Buddy Miles Interview on Jimi Hendrix (1973)
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- George Allen "Buddy" Miles Jr. (September 5, 1947 - February 26, 2008) was an American composer, drummer, guitarist, vocalist and producer. He was a founding member of the Electric Flag (1967), a member of Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys (1969-1970), founder and leader of the Buddy Miles Express and later, the Buddy Miles Band. Miles also played and recorded with Carlos Santana and others. Additionally, he sang lead vocals on the critically and commercially acclaimed California Raisins claymation TV commercials and recorded two California Raisins R&B albums.
Biography and career
Early life
Miles was born in Omaha, Nebraska, United States,[1] on September 5, 1947. Buddy's father played upright bass for Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon, and others. By age twelve, Miles had begun touring with his father's band, the Bebops. He played with his father's band for several years.[2] Given the nickname "Buddy" by his aunt after the drummer Buddy Rich, he was often seen as a teenager hanging out and recording at Universal Promotions Corporation recording studios, which later became Rainbow Recording Studios.[3]
Miles did not finish high school. In order to become a professional musician, he dropped out of Omaha North High in 1965. Omaha North High awarded him an honorary degree in 1998.[4]
1960s: Early career
Miles played with a variety of rhythm and blues and soul acts as a teenager, including Ruby & the Romantics, the Delfonics, and Wilson Pickett.[1] In 1964, at the age of 16, Miles met Jimi Hendrix at a show in Montreal, where both were performing as sidemen for other artists.[5]
In 1967, Miles joined Hendrix in a jam session at the Malibu home of Stephen Stills. They also went on to play together again in 1968 in both Los Angeles and New York. In the same year, Miles moved to Chicago where he teamed with guitarist Mike Bloomfield and vocalist Nick Gravenites to form the Electric Flag, a blues/soul/rock band.[1] In addition to playing drums, Miles sometimes sang lead vocals for the band, which made its live debut at the Monterey Pop Festival in mid-1967.
In early 1968, the band released A Long Time Comin', its first album for Columbia. The Electric Flag's second album, An American Music Band, followed late the same year.[1] Shortly after that release, though, the group disbanded.[1] In the same year, Hendrix used several guest artists, including Miles, during the recording of the album, Electric Ladyland.[1] Miles played drums on one long jam that was eventually split into two album cuts, "Rainy Day, Dream Away" and "Still Raining, Still Dreaming", with a different song, "1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)", edited in between.
At age 21, after the breakup of the Electric Flag, Miles put together a new band with Jim McCarty, who later became the guitarist for Cactus. This new group performed and recorded as the Buddy Miles Express.[1] In 1969, Hendrix wrote a short poem as a liner note for Expressway To Your Skull, the first studio album recorded by the Buddy Miles Express. Hendrix went on to produce four of the tracks on the group's follow-up album, Electric Church.[1] The title of the latter LP was taken from Hendrix's poem on the first.
In 1969 he appeared on British jazz guitarist John McLaughlin's album Devotion.
1970s: More bands and collaborations
In 1970, after the Buddy Miles Express split up, Miles began a collaboration with Hendrix and bassist Billy Cox. Together, they formed Band of Gypsys, producing one self-titled live album before disbanding.[1]
Later in 1970, while recording the album We Got to Live Together, Buddy Miles learned of the death of Hendrix, which he mentions on the inner cover of the album. Released in 1971, We Got to Live Together was produced by Miles and Robin McBride. It contains five songs, including the instrumental "Easy Greasy." The other cuts on the album were "Runaway Child (Little Miss Nothin')," "Walking Down the Highway," "We Got to Live Together" and "Take It Off Him and Put It on Me." All the songs were written by Miles with Charlie Karp except for the latter.
I saw The JHE, Buddy Miles Express and Cat Mother in the Baltimore Civic Center in 1969.
This man has the best vocals I’ve ever heard on songs for groovy children!
I agree 100%!!!! He is great.
Buddy Miles was sensational on drums, guitar and vocals
Absolutely legendary.
Them Changes album 👍
And vocals!!!!
Let's not forget the guy was a raging homosexual
@@thehomefront1905ok? And?
Buddy Miles was a truly nice and gracious man.
36 hours?!? Those guys were soul mates in music!!!
Soulmate is a gay word
@@monkeyliver1986You sound like the type of guy to not wash your ass because you think it’s homo
@@monkeyliver1986 It's not. ericmoore said they were 'soul mates in MUSIC'. He means they were two like-minded 'souls', as-in individuals, when it came to music. You're letting your homophobia get the better of you.
