An Interview with Kim Simmonds of Savoy Brown
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- Join host Pete Pardo for his chat with guitarist, vocalist, and founder of Savoy Brown, Kim Simmonds, as they discuss the upcoming new album 'Ain't Done Yet', the bands historic past, guitar gear, current blues favorites, and future live plans. **CORRECTION-the new album follows the 2019 release CITY NIGHT from 2019, not Witchy Feelin' from 2017*** #kimsimmonds #savoybrown
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I wrote Kim Simmonds a letter in 1997, I was a 15 year old beginner guitarist who was obsessed with him after discovering Savoy Brown in my dads stack of LP's. He was kind enough to write me back and I am forever grateful that he took the time to respond to a dumb kid who was asking dumb guitar related questions. He has always been a hero of mine & a criminally underrated guitarist and performer. Thank you for everything Kim Simmonds RIP
Rest in peace KIM SIMMONDS! WE LOVE YOU !
This guy is a living legend absolutely adore him.
I got to see him in 1970, then sometime in the 2000's. Great both times.
@@blues3824 ...excellent ✌️
He passed away the other day. I got to see one of Savoy Brown's best concert In 1973 at Tampa Stadium. Tampa Florida. It was Deep Purple, Savoy Brown, ZZ Top, Blue Oyster Cult. an Billy Preston. He cancelled. But the show was awesome . Rest in Peace Mr. Kim Simmons. The true legend.
One of the greatest blues guitarists who have ever lived but never got the recognition. He's every bit as good as Clapton, Page, Gilmour et al. I started listening to Kim and Savoy since the beginning. Train To Nowhere started my journey with Savoy.
Same here, great guitarist. Saw SB many times 69-71 in the Midlands (England!)😃😃
It's great that he's still making music. I mean the first Savoy Brown album came out at the same time as Strange Days by The Doors. He has seen the development of Rock music first hand.
Wow...Strange Days seems like ancient history (still listen to it, though). That really puts it in perspective.
R.I.P. Kim Simmonds. Thanks for all the amazing music.
I heard Raw Sienna and Looking In when I was 14. Swiped my older brothers 8 tracks. Never looked back. A fan ever since. Kim is a living legend. Lions Share is an often forgotten gem.
Thank you. In 71 I bought Street Corner Talking. Age 14. First blues album ever. Last time I saw Kim was at Club Toast in Burlington during the 90s. We had a good chat about blues and Chris Youlden.
An amazing guy from a vastly underrated band ! Keep on Kim
Great! I have the Chris Youlden albums as well. I think he was the best singer they had.
1000%
I just love KIM SAVOY BROWN are one of the GREAT ONE'S must have seen him about fifty times never disappointed. Thanks PETE you ROCK.
Love Savoy Brown. I own every one of their albums. I was fortunate to have seen them several times in the 70’s. I think Kim Simmonds is very underrated as a guitar player and a song writer.
Love every Savoy Brown album....Kim still rocks out! The classic lineup is my fave✌️
Savoy Brown has always been one of my favorites.
i saw him open for edgar and johnny winter, with rick derringer, at the sound academy in toronto the year before johnny died. prior to that, i didnt even know about savoy brown, if you can believe that. i was blown away that a guy who was (i think) 67 at the time, had so much energy. more than people half his age. he opened with mr. brown's boogie. the guy was like a human superball. i was hooked before he was halfway through the first song. what a great player, and performer.
Great interview. Great musician. Great guitarist. Great songwriter. I love Savoy Brown. Granted I am not as familiar with their newer material, I do have a plethora of their albums. But if they come to town I go see them and are always blown away. And my meetings with Kim are always pleasant. Great interview. Keep up the good work Pete.
STREEEEEET CNR TOKIN....BEST
This guy is simply legendary! And an extremely underrated guitarist!
...but extremely highly rated by people who 'know'
@@blues3824 YAAAAA FUKKK
Watching this in memory of Kim one of my fav classic guitar players next to Trower .
