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Mark stop slurping your coffee in the microphone

J geils Newyears parties Portland Maine

You both look great

Great Bay Area Stories ❤️

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another great one

A proper documentary on the whole troupe is well due!

Great vid. 👍

His resemblance to Lenny Chess is uncanny ..

We love you Bill!!❤❤❤

What a great interview. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this banter. Richard, I miss these stories and need more of them.💯 You guys had me totally laughing so many times especially with the Wolf poster hanging over some hippie chicks bed and the Blues reference of blues music authenticity about the difference between picking cotton and pickin with Cotton 😂 The wittiness abounds 🙌 I could listen to this stuff all day long. Great job guys. 🎶💙🎶

What a survivor! Ain't many who make it to 90 out of the blues.

Robert Bilbo.

Great history. Wonder if he knew Jimmy Nolen in LA. Chuck Higgins: Pachuko Hop!

That was very fun. Good to see ole Scott D again. Met him few times in my visits to Chicago Blues Fests in early 90s. He was performing at Buddy's club and also at the bbq place on the West Side. We've gotten old Scott. What was Stuve doing in Chicago? He still looks as young as ever.

Moby Grape mentioned Slim in the first song "Hey, Grandma" on their spectacular first album: SF freak scene was on my mind. Fillmore Slim is just a-wasting time. Well, I got high this time, pow-pow-pow. Well, I got high this time, pow-pow-pow. Well, I got high this time round, this time round, Everything's upside down, upside down, 'Cause your lookin' good, you're lookin' so good, you're sure lookin' good!

Saw Bill with Cody at the Shaboo Inn,(Willimantic Ct.)🎉...rocked the joint. 1973?.. remember?

KPFA interview today of Mark was fascinating

Fantastic interview. Thank you both.

💔RIP Nick - Such an incredibly sad loss, but your memories lives on in your fantastic music! I know I will be thinking about you as well as Mike whenever I am listening to the amazing work you guys did together. Just curious for anyone who has seen the full series - or maybe if Mark sees this himself, did Nick talk about his work with Mike Bloomfield on the My labors album? I am a gigantic fan of the album, with some of the songs being some of my very favorites. I was just so curious who it is that sang on the album, or specific songs. I am coming to notice everyone else assumes it is Nick singing on the entire album, whereas I always assumed it was Mike, or at least parts of it were Mike. I don't mean that as a detraction from Nick's skill and singing at all, it's just what I had always thought. The album itself doesn't seem to actually credit a lead or backup vocalist.

Dickey rocks

Chris Cain at the piano! It reminds me of a song where BB King plays the piano and sings a text to his mother :-)

I love Jay's honestly and openness.

CJ and the fish played "rock and soul" in the movie.

Keeping the blues alive, and how!

Love it!

Magic Dick and his lickin sticks. Love the guy. That Full House album was off the hook man. One cool cat man.

Now I understand why Alan sounded like shit at Woodstock

A. real character! And a great guitarist. His stories of the early days are priceless. I started attending the Avalon Ballroom in the Fall of 1966 and saw Big Brother frequently. Interestingly, my father played the Avalon in the 30s and 40s in big bands as a trombone player.

epic

Love to hear a little June Core drum solo. Rockin it.

He is a living legend.

Canned heat la crem de la crem ❤

Por que no hsy subtitulis en español como si no fueramos la mitad mas uno ! Estan perdiendo plata yankis

These are great Mark, please keep them coming. Cheers!

Thank you both very much you two road dogs/musicians.

I'm five minutes in and Mark, this cat is the real deal ! Thanks for sharing you two !

RIP Barbara. Real folk singers are voices for justice and resistance against the Establishment. Barbara was sure as Hell one of them. Bill from Edinburgh, Scotland.

I think we need more Janis Joplin interviews.. maybe Michael and Laura Joplin.. as there's not too many other people alive... She's the ultimate

There was an Italian rock/pop group who did a song without a guitar; they had a piano, sax, and drums - plus mandolin and an ocarina

RIP Legend.

Mark, I grew up in SF, I saw all the "hippie bands" of the day. I remember 1969 speedway meadows seeing the Sons of Champlin distinctly...They were by far in my opinion the best band of all the bands from SF area at that time..

Nice but no bass??

Mark H. GREAT INTERVIEW !!! Classy!!! BOBBY BLACK! WE LOVE YOUUUUU! Suzanne Shea in San Diego here! Debbie and Diana and I still talk bout you guys, DANG you are amazing buddy! NO idea if you ever will read these comments, . but just saying what an honor so many of us got to be bands with you ! For me it was during about the 19 yr Chapter I had in life up there in San Jose 1980-1994. And so glad it worked out I got to be in the Don Cox Cowtown Band. 1981-'84. What an honor! At that time you and your bro were playing other gigs and on the road with known bands etc.. but also filling in if in San Jose. When Don needed to call in players for some gigs he was always so happy to have you guys in town! First time I heard you guys I was blown away. I was so lucky to get to know you ... both you and your bro so talented!// ( We all were sorry when you and the music world lost Larry. may he rest in peace.) We are thrilled that you are getting to live such a long fantastic life Bobby! SO many of us who got to have those incredible years in outstanding CW bands in San Jose . When you and Larry were there ...we were all so honored to have had those chances to have you guys in the band! On top of it all Bobby you are the kindest of hearts out there! PS.. i'm still gigging too! . Just solo gigs or duos.. (keepin it simple!) I'll be 75 soon and toting PAs around is not easy but I love to sing and play and .... pay bills. LOL. But you are the true Energy Bunny... . Anyway.. keep on keeping on! Keep truckin Lare! LOVE YOU! Suzanne Carpe Diem!

OK Mark great interview...I played some with Bianca way back in the day when I was with Gideon...she's a beautiful person and a huge talent fantastic singer..

Thanks so much Mark for doing the interview and sharing it. What a life Nick had! I saw him perform only twice -- with the Electric Flag in Dec 1967 at Winterland (fantastic show) and then in about 1982 at Chi Chi's in North Beach as Thunder and Lightning (John C on guitar!). I have a young daughter, now 18 years old, who loves Nick's songs on "A Long Time Comin'" the Flag's great album. She played them over and over. I actually wrote a letter and sent it to Nick less than a year ago to tell him how someone so much longer loves those songs but the letter was returned. I found out later that he had moved to a nursing home. But, in this interview, he was still sharp even though his Wiki entry says "diabetes and dementia." Nick's memory is great. May he RIP.

R.I.P. Nick Gravenites, September 18, 2024 (aged 85). Thank you for this interview. Based on Wikipedia, it looks like Nick may have started slipping into dementia in the less than two short years after your interview.

Pittsfield ,Ma. Is a great town caught a G harp from Steven Tyler when he was playing a Bishop Gurton High School in Nashua, NH. 1973 or 74 but you are the world famous best harp player ever that Headlines bar in Nashua great music !!!

Is it just my hearing or is the audio very bad? I only got bits and pieces.

Wonderful thanks Mark!