Mike was so clean.no rack of pedals I cant get enough. Its so refreshing l like everyone, but to me people like Van Halen are more noises than l like. Maybe because l am 71tap tricks and feedback diving guitars all sound the same. No one has his heart,believe me he was a true genlemen,and had no ego rock star bull feces,like some l have played with on the bill.bless you mike I hope i can jam with you in heaven, have my fender super reverb on standby,reverb on 2 and a half .
@u7en6ur9g Rory did use a Treble Booster pedal but that's really all he used . Good choice to include him as he was a monster player & i have seen both him & Mike back in the late 60s & early 70s. Lets toss in Peter Green as well . Pedals are great but to play clean is the ultimate test of how well you play & how good your guitar & amp sounds .
When mike bloomfield Played the slow blues no one could touch him. He could squeeze soul from a string like water from a sponge. The best. Mike bloomfield Roy buchanan and Earl hooker , the three greatest of all time!
It seems like the more Bloomfield plays, the more he soaks you in authentic blues.Study his story, you will have these blues too.The real frickin thing,Mr. Mike Bloomfield. R.I.P.
I saw Mike Bloomfield play his beat-up guitar at a little backstreet nightclub in San Jose, CA in the mid-70s. I was a few from him as he sat on the little stage in an old wooden straight-back chair next to his little Sears amp, local musicians backing him up. No one sang, but Mike just tore it up that night. I could never forget!
Once seen live one can never forget a MikE Bloomfield performance on guitar. It was an incredible experience to see a man make time stand still and then speed it up at will for his audience. Hendrix and Clapton were fans but imho none came close to a live Bloomfield performance. NONE. To see him pick those right on the money blues notes, was awe inspiring and unforgetable..
Mike had " It ". Growing up in the 60's & 70's and hanging out in NYC I saw& heard the best bands of all time. Being a blues baby all my life I can't believe how lucky I am that I. got to see everybody that was a god in rock & roll. One night, at the Academy of Music, for $ 8.00 a ticket, we saw Procol Harem, King Crimson & Yes. It started at 8 o'clock and 12 hours later, we were still screaming for encores. Those were the absolute best days of my life. And, yes, Marty, wherever you are, I still love you so!
You hit the nail right on the head, Frankie. He and Rory Gallagher never really got the breaks they so richly deserved. You mention their names these days, and people say "Who? Never heard of him." Thank goodness for RUclips, though, since it means future generations will still be able to learn about and appreciate these little-known geniuses.
@@GCKelloch Rosetta has been credited with single-handedly kick-starting the British blues scene, and rightly so, but Rory was much more than just a "blues guitarist." He could rock with the best of them, and was actually rated higher than Clapton by most British music critics. Yet he's almost unknown in North America, apart from people who were lucky enough to see him play live back in the 70's and 80's. I know some people who don't like the blues at all, but they still love Rory.
That is the way he wanted it. Mike absolutely hated people worshiping him and placing him above others. He was in it for the music. He suffered depression and anxiety over fame. He was his own worst enemy that way. He was extremely humble. When people would say how great he is, he would change subjects in interviews or talk like "Cool, but hey man did you this cat named …… , man what a great player!".
@@tatethompson1234 Having been "in it for the music" for 40 years, believe me, this world could use a whole lot more "great but modest" guitarists! Too many guitarists these days are suffering from "elephantiasis of the ego," and operating under the firmly fixed delusion that they're "better than 'so-and-so' any day of the week!"
@@tatethompson1234 I have to disagree. Mike is on record saying that at 15, after 2 years of study, he was the best guitarist he knew or anyone around him knew. 'An absolute monster' who would sit in to blow the other guy off the stage. But Mike was also a well-educated and public-spirited upper-class kid who knew the value of diplomacy and generosity when it came to praising the work of others, especially his predecessors. btw his effusive praise for 'perfect' Clapton in RS would tend to vindicate the fans' high opinion of EC in his blues-rock period.
that is my recording from six nights we cut a Fillmore West. Michael insisted on doing two sets early enough so that he could watch Tonight Show. Bill Graham argued and helped Michael
Thanks for the insight on that. The Tonight Show. I have some of those shows from legal bittorent site and I groove on them hard. Many hours of great pleasure you have provided.
