Colosseum live from "Supershow" 1969: "Debut" Jon Hiseman: drums Dave Greenslade: Organ Dick Heckstall-Smith: sax and clarinet Tony Reeves: bass James Litherland: guitar
Hi Daniel John Young here I was in the last incarnation of Greenslade and many other bands too... just wanted to say many years ago at C.F.Mott college in Liverpool ..the band I was in England's National Sport were doing a gig. Your grandad just turned up none of us knew him. He said 'I've heard your pretty good ...do you mind if I join in!' Something I will never forget... love and best jy :-)
@@sobliviouss That makes me really happy to hear!! As far as i can tell from stories from my dad and Dick's autobiography, he didnt really like to boast about fame or any lincolnsheit like that, so i can imagine that scene pretty vividly, hahaha. Thanks for replying!!!
Bought their first album back in '69 and saw them live in about '71 with Chris Farlowe in Watford. Still love listening to them and watching them. Hard to believe they were only together for about 4 years. Dick Heckstall-Smith such an exciting player RIP.
I've never made a secret of the fact that Colosseum is the band of my life. But I have to admit that there were three band leaders in particular who shaped the British blues of the 1960s: John Mayall, Graham Bond and Alexis Korner. In their bands, many well-known musicians of this era started or already played together before they formed their own bands and started their own careers. Playing with these three masterminds was something like elementary school for the British blues scene, but also for the development of progressive rock, jazz rock and a few more styles. Of course, bands like Cream, Colosseum, Fleetwood Mac, Keef Hartley Band, to name just four examples, are much more than just spin-offs. But it's so exciting to understand the combinations in which the musicians have previously collaborated, and often their paths crossed as members, guests or friends of the bands of Mayall, Bond and Korner. Finally, a nice musical example of the transfer of a theme from "elementary school" to "secondary school": Compare Tony Reeves' bass line and Jon Hiseman's drumming in the middle part of 'Open up a new door' (John Mayall, LP Bare wires, recorded in April 1968 and released in June 1968) with Colosseum's very first song 'Debut' (LP Those Who Are About to Die Salute You, rec. in Winter 1968/1969, rel. in March 1969). What a beautiful homage and reminiscence: A bass line as a debut, opening a new door!
Saw Dick Heckstall Smith and Art Themen guest with the Nottingham Jazz Orchestra at The Old General Pub, Radford (sadly now flats!) in the late 1960's early 70s. Art Themen still going strong...
There's literally a bunch of bands that are good. Feel offended all you want but i'll say the truth: GET OUT OF YOUR BUBBLE! Go listen to music, there's way too many options from all over the world, no excuse for not finding a great group with great music. What limits you is your mind, just open it and have fun.
There really are tons of great new young modern jazz and jazz rock and fusion bands these days, sooo many around UK, US, europe, etc playing similar styles of jazz, jazz rock, and/or fusion (however you term it) and many with a purposeful 70s sound. But you just have to go looking for them outside the mainstream, as they wont find you, they are not promoted like groups back then. Best thing to do is get on spotify put in terms like uk jazz, or modern fusion, or new jazz rock, etc...and within a week spotify will be sending you custom playlists of hundreds more similar bands of same style you already like, it is very easy these days, but that is what you have to do to start if you dont know where to. Even if new music in this style doesnt do it for you, if you want a million more obscure 70s jazz rock bands similar to colosseum, you can put that into spotify too and you will have a ton of that stuff sent to you too, an endless supply of obscure great 70s jazz rock etc.
How could I not feel affection for Colosseum? My initiation into performing rock was playing sax in Walking in the Park with my school band. Very badly - no Dick Heckstall-Smith I!
One hell of a propulsive rhythm section below the beautiful soloing. What a great example of the talent of the day, the cream of the crop, per se. More listening to their catalog next!
