Man, the late 60's and early 70's were the VERY BEST years of music.....ever! The sound, the talent, the message and the groove were beyond great. Loved being in my late teens back then!
You are so right! 74 in May, I still listen to Stevie Winwood and Robert Plant every day. Came across an RP interview recently where he mentioned first hearing 14 year old Stevie singing with the Spencer Davis Group. At the time, RP, also 14, was working part-time at Woolworth's to pay for his record habit. 💙🎶💙
This music was the backbone of the great societal change we all witnessed back then and all the way up until recently. We're gonna need another musical revival to put society back together again. Remember our times, preserve our times but be sure to embrace the younger generations and guide them as we were once guided.
Love this quote “It’s worth being older now, to have been young then.” I’m 76 years young and love that era of music, film, books and art. Fortunately there are still a few very talented artists around today. We were blessed to have over 100 of them back in the day…
I just turned 65 but got to see over 75 bands, the 3 day Sedalia Music fest(7/1974), Super Bowl of Rock in Chicago and all kinds of bands several times. You name them, I probably saw them.
We look at 'Reaction' videos of people who've never heard these songs before - And it's entertaining. This wasn't Top 40 hit, but it's one of my top 20 favorites They won't ever understand what it was like to turn on the AM radio and hear great music like The Who, or Cream, until you're tired of listening
The true definition of a Super Group!!! Winwood,Clapton and Ginger Baker!!They don’t make ‘em like that anymore!Long live Rock n Roll ❤And as an edit,thanks to those of you who reminded me not to forget Jack Bruce👍
@@wabitt11 Actually, its Grech, shortened from Grechko I think, and I did see him in Family and then in Traffic, but not in Blind Faith. Pity he died so young.
God bless we were very blessed by the artist that were around in the days I just turned 60 this past fall. And for some of the younger they've got no clue of the music I listen to or play. But I really enjoy it because my elders truly respect the older music I play
Wow. Four talented guys who sound amazing. Not to mention they are outdoors, with basic gear and recording equipment. No computers, technology, or gimmicks here. Sounds pure and from the heart.
OMG !!! Ginger , for he was not a clouter like Bonham. Seriously, his touch is so deft and I'm sure he used calfskins:you can feel it if you've heard your dad playing calfskin drums. Mind you , when my dad was buying them there was no alternative, but they do sound 'better'.Lol
@@Patricia-pq4jq I'd dispute that, but regardless of whether it's true or not, Ginger will always be my favorite. Both guys were absolute mad men but are difficult to compare beyond that, as if they were playing different instruments entirely. Keith may have had more punch, and played drums in an intuitive way almost as if they were a melodic instrument. Maybe we call that natural talent, maybe we call it lack of training coupled with unbridled ambition. Ginger was certainly more technically proficient, and had more a more sophisticated grasp of time signatures and jazz embellishment. He was a more disciplined player. Both guys were amazing. I can think of a dozen songs where I thought to myself, "Damn, Keith Moon is amazing!" or "Damn, Ginger Baker is amazing!" However, thinking of both of them at once, I can only think of the differences, I can't think of any similarities except that they were drummers for two of my favorite bands - and two bands with little similarity, Cream and The Who. Clapton and Townsend - very different guitarists. Bruce and Entwistle - very different bass players. Baker and Moon - very different drummers.
One of the great rock songs, it will be played and covered forever. Part psychedelic, part gospel, so full of spiritual longing - Winwood was an old soul in a young body when he wrote this. I love the way his voice cracks on “near the end” - it’s a song about being on the edge, exhausted in every way; it fits the theme perfectly, despite being accidental on the day.
We just added this song to our show and that particular note is impossible for me to hit. I laughed that even 16-17 year old Steve had a problem with it ,too.
Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood, and Eric Clapton. Saw two out of three. GINGER BAKER....created a unique sound on drums....dynamic powerful action on the toms...!
said in 1969 "we're goin to do a number a new number" now 2022 53 years later this song just got better its hard to believe I lived through these times... I'm so lucky to have lived in these times... thank you my sweet Lord...
I was born in 1950 so that put me through the sixties at a pretty good time to soak up some of the best music ever. I'm 73 now but still carry what I call classic rock deep within me. This is just one of the many.
I disagree, y'all just stopped trying to find new music....im 61 , I love this song deeply also , but theres a ton of good new music, take your blinders and ear muffs off, stop swimming in nostalgia! My God you're on UA-cam , take a random search and listen, theres almost too much good music in the world to listen to! Without being herded to it like sheep, like in the 1960's when just a few big companies marketed to us and decided what we were destined to listen to.
Couldn’t agree with you anymore the music of today is a joke! Every time I turn on the radio it sounds like the same person singing male or female, the generation of today are like clones of one and other. Real music is gone for good I’m afraid.
It's funny as I just read a thread complaining about the cost of gig tickets being justified by the cost of employing and transporting the production crew, pyrotechnics, backing orchestra, lighting rigs, mixing desks, and God only knows what else! This was a FREE concert - simple stage, no mixing desk, no pyro, lights - just a few speaker stacks and outrageous talent - and 100,000+ people hearing history being made for free! I would pay double to see this than any act playing today!
Unfortunately, the music being produced today is an abomination 😖🤢 The mainstream music business has totally ruined it! It’s ALL about the political & social correctness and 💵💵!! If you don’t sell out to their process, you won’t have a chance to make it. SO many talented musicians out there never even get a chance, if they don’t conform. It’s never been more obvious that you must “sell your soul” to get any kind of recording contract, no matter how talented you are. Hopefully, things will change soon…A LOT of things
@@tommysparks2705 I'm astonished how many songs are now either not played on the radio, or have certain words replaced, bleeped, or blanked. Funnily enough, the Sex Pistols stuff is mostly OK, but classics like Pink Floyd's 'Money' have awkward gaps in them! The World has gone mad!
