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  • Опубликовано: 19 авг 2014
  • This festival was broadcast live on local television in Cincinnati,Ohio. I do not own this and claim nothing as such.
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  • @johncrookston6111
    @johncrookston6111 6 месяцев назад +7

    I was present in this crowd
    53 yrs ago
    17yrs old tripping on acid

  • @markjaeger5863
    @markjaeger5863 2 года назад +6

    Nobody could top Leslie West playing a Les Paul Jr. through Sunn Coliseum PA heads turned up to 11. The King of Tone, R.I.P.

  • @mesisson
    @mesisson 8 лет назад +23

    Grand Funk was deafening. Blew the place apart. Mountain played after them, and sounded like they were playing lullabies.

  • @johneasler9967
    @johneasler9967 8 лет назад +148

    The ORIGINAL Grand Funk Railroad always upstaged everyone. We miss Mark, Don & Mel

    • @guitarocd9984
      @guitarocd9984 3 года назад +22

      A lot of people forget how popular Grand Funk was.

    • @tylerthompson1842
      @tylerthompson1842 3 года назад +4

      I think Mark has made attempts to get back with those guys but Don doesn’t wanna do it. Even the Eagles patched things up for the big money grabs.

    • @michaelszczys8316
      @michaelszczys8316 3 года назад +2

      Notice Don Brewer doesn’t have 6000 drums, just normal drum kit.
      Mark Farmer had band just recently, he played in the downtown area of our town in Michigan a few years ago. Not sure if he’s still going today.

    • @JKerr-iy2jr
      @JKerr-iy2jr 3 года назад +4

      Loved them live, and Farner was exciting to watch! They were a pretty elemental group, so they weren’t around too long.

    • @mikekrause3671
      @mikekrause3671 3 года назад +2

      @@guitarocd9984 yeah, namely the stupid rock n roll hall of fame.

  • @jackperu123
    @jackperu123 8 лет назад +68

    I was 14 years old and this was my first concert. FAR OUT MAN.

  • @badguitar5653
    @badguitar5653 8 лет назад +210

    I remember watching this on TV as a kid. My sister felt sorry for Alice when he got hit with the pie. Looking back, one of the things that always strikes me about rock concerts of this era is the pre-obesity bodies. Before fast food and giant sodas took over, people were skinny as hell. Go to a mall in Cincinnati now, and see the difference.

    • @GrandFunker
      @GrandFunker 8 лет назад +5

      +Badguitar As James Bond once said "Shocking. Positively shocking"

    • @appleblossom345
      @appleblossom345 8 лет назад +9

      or anywhere in the U.S...

    • @toddcharry
      @toddcharry 8 лет назад +9

      This concert was from 1970 but think of the 80's, after the microwave was invented and plenty of push for fast food and big gulps by the media and you rarely saw obese people. Now that's about all ya see. Perhaps the computer has had a lot to do with the changes. More kids sitting rather than playing outside as in the old days. Something else for people to be attached to besides their TV. Video games and that whole obsession too. And of course back in the old days family meals were generally more well balanced and fast food and snacks were not so much main stays to people's diets. I do resent the nanny state governments trying to line their pockets with extra taxes on soda pop and such and then using the it's for your own good line. We are obese as a country but we are not alone. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2016-global-obesity/

    • @chrissharp1909
      @chrissharp1909 8 лет назад +28

      lot easier to keep a woman on your shoulders then-no 2 ton Tammies back then!

    • @badguitar5653
      @badguitar5653 8 лет назад +1

      Ha!

  • @7M-7
    @7M-7 3 года назад +46

    R.I.P. Leslie West. Your music soothes us from the emptiness of your loss but also grieves us to how great the loss is. I will see you again.

    • @Jlipnicki
      @Jlipnicki 2 года назад +1

      He was good. Saw Mountain at the Crystal Palace bowl. Big man small guitar great sound. They were low on the bill but the best.

  • @MickPosch
    @MickPosch 3 года назад +11

    The Coop's unidentified "impro jam" before Black Juju is Lay Down And Die, Goodbye, from the Easy Action album.

  • @therapist6328
    @therapist6328 2 года назад +16

    Crowd charging stage while GFR open the show is an amazing site.

  • @baberoot1998
    @baberoot1998 3 года назад +39

    All those...'kids', in the audience...are now in their 60's and 70's. Imagine that...next time you see a 60 to 70 year old...that he or she was a 15 year old kid at one time...and likely rocking out to Grand Funk Railroad...Mountain...etc...

    • @davidbeckerich
      @davidbeckerich 3 года назад +5

      That's me, I'm 67 and still listening to my Stooge LP vinyl. The Ashton brothers kicked some ass with the Stooges. Iggy stole the show with Traffic putting on the most professional show.

    • @michaelszczys8316
      @michaelszczys8316 3 года назад +3

      Young people where I work not sure what to think when they come to my corner of the shop and hear me playing Iggy and the Stooges. Just turned 65

    • @David-ng7cr
      @David-ng7cr 2 года назад +2

      63. Best times and best music.

    • @teleguy5699
      @teleguy5699 2 года назад

      Yup we were.

