Paul Butterfield Blues Band " EAST WEST " Live Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 13 мар 2009
- paul butterfield blues band live at the fillmore west 1966
paul butterfield-vocals/harmonica
mike bloomfield-guitar
elvin bishop-guitar
mark naftalin-organ
jerome arnold-bass
billy davenport-drums 
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This was so far ahead of it's time & no one has caught up to it yet.
This is by far the best quality of a live version that exists, thank you kind sir. Michael is one of my biggest influences and inspirations along with Peter Green. Peace
I was there. My life changed!
I was 15 when I first heard East West ,made you feel really mature, intelligent, & with a lot of class...
Hmm... this is the best and cleanest Version I have ever heard of this Classic. Thx so much .
A real true classic blues jam...Michael Bloomfield blew the doors off!
I was 15 when the East-West album came out in 1966 . It stunned me. I thought then and believe now that THIS was the greatest and most American rock music of the Sixties. East-West was ahead of its name, but beyond that, it's fabulous music with a great groove and serious intelligence behind it. With its hard-edge, it also anticipated the 1968 sad and quickly tragaic crash of the rainbow-flowers-peace hippie dream.
This was the song that blew everything open.
Cream opened up for them(minus Michael) @ the Fillmore in 67 and then opened up Micheal's new band Electric Flag the next weekend. Butterfield was god in San Francisco then, rightfully so. Whenever I'm able to turn someone on to them the real great ears go bonkers and thank me profusely. And this version of East-West I got to get, having never seeing the Butterfield band with Michael, who is still one of my all-time favorite guitarist THANK YOU SO MUCH!.
This performance is 43 yrs old and still blows our minds !
True musical improvisation, by real talent; so lacking in todays overproduced digital world.
I was just at the museum of science and industry last week, where the band took the picture for this album.we can't enter from that spot anymore.but i did look outside the door and couldn't help to think about the band.RIP,Paul,And Mike
Bro, I was there,and it is great to read those venues names. so many trips,so much amazing music.I'm lucky cause I still play that music in my shows. Now there is a new generation of Brazilians who get to hear a veteran of the 60's play in the vibe.
This music is timeless and deeply moving!
East-West Live cd available on Amazon with 3 different live versions showing the evolution of this incredible song.
My one a year check in. GREAT FUCKIN PIECE OF HISTORY
Back in the days of vinyl I completely wore out my first copy of the first Butterfield album and bought a second. I bought the 2 CD set of the first 2 albums and still play them frequently
I had the good fortune to see them numerous times in the old Filmore sitting on the floor in front.
Jerry Garcia was a huge Bloomfield fan. He used to rave about him in the music store where he worked in Menlo Park, CA.
Wow. Good one.
Great photo. Didn't recognize Elvin at first. So young.
So glad to have lived thru these times.
When I moved to Texas in 1975 I brought along some PBBB records. Many were unfamilier with this group. One guy asked me "What is this.... some kind of garage band or something"? I said " Yes, can't you smell the oil, the grease, and the grime while these guys are playing?" It doesn't get any better than this! I just wish the entire song was on this live track.
Mighty fine jammin
A seminal work and a big influence on my playing. East West still holds up today.
this track shows why Paul Butterfield is one of the four or five greatest blues harmonica players in history.
Bloomfield inventing a new way to rock back in the day. thanks for posting.
There is only so much Butter, Peace and Love!!
