Love the nod to TOP! A college roommate brought home East Bay Grease. Enough said!! I still go see them, and they are still really good!! Go see them, folks!!
Hi Mazzy, I loved the 'Funk' video and was especially pleased when you showed Cold Blood, I love this band, and they had an excellent drummer; also love thee early Pointer Sisters stuff, right up to the 'Energy' album, produced by Peter Asher, where they did a great version of Steely Dan's 'dirty work' and others. Vol 2 is calling !!
Love Herb Caen. I have a typed, signed note from him from when I got an item into his column (Analog typewriter, that is). There was nothing more importantly required with one's coffee than his column every morning.
Cheap Thrills is one of my favorite albums. As much as I hate to say, she probably needed to go solo. She was just too talented. But, as they say, it is what it is. Thanks for the Sly coverage.
What a great set of records! Ahh, my youth. There's an old movie house in downtown Monterey, that I caught, Top as the self-titled came out. Also, earlier, saw Taj with The Sons of Chaplain, Elvin Bishop and Doobies around the Captain and Me. After years off, they are doing it there again. Any Boz is great music. Thanks so much!
man..i had a gigantic poster of sly and the family stone on my wall back in the day.. listened to 'hot fun in the summertime' like it was my soundtrack...tower of power 'what is hip'..another classic..pointer sisters 'yes we can can'..and janis..what needs to be said..great stuff.. and for your store..i'm waiting for you to make a coffee mug that says 'there's always room', a quote you once said about the idea of having too many records..i'd buy it... be well my friend.. peace always..rocky
The bay hasn't stopped bringing the funk! Especially here in the East Bay. So much great music over the last several decades. I believe you were in SF in the 90s, so perhaps he remember the whole acid jazz scene with the hub sort of being the elbow room in the mission where you lived. Great boy all stars, junk, etc.. That was a very vibrant scene with so many great acts sprouting out of it. Great labels too! Thanks for shining a little light on a sometime underappreciated part of the Bay Area music history! Oh, and thanks for clarifying for the "Uninformed" folks out there about the use of "Frisco" or even "San Fran" lol… Love it!
Hi Massey. Greetings from West Yorkshire UK. Just thought Id send you a message to say how much I enjoy your videos, which appear on a near daily basis. I enjoy them not just for your musical knowledge, but also your presentation style. Keep up the good work. Just watched your video on Funky music from San Francisco Bay Area (not Fresco, as you point out). Just wanted to point out that there was no mention of the cult soul singer Darondo whom I believe came from the Bay Area. He released numerous singles including Didn't I, and the album Let My People Go which I have ?. Best Wishes. Mel Leese. Huddersfield uk
Mazzy, I just love your videos. Apart from the two pointer sisters albums I have all the others and listen to them frequently. San Francisco was such a hotbed of creativity from '65 to the early 70s. Amazing music. I am now off to investigate the 2 pointer sister albums.
Nice selection Mazzy. I've got to go back and listen to Cold Blood again. 'Kozmic Blues' sounded like Janis Joplin in thrall to Otis Redding, and she certainly would have been blown away by his performance at the Monterey Pop Festival th year before. I especially like the title track and 'Maybe' on this one...
“Frisco”, wow you went there. Talked to a dude who said he was from Frisco. It was Frisco this, Frisco that. I almost chastised him but turns out he meant Frisco, Colorado. I know, cool story bro. When I was there, it was San Fran, maybe still is. Love those Cold Blood albums.
Fun vid. I might add the Betty Davis album that had a whole host of Bay Area funksters on it and the Herbie Hancock Chameleon and Thrust albums. You've got me wanting to check out some Cold Blood now.
Both Mic Gillette and Skip Mesquite played for Tower of Power and Cold Blood. Also, there was a Bay Area release “Lights Out” with Voco, where they paired Tower of Power with Lydia Pense and Raul Maute (keyboardist for Cold Blood) for several cuts. Also had TOP with Dusty Street adding in the “vocal” for Cleo’s Back. Weren’t both Cold Blood & Sons of Champlin originally Marin County bands? Great video and synopsis of Bay Area soul. I sat in with a band that opened for early Sly & Family Stone. They were off the chart!
