That' my brother Steve Wachsman playing guitar for Big Mama. On bass was Bruce Sieverson and Todd Nelson they were all friends and had a band at the time living and playing in/around Ventura California.

@musadiggari

3 жыл бұрын

Wow great info. Many have been asking their names. Any chance of getting your brother or one of his band mates to take a look at this video and maybe share some memories?

@charlesrider6187

3 жыл бұрын

your a fortunate woman!

@petenoak

3 жыл бұрын

Who played tenor sax?

@susanperkins1909

3 жыл бұрын

@@petenoak If memory serves me it was BIll Potter I will have to ask my brother

@susanperkins1909

3 жыл бұрын

@@musadiggari i will be happy to

9 yrslater, 3 a.m. remote Australian rainforest, in the rain... I give big Mama a cheer.yeehaa!! Go girl,!

Music for the back seat of a 1965 Chevy. Wow! Been listening to this all my life and I love it, y'all.

If you don't appreciate THE BLUEZ you can't appreciate life. What Soul. What Jive. What Rhythm. What Talent.

The blues, from which all modern music sprang. I'm so glad they filmed these legends. A little bit of heaven.

@jenniferjohnson511

4 жыл бұрын

Long live the blues 😔🤩😁🙂😅

What a way of life ,bringing us the blues ,its music history ,Ilove it ,nothing like it ,good music ,good friends ,bring people together to have fun !!

Music that makes you tap your toes, snap your fingers, clap your hands, stomp your heels, and move your body. Just gotta love them BLUES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ROCK ME BABY, LIKE MY BODY AINT GOT NO BONES. Hell yea. Thats it. Whoever the older folks she said she learned from are the best ever. We are listening to bluesman who knew the best there was. Thats y their so good.

i turned 43 2day..i got turned onto blues 2 years ago..from SRV to ALL THE KINGS..MUDDY..BUDDY GUY..Etc..Etc..Big Mama and this video show me i was born 15 years too late ...great music!!!!!!!!

Back when real TALENT ruled the stage... oh, how I miss those days! This is GREAT.

@marywillis1630

4 жыл бұрын

And since we gotta stay home --'-- yehaaaa!

This is why I love KZread. Where else can you find gems like this?!

Even dis old Metal Head 💜's Big Mama T.

I still own the 78 of Houndog by Big Momma...one of the MANY 78 records I have by the Blues legends of yester year. I was lucky to be born at the time I was...this allowed me to see many of them in concert....such GREAT shows.

Some days I get Lucky. I found this. Lucky day.

@jenniferjohnson511

4 жыл бұрын

Yes I too luck up on this one too. My kind of music. Big Mama Thornton and Charles Smith. Woweee. Muddy Waters. What a handsome cool 😎 man on stage.

This should have 2 million views/ What is wrong with people today?

@rankoujkic4559

3 жыл бұрын

No Taste that's what's wrong here in Europe thanks to the Stones ,Clapton and others Blues stay in Style o of course Street Musician s as soon as you here the harmonica just follow the sound it starts with a few people and ends up with hundreds

AMERICAS MUSIC!!!!!!!!! NO DOUBT...........

It was always amazing to me that these black musicians were able to make it to the studio and record such amazing music, even though they had to fight with so much Injustice at the time. I will always be a fan!

@delilahrai5228

4 жыл бұрын

PERSEVERANCE!!! It's in our blood!!!

@catdaddy3302

2 жыл бұрын

I saw Pinetop Perkins take a Chicago cab to a gig in Clarksdale, Mississippi once. He never ceased to amaze me. The cab driver owed him a favor. 💙

@catdaddy3302

2 жыл бұрын

@@delilahrai5228 and y’all know something about a “ball and chain.” 💙

@tnrc75

2 жыл бұрын

Same. It's why I will never stop loving this music.

