The Blues Project - A Flute Thing - 06-18-1967 - Monterey Pop Festival - Monterey, Ca
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- The Blues Project - A Flute Thing - 06-18-1967 - Monterey Pop Festival - Monterey, Ca - Pro shot - Go buy Monterey Pop on DVD and the soundstrack!!!!!!
I just discovered this. It is indescribably beautiful. My comfort song during this horrible time of anxiety.
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I was only 14 in 1967,.....not knowing the world was going to go crazy in 1968. So many things have happened since,....my whole lifetime,.....geesh, I just turned 65,....last week, in 2018. I consider this the music of my life,....Monterey, Woodstock,.....all the early mega concerts. A wild strange trip its been.
Gotcha. I was born in 53. I was digging this back then. I didn’t run away and join the bikers until I was 16. 🙀🙀
It was already getting crazy. 1966 is when Black Power exploded in the South. 1967 in the South was pure darkness.
@@javierocker82 What are you talking about? The Civil Rights Movement was several years before 1967. Black Power movement was 1968 all over the US. Read a history book. It was hardly "pure darkness" in the South.
@@friendlier I have and watched documentaries to. Read the book "The Long Hot Summer of 1967," and watch the documentary "King in the Wilderness," to see what I'm talking about. Also, Black Power had its birth with Malcolm X, and exploded with the help of Stokley Carmicheal, H. Rap Brown and Ron Karenga during the Summer of 1967. A lot of it started in the South beginning with Stokley Carmicheal taking over the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Commitee and they started several violent confrontations throughout the South from 1966 going all the way to Summer 1967 when it exploded all over the country. Just because the media failed to report it and the government didn't pay attention, didn't mean it didn't happen. Of course, the real story was the Hippies and everything they did.
1968 is when everything was happening and was out in the open, Black Power and the Anti-War Movement being the top two. There were also other empowerment movements from Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, Asian Americans and Red Power or The American Indian Movement. I know my history dude, studied it and had parents who lived through it.
@@javierocker82You are correct but I think what the other commenter was referring to was the Black Panther movement from Oakland. That is not the same as what was going down in the South. They merged but not in '67. In the South the Black Power movement, or Civil Rights movement started combining with Labor which grew its numbers. Prior to this they were very much divided and lacked support from the Labor movement. Heck, even Phil Ochs wrote songs about it for his first couple albums. By '68 they became more militaristic but then again so did everyone.
I love watching how focused and respectful the young people were, concentrating on listening to the music without the distractions of smart phones. Attending a concert now is a nightmare.
Not at jazz gigs they don't...!
yes, they were very attentive, and, pleasantly high on a variety of substances!
ClueSign z
Yes, concerts in a festival setting IS a nightmare these days. Go to a smaller venue and it's great. I live in Tracy Ca. and at our small theater I have seen just in the last few years Robin Trower and Dave Mason. The audience are mostly mellow old hippies like me and it's affordable and a wonderful experience....
Stoned
Steve Katz (guitar, but playing bass here) and Al Kooper (who had quit the band earlier in 1967, but played the festival and was stage manger) left to form Blood, Sweat and Tears. Danny Kalb (guitar) was a session player and after the band folded went back to playing on other people's albums/making his own. Andy Kulberg (flute/bass) and Roy Blumenfeld went on to form Seatrain.
Thanks for info, specially on Al Kooper!
Al Cooper with Mike bloomfield can't be beat. Unaware we had something in common. Stage managing!
Is your store in Fayetteville, NC?
Danny Kalb - as featured on the Sun Ra “Dan & Dale Batman” album I think? Sensational playing.
Monterey was amazing... I still love Flute Thing and Steve's Song - but what I see most in this video is how cool and relaxed everyone in the audience is - no one texting or checking FB - that's really how it was - It is too easy to forget how it was.....
