Classical Composer Reacts to BLIND FAITH: CAN'T FIND MY WAY HOME | The Daily Doug (Episode 803)
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In this edition of #thedailydoug, I'm releasing my first reaction to music by classic supergroup Blind Faith. This was recorded back in December of 2022 and has exclusively been on my Patreon ever since. Today, I think it's time to include their music here on my UA-cam channel. I hope you enjoy!
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Steve Winwood, what a musician and what a super group overall... great reaction Doug!
I believe Clapton and Winwood had worked together in two previous even shorter-lived groups one of which was Clapton's Powerhouse. I believe Powerhouse recorded 3-6 songs. Not enough for release. I think the other joint venture only produced one song. In his earliest days with Spencer Davis Group he tried to sound more like Ray Charles, which he did well, but it was ruining his voice and vocal cords. So he went back to his natural voice.
Doug needs to listen to Low Spark Of High Heeled boys. And Dear Mr Fantasy.
Steve was about 20 or so when he wrote and performed Can't Find My Way Home. He's 76 now (2024) and still sounds the same!
Drums were perfect Doug. Bought this album the day it came out. In the context of the time, those drums played with his hands according to info available , were the perfect foil to the acoustic guitars of Clapton and Winwood.
ditto
I would do Presence of the Lord next.
And Ginger Baker was the drummer: there’s never a crash out of place when Ginger was behind the kit.
Try Prescence of the Lord.....Clapton's guitar playing at its best
The vocal of Steve Winwood in "Sea of Joy" from this album is amazing! 🎼🙏
Sea of Joy- , [for meI] iz like a modern religious experience!!!!]
The drums are placed perfectly to me. They do sound like they're being played in the next room, it's the style of the song.
Agree completely. Don't know what Doug is complaining about. This recording has always seemed perfect to me, since I first heard it in 1969.
this song was recorded right at or before Steve Winwood's 21st birthday,... He was 18 yo when he recorded Gimme Some Lovin' with Spencer Davis Group
And don’t forget, Winwood was 19 when he joined Blind Faith. 19!!! and was already a music veteran by that point. He was a prodigy and had an amazing voice, unmatched in rock. Absolute legend!!
I agree and take your point but -do your math! He was a ripe old age 21 in Blind Faith. Clapton was 24!
If I could sing at all, I'd want to sing like Steve Winwood. Such an amazingly talented man!
Amen brother. I can't count how many times I've watched the "John Barleycorn Must Die" video. He's just an incredible talent.
To me the crash gives voice to underlying angst of the song. Yes, it is a slow lament but there is also some real fear and regret going on.
Well put!
Great song, multitalented musician! One of my all time favorite vocalist. When you get a chance, check out SW playing an acoustic version of this song by a crackling fire, it was posted about 12 years ago, beautiful! Also, check out “Keep On Running” by the Spencer Davis Group (65), and “Empty Pages” by Traffic (70). ✌️
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Had front row seats when "shootout" tour was out and about....
Let's go for the gold, Clapton, Baker and Windwood... Yup let's go for it!
The perfomance of this song of Steve and Eric at the Madison Square Garden published 2009 is one of the most beautiful moments in music history. Period. Gives me shivers every time.
Is this the Crossroads Festival version. If so that one really washes over me into reverie.
@@allisonrich5061 nope. Crossroads was 2007. That Madison Square Garden Shows where their finishing of the 2009 tour they did together because the Crossroads-Show went so good that they decided for a whole tour together.
What a gorgeous voice Steve Winwood has and had since he was 15 years old.
"Can't Find My Way Home"' bares a striking similarity to "John Barleycorn Must Die".by Traffic.
But shall we Low Spark the High Heeled Boys?
Traffic's "Empty Pages" is the shit! Winwood kills on that track
One of my favorites!!
Listen to the solo acoustic version Steve did within the last 10 years in front of a fireplace in the rain. Rain at his home in England using drop de tuning. With the crackling fireplace in the back. It’s absolute perfection.
There is a great cover of this by a British band called Electronic. Worth checking out.
