i bet a lot of people who didn't live in this era don't realize that besides all the hits they mostly find from that time, jamming like this was a huge part of the live performance menu from rock bands and you expected that they would break into the unknown like this in their own way and linger and linger and linger. Often it wasn't necessarily super captivating, but everyone appreciated the musicians being brave and honest, followed every note and the crowd loved going for the ride together with band and lots of real magic happened. I'm saying there's a difference between 'taking a solo' in a pre determined place and chord sequence and jumping off the improvisational cliff like this, no one's done it for decades and I miss it and the collective patience we all had in the audience.
this is wayyyy before my time but i love this kind of loose energy. I wish musicians had more of a Miles Davis approach to performance where he'd tell his bandmates:'I pay you to practice on the bandstand in front of people'
Back then, you had to actually listen. Some of today's music seems to be nothing more than something happening in the background at a cocktail party while people discuss their portfolios.
Bloomfield and Bishop jamming predates Duane Allman and Betts doing the Mountain Jam which was included on Eat a Peach. It is so similiar that I imagine the Allman Bros. Band listened to the East-West record.
The gentle person who spoke of the beautiful improvisational cliff, is spot on, for revealing the heartfull unity of spirit letting go, while discovering with such sensitive curiosity all that's out there when not conforming to a particular guided plan of arrangements. So much Jammin has been happenin for thousands of years longer than the written note. Let it be with bucksters, parlor players and all the rest of us who feel the pleasures of hittin it with whoever comes along, with just another cosmic folkin song !
Mike was the best guitarist in the world at this time and along with Paul created some powerful blues jazz fusion. East West is one the best albums all time!
In 1967 i saw Fairport Convention improvise East West at Middle Earth. Richard Thompson was amazing, just a teenanger, Martin Lamble on drums so young, Ashley Hutchings on bass, Simon Nichol also on guitar. What a band for the time! Such a shame it was not recorded. I had never heard anything so wonderful before being used to 45 rpm single length recordings of music.
I saw them too! It might have been the first time I met David Crosby. I saw Electric Flag at Tapia Park in Malibu Canyon. I was living in Topanga Canyon and got to meet and jam with a lot of great musicians, guys from Canned Heat, Taj Mahal, Buffalo Springfield...many others. Those were magical times.
Have had the East West album since forever and always wanted the title track to continue beyond 13 minutes. I'm in heaven. This is just wonderful. I remember in 1974 hearing the album track on the radio while I was driving home and I kept going round the block till it finished. (Probably grateful it wan't this version!!) Staggeringly amazing.
There's a CD with three live versions. This might be one of them as I haven't listened for a long time. Just noticed somebody else said the same thing.
I belive I have this on a cd with only 3 live versions of East- West...all 3 versions are fantastic and this I believe is the longest one. Simply fantastic that this exist!!!!
@dukingtheraven Hey,yeah the first 2 versions r from1966,the 3rd and longest is from 1967,Hollywood, Chicago and Huntington Beach r the locations and yeah quality sucks but the playing is fantastic. Thanks for the note.
I have the 13 minute version, electrifying, from the first minute I heard it, way back in the 60s. They are still too good for me to emulate on my simple Fender.
I've loved Bloomfield since I first heard him on I think Super Sessions in 1969 when I was 16, I was probably too young for Butterfield when this band first came out but I certainly knew him later on probably around the same time I heard Super Session. BIG harp sound and he could sing his ass off, the world lost two great ones. I got sober or I wouldn't be here now either.
@@G8GT364CI i also first started listening to mike and paul when i was about 16/17. I actually was possessed by these guys. I listened like 3 butterfield/Bloomfield albums a day for 2 years . Even the same ones over and over. And every night before sleeping i listened one off there filmore shows. At one point i knew exactly what lick paul was gonne play 10 seconds before he played it and i was always right xD. Weird shit. Knew every recorded lick he ever played.
