Just popped this one on and BOOM! I'm back in the 60's, Fillmore, et al ;what a fantastic time in musical history...and yeah, on the record "Blue Matter" Chris was sick and Lonesome Dave did a fantastic vocal rendition LLRnR!
Totally agree. The Chris Youlden stint with the band was one of best English blues ock bands of that era. I saw them several times on the American East Coast - Fillmore East, Fairfield University and other places. Would have loved to see them in a large bar. I didn't listen to the band much after Youlden left.
Have seen them 1969 or was it 1970 (October) in the Marquee in London. They played great. John Mc Shee the Manager seated us right in front of the group, since the club was sold out and we got a nice special treatment. Thank you John Mc Shee to let us enter the club for free all the time. We liked it a lot and later used your generous offer occasionally.
One of the best concerts I ever saw and I saw most of the top bands in the late 60's to early 70's mostly at the Spectrum in Philly and a few at MSG like the Stones and Led Zeppelin . Anyway Savoy Brown I saw in a YMCA gym in Hazelton , Pa. It was the last place they played in the States after a long tour . The place was packed maybe 2-3000 people . They rocked out and said it was one of the best shows of their tour. The crowd was awesome I think they did like 4 encores it was fantastic.
The first time I saw Savoy Brown was at The Windsor NJF Festival in August '67. The played a set in one of the big marquees and they had the whole place heaving! After their set, Ten Years After came on! I came out of that tent a stone lighter!
Kim Simmonds has been releasing some Savoy Brown live shows from his personal collection. Loved these since Brice Portius was the singer starting in 1965.
i always wondered what the blue matter live cuts would have sounded like with Chris singing who was ill with the flu on the night that the live cuts were recorded.... Now we know... Thanks for posting...
I wish it was longer I cant get enough of savoy brwn I dont envy ths generaton cuz alot of gnorant parents dont expose thier kids to the begnning wheb musc was origanal real and help tem understand bwhen lady ga ga sings songs alot of them kids dont know their not hers teach them where it all strted and give them a chance to understant where we come fro,
Thanks, Kim Simmonds is the best white blues player why listen to their Witch Feelin' album,he can play the most blues styles, slide no white blues guitar player can match him, nice song love Savoy Brown
Kim Simmonds , one of the better blues players around was simply over shadowed by the bigger name of the day . Clapton Page and Beck , then the reigning kings of British Blues as it was called here . Kim relied on solid playing , not the pyro technics of Page or Alvin Lee , yet he could play with all of them and match them lick for lick . Listen to his work on Boogie , a live recording from a club date in Detroit . Playing with a popular band on the English club circuit was about as ambisous as he got . And in reality , Kim was Savoy Brown , beind a member of the band from its inception and still today . I saw him play at a small bar in Brigantine NJ about 6 or 7 years ago and he still played the same clean licks and un -mistakable tone that was his hallmark .
Kim was and is the band still, as he owns the name'Savoy Brown'...but to me the "Real Deal" was with Chris Youlden doing the vocals... those songs He sang, just aren't the same with someone else doing the vocals. Funny that you mention Alvin, as I've been listening to his work most of the morning, just past. Kim's opening licks on 'Tell Mama' are what I consider the greates opening guitar riffs of any Rock and Roll ever recorded...but my God of the Guitar is, and has been for the last 47 years, Peter Green... when Peter, jeremy and Danny got up on stage at the Boston Tea Party in 1969 [or it may have been 1970...memory glitch at the moment] one of the two recorded sessions of "Rattlesnake Shake"...the version on the bootleg vinyl, backindaday...which cost $100.00 minimum in any record shop that might have had a copy for sale, that was titled "Cerulean" is the one I'm talking about. For a number of years in the early 70's and for some of us , it still is to this day, the greatest recorded live three way guitar jam ever recorded.
Vajra Pani Fleetwood green? booooooo my parents walked out on Fleetwood m when Stevie began dancing with her scarves singing thru her nose, PG was an accomplice to that horror.
