Don't forget Jim Capaldi and Dave Mason had a lot to do with his growth as a musician. Plus by this time he'd been a touring and recording professional for 6 years plus.
The remarkable thing is that Stevie could keep it all together, both guitar and vocals without missing a thing... and with all that orange sunshine running around in his head.
Mine too. 64 now, and never heard it til 10 years ago. I wrongly assumed that Steve Winwood was 80’s radio pop. It sent me into a music seeking spiral. What other masterpiece had I missed in my youth. It was good to know that I hadn’t missed many. Sadly tho, this was one of them. I listened to it everyday for a year and still do on a regular weekly basis. Sometimes more.
Still LOVE THIS after all these years! I am So happy to be this old because we had the best music ever! Thanks, Stevie Winwood, for making US happy all these years!!
Free, Pink Floyd, Aerosmith and ZZ Top are my favorites from this era. I am also very proud of my generation Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Collective Soul and Black Crowes. Paul Kossoff of Free is one of my all time heroes and David Gilmour of Pink Floyd.
Yes, we had the best! I seen Hendrix in 1968! I seen Zeppelin in 1977 and SO many more. I love being 70 years and still digging the music riding my Harley-Davidson and fighting for American values!
Most people don't realize the unique talent of excelling on keyboards, guitar, AND vocals. Winwood, in my opinion, the greatest musician of the 60s and early 70s.
@@youngmrjazz Todd was really something tho in many other ways besides his awesome talent. He helped many artists get a leg up in the music industry. He is the shit. But I still have to pick Steve.
Man, just looking at his face and especially his eyes, gives me flashbacks from 45+ years ago. It is amazing that he could perform this song so flawlessly tripping that hard. WOW...
@@davidjackson2690 Yep. If you've ever tripped you know the deal. It's like your pupils dilate out of your eyeballs, eye sockets, then out of your face, then melt down your face into the heat waves of neon cartoon colored landscape waving to the sounds of Pink Floyd you're listening to and become one cycle of many cycles of an alternate reality that is part of another surreal alternate universe that pulsates in and out of this universe that is trapped inside your brain but moving in and out of the existential reality of thousands of mutlicolored waves of thoughts, both spoken and yet unspoken. Yeah, that about sums it up...
When you have a song as well written and performed, there is no need for lights, bells and whistles, they just take away from the sheer power of the music itself...this is what music has lost today...soul. This is a pure example of musical soul here..enjoy and learn
Stevie Windwood! Amazing singer, keyboard player, guitar player, and song writer. He is on my list. The most underated musician of the sixties and seventies! Thanks! STEVIE!
I ask you guys and gals ,,,where on Gods earth are you going to find music of this caliber in this day and age? We were so lucky to be apart of it and we thought "it would never end". I'm glad I was there,,,
Charles Bradley, fiona apple, Gogol Bordello, Devil Makes Three, and even Lionel Richie still lookin 35. Love Winwood though. Can't beat some great Winwood sometimes.
Steve Hackett. Roger Waters. David Gilmour. Neil Young. Bruce Springsteen. Mark Knopfler. I like Muse. Beach House. Some others. But, no. Nothing like this. I love this. It's the magic.
I was just 12..but lucky for me my 1st cousin just got a Awesome Sansui Stereo System, & he turned me on to what music is all about...Rest in peace Chuck...He passed in 2019, at 64, I was 62...See you when I get there Chuck...love ya Cous!
Thank the Lord I was born in 63. Born from Cool Hippy parents in SF and relocated to the Midwest. Being multi racial gave me Rock and Soul. I love the 60’s,70’s and early 80’s. We’ve got CRAP now.
My God the way he kept that all together…flawless vocals and guitar…the soul and magic of those days…his talent then was unbelievable and still is today. …..Tripping hard…..
@@ccrider00 Let's not forget Pink Floyd, ELO, Night Ranger, Molly Hatchett, Outlaws, BTO, Bad Company, Skynyrd, Def Leppard, Blue Oyster Cult, Grand Funk, Scorpions, Steely Dan, Styx, REO, Yes, etc. And I concur with SPIRIT! ALL AMAZING BANDS. Never again will there be music like this, may of whose live days have ended, sadly.
wouldn't change a thing, as in 'you can't change a thing'. It is what it WAS. Just like every moment and what happened a minute ago, can't be changed. Just knowing that you were a 'decent' human being, justify's your existence.