Yes the nostalgia of being 66 and remembering the 70s is overwhelming sometimes. Like I tell the younger generation. If you weren't there then there is no explaining it. Maybe we'll feel this good in heaven.
Clapton looks so relaxed. It's calming to look at him. Cars and Music of the 60's and 70's will never be out done. Such style, art and talent! I'm glad we lived to see and hear it with young eyes and ears.
I don't see it like that. EC is scared to death and quite literally hiding among the equipment. This jibes with what he's been saying ever since..... this concert was rushed and he wasn't ready to gig on these tunes just yet.
This is when he started doing dope with Ginger...he's relaxed alright. And decades later he's even more relaxed mentally when he decides that saving lives with a Covid vaccine is optional....Clapton is scrod
This version is better than any album version I've heard. Steve's voice is so real and raw. He is singing his heart out, and the voice cracks of a young man of just 20/21 add to the rawness. I love his voice crack at 2:03-2:06 and how his whole being is into singing. I never tire of this video. The song is one of my favorites ever too.
Sorry, I'll take a song, sung in tune, over a singer over-singing the song and losing pitch anyday. I like well done and not raw. In all fairness, since it was live, he probably couldn't hear himself over the instruments, and started yelling instead of singing.
@@someguy7805 Don't be sorry, someguy, who cares what you think? Especially when you can't even hear the singing. Put your comment as its own, not a reply.
@@CN-dl2cj Go #### yourself. Nobody cares what you think either. And I can hear him sing great, until he tries the high notes, then his voice breaks and sounds like sheeet when he's yelling. Not sorry I said it. Just sorry your wittle feewings were hurt.
@@someguy7805 🤣🤣 No wories, you didn't hurt my feelings at all! Obviously you did care about what I thought, or you wouldn't have replied in the first place. Learn to spell..it's 'little feelings'. Or are you 3? I'm done here; couldn't care less about what you think or that you over-estimate your ability to hurt feelings. Ta ta!
Love how this captures the young Winwood, the breaking vocals( that would be fixed today) left raw and as it was. Our generation took it in stride, allowed and accepted it. Shame those who went on to college and politics fell away and became something unrecognizable to me. Grateful for my young years, sorry for how the world has chosen to go.
I feel fortunate to have been old enough to have lived through the 60's and 70's to experience the phenomenal music of that era. So many talented individuals who made so many hits without the technology we have today. Pure talent and ability. Greatest generation of musicians whose music is still on top even in 2023. That speaks volumes... Cheers...
After Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood hadn't played this song together for over 30 years they reunited and performed this song. They took it to new heights ❤
Ginger’s playing on this is TERRIBLE, what are you smoking? 😂 He’s literally killed the sublime groove of the album version. Totally over-playing and in places literally playing “whatever”. Amazing talent but total egomaniac approach to playing in a band…..this is not Cream, these are not freeform extended blues jams, these are well-crafted songs that require the players to serve the song, not themselves. I still wonder what on Earth Winwood was thinking getting him in the band, he was absolutely the wrong guy for the job…..
What a precious find, both audio and video quality are quite impressive, especially for 1969, right? This has got to be the best preserved example of 'Blind Faith' performing, thanks so very much for posting.
Knew it was transcendental at that moment, but wasn't totally aware that it would be an eternal high..... we were all convinced that each individual in that band was beyond mortal...... together and separately they were giants that would live forever thru their musical accomplishments. Fifty plus years and still the cutting edge as tho this we're yesterday..... It's been awesome to have "lived" thru the Golden Age of Music.
This is amazing. Blind Faith in their prime. Eric, Stevie and even Ginger look so dam young. Bless them and you for uploading this treasure. Thanks again for sharing this.
A rocking live version of the softer album track. Phenomenal song and the talent is a cut above. Ginger Baker's drumming (spoken from a drummer) is unique... a blend of sophistication meets tribal rawness. Man those tom toms!
Blind Faith was one of the first albums I ever bought. I was in love with Steve Winwood. I thought if only I could meet him, he would fall in love with me, and we'd go on tour and live happily ever after. Note--I was 16. I'm so happy to see this video and think about who I was before life happened to me, and what a great time that was.
One of the most evocative rock songs ever. Someone played it on The Voice last week more than 50 years after this performance and it still puts lumps in my throat.
When they played this on the voice, tears started running down my 71 year old eyes. So many memories of that time and many friends now gone. Fantastic song then and fantastic now. I'm now playing my 60's music again. The album's have been sitting in closet way too long!!!
On the contrary. I think he sucks and he's constantly OVERRATED. He's full of shit and he's full of himself and he's annoying. Everything he plays makes me wonder why he did THAT🤨
Wonderful footage, they were a real super group in my youth. Great to see Clapton playing a Telecaster and not his usual Strat, Ginger Baker, surely one of the worlds a finest ever drummers looking as he did like the wrath of God and that unique voice that can only be Steve Winwood. Love it….
As great as this is, and don’t get me wrong I’m super grateful something like this exists, the camera work is frustrating. It’s done by someone who doesn’t understand what’s going on musically, which was typical for a lot of concerts filmed in the late 60s/early 70s. We see more of Ric Grech’s bass guitar and Ginger’s foot action on the kick than Clapton playing his tasty solo.