@@G8GT364CI cool! I play harmonica. And recently i try to play some son house stuff on guitar. Am working on that xD. But at my best days i could rip that harp in half man. Bro if i was like really on .wich wasn't to often i actually reached like musselwhite levels. Actually crazy . But stress and shit mostly stops me from playing like that. But i know its inside me somewhere. In everyone i suppose 😂
Two giants that were well ahead of everyone else that even tried to fuse blues, jazz and psychedelia. So sad we lost these two icons at such young ages but their music lives on. When they open the book to this genre, Paul and Mike will appear first page, top of list..
For those before the Blues Brothers, 1963 these 5 most excellent players were truly AWE inspiring !!!! Saw Betterdays Band at S.I.U. Cdale.... again at winterland.... last seen at Union Bar N. Minn. The baddest Harp bar non......
Add those of us on RUclips to that group, my friend. This is jaw-dropping. I recall buying East-West when it came out and I didn't know what to make of the song East-West except it was captivating. I think that record got me out of trying to put music, and art generally, in a box with a label.
Go in to about the 16 minute mark and the drummer is playing the rhythmic line that Ginger Baker used for Blind Faith's "Do what you like." , a few years later than this. "Do what you like" owes much to "East -West." And Clapton's solo in that song owes something to Bloomflields explorations on 'East-West."
Great call! Funnily enough this song influenced just about every jam that came after it around that time, nobody had ever hear anything quite like it before. This is similar to Do What You Like in that they’re both modal jams. Do What You Like is Dorian and East West is the more exotic/Eastern Phrygian. I’ve always said that Bloomfield was really the first blues rock “god” if you want to use that terminology. Insane how this was recorded in 66, he beat Clapton to the game by a few years! He was playing all the crazy “BB King kicks on steroids” since 64. A tragedy that Bloomfield is so unsung these days.
@@dailydoseofblues7708 Sorry for the delay in responding to you, Hendrix is my all-time favorite guitarist but you know I love Mike Bloomfield John McGlocklin West Montgomery
Listening to this at work - it's not a good idea. This music is captivating and I do have to show some output for my paycheck. Does anyone know if Billy Davenport toured with Butter after the release of East-West? I've read he retired for a few years after the album came out. Great, great drumming on that studio version - switching between sticks & mallets really added a deeper dimension to the feel.
Wish the sound was less muffled but this is great. Elvin goes first, as usual with this jam. Mike at 10:40. In Elvin- exceptional talent, mastery. In Mike, well that's virtuosic brilliance, age enduring genius. So sad Mike couldn't better blend his talent with his life, but how many in human history have? Flame out early (Hendrix, Van Gogh, Mike) or last for decades but with the daemon gone (Dylan). Either way, this sounds as fresh as when it first came out, and I brought home the album, aged 13.
Paul was my soulmate, and the father of my son, Justin, who was seven when he died. He was getting well in 87. Wish he was here to sue the idiots who made the bullshit doc.
Remember the hundred dollar recorder,the idea it was a jam, not rehearsed,and they probably didnt know they were being recorded.back then the audience would go with you on the experiment.Anyone can tell most of it was improvised.lt didnt always work like they would like.lt did not matter.lt was always worth it when the band was on fire!
Interesting hearing "joy to the world" at the end...on the Allman Bros Fillmore version of "You Don't Love Me" they did that - in 1971. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right?
Sounds terrible to me. This is an example of why it is so difficult to make live recordings and especially back then when P A equipment was hard to come by
Link to a document with more information and the history of this jam: 1drv.ms/w/s!Aj1AK8H5H3FFh32uC-z3DqjEzOPK
It wants me to sign in to Microsoft to hear it(!)
i bet a lot of people who didn't live in this era don't realize that besides all the hits they mostly find from that time, jamming like this was a huge part of the live performance menu from rock bands and you expected that they would break into the unknown like this in their own way and linger and linger and linger. Often it wasn't necessarily super captivating, but everyone appreciated the musicians being brave and honest, followed every note and the crowd loved going for the ride together with band and lots of real magic happened. I'm saying there's a difference between 'taking a solo' in a pre determined place and chord sequence and jumping off the improvisational cliff like this, no one's done it for decades and I miss it and the collective patience we all had in the audience.
this is wayyyy before my time but i love this kind of loose energy. I wish musicians had more of a Miles Davis approach to performance where he'd tell his bandmates:'I pay you to practice on the bandstand in front of people'
Back then, you had to actually listen. Some of today's music seems to be nothing more than something happening in the background at a cocktail party while people discuss their portfolios.
