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Fillmore West Closing Jam 1971
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- Опубликовано: 17 авг 2019
- The closing of the Fillmore West brought out hundreds of San Francisco fans for a days-long celebration of the ballroom's legacy as a historic purveyor of Sixties rock 'n' roll. Bill Graham's famed venue could no longer support the ever-increasing fees charged by the national acts he presented, and the promoter had no choice but to close down. The revelry culminated in an evening of jams on July 4, 1971, and one featured John Cipollina, Carlos Santana and Michael Bloomfield. The show was heard live over KSFX and this file comes from that broadcast.
![Paul Butterfield & Mike Bloomfield • “Last Night” • 1971 [Reelin' In The Years Archive]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/inmoebJhEzs/mqdefault.jpg)
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Man, to think this was the music that a generation grew up on and today, it's laptop computers, ketamine, digital synthetic beats produced by a dj on a laptop, I mean, there's just no comparison. We call it "classic" because it is and it lives on in a sort of museum, if you will, and thankfully, also on RUclips. What a special time the 60s/70s were for the music created.
One of my bigest regrests in 72 years is that I could not get a ride to hear Mike play at the Golden Bear in Huntington Beach with Butterfield Blues Band.That was 1968. Bloomfield in my humble opinion was the best, most innovative, hardcore guitar player of the day. I still say that few today or since equal this mans ability to blaze to a beat.
Do you mean with Mike on the same bill? He wasn't playing with the BBB in 1968. There is a CD on Natalie's Winner records label called East West Live recorded at the GB in 1966 New Year's Eve.
This fantastic only question, why wasn't this done more often. I would rather listen to jams like this than anything else. This is grandiose in every component, so goooood. Thanks so much. Broomfield is my first guitar hero, from so long ago. He played with Woody Herman's big band. All of Mike's recordings are a treasure. Thanks for the upload.
I was there that night, July 4th 1971, at the back of the ballroom, and just found this recording. Deja vu all over again and more--a memorable night! Amazing talents one last time.
How old were you then Greg? Anything special you remember from that night? Man witnessing that must've been something. Take care Greg
@@bleakcandour 21.
Could never forget this concert in that small ballroom in San Francisco with all those amazing musiciansand singers! Thank you for that, BIlly Graham!
Praise the Lord.
Pattern recognition, and graceful transitions to other parts of the great return. Whatever content may comprise that experience. Strange paradox - the 'funeral-like' closing of the Fillmores, East & West. But what a celebration! Like the wake left by a Magical Boat; one with musicians on deck, like stroll staggering down a street in New Orleans, NYC, & Points West. The Culture Creator gets a chance to smile. An inspiration to play music. Carlos Santana, Michael Bloomfield, John Cippolina and others that night did it good along with Bill Graham at the unseen tiller of the Last Voyage.
I can't believe this doesn't have a Billion views and Loves. The players, OMG. Yeah we Jammed, Rocked, set our Souls Free! I'll be 64 in a couple of weeks, now called a Boomer by this generation. But they will never have our Hippie Hearts, our Hippie Souls that still beats in the depths of our beings...when Music Guided our thoughts and we all joined in as One.
Thank You God for the gift of Bill Graham and for allowing us this expression of your grace. If I'm ever so deserving to enter Heaven, may we live this time period again... Forever Eternal. ~~~ Peace ~~~
I agree totally, I'll be 69 in Jan 8 2022 and I'm still rocking, loving All rock, Jazz, Soul, everything.
@@capriblue53 Take it easy man but take it!
thank you Uncle BoBo
Dude you're 14 when the Fillmore closed
Peace love n
happiness
When bands used to jam
Peace n serenity
Sure would love a listing of all the great players crammed onto the stage that closed out the kairos era in San Francisco by this raucous, funky, rolling jam!
Thanks so much for the fantastic upload, what an incredible jam! Impossible to go wrong with the Santana rhythm section laying things down for the soloists to soar over.
For any fellow Bloomfield tragics here is my assessment of what transpired.
In my opinion at the start of the jam it is Carlos who begins playing straight after Michael's introduction on the microphone. Carlos is mixed in the right speaker and Mike is in the left.