@@ArchieFatcackie Yeah but it was a brilliant 6 months. Just because they couldn't get along doesn't mean they weren't a great band. Their eponymous album is still one of the best of the era - classic in all respects. Egos were too big to last.
@@ShaunHensley Grow up bonny lad just because you don’t agree with my opinion. I actually owned that album but it was no great shakes and they agreed as they disbanded after 6 months. Like I say, the project failed history tells you that.
What a great time that must have been to be alive. Wish I could take a time machine and go back to be there for this. So thankful for this footage. Stevie Winwood is such a beautiful human being. An international treasure.
I was there. 19 yrs old, selling hash. It was a very hot day. Those summers...67, 68. 69, 70...were much hotter than they were anytime since. So much for the hoax of 'global warming.' I'd seen Cream and especially liked Ginger Baker and was interested in Blind Faith, the new so-called 'supergroup.' I remember being stuck near the back of the crowd and being disappointed. The sound system was under-powered. Couldn't hear them properly. I'd forgotten this till now. The film brought it back. Some of it. Wish I could remember more. It was an exciting, colourful time. Creative and expansive. Not like now.
I hear you buddy. I’m only 41 so I didn’t live through it. But I feel I’m like else we’re the last of the Mohicans for slot of things. However we were doing our best to replicate it. I. My area they had these festivals that would never be accepted today. It was basically a folk festival with a mega cop market. Probably more like a mega cop market with live folk entertainment. We would take my 1964 Plymouth valiant with a push button transmission to all these festivals, it was great times
I was at this Concert, 21 years old and tripping on Acid, I lived just off Kensington Church Street a short walk to the stage. What a time, I just wish I had paid more attention.
@@steffanhoffmann8937: Survivor with a capital S. The dope didn't kill me, the booze didn't kill me, the Cigarettes didn't kill me, gave everything up over 30 years ago,but Im not giving up Coffee and lovely females for anybody.
What a trip. I was born in 1971. My current residential street name is Kensington Court and my previous address was Church Street. Long live good music and great connections!
@@allemander: Going from High St Ken up Kensington Church street there is a curve and a small street on the Left side and thats where I lived, in a crash pad, 1969.
Impossible not to listen to this iconic song from time to time. Steve is one of the greatest talents. And normally I don't say this easily, but yes, I think such music with so much musicality and depth is hard to find these days.
I remembered I was at the North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague in 2003, and I saw him practically standing next to me performing. And I saw not many people recognized him. I was very surprised, cause I always thougt this guy´s a legend. And there he was, not even on a podium. A very strange encounter...
That naked young girl was Steve Windwood's 13 year old sister. I've got the same album. I bought it in England because the cover was banned in the US, it was declared pornographic.
@@paulgeorgejr3273 The model was actually 11-year-old Mariora Goschen, whose older sister was approached in the London Underground by the photographer, Bob Seidemann, who created the cover art. Not related to any of the band members.
There's more talent on that stage in 1969 than there is in the entire music industry today. I was 14 years old in 69; what great times and better music.
Clapton’s Fender only has one lipstick pickup - Don't think so - looks like a stock Fender Tele with two Tele P/Ups and a different neck. Toggle swithed fwd - so palying on the neck pickup
I was a one year old. I still would have crawled to hitch a ride if I knew how to do it. 😁 Mom always said I was born 10 years too late but this music has stayed with me for the next 52 years of my life ✌🏻👍🏻👶😁💯 and the next 50 years!
I was 4, and in the early 70's, my baby sitters would play music like this, love this song,,,although I remember asking my mom how come their cigarettes smell so much different then theirs!!!!!!! lol
Music was so amazing back then....at the time, we took it for granted since there was so much talent every where. Some great shows: James Taylor, The James Gang and The Who - 5 bucks. Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, John McLaughlin and The Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Raspberries, Roxy Music, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Poco, Yes, Larry Coryell, Weather Report, Chick Corea and Return to Forever, Todd Rundgren, Judy Collins, John Mayall and The Bluesbreakers, Uriah Heep, Kiss with The New York Dolls, It's a Beautiful Day with The Allman Brothers, Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett, Albert King, Robert Jr. Lockwood, Grand Funk Railroad, Bruce Springsteen, Leon Russell, Devo, Joni Mitchell, Jethro Tull, Genesis with Peter Gabriel and many more....❤
I used to love dropping out.... putting a good set of headphones on and getting lost. For some reason..... no matter what I do, I still can't find my way back home. I hope some folks understand what I mean.......
I didn't respond to you directly but I did carry a conversation on if you want to know a little of more story and why this all brings things together from a small world follow conversation nice to meet you be well
Is anyone else still listening to this in 2024?
Yes
This is my all-time favorite song and I am slowly collecting every version of it that exists!
Off course..
Yup! it's on my playlist along with Traffic.
Oh yeah, man. Killer version!
Man, the late 60's and early 70's were the VERY BEST years of music.....ever! The sound, the talent, the message and the groove were beyond great. Loved being in my late teens back then!
There was a group conscience everywhere then channeled through music like this.
Me too!
You are so right! 74 in May, I still listen to Stevie Winwood and Robert Plant every day. Came across an RP interview recently where he mentioned first hearing 14 year old Stevie singing with the Spencer Davis Group. At the time, RP, also 14, was working part-time at Woolworth's to pay for his record habit. 💙🎶💙
This music was the backbone of the great societal change we all witnessed back then and all the way up until recently. We're gonna need another musical revival to put society back together again. Remember our times, preserve our times but be sure to embrace the younger generations and guide them as we were once guided.