Shaunet Olsson Yes it's easy to forget this wonderful decade,and i was only 5 years in 1967,but i can remember the spirit of the times anyway, couse it was everywhere around us all,people was moore gently then and taking care each other,also in early 70s but when the 80s came it blow away forever.If someone building a timemachine i'll be on board.- PEACE LOVE AND
UNDERSTANDING to you
Why not just throw the goddamn phone away anyway it's such an inconvenience you know Facebook and all that just throw it in the trash
Russell Crawford
can't do that because those
of you who are literally dependent on that media for Life's experiences would
lose track of everything even their identity.
=death
Jasper Neil
you are a liar first you say let's not get idealistic then that's all you do is ideas fuck you man get some brain get some mind get real all of your text is completely idiocy it's an idea you said that's not get idealistic what is idealistic you don't even know you just rhetoric let's imagine if cell phones are there you weren't even there fuck you
Actually if you look closely there’s one guy who’s on his cell phone. He’s at the far right near the guy with the long hair and blue shoes.
Even during an awesome performance like this there’s always some ass on their phone!
Music was art and people got into it
theres still band out there today playing music like art.. granted got to know where to look but i think its coming back around.. im in my 20s and every cat i kick it with are into the dead and whatever band from then… don’t cuss that fiddle
Thank you for that!!!!....😊😊😊😊😊👍
IT was so wonderful to be alive in that time when music like this was the norm.
Rare sighting of a Hagstrom bass - don’t see those too often. Nice.
Rare indeed, made in Sweden, their guitars are nice as well.
Mike Bloomfield's face at 5:21...priceless.
I wonder what it would be like to have Danny and Michael play together. I mean Michael and Danny were among the best guitar slingers of the day. I've looked and can't find anything.
Yea he's plugged into a Binson Echorec. You can get a good look at it :58 seconds in. It's the yellow thing on his left. It's not a tape echo, but a magnetic rotating drum inside. He's the only user I've seen besides David Gilmour (was Syd Barrett's) and Rick Wright of Pink Floyd.
Jimmy Page I think in studio recording
Most all good bands are unique in one way or another. But this band was one of the most unique of all. Loaded with talent and inspiration enough for a dozen other bands. in fact......
I love The Blues Project! Such a underrated band 😢 I'm so glad I have this on vinyl! 😍
Flute is being played thru an Italian made Binson Echorec. Exact same model used by Pink FLoyd in the late 60's-early 70's. You can see it behind Kulberg (left), to the left.
Thanks friend, I like to know about these machines that make sound happen ... Electronic engineers and musicians for many years have joined forces to innovate sound!
The Catalinbread company makes a guitar pedal modeled after the Echorec which replicates the effect very well.
When people just listened and were there living in the moment...lending time respect to the band brothers and sisters who came to listen.exusively.
Yes indeed, who would've ever thought things would end up like this.
Love the shot of a mesmerized Bloomfield at around 5:20!
Probably more than just mesmerized, great player, sad story.
Saw the Blues project in 1967 at queens college.Small venue and All Cooper,Mike Bloomfield and the rest were raw and bluesy.
Lucky you btother
D@@myfatherwasacabbageheadiva6631
I love the echoplex used on the flute. The days of the Jam Band, great stuff when you are tripping. I like it. Good memories
Susan Perkins
It works magic regardless even straight
I never knew them at the time they played The Monterey Festival, but first heard them in Manhattan’s Cafe Au Go Go as a friend of the band.( Fran and Danny Kalb had become close friends at The New School for Social Research. Andy’s wife, Phyllis, Fran, my girlfriend, and Andy and I drove to The San Francisco Bay Area. I always will cherish these memories of these awesome musicians!
Shout out to keyboardist John McDuffy. A fine player and singer as well. Had previously been with the King Bees.
R.I.P., Andy. Thanks for the music.
I see excellent camera work and quality here for 1967.
No fights... No bullshit ... What a great time to be alive
Dino Lisi Unless you were in Vietnam. It wasn't all Haight Ashbury
Dino Lisi Unless you were in Vietnam. It wasn't all Haight Ashbury
George Bethos there's always somebody with a chip on their shoulder that has to twist it around. I was talking about the ATTITUDE of the audience.. and the MUSIC and the MUSIC and the MUSIC..