Bloomfield starts playing right around the 1 minute mark underneath some loud organ swells. The solo he then performs before Carlos re-enters is remarkable. This isn't someone just playing a bunch of disconnected licks and runs but a great artist composing in the moment. The thing that stands out to me as a listener is the way he develops and repeats ideas with increasing intensity and feeling. Check out the phrases from 2min4s - 2min27s for a perfect example....he is like a great sculptor, fine tuning and reworking the shape of a curve.
Carlos comes in at 3min30s with tremolo picked double-stops and finishes with a nice bluesy phrase at 3min50s.
John Cipollina is introduced and he solos from around the 4min30s mark. He is somewhat buried in the mix but during his solo Mike plays some cool rhythm guitar.
An electric piano solo commences @5min30s and Mike returns with a solo @6min20s that leads into an organ solo and a drop in the overall dynamics. As the organ solo builds I think Mike is playing rhythm guitar but his guitar is now being mixed in the right speaker. I think it's him playing the funky chord and low register single note riffs from 8mins onwards until he starts soloing again @9min50s. The tone, vibrato and note choices make me think it's Mike and not Carlos. He drops back into rhythm guitar mode @10min30s.
There is some lead guitar happening around here that I think may be John again as the tone is similar as earlier and it is low in the mix.
Bloomfield enters again with some bends @11min37 and continues to solo until concluding with a cool ascending run that leads into a tenor sax solo around the 13min mark.
He continues to play behind the sax with a nice descending minor pentatonic riff followed later with more great rhythm playing. A fantastic tenor solo that has a Coltrane meets Fela Kuti vibe.
@15min12s just after some high register single notes Michael is switched back to being mixed in the left speaker.
@16min20s Bloomfield proceeds to launch into outer space with fluid saxophone like runs and plays some very funky figures that tie the groove together before dropping out @17min14s to let the rhythm section and horns simmer. Mike and Carlos (right channel) both return before the 18min mark and there is some nice rhythm and lead interplay between them. Mike hits some notes with intense vibrato just before the bass guitar break @19min12s. He picks up on a bass riff and works it over with the bass several times building the overall dynamics of the jam in a big way.
Bloomfield's guitar is noticeable again @21min mark with a cool rhythm guitar part featuring hammer ons and pull offs against an open D string drone. Some more lead work @22min before moving back to rhythm figures with octaves.
This could be Mike but I think it's Carlos with some nice lead @27min ( in the left channel) and funky rhythm. More lead @31mins. The reason I think this is Carlos is because of the guitar that comes in @32min20s in the right channel. That really sounds like Mike to me and the playing is sweet!
I could go on with superlatives but I have to get ready for work.
Thanks again for the great upload.
wow !
I second that Wow.
Thanks Matthew, Bloomfield is on fire here as well as Carlos and your take is right on IMO
@@kynyrdskynyrd Thanks mate, such a great jam!
Great write up. I’ve always wished for such a dissertation on live audio tracks. Time code cues, R&L channels on who is playing what. You did a great analysis and really studied this. Made my day, thx!
You sir are to be thanked much more then I could do via RUclips. Your devotion to this often forgotten genius of Blues guitar, and guitar period. Thank you, thank you and thank you.
You made my day, Jim! Many thanks to you for your comments and support. More to come!
I was there, never ever forget...perfect closing of a place that I hope when I die, the next voice I hear is Bill welcoming me to Heaven....
I heard this on my radio at the post office I was working in downtown. Too bad no video.
This recording never EVER gets old. Any guitar enthusiast out there: this is a rite of passage.
True that
I'll reply without any teenage trendy phrase....Well put my friend; a rite of passage indeed.
Amazing that the Fillmore stage didn't burst into flames just from the blazing licks.
I was there that night too,,, played "pick up basketball with Jorma, Jack , and Bill G. That last weekend was a dusk to dawn affair. Sooooo thankful to all you Bay Area folks. Cream of the crop in this old deadheads mind . Carlos, CSN,
Joni, Neil, Tower of Power, Lydia Pense and Cold Blood, The Sons of Chaplin,
Janice, the list is too long to list
You all are the fabric of my life
Sooo many blessings. You know who I am... Gotta buzz 😂
I have been blessed and have witnessed Carlos with John McLaughlin, another occasion with weather report and in each decade stating with the sixties, peace & love
And chic Coria Hebie Hancock
One of and probably the best ever jams ... PERIOD! What an amazing collection of musicians ... Santana, Bloomfield , Cipollina ... doesn't get any better than this! My ONLY complaint is that there is no video of this.