Late 1760s and early 1770s? I agree.
Love this quote “It’s worth being older now, to have been young then.” I’m 76 years young and love that era of music, film, books and art. Fortunately there are still a few very talented artists around today. We were blessed to have over 100 of them back in the day…
Você é da mesma idade do Steve Winwood.
Respect 🙏🏿
Steve Winwood may be the most underrated musician in rock n roll history.
Eric knows Steve is brilliant...:-)
Not by his peers... Jimi would beg to differ... 🙂
I was thinking the same thing two days ago
Wanted to send it to a friend
He is by far the most underrated
He's always been great.
Steve W. will be Touring with The Doobie Brothers in 20 US cities later this year.
How is this stage not collapsing underneath the weight of all this talent.
It really is insane
Atlas is bearing the weight on his shoulders.
Lag bolts
It's because they were "enlightened"... 😂
Pretty little comment 💕
Anyone else watch it 3 times in a row and come back the next day and do it again?
Yep. I' m here again.
I’m on 6 straight now
That’s because it is held in the past.
Thinking about it but probably 🤔 not. Gonna head over to Dear Mr. Fantasy now me thinks
ABSOLUTELY ☮️✌️🤩
We lived in the best years of music.. im 67
It's worth being older now, to have been young then.
I just turned 65 but got to see over 75 bands, the 3 day Sedalia Music fest(7/1974), Super Bowl of Rock in Chicago and all kinds of bands several times. You name them, I probably saw them.
68 here...
We look at 'Reaction' videos of people who've never heard these songs before - And it's entertaining.
This wasn't Top 40 hit, but it's one of my top 20 favorites
They won't ever understand what it was like to turn on the AM radio and hear great music like The Who, or Cream, until you're tired of listening
Yep! I’m 68.. so lucky to be around during the greatest era of music!
Ill listen to blind faith till i die. 71 yo rocking
Same here. Rock On!!!
The true definition of a Super Group!!!
Winwood,Clapton and Ginger Baker!!They don’t make ‘em like that anymore!Long live Rock n Roll ❤And as an edit,thanks to those of you who reminded me not to forget Jack Bruce👍
The only time you ever heard of a bass player named Rick Gretch from a group called Family.
@@wabitt11 Actually, its Grech, shortened from Grechko I think, and I did see him in Family and then in Traffic, but not in Blind Faith. Pity he died so young.
@@donvanvliet9477 Good to know. Thank you!
@@wabitt11 No problem sir! Keep on rockin'! (as we used to say 55 years ago)
You forgot to mention the incredible playing by Ric Grech, who played with Family, Traffic, and Blind Faith.
54 years old. I’m 71 I lived at a great time with great music.
God bless we were very blessed by the artist that were around in the days I just turned 60 this past fall. And for some of the younger they've got no clue of the music I listen to or play. But I really enjoy it because my elders truly respect the older music I play
You had to be musicians back then .
Yes, that’s true. I am 70 years old now. Because of such music I started playing guitar over 55 years ago. Stay healthy!
Wow. Four talented guys who sound amazing. Not to mention they are outdoors, with basic gear and recording equipment. No computers, technology, or gimmicks here. Sounds pure and from the heart.
And people are just enjoying themselves, their friends, and the music without being on their phones and watching the music thru their phones.
I'm a singer, guitarist. Clapton and Winwood are absolute idols to me. All I could do through this whole video was watch Ginger in absolute amazement!
OMG !!! Ginger , for he was not a clouter like Bonham.
Seriously, his touch is so deft and I'm sure he used calfskins:you can feel it if you've heard your dad playing calfskin drums.
Mind you , when my dad was buying them there was no alternative, but they do sound 'better'.Lol
More than once I've said "Bonham my ass..." Ginger Baker will be my favorite drummer until I die.
EVH. Is king sir.
..no one comes close.
@NSPIREGuru Keith moon had more talent in one finger....
@@Patricia-pq4jq I'd dispute that, but regardless of whether it's true or not, Ginger will always be my favorite. Both guys were absolute mad men but are difficult to compare beyond that, as if they were playing different instruments entirely. Keith may have had more punch, and played drums in an intuitive way almost as if they were a melodic instrument. Maybe we call that natural talent, maybe we call it lack of training coupled with unbridled ambition. Ginger was certainly more technically proficient, and had more a more sophisticated grasp of time signatures and jazz embellishment. He was a more disciplined player. Both guys were amazing. I can think of a dozen songs where I thought to myself, "Damn, Keith Moon is amazing!" or "Damn, Ginger Baker is amazing!" However, thinking of both of them at once, I can only think of the differences, I can't think of any similarities except that they were drummers for two of my favorite bands - and two bands with little similarity, Cream and The Who. Clapton and Townsend - very different guitarists. Bruce and Entwistle - very different bass players. Baker and Moon - very different drummers.
One of the great rock songs, it will be played and covered forever. Part psychedelic, part gospel, so full of spiritual longing - Winwood was an old soul in a young body when he wrote this.
I love the way his voice cracks on “near the end” - it’s a song about being on the edge, exhausted in every way; it fits the theme perfectly, despite being accidental on the day.
We just added this song to our show and that particular note is impossible for me to hit. I laughed that even 16-17 year old Steve had a problem with it ,too.
Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood, and Eric Clapton. Saw two out of three. GINGER BAKER....created a unique sound on drums....dynamic powerful action on the toms...!
