the blues.
The fame and money didn’t matter. Mike was a humble and kind man. I got to see the Butterfield blues band at the Fillmore East.❤ they played for over three hours. I couldn’t get up to leave. He lived and died the blues.☮️
He grew up in Chicago, learned the electric blues from the Chicago masters.
No they did not
His family started the famous Bloomfield coffee makers.
migrated from Russia to Chicago
I got nothing to do with New York at all get your facts straight
I have a very nice Mike Bloomfield Biography by Ed Ward! Check it out. There is a lot on his background. How Mike had a living trust from his family which basically made him financially independent…..
Straight Up & Righteous ☕🎸
Wish those two Bs could have stayed together longer in the band, and remained on the planet longer.
Nobody was ever as subtle and brilliant as Mike Bloomfield
What solos these guys blew! Mike's fluidity is astounding.
The only time I ever saw The Paul Butterfield Blues Band was at the FILLMORE East in December 1968. They were the headliners & they brought the house down. Butterfield; Gene Dinwiddie & David Sanborn on sax along with Elvin Bishop on lead guitar provided some of my more memorable moments at the great concert venue.
But that evenings highlight, for me, came during the second acts performance. That group was Super Session with Al Kooper & Mike Bloomfield. Like Butterfield's band they were outstanding. But the best part was when Bloomfield introduced an unknown Blues guitarist named Johnny Winter. Unbelieivable!!!
@@josephlemko3027 Yeah, I've listened to that several times. Pretty darn awesome!
@@torstrasburg8289Thanks! It is tough to find someone these days that ever heard of Johnny Winter, let alone Butterfield or Bloomfield.✌️
@@josephlemko3027 It's just not the music of the day as it once was. Makes it precious.
@@torstrasburg8289: Amen! ✌️
I can feel this in my soul.
FANTASTIC VIDEO. THANK YOU
So timeless So Outstanding So Perfect So Great Music.
Could be made yesterday a hit Could be made 90 yrs ago a hit still it would be. Just Timeless …
Absolutely brilliant ❤❤❤❤
How awesome!
This was pure
Great stuff
Harp virtuoso..Paul Butterfield🤘🤘♥️♥️
outstanding
Paul Butterfield valami fantasztikusan szájharmonikázik. Minden nap meghallgatom.
ThanxRITY! This more my style
John Kahn on bass, so far behind the beat it's into last week and broad as the Atlantic Ocean
I've been waiting for this moment 🎉
thats about as calm and non manic as i have heard mike on a solo, very nice
Super Session … his pinnacle.
To be able to see the people behind this music that I've known all my life.
LOVE seein' this footage....thank you. The trash can in the corner there....perfect stage decor!!
Phenomenal.
Real pioneers in the next generation of the blues.
It's fun watching Mike's fingers on the fretboard.
Sweet
What a harmonica solo.... Man that was bad ass...
That was fkn KILLER!👍👍👍
Reminds me of my ann arbor
days, the blind pig, Mr. floods. AA got all the Chicago bluesmen working the small clubs.
Little Walter is the original source of "Last Nigh"t, yet no one is acknowledging him. All of this was learnt from Little Walter and the guitar players , Dave and Louis Meyers, south side Chicago blues. I was there in 1975, much later, playing second guitar in the Byther Smith Blues Band and the Jimmy Mayes Street Depot.
You’re listening to the “roots” - the beginnings! Everything else came after.
Gianni❤
Bloomfield was the shit Coltrane to Butters Miles!
Listen to side one of the Super Session LP with a completely open mind. Listen to it once a year. Bloomfield was beyond genres.
Wow 🎉
Saw them in Detroit twice
I moved to Frisco in 1969
Had a chance to see Michael in Sausalito several times, but failed
I didn't know he was on Heroin. Have several of Butterfield albums, and Bloomfield albums, with AL Kooper...
Last show I saw, Butterfield with Alvin Bishop, but Michael had left the band...
If I had to do it again, I'd correct those mistakes
Also saw Butterfield in Chicago..saw him drinking at the table..too shy to talk to him..did talk to Alvin B. In Chicago, in OLD TOWN
This is the real blues
MISS U BUTTER&BLOOMY!
Good Stuff X 10
Michael was the better Blues guitarist. Eric was the complete package.
Paul Butterfield and Mike Bloomfield came from opposite backgrounds. Bloomfield from a very wealthy Jewish family, class, manners, that stuff. Paul's religion was the street. His drug of choice seemed to be truckers, little white pills, that were poorly manufactured in bathtub and unsanitary conditions. Mike summed it up with this quote, Paul was a hard cat, I ducked, when shooting started, Paul had his own gun. The thought of Mike Bloomfield hurting a fly is laughable. If you met him, he would say, well man, Flys are groovy. You know l am right, if you met, or knew him. To Mike everything was groovy, because it WAS. BOTH had their blues, and I bet you do too. They both were accomplished performers, in their own styles. THIS is what I think, don't know. They sure fit together, regardless of family, or conditions.