Holy shit! How have I listened to blues/rock guitar my whole life and never heard this one? I mean, I knew Bloomfield was a genius... And of course Taj is awesome... But LORD!
My first exposure to Bloomfield was 1966's East West album. At my first listening I remember thinking this guy can navigate in a way I've never heard. But when the title track East West played my admittedly by then smoked up brain was goin WTF! His playing will be listenable and commendable forever.
The East West album was where I first heard him play too. I'm still listening all these years later. It's been more than 50 years and he's still up at the top of my favorite guitarists.
Tom Howland He loved the guitar more than you and I. Sometimes when I listen to Bloomfield play it makes me want to cry. Everybody say what would he be doing today. I said to him, listen to his records, that's him in every way. In all the ways that matter.
Of course, it came from his hands but his hands were guided by his soul. When Michael played guitar it was like an old soul screaming from the birthplace of the blues. I feel that Bob Dylan sings the same way, it wells up from an old, ancient soul that we can all recognize and identify with.
I saw Mike and Nick at the Golden Bear in Huntington Beach it's one of the best shows I have seen , thank you Mike for many hours of great music you gave us thanks
I’m a 24 year old guitarist/musician and only discovered this man a few years ago, been playing for 10 years. Since that day Michael along with Peter Green, Roy Buchanan, Paul Kossoff, and Rory Gallagher have become my hugest influences and inspirations. It is required listening and absorbing for me every single day. I’m hanging on every note and idiosyncrasy that these guys are doing. I try my very best to incorporate Michaels spirit, passion, and playing into my own and want nothing more than to move people the way that he did with the notes of his guitar. There was something very special about these men and I don’t know what it is, pure passion I guess. I love the whole list of guys we all love as guitar players but that little group of unsung heroes that were unfortunately very self destructive move me deep inside in a way I can’t describe in words. The most amazing and beautiful part is that they were predominantly just guitar, cable, and amp, it came from deep inside of them. I continue to turn people on to them and do my best to spread their legacy any way I can. Thank you for this recording, time to go and play some guitar. Peace
Yeah, you got great heroes man. They are mine too! Since 1964 when I first started playing. Hell, I’m still learning the blues. Well, I started with Trying to learn BB, Albert, and Freddy Kings stuff. There’s so many greats, hard to keep track of them all.
Dive deep my friend, as history tells it , 👉🏿black folks, across the planet made this possible.. get humble, and realize, that the secret, is in black👈🏿culture, and impressed by white culture. In 1950..My attorney father and orphaned mother, had the blues, the jazz, and the gospel. They required, that we take it in, and as the 4 th child, 3 of us played guitar, bass and played percussion. Still do, and I spent 50 yrs playing Caribbean and African musics, to promote them. 🤷🏿♂️
Rory, I just don't know or understand what happened behind the scenes that he is such an unknown in America? He was so good.....maybe that's why it is? Just to damn good
I find his vocals magnificent the way he trills about the note and fits into the tightest vocal spaces as well as being the finest exponent of the electric guitar that ever was.