Another great interview. This man is so devoted with great respect to the blues tradition. For those who are not familiar with SB, I recommend Blue Matter as a first listen.
This is such a pleasure. What a cool interview! I've seen Savoy Brown play a bunch of times, and was able to meet Kim after a show and he was kind enough to sign "Street Corner Talkin" for my dad (it was his favorite SB album). I even have a painting by Kim hanging in my music room! Thanks for the interview!
Kim Symmonds is the backbone of Savoy Brown. I've been a keen follower of SB since the late 60's & as for they're still the best despite the line up changes over the yrs. SB are still going strong simply because making music is the main thing they have not derived from & they never got in the rat race of being famous for the sake 0f being famous & all that hoopla that goes along. They still believe strongly in making the fans happy equally with the music that makes them happy. We're all getting older & that can't be avoided but their music still is full of Rock & Rockblues & heart-thumping. I just love SB & wish them all the best & longevity.
Such a cool interview Pete,grew up listening to Savoy Brown.♨️🎸👍
I have the first eight Savoy Brown albums. People rarely mention Brice Portius, who sang on their first album. I liked his singing as much as Chris Youldan and Dave Walker's. The first album ('Shake Down') was the first one that I bought (on CD) and remains my favorite. I only saw Kim play live twice (in the 90's.) It was a pleasure to see this legend up close. He rates right up with his British Blues/Rock contemporaries (Clapton, Peter Green, Stan Webb, etc), in my opinion.
I went mainly to see Savoy Brown who was opening for Leon Russell at Rockefeller's in Houston. Took my old "Hellbound Train" and " Lion's Share" albums to see if I could get them signed, I also had the two albums with Pete McMahon they did with me who was fronting that night for S. Brown. After S. Brown played I saw Kim stick his head out of the dressing room door and motion for me to come back and to bring the albums. Got to sit back stage and talk to all the guys for a couple of Leon Russell songs and stayed in touch with Pete and bought all of his solo recordings and the ones he did with the Kingsnakes. Super nice guys. R.I.P. Kim
Totally digging this! Love the unexpected 'out of the hat' topics and interviews. Prevett would have been cool to interview, but... such is life
Saw Kim with Savoy Brown open for Janis Joplin in March of 1969 in San Francisco (just out of USAF and Vietnam). Fell in love with his guitar playing and have all Savoy Brown releases. Got to see Kim again a couple of years ago in a small blues club in Phoenix. Still has it, thank you Sir.
Great interview.
Raw Sienna is one of my all time favourite albums. Curious to hear what the new material sounds like.
Play BAD SHAPE OR
MISERY ---- NO CHARGE
Best subscription I've ever signed up for. Covers damn near everything, entertaining as hell. I'm an old fart and really appreciate this channel!
Thanks Ron!
Thnx loads.
I was Kim's bartender
6 times in the ninties in KELSO WASHINGTON.
He would come into town & hang for a couple of days --- He'd golf with PETER lll and
Ed ,i would Work for pete. Kim could play
golf . KIM would play during the week,cause
Portland and Seattle kept him busy on weekends. The bar held about 70, and would swell to120, when our favorite band would play.
Foghat was across town at Longview, and KIM was playing with us,
LONESOME DAVE PEVERET sauntered in
and played a set with our lads.
IT WAS THE BEST OF TIMES.
RIP buddy
Check out BAD SHAPE from THE BLUES KEEP ME HOLDING ON.
NATHANIEL PETERSON
on vocals.
Gazillion Stars from me.
Tied with MISERY &
Little Red Rooster.
WE ALWAYS MISS THE
CLASSIEST MAN THAT
EVER MADE IT HERE.