    • @vickiladu6755
      @vickiladu6755 2 года назад

      So true, wow! I was turning 16 June 14 that summer! I am now 68 summer of 2022! Where did the time go?

  • @flagemdown66
    @flagemdown66 3 года назад +15

    Somebody should clean this up and put it out on DVD...

  • @stlyrface
    @stlyrface 9 лет назад +85

    They way they cover it like it was a sports show with guys in suits doing commentary is hilarious.

    • @alecbilicki8520
      @alecbilicki8520 3 года назад +1

      How it should be honestly

    • @darwinblinks
      @darwinblinks 3 года назад +5

      Could he BE any more square?

    • @milesdufourny4813
      @milesdufourny4813 3 года назад +2

      The announcer was a baseball play by play guy.

    • @pizzawar
      @pizzawar 3 года назад +3

      @@milesdufourny4813 "And there's Iggy, going back, going waaaay back... And he's gone!! Ladies and gentlemen, Iggy Stooge has left the galaxy!"

    • @diabetichoneybee8796
      @diabetichoneybee8796 3 года назад +2

      generation gap.

  • @filteredwaters9171
    @filteredwaters9171 2 года назад +6

    It's funny/ amazing to think the survivors are all old enough to be grand parents, now.

  • @kare2much
    @kare2much 8 лет назад +41

    Alice singing Black Juju a year before it was released or even recognized as a song. I love it!

  • @milesdufourny4813
    @milesdufourny4813 2 года назад +4

    "That's peanut butter!" WNEW (channel 5, New York) showed this in the early Fall of 1970. They actually rebroadcasted it a few weeks later - I recorded the audio on a cassette player/recorder off the TV speaker, had that tape for many years. It was my first exposure to the stooges (and etched into my brain). The Alice Cooper segment is also great!

  • @ACG7001
    @ACG7001 Год назад +15

    Grand Funk blew the show apart, one of the greatest bands of all time

    • @alwilson3204
      @alwilson3204 10 месяцев назад +1

      And so did the great Mountain.

    • @RobertSlover
      @RobertSlover 10 месяцев назад +1

      iggy pop and the peanut butter!

  • @stevenstanley7307
    @stevenstanley7307 2 года назад +16

    Corky Laing was one of the most wild, aggressive hard hitting drummers and was difficult to control his thunderous drumming almost overtaking the guitars. Always loved watching his aggressive assault on those skins.

  • @josefcosta8267
    @josefcosta8267 3 года назад +39

    The "dad" at 32:31 was the coolest guy in the world, so open to the changing culture, a huge positive and supportive influence while, at the same time, trusting and if necessary, protective...lucky kids

    • @wmsterritt8391
      @wmsterritt8391 2 года назад +2

      So many "iron fists" in those days. You were blessed!

  • @johnallenismynameandmusici2796
    @johnallenismynameandmusici2796 2 года назад +12

    I lived in northern Ohio but I missed this festival because I was in California surfing. What a lineup! We used to go up to Detroit all the time for concerts with Alice, Grand Funk, Iggy Pop & the Stooges, Ted Nugent (the "wildman"), MC5, Bob Seegar. Before Alice had all those hit records they were a performance band. Every show they had something new and different going on with Alice and they would act out these little dramas and comedies. They had all these outrageous props they would bring out on stage. Those were some crazy shows, I'll tell you.

    • @jimiplayscobo5877
      @jimiplayscobo5877 2 года назад

      I used to live in Windsor across the border from Detroit. All those bands played the high schools and bars in that era. The only one that didn't was the MC5 I doubt they were able to cross the border. The Stooges. The Frost and Tee Garden and Vanwinkle to name a few played at my high school :-) Peace

    • @FiveGunsWest
      @FiveGunsWest 3 месяца назад

      Those Amboy Dukes shows were blazing!

  • @captainjohn7833
    @captainjohn7833 3 года назад +7

    I saw GFR along with Wet Willy at the Dallas Convention Ctr.in 73. It was great! There was so much smoke in the air that you didn't even have to light up to get high! But we did anyway !
    💀-"Groovy Man"
    🚬👓...

  • @ozzygonzalez8350
    @ozzygonzalez8350 2 года назад +9

    Grand Funk Railroad was the most electrifying band of the 70s best concerts ever 3 guys making all that noise no other band couldn't top it plus making two albums a year AMAZING ......

    • @ozzygonzalez8350
      @ozzygonzalez8350 2 года назад +1

      @guitarlovinman1 hahaha I'm sorry maybe the Who's

    • @miguelcruz2682
      @miguelcruz2682 2 года назад

      @guitarlovinman1truth be told actually I've seen behind the music about grand funk railroad had blew zeppelin off the stage & peter Grant wanted the funk "off the stage!!" grabbing funks manager by the neck out of anger!!! LoL!!😂😆

  • @premiumgas69
    @premiumgas69 2 года назад +9

    The millennials today think we are a bunch of old geezers, then you watch this. We had some pretty outrageous events don’t you think?