I am getting old now but would never trade this the time of my youth for any other era. Traffic were/are one of my all time favourite bands and Steve Winwood is just exceptional.
There were many great American bands back in the day as well. Quicksilver Messenger Service to name but one. Such amazing days - it was impossible to run out of great music to listen to British or American. Truly a golden age.
John North Amen. I’m an old hippie who started following band and music at age 14 in Detroit. I saw almost all of the greats before anyone knew them and they traveled from band to band. When I graduated high school I moved to the Haight Ashbury in S F. Oh yeah. Damn I wish I had a time machine✌️
One of the most incredible talents ever. So many great memories of when this song came out on the FM commercial free radio of the '60s. Good time to be alive in good ol San Fran !!!
Was für ein Song! Was für eine Performance! Was für eine Band! Manchmal mag ich es garnicht, schon so alt zu sein (1947 geboren). Das Gute daran ist aber, dass ich diese wunderbare Musik der 1960er und 70er Jahre erlebt habe. Nicht nur Traffic - Cream, Moody Blues, Leonard Cohen, Rod Stewart und und und .....
...my old room mate, Jerry, could drive like a pro when he was stoned...but ONLY when stoned...straight he wasn't worth a shit...I didn't mind riding at speed down the highway when he was tokin' but not anywhere when he wasn't - he got too hyper
@@mohammedcohen I remember hearing that one back in the early 80's, don't know if it's true but things were sure different in those days...driving stoned etc...no repercussions!
I really never think of Stevie as a guitar player. When I think of him, I think keyboards. But he laid down a great solo in this jam. Love this video. Great quality audio and visual
Go listen to the 1966 tack Stevie's Blues when he was still with Spencer Davis. That boy can play & he was Clapton's equal which is one reason their such great friends. th-cam.com/video/isqZxBb7HWs/w-d-xo.html
Me too andy cuthbert, June '67. Although I bought a Traffic cassette back in the eighties with this song on it.. I'm discovering and re- discovering many treasures from this monumental period in musical history!!
3 of my mates and me saw this concert on italian RAI TV on a sunday morning in 1976 while having our lunch (separately). by 3.30 in the afternoon we went out to play football but we did not. we had already decided to form a band on the spot and we kept talking about this performance all along. we were stunned....12/13 yrs old by then. thanks Traffic!
I was 12 in 69' in the seventh gr., my English teacher had us all name our favorite bands. As he walked up & down the rows of desks, all the kids were calling out the names of mostly top 40 groups when I shouted "Traffic! He did a double take & said "Traffic, good man! Unfortunately my answer didn't apply to my grade. lol
chuck lane I wasn't even thought of in '69 and I could listen to them all day, everyday! Nothing like getting lost in the lyrics of great songs by an Awesome Band!
New shit pays homage to that era. They know it well. And we kinda have a similar soup with politics, rioting, war and poverty today. Just open your ear.
Oh I wish I could LIKE this each and every time I watch and listen. We, who were young then, learned to have dedicated musical attention spans due to the many, many lengthy jam sessions at concerts. just mellow out, relax and free flow with the tunes.
Dear Mister Fantasy play us a tune Something to make us all happy Do anything take us out of this gloom Sing a song, play guitar Make it snappy You are the one who can make us all laugh But doing that you break out in tears Please don't be sad if it was a straight mind you had We wouldn't have known you all these years
In any top 500 countdown this should be number one NOT Stairway to Heaven { burned out badly} . Dear Mr. Fantasy has it all ,guitars , harmonica. you name it . Number one song !
For me ,the best version ! What a beautiful guitar ! Is everyboby who tells me more about it ..? Thanks for the post, From deep south of France , 🥖🍷🧀 C & Chelsea the Dog . 🐉🔬🐲
Mesmerizing classic 70's rolla, Steve plays the shits on that guitar & the bassist connects the tune & the beat of the percussionist keeps it tight...never gets old
I JUST CANT GET ENOUGH OF THE 1960's MUSIC. and there is so much that didn't come out its coming out now with the GARAGE MUSIC AWESOME THERE WAS A lot we missed.