I’m praying for Kim to heal now. God bless him during this tough time
R.I.P. Kim Simmonds. I just found out that he passed away back on December 13, 2022. I really enjoy Savoy Brown's music as I was raised on rock n' roll! "Witchy Feeling" is a fantastic album!!👍👍🔥🔥
My favorite player and musician. I am lucky to own one of his old Les Pauls.
Great interview. Great down to earth man who is a great guitar player.
Kim Simmonds was and still is one of the best guitarist in rock ever!. It boggles the mind that he is seldom mentioned among the lists great rock guitarists.
Maybe because he makes it seem too easy. He’s amazing.what an oversight.
Oh , don't worry , the vultures will cop his style & phrasing , now -trying to pass it off as their own.
Great interview. Must admit that I heard Savoy Brown more in the 70’s than today. Raw Sienna, Looking In & Street Corner Talking are fantastic albums
Really dug the Witchy Feelin' album + many of the blues-laced tracks in the seventies & eighties!!! Glad musicians like Kim are writing & performing new material. Savoy Brown is legendary to those who search for the "Roots" of blue-eyed, guitar-based R & B. Interesting to hear how individual the process varies from artist to artist....the fine tuning & tech talk!
One of my favorite guitarists and legends of British Blues. Had no idea he was on this podcast. Kudos
That was rather touching. Thanks so much Pete.
I started following Kim and Savoy in October 1973 with the purchase of LION'S SHARE.
I have seen Savoy Brown 4 times. The first was that Boogie Brothers 1974 tour.
The bill was Tucky Buzzard, S.B. and Deep Purple. The show I attended was a Friday night mid March show at the Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pa. I was there for Savoy and DP. It was a roudy "festival seat show, meaning no floor seats. There was stuff thrown on stage throughout.
Savoy Brown with Miller Anderson, Stan Webb and Kim on the front line were solid throughout their set.
Deep Purple were on the Burn tour. Their performance at times was ragged. Ritchie did his 10 minute guitar solo smash which really was a complete waste of time! Different types of guitar playing that night!
I saw Savoy on December 3rd, 1975 at a place called the Main Point, in Bryn Mawr, Pa. So I went from watching S.B. in a 20,000 seat rowdy arena, to a 50-80 capacity crowd in a year. The WIRE FIRE show was with Paul Raymond on keys, so that was good seeing him in S.B.
In 1989 Dave Walker, vocalist was in the band for 3 years again. I saw S.B. in a club in Levittown, Pa.
Great pub gig, you could say!
Finally in 2019, I saw the current Savoy Brown line up open for Foghat. Rodger Earl is the last Foghat original and had been in S.B. from 1968-1970. Kim really got that crowd going at Penn's Peak, in the town of Jim Thorpe, PA!!
Some of my fave Savoy Brown albums:
The Cresendo years
" Make me Sweat"
"Kings of Boogie"
And the accompanying live album from 1990, featured singer DAVE WALKER. I highly recommend those albums.
Also:
WIRE FIRE,
LION'S SHARE
STREET CORNER T.
HELLBOUND TRAIN
JACK THE TOAD
With the 3 Foghats:
LOOKING IN
RAW SIENNA
BLUE MATTER
A STEP FURTHER
Recent:
WITCHY FEELING!
Thanks Pete for the interview with Kim!
I'm from upstate NY and had met Kim many times in my area and hung out after one of his shows at Tigers, a small club in Clifton park 30 years ago. Kim has been one my favorite guitarist and still is also Alvin lee.
Savoy Brown
Feb 24, 1990 Tiger's Pub Clifton Park, New York, United States
Kim &Alvin & George Harrison.
One of my favourite bands and guitarists of all time!! Thanks for the interview!!
Keep moving on. Never stop.
Sadly Kim passed awy recently, I'm glad I finally did catch his show a couple years go @ The Narrows in Fall River Mass, for yers I'd been trying to catch Svoy Brown but my scheduling lows didn't line up..Been listening to this band since my high school years in 1972..
