The Fleetwood Mac footage must be from just after Peter Green left the band. Too bad he wasn’t there at this point. Would’ve loved to have had a documentary like this showing him playing with the band. He was brilliant
This seems to be from around the time they did Kiln House in 1970. Peter had officially gone though I think he came back to help with part of a tour. Kiln House is a favorite FM album, wish they could have kept that lineup with Danny, and Jeremy fronting and Christine joining as singer/songwriter/keyboardist …but it wasn’t to be. Of course it would have been great if Peter had stayed but that train had left the station.
I’m amazed by the knowledge that everyone has I feel the passion sometimes I learn more from commentary section than documentary itself UK WILL always be ahead of their time they look like smart alien in a human body I’m nobody from Morocco who is fascinated by uk culture I live her in Morocco my life is miserable because of our failure regime but the poverty won’t prevent me to Learn from you guys through RUclips and it gives me chill god bless everyone 🙏
@KarimAferfaz I hear you and feel for you, brother. Now, I don't mean to sound like I'm preaching nihilism or escapism. There's nothing constructive about those ways of living. But one of the truly wonderful things about music is its capacity for taking you away from all the BS. When I'm playing a lot, I can get to where part of my mind is in that land all the time, no matter what I'm doing. I can be grocery shopping or cleaning the house or even carrying on a conversation with someone, and in my own mental background I'm playing through pieces that I'm particularly into at that particular time. And that is a really wonderful place to be. Do you play an instrument? You're obviously attuned to music. I know good instruments are expensive. But you don't need anything exceptional to get started. The fact is, your ears won't even be developed yet, to hear something missing in the sounds you're getting, until you've been playing quite a while. I started on one of the least expensive guitars you can possibly buy. That was in 1987. And although I have a few that are much better instruments, I still have that one, and I still play it all the time, cuz that's the one that I don't have to worry about always keeping it protected in its case. That one is always out, usually in my living room, where I can grab it on the spur of the moment. I don't know much about the specifics, but living where you do, I believe that a very rich local musical heritage is all around you, isn't it? I'd also expect it to be not too difficult to find other people to play with, on a relatively casual basis, people to whom your attitude is more important than the fact that you're just a beginner. Most musicians are happy to share their knowledge, so long as you're not a jerk, which you're clearly not. Music can save your soul. It's something that no one can ever take away from you, no matter what's going on in the world around you. It can even help to keep you flying under the radar during dangerous times - if you become known as someone who's just into his music, then it can be very believable that you know nothing and care nothing about politics. People think they know you and they think of you as harmless. And if you want to go the other way around and become an activist, music is a very powerful means of communication. It's all up to you what you do with it. So go for it!
Wowser! Fifty five years on and what a time that was!!! I had the extreme pleasure of seeing Savoy Brown at the Whiskey Au-go-go way back then. God they were good. They’re long gone. Pete Towson is 99% deaf. We lost John Mayall a while back. Gone too soon…”like tears in rain.”
I saw Chicken Shack on the 22nd December 1970 supporting YES. Great show from Stan and his extended guitar lead as he danced in the crowd. Looks like Yes trumped him though for me because I went out and bought The Yes Album. I got progged!!
I believe that is the guitar that was copied by Gibson for their limited edition "Collector's Choice Chicken Shack Burst" Les Paul model. Stan was briefly reunited with this guitar and presented with one of the replicas at an event in Las Vegas in 2018. ruclips.net/video/i_QorP6suo0/видео.htmlsi=lWqt-XyMkFbAmBVN
@@Jason.King.at.your.service I believe it is owned by Matt Swanson. Don't really know anything about him, other than that he has a really impressive guitar collection!
Jeez Fleetwood Mac always looked so pale back then. I remember in 1990 I was working in a biker cafe in Surrey, and this blues came on and I thought maybe it was the 'Stones, and someone said no its Fleetwood Mac. I was 18, and of course said "shut up it is not". The realisation that the greatest UK blues band wasn't the 'Stones happened right there. SO good to see the master, Alexis Korner. I remember his silky voice on the radio when I was a kid. Chicken Shack were brutal. Stan fairly pulling some faces there lol this film is in the library of congress!
Dude said their tired of heavy rock. That didn't age well. I was born after this documentary came out and all I've listened to is heavy rock and blues my whole life.
He did have a point. When you're deeply into music, it's easy to forget that an awful lot of people have a much more casual relationship with music. Within a couple of years of when this was filmed, funk and soul and R&B combined with the fact that people liked to dance to music since prehistory, and disco was invented - and became MASSIVELY popular.