Lovely soundand so much feeling, soul and ability from all concerned. And thank the stars for the time machine that video has provided. Love to all concerned. GG xxx
Amazing! I didn't know there was any live Colosseum footage from the pre-Chris Farlowe era. Thanks a million. (and I do find it cute that you can see Dick Heckstall-Smith in the 60s, and then 30 years later, and he basically looks just the same, LOL).
Saw them live at the University of London 'President's Ball' at ULU, Malet Street, in 1971 or thereabouts. Have never forgotten the clarinet/sax trick. Amazing.
Lucky you to see them ! Unfortunately I lost them when they came in Rome more than forty years ago. But this year I hope to see them, when they will play in Italy (in their new Europen Tour) in september/october. Dick Heckstall_Smith, unfortunately (R.I.P) is not with us...
Actually, the one that looks like a clarinet is a soprano saxophone. They do look very similar. You should check out Jack Lancaster from Blodwyn Pig and David Jackson from Van der Graaf Generator, who did something similar. The master of the more than one saxophone technique is the late, great Rahsaan Roland Kirk, who often played three different saxophone family instruments at one time. Kirk also mastered circular breathing so he could play a 25 minute saxophone solo without needing to stop playing to take a breath. There is a video of Heckstall-Smith, Kirk, Hiseman and Eric Clapton jamming that you can track down on RUclips. Kirk is amazing. But it's great to see 5 saxophones played by 2 people!
I bought the album as soon as it came out and saw them, backed by Uriah Heep at the Albert Hall. They demonstrate the richness of the music at that time. What a privilege to have been around then.
The Hammond Organ always makes the band. Even though Dave Hiseman did not have a Hammond B-3 Dave for this video, the Hammond L-100 in this video sounds great. No band worth listening to does not have a Hammond Organ!
I saw this lineup in Cambridge in June or July '69, I can still remember Jimmy Litherland singing "Walking in The Park"! Also saw Blossom Toes that month at another gig... Both gigs were FREE (didn't have much money in those days - but saw loads of good bands!)
A glorious period when jazz and rock music came together. A time when Tubby Hayes turned up to play with Family,or Harold McNair jam with John Martyn. A time sadly now gone. These days, the vile Simon Cowell and his ilk have ensured such gifted musicians are pushed into the shadows.
It's sad that the people of 2015 miss out on these brilliant musicians and others of that time, and are basically forced to listen to the garbage served up to them now on commercial radio.
@rose I was there also (as Colosseum's manager) for both days. My 'appearance' is also very brief at around 58 minutes, sitting with the band around me. Great memories, in particular, the magic minutes when Dick H-S played 2 horns with Roland Kirk, who sometimes played three! There's a post of this on my blog: colinrichardsonjazz.typepad.com/blog/2014/06/two-saxophonists-four-saxes-or-possibly-five.html
I have to argue that they were better with Chris Farlowe things about Farlow is that when he gets in a band he takes it over have you ever listen to atomic rooster with Chris Farlowe ? I kind of liked them more without chris Farlow Although daughter of time was a great song
Happy heavenly birthday to Jon. Born on this day in 1944. Never forgotten, what a group of musicians. So proud to have seen them. 🙏❤️
I am so happy to see that there is still so much praise for my grandfather and the band to this day
Hi Daniel John Young here I was in the last incarnation of Greenslade and many other bands too... just wanted to say many years ago at C.F.Mott college in Liverpool ..the band I was in England's National Sport were doing a gig. Your grandad just turned up none of us knew him. He said 'I've heard your pretty good ...do you mind if I join in!' Something I will never forget... love and best jy :-)
@@sobliviouss That makes me really happy to hear!! As far as i can tell from stories from my dad and Dick's autobiography, he didnt really like to boast about fame or any lincolnsheit like that, so i can imagine that scene pretty vividly, hahaha. Thanks for replying!!!
@@danielhs11 lovely man Daniel ... and thanks for getting back to me it all seems in the dark mists of time but a great memory nonetheless :)
I love listening to his music. It's like exploring new lands; still fresh, still inspiring. A great musician, indeed. RIP
Your grandpa was the man.