Peter Green was long gone by the time Stevie Nicks and Lindsey arrived. Bob Welch and Kirwan were the front men for a spell even before Stevie arrived. I don't how you got the idea He was an accomplice to anything having to do with that. Christine, on the other hand, can sing to her hearts' content and I'll listen until the last note is played, too. Yeah, I ain't much of a fan of Nicks and Buckingham's Mac either... The only cheesy mac I like comes out of the oven well baked
blue matter was the album to get... the song on the shes got a ring her hand and a ring in his nose what great jam if you get a chance to check out the whole album do so
Wow, this three song lp was the first of two sets that night. Does anyone have the second set? I'm sure it would've closed with the Savoy Brown Boogie, which was one of the epic jams of that era.
earlier comment said Youlden was sick and Lonesome Dave filled in. Lonesome Dave, the most underappreciated lead vocalist in rock. Brought it every time! Truly great singer!. His work with FOGHAT speaks for itself.
Chris always sang this with SB, except on the Blue Matter album, when Lonesome Dave filled in. Foghat also used toplay it live. This is my favorite version by far of all of the live versions out there.
No its not. The singer is Chris Youlden. Lonesome Dave sang on the album version beacause Youlden was sick on the night it was recorded. I saw this band several times at The Marquee back in the day. Best performance....In the tent at the 1967 Windsor Festival.
Yes, a very unique, described as a clotty voice. The person signing on the track is Lonsome Dave. Compare it to the Blue Matter version and you will see that it is LD, not CY.
The difference between them playing in the States is that they don't have their piano player Bob Hall, who only played local gigs because he was a full time school teacher in England.
Kim Simmonds was NEVER in Foghat. The guys in Foghat broke away from Savoy Brown because they couldn't stand Kim. Kim was, is and will always be Savoy Brown and NOT Foghat.
Youlden left SB after Raw Sienna (-70). After Looking In (-70) Peverett, Earle and Stevens left to form Foghat. The best albums is Blue Matter, A Step Further and Raw Sienna ( yes, with their best lineup). Looking in and Street Corner Talking are runners-up.
I love them all, Lions Share is my personal favorite. I wasn't happy with Savage Return and the rock albums that followed. It seems Kim came full circle with Let it Ride and has been tearing it up to this day. The new albums are so good. God bless stay safe Rock on.
DYNAMITE ! first saw savoy brown @ the Grande in Detroit and I was hooked to English blues. ( check out Long John Baldry, & Fleetwood Mac if you love English blues). Alvin Lee or Kim Simmons....who wins?
+Carlton Schmidt In the "Step Further" album, during the "Boogie" on side two, Chris Youlden gives Detroit a shout out for the good times there when performing. If you saw the band with this personnel at the Grande, then you must have been part of a crowd that rocked the house! Nice!
+Carlton Schmidt Lee was faster, but Simmonds was bluesier. RIP Alvin, Kim wins by default, but would have loved to see a guitar thrown down between the two. I still enjoy music by both.
I don't know if they left Savoy Brown because they didn't like Kim... I've always gotten the sense that something was up with Kim's brother, who was the band's manager, and who had a drinking problem... but I'm not 100% sure....
Lonesome Dave played lead guitar on the song 'Made up my mind' off the 'A Step further' LP. Apparently Simmons wasn't available. On the 'Blue Matter' LP, Youlden sang lead on the studio recordings. But on the live recordings, not. "Due to the fact that Chris Youlden was suffering from tonsillitis, Dave Peverett stood in as lead vocalist." Wiki
Sorry but this IS Chris Youlden singing. Chris even introduces the band at the start, not this means he was the singer on this recording, but what else would he be doing as he was their vocalist. Besides, his voice is unique enough and those that know it would not disagree here.
IT's still Lonesome Dave on vocals, but this IS a much better version than the Blue Matter album (and I love that!). Living in Louisiana, the Blue Matter version and versions by other musicians get a fair amount of airplay on some of the hipper local stations. Give a listen to WWOZ.org for some good live local blues.
Thanks kelorin! Tis a good thing you've done! I hadn't known at all about this album? Is it a bootleg? No matter, thanks. I'll give it a listen later, as it's 5:30 AM here now, and this deserves to be played loud.
For any of you who have taken the time to listen to this as I am now, it is definately worth the trip. Kim was, and may well still be a great blues guitar player! But because it is not the best of recordings, I found some of it a bit hard to focus on? But the Bass plyer, I followed him in, as I would advise you also to do, if you too are having trouble getting in the room?