Winwood has always been an old soul
said in 1969 "we're goin to do a number a new number" now 2022 53 years later this song just got better its hard to believe I lived through these times... I'm so lucky to have lived in these times... thank you my sweet Lord...
Nice to see Clapton with a cool Telecaster .
Welcome home brother !
Lost Ginger Baker in 2019..R.I.P. ,and no doubt by now HE has found his way home.
Fucking love that guy!! Ginger is in the top one (1)!
I was born in 1950 so that put me through the sixties at a pretty good time to soak up some of the best music ever. I'm 73 now but still carry what I call classic rock deep within me. This is just one of the many.
I find such comfort in Steve Windwoods incredible voice !!
Me Too
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I always thought he sang great ! Stevie Winwood 2024 !
I always liked him. Traffic was a great band, too.
and steve WINWOODS voice is pretty good too
It’s like Ginger doesn’t just hear the music but is one with it, as a fellow percussionist it’s such a remarkable thing to witness!
He and Mooney had the same mother!🤣
I can see that. I am sure his style cannot be taught!
Yeah right on I agree
Yeah , ginga baker , was my favorite drummer back then , and I loved blind faith, I built a soup box derby car , and named it Blind Faith !
Dubai and about 5 million other percussionists all agree.
This is 54 years old! I can't believe it.
54 years later and still better than any music of today!!!!
You are a liar.
There isn't any 'music of today'. It's just electronic noise.
I'm from Atlanta Texas.
My brother was with Henley in high school.
Roscoe Beck many more from our little area.
There are thousands of better current bands you fool.
I disagree, y'all just stopped trying to find new music....im 61 , I love this song deeply also , but theres a ton of good new music, take your blinders and ear muffs off, stop swimming in nostalgia! My God you're on UA-cam , take a random search and listen, theres almost too much good music in the world to listen to! Without being herded to it like sheep, like in the 1960's when just a few big companies marketed to us and decided what we were destined to listen to.
A perfect illustration of how today's music simply cannot compare.
Couldn’t agree with you anymore the music of today is a joke! Every time I turn on the radio it sounds like the same person singing male or female, the generation of today are like clones of one and other. Real music is gone for good I’m afraid.
It's funny as I just read a thread complaining about the cost of gig tickets being justified by the cost of employing and transporting the production crew, pyrotechnics, backing orchestra, lighting rigs, mixing desks, and God only knows what else!
This was a FREE concert - simple stage, no mixing desk, no pyro, lights - just a few speaker stacks and outrageous talent - and 100,000+ people hearing history being made for free!
I would pay double to see this than any act playing today!
Unfortunately, the music being produced today is an abomination 😖🤢 The mainstream music business has totally ruined it! It’s ALL about the political & social correctness and 💵💵!! If you don’t sell out to their process, you won’t have a chance to make it. SO many talented musicians out there never even get a chance, if they don’t conform. It’s never been more obvious that you must “sell your soul” to get any kind of recording contract, no matter how talented you are. Hopefully, things will change soon…A LOT of things
Amen!
@@tommysparks2705 I'm astonished how many songs are now either not played on the radio, or have certain words replaced, bleeped, or blanked. Funnily enough, the Sex Pistols stuff is mostly OK, but classics like Pink Floyd's 'Money' have awkward gaps in them! The World has gone mad!
Wow! So much beauty, talent and youth....I had to cry with my 70 years remembering these times. Thank you!
Yes the nostalgia of being 66 and remembering the 70s is overwhelming sometimes. Like I tell the younger generation. If you weren't there then there is no explaining it. Maybe we'll feel this good in heaven.
Clapton looks so relaxed. It's calming to look at him. Cars and Music of the 60's and 70's will never be out done. Such style, art and talent! I'm glad we lived to see and hear it with young eyes and ears.
Yeah, just wish I could remember it better! 😂😂
'50's cars had the most style. '60's is in second. '50's fashion was the best, too.
I don't see it like that. EC is scared to death and quite literally hiding among the equipment. This jibes with what he's been saying ever since..... this concert was rushed and he wasn't ready to gig on these tunes just yet.
@@aaarauz1 yea , but he evolved , Jack Bruce , moved him to the person he turned out to be.
This is when he started doing dope with Ginger...he's relaxed alright. And decades later he's even more relaxed mentally when he decides that saving lives with a Covid vaccine is optional....Clapton is scrod
It's 2023...... I'm still jamming to this song !
This version is better than any album version I've heard. Steve's voice is so real and raw. He is singing his heart out, and the voice cracks of a young man of just 20/21 add to the rawness. I love his voice crack at 2:03-2:06 and how his whole being is into singing. I never tire of this video. The song is one of my favorites ever too.
Sorry, I'll take a song, sung in tune, over a singer over-singing the song and losing pitch anyday. I like well done and not raw.
In all fairness, since it was live, he probably couldn't hear himself over the instruments, and started yelling instead of singing.
@@someguy7805
Don't be sorry, someguy, who cares what you think? Especially when you can't even hear the singing. Put your comment as its own, not a reply.
@@CN-dl2cj
Go #### yourself. Nobody cares what you think either. And I can hear him sing great, until he tries the high notes, then his voice breaks and sounds like sheeet when he's yelling. Not sorry I said it. Just sorry your wittle feewings were hurt.
Joy…
It’s just sublime.
@@someguy7805
🤣🤣 No wories, you didn't hurt my feelings at all! Obviously you did care about what I thought, or you wouldn't have replied in the first place. Learn to spell..it's 'little feelings'. Or are you 3?