Got thei first two Cold Blood LP's. Never saw that third one, First Taste of Sin. Hmmmm,. wiill have to search that out. Boz is one of the coolest dudes on our little planet... Peace Out.
Mas... Sony has been releasing 5-pack bundles of these classics, only on CD, so far... I bought the 5-pack of Foghat, Sly and The Family Stone and Blood Sweat and Tears. All for under $35.00, and remastered... Only flaw...? A little thin on the liner notes...
A San Franciscan band that recorded some material at Golden State Recorders in 1969 was Gold - a mix of some rock but also Santana influenced material with some soul & funk moves as well - there is a reissue of these songs on vinyl
Ok. I know that Ballin' Jack were from Seattle, relocated to Los Angeles, BUT, they played San Francisco a lot and should be in anyones "funky" collection.
I'm very happy you gave Cold Blood some love. They are one of the great San Francisco bands, but sadly they are nearly forgotten. I try to rectify that whenever possible. (Sons of Every Name Variation too, but I dig Cold Blood more.)
Cool video. I’m getting used to you using “Frisco”, but it still raises the hair on my neck…. I would like to add Kathi McDonald to your list. Insane Asylum features a ton of San Francisco musicians and is funky.
Bay always at each other. Outsiders saying SF is dead and local media saying SF is back. Pinnacle being the Ben Again /Skrillex concert. Always the yin and yang here in the Bay.
I am old. I don’t have a new camera. I’m using the cinematic mode in my iPhone which limits depth of field and blurs everything not centered in the frame. So that and the light source shows me at my age 😎🤠
Dude, stop talkin' about the city. 'Ya got no clue. Saw Herb Caen play drums at the Saloon in a tux. Santana was the funk all the way through. Funky Folsom. Lydia Pense and Cold Blood. Pure funk. See 'em now. Even after her heart attack. Killlllssss. Sly, Larry Graham. Define funk. James, Sly, George 'n Misssy. 4 corners of funk Larry Grahams stuff is so good. All of it. Tower of Power n Cold Blood just battle of the bands. Funkyyy. Best Cold Blood is the live one! Funk was just in the air. Ohio was another hub. Like here. But it was everywhere. Then became disco. Read the book Funk. By Ricky Vincent. Then you'll get it
thanks for your love of San Fran, I appreciate your hatred of tourists. I am the same way. What has concerned me is your refusal to talk about Big Brother. Their talent is perhaps not up to the highest levels but they were sort of a garage band that I love. I have always wanted to get music from them before Janis. That is almost difficult to do. I love the personalities of these guys. They were all part of the flavor of San Francisco of those days for those who lived far away. You have to understand that San Francisco was a dream for people around the world in those days.
@@mazzysmusic Yes but your refusal to allow outsiders to use the term Frisco is not very friendly. You want some sort of exclusionary status for those who really belong which translates to me as "fuck off tourists". Believe me I will never be visiting San Fran. I don't deny that I use the same terms for the bush visitors who are just tourists where I live, so I play the same game, but my San Fran is the forest. God bless you. I still love you.
About Janis,I know cheap thrills was recorded in the studio but what about the Big Brother material on Joplin in concert? The songs are so much stronger than Big Brother 1968 at the Carousel and live at Winterland 68? To me you would never know that they are the same group?
Tower of Power is the best and funkiest you showed and they’re from Oakland. The Pointer Sisters album outside of the opening track is more like a Manhattan Transfer album with scat vocals which I detest. When it comes to come funk, the east coast rules. ✊🏻
While I like Grand Funk, it is about funky albums by Bay Area bands. Grand Funk Railroad’s first album seemed like it blew up on charts about the same time is Led Zeppelin’s debut album. Grand Funk’s music helped me get through the Army! 🎶👍🏼😎
I read some extremely perceptive commentary by a feminist social critic who said that Janis would have been smarter to have remained with Big Brother instead of seeking faming with the destructive corporate fantasies of material success which you seem to gloat on.
Anyone who chooses to diss San Francisco with that kind of jargon needs to stop typing, take few deep breaths and do a little research. San Francisco is one of the most American cities in America.
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Love the nod to TOP! A college roommate brought home East Bay Grease. Enough said!! I still go see them, and they are still really good!! Go see them, folks!!
