so you were in chi town in the 60s---i bet you got to see some serious OG heavy hitters, in their prime no less... did you get to see Wolf? Little Walter? Willie Dixon? tell me a story/share a memory...if ya want---sorry, i don't mean to be all bossy/presumptous--i'm just being overly enthusiastic:)
My only objection to PB is that he tended to hog all the song time blowing the harp instead of letting MB play a lot more. I could listen to MB all day. PB not so much.
Harvey, Michael and Paul! Bloomfield is the guitarist who surprises me every time no matter how many times I've heard that version. Solos are nice but his background fills and gentle walks are just so laid back, layered and educated.
Me had the delightful experience to see these great Musicians Jam- there Was No Color Barriers with them- just play with the deep Respect of Jamming Together- Thanks All That Made These Memories Arise Forever- Twirlin On😮
REALLY GOOD QUESTION! Mike Bloomfield didn’t want the spotlight he just wanted to play.. He was from old Jewish New York Money. His family owned Blooming Dales in New York. His father was really disappointed when he heard Mike just wanted to play the blues. The fame and money didn’t matter. Mike was a humble and kind man. I got to see the Butterfield blues band at the Fillmore East.❤ they played for over three hours. I couldn’t get up to leave. He lived and died the blues.☮️
No they did not His family started the famous Bloomfield coffee makers. migrated from Russia to Chicago I got nothing to do with New York at all get your facts straight
I have a very nice Mike Bloomfield Biography by Ed Ward! Check it out. There is a lot on his background. How Mike had a living trust from his family which basically made him financially independent…..
The only time I ever saw The Paul Butterfield Blues Band was at the FILLMORE East in December 1968. They were the headliners & they brought the house down. Butterfield; Gene Dinwiddie & David Sanborn on sax along with Elvin Bishop on lead guitar provided some of my more memorable moments at the great concert venue. But that evenings highlight, for me, came during the second acts performance. That group was Super Session with Al Kooper & Mike Bloomfield. Like Butterfield's band they were outstanding. But the best part was when Bloomfield introduced an unknown Blues guitarist named Johnny Winter. Unbelieivable!!!
Little Walter is the original source of "Last Nigh"t, yet no one is acknowledging him. All of this was learnt from Little Walter and the guitar players , Dave and Louis Meyers, south side Chicago blues. I was there in 1975, much later, playing second guitar in the Byther Smith Blues Band and the Jimmy Mayes Street Depot.
@@mejustme6944no They own the copyright to this one the watermarks there so nobody else can post it And not give credit for somebody else's work uploading.
Paul Butterfield and Mike Bloomfield came from opposite backgrounds. Bloomfield from a very wealthy Jewish family, class, manners, that stuff. Paul's religion was the street. His drug of choice seemed to be truckers, little white pills, that were poorly manufactured in bathtub and unsanitary conditions. Mike summed it up with this quote, Paul was a hard cat, I ducked, when shooting started, Paul had his own gun. The thought of Mike Bloomfield hurting a fly is laughable. If you met him, he would say, well man, Flys are groovy. You know l am right, if you met, or knew him. To Mike everything was groovy, because it WAS. BOTH had their blues, and I bet you do too. They both were accomplished performers, in their own styles. THIS is what I think, don't know. They sure fit together, regardless of family, or conditions.
Saw them in Detroit twice I moved to Frisco in 1969 Had a chance to see Michael in Sausalito several times, but failed I didn't know he was on Heroin. Have several of Butterfield albums, and Bloomfield albums, with AL Kooper... Last show I saw, Butterfield with Alvin Bishop, but Michael had left the band... If I had to do it again, I'd correct those mistakes Also saw Butterfield in Chicago..saw him drinking at the table..too shy to talk to him..did talk to Alvin B. In Chicago, in OLD TOWN
I always felt the best lineup for the Butterfield band was the original lineup of Mike Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop on guitars. Without Elvin the band still sounds fine, with no huge loss of quality. But having Elvin on that second guitar really filled out the sound nicely. It just bothered me when a new band would come out and played well, Then a player would leave. Jethro Tull had that happen on their 2nd album.
Wish you could have heard The Fabulous Thunderbirds when they were playing the Onenite and were the house band at Antone's Jimmy Vaughn, Keith Ferguson, Mike Buck , and Kim Wilson, they were as good as any Blues Band that ever took the stage
I saw the Butterfield Blues Band in the late '60s and Bloomfield was already gone from the band...Elvin Bishop left the band in 1968 but he was in the lineup that I saw...