I'm done here; couldn't care less about what you think or that you over-estimate your ability to hurt feelings. Ta ta!
"Spirit is something that no one destroys " ~ Steve Winwood ✌❤🌷🌷🎶✊
low spark...
He seems a beautiful soul.
His face is angelic.
Jim Capaldi
We're all just spirits encased in bodies... George Harrison
Today’s music,
Is not music!
It’s noise pollution.
I’m 74 years now and my grandchildren love
my old records😊
Love how this captures the young Winwood, the breaking vocals( that would be fixed today) left raw and as it was. Our generation took it in stride, allowed and accepted it. Shame those who went on to college and politics fell away and became something unrecognizable to me. Grateful for my young years, sorry for how the world has chosen to go.
Trying to figure out who was on Bass. L@@KS like Jack Bruce. Anyone know ???
I agree. Always keep the faith. They cant take that away from us.
@@dagoneit426271 Ric Grech
Cream was Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker & clapton
His breaking vocals, I call soul. This is my favorite version of this song. It’s real.
@@stevejeffrey11RIP JACK BRUCE
I feel fortunate to have been old enough to have lived through the 60's and 70's to experience the phenomenal music of that era. So many talented individuals who made so many hits without the technology we have today. Pure talent and ability. Greatest generation of musicians whose music is still on top even in 2023. That speaks volumes... Cheers...
I love these old videos. The audience probably has no idea they are listening to rock legends playing a rock classic!
They do. unlike today that's why for the most part they sat down and shut the fuck up.
Everybody was feeling it,
Great music,
True
"I wish there was a way to know you're in the good ol days before you've actually left them"😢
After Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood hadn't played this song together for over 30 years they reunited and performed this song. They took it to new heights ❤
❤❤❤
No other voice like Steve Winwood!!!
Steve Windwood.....a voice of multiple generations.
Fucking guy crushes it.
Clapton and Ginger baker are locked together, a very tight groove, and Baker plays lead on drums. Love it..!
Baker is linking up runs admittedly,like a great Tubman would!
I miss those days.
Ginger’s playing on this is TERRIBLE, what are you smoking? 😂 He’s literally killed the sublime groove of the album version. Totally over-playing and in places literally playing “whatever”. Amazing talent but total egomaniac approach to playing in a band…..this is not Cream, these are not freeform extended blues jams, these are well-crafted songs that require the players to serve the song, not themselves. I still wonder what on Earth Winwood was thinking getting him in the band, he was absolutely the wrong guy for the job…..
@@blahzay_ I agree with you; his playing is in contrast with the character of the song.
Another supergroup.
What a precious find, both audio and video quality are quite impressive, especially for 1969, right? This has got to be the best preserved example of 'Blind Faith' performing, thanks so very much for posting.
You tube saves me from deep despair. I think that it's the best part of the Internet.
Me Too!
2024...drummers are the backbone of a band, just don't get the recognition they deserve
Fell in love with this track at 13. Still feel the same passion for this song at 67………wow, what a time to be a teenager, so much amazing music! 🇦🇺❤️
63 here and LOVING THIS! 🙂
Silence when introducing the song... and It's still one of my favorite tunes 54 years later.
54
I agree, I am 62. This song is timeless. Best wishes to you.
Blind Faith are quickly mentioned in a Woodstock interview as a “heavy group.”
This song has withstood the test of time. Still love every version of it.❤
Same here. It's a 'stop you in your tracks' song. No wonder it's had so many covers.
Music has a way of connecting us all...no matter what age we are.
True...but I think we're losing it.
I can't believe how much I love Ginger's work on this!!
no cow bell respect
It's like one long solo.
There's Ginger. And everyone else.
Man ! In my opinition Ginger Backer was the greatest of all drummers.
I was at this show - lived in London that summer, and saw virtually every show that happened in London
You saw The Rolling Stones at Hyde Park too? Same Summer! BLESS YOU!👍
Sure did...Stones in the afternoon then to Albert Hall for the Who.
I was there, my 1st concert, i was 13, my older brother took me, started my life of love of music,
So happy someone got this concert footage. What a gem!
Knew it was transcendental at that moment, but wasn't totally aware that it would be an eternal high..... we were all convinced that each individual in that band was beyond mortal...... together and separately they were giants that would live forever thru their musical accomplishments. Fifty plus years and still the cutting edge as tho this we're yesterday.....
It's been awesome to have "lived" thru the Golden Age of Music.
Well put brother 🎉
This is amazing. Blind Faith in their prime. Eric, Stevie and even Ginger look so dam young. Bless them and you for uploading this treasure.
Thanks again for sharing this.
I think Blind Faith was always in their prime since they were only around as band for less than a year.
@@awboat good point.
Rick Gretch was there too.
@@awboat That was my first thought when I read David's comment.
@@KaiserBlade Poor soul. Only lived for a little more than 43 years.
A rocking live version of the softer album track. Phenomenal song and the talent is a cut above. Ginger Baker's drumming (spoken from a drummer) is unique... a blend of sophistication meets tribal rawness. Man those tom toms!
Blind Faith was one of the first albums I ever bought. I was in love with Steve Winwood. I thought if only I could meet him, he would fall in love with me, and we'd go on tour and live happily ever after. Note--I was 16. I'm so happy to see this video and think about who I was before life happened to me, and what a great time that was.
What a time to be alive, awake and aware.
Woke
Yes. Watching that crowd, the reaction. Those were halcyon days! A moment in time that can never be replicated.
@@megadave1197 😆I see what you did there.