    • @dickcnormis1444
      @dickcnormis1444 2 года назад

      The millennials are spineless pussies with no taste or style

    • @marclayne9261
      @marclayne9261 2 месяца назад

      Best comment!!

    • @AlmostReady504
      @AlmostReady504 2 месяца назад

      Yes. NOW we're old geezers
      But we saw the best decades of rock. 60s, 70s and 80s
      We were all young once

  • @terryporter5513
    @terryporter5513 3 года назад +9

    It was my first concert the police chased people off the infield Lawn even though the stadium was going to be torn down and grabbed people left and right for drinking or for drugs I was practically on stage with the Stooges and Alice Cooper they tried to turn the power off at 11 while Steve Winwood was singing one of his songs from John Barleycorn I had to hitchhike home to Toledo from Cincinnati that very night I looked through the crowd shots to see if I could see myself no luck

    • @stevanaldape3424
      @stevanaldape3424 3 года назад +2

      Damn the police had to ruin peoples good time.

  • @STRATCAT101
    @STRATCAT101 9 лет назад +19

    $6.50 a ticket? that's a lot of bread man.Icant help it I love the lingo of the 60s early 70s. Beeds bells incence lightshows crashpads and hari Krishna all you groovy freaks dig it.Far out and solid.

    • @Esotereclectic
      @Esotereclectic 3 года назад

      "And let's keep it clean, huh, kids?"
      crowd: "Boooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

    • @klmullins65
      @klmullins65 3 года назад

      @@Esotereclectic "Hey there groovy guys, groovy gals...peace, love, dope! Dig it, right on, and power to the people!"

    • @teleguy5699
      @teleguy5699 2 года назад

      @@klmullins65 You jive turkey!

  • @mr.greenjeans7897
    @mr.greenjeans7897 8 лет назад +21

    I was there... it was a huge happening. I was sitting near the top of the stadium and had to cover my ears when Leslie West played! It was a day I'll never forget...

  • @pauld205
    @pauld205 3 года назад +8

    I click on the link and there's don brewer beating the hell out of the drums! Grand Funk was my first favorite rock band back before I moved on to Rush and Genesis. Dang, Funk rocks! Grunge before they had a word for it. Everyone was so skinny.

  • @pkramerable
    @pkramerable 3 года назад +50

    Mountain's performance of "Theme For An Imaginary Western" is intense. Pappalardi is in fine voice. And West's playing is superb. His vibrato technique is unmatched, even today.

    • @Rick_Hoppe
      @Rick_Hoppe 3 года назад +8

      The beautiful “Theme from an Imaginary Western” was written by Jack Bruce of Cream. Band mate Eric Clapton rejected the song because it wasn’t bluesy enough! Luckily Pappalardi was familiar with the song, having produced Cream’s “Disraeli Gears” and it appeared on Mountain’s debut album.

    • @pkramerable
      @pkramerable 3 года назад +2

      @@Rick_Hoppe Jack Bruce had a fine voice too. Did he audition for King Crimson?

    • @Rick_Hoppe
      @Rick_Hoppe 3 года назад +2

      @@pkramerable - I love Bruce’s singing. There are a number of fine live performances of “Theme” by Bruce himself on RUclips. Don’t know if he auditioned for King Crimson, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he did, considering the constant revolving door of personnel in KC.

    • @kenmcneillmusic1699
      @kenmcneillmusic1699 3 года назад +3

      Yes!! Definitely THE best guitar vibrato ever. Nobody like him.

    • @willowufgood261
      @willowufgood261 2 года назад +3

      Check out Jack Bruce’s 1969 solo album called Song for a Tailor. His version of Imaginary Western is on it

  • @Mr22thou
    @Mr22thou 8 лет назад +45

    I love the way the commentator covers Iggy's performance as if it was a sporting event or a minor disaster. To his credit, he never criticizes it.

    • @toddcharry
      @toddcharry 8 лет назад +3

      Ya, he clearly sounded like a sports announcer. I thought that when I heard him announce Mountain.

    • @Mr22thou
      @Mr22thou 8 лет назад +5

      Yeah, but Iggy! It would have been funny if he said, "Oh, the humanity."

    • @Sargebri
      @Sargebri 7 лет назад +6

      That's peanut butter.

    • @teleguy5699
      @teleguy5699 2 года назад

      Iggy's in the crowd now so let's hear a word from our sponsors. Different days indeed.

    • @howardzdenek98
      @howardzdenek98 2 года назад +3

      The funny part was for the reporter drank the bad water. He got a good dose of shrooms

  • @jm-rf7kl
    @jm-rf7kl 3 года назад +11

    This concert was broadcast nationally a couple months after it happened. More proof that Rock music was being actively promoted by the main stream media.

  • @catdaddy3302
    @catdaddy3302 3 года назад +6

    I was 17 years old then. I saw most of these bands in Memphis. It was full tilt back then.