@psa8420

2 жыл бұрын

Thats y we will never hear the best. Because the best didn't do what it took to get on a big stage. Their cool just drinking in a backyard and playin the blues to themselves. These people we are watching knows a few like them in the hood. South Memphis, beale st. They learned that sound and took into mainstream

I saw Big Mama Thornton ten years prior to this, at the Ash Grove in Los Angeles. She was a lot heavier then, and fortunately she lost a lot of weight, stopped smoking and added years to her life. But what a performer she was; she commanded the stage. I will never forget her opening, as they darkened the entire room and the stage. All you saw was this cigarette being lit, the glow of the cigarette, then some smoke wafting through the air, a dim red back light and the enormous profile there; and she was tall too, a commanding presence. In that relatively small room she blew the roof off that place. This generation of performer knew how to command a stage and bring it all; they had done thousands of one night stands; they lived on that stage. And they knew how to put on a show. In this decade, the blues became popular with white audiences; but black audiences had stopped listening to it in favor of more modern forms of urban music. In 1969 I saw Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker on the same bill in a small club in Detroit, and they played until about 4:00 or 5:00 in the morning, alternating sets. The greatest show I have ever seen in my life. They played like there were 50,000 people in the audience, not 50. Muddy Waters had been in a motorcycle accident and played all night on crutches. In a small venue these performer's musical charisma was awe inspiring. Muddy Waters, when he sang, I still remember thinking - wow, this is like the Moon singing - that face - the resonance - it was so powerful. Hooker was also amazing, with a completely different performance style. He got too drunk to play the guitar, so started singing A Capella sitting on the edge of the stage - and it was even better. When I left that club, I thought - "that was it, it will never get any better."

@1k3mon

8 жыл бұрын

t.y4share

@msaintpc

8 жыл бұрын

I was there too!

@mcurran2

7 жыл бұрын

This is fantastic Vinny thanks for sharing this. To have seen some of these legendary performers before they passed must have been mind-blowing. These road warriors did indeed know how to stage a show - the brought it!

@msaintpc

7 жыл бұрын

Vinny, did you say 1969? That small club wouldn't have been the Flame Showbar on Hastings would it? I'm one of them old dudes that knows Detroit like the back of my hand and was there when Hitsville first got going. That was a helluva town back in the day before they shut down the mills.

@JustVinnyBlues

7 жыл бұрын

You know I really don't remember. I do remember it was very small, and inside it was tables and chairs; and very quiet attentive audience. I even recall people might have been bringing in their own drinks. I remember a neon sign outside, and for some reason "checker" or "chess" or something like that. But I might be completely wrong. And there was a stage, but it was just about big enough for Muddy and his band.

Solo los que conocemos el verdadero dolor, podemos apreciar el Blues...

Just one man's opinion but, this is the best thing I've ever found on the internet, and I've been browsing web pages since 1995.

@donhoyt7518

4 жыл бұрын

Juli

@toots810usa6

4 жыл бұрын

I wholeheartedly agree, and I have been on the internet since Al Gore invented it. If I never search for another thing I am good. I could watch this on repeat for the rest of my life!

@tommyfenn8768

4 жыл бұрын

Xx

@jimihendrix2053

4 жыл бұрын

you got that right!

@neilburton2803

4 жыл бұрын

Real music played and sung by real people.....not voices produced by machines and mixing decks !!

tou uploaded this on my birthday...thankyou...ive listened to it a hundred times anyway....

@fasteddie8782

8 ай бұрын

101

Goddam, Big Mama was a seriously good harp player, too!

@fasteddie8782

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah when she starts the concert at the beginning and kicks into it man nothing better

@paulyakaitis3352

4 жыл бұрын

Her first note makes your body jump involuntarily, that’s the blues!

@margaretquick2597

4 жыл бұрын

You don't have to take the Lord's name in vain!

Who knew Big Mama Thornton blew such a great harp? Gonna get into her! I met Muddy at one of his concerts in the 1980's near the end of his career. You could not meet a nicer man! Of course he had an awesome talent! Totally unexpected and amazing that the film crew from Gunsmoke would haul off after the blues. Good job!

Muddy is on fire here. His vocals are very strong, and his average night is miles above most others.

This is such a treasure. Thank you original artists, Gunsmoke film crew, and KZread!

Ran into her in a blues club in 1980 in Montreal. She sat at our table, as did BB King. One of those great, unexpected events, right place at the right time.

@bobyost42

4 жыл бұрын

You sat with royalty that night.