Unless you happened to have been Brian Jones.
Steve Winwood makes everything better, even Clapton and Baker
He really does
Lol. True
Yep and Cheers From Texas in 2023 born in 1976... Happy Birthday 75th Birthday Steve Winwood...
❤ when we were beautiful
your still here...beautiful as ever
Put this on my list when I invent my time machine
😂see ya there
One of the most evocative rock songs ever. Someone played it on The Voice last week more than 50 years after this performance and it still puts lumps in my throat.
When they played this on the voice, tears started running down my 71 year old eyes. So many memories of that time and many friends now gone. Fantastic song then and fantastic now. I'm now playing my 60's music again. The album's have been sitting in closet way too long!!!
my eyes moisten at the purity of this.
We had no idea that it would never be this good ever again.
Ginger Baker- somehow despite all the recognition and plaudits for me he still remains underrated. His talent is that huge!
I don't think he is underrated. Many of us consider him the greatest drummer of all time!
Incredible musician. Modesty kept him from being a drumming icon. Can't blame him.
THAT MAD MR. BAKER !!
On the contrary. I think he sucks and he's constantly OVERRATED. He's full of shit and he's full of himself and he's annoying. Everything he plays makes me wonder why he did THAT🤨
I think that I exaggerated when I said the greatest drummer of all-time. That would have to be Neil Peart of Rush IMHO.
Wonderful footage, they were a real super group in my youth. Great to see Clapton playing a Telecaster and not his usual Strat, Ginger Baker, surely one of the worlds a finest ever drummers looking as he did like the wrath of God and that unique voice that can only be Steve Winwood. Love it….
…like the wrath of God made me laugh
You realize that this Telecaster had a Stratocaster neck, right?
As great as this is, and don’t get me wrong I’m super grateful something like this exists, the camera work is frustrating. It’s done by someone who doesn’t understand what’s going on musically, which was typical for a lot of concerts filmed in the late 60s/early 70s. We see more of Ric Grech’s bass guitar and Ginger’s foot action on the kick than Clapton playing his tasty solo.
Clapton played a Gibson SG with Cream.
@@bluesky6361 How is that relevant? Do you think the shape of the headstock makes the guitar?
Wow these people had talent. I'm now 65. Never mind drinking and getting high. I can listen to this music straight.
Never did find my way home
Beautiful young men singing impossibly wonderful songs. I miss it.
Soon to become one of the greatest bands in the history of rock & roll.
They all became legends.
They were a failure and lasted 6 months.
@@ArchieFatcackie
Yeah but it was a brilliant 6 months.
Just because they couldn't get along doesn't mean they weren't a great band.
Their eponymous album is still one of the best of the era - classic in all respects.
Egos were too big to last.
@@ArchieFatcackie You’re a failure
@@ShaunHensley
Grow up bonny lad just because you don’t agree with my opinion.
I actually owned that album but it was no great shakes and they agreed as they disbanded after 6 months.
Like I say, the project failed history tells you that.
@@ArchieFatcackie Their music is being enjoyed over 50 years later. Nope, you are for sure the failure
What a great time that must have been to be alive. Wish I could take a time machine and go back to be there for this. So thankful for this footage. Stevie Winwood is such a beautiful human being. An international treasure.
You absolute right sir,an international treasure indeed
I Was in high school,and i had that "Blind Faith" album. wish i still had it.
I was born right after that generation, 1965
I was 9 years old in 1969. I remember!
Amazing that Steve Winwood is only 19 years old there.
14 years old.
he's 21 at that point , being born in 1948 pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Winwood
It’s amazing that he’s only 19 when he’s 21
He'd just turned 21 in fact.
This and Traffic's Low Spark transport me back to the time, complete with all the feelings, memories, sights, sounds, and thoughts of my early 20s.
I was there. 19 yrs old, selling hash. It was a very hot day. Those summers...67, 68. 69, 70...were much hotter than they were anytime since. So much for the hoax of 'global warming.' I'd seen Cream and especially liked Ginger Baker and was interested in Blind Faith, the new so-called 'supergroup.' I remember being stuck near the back of the crowd and being disappointed. The sound system was under-powered. Couldn't hear them properly. I'd forgotten this till now. The film brought it back. Some of it. Wish I could remember more. It was an exciting, colourful time. Creative and expansive. Not like now.
Hoax of global warming😂
I hear you buddy. I’m only 41 so I didn’t live through it. But I feel I’m like else we’re the last of the Mohicans for slot of things. However we were doing our best to replicate it. I. My area they had these festivals that would never be accepted today. It was basically a folk festival with a mega cop market. Probably more like a mega cop market with live folk entertainment. We would take my 1964 Plymouth valiant with a push button transmission to all these festivals, it was great times
They were so.... young.
The Blind Faith album was one of most prized possessions when I was 19 years old.
Your Mama's undies were my prized possession🤤
Amazing. It will never happen again. So lucky to grow up with real music. When it had soul and feeling. Best ever
I was at this Concert, 21 years old and tripping on Acid, I lived just off Kensington Church Street a short walk to the stage.
What a time, I just wish I had paid more attention.
You're still here to tell the tale mate!
You're a survivor 🙌
@@steffanhoffmann8937: Survivor with a capital S. The dope didn't kill me, the booze didn't kill me, the Cigarettes didn't kill me, gave everything up over 30 years ago,but Im not giving up Coffee and lovely females for anybody.
What a trip.
I was born in 1971.
My current residential street name is Kensington Court and my previous address was Church Street.
Long live good music and great connections!
