REACTION TO Traffic - Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys - Live 72 (LIVE)
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Steve Winwood is definitely a major icon of rock music spanning a half century.
Steve Winwood is a music icon! Played piano in father and brothers band at age 8. Signed with Specer Davis Group at 14. Check out some Blind Faith…
If you love this, you will love the studio version more ❤
Agree, he needs to hear that whole album. Man, he has a lot of catching up to do but his hearing stuff like this for the first time gives me a rush and new perspective on how great the music of that era really was.
This sound quality is not good.
There was popular music and then there was incredible music. Steve Winwood was and still is amazing.
This song is so sublime as are the musicians! Steve Winwood is amazing. Back in the day people didn't put music in to tiny genre boxes. Rock was free flowing with all sorts of influences.
Jazz, folk, blues, classical, country etc. Creation was the main focus. This song is about how managers and record companies ripped off rock bands.
I always wondered what it was about. What IS “the low spark of high-heeled boys”???
@@helenespaulding7562 This song, really. That's it. =) The song was about their frustrations with the recording industry (you hear that in the refrain); everything else is kinda stream of consciousness.
I remember reading the title refers to Mott The Hoople, a band that also was on the same label as Traffic and there was some friction. If you look at some photos you'll see they're wearing huge platform shoes.
Traffic is so worthy of a deep dive-so many good songs.
Back then, there wasn’t the gazillions of “genres” snd “sub-genres” that we have now. People didn’t search for boxes to put bands in. We didn’t categorize as much….at least in music. It was folk, or hard rock or soft rock or psychedelic, or country or jazz or pop. That’s about it. If congas sounded good, then in they came. Hell, after The Beatles introduced us to sitars, anything was fair game. 😁
You just listened to one of the greatest songs of all time.
Welcome to the legendary Steve Winwood. A pillar of R&R for the last 50+ years. He started at 15 y/o in Spencer Davis Group.
Some musicians have their own style like Steve Winwood, He can do anything he wants, he simply surrounds himself with talent. Welcome to this rabbit hole.
Amen
Steve Winwood is an absolute genius, who can proficiently play about thirty instruments. Who has one of the worlds all-time great soul voices. He is British, and he is a true icon of Rock/R&B music.
This song is mesmerizing. It was not played on Top 40 Rock stations. It was relegated to album format and adult progressive stations, and for the most part was listened to only by "heads" if you know what I mean. Steve Winwood is a rock monster, beginning with Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Blind Faith and a solo career.
This song is the VIBE. It's a great tune to just put on headphones and close your eyes and lose yourself.
Another great song. Please check out “ Dear Mr Fantasy “ by Traffic also👍🏻😁👏🏻🎼🎸
Also check out 40,000 Headmen from Welcome to the Canteen.
What a lost opportunity. I wasn’t that into Traffic at the time. Now I would kill to be able to see this live. Outstanding performance.
Saw them in the early 70s and then when they reformed for an album and tour in 1994, you can see both the entire set for what he is reacting to from 72 or see their Woodstock 94 set, either way there is utter brilliance on display!
@@vicprovost2561 thanks!
Welcome to the wonderful rabbit hole of Winwood!! There’s a video of him on TV at 12. He’s genius! From the beginning through to his 80’s solo hits! Classics like John Barleycorn, his reunion with Clapton in Madison square Garden it’s all great!! ❤
You’ll know Steve from the Spencer Davis Group.
They sang ‘give me some lovin’”
Famously used on the ‘Blues Brothers’ film
Congas, piano and the sax give this song so much texture. Good reaction.
Now you are getting into SERIOUS music.
Steve did a version of celebrating the 50 year anniversary of this song where he plays it alone on the piano and it is sublime! He posted it on UA-cam. I recommend taking a listen.
Groove, groove, and then just a little more groove sprinkled in. Magical.
I first heard the studio version of this masterpiece with my ear pressed against the wall of my college dorm room . The moment it ended I was knocking on my neighbors door begging to know the name of the band and song. It was the start of sharing many a tune among other things!