I love Mike and I am having a little private Bloomfield orgy right now, BUT Paul Butterfield is the finest harmonica player I have ever seen, except perhaps for a rather anonymous guy who played in the Bay Area named Berger. A littl story. One night I went to Keystone Corner (very small jazz and blues venue in Berkeley on University, very very small) and Muddy and his band, and Paul and his band are there. Muddy's band was lead by a harmonica player, and in typical old school black style the band goes out and plays 2-3 warm up cuts before ushering in the star. So the harmonica player is blow his ass off, jumping up and ton, keeping time to the music with rather exaggerated body movements. Muddy is brought on, they play a bunch of his big hits, and the harmonica player band leader takes a number of frenetic solos and sweat pours off of him. Muddy calls up Paul and he plays with the band as does the harmonica player. Think they did Got my Mojo Working. Paul is up there cool as a cucumber, barely moving his leg, still as can be, not bobbing his head or anything, harmonica man is doing all his physical stuff, but Paul blew him out completely. Paul was nice, didn't get in the other guys face or do anything to suggest the other guy was bad, but the harmonica kept trying to cut Paul but couldn't. As the piece went on he grew slower and quieter, kind of withdrew from what he saw as a contest. Paul didn't blow him off the stage, he didn't need to. This guy was good, very good, but he worked five times as hard and put out half the music. Not sure if that is funny or sad.
+Steve Mendelson i love that kind of comments ! thanks for the little story
Loved the Keystone. Now it’s a drugstore. Somehow appropriate.
I guess you never listened to Sugar Blue....
Motivated me on a Saturday to get some chores done……
agreed, great period and one of the best surf and road sounds ever...
During this part, Bishop shows how well he can play. The rythmn section of Bill Davenport and Jerome Arnold underscore the whole thing with real skill.
You're quiet right ! I' m french and live near Versailles in France and I've always been a Bloomfield fan since the sixties...got practelly all his records !
Why didn't he had a career like Clapton ! Unbeleivebal : perharps his story with drugs..
Just image a blues record with a duo of electric guitars : Mike & Eric ....!!!! RIP Mike...
we'll never forget you. RR
the picture alone is priceless. Great to hear another LIVE version. what a magical time. Carl D. and Steve G., thanks for turning me on to these guys in 1967. In Catechism class!
stunnin ..when music was music
Love it! how Paul Elvin and Mike take turns soloing
Didn't know Mike n elvin played together.This is great!
Elvin and Mike! a double whammy blues
Thanks again! 1966. Just amazing!! His guitar tone just cuts right through the rest of the band. Sounds great!!!!!!!
The Jefferson Airplane's Marty Balin talked about how Paul Butterfield gave him a joint of amazing weed then went up to his hotel room, smoked it and sat down and wrote Comin' Back To Me from Surrealistic Pillow.. then hurried across the street to record it lol. He also said when they got a chance to play in the Chicago "blues scene" it was probably from the help of Paul and Mike Bloomfield because they had played with them in New York.
Well said....their influence on the frisco music scene was huge.They don't get the credit they deserve.
I have this on cd what a great song
I caught the band in Huntington Beach, CA around 1967 in a coffee house performance, (The Golden Bear). The memory is blissful...blissful...the experience is indescribable.
This website dedicated to all things Bloomfield lists the performance you attended as one of the four "official" versions (one is the most known studio version) that are commercially available and are the best representation of how the song evolved into the innovative experimental blues instrumental we know and love today. Go read his essay on the creation and evolution, it is absolutely great with how much detail goes into how it progressed during live performances.
www.mikebloomfieldamericanmusic.com/bloomweb07/eastwest.htm
@@Zappappappappa thanks...I'll get to that website when I can hopefully...thanks again
This is one of my all time favorite songs. thanks for posting this. Its cool to hear a live recording of it.
This was my first introduction to the Blues. Butter & Bloomfield. Great stuff here.
The first Great White Blues Band.
+Tom Howland I'd call it the first great white-led blues band. It was racially integrated from the beginning. The first self-titled LP has black members Jerome Arnold - bass and Sam Lay - drums, along with Butterfield, Mike Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop - guitars, white members.
mzkjr
Right you are.
Jerome Arnold and Sam Lay were Howlin' Wolf's rhythm section just before this gig (and maybe after).
Heads Up: Sammy Lay did an album on Blue Thumb Records called "Sammy Lay In Bluesland" with the same lineup from the Paul Butterfield Blues band and it is excellent although Sammy didn't like it. You should hear Mike Bloomfield's lead on covering Chuck Berry's "Roll Over Bethoven"... it's stunning. Rare record, try to find a copy.