+paul lespage Yes life has been good to me, I was 16 at this concert and I had actually just seen this exact lineup at the St. Paul Civic Center in St. Paul, MN on January 18,1972. Sat third row middle at that one also, paid $4.50 General Admission, still have the stub. :)
I cannot believe that I just discovered this song 51 years after its release; but in my defense, I'm only 45 years old (but still it's been too long). This is a great song, and this live jam version is absolutely spectacular! :-)
Music just seemed so much more livelier back then. It wasn't about all the pyrotechnics, techno light, gimmickry and commercialism, it was just a band playing great music.
That was what I was gonna mention. The Floyd light show was an integral part of their concerts, going WAY back to their experimental music days at Cambridge?? college. They began playing to light shows, practically. So no, the lights and effects were not a gimmick thing, but rather a central core of the show. Even their sets were timed to go with the show. So thats why they didnt deviate with long guitar solos and 20 minute improv jams.
it still on the playlist in my head, so I don't know how you could call it under rated, I graduated in 74...did a lot of acid, maybe that explains it...., love this tune. thanks for posting the live version, nice clear quality.
Incredible video and audio quality, with this post here. 46 years ago this was recorded-off the charts. The camera shot looking up at Winwood while singing, is awesome. His eyes are other worldly, and the voice is surreal.
saw him play in Charlotte a few years ago before Covid....He came on right before Steely Dan (before Walter Becker passed away)......Stevie was amazing...still has a fantastic voice...sounded just like when I saw him play with Traffic back in the 60's....one of my all time favorite artists....
60'S and 70's was both a great era to live in and total shits as well, we had great music..ushered in a new era as well some outstanding and disco.. the part that sucked .. Kennedy's dying,Vietnam and Nixon But would have missed the experience on a bet
It is super song performed by very talented musicians, giants of rock scene. I can't agree the band was underrated, as wrote one of us. The then, in 70th, "Traffic" was one of the best group, very loved & listened ... Their first LP was narcotic, "departure", fantastic!!!
i've been on a winwood kick, i love the look in his eyes when i see him sing. if i could find that straight mind look in reality, i don't think i'd be so opposed to being around other human beings. honestly
I am absolutely blown away by Winwood’s guitar playing. Always thought of him as a keyboard/vocalist. His virtuoso style seen here easily rivals the kind of stuff Mick Taylor was doing with the stones in the early 70’s.
Brings me straight back to 1970. Steve Winwood is supernaturally gifted to this day and always has been! I heard him a couple years ago and it was as if time hasn't touched him at all! Class!!
I love the purity in his eyes. A generation on the edge of reality crashing in... pleading for one last chorus and one last solo...before the whole shithouse caved in. Please don't be sad, if it was a straight mind you had, we wouldn't have known you for all these years.
It's not dead. Old school, wood, wire and tubes music is still around. And being written and played by very young people who couldn't care less about Beyoncé. Take heart.
Some passages in my life, I knew how special they were while they were still happening. Whole series of once-in-a-lifetime experiences. They felt like they'd go on forever. We weren't really sure. The Age of Aquarius didn't always behave like you expected it to
MY PARENTS WERE IN THE CROWD, AND I WAS BORN 81/2 MONTHS LATER ... MAKES SENSE TO ME 💃🕺 ROCK N ROLL!!
😍👍😂😂😂😂
I find it astounding that he wrote the music to this when he was 18. This guy has as much musical talent as anybody.
Don't forget Jim Capaldi and Dave Mason had a lot to do with his growth as a musician. Plus by this time he'd been a touring and recording professional for 6 years plus.
hard to believe this is over 50 years old. It still sounds great.
It's hard to believe that I am even older than that. :)
The remarkable thing is that Stevie could keep it all together, both guitar and vocals without missing a thing... and with all that orange sunshine running around in his head.
I thought he looked like he was visually chasing unseen butterflies.
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Definitely got the shark eyes. Trippin hard
If you think Stevie is high what about the tambourine player!
@@MrFritz6940 no doubt!😆
65 years old this song never gets old, plays on a loop in my head
Always
61😊
Amen brother
Mine too. 64 now, and never heard it til 10 years ago. I wrongly assumed that Steve Winwood was 80’s radio pop. It sent me into a music seeking spiral. What other masterpiece had I missed in my youth. It was good to know that I hadn’t missed many. Sadly tho, this was one of them. I listened to it everyday for a year and still do on a regular weekly basis. Sometimes more.
