Blind Faith Jam (Part 1 and Part 2).wmv
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Blind Faith were an English blues-rock band that comprised Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood and Ric Grech. The band, which was one of the first "super-groups", released their only album, Blind Faith, in August 1969. They were stylistically similar to the bands in which Winwood, Baker, and Clapton had most recently participated, Traffic and Cream.
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The beginnings of Blind Faith date from mid-1968, with the break-up of Cream. In retrospect as the first "super-group", Cream had become a financial powerhouse, selling millions of records within a few years and raising the group's (and each member's) repertoire to international popularity. Despite that success, the band were crumbling from within because of frequent animosity between Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker, with Eric Clapton doing his best to mediate[citation needed]. In addition, Clapton had been tired of being coerced into playing commercially driven blues and hoped to move forward with a new, experimental, less straitjacketed approach to the genre
Steve Winwood was facing similar problems in The Spencer Davis Group, where he had been the lead singer for three years. Winwood wanted to experiment with the band's sound by infusing jazz elements, but left due to his musical differences, instead forming a new band - Traffic - in 1967. That band split temporarily in 1969, and Winwood started to jam with his good friend Clapton in Clapton's basement in Surrey, England. Winwood and Clapton had previously collaborated on the "Powerhouse" project.
Clapton was pleased with the jam sessions, but was hesitant to start a serious group. Ginger Baker turned up one day to sit in with them in 1969, and the band took near-final form. Clapton questioned letting Baker in the band, because he had promised Jack Bruce that, if they were to work with one another again, all three of them would play. Moreover, Clapton didn't want to reunite with Cream barely nine weeks after the break-up, and also didn't want to deal with another "Cream-like" super-stardom situation. Winwood ultimately persuaded Clapton to finalize Baker's inclusion in the line-up, arguing that Ginger Baker strengthened their musicianship and that it would be hard to find an equally talented drummer.
By May 1969, Ric Grech, bassist with Family, was invited to join them (leaving Family, mid-tour). Andy Johns (engineer) recorded most of the Blind Faith backing tracks at Morgan Studios and the album was finished at Olympic studios with Alan O'Duffy (engineer) who recorded some further tracks, all of the overdubs and mixed the album. This was done under the supervision of producer Jimmy Miller. Jimmy Miller provided focus to the band, who often preferred jamming over the standard commercial 3--5 minute track. By then the group was known collectively as Blind Faith, a slyly cynical reference by Clapton to his outlook on the new group.
News of the group's formation created a buzz of excitement among the public and press, which even heralded the band as "super Cream". The group debuted at a free concert at London's Hyde Park on 7 June 1969.The performance was well received by fans there, but troubled Clapton, who thought that the band's playing was sub-par and that the adulation was undeserved and reminiscent of his Cream days when the crowds would applaud for nearly everything. Clapton, knowing the band had not rehearsed enough and was unprepared, was reluctant to tour and feared that the band would develop into a Cream repeat.
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RIP Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker. A true drum god....
My first listen and it's an eye opener 😊 Wow.
50 years ago ....June 19,2019 and it is alive beyond todays style. Ginger! tribal bump bump bump😵😵😵
Its like listening to Cream and Santana jammin' together
More like Cream and Traffic. Don't really hear any Santana here IMO....
Big fan of jams and had not heard this one before, just the album I bought in 1969.
The Golden Age Of Rock And Roll 🎧🎧🎧
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Think about it. All the different styles of music they have all put out. It’s definitely a Jam session.
Wonderful song
Cream y Traffic. Menuda mezcla impresionante...
This is fantastic. Just musical as hell. How trippy to hear NEW Blind Faith (well, new to me...)
Just one blind faith too bad they quit less than a yr.
First of all, on the Blind Faith Deluxe Edition, this song is called Jam No. 1: "Very Long & Good Jam". There are two other jams #1 + #2: This ain't them. This jam was recorded before Rick Grech had joined the group. So it was Clapton, Winwood, and Baker. The problem was that Winwood was trying to play the bass part on the foot pedals of his Hammond organ, which made it hard for him to concentrate on the keys, never mind lead or trade solos with Clapton or even consider playing the guitar. Though Winwood is and was a truly amazing musician, he only has so many arms/legs/fingers! Still, its fabulous music, almost pure Clapton semi-jazz blues.
I think that the poster changed the name to avoid it getting pulled down. The only other way to get this jam on youtube is in in two separate videos. This one has the whole thing uninterrupted
Effing great band, effing great jam.
Thanx...
So beautiful
Ginger! Still #1
fascinante escuchar en jam a esta super banda
Awesome job ! great jammin' and great footage and pics thanks
Bill,
I don't know where to begin , as that for me , this period in the careers of Clapton and Winwood has had the deepest effect on my musical influences as a aspiring musician myself .They basically are responsible for me wanting to play .
This all came at a period in my life of deep pain , and to play music for me was my remedy ?
Thank's Bill !
`LIKED' !!!
🌜Geniusss!!🌛
Interesting indeed. A little Traffic-y, a little Cream-y with this jam session tape. To think what they all would have done if Clapton (all-due respect to him) didn't have reservations about the whole idea, the band, and their output.....would've been something else for sure.
Alas, it is what it is. They were at least allowed one album, plus all the unreleased material on the Winwood box set and Blind Faith 2-CD set put out some time back.
Plus the Hyde Park concert and the US tour. I saw them in Philadelphia on July 16, 1969 at the Spectrum with 16,450 other lucky fans. Taste & Delaney & Bonnie opened. Ginger's solo got a standing ovation.
@@jeffreymalack3723 - Consider yourself grateful and lucky. Going just off videos I've watched here on YT, it had to of been quite an experience.
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Bullshit. Bruce and Baker were both producing poetic, non-commercial, psychedelic compositions. Clapton never, ever produced less-commercial music.
Man that's not blind faith. At least I hope it isn't. That's Eric Clapton? Much less ginger baker. What a hoax.
Coolie Reese lol jerk look up members of blind faith it included Ginger Baker, Eric Clapton, Stevie Winwood , Ric Grech .. the band was formed after Baker and Clapton dismantled Cream and Winwood and Grech left traffic! Some footage includes Traffic I believe ran out of video for song track ....
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Faith
Thanks for the very cool post Bill, but Rick Grech didn't join Traffic until 1970, well after Blind Faith's sad demise in September 1969.