BRILLIANT ALBUM. One of the first albums that I bought. Note that you have the censored US cover. The original UK cover was a little risque to say the least. The first of the Supergroups if I remember correctly, certainly the first British Supergroup.
The nude girl cover got a brief US release before it was withdrawn and replaced. Actually, Cream was the first supergroup, as Clapton, Baker and Bruce were already well known when they got together.
Most of the album is excellent. Saw these guys in concert back in '69.
Winwood is a true artist. Check him out with Spencer Davis Group, and solo.
The brilliance of STEVIEWINWOOD -made me want to play keyboards, singing a blues style like him -I tried to mimic him in my teens until I later learned to develop ‘my own voice’, in singing, keyboard playing and orig. songwriting -but till this day Steve remains my hero and number 1 musical influence [and I listen to allofhisprolific body of astonishing work to this day!!!!!!
ditto
Since you love Winwood do the whole of Traffic's incredible 1968 2nd album "TRAFFIC" varid and a complete masterpiece
I have always felt this way about the drums! I'm glad someone else said it finally. The actual drum part is great and well played, but the engineering is way off. It's a very typical hard rock 60s engineering sound. Should have been close mic'd with warmer tones.
Anyhow, Presence of the Lord is also an absolutely awesome song. Great gibe of reverence, sober introspection, and absolute groove.
Love this acoustic version over their electric version. The cover master, Joe Cocker, did a version of this I quite liked on his early 90's album Night Calls. Others worth a listen on that album, his covers of: Gary Wright's Our Love is Alive, & Elton John's Don't let the sun go down on me.
Super good. I would recommend listening to David Bowie’s sweet thing/candidate/sweet thing live LA 74 cracked actor… THANK YOU!!! You’re awesome. Love your stuff
Always great when Dr. Doug does a CLASSIC ROCK song!
PRESENCE OF THE LORD should be next.
If you like Stevie, check out Go (Stevie, Klaus Schulze, Stomu Yamashta. Michael Shrieve, Al DiMeola and more.)
Agree that the drums mix may have tilted in a bit of a different direction for such a subtle studio masterpiece.
Ginger Baker is spot on in the live version (Hyde Park 1969). Windwood is straining a bit, probably from partying nonstop LOL. Props to the foursome's ripping it live in such a brand new, raw and timeless manner!
I find it hilarious that Clapton complains that Led Zeppelin was just too loud. When he went into the studio to record Cream songs, the studio team raised hell because he kept cranking it up all the way!
Some of Clapton's tastiest playing on this song... the man can emote
Great song and a Great "One of a Kind" album! Not intimate makes sense, since it's Ginger Baker, not a very "Intimate Man"!
Steve Winwood is a musical hero of mine and i love this song. Don't show youtube the album cover Doug!
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There's an album and live video of Clapton and Winwood live at Madison square garden from about 15 years ago which is excellent
Blind Faith Live at Hyde Park
Agree !
Winwood plays sax, flute, keyboards, and , yup, an excellent guitar!
Steve Winwood plays the other guitar on this one.
This song, together with “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”,
is my favourite use of a line cliché.
And mr Clapton plays on both!
I’ve always hated the splash cymbals.
Mr Winwood and mr Clapton had long wanted to work together
and when they both were free they started this project in mr Winwoods cottage.
Ginger Baker forced his way into the project
and was responsible for it’s demise.
He insisted on touring even though the others
just wanted to hang out and jam.
But, as mr Clapton put it, “You just don’t say no to Ginger”
This version of the song was something like take 73!
Clapton and Winwood made an excellent live album
“Live from Madison Square Garden” featuring this song
and interpretations of a lot of other great modern classics.
Highly recommended.
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was about to write that it's time for Traffic and see others mention them. Dear Mr. Fantasy and John Barleycorn (what a great album, thanks for reminding me as I'm listening to it again now).
Don’t forget Low Spark. Another great album.
In 2009 Clapton and Windwood released a double live album from concerts they did at Madison Square Garden. It’s a masterpiece.