I believe it. I was 17 and found a older guy in a band, I'd go to his band shack and we would jam all day long, literally 8-12 hours straight.. it's crazy how fast time flies jamming.
I met Buddy Miles around 1970 at South lake Tahoe I went there to see him play and he stepped down off the stage and came over and shook my hand and asked me how I was doing, it was a great vibe.
Good to hear of him being of sound health at that time.
He was a gay man
Met.
@@thehomefront1905 who was Gay
@@jayskywalker5049 Buddy
Saw Buddy back early 70s. Great band. Kick ass show!!
That’s one of the coolest things I’ve ever heard, that shit made me smile yo!
Saw and heard him in '73 @ Memphis Shell. He was incredible, always a Miles fan.
Something about buddy miles reminds me of childhood memories,
Buddys feel for groove is unsurpassed
I wonder if Slash saw this and thought hmmmm ....lol 🤣
I had the pleasure of seeing BM at Keil Auditorium in St. Louis @1974,he was a bad a##
36 hours of jammin equals Snow storm
Haha my first thought 😆
So grateful for this interview
These fairy tail stories takes my mind on a magic carpet ride
Love the Baggy Studio jams/rehearsals. I wish Janey would re-release them.
I love the Band of Gypsies
Machine Gun Live best Guitar performance ever ...
No u don't
Fo sho man
Why does this only have 38 views? Great video, thanks for uploading.
17k views at 4 months
25k at 6 months
38 thousand now lol
Great Rock and Roll stories!
Now I know where Slash got the top hat from!
Leon Russell? The inspirations are numerous.
Imagine having a record of that jam session
Aaaaah, another 5 minutes of that would have been awesome. Good stuff, tho👍
Hear Hendrix's spirituality-songs.. That was his mission.
I'm sure they drank alot of " Coffee" during that time.
It was Colombia at least.
@@gavinpaterson1853 Caffeine?
@@bobwright6588 It's a helluva drug...
Band Of Gypsies was the next level!!
It’s real easy to jam that long with the right things. I had cuts on my fingers.
Awesome.
Buddy forgot about Mike Bloomfield after he found Hendrix.
I was roommates with the organ/sax player . We shared a hotel room on the five points. From What I heard from guys who worked with him, Nobody said anything but good about Micheal, he had his "issues No doubt like the whole band practically did, But Micheal was of a special lineage, He other than being Jewish- had Hawaiian ancestory and they were Slack key guitarist which is real real special
@@willbarrow8271 You mean Herbie Rich? a monster...l saw Miles before he split and all he was doing was talking about Hendrix...not much of a show...I saw the Flag quite a few times in 67/68 btw.
@@82149 Aug 21st, 1949. "I want to introduce my friend, Nick Gravenites."
Bloomfield was great.
We all "go" too early.
Jimi also did sessions with Don Covay.
Alright now buddy miles.
This is good stuff, jewels being dropped that you won't get from a book. It pays to listen artists, all of those jamming sessions somebody was recording. And you wonder how all of these bootleg albums come out on Jimmy. Did/is he getting paid? You must keep it business if/when you get in the business or join the many who claim they got screwed by the industry and the Record Labels are Demons!
Neil Young said he never played with Jimi. ???
Neil had his moments.
Stills house out in Malibu may . . .
What movie/documentary is this from
Cement buddy mixer
is thiz film howd you record the audio dang you been everywhere man
Wow
Yooo Jimi and the Gypsys be getting snowblind
What’s the song in the beginning?
"we jammed for 36hrs straight, half of us had shit our pants, everybody had pissed themselves multiple times, we were on the verge of dying from dehydration, and beginning to starve to death, it was a great jam...."
IB Specials.
Jackie Wilson.
Little Richard- a showman/dishwasher.
3 people must've taken the brown acid and pressed the dislike button
Buddy Steal for Heroin Miles
hes bald hence wearing the top hate
Heroin voice
Hv
Interesting.
Wonder what year?
Do any of these people . . . ?
Fill in the . . .
Didn’t know buddy did heroin. But you’re not wrong, Keith Richards sounds similar to this on that OGWT interview in 1976
A drummer friend of mine told me that the reason he started playing the drums was because Buddy Miles was so effing bad. He felt he could represent drummers a lot better than big buddy. I think he’s right.
BS
@@stuartliddle7228
Bruce
Spring?
Nobody cares about your friend, dude.
No way
Somebody's on dope.