R.I.P. Jon, I followed him from the Graham Bond Organisation to the superb Colosseum. This is how I remember them, a very sad loss.
Don't miss his playing with Davy Graham, Duffy Power, Peter Lemer and Jack Bruce between these bands....
Bought their first album back in '69 and saw them live in about '71 with Chris Farlowe in Watford. Still love listening to them and watching them. Hard to believe they were only together for about 4 years. Dick Heckstall-Smith such an exciting player RIP.
I've never made a secret of the fact that Colosseum is the band of my life. But I have to admit that there were three band leaders in particular who shaped the British blues of the 1960s: John Mayall, Graham Bond and Alexis Korner. In their bands, many well-known musicians of this era started or already played together before they formed their own bands and started their own careers. Playing with these three masterminds was something like elementary school for the British blues scene, but also for the development of progressive rock, jazz rock and a few more styles. Of course, bands like Cream, Colosseum, Fleetwood Mac, Keef Hartley Band, to name just four examples, are much more than just spin-offs. But it's so exciting to understand the combinations in which the musicians have previously collaborated, and often their paths crossed as members, guests or friends of the bands of Mayall, Bond and Korner.
Finally, a nice musical example of the transfer of a theme from "elementary school" to "secondary school": Compare Tony Reeves' bass line and Jon Hiseman's drumming in the middle part of 'Open up a new door' (John Mayall, LP Bare wires, recorded in April 1968 and released in June 1968) with Colosseum's very first song 'Debut' (LP Those Who Are About to Die Salute You, rec. in Winter 1968/1969, rel. in March 1969). What a beautiful homage and reminiscence: A bass line as a debut, opening a new door!
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Saw Dick Heckstall Smith and Art Themen guest with the Nottingham Jazz Orchestra at The Old General Pub, Radford (sadly now flats!) in the late 1960's early 70s. Art Themen still going strong...
Real good wish there was still bands around today with that creativity
There's literally a bunch of bands that are good.
Feel offended all you want but i'll say the truth: GET OUT OF YOUR BUBBLE! Go listen to music, there's way too many options from all over the world, no excuse for not finding a great group with great music. What limits you is your mind, just open it and have fun.
There really are tons of great new young modern jazz and jazz rock and fusion bands these days, sooo many around UK, US, europe, etc playing similar styles of jazz, jazz rock, and/or fusion (however you term it) and many with a purposeful 70s sound. But you just have to go looking for them outside the mainstream, as they wont find you, they are not promoted like groups back then. Best thing to do is get on spotify put in terms like uk jazz, or modern fusion, or new jazz rock, etc...and within a week spotify will be sending you custom playlists of hundreds more similar bands of same style you already like, it is very easy these days, but that is what you have to do to start if you dont know where to. Even if new music in this style doesnt do it for you, if you want a million more obscure 70s jazz rock bands similar to colosseum, you can put that into spotify too and you will have a ton of that stuff sent to you too, an endless supply of obscure great 70s jazz rock etc.
Even better when Chris Farlow joined them, anyone remember "Colosseum Live" ?Fabulous Album...
the single best album ever
Jon G Definitely absolutely the best ever live album
absolutely
Live double Album, Chris Farlow at his best.
I’m cutting down my beard to a mustache immediately
VERY VERY GOOD BAND......................................
He is an incredibly good drummer.
Incredibly good---one of the greatest, arguably better than Bonham!
Saw them live at Lanchester College, Coventry in I think 1968. Valentyne Suite still a favourite album. Great band.
How could I not feel affection for Colosseum? My initiation into performing rock was playing sax in Walking in the Park with my school band. Very badly - no Dick Heckstall-Smith I!
I saw the genesis of Colosseum backing John Mayall at St Albans City Hall in 1968 - loved them ever since !!