Michael was an inspiration to me,, as a boy. I met him thru Hubert Sumlin. My adopted uncle. And Louis and Dave Myers, and Eddie Taylor Sr. Who were responsible for me in Chicago. As I had run away, from being abused in Massachusetts. Those cats had known my mom's family and my Gram. Ruth Hand Orr. I was a pretty hip kid. For 12 years old. Sunnyland said so. And his word was fucking Gospel. On the Southside of Chicago. I just absorbed all of the experiences at my fingertips. Wow . Talk about living the lush life. Older women took me home with them And fed me, and bought me nice clothes. And would show me what sleeping upon satin sheets was all about. I was like a kid in a candy store. An X rated Candy store. Sunnyland shouted Shit, Look at Stevie, we gave them Hussies, a boy,. They sent us back A young man. Lord Have Mercy, Dressed up like a Doggone Banker, or a Memphis Pimp. We had some 100 Proof Old Grandad Bourbon. And Little Brother Montgomery, And my Beloved Sunnyland Slim Demanded, that I fill them in upon my exploits. Since They had let me out of their sight. God Bless the Dead. My words are inadequate to the task. I was the luckyest boy. Upon the face of the Earth Those men, and women. Taught me my A BCs of Blues Music. And showed me how to conduct myself as a young gentleman. And carry myself, thru this world. With distinction, and with class, and style....!!! 🙏🙏🙏😀
stevetessier you barely scratched the surface of a rich history of the Southside of Chicago Blues. You Sir, need to sit yourself down with a friend or two from back in the day, some 100 Proof Old Grandad Bourbon, Michael on the Hi-Fi, a Pen and Pad, and as you recall them wonderful times . . . Please share the History with the world. YOU ARE THE Blues History! 👉Don't let your treasures vanish in time, Please. I pray you read this If I could put this note where you couldn't miss it, it would be on a Legal Size Notepad w/pen, sitting under a jug of 100 Proof Old Grandad Bourbon❗ Blues Brother, give us some of them Blues. my glass to your glass . . .TINK Cheers
Who doesn't "like" this???? It's a unique document of the greatest blues guitar talent who ever lived at his full power. Thanks for posting! Lucky are those with the memory of hearing this live..
I had a similar experience as you when I heard the 1st PBBB album. I was already playing Dylan style harmonica but wanted to be a blues blower. Couldn't get the hang of it until I became friends with the band Canned Heat and Al "Blind Owl" Wilson took the time to teach me. Still blow to this day and I'm coming up on 69.
live and learn,,,,,,,if you live and work hard ,you will hear great music,,,,music is a gift,,,,it can be your gift,,,seek out good music,,,,it will be your gift,,,,
God he was fabulous. Listen to " It's My Own Fault " with Johnny Winter & Al Kooper. One of the best recordings of all time. He used to play little clubs in New York and that's where I saw him.
Yea man. I listened to Bloomfield a lot. As guitar player myself, I always believed that it’s in how the soul is connected to your hands. Just find the tool. For Mike it was a 59 LP that coaxed it out ! Great recording , thank you! Taj Mahal singing it too!
I agree 100%. And NOBODY could connect the soul to his hands like Bloomfield. This is unreal!!! I'm about half-way through and so far I've been spared Taj's harp which is really weak on One More Mile.
Pity I was born in a distant land round about the time he was at his peak and therefore never saw him playing! I unfailingly usher in every new year with the songs "Albert's Shuffle" and "Stop" and then turn in for the night - or must I say morning!
Shame this didn't make it onto the LP. Such a great line-up … Love Ira Kamin's unobtrusive organ (inc. a rare solo), and Mark Naftalin's distinctive piano work - I always thought Mark was aiming to be Otis Spann, maybe, but his failure to meet that impossible mark was what makes his playing so attractive. Plus, I don't think Bill Graham had the house piano tuned too often!
Mike Bloomfield, he was a great Blues man player's in the 60s the talent like The Blues ,he personalized the blues to his own taste ,He was inspiration for other generations 🎸🎸🎹🥁
Just finished jammin' along (again?) and me chiburst counterfeit was talkin' to me so sweetly... "A good player can make anything sound great (?)" (...or sumpin like that) 😋
In that photo where he's holdin' his telly and smilin' at the camera I feel just like he's lookin' at ME from the great beyond and sayin' "you KNOW how you f**ked up and you know you gotta make it right..."
Mike Bloomfield quantitative bluesman note per note. 54 sharps on a 22 fretboard. Mike signafied b,c,d,e flat fretboard 12, 6, 5,bar blues blueing, that he picked up in south side of Chicago.
70 years, that's what it takes to the planet to make me know about Mike Bloomfield, a shame! Thanks Alice Cooper. After East-West & Super Session, I amaze, astonish? Surprise myself compare him to Zappa, he had a so magnificent, sweet & bluezy "touch", the best. Je suis renversé! Excellente musique aussi.
I would love to have heard him ... along with the John Wright Trio on 47th and Calumet .. painting that Chicago deep Blues . in long mellow waves and strong silver strokes of bent metal 😯
coming onto Bloomfield for the first time makes me think of those lines of Keats about the discovery of the pacific ocean: "Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific-and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise- Silent, upon a peak in Darien."