I always felt the best lineup for the Butterfield band was the original lineup of Mike Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop on guitars. Without Elvin the band still sounds fine, with no huge loss of quality. But having Elvin on that second guitar really filled out the sound nicely. It just bothered me when a new band would come out and played well, Then a player would leave. Jethro Tull had that happen on their 2nd album.
Former Mother of Invention Bill Mundi on drums. Also the short lived the Rhinos
Seems like, every time I go to the comments, everyone is yelling at each other. Really sick
Bloomfield is God
Ex Mother of invention Billy Mundi on drums.
🔊👊🏻
Wish you could have heard The Fabulous Thunderbirds when they were playing the Onenite and were the house band at Antone's Jimmy Vaughn, Keith Ferguson, Mike Buck , and Kim Wilson, they were as good as any Blues Band that ever took the stage
Walter would be proud
Little Walter...
❤OVER AND OVER ☮️🎶😊
Bloomer and Butter!
❤
Where do you find this kind of gold?
Were they friends bc their last names both ended in field?
Actually Mike Bloomfield left the band because Paul Butterfield was a tough band leader
Bloomfield was long gone from the band years before 1971.
I saw the Butterfield Blues Band in the late '60s and Bloomfield was already gone from the band...Elvin Bishop left the band in 1968 but he was in the lineup that I saw...
@@coinneachmaclellan3121Bloomfield's last with Butterfield was "East-West". The next, "Pigboy Crabshaw" (1967) was Elvin Bishop -- which I've always preferred to Bloomfield.
I'd read an interview with Bloomfield in which he said that it isn't how many nores one plays, oor how fast, but how each note is played. And then he'd PLAY fast and tons of notes, belying that comment.
In this video he actually somewhat lives up to his word.
Meanwhile, most of my peers ignored "Butterfield Blues Band" because there were Blacks in the band -- preferring non-Chicago "Chicago" "blues" player "Clapton is god".
NICELY DONE,,AND VERY GOOD TO SEE THIS MAN PLAY,,FOR REAL,,BUT COULD YOU STOP!! WITH YOUR LETTERS ACROSS THE SCREEN!! IT RUINS IT ALL!!!!
They are stock footage company. The clean version costs money
Is there some reason the banner has to be so big?
Didn't Gibson make a tailor-made Michael Bloomfield guitar?
They sure did, a Custom Shop 59' Les Paul Burst. The one he's playing here is his real 59' worth a cool 250,000 at least.
Copied it to a 'T', they even left off the plastic tip of the pickup switch lol!
Is that Mundy from the Mothers??
Yes.
Love me some BBB.
Good Lord! So sad that heroin took Michael away from us…
Bloomfield.
It had to be well before 1971...Bloomfield left the band around 1967.
It was two nights in a row reunion in Boston 1971 , December
@@UnknownHumanOnline Yes, Butterfield with a beard is a dead give-away.
It was a reunion
Called a Reunion you know what that is? Apparently not get your facts straight boy
Silverface fender amps
That's Billy Mundy on drums?
YES!
@@recordguy4321😊 amazing
@@Zootallures100 billy mundi was such a great drummer, that's him on Apricot Brandy by Rhinoceros, and drummed with Zappa
Do you know who the other players are?
@@5graney5 Billy Mundi drums, John Kahn bass, Mark Naftalin keyboards
Hope Clapton was listening
Billy Mundi on drums..
Is Clapton really better than this guy? This band butterfield in it's own way influenced as many musicians as the Beatles. Think about it?
He was much better than Clapton.
Actualy some of his guitar licks copied by clapton
Clapton is better. But, I prefer Mike. Totally original, and not afaid ro show his flaws.
@@jonathanabbott8579listen to the first Butterfield album and listen to Clapton in 1965 mike just kills it Eric is good but not the same level.
ok, i thought about it but it didn't take me long to come to the conclusion that this band is only amateur level.
Why do they keep that logo up?
@@jimmyhawkins5357 I’m guessing you never bothered to read the words on the screen in big letters before the performance starts? Had you done that you would see that it’s there so people don’t steal it and air it without licensing it from us.
It aint race. It's passion. Butterfield. Dont add white into it. He could play and outplay anyone.
A cover of little junior Parker
Lose the stoopid logo.
MB came from money but not Paul.
These guys played the blues, or rather copied people who played the blues, but Page, Blackmore, and many others transcended or maybe in Hegelian terms sublated the blues, to create something new. Clapton never got where Page got much less Blackmore but he was better than this guy simply be use of his freedom and fluidity as opposed to this guy’s rote recitation.
Get that logo off 😩
@@Fender73472 I’d be happy to if you’d like to license the footage for a project and pay me for the rights.
Gran banda, Paul Butterfield Forever...desde Perú saludos al BLUES