I just read the DHS memoir, Blowing the Blues. Excellent CD comes
With the book. Easy read.
Superb 👌🏻
Thanks Bruce. Saw Marc live as Tyrannosaurus Rex at Dunstable Civic Hall around 1969. Another RIP sadly.
One hell of a propulsive rhythm section below the beautiful soloing. What a great example of the talent of the day, the cream of the crop, per se. More listening to their catalog next!
Fantastic music !!!
Yes
HOW is this not something I heard before?? Damn I'm 70 and NEVER heard of this Band!!
Dick Heckstall-Smith on the Sax - still great music
love this great band...colosseum!!!
Lovely soundand so much feeling, soul and ability from all concerned. And thank the stars for the time machine that video has provided. Love to all concerned. GG xxx
colloseum live brings back great memories for me I loved skeleton great track and magic sax playing.
A long time ago! But unforgettable!
epIC performance
Great music! Still my favourite band.
Great Sound
Amazing! I didn't know there was any live Colosseum footage from the pre-Chris Farlowe era. Thanks a million. (and I do find it cute that you can see Dick Heckstall-Smith in the 60s, and then 30 years later, and he basically looks just the same, LOL).
Saw them live at the University of London 'President's Ball' at ULU, Malet Street, in 1971 or thereabouts. Have never forgotten the clarinet/sax trick. Amazing.
Lucky you to see them ! Unfortunately I lost them when they came in Rome more than forty years ago. But this year I hope to see them, when they will play in Italy (in their new Europen Tour) in september/october. Dick Heckstall_Smith, unfortunately (R.I.P) is not with us...
Actually, the one that looks like a clarinet is a soprano saxophone. They do look very similar. You should check out Jack Lancaster from Blodwyn Pig and David Jackson from Van der Graaf Generator, who did something similar. The master of the more than one saxophone technique is the late, great Rahsaan Roland Kirk, who often played three different saxophone family instruments at one time. Kirk also mastered circular breathing so he could play a 25 minute saxophone solo without needing to stop playing to take a breath. There is a video of Heckstall-Smith, Kirk, Hiseman and Eric Clapton jamming that you can track down on RUclips. Kirk is amazing. But it's great to see 5 saxophones played by 2 people!
In the 80s I had sehen them on stage. Very impressiv.
I bought the album as soon as it came out and saw them, backed by Uriah Heep at the Albert Hall. They demonstrate the richness of the music at that time. What a privilege to have been around then.
wow what energy!
The Hammond Organ always makes the band. Even though Dave Hiseman did not have a Hammond B-3 Dave for this video, the Hammond L-100 in this video sounds great. No band worth listening to does not have a Hammond Organ!
Dave Greenslade!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
...I saw this line-up at Enfield Tech, in May '69......on the bill also, was BLOSSOM TOES and FIRE..all for 7/6 pence (about 37p now !!!)
I saw this lineup in Cambridge in June or July '69, I can still remember Jimmy Litherland singing "Walking in The Park"!
Also saw Blossom Toes that month at another gig... Both gigs were FREE (didn't have much money in those days - but saw loads of good bands!)
happy that i found this!
My favourite sax player this side of Eric Dolphy!
Jon was a fuckin’ beast on the kit! It’s a shame that not many people have heard of him.
just great !
Ha-ha - good stuff 'in the zone' I guess. Only saw them once - 1969 Bath Blues Festival
One of the best jazz rock bands around. What happened to James Litherland? He seemed to vanish.
recuerdo aquellas epocas de mi niñez cuandomi padre oia estas canciones !! simplemente maravillosos
Super!!!!!!
Fantastic band!!!!!
Saw these many times at the festival s in the 70s
great groove, great group.
They're outrageous saw them at The Electric Circus NY 1970
Sensationell
Danke
WOW! Thanks for uploading!
Just great
one part of the parts of a multi part amazing band!
Really enjoyed a Dick Heckstall-Smith Band gig at St Andrews U in 1972 ?. Playing two saxes at one time was a blast.