What a great post! Man, you can't find this album, this version of this song ANYWHERE on the internet but here. Allmusic or Wikipedia doesn't list it in their discography either, and they are usually pretty thorough. Google comes up with out of date sights. Epic song and post! Much thanks!!
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Chris was one of THE great English blues singers. A unique voice.
All you Chris Youlden fans you can call him up on U TUBE and see him playing in a pub in London a year or 2 ago.The voice is still good.
No disrespect.. The voice is no longer.
Just popped this one on and BOOM! I'm back in the 60's, Fillmore, et al ;what a fantastic time in musical history...and yeah, on the record "Blue Matter" Chris was sick and Lonesome Dave did a fantastic vocal rendition LLRnR!
Seen them with thls line up in PPortchester Ny Fying great
Totally agree. The Chris Youlden stint with the band was one of best English blues
ock bands of that era. I saw them several times on the American East Coast - Fillmore East, Fairfield University and other places. Would have loved to see them in a large bar.
I didn't listen to the band much after Youlden left.
me either.
Me too. Youlden was so cool. He added a dimension to the band that they couldn’t get back after that.
One of the most awesome Savoy lineups ever.
Or any Rock band, one of the best bands of all time.
Have seen them 1969 or was it 1970 (October) in the Marquee in London. They played great. John Mc Shee the Manager seated us right in front of the group, since the club was sold out and we got a nice special treatment. Thank you John Mc Shee to let us enter the club for free all the time. We liked it a lot and later used your generous offer occasionally.
Love this. So good to hear Chris's voice. Very glad I still have his solo stuff on vinyl.
One of the best concerts I ever saw and I saw most of the top bands in the late 60's to early 70's mostly at the Spectrum in Philly and a few at MSG like the Stones and Led Zeppelin . Anyway Savoy Brown I saw in a YMCA gym in Hazelton , Pa. It was the last place they played in the States after a long tour . The place was packed maybe 2-3000 people . They rocked out and said it was one of the best shows of their tour. The crowd was awesome I think they did like 4 encores it was fantastic.
The first time I saw Savoy Brown was at The Windsor NJF Festival in August '67. The played a set in one of the big marquees and they had the whole place heaving! After their set, Ten Years After came on! I came out of that tent a stone lighter!
Kim Simmonds has been releasing some Savoy Brown live shows from his personal collection. Loved these since Brice Portius was the singer starting in 1965.
kim Simmonds is the best in all of my rock
I don't need to say no more.
NIce. Just saw Kim last Friday and he's playing better than ever.
Bellissima versione di questa magnifica band😉👍👍👍👍👍👍
i always wondered what the blue matter live cuts would have sounded like with Chris singing who was ill with the flu on the night that the live cuts were recorded.... Now we know... Thanks for posting...
I wish it was longer I cant get enough of savoy brwn I dont envy ths generaton cuz alot of gnorant parents dont expose thier kids to the begnning wheb musc was origanal real and help tem understand bwhen lady ga ga sings songs alot of them kids dont know their not hers teach them where it all strted and give them a chance to understant where we come fro,
Lady Gag Me
Thanks, Kim Simmonds is the best white blues player why listen to their Witch Feelin' album,he can play the most blues styles, slide no white blues guitar player can match him, nice song love Savoy Brown
To Andy Thomas, Listen to Chris Youlden after the sone has ended. He says Kim Simmonds on guitar, Lonesome dave on guitars AND VOCALS.
Louisiana Blues....yeah Kim...such great work
Love me some Savoy..thanks for posting! ;)
Kim Simmonds , one of the better blues players around was simply over shadowed by the bigger name of the day . Clapton Page and Beck , then the reigning kings of British Blues as it was called here . Kim relied on solid playing , not the pyro technics of Page or Alvin Lee , yet he could play with all of them and match them lick for lick . Listen to his work on Boogie , a live recording from a club date in Detroit . Playing with a popular band on the English club circuit was about as ambisous as he got . And in reality , Kim was Savoy Brown , beind a member of the band from its inception and still today . I saw him play at a small bar in Brigantine NJ about 6 or 7 years ago and he still played the same clean licks and un -mistakable tone that was his hallmark .
saw the band quite often in Detroit at the Michigan Palace. Grande Ballroom and other mid size venues always a good time.