  • @paradox7743
    @paradox7743 2 года назад +7

    Only in the 70's would they have play by play footage of this shit. I love the old timer talking about how nice shit was and then Iggy comes out and n it's total fucking carnage. The punks of 1977,Jim morrison even insane or any early 90's "gansta Rap or Death metal can't come close to the sheer depravity and ultra hedonistic rawness and Pure Power the Fuckin STOOGES!

    • @teleguy5699
      @teleguy5699 2 года назад

      Iggy. Godfather of Punk. Love the play by play.

    • @jimiplayscobo5877
      @jimiplayscobo5877 Год назад +1

      The Stooges played my high school back in 70 in Windsor Ontario across the river from Detroit and they wondered why I turned out like I did. Lol :-) Peace

  • @tuliofuzato
    @tuliofuzato 3 года назад +24

    Don Brewer for me is one of the greats to this day!!! GRAND FUNK RAILROAD FOREVER!!!

    • @shruggzdastr8-facedclown
      @shruggzdastr8-facedclown 2 года назад +3

      That whole band was chockablock-full of killer-good -- Mark, Mel and Don, all three of the original line-up!!!

    • @neliodecarvalho9859
      @neliodecarvalho9859 2 года назад +1

      Grand Funk was the first rock band I heard, and I have a huge affection for them. Don Brewer is my greatest example of a drummer.

  • @csmelen
    @csmelen 3 года назад +10

    My kingdom for a time machine to transport me back to the 70's!

    • @teleguy5699
      @teleguy5699 2 года назад +2

      If we only knew how skinny and hot the girls were compared to today, I would have appreciated it more.

    • @gregggoss2210
      @gregggoss2210 2 года назад +1

      TXTroll, oh man how many times I've said that. To be able to go back and stay there. Fuck this time we're in now. Everything about it sucks.

  • @blueyzblue6391
    @blueyzblue6391 3 года назад +10

    Omg...that announcer's play by play of Iggy is hilarious. Hahaha Love you Ig!

  • @marxug1
    @marxug1 2 года назад +6

    I didn’t realize Stevie Winwood was such a **jamming** guitar player! Nice one!

  • @georgecalleros4846
    @georgecalleros4846 2 года назад +4

    I also remember watching this concert on TV 1970

  • @sarcastanaut
    @sarcastanaut 2 года назад +4

    Fucking amazing. Bring back this vibe. Leave your damn cell phones at home and groove to the music!

  • @milt6208
    @milt6208 3 года назад +17

    It's not Grand Funk Railroad without Mark Farner. Period.

    • @alanedmonds4272
      @alanedmonds4272 3 года назад

      Gotta say, this dude looks and sounds just like him... ;P

    • @ksr9t
      @ksr9t 3 года назад

      To be honest it's not Grand Funk without Mark Don and Mel. They were all excellent at what they did together. Grand Funk blew me away. Saw them in Atlanta with Black Oak Arkansas. Another killer band. Mark always reminded me of Conan the Barbarian.

    • @milt6208
      @milt6208 3 года назад +3

      @@ksr9t Very true. It was a three man gig. But when the other two screw the other one, well like a three legged chair. It isn't Grand Funk Railroad with out Mark Farner. And if given tickets to see the other two I wouldn't go and I saw them in their hay day. Just like the Eagles. What they did to Don Felder was dead wrong. Also done for greed and petty doffetences. CD's are always cheaper and now days safer driving down the road.

    • @teleguy5699
      @teleguy5699 2 года назад +1

      @@milt6208 Black Crowes did it the Steve Gorman. Sucks.

  • @dashriprock9014
    @dashriprock9014 3 года назад +15

    Let's not forget the wonderful contributions of the intrepid announcer, Buzz Killington.

  • @berry541
    @berry541 2 года назад +16

    I feel like an idiot for only now realizing it,
    but Leslie West played great guitar.
    Raw and liquid.

    • @teleguy5699
      @teleguy5699 2 года назад +3

      Us guitar players always revered him.

    • @andrewhoran7088
      @andrewhoran7088 2 года назад +2

      Saw Him in a bar in Greenwood lake NY. His fingers moved all over that guitar so fast without any effort I was 5 feet away

    • @Nonconformistwilderbeastman
      @Nonconformistwilderbeastman 2 года назад +2

      Leslie West in my book was the greatest guitarist ever, even after he died R.I.✌️🎸

  • @martinmoffitt4702
    @martinmoffitt4702 2 года назад +6

    Steve Winwood so multi-talented boy can he play guitar!

    • @vc23
      @vc23 2 месяца назад

      He can play anything and sound amazing.

  • @kenmoore3564
    @kenmoore3564 8 лет назад +16

    GRAND FUNK ,a joint ,your girl at your side -- twas heaven

  • @davidbeckerich
    @davidbeckerich 3 года назад +7

    Stevie Winwood was one of the best guitarist of the late 60's early 70's. I saw all the greats and he put on the best show with Traffic in N.Y. Nice clean and crisp sound. Dig it man!

    • @teleguy5699
      @teleguy5699 2 года назад

      Just think of Blind Faith and the talent there.

  • @Paul-dz7xi
    @Paul-dz7xi 3 года назад +10

    Everyone was healthy and slim!!! Except for Leslie of course. 😆 fast food is killing us!!!!