@@coinneachmaclellan3121Bloomfield's last with Butterfield was "East-West". The next, "Pigboy Crabshaw" (1967) was Elvin Bishop -- which I've always preferred to Bloomfield. I'd read an interview with Bloomfield in which he said that it isn't how many nores one plays, oor how fast, but how each note is played. And then he'd PLAY fast and tons of notes, belying that comment. In this video he actually somewhat lives up to his word. Meanwhile, most of my peers ignored "Butterfield Blues Band" because there were Blacks in the band -- preferring non-Chicago "Chicago" "blues" player "Clapton is god".
@@jimmyhawkins5357 I’m guessing you never bothered to read the words on the screen in big letters before the performance starts? Had you done that you would see that it’s there so people don’t steal it and air it without licensing it from us.
Fantastic blues, great groove, great feeling: beautifull soulfull music.
Sweet😂🎉
Man, I was there during those days and Paul Butterfield was a BEAST!
& so was Mike Bloomfield!!!
@@michaelgreen5206Yes!
Michael Bloomfield!
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so you were in chi town in the 60s---i bet you got to see some serious OG heavy hitters, in their prime no less... did you get to see Wolf? Little Walter? Willie Dixon? tell me a story/share a memory...if ya want---sorry, i don't mean to be all bossy/presumptous--i'm just being overly enthusiastic:)
Mike Bloomfield had everything: inventiveness, phrasing , subtlety .What a pity he died so soon
Same with Paul. What a harp player!!!
Couldn’t get off the dope 😮
OMG. Butter and Bloomers. The blues just doesn't get any better.
If anyone dislikes this then they have no SOUL.
Just one PRIME example of why these two were THE BEST at what they do.
My only objection to PB is that he tended to hog all the song time blowing the harp instead of letting MB play a lot more. I could listen to MB all day. PB not so much.
Thats some of the best Harp I have ever heard. 🎶
The guy who played harmonica sounded much better.
Good Music.Thanx👍👍
Harvey, Michael and Paul! Bloomfield is the guitarist who surprises me every time no matter how many times I've heard that version. Solos are nice but his background fills and gentle walks are just so laid back, layered and educated.
I agree, a rich boy can play the blues. Good stuff!
I’m glad someone mentioned Harvey , guy was phenomenal !
It's not Harvey that's playing the bass.
Que maravilla!!!!
Nice listening before going to the dentist! Yes!
great stuff
Me had the delightful experience to see these great Musicians Jam- there Was No Color Barriers with them- just play with the deep Respect of Jamming Together- Thanks All That Made These Memories Arise Forever- Twirlin On😮
Blues with a feelin ! Both at their best, Bloomfield burnin it up, Paul is demonstrating harp ability to the world.
So good for the soul! ❤
Love the fender amps taking up center stage
If beauty was a minute this would be a HOUR!!!!❤❤❤❤
REALLY GOOD QUESTION! Mike Bloomfield didn’t want the spotlight
he just wanted to play..
He was from old
Jewish New York
Money. His family owned Blooming Dales in New York.
His father was really disappointed when he heard Mike just wanted to play the blues.
The fame and money didn’t matter. Mike was a humble and kind man. I got to see the Butterfield blues band at the Fillmore East.❤ they played for over three hours. I couldn’t get up to leave. He lived and died the blues.☮️
He grew up in Chicago, learned the electric blues from the Chicago masters.
No they did not
His family started the famous Bloomfield coffee makers.
migrated from Russia to Chicago
I got nothing to do with New York at all get your facts straight
I have a very nice Mike Bloomfield Biography by Ed Ward! Check it out. There is a lot on his background. How Mike had a living trust from his family which basically made him financially independent…..
I bought their first album and East West in the mid '60s. Haven't been the same since.
East West was their second album
@@philipgreenegreene3454 I'm pretty sure that's what I said. "I bought their first album AND East West......"
Simplesmente fantástico
That harp sound takes us all right back.
And only Butter can get that mouthy breakup, one note and you know it's Paul.
Nobody was ever as subtle and brilliant as Mike Bloomfield
Bloomfield is god of blues guitar
These guys brought the blues 'uptown' and made them accessible for many that, otherwise, wouldn't have experienced them.
So timeless So Outstanding So Perfect So Great Music.
Could be made yesterday a hit Could be made 90 yrs ago a hit still it would be. Just Timeless …
I'm now crying my eyes out💙
Wish those two Bs could have stayed together longer in the band, and remained on the planet longer.
FANTASTIC VIDEO. THANK YOU
Great Paul Butterfield🎉
I can feel this in my soul.