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RIP Mike Bloomfield💔✡️🥀Stop the Hate
Mike was so clean.no rack of pedals I cant get enough. Its so refreshing l like everyone, but to me people like Van Halen are more noises than l like. Maybe because l am 71tap tricks and feedback diving guitars all sound the same. No one has his heart,believe me he was a true genlemen,and had no ego rock star bull feces,like some l have played with on the bill.bless you mike I hope i can jam with you in heaven, have my fender super reverb on standby,reverb on 2 and a half .
biggest compliment you can have of a guitar player is they play clean. no boxes or pedals
just plug in and play. Michael played clean.
On a Twin Reverb no less...
@@BlindTom61 Rory Gallagher another of my favorites was the same way.
he used a Beano ( Treble) boost @@shadowplay-y5g
@u7en6ur9g Rory did use a Treble Booster pedal but that's really all he used . Good choice to include him as he was a monster player & i have seen both him & Mike back in the late 60s & early 70s. Lets toss in Peter Green as well . Pedals are great but to play clean is the ultimate test of how well you play & how good your guitar & amp sounds .
early fleetwood with Peter was awesome have then play on in viynil wore it out@@paullevine1813
Feb 15 2018 - Mike died 37 years ago today, he was only 37 years old. The man could really play the guitar! RIP Michael.
I was lucky enough to see Mike & Al Kooper with Johnny Winter. Those were the days. Damn. We will never hear anyone like them again.
You lived my dream ahah
You're g-damn right about that.
Al ain’t dead yet.
Give it time you will
SRV, Gary Moore, Peter Green, all gone, that just leaves Joe Bonamassa who is keeping the blues alive
Mike Bloomfield was in a class of blues guitaristsall by himself. No one has ever played better.
Mike and Peter best blues guitars.
There are thousands of guitarists and then there is Mike!
When mike bloomfield Played the slow blues no one could touch him. He could squeeze soul from a string like water from a sponge. The best. Mike bloomfield Roy buchanan and Earl hooker , the three greatest of all time!
He was a master player in all blues styles and a fine blues piano player as well.
Agreed! Ronnie Earl, named after Mr.Hooker, I would squeeze in there.
Also Peter Green
don't forget Rory Gallagher
"He could squeeze soul from a string like water from a sponge" .Nice turn of phrase!
Great song. Need more like people like Mike Bloomfield in the world.
Yes, agree. If we only had one Michael Bloomfield in every city life would be so much richer for everybody! No money needed just some Michael!
It seems like the more Bloomfield plays, the more he soaks you in authentic blues.Study his story, you will have these blues too.The real frickin thing,Mr. Mike Bloomfield. R.I.P.
great Blues....Bloomfield really a King !
I saw Mike Bloomfield play his beat-up guitar at a little backstreet nightclub in San Jose, CA in the mid-70s. I was a few from him as he sat on the little stage in an old wooden straight-back chair next to his little Sears amp, local musicians backing him up. No one sang, but Mike just tore it up that night. I could never forget!
Once seen live one can never forget a MikE Bloomfield performance on guitar. It was an incredible experience to see a man make time stand still and then speed it up at will for his audience. Hendrix and Clapton were fans but imho none came close to a live Bloomfield performance. NONE. To see him pick those right on the money blues notes, was awe inspiring and unforgetable..
oh man is all i have ro say..I,m nlot going toname the modern pewoplev tjey hold nothing on breother mike.
Joy, JJ's? Bodega?
wow - was he wasted?
@Autumnleaf2011 thats bullshit , he played great IN SPITE of the junk
Mike had " It ". Growing up in the 60's & 70's and hanging out in NYC I saw& heard the best bands of all time. Being a blues baby all my life I can't believe how lucky I am that I. got to see everybody that was a god in rock & roll. One night, at the Academy of Music, for $ 8.00 a ticket, we saw Procol Harem, King Crimson & Yes. It started at 8 o'clock and 12 hours later, we were still screaming for encores. Those were the absolute best days of my life. And, yes, Marty, wherever you are, I still love you so!
RIP Mike Bloomfield.....You are Missed.
Mike Bloomfield = Forgotten genius ( but not to the lucky enlightened ones).