The Champion! I saw him several times,, loved him. And he was such a smart, funny and incredibly nice old guy. He showed me my first blues licks on the piano when I was a boy. Will never forget him.
All these guys played together during the summer of 71'. I saw them all and was introduced to them at The Summerthing Concerts in Boston. What a great line-up!
Kiln House era Fleetwood Mac, Yes please!!! Jeremy was probably only months away from being "kidnapped" by that religious group and Danny Kirwan would only last for 2 more brilliant albums, Future Games and Bare Trees. Love all the pre Buckingham/Nicks Mac stuff.
Nice to see a bit of footage (and interview clips) of Duster Bennett, there's very little around! It was also nice that the narration has been pulled right back in the mix. It's always amused me that when a documentary is made about music they talk over the subject.
Thanks for this obscure relic. I think my personal highlights are Chicken Shack 'Gypsy Woman' live excerpt, Savoy Brown rehearsing, and Fleetwood Mac running down a working version of 'Station Man'.
Most interesting to me was the clip of Fleetwood Mac recording Station Man, interspersed with Pete Townshend saying that Fleetwood Mac's music deserved its own category, despite its similarity with Blues. At Mick Fleetwood's tribute to Peter Green a few years ago, Pete demonstrated how he modified Station Man to create Won't Get Fooled Again.
Goodness me! This takes me back to the High Wycombe Blues Loft of the late sixties. I saw most of the performers shown in this video (plus Jo Anne Kelly, John Dummer’s Blues Band, Steamhammer and Bakerloo Line and other British Blues bands). The most impressive artists without a doubt were Champion Jack Dupree and Howlin’ Wolf. I saw Howlin’ Wolf twice, once with a supporting band and once solo and he was quite stunning both times. We spoke to him at the interval and he was a charming man, no hint of the curmudgeon he was supposed to be like. Mike Raven was quite wrong, the ‘Blues Boom’ only lasted a couple of years and many bands playing Blues, joined the ranks of the Progressives or began playing Heavy Rock. Incidentally, Fleetwood Mac at 31.03 sound more like Little Feat. I also agree with Pete Townsend, I have been a semi pro. musician for over 50 years and the curse of open mic. nights is the Blues Jam. They are popular, because everyone can play a Blues chord progression and most musicians want an opportunity to play extended solos. Anyway, end of rant.
Pure Gold amazing time piece Unfortunately this captures the demise of this era as the heavy blues rock period was well on the way by 1971, Jeremy Spencer leaves in Mac not long after this was filmed and Danny Kirwan follows in 1972. 'Who's next' comes out in '71 and arena rock is born the next time blues goes mainstream is with the arrival of SRV.
No one can forget Johnny Winter, but he was already established having exploded onto the post Cream scene in early 1969 along with the likes of Mountain, Taste and Free. By 1972 he had teamed up with Rick Derringer and was following a more Rock based sound which fitted in well with the arena rock period along with Humble Pie and Canned Heat. Thinking about it now I did overlook ZZ Top whose first 3 albums could be considered to be the link between Winter and SRV ? and Rory Gallagher who always kept it 'earthy' but he was never really mainstream. But by '73 everything was a lot heavier , Free had gone and morphed into Bad Co. as did Chicken Shack into Savoy Brown.
Only contemporary footage I’ve seen of the great savoy brown. Think alexis was talking about another band. Savoy never made a bad album. A couple of average ones,yes.
Poor Alexis was so far off the mark with his take on Kim Simmons & all the versions of Savoy Brown i lost my respect for him , For the life of me i can't think of one LP they did i would be stupid enough to call sad & boring as hell . He'e so far off the mark it's pathetic . So how on earth did Kim become one of the best players on the planet ,well i know he was but Alexis has no clue & for one guy totally immersed in the scene he really has no clue & he was never that good a player to call others that were clearly better is sad. Why Pete Townsend is in this is a mystery as Blues was not his thing & at the time when all this was happening for the makers of this to not even mention Paul Kossoff or Peter Green or Mick Taylor is a mystery hell even Gary Moore & Rory Gallagher were not mentioned . Very one sided look at the blues in Europe & though it was great to see Danny K in this there is way to much missing & what on earth did the Brits have to influence Blues cats from the States ? They never needed help just a larger audience & in those days that was not easy . Having seen Kim & several later versions of Savoy Brown i for one will miss his great playing & his sense of humor. At least we got see some genuine Bluesmen that never needed to copy themselves. or anyone else. Thank you Jack !!!
