Chuck Mangione - FRIENDS AND LOVE CONCERT with Don Potter and Bat McGrath 1970 - PART 1
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- FRIENDS & LOVE CONCERT 1970
This is PART 1 of 2 parts from the live concert in 1970.
Friends & Love Theme - Don Potter vocals
Someone Take Me Home - Don Potter vocals
Get Yourself on A Farm Elinda - Bat McGrath and Don Potter vocals
She's Gone - Don Potter vocals
Joropo Piropo - Stanley Watson guitar
Friends & Love Theme - Don Potter vocals
Thanks from the bottom of my heart for putting this on UA-cam.
I love this concert more and more each time I listen to it.
Don Potter's voice, Chuck's music and arrangements...just heartbreakingly beautiful. Wish I could have been there.
My guitar teacher Stanley Watson was in that performance. Seeing him next to Jerry N. broght a tear to my eye. He sadly passed a few years later.
This needs to be rereleased. It was my favorite album in the early 70s. What a classic.
Mine too! Just an amazing album!
An incredible album! I agree 100%
that's why they invented grammys. agree with you all, just pure awesome music.
PLEASE PLEASE , someone in the Powers that Be, listen to the comments here and put out a remastered, cleaned up CD of this album!!! I loved it in 1970, and I love it now. It would be a shame to lose it forever.
If u fuckin fo tell
If hearing Don sing, "how could you not be what I dreamed" doesn't bring a tear to your eye, you have no heart.
Best line in a love song, ever. EVER.
Sat there that night with so much peace and joy,will never forget.
Don's voice still breaks my heart.
I was truly privileged to have been in the audience on May 9, 1970 to see this concert. I was familiar with the work of both Gap and Chuck Mangione because I got to see them perform live at the Shakespeare Restaurant in downtown Rochester, where I was a 17 year old busboy. Great job! For three nights a week, I saw Gap Mangione, Tony Levin, and Steve Gadd (!) perform on the stage in the center of the circular bar at the heart of the restaurant. They played from 5 to 7. Then at 10:30, Chuck and his quartet played until 1. This was my first exposure to real jazz and it was a revelation. The "Friends & Love" concert was of course awesome. A good friend from Irondequoit High School (Mick Guzauski) was the engineer on this recording. None of us had any inkling of how successful Chuck would eventually be. For that matter, Mick also went on to do great things. Seeing this concert again makes me remember those exciting days.
I too was there at this Friends and Love Concert in 1970 - but surely didn't remember the date - so thanks for that Mike! It was a Greece NY HS field trip for me - but they all inspired me to keep singing, and playing guitar and keyboards to this day.....
I lived in CT. but had relatives in Rochester, Pittsford & Greece and a cousin that taught English Lit at John Fisher. Wish I could have seen these guys at a small venue, I loved the Vanguard, & Bottom line in N.Y.C....but I did get to the concert with the Philharmonic in '70.
After all these years, I can still remember it...wonderful orchestration and synchronicity between all musicians. It was wonderful and still makes my heart smile. I loved the rhythm clapping..which was unusual for classical musicians to get into that kind of groove
I bought the album, I had a great stereo, great speakers, great needle. I may have worn out a needle or two.
How awesome, thanks for sharing your memories. I was born in '67 so was definitely not there, but having played this album and watching the excellent WXXI production repeatedly continually since childhood, and seeing Chuck countless times, had rounded out the education i received from one of his Eastman contemporaries beautifully. Local jazz lives!❤
WOW. I was at this show. Mom brought me; I was about ten years old. I fell in love with the music, especially Bat and Don. This is just amazing. What incredible memories. I could listen to Friends and Love all day. I'm so sorry I missed Bat and Don's induction into the Rochester Music Hall of Fame. Thanks so much for this treasure.
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This is one of the best collectively organized concerts with formal music assembling the some of the best musicians and producers in the music industry. Actually this is the first time that I had encountered or experienced watching "Friends and Love" live concert in one sitting. Thanks.
Truly an awesome performance...They did a reunion Friends and Love Concert a few years ago and it sounded just as great and fresh nearly 40 years later...All the shows were SOLD OUT just about as soon as the tickets were available...I'm hoping that there will be a video of the reunion concert available sometime too.