@sanfordpotts7214

4 жыл бұрын

Wow....just amazing awesome blues...by some of the greatest...just like double dating in a 1955 Chevy listening to John R. and Hoss Allen on WLAC Radio in Nashville, Tennessee. Nothing like the BLUES with a good lookin woman and a cold beer!

@frank-ts1yr

4 жыл бұрын

Hope you got their signature

Wow! Everyone and anyone enjoying the same thing. Coming together to enjoy some great talent and having a great time.

Long live big mama Thornton! Bad ass vocalist and harmonica player...the mold was broke after she was born not one like her to play the blues. Viva big mama!

I am not worthy to even watch this! This movie is life! How can we thank the dudes for making this film? How can we show our appreciation to the performers in the film? Wow!

@richardmacdonald7427

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome old school blues!

Speechless here...... What good luck that the film crew did this........ what a great tour ensemble. Wow wow wow.........

Big Mama Thornton.......sie ist die Queen des Blues für mich !!!!

Well what a great evening i had me and a Dobee and Brandy ,.... wonderfull music and performance .... Thank you you guys you are witj us all the time Respect to the force

BIG Thanks

Thank you. Just love the blues.

Diese Blues -Session ist legendär und wird kommende Generationen überleben, vorausgesetzt die Menschheit wird trotz Corona- und Klimakriese überleben. Heute ist der Blues wieder ganz aktuell. Alle Menschen dieser Welt - egal welcher Hautfarbe, Rasse oder Religion haben fundamentale Emotionen, die in dieser Session zum Ausdruck kommen, aber zur Zeit nicht gelebt werden können. Man kann nur hoffen, dass die Menschheit daraus die richtigen Lehren zieht.

Hats Off To The American Experience in Music! Love Me These Blues! Bedrock Of American Music!! Thank You Africa!! Much Love Respect & Admiration

Man!! Big Momma Thornton just KILLED IT start to finish - what a talent

This is how people should be. 'Just people livin' loving' damnit man' If only we all could just see. ' I live , I love, I JUST AM!

Blues is een Gevoel ! Zijn mensen die hun weergave niet kennen , Dat zijn ze ! Geweldige Muzikanten ! luister er graag naar ! Onvergetelijk ❤

This made mine..a GREAT evening! My son's is in bed, my wife's busy with work, can't get any better then this..what a show!!!❤

Obrigado!

black, white, men, women... those are just cool cats having fun.

I was there! This was the first blues concert I'd ever attend. I went with my aunt Mardell when I was 10 years old. She said she knew I'd enjoy it and boy did I :-). I'm so glad I found this video on KZread!!!

@drewbabydrew7742

4 жыл бұрын

How COOL cheers

@bobyost42

4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad I found this but even more glad that YOU found this!!! Having this be your first concert is setting the bar really high, bet you didn't see many as good as this... but no one else did either!

@lightuptheworld333

4 жыл бұрын

VanPort Notary makes me happy to hear a thing like that!

@atuliti

4 жыл бұрын

Wow!! Vanport

@madcatguy6

4 жыл бұрын

My surname is mardell

Hello everyone. Here are the timestamps. Enjoy! 2:38 Big Mama Thornton - Early One Morning 7:43 Big Mama Thornton - Ball And Chain 15:57 George "Harmonica" Smith - Juke 19:40 George "Harmonica" Smith - Leaving Chicago 24:12 Big Joe Turner - Hide And Seek 28:43 Big Joe Turner - Shake, Rattle And Roll 32:58 Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy 38:29 Muddy Waters - Long Distance Call 45:01 Muddy Waters - (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man 49:05 Muddy Waters - Got My Mojo Working 55:39 Muddy Waters, Big Mama Thornton, Big Joe Turner, George "Harmonica" Smith - So Long 1:00:05 Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog 1:04:49 Big Mama Thornton - Rock Me Baby 1:11:41 Muddy Waters - She's Nineteen Years Old 1:19:40 Muddy Waters - Walking Thru The Park

@7550375503

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for that !