Dangerous release some great footage of Savoy Brown when they were on the midnight special from the Jack the Toad album . They do coming your way and tell mama . Plus there is some great footage online of Savoy when they were at the Fillmore with Chris Young vocal but it's silent so they double song in but at least you could see Chris w savoy .
AK feels he needs to be a critic in his interview. AK is very important in the British Blues scene for reasons beyond the actual music… He was a facilitator and a lover of the blues; a bit like John M in that he brought people together. In this doc he seems to need to be critical, which might just be his personality. More of a historian and a fan than a real groundbreaking player… But he’s in almost every story told why and when bands formed in the early British blues scene, so he’s very important in that way I’m sure.
Who made this? Can't it be remixed? I don't understand how you can have music playing loud with the narrator talking in the background barely audible. No one's paying attention apparently.
yes the Afro American Blues has chords, but the chords (1-4 or1-4-5) come from the influence of Celtic song. Remember Bluesmen were Songsters first. The use of one chord is present in the Delta Blues. However Piedmont Blues has different chord structures. Influenced by Ragtime swing.
I get it that the originators aren't getting the props (or compensation) they deserve, but tbh, growing up, although I could recognize and appreciate Robert Johnson's genius, I most definitely preferred hearing Cream's version of "Crossroads."
One of the things I really liked about the new rock bands who came through in the late 70s & early 80s was that they very deliberately _didn't_ play blues, eg Television from NYC, who played anything _but._ Likewise for example Wire here in the UK. Some of the post-punk groups were probably more free jazz influenced if anything. Not that I'm against white people playing blues at all, it's everywhere, but I'll always prefer a King Crimson to a Fleetwood Mac or a Free. Even with Led Zep I much prefer an _Achilles Last Stand_ to a _Lemon Song._
It’s either that one mic was for the room PA, so the vocalist could be heard in the room, and the other was for the TV recording and/or one mic was a backup for the other in case one failed.
A lot of them are like that… they did so many of all that, with many types of similar efforts. we saw all this and went with stuff at the time and many other things too. that's how it was - and quite often still is to be frank. The stuff of the common man with limited outlets and anxious thoughts of cash, pain and history, I imagine - oh yes
'The Fleetwood Mac Chicken Shack John Mayall Can't Fail Blues..' Woke up this morning and my agent was standing in my room, Woke up this morning and my agent and a man from Blue Horizon records and Mike and Richard Vernon were all standing in my room, They said you better learn some blues son, because there's gonna be a boom. A great big boom, daddy... I got the Fleetwood Mac Chicken Shack John Mayall can't fail blues, I got the Fleetwood Mac Chicken Shack John Mayall can't fail blues I got the Fleetwood Mac Chicken Shack John Mayall can't fail blues From the deep, deep south of the river Thames, Bottleneck guitar is the latest trend, Gonna earn more money than I can spend, I got the blues... I got the Fleetwood Mac Chicken Shack John Mayall can't fail blues I got the Fleetwood Mac Chicken Shack John Mayall can't fail blues I got the Fleetwood Mac Chicken Shack John Mayall can't fail blues I got the Jethro Tull bellyful Savoy Brown reach me down blues I got the Jethro Tull bellyful Savoy Brown reach me down blues I got the Jethro Tull bellyful Savoy Brown reach me down blues I'm gonna pick that cotton and do my thing, Don't know the chords and I just can't sing But there's lots of noise and the drums don't swing, I got the blues..... I got the blues, the Jethro Tull bellyful blues I got the Fleetwood Mac Chicken Shack John Mayall can't fail blues I got the Fleetwood Mac Chicken Shack John Mayall can't fail blues Got money by the spoonful, Got money by the handful, Got money by the roomful, Got money by the bankful, I'm with Blue Horizon records everything is gonna be alright...
Ok I get using Chicken Shack as the white/British example...but using footage from when they had morphed into a hard blues/rock band a million miles away from their first 4 straight blues albums....is a bit strange!
This is fascinating, a lot of the Black american artists couldn't play in front of a racially mixed audience at home in the U.S. I'm not suggesting that Britain was a racial Utopia, bt the british white kids got into the blues because they would provide the backing bands to the American artists when they toured the UK. Ella Fitzgerald said Germany was her favourite country to play, and the best audience anywhere...who would of thought it!