Winwood the boy genius for a reason, listen to Spencer Davis Group | Gimme Some Lovin and Blind Faith with Eric Clapton
that entire album is amazing
Proper musicians. Brilliant 👍
I bought the studio version of this when it first came out! This brings back memories.
Wonderful! Another chance to hear Chris Wood on tenor sax. (RIP-Chris)
Remember when you reviewed "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" with Tom Petty and Prince? [Not too long ago?] Steve Winwood was on the keyboards for that performance. Amazing musicians all around.
It's always a pleasure to hear this song whether live or the superb studio track. Steve Winwood is a world treasure with one of the best voices ever. Traffic ranks right there with The Stones, The Who, Led Zepplin, among the best of classic rock. Check out Feeling Alright, Pearly Queen, 40,000 Headmen (a favorite of mine), Glad/Freedom Rider, Empty Pages, Shootout at the Fantasy Factory, Evening Blue. Or his work with Spencer Davis Group (I'm a Man, Gimme Some Loving) or his work with Blind Faith with Eric Clalpton, or his incredible solo work (Higher Love with Chaka Khan, Arc of a Diver, Valerie, Roll With It). Winwood is world class.
This performance was at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. They had many legendary shows at this venue and I was lucky enough to see many of them. This was before Live Nation and Ticketron. Seats were $5.50, $6.50 and $7.50 and you could only get them at the box office.
I was 21 when this was released, it was another of the phenomena of songs produced in the first half of the 70's, life was good, girlfriends were pretty, there was no drug testing, and now I'm 73 and life is good, wife is lovely, and still no drug testing... I feel so fortunate to have lived thru this era.
it is so much fun watching your journey through music, keep going and you will begin to connect the dots...Winwood, Clapton, the list goes on and the web is intricate but so worth discovering...
Steve Winwood is sooooo underrated in the classic rock icon talk but his catalog including solo hits is amazing, his voice right there with others like James Taylor. If you saw his solo performances on his UA-cam of John Barleycorn must die or Can't find my way home sitting fireside with just an acoustic you would be stunned at it's grace....
I’m gonna look for them
Incredible musician!!!....
My favorite band ever!
They're very creative and unique, hope you'll explore more.
OMG!!! This is honestly one of my most favorite songs EVER! Steve has a voice that just gets to your soul ❤
Glad you enjoyed this! Wading in on a couple comments below: Studio version for amazing texture and the genre seeking answers will be hard to find. True with many younger reaction people, always hoping to put things in boxes. So many simply flow, not conform. Appreciate your thinking through what you're listening to, without the histrionics.
Thanks for another great reaction glad you ebjoyed it Like others have said Traffic is a deep dive and another founding band of fusion and prog rock
Great performance
Chris Woods , the saxophone/flute player was outstanding, he was the signature sound of Traffic!!...
Dear Mr Fantasy by Traffic is amazing. Marvel used it for the opening song of Avengers Endgame & many bands covered it. Steve is incredible at everything he does. You can also see Steve sing/play 'Gimme Some Lovin' as a teen...live or studio, both great. It's one of rock/pops most famous songs, you may have already heard at least some of it, still used in movies/tv now, made in 1967!
AWESOME! Great to see you reacting to Traffic & Steve Winwood.
You should check out Traffic’s, “Feeling Alright”. It has everything that this track has but is even better.
Awesome band. Brings back memories!!
50 years ago my teenage bedroom just grooving to Traffic. Winwood is a genius...and that sax....
Stevie Winwood is also highly capable of shredding solos on a Strat - killer guitarist.
Traffic is one of my favorite bands; love them! Iconic Steve Winwood on keyboards and vocals. Chris Wood on sax.
Same show: Dear Mr Fantasy. One of their very best, like what you just listened to, but a more upbeat rocker, they do such different tunes, just an amazing band led by the legendary Steve Winwood but everyone in this band is a musical savant and amazing musician. You should watch the hour + concert sometime, we freaked out when we saw it being broadcast in the early 70s. More Traffic, Please! Enjoy. 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎷🎶
One of my all time favourite songs, Bruce Hornsby had it as part of his set back in the early 90s. Awesome cover.