57 years, i think, it's from their 1967 Album "Dear Mr. Fantasy"🤔, this Video ended up in the Album "Santa Monica Shakedown" from 1972
Winwood is tripping so hard. Capaldi, too. Yet, this is pure magic.
Yes, sir. Those pupils are Dialated
Big time!😅🤣
Lol, you can’t see his irises
Yea, them dilated pupils gave it away big time. Trip on all you Boomers 😆 🤣 😂
Do You Believe In Magic?
Oh definitely 👍✌
Perfection. If you didn't grow up during this era...well...I'm sorry.
Indeed...
Right 🤷♂️
Yes
did not and I agree
It was the best of times
Still LOVE THIS after all these years! I am So happy to be this old because we had the best music ever! Thanks, Stevie Winwood, for making US happy all these years!!
Free, Pink Floyd, Aerosmith and ZZ Top are my favorites from this era. I am also very proud of my generation Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Collective Soul and Black Crowes. Paul Kossoff of Free is one of my all time heroes and David Gilmour of Pink Floyd.
Yes, we had the best! I seen Hendrix in 1968! I seen Zeppelin in 1977 and SO many more. I love being 70 years and still digging the music riding my Harley-Davidson and fighting for American values!
Me too
Most people don't realize the unique talent of excelling on keyboards, guitar, AND vocals. Winwood, in my opinion, the greatest musician of the 60s and early 70s.
I'd put him up there with Paul McCartney and Todd Rundgren for sure
Bass player kicked ass also !
Well I sure didn't miss it! Love Steve since I can remember and that is a long long time. Still love this cat!
@@youngmrjazz Todd was really something tho in many other ways besides his awesome talent. He helped many artists get a leg up in the music industry. He is the shit. But I still have to pick Steve.
Still going strong in 2023 !
Man, just looking at his face and especially his eyes, gives me flashbacks from 45+ years ago. It is amazing that he could perform this song so flawlessly tripping that hard. WOW...
First thing I noticed was the eyes. Trippin' balls for sure.
Trippin' balls
Homie is tore the fuck up
Nothing but pupil huh?
@@davidjackson2690 Yep. If you've ever tripped you know the deal. It's like your pupils dilate out of your eyeballs, eye sockets, then out of your face, then melt down your face into the heat waves of neon cartoon colored landscape waving to the sounds of Pink Floyd you're listening to and become one cycle of many cycles of an alternate reality that is part of another surreal alternate universe that pulsates in and out of this universe that is trapped inside your brain but moving in and out of the existential reality of thousands of mutlicolored waves of thoughts, both spoken and yet unspoken. Yeah, that about sums it up...
When you have a song as well written and performed, there is no need for lights, bells and whistles, they just take away from the sheer power of the music itself...this is what music has lost today...soul. This is a pure example of musical soul here..enjoy and learn
Stevie was the bells and whistle! True you just flip the electricity on and he creates all the colors!
It is what music has lost a long, long time before today.
This is without question the best version of this song!
I like the Hendrix version but I could see why people would not like the Hendrix ott guitar
I like Big Sugars version
I like the Crosby Stills Nash version
I don’t think this was the best, he had a pretty good one on Austin city limits in 2004
One of the greatest song writers of the 70s 80s and 90s Thanks Steve Windwood. 😊
This particular song was written by Jim Capaldi
Stevie Windwood! Amazing singer, keyboard player, guitar player, and song writer. He is on my list. The most underated musician of the sixties and seventies! Thanks! STEVIE!
I was there. Onstage, behind the amps. It was truly amazing.
I ask you guys and gals ,,,where on Gods earth are you going to find music of this caliber in this day and age?
We were so lucky to be apart of it and we thought "it would never end".
I'm glad I was there,,,
David Doyle
Get a hair cut you bloody hippie
Hows that again mate?
Charles Bradley, fiona apple, Gogol Bordello, Devil Makes Three, and even Lionel Richie still lookin 35.
Love Winwood though. Can't beat some great Winwood sometimes.
Thanks JayLee,,will pursue,,and give a listen,,DD
Steve Hackett. Roger Waters. David Gilmour. Neil Young. Bruce Springsteen. Mark Knopfler. I like Muse. Beach House. Some others. But, no. Nothing like this. I love this. It's the magic.
Such a shame more people haven't heard of Traffic and Steve Winwood...So underrated and under appreciated!!!
who is that?