Dino Lisi yes it was! I was 15 at the time!
Ditto Rich0470 I am having problems believing this is 50 years old!!! Where the hell did the time go???
Wow!! People LISTENED to music. ALL types of music, even if they couldn’t dance to it.
"Flute Thing" literally one of the highlights of the psychedelic era. Love that piece!
Yup, it was an underground FM radio staple.
I'm a punk rocker.........but this is still one of my childhood favorites. People who CANT Improv should join an orchestra.
Your very right-good eye! Now, there was one fantastic axe man. The original Quicksilver, with John, until he bailed in '70, was one of the best live acts in SF. I've seen them many times at the original Fillmore and Avalon, and they were always cookin! Johns stack with the Wurlizer horns on top, now sits in the Rock and Roll Hall Of Shame. It should be sitting in a rock museum in Golden Gate Park! Why has The City not built one?
Always loved the flute in rock music Jethro Tull Marshall Tucker Band and this is awesome
I'll take Traffic over either one of them.
just picked up a mint original poster from 1967 Fillmore Auditorium with The Blues Project heading the bill... along with the Mothers of Invention... and also Canned heat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
At 0:45 - Paul Simon off-stage. Saw the Blues Project, December, 1966, at Brandeis U. They opened for Simon & Garfunkle. Blew the audience away. S&G had to follow them...a noticeable number of people left during S&G's performance. They were really good, also, but when the BP were smokin' like they were that night, coming on-stage w/ only an acoustic guitar was gonna be tough.
+TeeKay19 I saw Orpheus opening for Cream at Bandeis in March of '68. Cream were two hours late so the promoters had Orpheus do their set twice. They got a standing ovation both times. At the end of the show I remember thinking they were going to be the next big thing and was more impressed with Bruce Arnold's guitar work then I was with Clapton's.
+tolanstout Dang, you're bringing back memories...Orpheus! I liked them and Earth Opera from that group of "Bosstown Sound" bands.
I was in HS when I saw the BP and S&G @ Brandeis - my brother was a freshman there.
Re Clapton - this might get me some hate, but after hearing other guitarists, I came to the conclusion he was over-rated. And after getting yet more expanded musical horizons, I realized he was the weakest player in Cream. Jack Bruce did some great work w/ Tony Williams' Lifetime (and others), Baker's work, including w/ Fela Kuti in Africa, is also top-rate (and so is his ego).
S+G had to follow another tough act at Forest Lawn, the DOOR'S. I couldn't believe how many people walked out, especially after Garfunkel disrespected them... as in now that you've heard THAT "West Coast music, blah, blah, blah." Time grey's the memory, especially the exact wording...but it was definitely an insulting remark. I was extremely privileged to have been there. Two of the top musical groups in their prime...in one venue. It was immediately after this concert, that Morrison had the indecent exposure charge leveled against him at the Florida concert, I believe.
i saw the Blues Project a month or so before this video was taken; the audio on this this is very unbalanced ..... they were so much fuller / deeper live. I guess we should be grateful it exists at all as this was a band WAY BEFORE IT'S TIME...…. AMAZING MUSICIANS ALL !!!!
The old fairgrounds haven't changed much since 67. After flying from Aus to see Rush in Vegas in '16 I got to spend a day in Monterey and to walk around the fairgrounds and stand on that stage. Closest I've been to Jimi Hendrix even if almost 50 years on. Oh Yeah!
Some of the best drumming I've ever heard...so many tempo changes
First concert I ever went to was to see this band shortly after the album this song was on came out. Pretty good show, Al Kooper was the keyboard player and I love Danny Kalb's guitar playing. Memorable event for me. Years later I was working in Buffalo New York at an art museum, telling this story to a co-worker and she tells me that her brother was in this band (Andy Kulberg the bassist) and asked if I would like to meet him since he was coming into town for a visit. I finally got to ask him about the band and such, I guess since it was my first show to ever experience and how great an event it was this had to happen for me to meet him. RIP Andy Kulberg
I had a chance to hang with Andy in the mid-'80s--I was an arts reporter, he was writing jingles. Sweet guy and one of my heroes. He died so young and left behind a great family.