Interesting, never saw this before. Thanks!
Check out Little Feat if you like congas. Their live album, Waiting for Columbus, is often cited as one of the best live albums of all time. You'll absolutely love it.
Santana too for congas, and they also add timbales. Percussion, percussion, and more percussion!
You just keep bringing back my youth in all these reactions!!💕💕💕
Have you reacted to Santana's 'Soul Sacrifice" at Woodstock in 1969? Lots of bongos!!!! Wild performance too!!! 🎵🎼🎶🥁🎤🎙🎧🎹🎸🎷🎷🎷🤘🤘🤘
Yes! I thought the same thing. Long version with the drum solo!
@@debbieplato5107 Yes Debbie and Marcie...the L-O-N-G version, with all of the Michael Shrieve drum solo please.
@@bobschenkel7921 YES!!!!
Just fantastic music. Steve Winwood is a savant.
I hope Savant means - everything about the universe?
I agree. He was in his mid-teens when he was with the Spencer Davis Group.
Sea of Joy by Blind Faith worth listening to. Also, Can't Find My Way Home. Thanks for choosing Traffic.
Steve is great! He had a few bands and worked with Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix!
Just a fantastic song,,,,💥💥💥👍😎
I just finished reading the biography of Chris Wood, "Tragic Magic". Gives great insight into how their music evolved. Chris is the sax and flute player.
I saw Traffic at The Music Hall, Boston. 1972 or 73. Brilliant
Winwood has blazed brightly since the mid-60s: with Spencer Davis Group ("Gimme Some Lovin'," "I'm a Man"), Traffic (ie, "Empty Pages" or "Pearly Queen"), Blind Faith ("Can't Find My Way Home" or "Sea of Joy"), & solo work ("Higher Love" or "Roll With It"). He's collaborated with practically everybody.....go down this path, please!
What a composition. Brilliant.
Steve Winwood: Spencer Davis Group, Blind Faith, Traffic, solo, session work, and other collabs.
The thing is, back in the mid-late '60's, in any big city, on any given night, we had a choice of seeing Traffic, the Stones, the Who, the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, you name it. They were all constantly touring and still playing small venues, theaters and clubs, before the corporate behemoth stadium tours. Our minds were blown forever.
Birmingham, England. Hmm, same home town as Black Sabbath. Common home town, very different music. Imagine if Steve Winwood , Ozzy Osbourne and the other members of Sabbath had hooked up. But I think we're all happy that we get both bands, and the ensuing magical music. Seen Steve live a couple of times, and he is stellar live. Plays multiple instruments, Keys, Guitar, Sings. The talent just never ends.
BTW, saw Black Sabbath too.
Me too! Steve and Sabbath Forever!
Expanding on this - we're not just talking rhythm guitar (which he does play sometimes), he can shred on lead guitar when he wants to. He plays other instruments too (bass, some horns in a pinch). He also composes, arranges, and produces music as well as lyrics. Your typical under-achiever.
@@neonpark1874 Hey now Neon, I didn't want to make a long post, but Mr. Winwood is so amazing, there wasn't enough space to list ALL his talents. Good job by you.
…we were children once playing with toys, that always gets me 🎷🎹
I've had the pleasure to see Steve do this three times. Never the same, always fantastic. You should dive into his history, Was singing lead for Spencer Davis at 16!
This is an awesome song. I was curious about the term "low spark of high heeled boys" so I did some searching on it. I found this interpretation of the lyrics and it makes so much sense: "One hell of a jam. I like the long version. The song is about drug culture and the relationships between users and suppliers. Low spark is injection, and high heeled boy is speedball, a mixture of cocaine and heroin.
The first verse is about shooting up.
The second verse is about a dealer that got overdosed.
