I was lucky enough to see Elvin Bishop in 1977. It was on their Raisin' Hell tour. It was one of the best shows I've ever seen and I've been to tons of concerts. His band was so tight!
Raisin' Hell is one of my all time favorite live albums. You're right, the band was super tight. Saw them around the same time at the Circle Star Theater in San Carlos.
Simply does NOT get the recognition he deserves. He is very talented and so were his band mates. They really bring it! Juke Joint Jump is another all out jam like this one!
I saw Elvin Bishop with my mom and two of her girlfriends at the Great Southeast Music Hall in Atlanta in 1979 and boy did he tear it up. Great live show!
One of my all time favorites. Period. Used to listen to Let It Flow religiously every time we partied during high school and college. Classic album and incredible guitar playing. Johnny V on guitar with Elvin was amazing! Sadly I’ve lost two of my best friends from those days, in just the last two years. At 65, those years were some of the best of my life. Thank you Elvin for creating the soundtrack.
I’ve seen Elvin more than I can count. The first time was ‘73 in Iowa City at a bar during one of the best weekends I can remember. He did a 3 night run during his “Rock My Soul” tour. On Friday afternoon we wondered in for a drink and Elvin was playing along with Dickey Betts and Charlie Daniels. Just jamming on slides. All this before we headed to the Duane Allman Memorial Auditorium to see Charlie open for the ABB. Yes, it was named that because the students voted for it. Later changed back to its old name. But hey, what a 3 day run! Jo Baker was singing with them. What an incredible voice for such a small lady. A real treat. Elvin is the best small venue act you can see. Second would have to be Ronnie Baker Brooks.
@@sup393 Yes! 2022… I will be seeing him Friday, September 30, in Ojai, California! With Charlie Musselwhite! They will be in Beverly Hills, I believe September 22…
Was in Saigon in "75 when some of my buddies turned me on to Elvin Bishop (and a whole lot more). When I got back to the world, i bought Let It Flow and then every EB album after that. Never saw him live but played the mess outta his records!
What a great performance. At first listen, I thought it was a bit clunky, but it just gets better and better every time I listen to it. And Shit, I thought that was Dickie Betts on second guitar at first. But it’s Johnny Vernazza. The guy is great. And of course Elvin is great. But the secret weapon is that drummer. He is phenomenal gonna have to go look him up.
@@robertferguson533 yes, sir, it is the kind of song that just gets in your head and doesn’t leave. And not just one for the song the whole thing is catchy. It’s so much fun and comes off so easy I’m a way thst you almost forget just how complex a lot of the playing is. Just an inspired piece of music.
Elvin had his mother come out on stage and introduced her. And the Marshall Tucker Band & Elvin Bishop Band jam on the last song of the night. To bad I can't post pictures here I would post my ticket stub. @The Tulsa Assembly Center🥳
This is the first time I've seen this since 1975 , I was 11 years old. I've always loved this tune! It's been stuck in my head since then. This is only the second time I've heard the damned tune!!! 🐉💀👽🎸🎶🎵🧠🌌
I saw ELvin in 1978 In a tiny club in Connecticut on the border to Rhode Island, with one of mny best freinds coming up who has been gone 7 years 2022, loved the show Oh Yeah !!
Elvin Bishop was raised in Tulsa after the age of 10. Segregated but not all white. Perhaps Elvin's previous hometown in Iowa was what you were referring to. What is amazing is that Elvin, Leon Russell and David Gates (Bread) were all in the same Tulsa high school at the same time.
I don’t know about underrated. I’ve been a guitar player for 30 years and I don’t know anybody who doesn’t think he’s a guitar icon. I’ve been digging his shit since the 70’s so he’s just foundational man…
My brother Mike and I would see him at this bar in San Francisco. What a great person. There was never a big crowd (' cause it wasn't real big room) . Between sets he'd sit down and have a beer with you. When ever I hear Elvin, I think of Mike.
I saw the in the mid 1970's in Central Park, along with The Charlie Daniels Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd. It's hard to believe that the tickes were only $5.00. Pretty good deal,eh?
Saw EB and MTB at The Music Inn, Lenox Ma. in 1975. EB & MTB kicked ass. Both bands jammed at the end and the concert ran long. Tanglewood, a Classical music venue was literally just up the road. Tanglewood was having an evening concert and called down to say they could hear the Rock music. Music Inn pulled the plug on EB & MTB but the drummers kept at it for about 20 minutes until they plugged them back in. It was a hell of a show.