Tell me about it. I knew both of them very well. Long story behind them and moving out of town in order to make a living
Check the Robert Glasper Experiment live gigs on youtube 2010-2020
Bloomfield and Bishop jamming predates Duane Allman and Betts doing the Mountain Jam which was included on Eat a Peach. It is so similiar that I imagine the Allman Bros. Band listened to the East-West record.
The gentle person who spoke of the beautiful improvisational cliff, is spot on, for revealing the heartfull unity of spirit letting go, while discovering with such sensitive curiosity all that's out there when not conforming to a particular guided plan of arrangements. So much Jammin has been happenin for thousands of years longer than the written note.
Let it be with bucksters, parlor players and all the rest of us who feel the pleasures of hittin it with whoever comes along, with just another cosmic folkin song !
Bob Dylan once said he thought he knew a lot about playing the blues... until he heard Mike Bloomfield.
One of the best songs and musical performances that you can heard in Rock music. Really incredible beautiful music. They touch the sky here.
Way ahead of their time!!
Mike was the best guitarist in the world at this time and along with Paul created some powerful blues jazz fusion. East West is one the best albums all time!
Michael Bloomfield lives!
Yea sappig guitarist. The best after Patton. East west is harder then 3 rug of cocaine
In 1967 i saw Fairport Convention improvise East West at Middle Earth. Richard Thompson was amazing, just a teenanger, Martin Lamble on drums so young, Ashley Hutchings on bass, Simon Nichol also on guitar. What a band for the time! Such a shame it was not recorded. I had never heard anything so wonderful before being used to 45 rpm single length recordings of music.
Very kool
1st saw them at the 1st Love-In in L.A., Elysian Park, March 25, 1967. tripping.
I saw them too! It might have been the first time I met David Crosby. I saw Electric Flag at Tapia Park in Malibu Canyon. I was living in Topanga Canyon and got to meet and jam with a lot of great musicians, guys from Canned Heat, Taj Mahal, Buffalo Springfield...many others. Those were magical times.
I’m fuckin jealous
I want a second chance
So I can do it right
Have had the East West album since forever and always wanted the title track to continue beyond 13 minutes. I'm in heaven. This is just wonderful. I remember in 1974 hearing the album track on the radio while I was driving home and I kept going round the block till it finished. (Probably grateful it wan't this version!!) Staggeringly amazing.
There's a CD with three live versions. This might be one of them as I haven't listened for a long time. Just noticed somebody else said the same thing.
@@daveb7811 Thanks for that information about the CD. Have just ordered it. Cheers.
East/West was presented to me in 1969. Bloomie, oh yes, Bloomfield.
Stellar.... Beyond this world, the invention of psychedelic rock and no words to describe Michael. Thank you for sharing Mister D.D.B.
thank you sir. this is a supernova of sound. and the pic is perfect...two madmen creating a new universe
Never heard this live recording before. Thank you sir!
I belive I have this on a cd with only 3 live versions of East- West...all 3 versions are fantastic and this I believe is the longest one. Simply fantastic that this exist!!!!
I have that CD and I think all 3 cuts were later than 1966. It might have been recorded at Fillmore East, tho my memory is not clear.
@dukingtheraven Hey,yeah the first 2 versions r from1966,the 3rd and longest is from 1967,Hollywood, Chicago and Huntington Beach r the locations and yeah quality sucks but the playing is fantastic. Thanks for the note.