Was a video or audio ever made for the Friends and Love Reunion Concert a few years ago??
That would be wonderful, since I was unable to get a seat, as you said, sold oit so quick. This has been my favorite work since I first heard it at maybe 13 years old, 1980. My music mentor graduated 3fd ir 4th in his class at Eastman, either ahead of or behind Chuck. He arranged for him, and that connection meant so much to me as a child musician. My upbringing was centered in the value of composition, arrangement, and, well, class! Don Potter, Bat McGrath, Chuck and Gap, Jerry Neiwood, Steve Gadd, all heros of mine. That this all came from home always blew me away, like dies everyone grow up with this kind of local talent?
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I can listen to Potter all day! What a voice, great chord progressions.
Oh, my goodness. Rob Potter has such a voice. All of Chucks music has a flow and changes into something different without being noticeable! I hope that makes sense. His composition and arrangement are amazing. This is so listenable!!
Enjoyed reading all the comments from people who were there as a kid and were inspired by Chuck's music, especially those who were musicians. I wasn't born yet at this time, but my mom took me to Chuck's Rochester Sesquicentennial Concert at the Eastman Theater in 1984, and that concert was a huge inspiration for me. It made me want to become a composer and musician, and while I didn't have the talent to do either professionally, I still play and write for fun to this day. What a great and underrated musician, composer, and arranger Chuck Mangione is.
This is some best music I have ever listened to.
I went through a couple vinyls of this, was fortunate enough to have attended the 40th reprise at Rochester. Simply the finest piece of music I've ever experienced in my lifetime. Don't know who to thank, but this is wonderful. Got my ZigZags wine and a spot picked out...
Try Amazon for the Friends and Love CD. Have the LP. My brother ordered the CD and surprised me. I love Don Potter!
I first heard Friends & Love in the fall of 1971, Kpoi fm disc jockey in Hawaii told us listeners to check out this album. I have always loved this album,I never get tired of it. I'm not a expert etc on music, but this song goes through different stages & my mind goes on this journey that I can't explain. All I know is that its great & beautiful .
My parents used to play me this album frequently when I was a child, and I still love it today. It's a truly magical one that still brings back a number of memories. A pity that Mercury Records hasn't bothered to have it released as a CD/DVD package yet.
I had heard this when I was 17 and in the Philippines. Great stuff. Thanks for sharing the video. Don Potter is amazing.
yeah don potter, one of my favorite singer guitarists.
I used to have this album. One of my all time favorites. This is the first time I have heard it since the 70's. So, so sweet. Thanks
I remember seeing this on PBS in the early 70’s. Great concert. My brother just bought me a copy of the concert on DVD from Amazon! I love the finale on Friends and Love! It’s phenomenal. Chuck Mangione is/was a genius as well as Don Potter and Bat McGrath! Luckily, I haven’t worn this out on my LP. 5 stars plus! Both LPs are fantastic! I highly recommend this concert! July 9 2019...💕❤️💜💞👠🎵🎸🎤🎼🙏🏻🍷✌️😎
I have the DVD too. But still wanting a CD to be released
First concert my mother took me to.......best gift ever. Still have the vinyl :)
I still get chills up my spine on hearing this concert again I first heard on a local HS music field trip in 1970! I eventually met Don, Pat and Chuck personally who all inspired me to keep chasing my dreams I achieved as a local 369 Vegas musician while attending UNLV as a Hotel Admin student... They all changed my life enough to motivate me to end up meeting and playing with some of the greatest horn players like Harry James, and Al Hirt... Harry James ended up a close friend of mine to the end of his life in the early 80s. My aspirations as a guitarist and keyboard player have only been to play with the greatest musicians I've admired in life. I've played guitar next to all of them but Chuck Mangione - but did end up accompanying his brother once on keyboards. But Don't "Duke Jupiter" or "Rain" on my Greece NY musical parade here - or Gates on our Lou Grammatico. Only old Roch cha cha locals will get my references here! I'm certainly not even close to remember now as an old dude divorced from two Vegas born and reared women who is now now single and retired in the overtly too conservative penis state of Floriduh. But the photo of me now in my 60s here is quite recent..