Being from the Bay Area, seen so many great bands that made this their main home....Two bands ive seen more than 30 times apiece and least through about 10 or more variations each, Jefferson Airplane/Starship, and Elivn Bishop....Elvin in the Three B's with Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield...Elvin Bishop group with Jo Baker....Kewl stuff for those that remember...
Bishop loves his Red Dog, his Gibson ES-345 guitar. He traded his Telecaster for Louis Myers Gibson when playing with the Butterfield Blues Band. He still plays it today and even devoted the album title "Red Dog Speaks" to it.
Saw them do this in Pensacola Fla when a riot broke out,they were playing canned music and someone threw a Pepsi Bottle that hit Bishop's guitar,he jumped offstage into the crowd to fight and 2 Escambia county deputy's threw his ass right back up on stage.
@@mpmphilpott They were in Pensacola in 1975 along with the Ozark Mtn Daredevils, both bands were playing canned and that's what pissed everyone off, can you read?
Boy he was lamenting back in 1975 some sort of not-so-positive change in the treatment that men are receiving from women. I wonder what he thinks about it now? How you like ‘dem apples now, boy? 🥵
All this time I thought it was Dickie Betts. I see that Johnny V. is from the city my father went to HS in. Daly City. And I loved Party Till the Cows Come Home. Thanks for correcting I'm a little red faced now.
Johnny V & Elvin just clicked whenever they played & what a band to back them up , True Southern Rock at it peak. We can thank The Allmans for starting up a genera they were not really part of till way after Duane & Berry as that band was Blues Rock & Soul on top of being the best of the best.
Golden Bear and a pint of Gordons Gin... 1970s-ish...Elvin would never turn down the gin and would crack it on stage...After the show, me and buddies would surf the pier...at 2 AM, classic times!
isaw elvin bishop at southampton college in 75 i talked after the show with him he said take me to the nearest bar we went to the madd hatter in the hamptons great musician song writer great voice and can THE BOY CAN PLAY GUITAR most of ALL GOOD PERSON
the les paul guitar is " johnny b" a little sawed off chunk , try "juke joint jump" ,same band . best friends since kids and played together a bunch and raised hell in napa and all over then wrote songs about all the fun they had .totally cool guys .elvin created a lot of the funk sound before anyone new what funk was ; that came later .
Elvin Bishop is great, I hate whoever put the captions in this video trying to make out like Elvin was some racist, they know nothing of this man, and if they did a little research, they would know he is far from it, Jo Baker was loved by Elvin and I think his first lead vocalist.
The song was played on THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL and I am sure the Producers told their Goons to tell the crowd to keep quiet. That is the best guess I have.
Fantastic find!
Loved this song since ‘72 along with Smokin OPs! Classic Seger🌪️✊🏽💯
I used to set up for a lot of these guys back in the day. There was more talent in one of their little fingers than all of LA today
Fly and Johnny have been life long friends. R.I.P. Fly. He was a great bass player.
I hope young people are encouraged by this set of music. Elvin is joyful and happy...even with Hank Aarons baseball bat!
Who is the rhythm guitarist ...ahaha..lead as well...the guy with the hat?
@@AndyBigDaddyWilkinson Johnny Vernazza or Johnny V white hat Elvin in black hat. They both play leaf and rhythm.
@@AndyBigDaddyWilkinson looks and sounds like Richard Betts
I was lucky enough to see Elvin Bishop in 1977. It was on their Raisin' Hell tour. It was one of the best shows I've ever seen and I've been to tons of concerts. His band was so tight!
saw four shows in two nights in '87. Then helped him sell his cds at a gig 10yrs back. Mickey sang too!
Lucky you. Never saw him live being up here in Canada but I still own the double live Raisin Hell album.
I saw him in 77 too opening for Head East, what an awesome show that was.
Raisin' Hell is one of my all time favorite live albums. You're right, the band was super tight. Saw them around the same time at the Circle Star Theater in San Carlos.
Man he was lamenring
Godspeed Elvin. My distinct pleasure to have shared the planet with you for nearly seventy years. Made my lifetime better.
He’s still alive.
Simply does NOT get the recognition he deserves. He is very talented and so were his band mates. They really bring it! Juke Joint Jump is another all out jam like this one!
I wish he and Maria Muldar would get back together for a jazzy blues album!
I am not familiar with it but I'm huge on Mr Bishop.
I saw Elvin Bishop with my mom and two of her girlfriends at the Great Southeast Music Hall in Atlanta in 1979 and boy did he tear it up. Great live show!
They don't have music halls anything like the Great Southeast Music Hall today. Memories!