  • @nedd.8479
    @nedd.8479 3 года назад +15

    Cool to see live footage of John Barleycorn-era Traffic.

  • @gfabbroni
    @gfabbroni 7 лет назад +10

    I just saw this video for the first time since 1970 when I watched it on live TV. I was 13 then. I always remembered Alice Cooper and Iggy Pop's performances. Amazing then as it is now.

  • @cornucopiaofcool2144
    @cornucopiaofcool2144 2 года назад +3

    Kids today run from this, hide in a hospitality tent looking at their TikTok feed. Way too deep, intense and noisy. Music today is literally processed poop for the ears. This a real treat. Just getting to Concerts in those days was an adventure. Walk, hitch, drive in a car with a hole in the floor. ALL YOUNG PEOPLE like we our own tribe it was Awesome!

  • @namcat53
    @namcat53 3 года назад +7

    "They come to have a good time..no trouble...". Yes.

  • @andypearce5537
    @andypearce5537 2 года назад +4

    I was hoping the see the “Funk Mountain Stooges” what a rip.

    • @donniebobb74
      @donniebobb74 3 месяца назад

      Iggy was goin nuts tho! so cool!

  • @kenmcneillmusic1699
    @kenmcneillmusic1699 3 года назад +10

    Leslie West was waaaay ahead of his time. His sound was unlike anybody else back then. Scorching.

    • @dexterricketts8313
      @dexterricketts8313 2 года назад +5

      Never heard of Led Zep and Black Sabbath's first 2-3 albums, MC-5, Stooges, not to mention The Who and Hendrix live at Monterey WAAY BACK IN 1967??

  • @MickPosch
    @MickPosch 3 года назад +14

    Ahhh...so this is the musical message that today's young hipsters are trying to convey. Thank you, mister announcer...I think now I understand this electronic music.

  • @alcrook6662
    @alcrook6662 2 года назад +6

    Great to see and hear the tone Farner got with the messenger. Leslie West on the lp junior sizzling. Cool to see him change it out after ripping those solos. I didn't know that he had more than one junior on stage.

  • @johnrenfors7384
    @johnrenfors7384 3 года назад +11

    Not one band today can pull this shit off! Just makes you 😁 r.i.p leslie

  • @talpajam
    @talpajam 8 лет назад +35

    man Felix has a voice - what a band and next to Cream they are tops..w/ Hendrix. In just about every extant Mountain clip out there...Leslie always seems to solo 'to' Felix - looks at him the whole time..talk about chemistry & knowing where the vibe was.
    special props to the mega-rare clip of Traffic's Chris Wood on flute..this may be the only video of the cat...he was special..troubled..gifted.

    • @Esotereclectic
      @Esotereclectic 3 года назад +5

      Traffic sure pulled it off well for being a 3-piece with no bass player. Not many bands could do that!

    • @lhasaroadrat9374
      @lhasaroadrat9374 3 года назад +1

      True Bros

    • @scarborosasquatchstation1403
      @scarborosasquatchstation1403 2 года назад +3

      @talpajam: There is video footage of Chris Wood playing flute with Jimi Hendrix @ Royal Albert Hall , London England....recently released on YT

    • @russellmaddox2437
      @russellmaddox2437 2 года назад

      I take it you've never seen this: ruclips.net/video/ocjSc7v83pk/видео.html

  • @klmullins65
    @klmullins65 3 года назад +38

    Man, we got gyped on The Stooges' set...5 or so minutes of Iggy, and 15 minutes of every other band!! But 50 years later, the footage of Iggy jumping into the crowd proves to be a TRUE piece of rock and roll history! Not putting down the other bands, it's just that The Stooges were too far ahead of their time to be appreciated in 1970.

    • @davidbeckerich
      @davidbeckerich 3 года назад +6

      I watched this on TV when I was 12 years old with my older brother and his hippy friends. I was memorized by Iggy and his walk on the crowds hands. I joined the Iggy Pop French fan club shortly after their groundbreaking first LP. Great tune!

    • @cycologist7069
      @cycologist7069 3 года назад +2

      @Lance Lanny Now known as proto punk. Back then they simply were described as garage rock, albiet a very wild form of it.

    • @dexterricketts8313
      @dexterricketts8313 2 года назад +1

      How much more so in the case of Black Sabbath-that's why I once thought that Paranoid was their debut album-guess they pushed the envelop just a little too far in the perspective of "Middle America" on their actual first album to be even considered acceptable on this side of The Great Pond as of the 1969-1970 pop season.

    • @paullevine1813
      @paullevine1813 Год назад +1

      Also got gyped on not getting to seeing The Bob Segar System but they just didn't have time or film to catch everyone . I remember when this was on Nation wide TV in 1970 , still great stuff .

    • @klmullins65
      @klmullins65 Год назад +1

      @@paullevine1813 I believe the MC5 were also there too... It would've been great to see their set on tv. The MC5 were also at the Rock n Roll Revival Festival in London, which is strange considering that most of the acts were "old" legends, like Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley. The 5 were definitely a sign of Rock's future... Perhaps that explains their absence from the concert film

  • @rehlinho
    @rehlinho 9 лет назад +27

    this footage is a true gem!