Tower of Power! Oh man, I love putting on that live album. The horns are just _snappin_ on "What Is Hip?"!!
Hi Mazzy, I loved the 'Funk' video and was especially pleased when you showed Cold Blood, I love this band, and they had an excellent drummer; also love thee early Pointer Sisters stuff, right up to the 'Energy' album, produced by Peter Asher, where they did a great version of Steely Dan's 'dirty work' and others. Vol 2 is calling !!
Love Herb Caen. I have a typed, signed note from him from when I got an item into his column (Analog typewriter, that is).
There was nothing more importantly required with one's coffee than his column every morning.
Cheap Thrills is one of my favorite albums. As much as I hate to say, she probably needed to go solo. She was just too talented. But, as they say, it is what it is. Thanks for the Sly coverage.
What a great set of records! Ahh, my youth. There's an old movie house in downtown Monterey, that I caught, Top as the self-titled came out. Also, earlier, saw Taj with The Sons of Chaplain, Elvin Bishop and Doobies around the Captain and Me. After years off, they are doing it there again. Any Boz is great music. Thanks so much!
man..i had a gigantic poster of sly and the family stone on my wall back in the day..
listened to 'hot fun in the summertime' like it was my soundtrack...tower of power 'what is hip'..another classic..pointer sisters 'yes we can can'..and janis..what needs to be said..great stuff..
and for your store..i'm waiting for you to make a coffee mug that says 'there's always room', a quote you once said about the idea of having too many records..i'd buy it...
be well my friend.. peace always..rocky
Klaus Voorman’s Santana cover is awesome. How much friggin’ talent could Hamburg Germany hold in 1962?
The first Santana album was not by Klaus It’s by Lee Conklin.
Pointer Sisters - "Yes We Can Can".... a MASSIVE TUNE!
Excellent Santana Janis joplins tower power. Who could ask for more. Oh yeah, you had more oh great.
Love Santana’s first album.
Santana was a monumental debut imo. Loved Sly and Tower of Power. 🎶😎
The bay hasn't stopped bringing the funk! Especially here in the East Bay. So much great music over the last several decades. I believe you were in SF in the 90s, so perhaps he remember the whole acid jazz scene with the hub sort of being the elbow room in the mission where you lived. Great boy all stars, junk, etc.. That was a very vibrant scene with so many great acts sprouting out of it. Great labels too! Thanks for shining a little light on a sometime underappreciated part of the Bay Area music history! Oh, and thanks for clarifying for the "Uninformed" folks out there about the use of "Frisco" or even "San Fran" lol… Love it!
I lived in SF from my birth through 2013. Yeah still lots of great soul and funk all around. ✌🏼
Hi Massey. Greetings from West Yorkshire UK. Just thought Id send you a message to say how much I enjoy your videos, which appear on a near daily basis. I enjoy them not just for your musical knowledge, but also your presentation style. Keep up the good work.
Just watched your video on Funky music from San Francisco Bay Area (not Fresco, as you point out). Just wanted to point out that there was no mention of the cult soul singer Darondo whom I believe came from the Bay Area. He released numerous singles including Didn't I, and the album Let My People Go which I have ?.
Best Wishes. Mel Leese. Huddersfield uk
Some super sweet selections! You've inspired my Funky Funk today!
Loving the channel...
Amazing knowledge. Keep ‘em coming mate.
Mazzy, I just love your videos. Apart from the two pointer sisters albums I have all the others and listen to them frequently. San Francisco was such a hotbed of creativity from '65 to the early 70s. Amazing music. I am now off to investigate the 2 pointer sister albums.
Thanks for listening ✌🏼
Great video Mazzy! I am definitely in agreement that Sons of Champlin were a hot San Francisco band!
No doubt!✌🏼
Nice selection Mazzy. I've got to go back and listen to Cold Blood again. 'Kozmic Blues' sounded like Janis Joplin in thrall to Otis Redding, and she certainly would have been blown away by his performance at the Monterey Pop Festival th year before. I especially like the title track and 'Maybe' on this one...
“Frisco”, wow you went there. Talked to a dude who said he was from Frisco. It was Frisco this, Frisco that. I almost chastised him but turns out he meant Frisco, Colorado. I know, cool story bro. When I was there, it was San Fran, maybe still is. Love those Cold Blood albums.