Excellent musician very underrated great performer
One of my all time favorites. Period. Used to listen to Let It Flow religiously every time we partied during high school and college. Classic album and incredible guitar playing. Johnny V on guitar with Elvin was amazing! Sadly I’ve lost two of my best friends from those days, in just the last two years. At 65, those years were some of the best of my life. Thank you Elvin for creating the soundtrack.
I’ve seen Elvin more than I can count. The first time was ‘73 in Iowa City at a bar during one of the best weekends I can remember. He did a 3 night run during his “Rock My Soul” tour. On Friday afternoon we wondered in for a drink and Elvin was playing along with Dickey Betts and Charlie Daniels. Just jamming on slides. All this before we headed to the Duane Allman Memorial Auditorium to see Charlie open for the ABB. Yes, it was named that because the students voted for it. Later changed back to its old name. But hey, what a 3 day run! Jo Baker was singing with them. What an incredible voice for such a small lady. A real treat. Elvin is the best small venue act you can see. Second would have to be Ronnie Baker Brooks.
Great playing here, I haven’t listened to him in years, another guy who is underrated as a performer!
Jo, that was the last concert I saw in the US before I split to europe.
He's still out touring good as ever
I enjoyed his show in a small venue in NYC ....a daytime show......we started imbibing earlier than usual for this very good performer
@@sup393 Yes! 2022… I will be seeing him Friday, September 30, in Ojai, California! With Charlie Musselwhite! They will be in Beverly Hills, I believe September 22…
Was in Saigon in "75 when some of my buddies turned me on to Elvin Bishop (and a whole lot more). When I got back to the world, i bought Let It Flow and then every EB album after that. Never saw him live but played the mess outta his records!
I’ve seen him several times in the mid 70’s, always a great concert
Elvin is STILL WITH US!! 🙏🏾❤️👌🏽
What a great performance. At first listen, I thought it was a bit clunky, but it just gets better and better every time I listen to it. And Shit, I thought that was Dickie Betts on second guitar at first. But it’s Johnny Vernazza. The guy is great. And of course Elvin is great. But the secret weapon is that drummer. He is phenomenal gonna have to go look him up.
This came on the radio yesterday. Haven’t heard it in 40 years but I still had it memorized. Forgot how good it was
@@robertferguson533 yes, sir, it is the kind of song that just gets in your head and doesn’t leave. And not just one for the song the whole thing is catchy. It’s so much fun and comes off so easy I’m a way thst you almost forget just how complex a lot of the playing is. Just an inspired piece of music.
@@greypilgrim6157 Classic
One of my all time Favorites - Elvin Bishop!
Just started listening to his music (beyond Fooled Around and Fell In Love) earlier this year. He's great!
Same!
Great song by Elvin Bishop.First time I saw Elvin was in 1976 in Tulsa,Oklahoma,he was great.
Elvin had his mother come out on stage and introduced her. And the Marshall Tucker Band & Elvin Bishop Band jam on the last song of the night. To bad I can't post pictures here I would post my ticket stub. @The Tulsa Assembly Center🥳
Amazing Phil Aaberg on keys!
Thanks for posting. Big production that I understand was a special NYE show at the Oakland Paramount. Pure pop!
I just took it off the internet and posted it. I loved this politically incorrect song from one of the most talented bands of the last 50 years.
This is the first time I've seen this since 1975 , I was 11 years old. I've always loved this tune! It's been stuck in my head since then. This is only the second time I've heard the damned tune!!!
🐉💀👽🎸🎶🎵🧠🌌
Got me dancing..doing the chicken wing like Elvin..oh, yeah!
I saw ELvin in 1978 In a tiny club in Connecticut on the border to Rhode Island, with one of mny best freinds coming up who has been gone 7 years 2022, loved the show Oh Yeah !!
I had nearly forgotten these guys! Fun, fantastic music!
Elvin Bishop was raised in Tulsa after the age of 10. Segregated but not all white. Perhaps Elvin's previous hometown in Iowa was what you were referring to. What is amazing is that Elvin, Leon Russell and David Gates (Bread) were all in the same Tulsa high school at the same time.
i'd love to see him again in one of those guitar crossroads events. way underrated guitar player.
He still tours
I don’t know about underrated. I’ve been a guitar player for 30 years and I don’t know anybody who doesn’t think he’s a guitar icon. I’ve been digging his shit since the 70’s so he’s just foundational man…
I saw Elvin in Alaska, he was spectacular. Mickey Thomas on lead vocals, one of the best singers I've ever seen.
My brother Mike and I would see him at this bar in San Francisco. What a great person. There was never a big crowd (' cause it wasn't real big room) . Between sets he'd sit down and have a beer with you. When ever I hear Elvin, I think of Mike.