What solos these guys blew! Mike's fluidity is astounding.
The only time I ever saw The Paul Butterfield Blues Band was at the FILLMORE East in December 1968. They were the headliners & they brought the house down. Butterfield; Gene Dinwiddie & David Sanborn on sax along with Elvin Bishop on lead guitar provided some of my more memorable moments at the great concert venue.
But that evenings highlight, for me, came during the second acts performance. That group was Super Session with Al Kooper & Mike Bloomfield. Like Butterfield's band they were outstanding. But the best part was when Bloomfield introduced an unknown Blues guitarist named Johnny Winter. Unbelieivable!!!
@@josephlemko3027 Yeah, I've listened to that several times. Pretty darn awesome!
@@tor5457Thanks! It is tough to find someone these days that ever heard of Johnny Winter, let alone Butterfield or Bloomfield.✌️
@@josephlemko3027 It's just not the music of the day as it once was. Makes it precious.
@@tor5457: Amen! ✌️
1971 I graduated high school. Had the What’s Shakin album. Awesome
Nobody had phrasing like Bloomfield. Maybe Roy Buchanan came close. Thanks for this.
Little Walter is the original source of "Last Nigh"t, yet no one is acknowledging him. All of this was learnt from Little Walter and the guitar players , Dave and Louis Meyers, south side Chicago blues. I was there in 1975, much later, playing second guitar in the Byther Smith Blues Band and the Jimmy Mayes Street Depot.
Great stuff
Harp virtuoso..Paul Butterfield🤘🤘♥️♥️
Wow! So glad I caught Michael 1 year later at Winterland in SF. :-)
Didn’t he play with Rhinoceros after?
Absolutely brilliant ❤❤❤❤
LOVE seein' this footage....thank you. The trash can in the corner there....perfect stage decor!!
How awesome!
ThanxRITY! This more my style
This was pure
Back in the 60s when i was 16 we had one of his albumns. Eric clapton, peter green. Etc etc. He launched a few c areers. Great stuff.
Damn they knocked my socks off WOW
Paul Butterfield valami fantasztikusan szájharmonikázik. Minden nap meghallgatom.
Real pioneers in the next generation of the blues.
outstanding
get rid of the channel logo blocking the performance...
I know right? Advertising $$$ Ya know😢
@@mejustme6944no
They own the copyright to this one the watermarks there so nobody else can post it
And not give credit for somebody else's work uploading.
@@truckerkevthepaidtouristIt could be done a little more discreetly, in a corner perhaps.
This is meant to avoid unauthorized duplication
CAN'T YOU READ WHY? it's explained right at the start why they did it-so NO ONE COULD TAKE IT AS THEIR OWN!
Straight Up & Righteous ☕🎸
I've been waiting for this moment 🎉
John Kahn on bass, so far behind the beat it's into last week and broad as the Atlantic Ocean
thats about as calm and non manic as i have heard mike on a solo, very nice
Super Session … his pinnacle.
Sweet
What a harmonica solo.... Man that was bad ass...
To be able to see the people behind this music that I've known all my life.
Phenomenal.
This is the real blues
So nice
Reminds me of my ann arbor
days, the blind pig, Mr. floods. AA got all the Chicago bluesmen working the small clubs.
That was fkn KILLER!👍👍👍
Wow 🎉
Paul Butterfield and Mike Bloomfield came from opposite backgrounds. Bloomfield from a very wealthy Jewish family, class, manners, that stuff. Paul's religion was the street. His drug of choice seemed to be truckers, little white pills, that were poorly manufactured in bathtub and unsanitary conditions. Mike summed it up with this quote, Paul was a hard cat, I ducked, when shooting started, Paul had his own gun. The thought of Mike Bloomfield hurting a fly is laughable. If you met him, he would say, well man, Flys are groovy. You know l am right, if you met, or knew him. To Mike everything was groovy, because it WAS. BOTH had their blues, and I bet you do too. They both were accomplished performers, in their own styles. THIS is what I think, don't know. They sure fit together, regardless of family, or conditions.
You’re listening to the “roots” - the beginnings! Everything else came after.
Gianni❤
Listen to side one of the Super Session LP with a completely open mind. Listen to it once a year. Bloomfield was beyond genres.
It's fun watching Mike's fingers on the fretboard.
Bloomfield was the shit Coltrane to Butters Miles!
MISS U BUTTER&BLOOMY!
This and Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac are the pinnacle of white boy blues for me.
Saw them in Detroit twice
I moved to Frisco in 1969
Had a chance to see Michael in Sausalito several times, but failed
I didn't know he was on Heroin. Have several of Butterfield albums, and Bloomfield albums, with AL Kooper...