Fun vid. I might add the Betty Davis album that had a whole host of Bay Area funksters on it and the Herbie Hancock Chameleon and Thrust albums. You've got me wanting to check out some Cold Blood now.
Both Mic Gillette and Skip Mesquite played for Tower of Power and Cold Blood. Also, there was a Bay Area release “Lights Out” with Voco, where they paired Tower of Power with Lydia Pense and Raul Maute (keyboardist for Cold Blood) for several cuts. Also had TOP with Dusty Street adding in the “vocal” for Cleo’s Back.
Weren’t both Cold Blood & Sons of Champlin originally Marin County bands?
Great video and synopsis of Bay Area soul. I sat in with a band that opened for early Sly & Family Stone. They were off the chart!
I think Cold Blood East Sons Marin. 🤷🏻♂️
Got thei first two Cold Blood LP's. Never saw that third one, First Taste of Sin. Hmmmm,. wiill have to search that out. Boz is one of the coolest dudes on our little planet... Peace Out.
Mas... I got that Santana album on CD... The second disc is their complete Woodstock set... Fantastic...!
Mas... Sony has been releasing 5-pack bundles of these classics, only on CD, so far... I bought the 5-pack of Foghat, Sly and The Family Stone and Blood Sweat and Tears. All for under $35.00, and remastered... Only flaw...? A little thin on the liner notes...
Nice selection of albums that I’m not familiar with to add to my listening list. Thanks Mazzy! ✌🏻
A San Franciscan band that recorded some material at Golden State Recorders in 1969 was Gold - a mix of some rock but also Santana influenced material with some soul & funk moves as well - there is a reissue of these songs on vinyl
Great video! Santana, Sly Stone,.... That Sons Of Champlin sleeve looks reallly cool. Never heard of the band.
You might have left San Francisco but SF never left you
RIP Orlando Cepeda
A lot of great picks! Thanks for putting it together!
My pleasure!
I think that Boz Scaggs LP is from 1976, the 1974 original had a white cover with a photo of Boz in swimming trunks walking out of the water.
Yes. I showed both in my recent Boz Scaggs feature. 🎸
Ok. I know that Ballin' Jack were from Seattle, relocated to Los Angeles, BUT, they played San Francisco a lot and should be in anyones "funky" collection.
I could on and on
How about a mention of the passing of the wonderful Kinky Friedman.
No Jefferson Airplane? 🤠
Great SF band, but funky?
I'm very happy you gave Cold Blood some love. They are one of the great San Francisco bands, but sadly they are nearly forgotten. I try to rectify that whenever possible.
(Sons of Every Name Variation too, but I dig Cold Blood more.)
As Carmen McRae memorably ad libbed (Live at Sugar Hill), “what the squares call Frisco”.
We need more white (Jewish and non Jewish) guys talking about funk music on TH-cam.
Agree 😎
Cool video. I’m getting used to you using “Frisco”, but it still raises the hair on my neck….
I would like to add Kathi McDonald to your list. Insane Asylum features a ton of San Francisco musicians and is funky.
Live the McDonald album. Had forgotten about it
Sly's There's A Riot Going On is as funky as it gets. Then, Stevie Wonder's All Day Sucker
Bay always at each other. Outsiders saying SF is dead and local media saying SF is back. Pinnacle being the Ben Again /Skrillex concert. Always the yin and yang here in the Bay.
Your new camera makes you look older maz 😎🇬🇧
I am old. I don’t have a new camera. I’m using the cinematic mode in my iPhone which limits depth of field and blurs everything not centered in the frame. So that and the light source shows me at my age 😎🤠
I’m looking old now too in current pictures, but it’s my age, not camera. I’ve earned every wrinkle! 🎶👍🏼😎
Thanks for reminding me of the tsstier things
I love 1st Santana album. I like Family Stone but don't like 'Riot.'
Dude, stop talkin' about the city. 'Ya got no clue.
Saw Herb Caen play drums at the Saloon in a tux.
Santana was the funk all the way through. Funky Folsom.
Lydia Pense and Cold Blood. Pure funk. See 'em now. Even after her heart attack. Killlllssss.