Kim Simmonds is a huge blues influence. I remember my brother having the Hellbound Train album. I listened and still do. Kim's new stuff is better than the old stuff. Sad we had to lose him.
A fine interview indeed Pete.street corner talking love it..
Will miss you Kim!
Got to see Kim play twice in Cleveland a year or so ago. Once as the headliner, then he opened for Wishbone Ash in Akron. Great shows. Thank you, Pete.
1970, carnigie hall (being refurmished at the time) Wisbone Ash opened for Savoy B.
@@jpwhiteside3768 BETTER
Thanks for posting this. Kim deserves the fame that escaped him
Thank you for your great interview with Kim Simmonds of Savoy Brown.🎤🎸🎵🥁
One of my favourite guitarists, and has been for decades. Wonderfully clean and expressive player, lands those big notes perfectly every time. And a very fine man to boot.
A wonderful gentleman a true career artist with a very impressive musical legacy. Great interview keep rocking Kim your a true inspiration to us all.
great interview, well done. i too have all their albums. big fan!
The world must to know....Kim Simmons.
Apprentices killed the real Masters
RIP British Blues Great: Kim Simmonds 12/13/22
One of my favourite bands to see back in '69 though if you saw 'em in a club it always seemed to be 50/50 whether Chris Youlden would turn up or not...Hahahahaha. That Blue Matter/A Step Further line-up was definitely my favourite
In high school (1975) we were all talking favorite bands. I said Deep Purple,someone else said Black Sabbath,someone else said Led Zeppelin etc, One kid said Savoy Brown. We all looked at him like he was nuts. Never heard of em! Like 10 years later I'm married with children 1000 miles from home in a truck stop and I see what turned out to be a bad bootleg copy of Raw Sienna. I remembered the name. Savoy Brown. Dude's favorite band from high school. Lets see what the fuss was about! First thing I hear is a crackly album that skips! An awful bootleg! I was pissed and miles from the truck stop. Might as well listen to it. Great fucking album! When CD's started happening I got a bunch of em. Raw Sienna sounds GOOD on CD!!!
And thank you Pete and Kim for making this Monday so much better .
August 28th my daughters birthday. Maybe I will buy it as a gift for myself.
LEGEND
I'm so glad I found this this morning. I was just rocking Looking In and Raw Sienna 2 days ago. I was lucky to see Kim and this line up in Seattle 4 years ago amazing show! I've been a fan for years. Keep rocking Kim cant wait to hear the new album🙂🙂👍👍🎸🎼🎼
Great work Kim is a living legend 🎸 great guitar player
Shout Out From an Old Fan!!!Boogie On Kim!
Pete, yet another great interview! Savoy Brown has been off my radar for awhile but already ordered the coming album. I met one of my lifelong best friends in the fall of ‘72 and introduced him to some of my favorites of that time. But he would always pull out Street Corner Talking and say that he still liked that album more than anything else. That was my introduction to the band. Thanks to you and Kim Simmons for a great show.
streeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet cnr yesssss
Pete.love your shows!you are so knowlegable.such a lover of music.so helpful as a teacher of music and rock n roll history.i appreciate your attitude and style of presenting the subjects you cover.im a few years older than you and from a different area of the country ...but we have so much in common with our families and upbringing and musical tastes.thanks for all you do.
love Savoy Brown and kim Simmonds!!!
I was pleasantly surprised to see Kim interviewed! Great one, Pete. SB was one of the very first bands I really glommed onto when I started buying records in the early 70's. In fact, last week I preordered the upcoming vinyl so that tradition continues 47 years on. Wow!
Hey Pete, great interview, and interviews lately!!! Thanks, man! Watching from London
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@seaoftranquilityprog Right on Pete! Rock on!
One of my local record shops turned me onto You Should Have Been There! (live, recorded 23 February 2003) - 2004 .its a gem .
Great interview Pete, I've always loved Savoy Brown. Also thanks for asking Kim about the Boogie Brothers album. A great favorite of mine.