@sammyandoliver7522

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

Music is Universe. I Doesn't have a Color! Just Great Sound 👌👍

@FrancescoAlcozer

4 жыл бұрын

Music is all the more beautiful, as it springs from the soul, as happens with the blues. Greetings. kzread.info/dash/bejne/jGZox65-k5zKnqg.html *LONDONDERRY AIR* Irish folk song from the late 1800s. Gretsch Guitar cover by *Duane Eddy*

@robertblakely4758

4 жыл бұрын

Right-on!!!

@garyball6288

4 жыл бұрын

And the soul is always there

@thomaspeters5889

4 жыл бұрын

Sound has color. They are closely related.

@jungleninja8415

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah well black people are to thank for all music every music game from Africa even Nordic

Thank God for the people who were able to drop what they were doing and film this awesome piece of music history!!!

Thank you 😎🤟🏽 🎧🎶🎶🎷🌊🔥 Un saludo desdé 🇲🇽✈️🍻

Here you have black people, white people, young people, old people, women and men, all I can say is DAMN diversity sure sounds good to me!

@patrickhessling1928

5 жыл бұрын

Its so good to read a Comment which make you smile and Not cry. Thank you Peace

@patrickhessling1928

5 жыл бұрын

@Dfw Fqdefqw Youre right but better than nothing. I think racism is a Manipulation in our mind like other illnes in our World. So Dance smile and feel good for a few hours. Its a little Peacefull Moment in a dying World.

@B0BBYD1G1TAL

4 жыл бұрын

Without African-Americans there would be no great music imo. without western Europeans i wouldnt be able to hear it right now.. imo. So all who were involved in creating and time travelling this from 1971 to my ears.. i thank you, whoever you are.

@curleyteeth

4 жыл бұрын

Does to me too Jon lad.Jim.Liverpool.

@marjoryrainey5761

4 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah!

What a classic. I was lucky enough to see Muddy, BB, Albert and Freddie King as well at the Fillmore West in the late 60's. Regardless of what people think about Bill Graham, he was a music fan and helped many musicians in their careers. Long live the blues!!

Gunsmoke was aiiiiiight and now I know what the crew was up to........dammmmn, it's even better....

this blues music and footage belongs in The Smithsonian...

@jimelliott1523

4 жыл бұрын

YES!

@mahbrum

4 жыл бұрын

Amen brother.

@p.b.palaciosalmafuerte3463

4 жыл бұрын

👏👏👏👏👏

@charleswilliams8248

4 жыл бұрын

Sir U are so right!

@brettshed2886

3 жыл бұрын

@@jimelliott1523 your so true and I agree with you Jim and that's the truth

Had to play it few times , Big Joe Turner in back seat of car at 23 : 00 complaining about " water in the bottle " ..... and Big Momma snapped back " I see you ain't refusing " , some funny sh#t .

@Mrtiguan09

4 жыл бұрын

Indeed, I heard Big Mamma fire back at Big Joe Turner. I've known lot's of people over the years that mooch and then complain. Funny Stuff.

I love it! !!! Thanks for sharing this genius history!!! It made me love big Mama Thorton even more. I grew up listening and loving the blues thanks to my grandmother and great grandmother’s love for it. Beginning with my mother my entire family loved music!!! Heyyy!!! Th stories they shared true treasures!

This is rock and roll!.!.!.And I love it.!.!.Thanks for posting.!.!.Lots of hugs and kisses.!.!.I got my mojo now.!.!.

I love Big Mama.

This is a fantastic piece of blues history. So cool these guys decided to document this on their hiatus from shooting GUNSMOKE!

@bishopmitchell8879

4 жыл бұрын

Mark Curran wow! That in itself is noteworthy! Great group of guys.

With such an amazing line up nothing can go wrong! Love you Big mama, God knows i do.

May this live on the internet forever.

@alfonsomerchand6586

4 жыл бұрын

absof...glutely man!

THIS IS A GREAT AMERICAN BLUES RECORDING, I AM SO GLAD THESE MEN HAD THE SMARTS TO DO THIS WHEN THEY DID IT. THEY HAVE RECORDED AMERICAN BLUES HISTORY.

Muddy Waters always looks and acts like a king to me... Rip muddy to me you are the king of the Blues... Muddy Waters invented electricity

@robertblakely4758

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah Pinetop, you da man!!!!!