+Buster Crimes Underrated!? Jimi Hendrix was in awe of him...JIMI FUCKING HENDRIX!!!
Only us geeks know that, ever hear a traffic song on classic rock channels???
Who hasn't heard of Steve Winwood? He was huge in the 80's, they still play his hits everywhere you go
Buster Crimes - they were very well known and loved amongst my friends and myself in the 70s... I wore John Barley Corn Must Die out....Great times!!!
I never seen anyone trip so hard in my life..and hes spot on perfect. ...
I was just 12..but lucky for me my 1st cousin just got a Awesome Sansui Stereo System, & he turned me on to what music is all about...Rest in peace Chuck...He passed in 2019, at 64, I was 62...See you when I get there Chuck...love ya Cous!
Thank the Lord I was born in 63. Born from Cool Hippy parents in SF and relocated to the Midwest. Being multi racial gave me Rock and Soul.
I love the 60’s,70’s and early 80’s. We’ve got CRAP now.
Born in 63 also!!
Born in 67 and raised as a free range child of two hippies! ❤
My God the way he kept that all together…flawless vocals and guitar…the soul and magic of those days…his talent then was unbelievable and still is today.
…..Tripping hard…..
just an incredible mindset
Beautiful. Stuff.
@@ccrider00 Let's not forget Pink Floyd, ELO, Night Ranger, Molly Hatchett, Outlaws, BTO, Bad Company, Skynyrd, Def Leppard, Blue Oyster Cult, Grand Funk, Scorpions, Steely Dan, Styx, REO, Yes, etc. And I concur with SPIRIT! ALL AMAZING BANDS. Never again will there be music like this, may of whose live days have ended, sadly.
CAN'T STOP LISTENING TO THIS SONG!! VERY SPECIAL TIME IN MY LIFE....WISH I COULD GO BACK........WOULDN'T CHANGE A THING...
wouldn't change a thing, as in 'you can't change a thing'. It is what it WAS. Just like every moment and what happened a minute ago, can't be changed. Just knowing that you were a 'decent' human being, justify's your existence.
I am getting old now but would never trade this the time of my youth for any other era. Traffic were/are one of my all time favourite bands and Steve Winwood is just exceptional.
There were many great American bands back in the day as well. Quicksilver Messenger Service to name but one. Such amazing days - it was impossible to run out of great music to listen to British or American. Truly a golden age.
1956 and love it
John North Amen. I’m an old hippie who started following band and music at age 14 in Detroit. I saw almost all of the greats before anyone knew them and they traveled from band to band. When I graduated high school I moved to the Haight Ashbury in S F. Oh yeah. Damn I wish I had a time machine✌️
One of the most incredible talents ever. So many great memories of when this song came out on the FM commercial free radio of the '60s. Good time to be alive in good ol San Fran !!!
John North yeah Steve's great. A white soul man!
I saw this concert at Winterland in S.F. 1972. I was up pretty close also, and was so impressed with everything about Steve Winwood
Was für ein Song! Was für eine Performance! Was für eine Band!
Manchmal mag ich es garnicht, schon so alt zu sein (1947 geboren). Das Gute daran ist aber, dass ich diese wunderbare Musik der 1960er und 70er Jahre erlebt habe. Nicht nur Traffic - Cream, Moody Blues, Leonard Cohen, Rod Stewart und und und .....
Jimmi Hendrix Experience
I am amazed, Steve is obviously stoned but sings and plays guitar with perfection!
He does it better straight..
...my old room mate, Jerry, could drive like a pro when he was stoned...but ONLY when stoned...straight he wasn't worth a shit...I didn't mind riding at speed down the highway when he was tokin' but not anywhere when he wasn't - he got too hyper
SERIOUSLY stoned...but only following the dictum "...everbody MUST GET stoned..."
@@mohammedcohen I remember hearing that one back in the early 80's, don't know if it's true but things were sure different in those days...driving stoned etc...no repercussions!
sing, play guitar, make it snappy....
I really never think of Stevie as a guitar player. When I think of him, I think keyboards. But he laid down a great solo in this jam. Love this video. Great quality audio and visual
Just an all around great musician. One of the greatest of all time, for me. Jack of all trades, master of many.
oh hes a guitar player. hes as good as clapton and plays guitar 1/3 as much
@@tw8454 Yep, he's a gittar player no doubt
Winwood plays guitar like a cocktail of Clapton and Hendrix.