Great Memories of my life from my earliest years with my parents
I so wish a CD or digital version was available. Groundbreaking moment in musical history. My introduction to Chuck, as well as to Steve Gadd.
First heard Hill where the Lord hides then all cuts were a class of its own..my introduction to Chuck Mangione's obra back in 1971 at DZRJ Manila the only radio station that plays that kind of groove. Kudos.
Fabulous and such nostalgia- I was 21 and there..and I will never forget this creative genius.Brings smiles,tears,and an inner joy.
This was an incredible concert that I was lucky to see and it has left a lifetime impression some 50 some years later! John Guchone
I attended this concert. It was absolutely enthralling!
FRIENDS AND LOVE CONCERT - May 9, 1970
A gathering of musicians from a variety of backgrounds, each one of whom contributed to the whole to make this concert remarkable. Hometown Rochester musicians included Gap Mangione, GERRY NIEWOOD, Steve Gadd, TONY LEVIN, Chris Vadala, MARVIN STAMM, Al Porcino, STANLEY WATSON, Ned Corman, Larry Covelli, Bill Reichenbach, Vincent Di Martino, Robert Becker and the Rochester Philharmonic.
One of the so warm and greatest tenor solos ever.
One of the most beautiful, sad songs ever done. Havent heard it in years. Esther had the voice of an angel. Thanx for posting!
Thank you thank you thank you!! I had this on LP a zillion years ago; I don't think it was produced on CD and I have been looking for it forever. THANK YOU!!!
Thanks for sharing this. I remember the Friends and Love concert and I believe it was a year earlier Bat McGrath and Don Potter played right at my high school.
You have to picture the situation here. The Vietnam war was fully on at this point. To a young person at that time (I was 14) it seemed like the world outside my little life was exploding. War, riots, assassinations, serial murderers. Yet also, great promise. We were walking on the moon. The Beatles were still together. The music on the radio was remarkable at that time.
And into this was dropped this incredible concert. Chuck Mangione was at the time a graduate student at the Eastman School of Music. This concert was his Masters' thesis.
This concert was like nothing I'd ever heard before (or since I'm bound to say). It seemed to precisely capture everything about that magic moment in history, for me.
Obladgolated Beautifully written...we're around the same age. A friend who went to school in Rochester tossed me this album and said "know this guy, he's gonna be around for a long time"...What a gift. Does he still tour? Thx
@103648499621405530127 Rarely, very rarely. His brother Gap is still active, tours with his band. I believe the reason that this album hasn't been re-released has something to do with rights. The concert was broadcast on public television station WXXI, and the ownership of it is not clearly defined. Or at least that's what I was told by someone many years ago.There is another problem, though. The equipment used to capture the recording was quite primitive. You can see one sign of this in the concert itself; the microphones used by Bat McGrath, Don Potter, Stanley Watson, etc., are cheap "A.V." quality, the same type you could find in any high-school auditorium sound system of that time. Poor dynamic range, lots of noise, etc. I don't know what kind of mix board and recording equipment was used, but I would guess that it was quite primitive.Chuck's favorite sound engineer Mick Guzauski was just a kid then, still in high school (if I'm not mistaken). Mr. Guzauski went on to become one of the most sought-after recording engineers in the country, working with some very big-name performers. His name is mentioned in the album notes for Friends and Love, but for all his talent and skills he was just a beginner, and we all have to start somewhere.
+Obladgolated I did not know this was Chuck's Master's Thesis project! Thank you. This show is burned into my brain, even though I was only ten when I went to see it. I fell in love with this music way back then and still listen to Friends and Love on vinyl. Incredible stuff.
+streyper The words "how could you... not be what I dreamed" are so haunting, because they are true. They capture the wonder, pain and tragedy of a young man's first love with uncanny insight. They are probably the wisest words about love I've ever heard.
+Obladgolated . . . the lyric was by Bat McGrath, the combination of these unique voices was absolutely sublime.
Saw Bat in Rochester at a small club, and seeing him again this week at a small venue (Abilene). I cannot wait. Bat sounds fantastic and puts on a great show. Wish Don would make a surprise appearance...