Should have done “Sea of Joy” - all are good, but this encompasses the entire album.
I saw Winwood and Clapton together.
A full album listen of Pink Floyd's The Final Cut would be really interesting, IMO. If I remember, although it didn't have Richard Wright on it 😳, it features a generous amount of keys.
It also features a more serious subject matter, for Floyd.
Anyhow, Happy Independence Day to you, Doug, Meg, and all the crew!
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Great stuff! Hope you'll do some of their other, longer, songs as well. Had to Cry Today and Do What You Like are highly recommended.
I'm one of those people who prefers Clapton in a sideman role. His solo stuff in the 80s is not my bag. His substance abuse may play a role, but give him a guitar and set him in the back and I'm in my happy place.
THE WHOLE ALBUM IS STELLAR
Thanks, Doug!
Presence of the Lord
Great video Doug.
John Barleycorn Must Die by them is also worth a listen
Nice man there is a cool version on UA-cam of them playing in London 1969 I believe with Eric and Steve looking like kids.
Watch the 1969 live version, you’ll see Ginger Baker drumming on this tune.
great song. I also love Bonnie Raitt's cover.
Oh, yesssss.
Try "Low Spark of high heeled boys" Then watch tne Spencer Davis Group with Steve singing "NOBODY KNOWS YOU WHEN YOU'RE DOWN AND OUT" you would think it was Ray Charles
Great video Doug for a beautiful song. It was used perfectly in the 1985 film Fandango with a young Kevin Costner and Judd Nelson. Worth a look.
Steve and Eric did a kind of semi reunion tour together some years ago - around 2008-2010
And obviously they did many songs of this album. Interesting to see and compare them 40 years older
I got to see one of those shows
They did a lengthy Hendrix blues (Steve happens to be on the original Hendrix recording of Voodoo Chile (the blues, not the smash hit)), and an amazing interpretation of Little Wing too.
Only thing I had difficulty getting used to was Steves tone on the organ, he tends to go for quite straight thin sounding long notes...
Winwood was 19 when played keys on Electric Ladyland for Hendrix. That was 1968. The album cover for Blind Faith is out there, especially now days. Things were different then. Crash out of place is because Ginger Baker was a weirdo revolutionist.
So much talent in that group. This song is a favourite of mine. In the Presence of the Lord is my other favourite from this album.
Yes do the whole orig. album and a few extras...'Do what you Like'' is my pick, Steve W. soaring vocals & his roaring Hammond. Solos by all all on what i consider Ginger's best song there is also an electric version of "Can't find your Way Home'' on the Deluxe 2001 version, with even more jams and lovely unfinished song called Trade Winds Clapton & Winwood also did ''Live from Madison Square Garden'' a double CD and DVD live album in 2009. There are some live videos of their 1969 Hyde park concert on UA-cam as well
Sea of joy
A lot of controversy swirled around the original British album cover- a photo of a topless 11-yo girl holding a 1956 Chevy hood ornament. That cover was never issued in the US, where the cover was the image in your video. Yes faced a similar issue with their second album, "Time And A Word', but their image was a rendering, not an actual pre-teen naked girl.
Although all of the tunes on this album are great, this one's always been my favorite (especially when I could sing the whole thing, including that high part in the outro). I have it on vinyl but I'll need to get that CD for those jams--it's too bad they couldn't keep this supergroup together! As a drummer, I think that the drums are appropriately low-key. It almost sounds like Ginger was using brushes/hands, although he's obviously using sticks here (and he's much higher in the mix): ua-cam.com/video/PJJnA6zEcGk/v-deo.html and it's a lot more electric (although they transcribed in down a half-step)--go Eric! And then there's this: ua-cam.com/video/8L82II1lNjo/v-deo.html, adding Derek Trucks to the mix.
Doug, pls react to Finnish Band Turisas song Miklgard Overture, I think you like it and make awesome reaction!
One of the most beautiful things about this song is the cymbal crashes and all you can say is “the crash is out of place” - the drums is the best thing on this track ! Hard to respect the host’s opinions when he is down on the beat part.