I was SO born in the wrong era (1971) You just don't hear music this intense anymore. Very RAW! Radio is way too formated & ALL the group sound alike. Jazz, Blues, that's where its at. This is some of THE best around.
That's electric being taken a step ahead, RAW! from THE days!
Yeah i've got that same set. Those first two Paul Butterfield albums with Bloomfield are unbelivable
I hope everyone continued on to Part 2, because Mike's solo hasn't even started on part 1.
que guitarrista .. gracias x compartir ...
'Horn from the Heart' Paul Butterfield documentary now showing until 15 Nov 2018 Gene Siskel Theatre Chicago Randolph and State Streets.
Recently (2023) on Starz (TV)
@strandwolf Wow, someone who remembers "Guitars Unlimited!" I spent a lot of time there in '64-'66. Many good memories of those days. I made the mistake of selling an old Martin there which would be worth thousands now. I bought a Gibson there which can be seen being played by Chris Franck of the Red Clay Ramblers now.
@MaabudZ Guitars Unlimited! What a place...
So Intense at 4:20. Gives me the chills.
@drumier How much do you want to bet the Grateful Dead and all those cats were at this show taking lessons? Not to diss them, because it's beautiful that they took their own music to the next level in the years after the emergence of Bloomfield and Hendrix and those guys, and the attention they paid to the SF scene was well-deserved and well reciprocated.
@sfpw paul was my idol growing up, i started playing "harp" in 67, still playing and always pay tribute to him by playing "born in Chicago" and Gotta mind to give up living, i worked out cool harmonica solo for the latter, paul didn'r play harp on that track for East West, which is still a classic, along with next album "resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw" aka Elvin Bishop
WOW...Thx for the uploads Zinedine! Amazing band that laid the groundwork for modern blues. Grew-up in my teens listening to East/West. Hard to believe that music today can't even scratch the surface of what was laid down 40 years ago.
best guitar solo never heard on this piece!
The solo here is Elvin Bishop. If you think this is good you need to hear the rest of the song somewhere. It will have Mike Bloomfield's incredible other deminsional solo.
I was there too, probably were at the same shows, what an era! Remember The Daily Flash?
They were known in the Bay Area, (don't know if any of you actually come from there, The three B"s in blues. Butterfield, Bloomfield, and Bishop
@pete1wray Yeah. I myself don't remember much other than those couple of images, probably because I was one of the people in the film and saw it a bunch of times. It seems to have been shown in festivals around the country because a friend in NYC told me they saw me in this film. But I remember it being more atmospheric than quick jerky cuts....the soap bubbles scene at least....it was a long slow one although still psychedelic in intent and effect. The guy who made it was Ira Schneider.
originalfunkyfry
i hear ya , the greatful deads viola lee blues which they were working up in 65-66 might be a tribute to this concept. then their next record anthem of the sun explodes with creativity in all directions.
great innovations in music are usually a fusion of what has gone before, the middle eight in the beatles i want to hold your hand is the same as the middle eight in roy orbison's pretty woman,uncanny!
Why these guys are not in the RnR HOF is beyond me. They influenced the whole San Fran music scene with their unbelievable jamming. The first intergrated blues band, Bloomfield putting together the band for Dylan the night Dylan went electric at Newport, his playing on "Like a Rolling Stone", his work with Al Kooper on "Super Sessions"; What the hell else does a guy have to do to get into the Hall Of Fame?
Had to get it on CD. Don't use albums much anymore.
All-rite!
Amazing stuff!! Supposedly composed/conceived on LSD. This is also a HUGE influence on Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd. The influence of Indian music--the ragas--can certainly be heard here as well. It just doesn't get any better than this!
I suspect this was not the "Fillmore West" but the original Fillmore on the corner of Geary and Fillmore. The "Fillmore West"was the conversion of the old Carousel ballroom and by the time that opened this configuration of the Butterfield band no longer existed.