The Ultimate Blues Guitar Virtuoso of All TIME!!! Never repeated a solo EVER!!!! SCARY... SCARY DUDE YO!!! AUM....
The reluctant Star . The Real Deal. Michael Bloomfield
Can't touch this baby... Bloomfield did it like nobody else could
Mike Bloomfield never got the acclaim he deserved.
You hit the nail right on the head, Frankie. He and Rory Gallagher never really got the breaks they so richly deserved. You mention their names these days, and people say "Who? Never heard of him."
Thank goodness for RUclips, though, since it means future generations will still be able to learn about and appreciate these little-known geniuses.
@@GCKelloch Rosetta has been credited with single-handedly kick-starting the British blues scene, and rightly so, but Rory was much more than just a "blues guitarist." He could rock with the best of them, and was actually rated higher than Clapton by most British music critics. Yet he's almost unknown in North America, apart from people who were lucky enough to see him play live back in the 70's and 80's. I know some people who don't like the blues at all, but they still love Rory.
That is the way he wanted it. Mike absolutely hated people worshiping him and placing him above others. He was in it for the music. He suffered depression and anxiety over fame. He was his own worst enemy that way. He was extremely humble. When people would say how great he is, he would change subjects in interviews or talk like "Cool, but hey man did you this cat named …… , man what a great player!".
@@tatethompson1234 Having been "in it for the music" for 40 years, believe me, this world could use a whole lot more "great but modest" guitarists! Too many guitarists these days are suffering from "elephantiasis of the ego," and operating under the firmly fixed delusion that they're "better than 'so-and-so' any day of the week!"
@@tatethompson1234 I have to disagree. Mike is on record saying that at 15, after 2 years of study, he was the best guitarist he knew or anyone around him knew. 'An absolute monster' who would sit in to blow the other guy off the stage. But Mike was also a well-educated and public-spirited upper-class kid who knew the value of diplomacy and generosity when it came to praising the work of others, especially his predecessors. btw his effusive praise for 'perfect' Clapton in RS would tend to vindicate the fans' high opinion of EC in his blues-rock period.
that is my recording from six nights we cut a Fillmore West. Michael insisted on doing two sets early enough so that he could watch Tonight Show. Bill Graham argued and helped Michael
🦋💙🦋
These recordings are priceless......thank you
Great story. Great recording
Amazing performance, thanh you for the recording
Thanks for the insight on that. The Tonight Show. I have some of those shows from legal bittorent site and I groove on them hard. Many hours of great pleasure you have provided.
Holy shit! How have I listened to blues/rock guitar my whole life and never heard this one? I mean, I knew Bloomfield was a genius... And of course Taj is awesome... But LORD!
Oh lirdy you not wrong
My first exposure to Bloomfield was 1966's East West album. At my first listening I remember thinking this guy can navigate in a way I've never heard. But when the title track East West played my admittedly by then smoked up brain was goin WTF! His playing will be listenable and commendable forever.
The East West album was where I first heard him play too. I'm still listening all these years later. It's been more than 50 years and he's still up at the top of my favorite guitarists.
@@frankpaturzo2352 my first exposure to Bloomfield as well on 8 track, can you get better than I've got a mind to give up living, PERFECT
Bloomfield could really raise the hairs on the back of your neck! A master with incredible touch, tone and phrasing.
Lord, I used to hate long slow blues.. And thanks to Bloomfield it's like, now, I can't have enough of them.. Master piece
Lol Ive always loved the slow ones. Because that's all I could play. Could. Past tense. Sighh....
Bob Dylan. Said. Bloomfield. Was the. Best. Guitar. Player. He. Ever. Heard. Enough. Said! He. Left. Us. Too soon. R I. P. MICHAEL
Why. Do. You. Type. Like. That.
That. Being. Said. I. Agree.
lol, Was. Wondering that. Myself.
Mike was way before his time. I wish I got to met him
Beautiful, historic recording. Awesome guitar playing.
Bloomfield just had the touch. That unexplained soul. Few guitar players could move you like tis.
It's all in the hands.
AMEN!
Tom Howland He loved the guitar more than you and I. Sometimes when I listen to Bloomfield play it makes me want to cry. Everybody say what would he be doing today. I said to him, listen to his records, that's him in every way. In all the ways that matter.
