Fillmore/Winterland veteran here. Never made it to Matrix, Family Dog, Great Am. Music Hall. Mike pulling out East-West riffs. Played that album everyday for two years (along w/ TYA 'Undead). Times never seen before or since. Thanks..
Someone broke into The Matrix and stole a bunch of recording equipment and a huge cache of tapes of love performances over 50 years ago. Sadly, if they still exist tehy've never surfaced.
0:00 Work Song (Nat Adderley Cover 11:44 Feel So Bad (Little Milton Cover) 14:45 Driftin' & Driftin' (Little Walter Cover) 21:55 Three Hundred Pounds Of Joy (Howlin' Wolf Cover) 25:28 Reconsider Baby (T-Bone Walker Cover/Michael Bloomfield Lead Vocal?) 30:20 Hard Luck Blues (Little Milton Cover/Elvin Bishop Lead Vocal?) 34:22 Get Out My Life Woman (Lee Dorsey Cover) 37:40 One More Heartache (Marvin Gaye Cover) 41:20 In The Midnight Hour(Wilson Pickett Cover) 44:11 Walkin' By Myself(Jimmy Rogers Cover) 48:20 Born In Chicago 52:40 Got My Mojo Workin' (Muddy Waters Cover)
Wow! Just amazing stuff! Thanks Craig for sharing this.. oh boy, it's like being there in a time machine. Noting that the comments are from the usual suspects, hehe!
The sound of this recording is poor a litte bit , but what is very certain is that Bloomfield plays fine and tight as always on his first times with Paul. Michael is a virtuoso. As a electric guitarist is such a good as Hendrix or Clapton. And Butterfield blues band is a rock band such a tight and brilliant rock band as anybody of sixties rock. Anyway the quality of audio is suficient to check the genius of Butterfield and Co.
I like Elvin, but Bloomfield could play circles around him, and most other guitarists. At any rate, when Bloomfield left, Elvin became the de facto lead guitarist. I loved his woozy sound on Pigboy.
😆 🤣 😂 Elvin's band was a favorite to hate among Bay Area fans. Them and Malo (Santana's cousin) pushed by Bill Graham. Couldn't get away from them. Elvin is still standing in Bloomfield's shadow...and Mike is long dead.
@@Vodichka9 Given a chance, I think Bishop could've stepped up. Instead, the guitar pretty much became a second string instrument in the band. To me, it seemed that Butterfield damn near gave the reins to Gene Dinwiddie and the brass. By the time the "Better Days" band came along it didn't matter who played guitar, the band lost the excitement it was originally known for.
@@docwill184 I have no idea about how Bay Area fans took to Elvin, being a Chicago boy myself, but I was a fan. At least until he started up with the hard core "good ol' boy" stuff. That got old fast but he's stuck with it. He and Bloomfield had shared duties on the debut record, but Bloomfield was highlighted on "East-West", even though Elvin did just fine on both "Work Song" and "East-West". Jorge Santana, Carlos' brother" and Malo played some very kool stuff. By your comment, maybe they were better suited for Los Angeles.
@@mitchgawlik1175 I don't know if you saw the documentary about Butterfield "Horn from the Heart", but Elvin said something that pretty much struck home. He said that with Butterfield, there were maybe one or 2 songs he (Elvin) could shine on. He decided to form his own band and shine on every song... Better Days- I think their live performance of Countryside at the Winterland is one of the best live tunes the band ever did. I liked Geoff Muldaur when he was with Jim Kweskin, but I wasn't a fan of his singing with Better Days. Yeah, that dates me!
Spectacular! Bloomfield is on fire!
Yes, he is. I loved his playing! I was heartbroken when I learned of his passing.
1966 - a paradise of after the beats and before the hippies . Jimi , Janis and the Doors playing free shows for a laugh .
"East-West and Beatles' "Revolver" in the same year.
Total bucket list experience. I didn't see Butterfield in person until Better Days. Here he's doing several songs he never released on albums.
Work song was on their second album, East-West
Fillmore/Winterland veteran here. Never made it to Matrix, Family Dog, Great Am. Music Hall.
Mike pulling out East-West riffs. Played that album everyday for two years (along w/ TYA 'Undead). Times never seen before or since.
Thanks..
The Winderland concert introduced by Bill Graham and started out with Countryside is one of my favorites. Wish I'd been there!
WinTerland
The legend is that The Matrix recorded many performances. Like almost everything possible.
Someone broke into The Matrix and stole a bunch of recording equipment and a huge cache of tapes of love performances over 50 years ago. Sadly, if they still exist tehy've never surfaced.