Sly, Larry Graham. Define funk.
James, Sly, George 'n Misssy. 4 corners of funk
Larry Grahams stuff is so good. All of it.
Tower of Power n Cold Blood just battle of the bands. Funkyyy.
Best Cold Blood is the live one!
Funk was just in the air. Ohio was another hub. Like here. But it was everywhere. Then became disco.
Read the book Funk. By Ricky Vincent. Then you'll get it
Chicago 7 is very nice.
thanks for your love of San Fran, I appreciate your hatred of tourists. I am the same way. What has concerned me is your refusal to talk about Big Brother. Their talent is perhaps not up to the highest levels but they were sort of a garage band that I love. I have always wanted to get music from them before Janis. That is almost difficult to do. I love the personalities of these guys. They were all part of the flavor of San Francisco of those days for those who lived far away. You have to understand that San Francisco was a dream for people around the world in those days.
I love Big Brother and have included them in other videos. A funk video is not really the place for them.
And I love tourists ✌🏼😎
@@mazzysmusic Yes but your refusal to allow outsiders to use the term Frisco is not very friendly. You want some sort of exclusionary status for those who really belong which translates to me as "fuck off tourists". Believe me I will never be visiting San Fran. I don't deny that I use the same terms for the bush visitors who are just tourists where I live, so I play the same game, but my San Fran is the forest. God bless you. I still love you.
People from Frisco are so sensitive.
Yeah, not like those noble souls from "The Armpit of California."
@@revkarlApparently they are not only sensitive but also elitist. Not everyone can afford to live in Frisco.
About Janis,I know cheap thrills was recorded in the studio but what about the Big Brother material on Joplin in concert? The songs are so much stronger than Big Brother 1968 at the Carousel and live at Winterland 68? To me you would never know that they are the same group?
Agree. Still they’re not funky 😎
You forgot the best bar band of the bay area The Hoodoo Rythum Devils
Oh yeah ✌🏼
Frisco’s a “funky” crime riddin dump now innit?
Actually not at all. There are a couple of sketchy hoods like almost every big city, but it is still the most beautiful city in America.
@@mazzysmusic What a smashing response. It really grabbed me.
There is a sign at the Louis Vuitton store in downtown San Francisco that says “Stolen Goods Must Remain Under $950.”
Tower of Power is the best and funkiest you showed and they’re from Oakland. The Pointer Sisters album outside of the opening track is more like a Manhattan Transfer album with scat vocals which I detest. When it comes to come funk, the east coast rules. ✊🏻
Don't say Frisco. Only. Otis could sing it .
I'm guessing Otis Redding gets a pass, heading for the Frisco Bay.
Love Dock. But his Bay Are tenure was about a minute. Still I should have should that album.
You forgot the funkiest band-though not from San Francisco- GRAND FUNK! 😮😮😮😮😮😊😊😊😊😊
While I like Grand Funk, it is about funky albums by Bay Area bands. Grand Funk Railroad’s first album seemed like it blew up on charts about the same time is Led Zeppelin’s debut album. Grand Funk’s music helped me get through the Army! 🎶👍🏼😎
The city
Never that other word. N e v e r
*Frisco?!* I only thought out of City folks called it that. 🤦🏽
Did you watch ?
@@mazzysmusicI did. Uh, I was also surprised to not see Betty Davis.
Zircus
You need an pkonoki
can i say San Fransiskey ?
Yes 😎
To see ee of power and s l y
I read some extremely perceptive commentary by a feminist social critic who said that Janis would have been smarter to have remained with Big Brother instead of seeking faming with the destructive corporate fantasies of material success which you seem to gloat on.
I’ve been to San Francisco twice. Really nice city until the bolsheviks took over! 😲 😲 😲 😲 😲 😂😂 😂😂😂
Anyone who chooses to diss San Francisco with that kind of jargon needs to stop typing, take few deep breaths and do a little research. San Francisco is one of the most American cities in America.
@@darkspar72 bunch of left-leaning maggots that also ruined NYC! 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆
That was a good post. Another band with a funky horn section is The Loading Zone. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Loading_Zone
Absolutely, saw them at the Family Dog on the Great Highway!