Thank you thank you thank you!! I had this on LP a zillion years ago and I played it until it was gray; I don't think it was produced on CD and I have been looking for it forever. THANK YOU for the goose bumps---again!
Thank god for smart tv’s. Playing this turns up the volume perfectly! Close your eyes..
one of most enjoyable pieces ever recorded by chuck,great stuff!
I'm speechless.....
Have been looking for this for years !!!!!! Thanks for posting
utalancon Amazon has the CD!
I was there. What an experience!!
I am so happy that You posted this . I was just about 4 years old in 1970, When my Parents bought this record. They still have it . That poor album is in such bad shape but still able to listen to it. This was literally a huge part of my growing up soundtrack.
I've searched for years for this on CD and/ or a better vinyl copy with no luck. So to get to see the footage was such a treat.
I think Zseboys3 said it best , "Thank You for the Goose Bumps.
They never made a CD of this album but you can get a DVD on Chuck's site
I converted my vinyl to mp3 with a usb turntable, but there is a lot of hisses and pops - I wore it out in the 70's
I know exactly what you mean...One of my favorite songs of all times.
FRIENDS & LOVE CONCERT
This is PART 1 of 2 parts from the live concert in 1970.
* Friends & Love Theme - Don Potter vocals
* Someone Take Me Home - Don Potter vocals
* Get Yourself on A Farm Elinda - Bat McGrath and Don Potter vocals
* She's Gone - Don Potter vocals
* Joropo Piropo - Stanley Watson guitar
* Friends & Love Theme - Don Potter vocals
* Friends & Love Finale - Don Potter vocals
One of the very best albums ever released! Have not heard t his group of geniuses in quite a while. There are some great musicians out there that the world have yet to discover their historic worth including Potter, Vladimir Ovchinikov and Frank Kinsel among many others.
I was at that show ! Classic
I don't believe they ever made a CD of this album...This concert was shown on PBS numerous times in Rochester, and it's a real treasure... I was lucky enough to go to the reunion concert a few years back, it was excellent.
Rc Richardson now they have! Amazon. 2019!
I have not been able to find a CD of this on Amazon. Any other idea?
@@janmcroberts126 - I found the complete DVD of this concert before 2019 in Amazon...didn't see the CD there at the time. I don't know where else you could find either of them now.
Someone should remaster this and put it on DVD....
They did! But they should do it over... It was disappointing and not as good as this video at 240p.
Someone should get the tapes and redo it all...
I wonder if the masters for this were destroyed in studio lot fire a while ago. The loss was substantial.
Correct me if I am wrong, I'm sure some one will, lol, This is Gap conducting with Chuck playing in back stage left yeah? During the middle of recording(dixieland part), it seems as though Gap may be a bit lost or behind in the score when big brother Chuck provides a little extra air to his trumpet which gets Bat's attention and gets him caught up. I could be totally wrong, just what it seems to me. @ AAMMIRR, yes that is very cool. The guitarist seems almost entranced and awed by the emotion the sax player is able to convey. I was eight years old when this was recorded. My mom had it and played it often, now I watch it regularly here. Thank you for posting it. P.S. Watch classical guitarist's fingers as he plays, staggering!
Legend Live !!!;!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!;;;;!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!;;;;;!;!!!!!!!!!!!
Bat McGrath also!
Thanks for the video, but this Part 1 vid is the same as part 2.
Yes, I ordered the video and was extremely disappointed with the audio quality. When I contacted the site they blamed the technology of 1970! Come on...then why would the vinyl be so good? I know there are services online that sell the used vinyl with a cleaned up CD of it for about $50.
That's Tony Levin on bass, way back on a stage riser. Yes, THE Tony Levin, when he still had some hair!
i feel it's time for dyin', there's nothin' i can do
...just look at guitarist Stanley Watson stare at Larry Covelli's poignant and sadly lyrical solo during 'She's Gone' ! BTW, Larry is from Buffalo.
@MeatSteeple
The operative word is some, although he was definitely balding even then. Geez, even Phil Collins had hair in 1970.
adult music
Potter's voice is amazing. It just is. And it only got better. Listen to 'Children of Sanchez '
RIP Bat McGrath.