It's frikking amazing that I can go on UA-cam and watch/listen to this. Thanks for posting, Snooky.
yeah its a treat. Nothing like being there but its the 2021 time machine and its good that the older folks are posting these for us.. Also watchin any concert you feel on a headful of magic is real sweet
I didn't know they played at Monterey. Cool! And nice version of an amazing soon.
Andy was not just an incredible flute player, he was also a very talented composer. A real true talent gone too soon. Miss him.
This is a truly great amalgam of Jazz and Psychedelia. It also reminds me of Autumn.
Kooper should be inducted not just for his production work, but for his session work as well. He, of course, played one of the greatest organ parts in history on "Like a Rollin' Stone".
Kooper’s retelling of that story is classic. If it wasn’t for a timely phone call that distracted Dylan’s manager, Kooper would never have made it into the studio.
@@t4fnut And that the organ was already turned on.
Hated that organ part!
Wow!! They were awesome!!
I love the looks on the people's faces from the audience in how they're so intrigued with it and so into it!! Cool!!!!
Such a shame that the Blues Project was only together a few years, but we all benefitted when they branched their talents into other groups and injected their styles into the music of groups like BS&T.
What is BS&T?
@@therodgodproject9942the band Blood, Sweat, and Tears.
@@vincegotera ok
They weren't really a "group" at the time -- lots of talent thrown together by Elektra. Danny and Steve were still doing the folk thing in the Village when not with BP.
The Blues Project's "Elecftric Flute Thing" was one of the standout performances at Monterey Pop. When Rock Critics review Woodstock - they talk about the crowd. When they review Monterey, they talk about the music.
Beautiful, innovative music from a very special era that passed much too fast for me.......
Saw them at the Fillmore. This song made me start playing the flute!
Flute thing I never heard of this version wow what a amazing performance especially with the flute music blends perfectly
So many bands making mind blowing music in a short span of time.We haven't seen anything like it again since--except for the early 90s and grunge(not in the same ballpark though).
too ahead of its time.
Al Kooper watching his fellow band mates at 9:53. Guitar great Mike Bloomfield, Kooper's future Super Session partner, in awe at 5:17.
+pgrabar LOL,Bloomfield looks like he would've been in awe of wallpaper. That must've been some good shit.
+pgrabar Kooper was watching his former band mates. He quit BP just days, maybe hours, before Monterey.
pgrabar
Think I saw John Cippolina in there too
Good catch, he played there with The Electric Flag.
@@JHelak No he quit a while before that, he had time to form the Electric Flag and he played Monterey with them.
I'm 29 years old and I am listen to this in 2019 and for the rest of my life so sad to see this talent band didn't last long :(
Every generation thinks that their music is the best and thats how it should be.Even if its not true but this was incredibley beautiful like Deborah said
Wow. One month and 9 days before I was born. Looks like it was just filmed.
Psychedelic flute music! Far out, man.
Snooky Flowers Rest In Peace, Brother
Amazing live version of an amazing track, far ahead of its times. I am quite sure this is where Florian Schneider took inspiration from his flute playing in the first three Kraftwerk records from early 70s. I guess Florian was also there in the audience...
How on earth was this not included in the 4cd box set of Monterey Performances??? Stunning....almost indescribable...
It's probably not on the cd box set due to it's length. You get "Wake Me, Shake Me" instead, with John John McDuffy on vocals.
Speaking of John John, though you see him with the band you can barely hear his keyboards. 9:00 you see him playing but don't hear him playing. And there's no organ solo like on the original "Projections" recording.
Richard0470 I agree with your assessment of this performance. Growing up in NYC, I was privileged to see them many times. Their only studio that the original band members recorded,Projections, is one of my 10 favorite albums. 😎
Probably was not included because Al Kooper was in the group
@@clarkewi Al Kooper left just prior to the band's appearance. However, he is seen standing at the side of the stage as the band ends their performance. Of course, a year later he and Steve Katz would form Blood Sweat and Tears.