Bill made an lp and a film of this closing. He wanted to do the same for East but didn't have the time. He filmed the West closing because it was the bigger venue. I had this set back in the day and saw the documentary of it in a local theater back then also. Here's a link to the film. www.bing.com/search?q=fillmore+movie&filters=ufn%3a%22fillmore+movie%22+sid%3a%2208a5c418-556f-1a44-051d-d98055e3ea76%22&FORM=SNAPST Here's a link to the album. Fillmore: The Last Days - Wikipedia Won't let me leave link. Look it up this way.
@@curtzeek8818 thx Curt! Bay Area Cultural History.
I too was there ... as a teenager .. I’ll never tell ! Thanks for the apple Joe.
Awsome stuff, the photo of that packed stage!!! Not yet a twinkle in anyone's eye but proud to say I came from this decade. Smiling chords y'all 😊🙌🎵🌿🌳
With ‘ya on that brother ... amazing times.
Absolute classic stuff. Who could ask for more !!💕👍
Music from musicians who could play! LUV IT!
You ain’t lying there
Absolutely. Jamming
Amazing. I went to the Fillmore ONCE just before this and had no idea it was going away. It was in full swing with Van Morrison and the Isley Brothers that night.
Great jam session. Powerful music!
February 14, 1981. I was in college and on concert crew at the University of Southern Colorado. Santana performed. Being at the right place at the right time I accidentally met both Carlos Santana (and band) and Bill Graham. The production company employees were there and were freaking out because Bill Graham was there to begin with. Highlight of my life.
I was there. 16 years old and my first time away from home. I also went to the closing of Winterland 8+ years later.
I wish we could go back in time . Remember when everybody got along. ? Politics didn't devide us . we smoked out weed had our trips on LSD AN HAD AN AWESOME TIME WITH ALL THE BULLSHIT OF TODAY. THANK YOU BRO FOR SHARING A TRUE EXSPIRENCE OF A LIFE TIME. I'VE BEEN TO CONCERTS THAT WERE SO UNIQUE AND THE HAPPINESS OF GETTING TOGETHER FOR THE LOVE OF MUSIC . PEACE ✌
@@lawrencecarver3299 There was never a time when everyone got along. The time you are remembering also included fights between hard hats and anti-war hippies, there was the John Birch Society that eventually became the Republican Party. .People tend to idealize their past. When, in your past, did everybody get along?
@@cosmonaut9942 yeh your right I forgot about that. What I meant was most of us got along
@@cosmonaut9942 I got along because I didn't have politics in my conversations
My neighbor remembers going to a show an saw the outlaws. At a place I think it's starts with an m . meridian or some place in frisco
Bloomsdisco - Thank you, thank you, thank you! Always looking for something different from Michael, and I had never heard this before. Really outstanding. Knowing that Carlos greatly respected and admired Michael makes hearing them play together wonderful.
WOW... I wasn't even a 2yr old toddler yet for another 7wks in 1971; this is so amazing!
Bloomfield is so good. I love his music
Don't love it. Live it
@@charlesancer6101 don't live it!
Experience it!
Nobody phrased like Bloomfield. Like Ron 'Pigpen' McKiernan his authenticity and unique blues-stylings continue to prove out over time.
@Daniel Laurence lol its been years i came here what are you up to? wdym
@@pabloperez4063 I thought we were supposed to Experience Hendrix.
The pinnacle of American music!
Wow. What an improv arraignment! Even drums, percussions, congas, are RIGHT ON! I can die peacefully now lol.
Live Gigs from The Record Plant in Sausalito were great broadcasts on KSAN.....KSAN,KSFX and KPIG owned the 60's and 70's ....I remember a Nils Lofgren show there that was Fantastic... Jessie Collin Young did a smoking broadcast..oh so many...we had it all....
JESSE COLIN YOUNG.
grands moments du fillmore et du beau monde !mike bloomfield,carlos santana ,john cippolina !!il manque shuggie otis !!