Danny Kirwan , the most incredible vibrato ever . Rest in peace
Yes!
And Paul Kossoff.
@@BigSky1 absolutely, one of the most important guitar players ever
And that amazing unique voice!
I love Kirwan and all those early Mac records he played on, but dadgum Kossoff is THE vibrato man. Is that a phrase?@@BigSky1
The Fleetwood Mac footage must be from just after Peter Green left the band. Too bad he wasn’t there at this point. Would’ve loved to have had a documentary like this showing him playing with the band. He was brilliant
There is tons of footage online of Peter Green with Fleetwood Mac.
@@chriskroll4166I was just about to say the same thing.
Yes, I’m familiar with what’s out there. I meant something with more up close and personal band interaction like this.
This seems to be from around the time they did Kiln House in 1970. Peter had officially gone though I think he came back to help with part of a tour. Kiln House is a favorite FM album, wish they could have kept that lineup with Danny, and Jeremy fronting and Christine joining as singer/songwriter/keyboardist …but it wasn’t to be. Of course it would have been great if Peter had stayed but that train had left the station.
Hell yes - he was so good
I’m amazed by the knowledge that everyone has I feel the passion sometimes I learn more from commentary section than documentary itself
UK WILL always be ahead of their time they look like smart alien in a human body
I’m nobody from Morocco who is fascinated by uk culture
I live her in Morocco my life is miserable because of our failure regime but the poverty won’t prevent me to Learn from you guys through RUclips and it gives me chill god bless everyone 🙏
@KarimAferfaz I hear you and feel for you, brother. Now, I don't mean to sound like I'm preaching nihilism or escapism. There's nothing constructive about those ways of living. But one of the truly wonderful things about music is its capacity for taking you away from all the BS.
When I'm playing a lot, I can get to where part of my mind is in that land all the time, no matter what I'm doing. I can be grocery shopping or cleaning the house or even carrying on a conversation with someone, and in my own mental background I'm playing through pieces that I'm particularly into at that particular time. And that is a really wonderful place to be.
Do you play an instrument? You're obviously attuned to music. I know good instruments are expensive. But you don't need anything exceptional to get started. The fact is, your ears won't even be developed yet, to hear something missing in the sounds you're getting, until you've been playing quite a while.
I started on one of the least expensive guitars you can possibly buy. That was in 1987. And although I have a few that are much better instruments, I still have that one, and I still play it all the time, cuz that's the one that I don't have to worry about always keeping it protected in its case. That one is always out, usually in my living room, where I can grab it on the spur of the moment.
I don't know much about the specifics, but living where you do, I believe that a very rich local musical heritage is all around you, isn't it? I'd also expect it to be not too difficult to find other people to play with, on a relatively casual basis, people to whom your attitude is more important than the fact that you're just a beginner. Most musicians are happy to share their knowledge, so long as you're not a jerk, which you're clearly not.
Music can save your soul. It's something that no one can ever take away from you, no matter what's going on in the world around you. It can even help to keep you flying under the radar during dangerous times - if you become known as someone who's just into his music, then it can be very believable that you know nothing and care nothing about politics. People think they know you and they think of you as harmless.
And if you want to go the other way around and become an activist, music is a very powerful means of communication. It's all up to you what you do with it.
So go for it!
Just seeing Danny Kirwan playing that vee was the whole video for me.
Jeremy Spencer playing a Hofner , hugely influential slide guitar player. Just incredible.
Jeremy never gets the recognition he deserves
Bit of a Hound IMHO. Wasn’t really interested in anything FM was playing if it wasn’t to do with him.
@@perkinscrane To hear Jeremy at his best, check out the Blues Jam at Chess album. Pure Elmore!
One of the best slide players.
Must have been tough to follow Greenie
Champion Jack Dupree, a forgotten master.
Wowser! Fifty five years on and what a time that was!!! I had the extreme pleasure of seeing Savoy Brown at the Whiskey Au-go-go way back then. God they were good. They’re long gone. Pete Towson is 99% deaf. We lost John Mayall a while back. Gone too soon…”like tears in rain.”
Christine Perfect--what a voice!
Jeremy Spencer tearing it up in his own superb way, the original Fleetwood Mac were easily among the best bands in the world at the time.
I agree .
ditto@@chriskroll4166
Or any time.
Peter Green gets so much credit, but in the Kiln House era, with Chris - they were at least as good! Maybe better...