Bloomfield's tone was so fine then.
Youre very welcome !
@ZINEDINE05 This could be the same show I went to in 66. If it is....an unknown band at the time played just before PBBB....... Santana. The other band playing that night were...Hello People.... a bunch of singing mimes. lol
what year 66 ?
this stuff was the meat of the psych jam that the frisco bands latch onto,very influential.
contd, someone mentioned surf music which makes me think of the instrumental" miserlou" that concept in minor scales could be stretched out and out and out.
john coltrane wrote giant steps and maxed out everybody's head playing through those changes. then he turned around and simplified his concept playing 45 minutes or better on no changes, something was in the air back then people,america the beautiful!
@joeshittheragman1 I the THE Filmore was in in S.F. Filmore East was the 2nd coming. (I spent time in S.F. back in those days)
@sfpw Very true!
This is from a bootleg called "droppin in with PBBB".I found it on ebay a few years ago.
Elvin's guitar is sizzling here. Such a contrast with Bloomfield's. The East West lp really showed them off as individual voices..........
originalfunkyfry
also jimi hendrix is another issue all by itself him playing in r&b bands then hanging in greenwich villiage , going to england and creating are you experienced / axis bold as love.
VERY under-rated influence on the psychedelic scene.
@ZINEDINE05 True enough -But, just to give you a heads-up -If you're ever visiting here, people bristle when folks refer to San Francisco, as "Frisco" -Just call it "The City" and you'll blend right in :-o)
youre very welcome!
Love Bloomfields guitar sound in this one. Anyone knows what guitar he used in this particular recording? Most likely it's his gold top, but it could also be a tele on the neck pickup into a loud fender (or two). Whatever it is, I hear that classic single coil neck pickup sound from 1:36. I've managed to get a similar sound using the neck pickup on a tele, into a silverface princeton reverb on 10.
Also, that sound around 0:58. How does he do that? Reminds me of the opening chords of "L.A Woman".
Youre welcome !
I believe it was THE Filmore, not Filmore west if my faded brain serves me right. whew.
I know what you mean....I think he mentions in the liner notes that they were personal recordings from a simple tape recorder. Obviously not a soundboard recording.
@pete1wray
That sounds familiar to me as a film made by a friend of mine at the University of Wisconsin. Do you remember any of the images in it? Was there a long shot of soap bubbles floating against the sky pavement and the sky with all the rainbow colors shimmering in the light and a short section of some stoned looking people spinning on one of those kids' playground merry-go-rounds? If so I can tell you more about it.
Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.
Anyone know if there are available Live albums of P Butterfield WITH Mike Bloomfield?
Still wanted?
I like SRV, but I have to be in the mood for his stuff. One year I went to see Joe Cocker, and it turned out he opened for SRV,,, but it was unexpected and the mood wasn't there so we left. Mainly her choice, then he died within a year or so.
Trower for me at any time, Dewar makes it all come together for me. The King of the Wah-wah.
what happened to these guys. why aren't they still around, for god's sake?
@pacnwcomre --Here's a thought for you---I shared tunes, tales, pretzels & beers with these guys every time they came east to F---2 of the greatest ARE GONE---WHY ? You should get " HIGH " on the music--not drugs. Look how many have left us because of------life is too short to just have no care for your own. GET HIGH ON MUSIC--NOT DRUGS !
@drumier I always thought Viola Lee Blues was a eric clapton influence lol
When does Mike's solo start, and when does Elvin's start, and do they trade back and forth at any point?
look up the song touch me
Why does this bootleg sound so much better than the version ,(original PBBB pianist) , Mark Naftalin sells?
Yes, lord knows, the 60's didn't have any acts that were all poppy and stylish. The Archies, The Monkees, all the bands like that just never existed. Tragic, just tragic what music has become.
Is there a way I can get this recording?