Last show I saw, Butterfield with Alvin Bishop, but Michael had left the band...
If I had to do it again, I'd correct those mistakes
Also saw Butterfield in Chicago..saw him drinking at the table..too shy to talk to him..did talk to Alvin B. In Chicago, in OLD TOWN
Michael was the better Blues guitarist. Eric was the complete package.
Johnny Winter blows them both away
Good Stuff X 10
I always felt the best lineup for the Butterfield band was the original lineup of Mike Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop on guitars. Without Elvin the band still sounds fine, with no huge loss of quality. But having Elvin on that second guitar really filled out the sound nicely. It just bothered me when a new band would come out and played well, Then a player would leave. Jethro Tull had that happen on their 2nd album.
Former Mother of Invention Bill Mundi on drums. Also the short lived the Rhinos
🔊👊🏻
Walter would be proud
Little Walter...
Seems like, every time I go to the comments, everyone is yelling at each other. Really sick
Bloomfield is God
Where do you find this kind of gold?
Ex Mother of invention Billy Mundi on drums.
❤OVER AND OVER ☮️🎶😊
Is there some reason the banner has to be so big?
Bloomer and Butter!
❤
Is that Mundy from the Mothers??
Yes.
Bloomfield.
Wish you could have heard The Fabulous Thunderbirds when they were playing the Onenite and were the house band at Antone's Jimmy Vaughn, Keith Ferguson, Mike Buck , and Kim Wilson, they were as good as any Blues Band that ever took the stage
Love me some BBB.
Were they friends bc their last names both ended in field?
Actually Mike Bloomfield left the band because Paul Butterfield was a tough band leader
Σήμερα όταν βρίσκεται ένας άνθρωπος που παίζει σαν την τεμπελικη κιθαρα του Mike αμέσως χαρακτηρίζεται κουτσος.Μονο αυτοί που ξέρουν καταλαβαίνουν.
Didn't Gibson make a tailor-made Michael Bloomfield guitar?
They sure did, a Custom Shop 59' Les Paul Burst. The one he's playing here is his real 59' worth a cool 250,000 at least.
Copied it to a 'T', they even left off the plastic tip of the pickup switch lol!
Bloomfield was long gone from the band years before 1971.
I saw the Butterfield Blues Band in the late '60s and Bloomfield was already gone from the band...Elvin Bishop left the band in 1968 but he was in the lineup that I saw...
@@coinneachmaclellan3121Bloomfield's last with Butterfield was "East-West". The next, "Pigboy Crabshaw" (1967) was Elvin Bishop -- which I've always preferred to Bloomfield.
I'd read an interview with Bloomfield in which he said that it isn't how many nores one plays, oor how fast, but how each note is played. And then he'd PLAY fast and tons of notes, belying that comment.
In this video he actually somewhat lives up to his word.
Meanwhile, most of my peers ignored "Butterfield Blues Band" because there were Blacks in the band -- preferring non-Chicago "Chicago" "blues" player "Clapton is god".
NICELY DONE,,AND VERY GOOD TO SEE THIS MAN PLAY,,FOR REAL,,BUT COULD YOU STOP!! WITH YOUR LETTERS ACROSS THE SCREEN!! IT RUINS IT ALL!!!!
They are stock footage company. The clean version costs money
That's Billy Mundy on drums?
YES!
@@recordguy4321😊 amazing
@@Zootallures100 billy mundi was such a great drummer, that's him on Apricot Brandy by Rhinoceros, and drummed with Zappa
Do you know who the other players are?
@@5graney5 Billy Mundi drums, John Kahn bass, Mark Naftalin keyboards
Why do they keep that logo up?
@@jimmyhawkins5357 I’m guessing you never bothered to read the words on the screen in big letters before the performance starts? Had you done that you would see that it’s there so people don’t steal it and air it without licensing it from us.
who‘s on drums ?
BAG THE CHANNEL LOGO ASAP
Hope Clapton was listening
Good Lord! So sad that heroin took Michael away from us…
Billy Mundi on drums..
It had to be well before 1971...Bloomfield left the band around 1967.
It was two nights in a row reunion in Boston 1971 , December
@@UnknownHumanOnline Yes, Butterfield with a beard is a dead give-away.
It was a reunion
Called a Reunion you know what that is? Apparently not get your facts straight boy
Silverface fender amps
It aint race. It's passion. Butterfield. Dont add white into it. He could play and outplay anyone.
A cover of little junior Parker