The third verse waxes philosophical and asks what you would do in a life and death situation, and if you haven't been in a life and death situation, assures you that one day you will be, if not already. That what bothers you is that you know you are already in a life and death situation.
The fourth verse is a repeat of the second verse, or another dealer bit the dust.
The fifth verse is saying that whether you are an altruist or a rapist, a persons mind can survive your philosophy, and he is high again.
That is my opinion. One hell of a jam, too.
So it basically boils down to, he's a junkie, has to watch out for goodie two shoes, has to watch out for rapists, we are all in a life and death situation, and he is high."
Steve Winwood is a living legend. Can't go wrong with any of his songs.
I was gonna say that there is no good place to pause this one but you figured that out. I'm 67 years old and a total music junkie, and of the decades of music that I have listened to, this is one of my all time fave songs. I watch a lot of reaction channels, and have hoped, suggested and begged for someone to react to this song to no avail, so thank you for that! The whole album is freakin' amazing!
Traffic was 1000% the REAL DEAL! You got that right!! SO damn good, one of the best ever in my opinion, many incredible songs, and as written here, Winwood is one of the all time greatest! I love and appreciate how you consistently recognize brilliant music very quickly, great video as always!
There was a pretty big mix-up of personnel around this time. This is the Santa Monica ‘72 concert. The studio recording is wonderful and easier to digest than this.
Also traffic tunes, check out Dear Mr Fantasy and John Barleycorn. And one extremely amazing performance was on PBS and it was Steve Winwood and Eric Clapton playing together. It’s fantastic.
Dang, I forgot how much I loved this. Such a vibe.
Caught Winwood live once, small outdoor venue. Could barely see the stage thru the haze. 😉
Awe, man! Steve Winwood is part of my top 20 of all time 🥰🥰🥰
For me it's always been Steve Winwoods voice, it just removes me from reality! Great reaction, TY.
In the early 70s my brother came home from college with a frat brother who had taken a poetry class in Boston. One of his classmates was Steve Winwood.
Always love watching someone experiencing Steve Winwood and these guys for the first time. This is a good Live recording, although I prefer the studio cut from the album - it got good airplay on FM radio stations back then. Other suggestions from Traffic; DEAR MR. FANTASY, MEDICATED GOO and FEELIN' ALRIGHT? b.t.w., Steve Winwood started at 14 with The Spencer Davis Group, sounding like Ray Charles, and gave us epics like GIMME SOME LOVIN' and I'M A MAN. He was also with Blind Faith (CAN'T FIND MY WAY HOME). In the '80s he experienced a solo resurgence with hits like ROLL WITH IT, HIGHER LOVE and BACK IN THE HIGH LIFE AGAIN.
Love Traffic. Thanks for the reaction. Yes, they are the real deal.
Hope you check out blues guitarist and singer Jeff Healey. BB King considered him like a son. George Harrison and Jeff Lynne played backup on Healey’s recording of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”. There is even a video of Healey playing “Look at Little Sister” with Stevie Ray Vaughan.
But I suggest you check out “See the Light” by Jeff Healey Band.
Some people will recognize Jeff from the Patrick Swayze movie, Roadhouse.
Who’s this gentleman? My Lord. 😮
R.I.P Jim Gordon...one of the greatest session drummers of all time. U shineth here!
On this live version it's Roger Hawkins from the Muscle Shoals rhythm section on drums (Gordon did play on the original studio version).
@@russellmaddox2437 that explains why it sounded different than the studio drum part! I love both, very solid timekeeping
Steve Winwood is an icon, a child prodigy, world class vocalist and worked with all the greats. Jimi Hendrix sought him out to play on Voodoo Child & wanted to be in a band with Steve. So many hits, Grammy Awards, Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. He has many different vibes, loved all the blues guys like Ray Charles. He's got many different styles of music.
Yes, that is Steve Winwood and he was high as a kite during this concert
This song is a gem.