Santana aprendió a descargar con Javier Batiz en Tijuana. La intensidad y el sentimiento de estos músicos mexicanos contagia a los músicos que tocan con ellos haciendo que algo mágico surja logrando que la flor efímera del instante se eternice y nos deje en el pensamiento el sabroso néctar de lo irrepetible pero también de lo imborrable en nuestro pensamiento y en nuestro corazón.
Ese es un mito.. he escuchado en vivo a Batiz y toca pura basura..Quiza aprendio algo de su tecnica, pero musicalmente, tomaron rumbos diferentes..
This should be released on vinyl, cd and/or digital download!! Amazing stuff!!
"digital download"...get a RUclips downloader and click the "share" button above. click copy and it should go to the downloader. I'm downloading this right now... a great piece of musical history.
You can find this on ebay. There is a 3 lp set of this. I had the original album back then, and also saw the film back then. Yes Bill made a documentory of the closing here.
I go by Grahams grave and put a rock on headstone. Thank him for all those fantastic nights......RIP
Where is that located !!?
@@ericwalter4771 Colma,ca
Was Graham Jewish? You said you put a stone on his headstone. That is a Jewish tradition.
@@JB19504 ..He escaped from Germany as an adolescent. He is buried in the Jewish cemetary .
@@JB19504 Yep, he was one of the young teen leaders of the childrenś march out of one of the concentration camps at the end of WWII - ** see below, probably not true. He was a tough guy, but also very kind. People used to dump on him comparing him to Chet Helms, leader of the Family Dog (May the Baby Jesus Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Mind), Chet was more of a hippie, but because Bill was more of a businessman he got things done. Without Bill Graham the music scene would have been far smaller and less interesting. I remember a Day on the Green in mid-late 1970s with Steve Miller, Eagles, and Stones for $12, maybe 1978, at Oakland Coliseum. In his regular Fillmore shows Bill would put on an unusual act first, say a jazz act, then two different type of rock acts, all for $6. He wanted to expose us naive West Coast kids to jazz and world music (before there was any such title). I went once to a show, perhaps at Winterland, , do not remember the acts, but one blew my mind - Rashaan Roland Kirk (amazing jazz player who played multiple horns at once (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahsaan_Roland_Kirk).
**Wikipedia article says Graham was sent out of Germany years before, the concentration camp childrenś march story was told a lot in the Bay Area in the late 60s. Wikipedia articles on the Nazi Death Camps does not mention a children´s flight to safety, only death marches organized by the Nazis - the SS. So it would appear that the rumor was wrong -- here it is probably 56 years since it was circulating and it was probably wrong.
Think I still have this on cassette tape. I have seen the the vinyl many a time in junk shops, it was partner to the now famed Supersessions album. Bloomfield. Santana here, Stills Bloomfield on the other. Recorded over two nights at the Fillmore.
I was there in June 71 a couple of days before leaving for Nam, saw Mason Proffit and I forgot the other act, think it might have been Boss Skaggs. We didn’t exactly fit the profile of the main audience but had no issues. It was a great place and am glad to say that we made it there.
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Mason Proffitt - great band! Saw them in September 1971.
Boz
@@awb716 If memory serves, Mason Proffit including John Michael and Terry Talbot.
I was a ten year old guitar player already into Santana in 1971
Thank you so much for uploading!
Thx for this beautiful upload!
I'd heard about this for years - now I finally get to hear it.
Thanks for posting this piece of The Lost Chord. Wow.
I had just turned 16 and was lucky enough to be there from Boston, the night they laded on the moon, July 1969, watching Joe Cocker & Country Joe & The Fish. Bill had the moon landing projected on the wall. Fantastic night I'll never forget.
Fillmore Stages! Iconic! 🤩
Just discovered your post and I cannot thank you enough. Absolutely incredible.
Great musical work to close this concert Fillmore west that quality of musicians for that year ,the Best of the Best , Jam 71🎸🎸🎸🎹🥁
Wow thank you for sharing this. I was two years old when this happened. Thanks to you, I get to enjoy it half a century later. THanks again!! Cheers!!!!!!!!
uk7769, u r just a kid, I was almost 4. :)
Thanks. I've been trying to piece together even more of the jam - it actually went on for about 5 hours after the Santana set - Graham finally kicked everyone out at around 4 or 5 in the morning of July 5. Remember it like it was yesterday - I was staying in Palo Alto at the time and had to sit at the bus station a few blocks away until the buses started running again at around 6 or 7 to get back to Palo Alto.