I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on ‘Low Spark of High heeled Boys’ by Traffic
Ginger wasn't originally meant to be included, but he invited himself into the band, much to Eric's chagrin.
Maybe the cymbal crash is the dashing of a cocktail glass onto the floor?
Per Eric's comments, Ginger was not asked to play, he just showed up with his drum kit and sort of "invited" himself in.
How have you not done the album Hazards of Love by The Decemberists? Would be right up your alley.
In addition to the acoustic version of Can't Find My Way Home, they also recorded and electric version which is also great.
Check out Dream Gerrard by Traffic. To me it's the odd one. The drums are so good. Thanks!
It's nice that you didn't make it about the original British album cover.
Whole album Doug.
Doug, are you allowed to question Ginger's cymbal accent placement??
There is also an electric version which is much better recorded. It's a bonus track on reissues.
Something so beautiful here.
Agreed about the drums. it sounds like they were recorded that way because the drummer was an overbearing asshole who threw a tantrum and demanded that his kit was way too high in the mix.
Welcome to the world of Ginger Baker drumming! Hands on the cymbals... :):)
I would like you to do a reaction to the band Pantera "Cemetery gates"
Ginger Baker was known for playing rhythms in a way no one else would.
Now I want to make a list of top LPs, coz I know this would be up there.
Can't find my way out of this channel...😆
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I always thought that Seal would do an interesting version of this song.
I love the drums, especially the cymbal crashes.
Any or all. A real gem that's at the top of my listening choices. I also appreciate your letting the song play on as you identify key moments.
Steve recorded a video of an acoustic version at least 10 years ago, solo. Also great versions from Ellen McIlwain and Bonnie Raitt.
I love the Bonnie Raitt version.
This is the only Reel to Reel tape that my dad kept when he sold his TEAC deck and tapes in the late ‘80s. I inherited it, and still have it (along with my own TEAC).
What an absolutely beautiful piece of work, perfect for a long weekend 😊
It's a short album, and they are all good. Do them all!
Whoa whoa, Eric Clapton was in this band?? Bro.
And as expected this guitar riff is excellent
Reminds me a bit of Airbag from Radiohead
Search for the electric version of this song on here , it’s great .
Steve Winwood was considered the British Ray Charles.
This vocal is nothing like Ray Charles. But 'Gimme Some Lovin' certainly is. As is 'Nobody Wants You When You're Down and Out,' all readily available on YT, my juke box.
@@MichaelSheffield-ox8yd Correct, not this vocal. Listen to his stuff before he joined Blind Faith, you'll hear the resemblance.
@@Edman116 The two I mentioned were well before Blind Faith and sound even better than Charles, IMHO.
Sea of Joy should be next.
Do "Sea ofJoy" next
That crash has always bothered me too 😂
I love that song mean it, thanks Doug
Actually did 4 albums in their short stint. This and Disraeli Gears were their two studios. Other two were live.
This is Blind Faith’s only album. Disraeli Gears was Cream.
I would ignore the bonus tracks! Also, Do What You LIke is cool, but about 80 percent of it is a very lengthy drum solo. Everything else on the record is worth hearing. "Sea of Joy" is a gem.
Very good.
Please do THE WITCH FROM MERCURY from composer Takashi Ohmama. Vocal by Clara Sorace
I wish he did the other version of it.
I saw the band in Milwaukee, WI at the Midwest Rock Festival late July 1969, along with Led Zep, Joe Cocker, John Mayall, and MANY more. There is a bootleg recording of the set Blind Faith played on UA-cam and on my UA-cam channel as well. I'd always enjoyed Cream and Traffic prior to their demise, and this was one of my favorite songs the band played. FYI Doug, the Ginger Baker "Do What You Like" is a (mostly) drum solo by one of the premier rock drummers of all time.
I vote for your reaction to the entire album, and later to the bonus jams as well. This was a short lived SUPER GROUP with 4 absolutely skilled musicians working together. Play all of them you possibly can!
My best to all,
Brew
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