Danny Kirwan of Fleetwood Mac playing a Gibson Flying V!! Great Blues documentary!! Thank you for uploading this!
I saw Chicken Shack on the 22nd December 1970 supporting YES. Great show from Stan and his extended guitar lead as he danced in the crowd. Looks like Yes trumped him though for me because I went out and bought The Yes Album. I got progged!!
Steve Howe is about as far from the blues as it gets while still being rock.
Chiken Shack de mis bandas favoritas y Stan Webb entre mis 5 mejores guitarras!
@@uv77mc85 Steve Howe's ultimate guitar hero is Chuck Berry, he said if he coud share a stage with anybody it would be Chuck
I was a huge Chicken Shack fan back in the day.
Excellent! Such a real look at this amazing music and the music I was raised on. The English got the beat. Helped saved the Blues.
Great to see some footage of Savoy brown such a great band and unfortunately so little document from their early years
Man the flame on that burst @4:00 is unreal. That's one of the best tops on a real burst I've seen
I believe that is the guitar that was copied by Gibson for their limited edition "Collector's Choice Chicken Shack Burst" Les Paul model. Stan was briefly reunited with this guitar and presented with one of the replicas at an event in Las Vegas in 2018. ruclips.net/video/i_QorP6suo0/видео.htmlsi=lWqt-XyMkFbAmBVN
The red tended to fade on those LP 'bursts. There was hardly any left on Peter Green's
@@mandoprince1 Who has the original now?
@@Jason.King.at.your.service I believe it is owned by Matt Swanson. Don't really know anything about him, other than that he has a really impressive guitar collection!
Jeez Fleetwood Mac always looked so pale back then. I remember in 1990 I was working in a biker cafe in Surrey, and this blues came on and I thought maybe it was the 'Stones, and someone said no its Fleetwood Mac. I was 18, and of course said "shut up it is not". The realisation that the greatest UK blues band wasn't the 'Stones happened right there.
SO good to see the master, Alexis Korner. I remember his silky voice on the radio when I was a kid.
Chicken Shack were brutal. Stan fairly pulling some faces there lol this film is in the library of congress!
This was awesome! Loved seeing a young Christie McVie playing keys with Fleetwood Mac!
Saw Chicken Shack in ‘69. I think they opened for Johnny Winter - but I could be mixing recollections.
Paul Oliver with the crazy hair piece😂
the moustache was real, I guess?
Multipurpose, also used to dust his vinyl.
@@finnmcginn9931 🤣😂😅
Champion Jack Dupree spent 2 years in a Japanese POW camp. Hard life.
Louisiana st. juniorweight champion. trained at Joe Louis' Detroit gym. he was on the card at Yankee stadium for the 2nd Louis-Schmeling fight.🥊
Christine!!! Just Perfect...
RIP, she was so good.
Amazed at what still pops up after all these years. Many thanks for this
Lonesome Dave!
Dude said their tired of heavy rock. That didn't age well. I was born after this documentary came out and all I've listened to is heavy rock and blues my whole life.
More like tired of doing too many drugs and blaming it on the music lol
He did have a point. When you're deeply into music, it's easy to forget that an awful lot of people have a much more casual relationship with music. Within a couple of years of when this was filmed, funk and soul and R&B combined with the fact that people liked to dance to music since prehistory, and disco was invented - and became MASSIVELY popular.
The Champion! I saw him several times,, loved him. And he was such a smart, funny and incredibly nice old guy. He showed me my first blues licks on the piano when I was a boy. Will never forget him.
I shall share this with Mike Vernon, I’m sure he’ll be delighted to see this again after 53 years !
Great video. It's the kind of thing that if it came on TV when I was a kid, I would have recorded it on VCR tape and tried to learn all the licks.
Loved the old bluesy version of Fleetwood mac. Jack Dupree lived in Halifax for a while.
All these guys played together during the summer of 71'. I saw them all and was introduced to them at The Summerthing Concerts in Boston. What a great line-up!
Beautiful Les Paul
Kim Simmonds and Lonesome Dave! So cool to see these videos
The GREATEST MUDDY WATERS ❤❤❤
Kiln House era Fleetwood Mac, Yes please!!! Jeremy was probably only months away from being "kidnapped" by that religious group and Danny Kirwan would only last for 2 more brilliant albums, Future Games and Bare Trees. Love all the pre Buckingham/Nicks Mac stuff.