I'd been listening to all the other acts from the previous week on KSAN and was thrilled that so many of them showed up on the last night after the Santana set.
If you have the whole KSAN live broadcast, I'd love to hear the chant of Om with Allan Ginsburg.
fantastic upload
What's amazing is how so much of the music was so much hipper so DIFFERENT GENRE'S back in the day.. even freakin' top 40 music.. you could hear anything from the Beatles to the Stones to Sinatra to Motown to Stax ..and Country music !!.. average folks were really listening to just a wide variety of music unlike today when it's so conformist... Just the same old same old these days
Hipper and hippier.
"Dead & Company "fans"...I feel sorry for you.....listen to this. THIS is what a band should sound like.
Very good album. Super music!
Thank you!
Superb !! Thanks
Thank you 👣🤙🕶🎸
Wow, Michael in good form! Shredding in fact. I've got to listen to this!
When Michael was on he was on...
Thanks, The Fillmore
Amo todo lo relativo a Fillmore. Gracias
Cream and dominoes
Our eroi, this music is the classic music of the XXth.
Orale! Thank you for the upload ✊✌👉
A lot of people musicians jamming a who's who on stage sounds excellent ! Thanks to Bill that's how B.G liked it every body have a good time and everybody did !!!
Bloomfield. THE intersection of Blues & Rock. Bloomfield & Santana had the rare talent, especially in Rock, of pouring their soul in to the guitar without wasting notes. Clear connections to B.B. King, who clearly understood the value of a note.
I like Santana and Bloomfield, but they were both NOTORIOUS for overplaying. Try Peter Green.
@@mchorchos I guess a few people liked the sound and that's really all that matters
@@jimsmith1930 I guess :) To each his own.
@@mchorchos When Mike was on he rode that fluid highway that was unmatchable, it had the fluidity of a jazz player without the fancy noodle and keeping the cajones straight on..banging through the motions. Personally his often frantic approach of the fretboard was very likeable...I'd never change Greeny for Bloomers or vice versa...isn't it AMAZING that we get to pick and choose. Long live the blues
@@bleakcandour Everyone has their preference. Long live the blues :)
Place was on fire 🔥🙌👌👏
Great Upload!
Am from the future
Please don't date Amy. She a dirty bitch
@@dailydoseofblues7708 know if you are not the intended
when I heard van morrison I loved this even more
Opened for Steven Stills of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young for Bill Graham. Thank you. BGP.
was just at the reopening of this venue in San Francisco ( now known as SVN West) for 2 nights of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. What a room!
Are you talking Market and Van Ness. Did they really reopen it. Did you walk in the door on Market and walk up the steps?
@Spike Elwood that makes sense.. we would stand in line around the corner and watch them build the BART. it was basically a wide basketball court with that roller rink like concession area. We always hung in the back under the black lights.. on Tuesday's at the Jams wed go back behind the stage. Maybe they open it again. I saw Santana many times there before and after Neil Schon. Great to hear from you..
King Gizzzzzzz!!! Sweet
Top of the Top!!!!! Real stuff!!!
I was a senior in high school was here with some friends. I had so much fun at Fillmore West as a kid it was a sad time. I played basketball against Bill Graham on the Tuesday Jams. Just think 1dollar. Thursday 2.50. Friday, Saturday 3.50,, Sunday 2.50 again. I saw so many bands there,,,I would later watch Cippolina, Gravinitas, Melton ,, those guys would play the Saloon on upper Grant. I seem to remember Boz Scaggs around .. but cant remember him in this Jam.
Saw Rod Stewart at Fillmore East $1. Too blitzed to remembet the rest of lineup but got out at 5:15 am went to ratners.
I lived two blocks from the Saloon and there other blues clubs in the area. Kept starving musicians alive. I love good music in little venues.
@@oliverpura9876 where those the good old days. Cool to hear from another person from the city. Did you get to the Stone often? I actually use to hang in the Rose and Thistle on Calfornia.