I saw the in the mid 1970's in Central Park, along with The Charlie Daniels Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd. It's hard to believe that the tickes were only $5.00. Pretty good deal,eh?
If I could post without so many typos, that would be phenomenal.
Elvin cut his musical teeth in the mid 60s in Chicago with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band learning his chops from the great Mike Bloomfield.
Elvin is Awesome ! Great fun music and is always funny !
Elvin Bishop sittin on a bale of hay, he ain't good looking but he sure can play.. cdb
I forgot how good it was!
I saw Elvin Bishop in Gainesville, FL in the eighties. That was the most fun I ever had at a concert. What a show!
Saw EB and MTB at The Music Inn, Lenox Ma. in 1975. EB & MTB kicked ass. Both bands jammed at the end and the concert ran long. Tanglewood, a Classical music venue was literally just up the road. Tanglewood was having an evening concert and called down to say they could hear the Rock music. Music Inn pulled the plug on EB & MTB but the drummers kept at it for about 20 minutes until they plugged them back in. It was a hell of a show.
I saw these together the same year, must have been the same tour, at William & Mary Hall.
Elvin had one of the best groove bass players..Michael "Fly" Brooks!
Being from the Bay Area, seen so many great bands that made this their main home....Two bands ive seen more than 30 times apiece and least through about 10 or more variations each, Jefferson Airplane/Starship, and Elivn Bishop....Elvin in the Three B's with Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield...Elvin Bishop group with Jo Baker....Kewl stuff for those that remember...
Ol' Elvin looks like he just fell off the moonshine truck LOL Great Showman...
This is absolutely brilliant from start to finish .
Bishop loves his Red Dog, his Gibson ES-345 guitar. He traded his Telecaster for Louis Myers Gibson when playing with the Butterfield Blues Band. He still plays it today and even devoted the album title "Red Dog Speaks" to it.
I seen Elvin Bishop in 1978 at the New Haven Coliseum he opened up first Oyster and Rod Stewart closed
the show
This man makes the music happier 💐💐✌️
Thanks i was wondering. He looks like him especially with the Les Paul. Anyway great song. Many thanks.
This version seems to be a little hectic. I like it a touch slower.
I think it's perfect.
Slick and well smooth from such a hay wagon lookin bunch, AWESOME!
I am a musician myself and this is great on so many levels: the playing and especially the fun that the guys are having!
An honorary southerner? The guy was raised in Oklahoma. That's southern enough.
Totally agree.
Oklahoma, why that's the beach...but close enough. Such a fantastic musician!
If you think Oklahoma is The South, it says a LOT about your education, or lack of it! I mean, is "South Philly" or "South Buffalo" the South? LOL!
@@MrJC7071 Oklahoma is the south
The guy was born in Glendale California ......
Saw them do this in Pensacola Fla when a riot broke out,they were playing canned music and someone threw a Pepsi Bottle that hit Bishop's guitar,he jumped offstage into the crowd to fight and 2 Escambia county deputy's threw his ass right back up on stage.
Too funny...but then it was fla
Hard to believe one of the best live jam bands would pretend to play to a recording, but I guess it could happen.
Parker Foster-what are you talking about. They're not pretending to play. That's live for sure.
@@mpmphilpott They were in Pensacola in 1975 along with the Ozark Mtn Daredevils, both bands were playing canned and that's what pissed everyone off, can you read?
@kenny baird Take it easy big fella.
Elvin could play with the best of them and has!❤
He's like 80 and can still play with the best of them
Let's not forget the he out the Butterfield Blues Band. The integrated band of 1964.
Boy he was lamenting back in 1975 some sort of not-so-positive change in the treatment that men are receiving from women. I wonder what he thinks about it now? How you like ‘dem apples now, boy? 🥵
This might be his best song 🏁great guitars
Elvin is a legend. I will take three guys from okie, and take on 5 or 6 guys from Texas. Elvin, jj cale and leon russell. My money goes on the Okies
I've ALWAYS loved Elvin Bishop. He/they were the opening band when I saw them (twice), and I can't even remember who followed them - ha!
He was and still is a big inspiration of my GUITAR PLAYING
All this time I thought it was Dickie Betts. I see that Johnny V. is from the city my father went to HS in. Daly City. And I loved Party Till the Cows Come Home. Thanks for correcting I'm a little red faced now.
No worries.
All great guitarist look alike
Saw him at the Wave Waikiki 1982? What a show.
Great song. One day I'll find a 1970s-1980s video recording of it that has clearer audio.