Everybody must read The Blues Really Mezz Mezrow's amazing auto bio. One of Keith Richards, favorite book. Thank you again fo the tip Keith
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Great doc! Chicken Shack and all the early greats! Thanks!
Nice to see a bit of footage (and interview clips) of Duster Bennett, there's very little around!
It was also nice that the narration has been pulled right back in the mix. It's always amused me that when a documentary is made about music they talk over the subject.
I saw Duster open for Argent in Toronto, wicked good. Bought his album in NYC
Oh wow. Just wow. Thank you :)
"Less is more" is an important concept as the opening guitar playing from Stan Webb demonstrates.
To adapt an old John Lewis stores marketing phrase, never knowingly underplayed!
Stan Webb is much more influential than people will ever know
What song are they playing ?
Yes! "Holes riddled with music".
I take that as sarcasm.
Thanks for this obscure relic. I think my personal highlights are Chicken Shack 'Gypsy Woman' live excerpt, Savoy Brown rehearsing, and Fleetwood Mac running down a working version of 'Station Man'.
Thanks for sharing. Really good video some rare stuff with really fine artists.
Thanks for this post. Well Done.
Bon documentaire et très bon film
Big Thanks, great docu !
Love it, wow. What a find. The early fleetwood mac footage is great, and so champion dupree, muddy waters, pete townshend.
Thanks for posting this.! VERY COOL!
EXCELLENT Video. Subscribed
A gem. Thanks for uploading.
A great video; particularly enjoyed the rare Shack, Duster Campion Jack & Jeremy Spencer bits.
This is excellect, thank you.
How cool does everyone look in this film!?
The “blues expert” haircut is hilarious
I read this comment just as he appeared 😂@@dirtlevel
@@dirtlevelpost beatlemania fail
Isn't that Peter Sellers?
Most interesting to me was the clip of Fleetwood Mac recording Station Man, interspersed with Pete Townshend saying that Fleetwood Mac's music deserved its own category, despite its similarity with Blues. At Mick Fleetwood's tribute to Peter Green a few years ago, Pete demonstrated how he modified Station Man to create Won't Get Fooled Again.
Station Man is a Danny Kirwan song
Que bandas de blues habia en Inglaterra por favor! Extraño su musica! Buen documental.
Goodness me! This takes me back to the High Wycombe Blues Loft of the late sixties. I saw most of the performers shown in this video (plus Jo Anne Kelly, John Dummer’s Blues Band, Steamhammer and Bakerloo Line and other British Blues bands). The most impressive artists without a doubt were Champion Jack Dupree and Howlin’ Wolf. I saw Howlin’ Wolf twice, once with a supporting band and once solo and he was quite stunning both times. We spoke to him at the interval and he was a charming man, no hint of the curmudgeon he was supposed to be like. Mike Raven was quite wrong, the ‘Blues Boom’ only lasted a couple of years and many bands playing Blues, joined the ranks of the Progressives or began playing Heavy Rock. Incidentally, Fleetwood Mac at 31.03 sound more like Little Feat. I also agree with Pete Townsend, I have been a semi pro. musician for over 50 years and the curse of open mic. nights is the Blues Jam. They are popular, because everyone can play a Blues chord progression and most musicians want an opportunity to play extended solos. Anyway, end of rant.
Stan Webb, so under the radar
The brilliant Duster Bennett- gone too soon
He shines out in this. I'd love to see more of him.
Thank you. Subtitles would have been so helpful...
Is that the legendary Stan Webb of Chicken Shack fame ?
Sure is.
Pure Gold amazing time piece
Unfortunately this captures the demise of this era as the heavy blues rock period was well on the way by 1971,
Jeremy Spencer leaves in Mac not long after this was filmed and Danny Kirwan follows in 1972.
'Who's next' comes out in '71 and arena rock is born the next time blues goes mainstream is with the arrival of SRV.
I guess you missed Johnny Winter.
No one can forget Johnny Winter, but he was already established having exploded onto the post Cream scene in early 1969 along with the likes of Mountain, Taste and Free.
By 1972 he had teamed up with Rick Derringer and was following a more Rock based sound which fitted in well with the arena rock period along with Humble Pie and Canned Heat.
Thinking about it now I did overlook ZZ Top whose first 3 albums could be considered to be the link between Winter and SRV ? and Rory Gallagher who always kept it 'earthy' but he was never really mainstream.