Tom Howland Yes...and the heart & soul.
No, it was not in his hands. It was in his soul, in his heart. In every cell of his being. Like it always is, for the real ones.
Of course, it came from his hands but his hands were guided by his soul. When Michael played guitar it was like an old soul screaming from the birthplace of the blues. I feel that Bob Dylan sings the same way, it wells up from an old, ancient soul that we can all recognize and identify with.
My God! Bloomfield! That man had more soul than any 10 people have a right to have!
One of the most underrated blues guitar slinger AND one of the most underrated blues singer together- epic- thanks for posting
Blues like Mike’s can make a grown man cry.
mike bloomfieldは独特の世界観でアドリブ取っています。
他のギタリストとは異なり、彼の持つテクニックを見せつけることはしていません。
演奏のスタイルイルを見ても自分ね伝えたいことを、表現しているだけです。
すばらしいギタリストだとおもいます。他のギタリストとは一線を画しています。
一生聴き続けるでしょう❗
I saw Mike and Nick at the Golden Bear in Huntington Beach it's one of the best shows I have seen , thank you Mike for many hours of great music you gave us thanks
lots of great artists went through that little hole in the wall. Those were the good ole days. Glad I was young and alive to live it.
I’m a 24 year old guitarist/musician and only discovered this man a few years ago, been playing for 10 years. Since that day Michael along with Peter Green, Roy Buchanan, Paul Kossoff, and Rory Gallagher have become my hugest influences and inspirations. It is required listening and absorbing for me every single day. I’m hanging on every note and idiosyncrasy that these guys are doing. I try my very best to incorporate Michaels spirit, passion, and playing into my own and want nothing more than to move people the way that he did with the notes of his guitar. There was something very special about these men and I don’t know what it is, pure passion I guess. I love the whole list of guys we all love as guitar players but that little group of unsung heroes that were unfortunately very self destructive move me deep inside in a way I can’t describe in words. The most amazing and beautiful part is that they were predominantly just guitar, cable, and amp, it came from deep inside of them. I continue to turn people on to them and do my best to spread their legacy any way I can. Thank you for this recording, time to go and play some guitar. Peace
Hi Dave, you have picked some really superb Blues guitar influences if I may say. Cheers.
Yeah, you got great heroes man. They are mine too! Since 1964 when I first started playing. Hell, I’m still learning the blues. Well, I started with Trying to learn BB, Albert, and Freddy Kings stuff. There’s so many greats, hard to keep track of them all.
@@ajr2454 Everyobe is wtill learning the blues😉😙🎶🎵🎸
Dive deep my friend, as history tells it ,
👉🏿black folks, across the planet made this possible.. get humble, and realize, that the secret, is in black👈🏿culture, and impressed by white culture.
In 1950..My attorney father and orphaned mother, had the blues, the jazz, and the gospel. They required, that we take it in, and as the 4 th child, 3 of us played guitar, bass and played percussion. Still do, and I spent 50 yrs playing Caribbean and African musics, to promote them. 🤷🏿♂️
Rory, I just don't know or understand what happened behind the scenes that he is such an unknown in America? He was so good.....maybe that's why it is? Just to damn good
Love and miss you forever. Mike Bloomfield 💙
HE'S MY FAVORITE! R.I.P. MIKE BLOOMFIELD
I find his vocals magnificent the way he trills about the note and fits into the tightest vocal spaces as well as being the finest exponent of the electric guitar that ever was.
@@factorylad5071 Taj Mahal is on vocals not Bloomfield. Taj is still playing and singing great.
Saw him live several times at the Fillmore and may have even been there when this was recorded, he just had it touched your soul when he played.
i just finished his bio...now these tunes really tear me up.