Johnny V rocks
Johnny V doing his best Dickey Betts' impersonation with that hat.
andyinoregon He’s a smaller version. Call him “Dinky Betts.”
Does the audience have a pulse?
Elvin is an awesome picker
Johnny V & Elvin just clicked whenever they played & what a band to back them up , True Southern Rock at it peak. We can thank The Allmans for starting up a genera they were not really part of till way after Duane & Berry as that band was Blues Rock & Soul on top of being the best of the best.
The one and only Johnny "V" Vernaza on guitar and backing vocals!
Thank you, I was gonna ask who that skinny ass cowboy spanking the Les Paul was… makes me think of Dickey betts, but co I knew it wasn’t…
Hi Johnny V! from Lynda (Garcia) Ruth
Saw him in Vancouver B C in the late eighties on the same bill as Buddy Guy at the Town Pump
One of my favorites
Golden Bear and a pint of Gordons Gin... 1970s-ish...Elvin would never turn down the gin and would crack it on stage...After the show, me and buddies would surf the pier...at 2 AM, classic times!
Young guitarists take note you're looking at one of the best.Find out more about Elvin www.rockmusichistorylesson.com
Oh Yeah!!!
Amazing Elvin!
this show is CLEARLY from THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL in Hollywood America! lol
I wish he would come to the UK!!
Smoking hot southern blues rock.
isaw elvin bishop at southampton college in 75 i talked after the show with him he said take me to the nearest bar we went to the madd hatter in the hamptons great musician song writer great voice and can THE BOY CAN PLAY GUITAR most of ALL GOOD PERSON
Sky VanKurin not surprised.
the les paul guitar is " johnny b" a little sawed off chunk , try "juke joint jump" ,same band . best friends since kids and played together a bunch and raised hell in napa and all over then wrote songs about all the fun they had .totally cool guys .elvin created a lot of the funk sound before anyone new what funk was ; that came later .
opps , typo :johnny "v" vernazza
Youre very lucky to have that memory!
Just found this classic on Southern Rock BBC4,never heard of them,will have to here more!
Glad you enjoyed it
Anthony Danes certainly did,just don't hear music like that anymore!
The set looks suspiciously like Midnight Special.
@@allenkennedy6748 This is from ' The Old Grey Whistle Test' , English BBC2 Television Show from the 70's and 80's, Many thanks for your comment.
The audience are either frozen in admiration or don’t know a kickin’ tune when they hear one
Still rockin to this in 2021
The Master At Work.
Elvin Bishop Band
Harmony like the brothers
This video and song made me like him
Hi karen
If this was run on BBCs Old Grey Whistle Test, it is a recycled clip from NBCs Midnight Special.
Elvin Bishop is great, I hate whoever put the captions in this video trying to make out like Elvin was some racist, they know nothing of this man, and if they did a little research, they would know he is far from it, Jo Baker was loved by Elvin and I think his first lead vocalist.
Adam Sandler rockin the blues! How cool is that?
Elvin Bishop's sittin' on a bale of hay
He ain't good lookin' but he sure can play
I'm 61 and still dig Elvin
Great song he played this on a Crag road speedway
The beat is irresistible and the zombie audience is sitting on their hands. Haha!
what's wrong with the fucking zombie crowd this song jams!!!!!!
might be the venue
The song was played on THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL and I am sure the Producers told their Goons to tell the crowd to keep quiet. That is the best guess I have.
They acted the same way when Ted Nugent played , I believe its filmed in Germany
Also hello to Don, Elvin Fly Brooks and Mickey
great performance. audience is lifeless (dead)!
Uptight
It's a TV audience...back then the producers would throw you out if you got too rowdy..lol
Saw him in 1975....Lord, he was cute!
Is that Dickie Betts accompanying him ??
Larry Slavens it's Johnny Vernazza. Mr Betts did play on some of Bishops albums.
Thanks ...it looked a lot like him though
@@bassboyify I asked the same thing in my head and found your question while looking for the answer. I really thought it was Dicky too!!
Dickey played on the studio version... Johnny plays his part here almost note for note...
What is wrong with this crowd? They look catatonic! How 'bout a nodding of the head or a clap or two? Jeesh!
I never looked.
Shortest live version ever
saw him at the cabooze
Might be the venue......
I have all Elvin Bishop on Vinyl
"Gonna get hank aarons baseball bat and tenderize her head" Elvin sings it a bit different these days. Guess #
Ah yeah!!
why the fuck was the crowd so quiet ??????!!!!!!
You can tell this is in England! Over here we would have been boogying down front!!!