But by '73 everything was a lot heavier , Free had gone and morphed into Bad Co. as did Chicken Shack into Savoy Brown.
its a shame we didn't see more jeremy, Danny and Christine in the mac
Great bottom end on these tracks! Maybe not using a high pass filter for everything is a good idea.
Loving Chicken Shack's "Elaborate and expensive amplifying equipment that is moved from gig to gig"
These days there's an app for that !
The Mac's gaff looked a right tip alright.
Only contemporary footage I’ve seen of the great savoy brown. Think alexis was talking about another band. Savoy never made a bad album. A couple of average ones,yes.
Poor Alexis was so far off the mark with his take on Kim Simmons & all the versions of Savoy Brown i lost my respect for him , For the life of me i can't think of one LP they did i would be stupid enough to call sad & boring as hell . He'e so far off the mark it's pathetic . So how on earth did Kim become one of the best players on the planet ,well i know he was but Alexis has no clue & for one guy totally immersed in the scene he really has no clue & he was never that good a player to call others that were clearly better is sad. Why Pete Townsend is in this is a mystery as Blues was not his thing & at the time when all this was happening for the makers of this to not even mention Paul Kossoff or Peter Green or Mick Taylor is a mystery hell even Gary Moore & Rory Gallagher were not mentioned . Very one sided look at the blues in Europe & though it was great to see Danny K in this there is way to much missing & what on earth did the Brits have to influence Blues cats from the States ? They never needed help just a larger audience & in those days that was not easy . Having seen Kim & several later versions of Savoy Brown i for one will miss his great playing & his sense of humor. At least we got see some genuine Bluesmen that never needed to copy themselves. or anyone else. Thank you Jack !!!
Dangerous release some great footage of Savoy Brown when they were on the midnight special from the Jack the Toad album . They do coming your way and tell mama . Plus there is some great footage online of Savoy when they were at the Fillmore with Chris Young vocal but it's silent so they double song in but at least you could see Chris w savoy .
AK feels he needs to be a critic in his interview. AK is very important in the British Blues scene for reasons beyond the actual music… He was a facilitator and a lover of the blues; a bit like John M in that he brought people together. In this doc he seems to need to be critical, which might just be his personality. More of a historian and a fan than a real groundbreaking player… But he’s in almost every story told why and when bands formed in the early British blues scene, so he’s very important in that way I’m sure.
Chris Youlden not Young
Go to 17:37 if you want to hear what the blues is all about.
Chicken shack. Christine Perfect
Shortly after Greeny left, while Kiln House.
Paddy Pimblett playing the flying V.
Christine Perfect McVie!
Who made this? Can't it be remixed? I don't understand how you can have music playing loud with the narrator talking in the background barely audible.
No one's paying attention apparently.
You can see why Christine Perfect (McVie) went on to uber-fame with Fleetwood Mac..
COLOUR.FOOTAGE=FILM.OF MUDDY+LIL.WALTER..!!!Meant to find..this.all.true seekers of the goats..r.i.p.//p.green.❤😢
yes the Afro American Blues has chords, but the chords (1-4 or1-4-5) come from the influence of Celtic song. Remember Bluesmen were Songsters first. The use of one chord is present in the Delta Blues. However Piedmont Blues has different chord structures. Influenced by Ragtime swing.
I get it that the originators aren't getting the props (or compensation) they deserve, but tbh, growing up, although I could recognize and appreciate Robert Johnson's genius, I most definitely preferred hearing Cream's version of "Crossroads."
What is the band that Mike Vernon was recording at the end?
Marshall Hooks & Co.
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One of the things I really liked about the new rock bands who came through in the late 70s & early 80s was that they very deliberately _didn't_ play blues, eg Television from NYC, who played anything _but._ Likewise for example Wire here in the UK. Some of the post-punk groups were probably more free jazz influenced if anything. Not that I'm against white people playing blues at all, it's everywhere, but I'll always prefer a King Crimson to a Fleetwood Mac or a Free. Even with Led Zep I much prefer an _Achilles Last Stand_ to a _Lemon Song._
No white artist can come anywhere near Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, BB King, Howling Wolf or Big Mama Thornton.
Yeah! You tell em!!! If you believe yourself, that's all that counts FDS@@julianwoodcock4309
You done stole it from us and spit it right back great job
Notice a lot of people singing into double microphones. Does anyone know why and what the mics were?
It’s either that one mic was for the room PA, so the vocalist could be heard in the room, and the other was for the TV recording and/or one mic was a backup for the other in case one failed.