I agree!! Some of the trash that's on the collection, I can definitely live without!
Well that was amazing !
2022 February,......Revisiting! I didn't die or get sick from the on-going Corona Virus BS. Still hanging on,.. and now I am 68. Looking forward to some retro hippie, outdoor concerts, planned for Summer 2022. Columbus, Ohio has been putting on a (a mini Woodstock-like) outdoors concert for 50 years. 3 days of music, arts & crafts,...almost always during the last week in June. It was postponed in 2020 & 2021, due to the pandemic. It scheduled to resume this June. The event which is all volunteer run, has always been in our mid-town, city park. About 3 acres of parklands,...rolling hills of grass and wooded. They set up 5 stages throughout the park, musicians all perform for free, there is every sort of music. There are drum circles, and spoken word poetry, and speakers. Local food vendors, primarily. Beer sales pay for certain expenses and the rest is donated to local arts groups and social services. It runs from 8AM to 10PM on the 1st day and 8 to 8, on the other two days. Its a free event, artisans sell their wares, from tent booths. We're a college town, with several within 5 miles. So lots of young folks, and many of the older, originators,...like myself.
This is magic.
Notice that everyone in the crowd is silently, intently, watching and moving with the music, no talking. The flute solo cutting in at the end of the drum solo at 4:55 still sends shivers down my spine! I first heard them do this song on some TV show back in 1967 and I was hooked immediately. I wish I could have seen them live, preferably in some small venue.
Yeah, people actually listening to the music, don't see much of that today.
They're probably off their nut on acid and in another world. Beautiful!
@@themow432 ah yes, another young 'un who is under the mistaken notion that everyone was stoned on acid all the time in those days. Was it around, hell yes. But not to the degree romanticized by some who weren't even alive. Comical
Ingen over, ingen ved siden, ever. The kings of musik.
At the time, there was so many new groups with new sounds and alot of cross breeding going on musically. Jazz/blues, folk/rock big band/rock, acid rock, blues, country. Check out Moby Grape, they played it all from country to blues and rock. The 60s was about experimenting with "everything", amd we did it alot, from music, sex, drugs, and lifestyles, it was a very fluid time. Lots of ideas and new art, every day something new, and then it ended, too bad!
he does with the flute what jimi hendrix does with the guitar so magical and mystical
The flute is running thru the infamous Italian delay unit that Pink Floyd used around the same time...The Binson Echorec.
Incredible!
Fantastic stuff!!! Thanks for posting.
I know they didn't sell a ton of records,but for pure innovation Blues Project should at least be considered for Hall of Fame induction. And my God, Al Kooper should be a shoo in! Anyways,awonderful performance,thanks for posting.
I believe Kooper was inducted about 10 years ago.
I like the soundscapes in the middle. Sort of Pink Floyd-ish
Blues Project is the closest thing to Pink Floyd I've heard
Hippy Chics, THE BEST!
Free love. Free acid.
when woman had respect for there body not like some woman today who dress tramps
@@clarkewi wasnt always free (for the chicks)
u forgot the 'k'.
4:50 Tripppppyyy echo hurricane into folk melody...
6'14 John Cipollina (Quicksilver) in the audience...
we enjoyed the evening shows. my dad was a sheriff officer at the time there,
Sounds almost like what FRANK ZAPPA would of done if he were conducting that band.
I love this song
Just awesome! Even the baby seemed to like it. 7:02
Mesmerizing performance. No time like the right time baby.
brillant
How was this performance omitted from the mediocre Monterey Pop Festival film that was released in 1967. The Blues Project is one of my favorite bands of all time. "Flute Thing" is from the great"Projections" album which was released in 1966 & still remains one of my 10 favorite albums of all time.✌
Danny Kalb is a totally awesome, under-appreciated guitarist. I worked at Smiley's Saloon in Bolinas, Ca in 1990, and we had Danny Kalb for a solo show one night. His energy was low, but his virtuosity was still there.