Michael was an inspiration to me,, as a boy. I met him thru Hubert Sumlin. My adopted uncle. And Louis and Dave Myers, and Eddie Taylor Sr. Who were responsible for me in Chicago. As I had run away, from being abused in Massachusetts. Those cats had known my mom's family and my Gram. Ruth Hand Orr. I was a pretty hip kid. For 12 years old. Sunnyland said so. And his word was fucking Gospel. On the Southside of Chicago. I just absorbed all of the experiences at my fingertips. Wow . Talk about living the lush life. Older women took me home with them And fed me, and bought me nice clothes. And would show me what sleeping upon satin sheets was all about. I was like a kid in a candy store. An X rated Candy store. Sunnyland shouted Shit, Look at Stevie, we gave them Hussies, a boy,. They sent us back A young man. Lord Have Mercy, Dressed up like a Doggone Banker, or a Memphis Pimp. We had some 100 Proof Old Grandad Bourbon. And Little Brother Montgomery, And my Beloved Sunnyland Slim Demanded, that I fill them in upon my exploits. Since They had let me out of their sight. God Bless the Dead. My words are inadequate to the task. I was the luckyest boy. Upon the face of the Earth Those men, and women. Taught me my A BCs of Blues Music. And showed me how to conduct myself as a young gentleman. And carry myself, thru this world. With distinction, and with class, and style....!!! 🙏🙏🙏😀
hope this is true , love your story, Respect!
stevetessier you barely scratched the surface of a rich history of the Southside of Chicago Blues. You Sir, need to sit yourself down with a friend or two from back in the day, some 100 Proof Old Grandad Bourbon, Michael on the Hi-Fi, a Pen and Pad, and as you recall them wonderful times . . .
Please share the History with the world.
YOU ARE THE Blues History! 👉Don't let your treasures vanish in time, Please.
I pray you read this
If I could put this note where you couldn't miss it,
it would be on a Legal Size Notepad w/pen, sitting under a jug of 100 Proof Old Grandad Bourbon❗
Blues Brother, give us some of them Blues.
my glass to your glass . . .TINK Cheers
" one more heartache" changed me forever that day in 1969.
that was ElvinBishop's solo
Breath taking guitar playing Mike, I love the tone, miss you dude. RIP ✌✌😁
Who doesn't "like" this???? It's a unique document of the greatest blues guitar talent who ever lived at his full power. Thanks for posting! Lucky are those with the memory of hearing this live..
I had a similar experience as you when I heard the 1st PBBB album. I was already playing Dylan style harmonica but wanted to be a blues blower. Couldn't get the hang of it until I became friends with the band Canned Heat and Al "Blind Owl" Wilson took the time to teach me. Still blow to this day and I'm coming up on 69.
Its all been said so many times...great performances by all and Mike is untouched still to this day.
Nobody compared to Mike. His intelligence and creativity were unmatched. Thank you for posting.
Mike was the real deal Holyfield. As good as it gets. How he managed to tap in so deep is beyond me.
Evan Rice amen to that
The best. And a kind and sweet human being!
Mike was the best there goes Mike Bloomfield the best there ever was
touch of heaven here
Number one and only Mr. Guitar 🎸gotta love 💘 him .
Mike is the best of the best of the best. As simple as that.
Bloomfield plus Taj Mahal on vocal, yowsah !!!!!
Bloody hell, 14 people didn't like this, that is so sad, so unfortunate for them. This is quality blues
there are some people who cannot stand the fact that a] some people like something and b] they are just downright jealous.
Most underrated player hands down
Beyond - Mike was sublime, and NO-ONE could touch him - really - No-one came close.
Peter Green came close. Close, no cigar, but close.
@@Bluesharp1896 Mike a much more varied guitar player than Greenie whom I love
I wish that I had seen him live.....what a master.....
live and learn,,,,,,,if you live and work hard ,you will hear great music,,,,music is a gift,,,,it can be your gift,,,seek out good music,,,,it will be your gift,,,,
To love Music is most definitely a gift whether you give it or receive it.
That was a cheap shot Dylan took at Mike because Mike chose to go tour with Paul Butterfield rather than sign on with Dylan.
A darlin' friend just sent this to me. Michael Bloomfield, a genius
God he was fabulous. Listen to " It's My Own Fault " with Johnny Winter & Al Kooper. One of the best recordings of all time. He used to play little clubs in New York and that's where I saw him.
I am going to, I love JW
This is Unique!!!
