In '66 in London in one evening, we saw the Beach boys at Fairfield Hall Croydon then drove up to the Marquee to see one of Cream's first gigs, then We drove to Kensington to see Paul Butterfield at Blaizes. What an evening ! The Paul Butterfield Blues Band were one of the best bands we had ever heard - even after Cream and that is saying something !
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:)
First concert I ever saw at 13 years old. He never stood still and was just flying around the stage with his blue vails and white hair. Edgar in the audience cheering him on. Then, was able to see him at the end, barely walking. Had the same guitar, highway 61 was the end of the show, I will never forget!
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.
Paul Butterfield - harp, vocals, Mike Bloomfield - guitar, Mark Naftalin - piano, John Kahn - bass, and Billy Mundi (ex-Mothers of Invention)- drums. Location: Fenway Theater, Boston - December 10-11 1971 (From the second reunion gig of members of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band)
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😮
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.
He was super skilled and quite unique. You're right about his " background fills and gentle walks", he was different from a lot of players who wanted to blow everybody off the stage. He could play soft and let a solo build. Very subtle rhythm backing, too, when needed, just the perfect kind of guy to play with.
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.
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…..
@@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.
The basic framework of the Little Walter genius remains, but Paul takes off in his own unique fashion. One thing to note is he played the harps upside down, low notes on the Right. Some have tried to attribute his prowess to this flipping the draw reeds to the top of the instrument, but that is another bit of folklore. For anyone willing to learn this way, like lefthanded guitarists, know that if you don't want to just look like a poser, you'd better be damn good.
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
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!!!
Couldn’t get off the dope 😮
Enjoyed this solo very much. So inventive, going places you don't expect but then you hear it
In '66 in London in one evening, we saw the Beach boys at Fairfield Hall Croydon then drove up to the Marquee to see one of Cream's first gigs, then We drove to Kensington to see Paul Butterfield at Blaizes. What an evening ! The Paul Butterfield Blues Band were one of the best bands we had ever heard - even after Cream and that is saying something !
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:)
Que maravilla!!!!
First concert I ever saw at 13 years old. He never stood still and was just flying around the stage with his blue vails and white hair. Edgar in the audience cheering him on. Then, was able to see him at the end, barely walking. Had the same guitar, highway 61 was the end of the show, I will never forget!
OMG. Butter and Bloomers. The blues just doesn't get any better.
If anyone dislikes this then they have no SOUL.
This is One of the Best Live Performances I've Ever Seen!
So good for the soul! ❤
Paul Butterfield and Mike Bloomfield were such a dynamic combination as shown on 1st two Paul Butterfield Blues Band albums
Thats some of the best Harp I have ever heard. 🎶
The guy who played harmonica sounded much better.
@@Jonathan-Llmao. Exactly
Nobody was ever as subtle and brilliant as Mike Bloomfield
Good Music.Thanx👍👍
Love the fender amps taking up center stage
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.
Blues with a feelin ! Both at their best, Bloomfield burnin it up, Paul is demonstrating harp ability to the world.
That harp sound takes us all right back.
And only Butter can get that mouthy breakup, one note and you know it's Paul.
great stuff
These two & the ensemble of musicians they worked with really define an era
These guys brought the blues 'uptown' and made them accessible for many that, otherwise, wouldn't have experienced them.
Paul Butterfield - harp, vocals, Mike Bloomfield - guitar, Mark Naftalin - piano, John Kahn - bass, and Billy Mundi (ex-Mothers of Invention)- drums. Location: Fenway Theater, Boston - December 10-11 1971 (From the second reunion gig of members of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band)
Nice listening before going to the dentist! Yes!
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😮
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.
He was super skilled and quite unique. You're right about his " background fills and gentle walks", he was different from a lot of players who wanted to blow everybody off the stage. He could play soft and let a solo build. Very subtle rhythm backing, too, when needed, just the perfect kind of guy to play with.
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!
@@tor5457Thanks! 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.
@@tor5457: Amen! ✌️
I'm now crying my eyes out💙
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 …
Simplesmente fantástico
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.