0:00 Work Song (Nat Adderley Cover
11:44 Feel So Bad (Little Milton Cover)
14:45 Driftin' & Driftin' (Little Walter Cover)
21:55 Three Hundred Pounds Of Joy (Howlin' Wolf Cover)
25:28 Reconsider Baby (T-Bone Walker Cover/Michael Bloomfield Lead Vocal?)
30:20 Hard Luck Blues (Little Milton Cover/Elvin Bishop Lead Vocal?)
34:22 Get Out My Life Woman (Lee Dorsey Cover)
37:40 One More Heartache (Marvin Gaye Cover)
41:20 In The Midnight Hour(Wilson Pickett Cover)
44:11 Walkin' By Myself(Jimmy Rogers Cover)
48:20 Born In Chicago
52:40 Got My Mojo Workin' (Muddy Waters Cover)
Great to hear this version of "One More Heartache". It was on the third album without Bloomfield.
This is spectacular, so glad I came across it. Thanks for posting!
Damn! Always loved this lineup of the PBBB. Brilliant! Thanks for posting.
‘Work Song’ … the very best on East -West!
I like the Animals version too but Oscar Brown jr is even better
One of the best but East-West is better by far .
if only this version of the band got to play with the 1971 version of the Allman Brothers.
Interesting idea! I liked both bands. And unlike Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones they completely acknowledged the debt to the original bluesmen.
Very nice
OMG! Never heard this. Coltrane Express anyone? Thanx NorthSouth2071
WOW !!!
TEAR IT UP!
Mesmerised!
Killin
SO GREAT ! can the tape be cleaned up wit AI?
Wow! Just amazing stuff! Thanks Craig for sharing this.. oh boy, it's like being there in a time machine. Noting that the comments are from the usual suspects, hehe!
Great! Probably influenced the Dead hugely, Midnight hour added to their set, also JGB would later play "Get out of my life woman"
Hints of D.Allman s later soloing
BLOOMFIELD and Elvin were the original DOUBLE BARREL of guitar players. Go and listen to East West and then form your opinion.
when I thought I’d heard it all
Not the best audio..I remember this song well..memories of live and recorded performances..you 2 left to damn soon..damned drugs
In Paul's case, it was checking himself out of hospital against their advice when he had diverticulitis and peritonitis.
Not one of Mike’s best nights. That’s plainly obvious if you listen to the whole thing.
The sound of this recording is poor a litte bit , but what is very certain is that Bloomfield plays fine and tight as always on his first times with Paul. Michael is a virtuoso. As a electric guitarist is such a good as Hendrix or Clapton. And Butterfield blues band is a rock band such a tight and brilliant rock band as anybody of sixties rock. Anyway the quality of audio is suficient to check the genius of Butterfield and Co.
Butterfield could have and should have used Elvin Bishop on lead guitar more often.
I like Elvin, but Bloomfield could play circles around him, and most other guitarists. At any rate, when Bloomfield left, Elvin became the de facto lead guitarist. I loved his woozy sound on Pigboy.
😆 🤣 😂 Elvin's band was a favorite to hate among Bay Area fans. Them and Malo (Santana's cousin) pushed by Bill Graham. Couldn't get away from them.
Elvin is still standing in Bloomfield's shadow...and Mike is long dead.
@@Vodichka9 Given a chance, I think Bishop could've stepped up. Instead, the guitar pretty much became a
second string instrument in the band. To me, it seemed that Butterfield damn near gave the reins to Gene Dinwiddie
and the brass. By the time the "Better Days" band came along it didn't matter who played guitar, the band lost the
excitement it was originally known for.
@@docwill184 I have no idea about how Bay Area fans took to Elvin, being a Chicago boy myself, but I was a fan. At least until
he started up with the hard core "good ol' boy" stuff. That got old fast but he's stuck with it. He and Bloomfield had shared
duties on the debut record, but Bloomfield was highlighted on "East-West", even though Elvin did just fine on both "Work Song"
and "East-West". Jorge Santana, Carlos' brother" and Malo played some very kool stuff. By your comment, maybe they were
better suited for Los Angeles.
@@mitchgawlik1175 I don't know if you saw the documentary about Butterfield "Horn from the Heart", but Elvin said something that pretty much struck home. He said that with Butterfield, there were maybe one or 2 songs he (Elvin) could shine on. He decided to form his own band and shine on every song... Better Days- I think their live performance of Countryside at the Winterland is one of the best live tunes the band ever did. I liked Geoff Muldaur when he was with Jim Kweskin, but I wasn't a fan of his singing with Better Days. Yeah, that dates me!