Un mounstruo Bloomfield 👍 Lástima que se nos haya ido tan temprano...😢
Deserves a million views
Blues with a feeling gota love 💘him and Paul Butterfield 💙
YES with knobs on
The man had the gift
Sublime!!!!!!
Amazing piece of Bloomy!
Making potato salad while listening to Mike Bloomfield 😊
My luck was being so young when this kinda music ruled.
Yea man. I listened to Bloomfield a lot. As guitar player myself, I always believed that it’s in how the soul is connected to your hands. Just find the tool. For Mike it was a 59 LP that coaxed it out ! Great recording , thank you! Taj Mahal singing it too!
I agree 100%. And NOBODY could connect the soul to his hands like Bloomfield. This is unreal!!! I'm about half-way through and so far I've been spared Taj's harp which is really weak on One More Mile.
the best. ever.
Pity I was born in a distant land round about the time he was at his peak and therefore never saw him playing! I unfailingly usher in every new year with the songs "Albert's Shuffle" and "Stop" and then turn in for the night - or must I say morning!
This needed Nick Gravenites' singing. Bloomfield and Nick were a match made in Heaven.
Been Jammin' too These Guy's, for Over 50+yrs. Now... Gettin' Better Each Time I Listen too Them... 👍😎
wow! he really was one of the best!
Master of blues!
Shame this didn't make it onto the LP. Such a great line-up … Love Ira Kamin's unobtrusive organ (inc. a rare solo), and Mark Naftalin's distinctive piano work - I always thought Mark was aiming to be Otis Spann, maybe, but his failure to meet that impossible mark was what makes his playing so attractive. Plus, I don't think Bill Graham had the house piano tuned too often!
Interesting analogy to Otis Spann, two of my favorite pianists. Good call.
Mike Bloomfield, he was a great Blues man player's in the 60s the talent like The Blues ,he personalized the blues to his own taste ,He was inspiration for other generations 🎸🎸🎹🥁
Admirer from Macedonia...
Outstanding Blues !!!
WoW!!! Spot on, on every instrument.
The Blues Are My Salvation.......
And blues is my salivation😊
slow blues fantastico e mike favoloso
A moment in time, luckily we can listen when we want to now and we will
Michael Bloomfield - enough said.
Never enough played though!🇬🇧
12 Bar Blues,,,,, Never gonna die. 😎🌷
Wa~~ My God , it is so~~good
E quem não gosta de blues, bom sujeito não é!
Just finished jammin' along (again?) and me chiburst counterfeit was talkin' to me so sweetly...
"A good player can make anything sound great (?)" (...or sumpin like that) 😋
Love that Taj's voice, it compliments Mike's outstanding no hurry playing. Thanks for uploading👌💙
Aight, you got THREE cats on sax in the credits. How am I to tell who's blowing my mind around the 10:00 mark. Man, Bloomfield was so good.
Blues blues blues,have mercy ☮️
what a guitar slinger !
In that photo where he's holdin' his telly and smilin' at the camera I feel just like he's lookin' at ME from the great beyond and sayin' "you KNOW how you f**ked up and you know you gotta make it right..."
There seems to be two versions of this album one has this song one doesn’t . Appreciate the upload
Mike Bloomfield quantitative bluesman note per note. 54 sharps on a 22 fretboard. Mike signafied b,c,d,e flat fretboard 12, 6, 5,bar blues blueing, that he picked up in south side of Chicago.
70 years, that's what it takes to the planet to make me know about Mike Bloomfield, a shame! Thanks Alice Cooper. After East-West & Super Session, I amaze, astonish? Surprise myself compare him to Zappa, he had a so magnificent, sweet & bluezy "touch", the best. Je suis renversé! Excellente musique aussi.
I would love to have heard him ... along with the John Wright Trio on 47th and Calumet .. painting that Chicago deep Blues . in long mellow waves and strong silver strokes of bent metal 😯
Thank you. Incredible.
Noel Jewkes tenor sax, Snooky Flowers and Gerald Oshita baritone sax
coming onto Bloomfield for the first time makes me think of those lines of Keats about the discovery of the pacific ocean: "Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He star'd at the Pacific-and all his men
Look'd at each other with a wild surmise-
Silent, upon a peak in Darien."
speechlesss!
Love this. Thanks for posting.