At about 1:05 the beautiful black girl you see is Emmaretta Marks, who sang with Jim Hendrix, The Rolling Stones on Gimmie Shelter who created the iconic intro and screamed those rape murders not Merry Clayton and others such as Ike and Tine Turner and Dr. John, also starred in the original cast of Hair..a dear friend of mine to this day and who bred my Golden Retriever you see named Butter for my old friend Paul Butterfield..!
Emmaretta Marks did NOT sing vocals on Gimme Shelter. It IS Merry Clayton! If she told you otherwise, she's lying quite simply! She was the inspiration behind Deep Purple's single 'Emmeretta'!
DuneAquaViva I'll take my ignorance over your story telling any day of the week! I have about a dozen different outtakes of The Stones recording Gimme Shelter. None of them include her!
Andy Thomas You get a chance to hear one of the great stories on Rock n Roll and dismiss it, your loss...as for my old friend Paul Butterfield I first met him in 1969 at 17 and knew him well the rest of his life...I first met Michael Bloomfield at 16 and was always given access to him whenever he played in the NY region as a matter of fact it was Michael who brought me back stage in 1970 to met The Band who were also my friends dear friends in fact and later neighbors... TJ & Garth Hudson Gypsy River www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_3575356 Emmaretta was going out with Keith Richards at the time when Mick dragged her into the Vocal Booth to record the 5 tracks she did on Gimmie Shelter and Create and sang the iconic intro..it is also Emmaretta who screams those "Rape Murders" you hear when the female vocal is the lead vocal mid tune... Merry Clayton lied about singing that and her motivation for it, Emmaretta had been raped and her dear friend Jimi's girl friend had been murdered thrown from an apartment window if I recall correctly.. When they remixed Gimmie Shelter for CD's the engineers cranked up the best vocal tracks and those as they were unaware are Emmaretta's of course... Merry Clayton could never hit those high notes, if you do some research watch Cock Sucker Blues you'll see Emmaretta back stage with the Stones and hear her mail those notes Andy boy..by the way the Golden Retriever you see here is named Butter for my old friend Paul Butterfield..
@pacnwcomre -Sorry--no excuse. I've been in--and still in this business for 54 yrs. Drugs have been all around me--I just walked away. I was once asked by someone in the audience who commented about my playing what I was high on--I just looked him in the eye and said--MY MUSIC--he asked me again--I replied with the same answer--he just stood there in disbelief. Music should come from with in--" EMOTION "---
@sfpw please dont forget peter green, i feel nothing really compares to him
I am looking for any Live album of Paul Butterfield Blues Band WITH Mike Bloomfield. ANYONE KNOW OF ANYTHING?
There are two albums available. "Strawberry Jam" and "East-West Live"
Yep. I just bought them from Mark Naftalin who played at Black-Eyed Sally's blues club in Hartford, CT. "East-West Live" is NOT a collection of live music from the album "East-West". It turns out it is three versions of the long jam "East West" the song on the album of that name.
Strawberry Jam has four just Bloomfield songs.
I am thinking of getting Electric Flag Live.
(I am a Mike Bloomfield fan!)
If you dont have it already, pick up "My Labors" by nick gravenites. It has some of the best live Bloomfield ever recorded.
I will check it out! Thanks.
I have a double CD called 'Droppin' In'. Its from various 'live' gigs during '65 and '66. Starts with 3 tracks from Newport '65. Then 6 tracks from Fillmore West-Oct.'66. Disc 2 has 8 tracks recorded at the Southerland Hotel, Chicago in Spring '66 and another 7 from Fillmore West-Sept '66! All great recordings too!
Hello sir ! Your old Bloomfield friend Wuss saying hello. How ya been man ?
No Trower??
I agree that a lot of the 60s generation blew it because of drug and alcohol abuse. I don' t know what was driving Butterfield, but Bloomfield was probably driven mad by his father - today we'd call it child abuse. He obviously influenced many, but if anyone has really picked up the his mantle, it's Jimmy Vivino. IMO, the 1st three Butter albums: the BBB, East-West, and the Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw are among the best rock/blues albums ever recorded and still sound incredible today.
I know how you feel Cadillac.