  • @79tazman
    @79tazman 2 года назад +11

    I got turned on the Grand funk railroad when I was a young kid with my parents records. My mom was a big fan of Grand funk when they came out and she had lot's of their early albums that I would play on the record player as a kid like their first album "On Time" that had bad ass tunes Heartbreaker and Are you ready are badass and the album Closer to home another bad ass album of GFR

    • @teleguy5699
      @teleguy5699 2 года назад +1

      My older brother turned me on to them. Like J Giels, a lot of people know them for their hits, but they were great live and had great music before they hit it big.

    • @axatax57
      @axatax57 2 года назад +1

      Grand Funk Railroad Live double album. Unbelievable. E pluribus Funk, Closer to home, I had them all in the 60's and 70's. Wow, what I memory that was. Thanks for this video.

    • @alexantonio8546
      @alexantonio8546 2 года назад +2

      Yes, I agree

  • @OneSupreme08
    @OneSupreme08 8 лет назад +13

    I Liked Traffic and Grand Funk peformance the most ! Only band that made me play guitar along, cause they have so cool chops !

  • @LordGreystoke
    @LordGreystoke 3 года назад +22

    Wish we could see the entirety of Traffic's set, along with Mountain.

  • @JKerr-iy2jr
    @JKerr-iy2jr 3 года назад +12

    Iggy sure looks young. He still romps around sweatin’ like crazy and shirtless, but you can definitely tell he’s in his 70’s.
    Thanks for posting this, Bockset!

  • @mike-hn5xd
    @mike-hn5xd 3 года назад +8

    Someone made the comment about this being right before Hendrix's death, which was actually a few months away. But this was just ONE month after the Kent State shootings just slightly to the north of Cinci. The 70s were groovy times, but also ultra paranoid times as well...you had to go thru some heavy changes to have a good time.

  • @PeterMayer
    @PeterMayer 3 года назад +10

    It's amazing that this happened, took place in my town.

  • @iamthatguy1169
    @iamthatguy1169 8 лет назад +8

    I remember when I saw the the original 1974 Texas Chainsaw Massacre I was convinced the leather face character must have been played by Lesley West. I was disappointed when I found out it was not him, but boy I still think about Texas Chainsaw Massacre every time I see mountain from this period. Epic concert all around!

  • @BeatlesBowieKrimson
    @BeatlesBowieKrimson 8 лет назад +5

    I remember watching this on Brock Drive, on WTTG Channel 5 in Washington DC, alone in the living room on a hot summer night when I was 12 years old in 1970. It's amazing that I can see it again in 2015.

    • @BenDowdy
      @BenDowdy 3 года назад +1

      3 channel heaven.

  • @xray7908
    @xray7908 2 года назад +8

    Thanks for posting this. I've come back to it a few times in the years since you did. I was there. I was 15. I came right down to the front for Traffic. It's magical being able to listen to it again after 52 years.

    • @ShackInc.
      @ShackInc. Год назад

      I was also there my friend. I was fresh out of high school. 18 years young. 🙏. I had no clue at the time it was on tv. I am still as I was then from Southern Indiana and hitchhiked over to Cincy via I-70 with several buddies. My oh my how time flies. Those were the days !

  • @sidforbrains6552
    @sidforbrains6552 3 года назад +3

    Garden Grove 1970, who did not have the Grand Funk 8 tracks in their car?? We saw Alice at the White Room in Buena Park, Ca for 3 dollars....twice before they cut the first album then, no more White Room engagements...how the heck can I remember that??? I still have a crush on Coleen S....LOL

  • @johnnytightwad3784
    @johnnytightwad3784 3 года назад +8

    That liquid acid was awesome man.

  • @genesbeans
    @genesbeans 2 года назад +4

    God please bring Leslie West back to life.

    • @bpivr
      @bpivr 2 года назад +1

      Might as well wish Felix could come with him.

  • @supermamamaxi
    @supermamamaxi 2 года назад +5

    This is still the best concert ever shown on network tv. They showed it again the next year on it's first anniversary. Bonus! Thank you Michael Quatro!

    • @toddmartin6572
      @toddmartin6572 2 года назад +2

      Mike Quatro also was the promoter for the Jimi Hendrix concert in flint Michigan on March 24,1968. Also is Susie quatro’s brother

  • @miguelpineda3826
    @miguelpineda3826 Год назад +3

    Pure gold, amazing crowd, just wonderful music and spirit.

  • @johnness2457
    @johnness2457 2 года назад +6

    Omg what a great lineup of awesome bands

  • @marclayne9261
    @marclayne9261 2 месяца назад +1

    I was at this concert....13 June....1970...the next day was my 15th birthday..

  • @kathleen3177
    @kathleen3177 2 года назад +2

    saw GFR several times that year at other venues. They were always the headliners even if they weren't the intended headliners

  • @111bobgato
    @111bobgato 3 года назад +7

    When I look at the audience, I don't see any of those young people checking their phones. What's up with that?