What a harmonica solo.... Man that was bad ass...
Great Paul Butterfield🎉
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…..
I can feel this in my soul.
LOVE seein' this footage....thank you. The trash can in the corner there....perfect stage decor!!
Nobody had phrasing like Bloomfield. Maybe Roy Buchanan came close. Thanks for this.
Paul Butterfield valami fantasztikusan szájharmonikázik. Minden nap meghallgatom.
How awesome!
FANTASTIC VIDEO. THANK YOU
Harp virtuoso..Paul Butterfield🤘🤘♥️♥️
1971 I graduated high school. Had the What’s Shakin album. Awesome
ThanxRITY! This more my style
Straight Up & Righteous ☕🎸
This was pure
Wow! So glad I caught Michael 1 year later at Winterland in SF. :-)
Didn’t he play with Rhinoceros after?
Sweet
outstanding
Damn they knocked my socks off WOW
Absolutely brilliant ❤❤❤❤
Bloomfield is god of blues guitar
Great stuff
Phenomenal.
That was fkn KILLER!👍👍👍
Real pioneers in the next generation of the blues.
To be able to see the people behind this music that I've known all my life.
Wish those two Bs could have stayed together longer in the band, and remained on the planet longer.
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......"
Still kickin' my ass in 2024!
So nice
It's fun watching Mike's fingers on the fretboard.
Wow 🎉
Back in the 60s when i was 16 we had one of his albumns. Eric clapton, peter green. Etc etc. He launched a few c areers. Great stuff.
I've been waiting for this moment 🎉
Великолепная игра, Браво!!!
This and Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac are the pinnacle of white boy blues for me.
You’re listening to the “roots” - the beginnings! Everything else came after.
Gianni❤
thats about as calm and non manic as i have heard mike on a solo, very nice
Super Session … his pinnacle.
Reminds me of my ann arbor
days, the blind pig, Mr. floods. AA got all the Chicago bluesmen working the small clubs.
MISS U BUTTER&BLOOMY!
😂nobodys better than anybody. Mikes guitar... the harmonica Paul sings with ,damn🙂🎸
This is the real blues
John Kahn on bass, so far behind the beat it's into last week and broad as the Atlantic Ocean
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!
Listen to side one of the Super Session LP with a completely open mind. Listen to it once a year. Bloomfield was beyond genres.
If beauty was a minute this would be a HOUR!!!!❤❤❤❤
I remember when this hit the air waves
The basic framework of the Little Walter genius remains, but Paul takes off in his own unique fashion. One thing to note is he played the harps upside down, low notes on the Right. Some have tried to attribute his prowess to this flipping the draw reeds to the top of the instrument, but that is another bit of folklore. For anyone willing to learn this way, like lefthanded guitarists, know that if you don't want to just look like a poser, you'd better be damn good.
Privileged to have seen them in ‘67 and Electric Flag a few months later.
Good Stuff X 10
A most respectable cover of a Little Walter song.
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.
Paul was a accomplished flautist before playing blues harp .don't know if that is why he had the greatest tone of any harp player in Chicago
Bloomfield was the shit Coltrane to Butters Miles!
❤OVER AND OVER ☮️🎶😊
Bloomer and Butter!
Former Mother of Invention Bill Mundi on drums. Also the short lived the Rhinos
❤
Where do you find this kind of gold?
Ex Mother of invention Billy Mundi on drums.
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.
After Bloomfield got rid of that nasty sounding Telecaster for this buttery smooth Les Paul.
Is there some reason the banner has to be so big?
Gran banda, Paul Butterfield Forever...desde Perú saludos al BLUES
Walter would be proud
Little Walter...
Seems like, every time I go to the comments, everyone is yelling at each other. Really sick
Bloomfield is God
Bloomfield and Butterfield: lay me down in fields of BLUE
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
Michael was the better Blues guitarist. Eric was the complete package.
Johnny Winter blows them both away
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
Is that Mundy from the Mothers??
Yes.