Kim was and is the band still, as he owns the name'Savoy Brown'...but to me the "Real Deal" was with Chris Youlden doing the vocals... those songs He sang, just aren't the same with someone else doing the vocals.
Funny that you mention Alvin, as I've been listening to his work most of the morning, just past.
Kim's opening licks on 'Tell Mama' are what I consider the greates opening guitar riffs of any Rock and Roll ever recorded...but my God of the Guitar is, and has been for the last 47 years, Peter Green... when Peter, jeremy and Danny got up on stage at the Boston Tea Party in 1969 [or it may have been 1970...memory glitch at the moment] one of the two recorded sessions of "Rattlesnake Shake"...the version on the bootleg vinyl, backindaday...which cost $100.00 minimum in any record shop that might have had a copy for sale, that was titled "Cerulean" is the one I'm talking about. For a number of years in the early 70's and for some of us , it still is to this day, the greatest recorded live three way guitar jam ever recorded.
Quicksilver
Vajra Pani Fleetwood green? booooooo
my parents walked out on Fleetwood m when Stevie began dancing with her scarves singing thru her nose, PG was an accomplice to that horror.
Peter Green was long gone by the time Stevie Nicks and Lindsey arrived. Bob Welch and Kirwan were the front men for a spell even before Stevie arrived. I don't how you got the idea He was an accomplice to anything having to do with that. Christine, on the other hand, can sing to her hearts' content and I'll listen until the last note is played, too.
Yeah, I ain't much of a fan of Nicks and Buckingham's Mac either...
The only cheesy mac I like comes out of the oven well baked
One of the first songs I learned on bass...
THANK YOU!
savoy brown was undoubtebly the best with chris youlen
one night at the Capitol Theater they did 5 encores.
blue matter was the album to get... the song on the shes got a ring her hand and a ring in his nose what great jam if you get a chance to check out the whole album do so
Thanks so much for posting this!!!
This is a PARTAY!!!
They're great.
Wow, this three song lp was the first of two sets that night. Does anyone have the second set? I'm sure it would've closed with the Savoy Brown Boogie, which was one of the epic jams of that era.
First time I heard Chris Youlden sing this, thank you for posting.
Bob Baisden This is Lonesome Dave singing.
There is a live version of Youlden singing Louisiana Blues somewhere on youtube, but it's not this.
earlier comment said Youlden was sick and Lonesome Dave filled in. Lonesome Dave, the most underappreciated lead vocalist in rock. Brought it every time! Truly great singer!. His work with FOGHAT speaks for itself.
Chris always sang this with SB, except on the Blue Matter album, when Lonesome Dave filled in. Foghat also used toplay it live. This is my favorite version by far of all of the live versions out there.
AH F totally agree .. My mind is blown i didn't know about these guys they r in the league of good as it gets..
This is Lonesome Dave singing.
So Sorry--It's Chris Youlden on Vocals here.
Sin duda una de las mejores bandas de blues británicas.por eso es una de las preferidas que coloco en mi prográma de radio.
No its not. The singer is Chris Youlden. Lonesome Dave sang on the album version beacause Youlden was sick on the night it was recorded. I saw this band several times at The Marquee back in the day. Best performance....In the tent at the 1967 Windsor Festival.
superb makes me nuts
god bless dave
Yes, a very unique, described as a clotty voice. The person signing on the track is Lonsome Dave. Compare it to the Blue Matter version and you will see that it is LD, not CY.
The difference between them playing in the States is that they don't have their piano player Bob Hall, who only played local gigs because he was a full time school teacher in England.
Kim Simmonds was NEVER in Foghat. The guys in Foghat broke away from Savoy Brown because they couldn't stand Kim. Kim was, is and will always be Savoy Brown and NOT Foghat.
Youlden left SB after Raw Sienna (-70). After Looking In (-70) Peverett, Earle and Stevens left to form Foghat. The best albums is Blue Matter, A Step Further and Raw Sienna ( yes, with their best lineup). Looking in and Street Corner Talking are runners-up.
I love them all, Lions Share is my personal favorite. I wasn't happy with Savage Return and the rock albums that followed. It seems Kim came full circle with Let it Ride and has been tearing it up to this day. The new albums are so good. God bless stay safe Rock on.
11 people who do not know great music!!!
DYNAMITE ! first saw savoy brown @ the Grande in Detroit and I was hooked to English blues. ( check out Long John Baldry, & Fleetwood Mac if you love English blues). Alvin Lee or Kim Simmons....who wins?