A glorious period when jazz and rock music came together. A time when Tubby Hayes turned up to play with Family,or Harold McNair jam with John Martyn.
A time sadly now gone. These days, the vile Simon Cowell and his ilk have ensured such gifted musicians are pushed into the shadows.
+Rob Jones If there was such a thing as Satan it would be Simon Cowell.
I'm glad you feel the same. Cowell makes sure all the screeching /shouting, overly flash "soul" singing is the norm.
Tubby Hayes!!!!!
It's sad that the people of 2015 miss out on these brilliant musicians and others of that time, and are basically forced to listen to the garbage served up to them now on commercial radio.
Nobody is "forced" to listen to anything.
I listen to both
Superb. Saw them (I can't remember how many times), at least once at the Palladium in the Strand.
Great!
...rewelacja ...:-))
Wow - THAT`S psyshedelic!
2 guitars playing in harmony is one thing, but this... :)
Dick Heckstall-Smith is arguably the most heard sax player in Classic Rock history... he played the iconic sax solo on Pink Floyd's "Money."
That was Dick Parry.
Yep, you're right !
filmed on wednesday march 26th 1969
Batterista straordinario
Assolutamente, direi che Hiseman era senza rivali nel suo genere (e ancora suona alla grande)
Jon Hiseman is still a monster!
Yup. Probably was late at night when I combined the names.Sorry to both Dave and Jon. Hammond still sounds great!
I'm good looking theme original theme following the introduction of French Montana - Casino Life was yotube
2:25 eargasm
At 2:50 I think you can spot Julie Driscoll in the crowd as well.
Yeah that's Julie.
An EB2 bass?
Rare to see and great to hear…
James Blake's dad on guitar!
shhhh, dont wake up dhs for hez among all of us !
Wa-wa bass
Might well be!
Early Steve Jobs on soprano\tenor sax
Just thought I'd point out, contrary to the description, that Dick isn't playing tenor and clarinet, but tenor and soprano sax.
In retrospect, he was better than Ginger Baker my idol whom I saw twice
look at the ppl, they had idea whatsoever what this band was arguing about ! this is apogee of brit music!
No doubt someone has already asked this, but was that Marc Bolan in the audience?
ich hab so ne erinnerung, dass es damals eine platte gab von closseum mit gedichten von gottfried benn - kann mir da jemand weiterhelfen?
The girl at 2:21.
Lucky you to be there in 1969
@rose I was there also (as Colosseum's manager) for both days. My 'appearance' is also very brief at around 58 minutes, sitting with the band around me. Great memories, in particular, the magic minutes when Dick H-S played 2 horns with Roland Kirk, who sometimes played three! There's a post of this on my blog: colinrichardsonjazz.typepad.com/blog/2014/06/two-saxophonists-four-saxes-or-possibly-five.html
0:49
this is a soprano sax, not a clarinet.
...I think you mean DAVE GREENSLADE............
The girl at 2,21 is Julie Driscoll ???
Marc, where was this gig happening? I remember I have heard and seen Colosseum in Germany in 68/69??? but can't remember the location.
grtz,
Machteld
This is the Supershow. It was recorded in 1969, in England I believe.
@@Merstheman Yes, the Supershow gig was in a disused flooring factory in Staines, Middlesex just down the road from Heathrow airport.
Wow, El baterista es un ejemplo de como usar un bigote sin parecer pendejo
Where's the clarinet? That is a Soprano Sax...
It isn't clarinet - it's soprano sax!!!
I know, but I did not write the notes, I had copied them...I'lll correct them. Thank You
That´s not a clarinet, is a soprano sax.
I have to argue that they were better with Chris Farlowe things about Farlow is that when he gets in a band he takes it over have you ever listen to atomic rooster with Chris Farlowe ? I kind of liked them more without chris Farlow Although daughter of time was a great song
As I know you you are not frendly with szivárvány !