One mic for live sound and one for recording, that's how they did it in those days
I thought it was for going stereo, because there was mono sound back then
14:14 - does anyone know which song they're playing?
They certainly never released this tune. Would have been during rehearsals for the looking in album.
the CLOWN at 2:51, Paul Oliver(?) ,Idk who he is, but he is wearing thee most ridiculous looking wig/toupe I hav ever seen, NO DOUBT !!!
Thought it was a beret at first. Gotta be a practical joke (?)
Chicken shack. Stan Webb.
A lot of them are like that… they did so many of all that, with many types of similar efforts. we saw all this and went with stuff at the time and many other things too. that's how it was - and quite often still is to be frank. The stuff of the common man with limited outlets and anxious thoughts of cash, pain and history, I imagine - oh yes
Who's playing the awesome slide guitar at 10:00?
Jeremy Spencer. Member of Fleetwood Mac, children of god/the family (cult) and alleged child abuser.
Jeremy spencer channeling Elmore James
A very YOUNG CHRISTINE MCVIE,,,,,Did she know then what a fantastic music life lay ahead for her
She was Perfect then!
@@gamoonbat perfect in music ...perfect by name..lol
Stan Webbs star-patterned T shirt was very fahionable in 1970 to 71
This video is lacking in close-up's
Who is the black singer guitarist in the striped shirt??? They never said his name, ot did I miss something??
Buddy Guy?
@@stevehead365 not him
Marshall Hooks & Co
Time stamps are helpful. 🤔
Who is the musician at minute 30:10?
@Roni_Sobolewski No, I don't.
Watching this IS the blues for sure. Ffs even the Rolling Stones band name comes from Muddy Waters… now there’s a metaphor
'The Fleetwood Mac Chicken Shack John Mayall Can't Fail Blues..'
Woke up this morning and my agent was standing in my room,
Woke up this morning and my agent and a man from Blue Horizon records and Mike and Richard Vernon were all standing in my room,
They said you better learn some blues son, because there's gonna be a boom.
A great big boom, daddy...
I got the Fleetwood Mac Chicken Shack John Mayall can't fail blues,
I got the Fleetwood Mac Chicken Shack John Mayall can't fail blues
I got the Fleetwood Mac Chicken Shack John Mayall can't fail blues
From the deep, deep south of the river Thames,
Bottleneck guitar is the latest trend,
Gonna earn more money than I can spend,
I got the blues...
I got the Fleetwood Mac Chicken Shack John Mayall can't fail blues
I got the Fleetwood Mac Chicken Shack John Mayall can't fail blues
I got the Fleetwood Mac Chicken Shack John Mayall can't fail blues
I got the Jethro Tull bellyful Savoy Brown reach me down blues
I got the Jethro Tull bellyful Savoy Brown reach me down blues
I got the Jethro Tull bellyful Savoy Brown reach me down blues
I'm gonna pick that cotton and do my thing,
Don't know the chords and I just can't sing
But there's lots of noise and the drums don't swing,
I got the blues.....
I got the blues, the Jethro Tull bellyful blues
I got the Fleetwood Mac Chicken Shack John Mayall can't fail blues
I got the Fleetwood Mac Chicken Shack John Mayall can't fail blues
Got money by the spoonful,
Got money by the handful,
Got money by the roomful,
Got money by the bankful,
I'm with Blue Horizon records everything is gonna be alright...
Ok I get using Chicken Shack as the white/British example...but using footage from when they had morphed into a hard blues/rock band a million miles away from their first 4 straight blues albums....is a bit strange!
The film is of a very narrow slivver of time around 1970/71 . So it's only a tiny glimpse of what was happening. I think!!
This is fascinating, a lot of the Black american artists couldn't play in front of a racially mixed audience at home in the U.S. I'm not suggesting that Britain was a racial Utopia, bt the british white kids got into the blues because they would provide the backing bands to the American artists when they toured the UK. Ella Fitzgerald said Germany was her favourite country to play, and the best audience anywhere...who would of thought it!
Kirwan the third wheel but what a wheel.
How does that guy accomplish such a swinging 70s bowl cut. He thinks he knows everything.
14:33 pre Foghat.
On a scale of 1-10, this video was a 5
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Thanks for sharing. My day is complete.
It's good because it's not what is usually shown.
Was the audio recorded off a TV in a corner hooked up to a VHS tape player?
Quite irreverent comments about Savoy Brown. They were a Fabulous blues group!
Still are