Carlton Schmidt
John Mayall?
Carlton Schmidt
Jethro Tull?
+Carlton Schmidt Me too!
+Carlton Schmidt In the "Step Further" album, during the "Boogie" on side two, Chris Youlden gives Detroit a shout out for the good times there when performing. If you saw the band with this personnel at the Grande, then you must have been part of a crowd that rocked the house! Nice!
+Carlton Schmidt Lee was faster, but Simmonds was bluesier. RIP Alvin, Kim wins by default, but would have loved to see a guitar thrown down between the two. I still enjoy music by both.
This IS FOGHAT! Before THEY even knew it. It have read FOGHAT feat. Kim Simmonds. Lonesome Dave, Tone Stevens, ROger Earl. Nuff said!!!
Foghat 71
Kim was never in Foghat and I think you know that
I don't know if they left Savoy Brown because they didn't like Kim... I've always gotten the sense that something was up with Kim's brother, who was the band's manager, and who had a drinking problem... but I'm not 100% sure....
@bronncohowie That's because it's FOGHAT merely feat. Kim Simmonds.
Lonesome Dave played lead guitar on the song 'Made up my mind' off the 'A Step further' LP. Apparently Simmons wasn't available.
On the 'Blue Matter' LP, Youlden sang lead on the studio recordings. But on the live recordings, not. "Due to the fact that Chris Youlden was suffering from tonsillitis, Dave Peverett stood in as lead vocalist." Wiki
Seen Kim With Johnny & Edgar Winter Last Winter In Toronto He Stole The Show
blue matter YEAH!!!
This is not Chris Youlden singing, it is Lonesome Dave.
Sorry but this IS Chris Youlden singing. Chris even introduces the band at the start, not this means he was the singer on this recording, but what else would he be doing as he was their vocalist. Besides, his voice is unique enough and those that know it would not disagree here.
@@KarlSharicz Chris introduces but's Lonesome Dave singing.
Definitely Dave on the vocals
@@TheGenreman disagree
Lonesome Dave is the one singing on the album track, just like you state. i am confused by your comment.
Cool
Pity Youlden didn't make the gig that the Blue Matter version is taken from. This is much better!
IT's still Lonesome Dave on vocals, but this IS a much better version than the Blue Matter album (and I love that!). Living in Louisiana, the Blue Matter version and versions by other musicians get a fair amount of airplay on some of the hipper local stations. Give a listen to WWOZ.org for some good live local blues.
Thanks kelorin! Tis a good thing you've done! I hadn't known at all about this album? Is it a bootleg? No matter, thanks. I'll give it a listen later, as it's 5:30 AM here now, and this deserves to be played loud.
For any of you who have taken the time to listen to this as I am now, it is definately worth the trip. Kim was, and may well still be a great blues guitar player! But because it is not the best of recordings, I found some of it a bit hard to focus on? But the Bass plyer, I followed him in, as I would advise you also to do, if you too are having trouble getting in the room?
OH, YOUR OPINION
KRACKERJACK6913 You were expecting someone elses opinion? Its my post.
YEAH,A LOT OF TALK ABOUT NOTHING
KRACKERJACK6913 Lightning Hopkins and Hank Williams? You must have a strange hankerin?
What a great post! Man, you can't find this album, this version of this song ANYWHERE on the internet but here. Allmusic or Wikipedia doesn't list it in their discography either, and they are usually pretty thorough. Google comes up with out of date sights. Epic song and post! Much thanks!!
Question? Is this thread filled with only old Hippies, or do we entertain some young blood too?
No just hippies I'm afraid!
Andy Thomas We are the best of em!
ed schneider fell out the womb and won her hand with aces while sliding love in vain
Eddie Baker Go for it Eddie, I have no idea what that means?
The old hippies just found it first, is all. Young blood should boil with these tunes.
I AGREE WITH BRONNCOHOWIE KEN SIMMONDS WAS THE MAN
The best guitars: Keith Richards, Jimmy Page, and Jhonny Winters.
Peter Green .... Eric Clapton ......
His name is Johnny Winter
I LOVE STEVIE RAY VAUGHN BUT THIS BAND IS , WAS THE SHIT BEFORE SRV