  • @julioroncalla7848
    @julioroncalla7848 Год назад +4

    Tremendo Festival, Grandes Bandas:Grand Funk,Mountain, Stooges,tiempos que no volverán.

  • @lhasaroadrat9374
    @lhasaroadrat9374 3 года назад +5

    What a great time capsule. Gotta admit, Alice Cooper's band was soooo far ahead of their time it's unreal. What a cosmic mix they had going! Who needs a vocal? It was pure theater. Same with The Stooges. That WAS Punk Rock. That brutal drone behind Iggy as he slithered a huge F**k You! to society as we know it. Priceless. It only took Ohio 50 years to legalize weed but they did build the Hall of Fame.

    • @lhasaroadrat9374
      @lhasaroadrat9374 3 года назад +2

      Uh- what else? The absolute TASTINESS of Leslie West's playing even at warp speed. He had almost a Classical approach to blues that's never been equaled. Smooth and edgy all at once. Had to love Mark Farner's intensity. Yeah- the riffs were pretty basic but the presentation had power. Stevie Winwood's strong ability as a guitarist was later overshadowed by his major success as a keyboardist. He actually started the keyboard craze that later led to ELP and Yes type outfits. Traffic was so versatile too. Chris Wood gave it color far beyond standard Rock fare. What a lineup!

    • @mitchingram7867
      @mitchingram7867 2 года назад

      But the Hall of Fame still doesn't recognized Grand Funk.

    • @lhasaroadrat9374
      @lhasaroadrat9374 2 года назад +1

      @@mitchingram7867 they don't recognize rock and roll

  • @oneoverx6621
    @oneoverx6621 2 года назад +3

    All right man Alice Cooper band! Far out

  • @luisnosero6401
    @luisnosero6401 8 лет назад +3

    that were way way ahead of there time, listen to the lyrics he knew what he was talking about then.. which stands up today in our time now.. there music was so far ahead of what we listen to now.. what you need here now is 1 - 3 chords.. there is a three piece putting out all that kind of music back then... it's too bad that not still around now... Mark Farner still out there trying to play music.. but sometimes you can't replace the chemistry... please get it together guys America needs you..

  • @radiomindchatter7994
    @radiomindchatter7994 2 года назад +3

    The beginnings of Grunge right here...

  • @jamesstacey529
    @jamesstacey529 3 года назад +3

    3 years before I was born the Alice Cooper have been part of my life as a fellow Detroiter
    I seen him twice in concert

    • @thomasvarady1210
      @thomasvarady1210 3 года назад

      Cooper actually grew up in Arizona as Vincent Fernier. He did live in Detroit for a while years later...

    • @jamesstacey529
      @jamesstacey529 3 года назад

      @@thomasvarady1210 You are absolutely right
      But as a Detroiter we definitely want to claim him😏🎸💖👍

    • @frankiefelinesalwayswelcom5825
      @frankiefelinesalwayswelcom5825 2 года назад

      @@thomasvarady1210 Alice was born in Detroit. His family lived there until his doctor suggested that the family get him to somewhere warmer because Alice had asthma so bad as a child. Then they moved to Phoenix AZ.

  • @kchop720
    @kchop720 8 лет назад +10

    Never knew this existed in full. Thank you.

  • @sharonbyrd8625
    @sharonbyrd8625 3 года назад +2

    Like, no security, just good ass nusic, real music

  • @deweygill1973
    @deweygill1973 3 года назад +14

    Back when you could by a lid for 12 bucks. I remember hearing Black Juju on KAAY Beaker Street with Clyde Clifford back then. Blew me away. Amazing that Farner and Winwood are still kicking, hard to believe both were only 22 at the time. Iggy and Cooper were 23, Alice just released a new album Feb. 2021 called Detroit Stories, Iggy still active, had a release in 2019. Pretty much everyone else is gone. I suddenly feel old

    • @thomasfoss9963
      @thomasfoss9963 2 года назад +1

      Growing up in Wisconsin, we could only get KAAY Beaker Street late at night --- Miss those days---

    • @axatax57
      @axatax57 2 года назад +2

      lol, you said lid. I was there. I paid $10. We is old, damn.

    • @deweygill1973
      @deweygill1973 2 года назад +1

      @@thomasfoss9963 I grew up in Wisconsin (still here) and you could only get KAAY at night. Their 50,000 watt clear channel signal didn’t kick in until after sundown. Almost seems like they turned it up a notch at 10 PM when Clyde Clifford came on. He played all the spacey background music to cover up the hum from their enormous transmitter when the microphone was on

    • @vickiladu6755
      @vickiladu6755 2 года назад +1

      $10 LID of weed in L.A. back then. My first taste was ‘69 at 15. LOL

    • @deweygill1973
      @deweygill1973 2 года назад +1

      @@vickiladu6755 geez… sounds like I was getting ripped off! Lol

  • @raulromeroparra1244
    @raulromeroparra1244 Год назад +2

    WOW! WOW! ¡Super chuladas de Bandas de Rock & Roll! En pleno tercer milenio ya no se escuchan Bandas de Rock & Roll como estas, ni festivales de música como estos.

