The Iceman
1991 posts
Sep 01, 2014
3:00 PM
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While perusing my European "underground" music sites, I ran across a "rip" of the original album into flac format.
The notes about this recording are interesting...
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Live (1970)
EAC Rip | Flac
For the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, this two-LP set proved that it all came down to Butterfield himself and his abilities as a leader in the end. For all of the adulation heaped on Mike Bloomfield, Elvin Bishop, et al., the group was ultimately an extension of Butterfield's abilities as a leader and player, and this set proved that Butterfield and the bandmembers he had assembled in 1971 had more than two LPs' worth of live playing in them that was worth releasing and worth buying. And that wasn't the half of it -- talk about ironies -- at the time the Paul Butterfield Blues Band recorded this live album, they were at their peak as a concert act; they were getting all the bookings they wanted at the best clubs in the biggest cities in the country, and a lot of other places as well, in front of enthusiastic audiences who were devouring their blues-jazz-rock-R&B hybrid sound as fast as they could pump it out on-stage. They just weren't selling many records, which was why few people ever got to hear this album. The four-man horn section and the single guitar are a long way from the band that dazzled audiences six years earlier on East-West, or at Monterey in 1967; this is big-band Chicago blues with a jazz base and a killer sound, ranging all over the musical map without peer. In the midst of all of those seemingly louder instruments blowing away, however, one can still find a great showcase for Butterfield's blues harp on numbers like Big Walter Horton's "Everything's Gonne Be Alright." The sound, recorded on then state-of-the-art equipment at the L.A. Troubadour, is excellent and the performances are as tight as anything ever delivered by the band, in many ways fulfilling the promise of the longer numbers represented on their earlier studio albums. ~Allmusic
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1847
2125 posts
Sep 01, 2014
8:52 PM
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i get a lot of request when i play my harmonica
"but i play it anyway"
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Goldbrick
662 posts
Sep 01, 2014
9:08 PM
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bigd
544 posts
Sep 02, 2014
10:17 AM
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That "Bad Sign" video is really great!! So musically engaging. d
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1847
2127 posts
Sep 02, 2014
1:16 PM
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in 1970 that record would of been
a little too sophisticated for me.
i would have been listening to grand funk railroad,
neil young and led zep.
i think i was a little too young at that time.
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i get a lot of request when i play my harmonica
"but i play it anyway"
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Diggsblues
1521 posts
Sep 02, 2014
1:33 PM
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I saw Butterfield live a few time. He was using his
horn band at the time.He was just so so good.
He took harmonica to whole new place.
He's one of my great inspirations.
So fresh even today.
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Ted Burke
153 posts
Sep 02, 2014
1:38 PM
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I don't think anyone has surpassed Butterfield for tone, control, phrasing, over all quality of chops. He is, I believe, the Coltrane of blues harmonica , an improvisor with out peer. Only Howard Levy approaches him in the reach of his influence. Not one of us would be here unless if he hadn't gone to the Southside and hung out in those black blues bars, waiting for a chance to play and show what he could do.
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The Iceman
1993 posts
Sep 03, 2014
4:51 AM
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1970 live radio broadcasts...legal download for all you Butterfield w/horns fans...
http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=1947
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