I have the 13 minute version, electrifying, from the first minute I heard it, way back in the 60s. They are still too good for me to emulate on my simple Fender.
I just bought Bloomfields guitar anthology book of tabs. can't wait to get it and learn to play some of his licks
I've loved Bloomfield since I first heard him on I think Super Sessions in 1969 when I was 16, I was probably too young for Butterfield when this band first came out but I certainly knew him later on probably around the same time I heard Super Session. BIG harp sound and he could sing his ass off, the world lost two great ones. I got sober or I wouldn't be here now either.
I wish i was born in that Area😂. I was born in 2001 so not much cool bands left to see live 😔
@@dailydoseofblues7708 I was about three years younger than you when I first heard these guys.
@@G8GT364CI i also first started listening to mike and paul when i was about 16/17. I actually was possessed by these guys. I listened like 3 butterfield/Bloomfield albums a day for 2 years . Even the same ones over and over. And every night before sleeping i listened one off there filmore shows. At one point i knew exactly what lick paul was gonne play 10 seconds before he played it and i was always right xD. Weird shit. Knew every recorded lick he ever played.
@@dailydoseofblues7708 Do you play? I'm a long time bass player. If you don't you should grab a harp. Butterfield was one of the if not the best.
@@G8GT364CI cool! I play harmonica. And recently i try to play some son house stuff on guitar. Am working on that xD. But at my best days i could rip that harp in half man. Bro if i was like really on .wich wasn't to often i actually reached like musselwhite levels. Actually crazy . But stress and shit mostly stops me from playing like that. But i know its inside me somewhere. In everyone i suppose 😂
Just reading Guitar King and learning more about the development of this jam, so glad to be able to listen to this version! Thanks!
How they made it? I've heard mike and elvin locked them self in a room, took some LSD; and the rest was history
Ditto, just today reading about this "Raga". Quite a read.
@@dailydoseofblues7708 It was mainly Bloomfield who came up with it, he was out there man.
Love this song since I first heard it in 1966 when it came out.
Thank you. This is something else entirely.
Yea my favourit am adicted man
Stunning performance of my favourite PBBB song. Marvellous magical mesmerising music.
Musicians and groups after 74ish never composed complex music like this. 62-72 was the absolute best rock music ever written PERIOD IMHO
Two giants that were well ahead of everyone else that even tried to fuse blues, jazz and psychedelia. So sad we lost these two icons at such young ages but their music lives on. When they open the book to this genre, Paul and Mike will appear first page, top of list..
Neither died by choice, ugly world.
Thanks for this post. Both Bloomfiled and Bishop on their best.
i was 11 yrs old when this was recorded
I was -22 years old when this was recorded…do time machines exist yet??
After you listen to this, listen to the Stone's end of can you hear me knockin' recorded years later...
Michael is one of those players who you want to hear every note and phrase they ever played.
For those before the Blues Brothers, 1963 these 5 most excellent players were truly AWE inspiring !!!! Saw Betterdays Band at S.I.U. Cdale.... again at winterland.... last seen at Union Bar N. Minn. The baddest Harp bar non......
I’m sure many people in the audience had to pick their jaw off the floor!😮🎉
Add those of us on RUclips to that group, my friend. This is jaw-dropping. I recall buying East-West when it came out and I didn't know what to make of the song East-West except it was captivating. I think that record got me out of trying to put music, and art generally, in a box with a label.
Go in to about the 16 minute mark and the drummer is playing the rhythmic line that Ginger Baker used for Blind Faith's "Do what you like." , a few years later than this. "Do what you like" owes much to "East -West." And Clapton's solo in that song owes something to Bloomflields explorations on 'East-West."