  • @alvanwalls8371
    @alvanwalls8371 2 года назад +3

    Mr.West Les Paul Jr was amazing 😎👍

  • @caryheuchert
    @caryheuchert Год назад +1

    Great to see Traffic in their prime. Timeless music.

  • @robertgillespie7946
    @robertgillespie7946 9 лет назад +11

    Thank You! I attended this show and can't wait to watch it again and see if I can spot myself. Traffic was my favorite.

  • @camilo1455
    @camilo1455 3 года назад +7

    Love it when people rush the stage. I remember the moment when people would fold their chairs and pass them back. First time was on acid; seemed orchestrated (or is that choreographed?). Easy to join in; standing room only in a short short.

  • @ksr9t
    @ksr9t 3 года назад +5

    Knew from the first drum beat. Don Brewer Grand Funk Railroad. "Mark says Alright"

  • @djroxanne4429
    @djroxanne4429 9 лет назад +6

    the numbers are annoying but all the rest of the tape is gone.. this is all thats left,, glad we have this..

    • @djroxanne4429
      @djroxanne4429 9 лет назад +1

      Deej dawn-roxanne iggy invented or is credited with the stage dive.

  • @zim1966
    @zim1966 3 года назад +6

    we get the iconic Iggy crowd surf and peanut butter smear images.

  • @jeffbauer3425
    @jeffbauer3425 3 года назад +4

    Wow . Traffic sounding awesome , Steve Winwood so talented. . All great bands !

  • @flagemdown66
    @flagemdown66 3 года назад +5

    Some truely righteous tunes brother! Far out man... Just some heavy grooves and I can dig where they're coming from these cat's ain't plastic they know the scene...

  • @tomitstube
    @tomitstube 8 лет назад +10

    gfr was clearly the cream of the crop. they had the place hoppin. thanks for posting.

  • @hwearrow
    @hwearrow 8 лет назад +23

    Alice Cooper band play incredible here, his mood is so close to DOORS and PINK FLOYD, the work of two guitarist are really stunning. Fantastic long acid rock song. This reminds me a lot to: " WHEN THE MUSICS OVER"

    • @marvinarthur7139
      @marvinarthur7139 3 года назад +4

      never heard this kinda music from alice ... love it .. does remind of floyds early albums and a lil frank zappa thrown in

    • @impalaman9707
      @impalaman9707 3 года назад +2

      I was thinking Iron Butterfly myself with that Vox organ

    • @loudim186
      @loudim186 3 года назад +3

      That song is Black Juju from Love it to Death their third record. Been an Alice fan since I was a kid. Love it to Death was the first record I bought.

    • @impalaman9707
      @impalaman9707 3 года назад +4

      @@loudim186 It was certainly a more "psychedelic" Alice. I think they had the distinction as being one of the few bands lucky enough to play big rock festivals before they were signed to a major label. The other was Mountain, who got to play Woodstock before they were signed. Alice Cooper was on Frank Zappa's indie label at the time they performed here--"Love It To Death" was still a year away, but they had already recorded two albums for Zappa by the time they played Cincinnati. So they hadn't really recorded "Black Juju" just yet, they were just trying it out with this crowd

    • @impalaman9707
      @impalaman9707 3 года назад

      I think Alice Cooper was easily influenced by the bands they toured with, as they gigged with both The Doors and Floyd early in their career. Much like Pink Floyd was influenced by a gig they played with Blue Cheer, and went on to record "The Nile Song"

  • @owenwilberforce6138
    @owenwilberforce6138 3 года назад +34

    When Alice Cooper was psychedelic and the Stooges were punkadelic. Everyone else was kind of shambolic.

  • @jimmyjimbo666
    @jimmyjimbo666 8 лет назад +8

    What an amazing document :-)

  • @impalaman9707
    @impalaman9707 3 года назад +12

    To me, THIS would have been the DREAM festival of the 1969-70 era! GFR, Mountain, Stooges, Alice Cooper---dare I say, I think I would have rather been here than Woodstock, because these were more my kind of bands! Substitute Traffic for say--Black Sabbath, MC5 or Deep Purple and you would have the "Monsters of Rock" for the hippie generation!

    • @Scalihoo
      @Scalihoo 3 года назад +5

      I was thinking the same , better than Woodstock !

    • @impalaman9707
      @impalaman9707 3 года назад +2

      @@Scalihoo Louder, too!

    • @teleguy5699
      @teleguy5699 2 года назад

      Don't forget though Ten Years after, The Who, Hendrix, Santana. There was some heavy rocking there too, but it lasted 3 days.

  • @cesarantoniocartaya8087
    @cesarantoniocartaya8087 3 года назад +6

    DESCANSEN EN PAZ - FELIX PAPPALARDI Y LESLIE WEST.

  • @therapist6328
    @therapist6328 2 года назад +2

    That Alice Cooper song was soooooo Syd Barrett's era Floyd