Go listen to the 1966 tack Stevie's Blues when he was still with Spencer Davis. That boy can play & he was Clapton's equal which is one reason their such great friends. th-cam.com/video/isqZxBb7HWs/w-d-xo.html
Born in 67, had to discover this long after, but man it's bloody fantastic!
Me too andy cuthbert, June '67. Although I bought a Traffic cassette back in the eighties with this song on it.. I'm discovering and re- discovering many treasures from this monumental period in musical history!!
Man... want nostalgia!!??
3 of my mates and me saw this concert on italian RAI TV on a sunday morning in 1976 while having our lunch (separately). by 3.30 in the afternoon we went out to play football but we did not. we had already decided to form a band on the spot and we kept talking about this performance all along. we were stunned....12/13 yrs old by then. thanks Traffic!
when music was music......sang to your soul......miss those days
Truman Green my treetaste like weeeeeeeee
Has gotta be one of the best live versions of any song I've ever seen/heard
Steve is awesome tripping r not.
I was 12 in 69' in the seventh gr., my English teacher had us all name our favorite bands. As he walked up & down the rows of desks, all the kids were calling out the names of mostly top 40 groups when I shouted "Traffic! He did a double take & said "Traffic, good man! Unfortunately my answer didn't apply to my grade. lol
chuck lane ha ha good
Just pupils.
chuck lane me to brother
chuck lane
I wasn't even thought of in '69 and I could listen to them all day, everyday! Nothing like getting lost in the lyrics of great songs by an Awesome Band!
@@marynewberry9732 YOU HAVE EXCELLENT TASTE MARY!!
Mr Winwood, thank you for so.... many years of amazing music.
... many decades ...
Playing and singing at this level while tripping on Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is no small feat. Brilliant!
It was the norm
Maybe trippin on Lucy, is the only way to get it done right.
I heard he liked to smoke the good stuff as well!
I just saw Steve play a few months ago and let me tell you he is still absolutely amazing!!!
PattieOFurniture PattyO'Furniture! I heard that joke on The Jeffersons!
Ditto
The 70s is the best decade forever: great musicians, composers and, stigmas apart , of course.
Written in the 60s...
60s and 70s
New shit pays homage to that era. They know it well. And we kinda have a similar soup with politics, rioting, war and poverty today. Just open your ear.
Not too crazy about the clothes my mom made we wear back then.
That is an absolute beauty of a rig Winwood is playing. Green isotope NR Firebird.
Steve Windwood is probably truly one of the Greatest Rock Musicians of our time. Hope he gets his dues...RnR Hall Fame etc.
He was inducted with Traffic in 2004, but I also think he should be inducted as a solo artist as well.
The green firebird is a great look! Steve is truly a master at his trade!
I swear I still melt when I hear this song, and its been many a year of pleasure.
melancholy with hope, almost timeless. expression of deep emotion. I've always loved this song, it's what separates us
He was also such a fine guitarist! Tone and phrasing ...... wow! And such a tasteful control of feedback in a live setting!
With all that light, Stevies pupils are the size of saucers. Amazing talent.
His eyes are always like that. Super dark iris Cant tell if he's stoned or not.
Must be some good shit.
LMAO
Oh I wish I could LIKE this each and every time I watch and listen. We, who were young then, learned to have dedicated musical attention spans due to the many, many lengthy jam sessions at concerts. just mellow out, relax and free flow with the tunes.
Dear Mister Fantasy play us a tune
Something to make us all happy
Do anything take us out of this gloom
Sing a song, play guitar
Make it snappy
You are the one who can make us all laugh
But doing that you break out in tears
Please don't be sad if it was a straight mind you had
We wouldn't have known you all these years
In any top 500 countdown this should be number one NOT Stairway to Heaven { burned out badly} . Dear Mr. Fantasy has it all ,guitars , harmonica. you name it . Number one song !
i love the studio version where producer jimmy miller keeps adding more instruments as the song progresses.
1-Shot slinger all day shorty!
Tambourine man looks chill
Love this song, over and over and over.....and this video.
Bill Waters I agree I've watched this over and over...I never get tired of this one
David Hood (MSRS) killing it on bass with one of rocks great artists.
For me ,the best version !
What a beautiful guitar !
Is everyboby who tells me more about it ..?