Tnx bro
Great call! Funnily enough this song influenced just about every jam that came after it around that time, nobody had ever hear anything quite like it before. This is similar to Do What You Like in that they’re both modal jams. Do What You Like is Dorian and East West is the more exotic/Eastern Phrygian. I’ve always said that Bloomfield was really the first blues rock “god” if you want to use that terminology. Insane how this was recorded in 66, he beat Clapton to the game by a few years! He was playing all the crazy “BB King kicks on steroids” since 64. A tragedy that Bloomfield is so unsung these days.
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Who is your favorite guitarist man?
@@dailydoseofblues7708 Sorry for the delay in responding to you, Hendrix is my all-time favorite guitarist but you know I love Mike Bloomfield John McGlocklin West Montgomery
Listening to this at work - it's not a good idea. This music is captivating and I do have to show some output for my paycheck. Does anyone know if Billy Davenport toured with Butter after the release of East-West? I've read he retired for a few years after the album came out. Great, great drumming on that studio version - switching between sticks & mallets really added a deeper dimension to the feel.
Pure genius
My god!
ブルームフィールドがここまでロック寄りのインプロヴィゼーション全開のプレイは極めて珍しく、かつカッコいい音源は嬉しい！
Wish the sound was less muffled but this is great. Elvin goes first, as usual with this jam. Mike at 10:40. In Elvin- exceptional talent, mastery. In Mike, well that's virtuosic brilliance, age enduring genius. So sad Mike couldn't better blend his talent with his life, but how many in human history have? Flame out early (Hendrix, Van Gogh, Mike) or last for decades but with the daemon gone (Dylan). Either way, this sounds as fresh as when it first came out, and I brought home the album, aged 13.
great blues my word that man could play
Paul was my soulmate, and the father of my son, Justin, who was seven when he died. He was getting well in 87. Wish he was here to sue the idiots who made the bullshit doc.
INCREDIBLE!!!
Thank you.
I have a C D with 4 versions is E/W recorded in Huntington beach.
I was born in 1964.
before they released two albums
The Butterfield Blues Band
East/ West.
Remember the hundred dollar recorder,the idea it was a jam, not rehearsed,and they probably didnt know they were being recorded.back then the audience would go with you on the experiment.Anyone can tell most of it was improvised.lt didnt always work like they would like.lt did not matter.lt was always worth it when the band was on fire!
Profound. Straight up. Q
Interesting hearing "joy to the world" at the end...on the Allman Bros Fillmore version of "You Don't Love Me" they did that - in 1971. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right?
Фантастика!❤️💎🎶браво!
I was born in Chicago, IL.
where was this please ? top of the tree !!!
I like what there trying to do
These are Cream from the USA.
That is a severe degradation to the Paul Butterfield blues band. They were far more versatile at much more interested in concert than cream
@@dukingtheraven thank you, ducking the raven: people write things, we‘ve got to exercise patience with such (mau) pricks.
@@jofair Totally agree. The most famous person in Cream was the least talented, IMO.
Except for My mom and my brother Frank and my sister Linette.
They are from New Orleans,La.
...any idea where this was recorded?
Amsterdam
@@dailydoseofblues7708 My sources say the Golden Bear, Hunington Beach CA 1967...
Golden Bear...this is one of 3 East-West versions from a cd put out in the 90's on Winner records. BBB East West Live.
@@82149 I seen them there several times
Who played lead guitar on "Drunk Again"? Was it Mike Bloomfield?
Elvin! (“You be like that ! Crabshaw don’t care!”)
1996?
1966.... both Butterfield and Bloomfield were long dead by '96
ruclips.net/video/L8GZUZavklw/видео.html
Not quite as melodic ?
Sounds terrible to me.
This is an example of why it is so difficult to make live recordings and especially back then when P A equipment was hard to come by
Its The quality of the performance which is what really counts and here it is absolutely AMAZING
I totally disagree, considering they were most likely using tapes this is a pretty clean recording. Just listen to the music and enjoy
Dude,u r missing the whole point of this point.It is the CONTENT not the audio QUALITY of something like this. Charlie Parker anyone???????
the audio quality is great...sounds like reality
Awful sound. It's a mess.