@@allemander: Going from High St Ken up Kensington Church street there is a curve and a small street on the Left side and thats where I lived, in a crash pad, 1969.
@@abw48
I’m a lifetime Georgia USA resident, 51 years, so I’m not familiar with those areas you mentioned but I appreciate your message. ✌🏼
Impossible not to listen to this iconic song from time to time. Steve is one of the greatest talents. And normally I don't say this easily, but yes, I think such music with so much musicality and depth is hard to find these days.
One of my favorite songs
What a treat to see Blind Faith perform it live. 😎👍
Thanks
Imagine how talented at 17 wind wood had to be for Clapton and ginger baker to leave cream ! Take the back stage . Just amazing music !
God--he's 17 years old...amazing talent!
In 1969, Steve was 21 (born May 12, 1948) 😌
@@valeriefouchey4201 I was thinking Gimme Some Lovin which he wrote when he was 17, still a genius....Thanks
Ginger’s drums keep this song in sync with Steve’s lyrics. This truly was the golden age of rock.
i grew up in this era, it was so amazing, an experience that stays with you. when your lost and alone, its all you got...
We were there. Pretty much perfect. Short-lived band but a classic song.
I remembered I was at the North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague in 2003, and I saw him practically standing next to me performing. And I saw not many people recognized him. I was very surprised, cause I always thougt this guy´s a legend. And there he was, not even on a podium. A very strange encounter...
In the world without phones and internet we made real life and lived it.
I'm going to have this played at my wake. Hey, I survived the 60's, I earned the right.
My favorite song of all time. I still have the Blind Faith LP I bought in Spain, in 1969, with the naked young girl on the cover.
That naked young girl was Steve Windwood's 13 year old sister. I've got the same album. I bought it in England because the cover was banned in the US, it was declared pornographic.
@@paulgeorgejr3273 The model was actually 11-year-old Mariora Goschen, whose older sister was approached in the London Underground by the photographer, Bob Seidemann, who created the cover art. Not related to any of the band members.
There's more talent on that stage in 1969 than there is in the entire music industry today. I was 14 years old in 69; what great times and better music.
Phenomenal band! Winwood’s voice is incredible. Ginger Baker looks as crazy as ever. Clapton’s Fender only has one lipstick pickup!! Sounds killer!!
Clapton’s Fender only has one lipstick pickup - Don't think so - looks like a stock Fender Tele with two Tele P/Ups and a different neck. Toggle swithed fwd - so palying on the neck pickup
@@davidcourtney3369 Odd to See Clapton on a Telecaster, usually it's a Stratocaster!
@@michaelhorozko2347 He used a telecaster when he was in the yardbirds also. After he left the band he gave it to Jeff Beck to use.
@@michaelhorozko2347If you look at it you can see it's a Tele with a Strat neck
I just love Eric's early sounding guitar playing and of course Ginger's drumming
I was a one year old. I still would have crawled to hitch a ride if I knew how to do it. 😁 Mom always said I was born 10 years too late but this music has stayed with me for the next 52 years of my life ✌🏻👍🏻👶😁💯 and the next 50 years!
I was 4, and in the early 70's, my baby sitters would play music like this, love this song,,,although I remember asking my mom how come their cigarettes smell so much different then theirs!!!!!!! lol
Nobody kept time like Ginger Baker man 👌
As a guitarist - the solo from 2:35 to 3:35 is deep, raw, and transcendent
Steve Winwood is still underrated ti now.
One of my very favorite songs of all time. Thanks for posting it!
This song is so beautiful it almost hurts .
Winwood is 21 years old here. Crazy
i remember 3 of us, driving down, from Manchester to see this Concert. Brilliant'. I would have been about 21. what great memories. !!
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I wasn’t even alive but listened to Rock N Roll my whole life, look how young these iconic stars were ❤
I was four years old 😊
Music was so amazing back then....at the time, we took it for granted since there was so much talent every where. Some great shows: James Taylor, The James Gang and The Who - 5 bucks. Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, John McLaughlin and The Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Raspberries, Roxy Music, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Poco, Yes, Larry Coryell, Weather Report, Chick Corea and Return to Forever, Todd Rundgren, Judy Collins, John Mayall and The Bluesbreakers, Uriah Heep, Kiss with The New York Dolls, It's a Beautiful Day with The Allman Brothers, Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett, Albert King, Robert Jr. Lockwood, Grand Funk Railroad, Bruce Springsteen, Leon Russell, Devo, Joni Mitchell, Jethro Tull, Genesis with Peter Gabriel and many more....❤
so many of us been there, I grew up in the SF bay area late 60s & 70s can't explain how cool that was. if you were there you all know !
I used to love dropping out.... putting a good set of headphones on and getting lost. For some reason..... no matter what I do, I still can't find my way back home. I hope some folks understand what I mean.......
50 Years Ago today, This Happened.
Brandon Callaway Fuck yeah been celebrating it all morning
I didn't respond to you directly but I did carry a conversation on if you want to know a little of more story and why this all brings things together from a small world follow conversation nice to meet you be well
i was 13 for this and it started my love for Blind Faith
This song surely complimented my first acid trip 😅 cant find my way home
blind faith you dont hear voices like his today no way. 😊
Damn......Ginger's drum timing was phenomenal.
He knew EXACTLY where the pocket was when he played....and it SHOWED.🥁
He was the drum man!
His voice cracked as the spirit spoke the destination- the presence of the Lord. Also a great hit!
Oh, please. Can't we listen to a cool song without someone bringing god into it?