Thanks for the post,
From deep south of France ,
🥖🍷🧀
C & Chelsea the Dog .
🐉🔬🐲
It was worth it having your ears ringing for awhile after the show. Boy do I miss those days...
Stevie Winwood watched this video and thought, "Oh that's where I was that day".
Go Humberto! Hilarious
Haha! Perfect! 🤣
Mesmerizing classic 70's rolla, Steve plays the shits on that guitar & the bassist connects the tune & the beat of the percussionist keeps it tight...never gets old
Great version. Man, Steve is tripping his balls off too. Good times.
anthonyspare He was so young, so talented. Keyboards, guitar, harmonica.
Look at guy on tambourine! LOL. TB!
oh how I love this song. They were my favorite band in college 1967 -1969 junior college 2 years in D.C.
I JUST CANT GET ENOUGH OF THE 1960's MUSIC. and there is so much that didn't come out its coming out now with the GARAGE MUSIC AWESOME THERE WAS A lot we missed.
This is 1972
I was at this concert, sat third row on the end right side center section. :)
+paul lespage Yes life has been good to me, I was 16 at this concert and I had actually just seen this exact lineup at the St. Paul Civic Center in St. Paul, MN on January 18,1972. Sat third row middle at that one also, paid $4.50 General Admission, still have the stub. :)
Jake Burke Right place at the right time, no doubt!!
Jake Burke
I am 45, my Dad had a Kenwood amp with dual headphone jack, and I would sit and listen to all this wonderful music with him! Thank you Dad!
Jake Burke: You sure got your $4.50's worth.
lucky you
I cannot believe that I just discovered this song 51 years after its release; but in my defense, I'm only 45 years old (but still it's been too long). This is a great song, and this live jam version is absolutely spectacular! :-)
Hope you enjoy every day
You haven't got a defence really
This is a superb version of this song. Never gets old.
Un brano semplicemente... straordinario, geniale, che precorreva i tempi. Grande Steve Winwood, grandi i "Traffic"!
I've heard this Music for probably 50 years...I keep hitting the replay button. But I love Tool too.
absolutely love this song. long live the 70's, in my mind.
Check your boy's eyeballs. He's more stoned than anyone in the whole place--and laying it down. Way to go, dude.
Charles Warren that’s not a stoned look. That’s a tripping balls look.
Ill have whatever he is high on.
@@miguelramirez1334 Could you handle it? I sure couldn't.
@@soaringvulture maybe lol. I have taken LSD and mushrooms a few times in the past.
At least he is not "pinned"
Love This Song... brings back such great memories of my teenage hood.
1:55 listen to greatness. This kind of solo will be remembered far longer than any Clapton solo IMHO
Clapton spray painted Clapton is God on the walls and people believed him
We're in the Endgame now.
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Steve Winwood is a real musical talent, true legend in music, great video
Music just seemed so much more livelier back then. It wasn't about all the pyrotechnics, techno light, gimmickry and commercialism, it was just a band playing great music.
amen
Jay Tee Bee so pink Floyd was a gimmick band?
That was what I was gonna mention. The Floyd light show was an integral part of their concerts, going WAY back to their experimental music days at Cambridge?? college. They began playing to light shows, practically. So no, the lights and effects were not a gimmick thing, but rather a central core of the show. Even their sets were timed to go with the show. So thats why they didnt deviate with long guitar solos and 20 minute improv jams.
Bill D. in Iowa . Bill D. Maybe that's when it started to go to Hell.RW
LZ no worries
Absolutely beautiful!
Stevie is an awesome musician and the band were so talented. I am 60 but wish I had seen this live performance. A stunning performance!!
Steve was way back then already a great guitarist/keyboard player/songwriter and he still is!
Don't forget vocalist!
Is there an instrument Steve Winwood can't play???? this is so awesome....
No there is not. A truly great musician and so under rated.
@Michael Huhtala I'm sure he could handle it. He does play the sax. Really. So it's not like the guy has any limits.
I don't think so. He is magnificent!!😁❤
it still on the playlist in my head, so I don't know how you could call it under rated, I graduated in 74...did a lot of acid, maybe that explains it...., love this tune. thanks for posting the live version, nice clear quality.
Clapton, Page, Winwood? Great music from all
Geoff Baxte
Don't forget Rick Grech (bass) from the one and done super group Blind Faith.
and Winwood was the better man of them all by far
EPIC & without flaw. 50 year tour, in the presence of angelic choir kissed by God joy brilliance. Love you madly, Stevie.