Steve Wijnrood is a multi instrument genius. He started out in the Spencer Davis Group as a young teenager. You need to listen to I'm A Man and Good Lovin'. He plays a great Hammond B3 and sings lead on both those.
Oh hell yeah... Stevie Winwood was only 22 here.
& look like they are completely immersed in Hash 😎😎😎
You should check out the entire career of Steve Winwood. Teenage popstar with the Spencer Davis Group (you know the songs) Then Traffic, Blind Faith with Eric Clapton, and his solo work (you know the songs) He has gone through life's thread with so many people not realising it's the same guy. There Must Be Higher Love!
I remember a drizzly grey Sunday just the two of us. bottle of wine & this brand new lp
Your Looking at 'Traffic' but it's worth looking at the forerunner group called 'The Spencer Davis Group', They are definitely worth listening to,
My fav of all time
Need to hear the studio version and pay attention to the lyrics. Great tune…
I watch all your videos all the way through to the end pretty much I do that for a lot of people at a respect especially if I subscribe to their channels but I enjoy spending my time with you and this was a great time well spent I really enjoyed it Hope you do more.
brilliant
For more congas try Manassas with Joe LaLa
Weather Report and Return to Forever we're the two premier fusion groups. Herbie Hancock as well. Early to mid 70s. Of course early Chicago and Blood Sweat Tears added jazz horns to rock.
Huh. I always thought of Hancock and RTF as jazz…period. Are they normally referred to as fusion, or is this your personal opinion?
@@helenespaulding7562 think Bitches Brew by Miles Davis was considered the start of jazz fusion, more electronics and more rock elements etc. Certainly Headhunters by Hancock and RTF and Weather Report songs like Birdland we're considered fusion. Traditional jazz was less electric with people like Horace Silver or The Messengers etc. There was also free jazz with later Coltrane and Corea etc. Just my view from growing up in an interesting time. Even big bands like Thad Jones Mel Lewis or Quicy Jones were experimenting. All good no matter the label. Progressive Rock also great with ELP, YES, Tull, Winwood, etc
@@RoryVanucchi we sound like contemporaries. I was in my 20’s when I bought RTF and Hancock albums. I get your point. I had allot of those types of albums…Herbie Mann, Stan Getz, Ramsey Lewis. Good stuff.
Have you watched any vids of Hancock with bassist Tal Wilkinfeld? Amazing.
@@helenespaulding7562 I like it all, wanted to be a jazz drummer but we had it all in the 60s 70s, and variety and talents from pop to soul to jazz to country singer-songwriter to standards to theatre, we were spoiled. Then digital and mtv rolled around. Artistry throw out for image.
Hi Again, Salvo! If you get a chance, take a listen (or react) to Steve Winwood, many decades later doing a Traffic song "John Barley Corn Must Die." The Traffic version was wonderful, but Steve's voice and just his guitar in his acoustic studio is a masterpiece.
Traffic is the Best! Stevie Winwood is amazing.
Do you know "Higher Love" by Steve Winwood? He started playing on stage at age 14. A musical prodigy.
...and the drummer looks like he's a chemistry major after hours.
Masterpiece!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great explanation of your appreciation.
You will have a long, enjoyable ride digging deep into Stevie Winwood and Traffic.
It'shigh time you learn who Steve Winwood is. His father and older brother were both musicians and he joined them onstage from an early age. By age sixteen, he was touring internationally with theSpencer Davis Group.He went onto Traffic, followed by Blind Faith (which included Eric Clapton), then onto a rock/pop phase. He doesn't wreck Ferraris, overdose, or have barroom brals. He works making music. As a guitarist, he can keep up with Eric Clapton, who aodores him, no problem. Here he is covering Ray Charles' Georgia on My MInd at age sixteen, SIXTEEN, withthe Spencer Davis Group. Ericua-cam.com/video/8w9WNeSkN0I/v-deo.html
One of the Original Jam bands
There are so many great songs to react to from Steve Winwood, please react to “can’t find my way home”, it is really beautiful and highlights his uniqueness when it comes to vocals.