Just don't talk politics with the guy. He's literally off his rocker.
@@randypotter7379 Haha! I knew Danny back then, early '60s, protege of Dave Van Ronk. Never talked politics with him, though.
A great song. Away from all norms... Takes me to another world.
Best-known lineup
Tommy Flanders - vocals (born circa 1944) (1965-1966, 1972-1973, -present)
Danny Kalb - guitar (born September 19, 1942, Brooklyn, New York) (1965-1967, 1969-present)
Steve Katz - guitar, harmonica, vocals (born May 9, 1945, New York City) (1965-1967, 1973-present)
Al Kooper - keyboards, vocals (born February 5, 1944, Brooklyn, New York) (1965-1967, 1973-present)
Andy Kulberg - bass guitar, flute (April 30, 1944, Buffalo, New York - January 28, 2002, California) (1965-1967, 1973-2002)
Roy Blumenfeld - drums (born May 11, 1944, Bronx, New York) (1965-1967, 1969-?)
@@matthatter2849 you're an absolute loon. But it's ok because deep down you know it.. Recognition is the key. Carry on
Great playing by Andy Kulberg
John Cipollina from Quicksilver Messenger Service in the audience at 6:12.
The coolest!
Bloomfield stoned outta his brains 5:16
Not Bloomfield. It's Danny Kalb.
No. It is Mike Bloomfield in the video at 5:18. I could’ve had the same look on my face listening to this, and I’m not stoned outta my brains. It’s the music!
The seed for Blood Sweat and Tears
Amazing song!
rock légendaire ,à savourer ,le psychédélique arrive en force
The band certainly stood out from the rest of what was on the bill. Props for originality. Paul Simon at the end.
too cool for school.
First time I saw Hendrix-after he played, many guitar players looked for other lines of work. Last month I was at the Hendrix Museum in Seattle called Electronic Music Project pr EMP. They have Jimi's white Strat from Woodstock there, the National Anthem axe, and they have a big chunk of the painted one he lit on fire from this festival. Their under glass and full of memories and who knows what other chemicles. Its a great exibit-go-only 20 bucks.
ANDY KUHLBERG Incredible with THE BLUES PROJECT & later SEATRAIN both groups did Fantastic Versions of FLUTE THING.
Love this and "Dakota Recollection"
trippy...love the BP
While it's a real shame LBJs big dream turned into a fucking nightmare and WE LOST, the decision to go fight that useless war for all the wrong reasons, was, in the end, up to each and every one of us. If you went there to prove your manhood, great, but you could have stayed home and done it. Nobody forced you to go, if you did. You and all others like me, had a choice and some of us, prefer music to blood. So, yes, I was at this fantastic festival and it and the whole year was amazing!
beastie boys got me here lol !! 67 i was 10 geez
More jazz than rock more rock than jazz an improvisation masterpiece
according to the notes on their anthology cd: lead guitar Danny Kalb had been in such a depressed state that he had been bed ridden, at least days, only to get up to play this festival.
Adore !
Una obra maestra, legendaria e inmortal, the blues proyect, unos genios, gracias por esta magna obra!
4 takeaways from this ..
1. Andy Kulberg is from the future.. Guy has a British Binson Echorec Delay box and a Premier Reverb Chamber on stage!
2. Andy has THE FIRST pedal board ever made (predating Peter Banks of Yes by 2 years)
3. Steve Katz has the coolest bass ever (Hagstrom Concord)
4. Camera shows Al Kooper right after .. like.. hahah you quit this band .. what do you think?
Kooper was on the program as a soloist, on his way to BS&T later that year. He was obsessed with horns and wanted to add them to the BP repertoire. Katz and Kalb nixed, but Katz followed Kooper to BS&T, so...
thank you, Snooky Flowers 1.
Al Kooper cheering his ex-bandmates at 9:53 , he was the stage manager at Monterey
Believe he composed this piece, too