Incredible video and audio quality, with this post here. 46 years ago this was recorded-off the charts. The camera shot looking up at Winwood while singing, is awesome. His eyes are other worldly, and the voice is surreal.
saw him play in Charlotte a few years ago before Covid....He came on right before Steely Dan (before Walter Becker passed away)......Stevie was amazing...still has a fantastic voice...sounded just like when I saw him play with Traffic back in the 60's....one of my all time favorite artists....
One of the nicest voices ever
60's & 70's... the best of times, I'm glad I grew up there!
60'S and 70's was both a great era to live in and total shits as well, we had great music..ushered in a new era as well some outstanding and disco.. the part that sucked .. Kennedy's dying,Vietnam and Nixon But would have missed the experience on a bet
Space Trucker me too.
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It is super song performed by very talented musicians, giants of rock scene. I can't agree the band was underrated, as wrote one of us. The then, in 70th, "Traffic" was one of the best group, very loved & listened ... Their first LP was narcotic, "departure", fantastic!!!
i've been on a winwood kick, i love the look in his eyes when i see him sing.
if i could find that straight mind look in reality, i don't think i'd be so opposed
to being around other human beings. honestly
Winwood has always lived and breathed music. One of the special ones he is
I am absolutely blown away by Winwood’s guitar playing. Always thought of him as a keyboard/vocalist. His virtuoso style seen here easily rivals the kind of stuff Mick Taylor was doing with the stones in the early 70’s.
Steve could do it all!
sweet sounds. sweet times. sweet memories.
Ditto
Michele Regal
Aw yes, Michele, these are memories that can never die!!
what a great and underestimated musician Steve Winwood is, saw traffic live and was amazed by his playing
Brings me straight back to 1970. Steve Winwood is supernaturally gifted to this day and always has been! I heard him a couple years ago and it was as if time hasn't touched him at all! Class!!
+deni pop He was like seventeen years old when he wrote/sang this song. Prodigy!
Michele Regal he didn't write it ;)
Not all by himself, anyway ;)
The best. Almost unknown too. Except to us old farts.
If you go back to his old Spencer Davis Band stuff, you can plainly tell he's got something that very few have. Maybe almost nobody.
Album came out just as I wasreturning from VN. What a timefor music. What a time to live.
Thank you for your service!
Absolutely amazing... made me sad that this magic is gone
I love the purity in his eyes. A generation on the edge of reality crashing in... pleading for one last chorus and one last solo...before the whole shithouse caved in.
Please don't be sad, if it was a straight mind you had, we wouldn't have known you for all these years.
Whether he's trippin, you're trippin,everyones trippin or whatever, the Man can play and this is an awesome song!! Love it!!
Please, please God. Please bring back this kind of music. I'm sure You prefer it over "Train"
tedeschi trucks band and gvmt mule warren haynes are very refreshing for us cogers
It's not dead. Old school, wood, wire
and tubes music is still around.
And being written and played
by very young people who couldn't
care less about Beyoncé.
Take heart.
Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Blind Faith. Every band Steve was in, he just made it better.
I wo'nt attempt to tell you about it. What a time. WOW ,!SO DOPED& intelligent.
Steve could play! I just love the sound he got from his axe on this song. Superb!
Wish I could have been around in these days!!! Badass!!!!!
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Guy's tripping balls. Looks like he's using his eyes for the first time
a.k.a. Silver Fan Soccer ft. Iron Man and Nebula
Thank you MCU for the ride. Part of the journey is the end as well as amazing music like this
rip Stan Lee
It's interesting that Traffic would often change tempo for different sections of a song (bridge or chorus)
Proper bloody music.
Proper bloody bad azz
Proper bloody music Dean
Steve Winwood,perhaps one of the most influencial musicians,as I grew up,this guy plays,to this day,almost any instrument.LIke roy Clark did
Some passages in my life, I knew how special they were while they were still happening. Whole series of once-in-a-lifetime experiences.
They felt like they'd go on forever. We weren't really sure. The Age of Aquarius didn't always behave like you expected it to
Can't imagine Winwood, Clapton, and Ginger Baker all making music together. It was too good to last.
I absolutely loved Traffic (anything from Steve) and this sounds as lovely now as it ever did.