I got to see kim Simmonds along with johnny and edger winter and rick derringer in tacoma Washington in 2012.
Best dueling boogies in the history of boogies, seen both at Fillmore West (or was it Winterland?): Canned Heat "Fried Hockey Boogie" (68) and "The Savoy Brown Boogie" (69).
I was at Winterland, March of 69, opened for Janis Joplin.
@@AlanKPet Wow!
The early Savoy Brown albums 1 thru 9 are the cream of the crop.
Great to see you Kim Simmons and TY Pete. Nice interview.
Lovely surprise! I've got vinyl.
Legend........
Kings of Boogie! I have his Autograph on Make em Sweat LP!
Pete man! You completely blew it with that statement about the album being a follow up to Witchy Feeling! The previous album was City Night from last year and it was fantastic!
that was the one I was thinking of, just said the wrong album title.
There's so many of them it's easy to get mixed up 🙂
The rock&roll legacy from the early beatles and rolling the Stones .Now Kim Simmons the britishblues legacy on 30 albums .
Savoy Brown is Kim Simmons.
Every álbum Sounds like 60s briti sh blues.bands.God save the blues
Wonderful interview ......Street Corner Talking and Hellbound Train are classics and personal favorites
I'm happy i found out about Savoy Brown a couple years ago on spotify. Hellbound Train was my go-to for a very long time but I never explored their other work until recently...Currently Listening to 'Looking In' and they're becoming one of my favorites very quickly.
Another great interview.
Loving the new logo Pete!
Great interview, Pete! Love the Savoys. I'd get along with Kim pretty well. It seems we share very similar views. Had no idea. Can't wait to hear the new record. Long may you play, Kim!
Savoy Brown Fan yesterday🎵 today🎶 tomorrow🎸rock it til wheels come off Digging the new album
Guy wanna 2 know the mark of true pros😀
How about hardly anyone shows up to a club like 25 people.
But the band dosen't worry about it.
Kickin total ass😀
Yeah that made me totally love Savoy Brown .
Dave Walker was an awesome front man😀R.I.P
Kim Simmons rules !!
Excellent interview
1970. Carngie Hall (being refurnished at the time) wisbone ash opening..Street Corner Tour
Chris youlden of early savoy brown lived 2 minutes from my wife's childhood home in Dagenham East London , you wanted to know that didn't you lol .
I do have Savoy Brown "20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection". I got to get more of that group!!!
I am not all that familiar with Kim or Savoy Brown but I thought it was a great interview and I learned a lot. Hard to believe they have endured for over 50 years.
Street corner talkin. Great album. Good interview Pete
Brilliant pete how do you get these great artists on your show love it.
KIM R.I.P.
December 13, 2022...
I followed Kim and Savoy Brown since 1973!
Wow! Seen him play live from five feet away, in minesoooota bout 2000
Love †he Savoy Brown era of the late 60s, A Step Further Album- progressive Jazz(waiting in the bamboo groove) , Boogie(savoy Brown's Boogie) , Funk, Blues, so many styles of this wicked album, would have been cool if there was any live Video from †his era of the band. Foghat was probably the most successful of alot of the players(that became a band) that played in Savoy Brown in the earlier days. Hellbound Train with Dave Walker was a wicked classic track, i almost feel for Kim Siimonds over the years losing so many great players, and he had to carry on . I think all the changes over the years in their line ups was one of the reason they weren't as successful as they could have been? Great interview, seems like a Kind genuine Man. great player.
cool!
RIP Kim 😢
wow what an intelligent man
R.I.P. Kim Simmonds
Check out Jake Andrews debut "Time To Burn" (1999) He was 19 or 20 years old back then. Texas blues rock!!!
The title track went to # 32 (Billboard Mainstream Rock Charts) in June of 1999 & his only charted song!!!!
🎵🎸✌🏼 Rio de Janeiro ⭐🙂✋