@jungleninja8415

4 жыл бұрын

Blues has many forms that's not to say who's the king of it

Oct 20 1971, I was in the 90th replacement co. long binh Vietnam on my way home ! The Army called it "processing out". Reunited with a guy I had sat next to on the way to Nam the year before ? We were both surprised and happy to see each other !

This is the real Deal Blues. Big Mama & Muddy are killing it.

@jenniferjohnson511

4 жыл бұрын

Yes they are killing it 😍😊

What a beautiful and immeasurable gift! Thank you!

Please keep the blues alive and living on for many generations to enjoy the blues

Big Mama fucking SERVING it up!! Really letting 'em have it. and those kids backing her are keeping up nice. Great stuff, American Music is.

Talent is measured in so many ways!

Super! Thank you!

I always lived in small cities but takin' in live blues is something I remember like one of the biggest deals that ever happened to me. It's almost like a movie in my mind whereas all other events are easily forgotten and mean little to me.

GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love it too.

1971... The year I was born... Music was f'n REAL back then! What it has devolved into today is just plain embarrassing... Bring back this kind of thing and watch people learn to love again...

@rajawatts1141

8 жыл бұрын

+JWG@Large I also lived in Santa Cruz, worked construction among other things. Great memories of the music there also as every great band came through via the Catalyst Music Club.

@Apache4Justice

6 жыл бұрын

erich ising , The Blues will live forever so long as folks pick up an instrument to play, and there's heartbreak to be had. ☺️

@Marco81blues

5 жыл бұрын

And to think I wanted to be like this people growing up lol. I still play a little guitar, unfortunatly I was never any good at it. And it's not the same society, or country for that matter :)

@firstandlastswagman269

4 жыл бұрын

5he real thing I got the real Thing Come on girl Go? A make u sing

@OwenSichone

4 жыл бұрын

Disco killed soul music

this is why youtube needs a "love" button

Fantastic. Fantastic story and fantastic music & musicians! Thanks!

performed in a music hall. Date: October 20, 1971. 1971 a grand year for music. Thank everyone kindly because I should knowing music is best with my Cadillac. 🐬

I like seeing the Portland bridges in the background during the car ride interview. Great job film crew and musicians!

Grandissimi sempre e solo blues Milano presente 😂

still loving it all and dedicating to my Mother

watching while smoking some wings. Great clip

Pinetop Perkins on piano here was still playing shows at 96 years old! I saw him in New Orleans sometime around the mid 1990s when he was in his 80s and he was still gittin' it.

so fortunate to see her with the magnifecent seven

Yet another reason to like that great show - Gunsmoke

@bishopmitchell8879

4 жыл бұрын

Larry Dearing absolutely! Exactly what I was thinking

One of the highlights of my life was seeing Big Mama Thornton in San Francisco during the summer of 1970. I have in mint condition a 45 of her version of Hound Dog on the Peacock label released in 1952. It was acquired by one of my late friends in 1955 who found it in small record shop in West PhIladelphia. Thank you John for taking me to see her 15 years later. Long live Big Mama

Absolutely fabulous !!! Johnny Winter was 27 in 1971, would have fitted in very well.

Tremendous that you captured these great blues artist. HISTORY

This is BRILLIANT.

Hats off to the Gumsmoke crew for makin what might be the best bootleg ever made! Gunsmoke n muddy Waters , man u cant lose with that combo.

It’s hard to imagine but the bright young thing in the audience are now 60+

very good together selected blues legends - thanks for this event.

Big Mama Thornton - unbelievable commanding artist!

Big Joe was big time buzzed 😁😁😁

the best of the best!

Thank you a thousand times..............

Lendária e grandiosa "Big Mama"...rainha do Blues!!!

I grew up on this music in 1956.. I love it today. Memphis is home. Thanks to WDIA Goodwill Review I saw it all before they went world wide. I rather sleep in a hollow log.

Who knew Gunsmoke could be any cooler... Thanks a million dudes for both shows

there it is thats all you need legends of the blues

Muddy rocked blues in uk favourite

Legendary... Thanks a million for posting this.

If I could hit thumbs up 10000 more times, I would. This is awesome!

This great to hear that bad man, that bad bad boy Muddy Walthers toured and played alongside my 3rd cousin Big Mama Thornton