What Blown Away!!!!!
Great mix blues rock jazzy
Fillmore West was a Wild North Beach SF venue 'Booking the best musicians/groups from All over the map for yrs....
Fillmore west where these guys are was on the corner of Market and Van Ness. It is now Boas Pontiac
@Spike Elwood maybe he is thinking of the Stone on Broadway.
Yes. Maybe the stone. Saw lots of good bands there also. LESLIE West. Alvin Lee, Wishbone Ash. .. remember the Mabuhay Garden across the street. It was a Korean Restaurant that turned into a punk rock club at 9 0clock, saw the Police there I'm guessing 15 people in the place. Everything changes
@@MrMojabo
Alvin Lee ... L.E.G.E.N.D 🎸
@@MrMojabo Formally the Carousel Ballroom.
Great jam session. Musicians.
To have been at these gigs ... mainly Taj's Real Thing and Aretha ... RIP live music x
the horns on 'the real thing' are out of this world
Cold Blood horns with Lydia Pense
Bloomfield top of his game....60's wind down--alles bald vorbei
Espectacular
THANK YOU BILL GRAHAM!!!!!
FANTASTIC !!!!!!! auuuu
jelda brate...koja prziona...
very very good........................................................
Caught Van Morrison ad-libbing his "I've Been Working" around 33-34 minute mark!
These guys were tremendously lucky to play with bloomfield
Wow!
Disc 1. Intro/Jam/Feel It/Jam/I Been Working So Hard/Jam
Featuring Santana, Michael Bloomfield, John Cipollina, Vince Guaraldi, Jack Casady and Tower of Power .
Badly recorded but great musicians. Thank you.
crossed paths with him in B Graham's office...who adored Michael.at this late date...to be honest...I believe he was an angel....Graham? no so much.....but how he loved music
Miss KSFX, KSJO and others !!!!
KSAN
KPIG
KOME and KSAN
@@Whitehorns well yeah but that wasn't back in the day...
Classic stuff!!
🎸🔥☮️🙏👏de Argentina 2021
COOL 👍👏♥️
Wolfgang's Vault used to be go to for Bill's vast archive, I haven't done so since format changes and a shitty app was published last I checked (granted its been a long time maybe WV has become user friendly again...?) . this is classic rock platinum.
Wow with mike Bloomfield
If any guitar players are interested I've just posted a free transcription on my channel of the ascending dorian scale run that Mike plays @13mins leading into the sax solo.
2021
How long did Bloomfield play in this session , (he ''left after failing to bring it to an end'' ),
how long did he stay?
♥♥♥
The prominent female voice is Lydia Pence with Cold Blood.
Thank you for the info.
Peeekkkkinng
I guess Carlos loves his Paul Reed Smiths, but he never sounded better than on a Les Paul.
i wonder what jimmy herring (wsp) or john mayer (dead & co) would sound like on a vintage gold top...i mean, the same but different lol. still killer players.
Wow I don’t know he sounds great but what about Yamaha so 2000?
@@jaguaron007 Do you mean the sa 2000? Did Carlos ever play one? I'm comparing HIS sounds, not every guitar in the world.
Yes my bad look for the song”she’s not there” cover live version!
@@jaguaron007 by who? Santana?
Just checked out a video online Deep Purple doing a Beatles cover " Help "I know you like The Beatles good version
Greedy thugs like Peter Grant were among the primary reasons for the closure of the Fillmores. They would've closed sooner rather than later, yes. But Grant and the trolls he "managed" were a primary cause at the time, as Graham said in his book. The good vibes had evaporated by 1971 and rock was quickly becoming what we have today -- a huge industry that successfully generates cash from every avenue imaginable.
I just thought that Grant had Zeppelin 's back so they wouldn't get ripped off. I see the domino effect now.
Great point! Sold to us as so musicians wouldn’t get ripped off but maybe turned a bit more insidious
Lol, Graham is not the victimized saint you portray him to be. His priorities shifted after the Fillmore’s closed. He knew where the money was and he dove right in, almost creating a monopoly on concert promotions. Oh, that wasn’t mentioned in his book?
The best Latin rock music ever played in this planet