Michael Bloomfield & Nick Gravenites = Dream Team

No one played or plays like this anymore. A true artist.

I had a beer with him at the ambassador hotel in Los Angeles. We were there to see b.b. king & Bobby bland. One hell of a nite. Ron v.

I am indeed blessed. I'm a Brit Blues man transplanted in Sacramento CA for the past 7 years or so. Capitol Radio is the local NPR radio station and Saturday afternoon belongs to Mick Martins Blues Party which has been going strong for over 25 years. 4 hours of top quality blues, accompanying stories and a show dedicated to keeping the Blues alive in it's myriad forms. Mike Bloomfield In his various incarnations ia frequent feature. Can't recommend the show highly enough for any Blues afficianado. I've lived here for 35 years and it's the best blues show I've ever heard.

@chiquiinfinite7028

Жыл бұрын

Dang I wish there was a way I can tune in. I’m down here in Dallas, would love to tune into that!

In my opinion, one of the all time best.

God’s very own guitarist RIP Michael xx

@AdiosMoFo

2 жыл бұрын

More like T-Bone's

My favorite blues guitar player! Just so sweet

One of the very best blues guitar players

This deserves a million views!

Man, we thought Bloomfield was the best when I was a kid. Still think he's one of the best, ever !

@thomasfisher5742

6 ай бұрын

bought this in probably 1970... just for this track. Your right BLOOMFIELD was up there with anybody in the last 60 yrs. taken from us far to young by HEROIN ADDICTION ..stay well

In my younger days I was so into Michael Bloomfield! He's been my favorite forever. Love the way he plays the guitar.

The greatest blues is these guys.

Heartbreakingly beautiful playing, makes me cry

The most soulful and accomplished blues guitar playing I've ever heard.

GOOD LORD! This is absolutely stunning…

I forgot how much I liked listening to Mike Bloomfield.

@evansgate

2 жыл бұрын

me too. he was a hero of mine when I was 20 and it's nice to revisit old heroes and remind yourself you were into some good stuff back in the day

Puts everyone to shame my ears are in heaven🌿🌺🌿

Most interesting blues man ever sweet tone Supersession album blew my mind at 15 and still at 67.

@squeakeththewheel

Ай бұрын

I was 17. Same.

People have no idea how good this is.....

@theossideris62

3 жыл бұрын

fuckin true mate..masterpiece

Just gotta wonder - right now as I write 11 people gave this track a "thumbs down". WTF why? This is what a slow blues is. This song, the playing, the lyrics, the singing, defines what a slow blues is. I guess some people will never have soul.

@rodney4266

4 жыл бұрын

J Helak you r right man

@thomasfisher5742

6 ай бұрын

they caught COVID....it affected their TASTE...So sad lol

After one year, I return! Just to say, this song is exquisitely awesomely still one of the greatest blues tracks ever recorded! Utterly beautiful!

Michael Bloomfield's musical phrasing was really special ... a tribute to T-Bone Walker & BB King ... but Mike had his signature style. He made the guitar speak.

@8kenjacob

3 жыл бұрын

Albert King was big influence

@AdiosMoFo

2 жыл бұрын

@@8kenjacob This song is T-Bone through and through....

@user-xl4wo9gf8z

Жыл бұрын

Speak and sing.

For me, an unsurpassed example of blues guitar playing with endless invention AND feeling. MB, one of a kind. RIP.

It's 2021 nearing 2022 and I am still obsessed with this track.

Mike was too good for this world, musical genius. ✡️☮️💫

@zenzen1916

11 ай бұрын

Stop the Hate 🥀💔✡️

Tone to die for. The best.

A real gifted guitarist.

Best Bloomers playing slow blues, right here!!

This guitar sound is as pure as tears. Slow blues is being played in heaven right now!

Just rediscovered Mike Bloomfield. F--------g brilliant guitarist. Has me in tears of joy.

@gingervytis

4 жыл бұрын

Check out Albert's Shuffle: kzread.info/dash/bejne/hJakqa9_ZMXJkrg.html&start_radio=1

@AFaceintheCrowd01

3 жыл бұрын

Wait ‘til you hear Peter Green, hun.

@sheddski2942

3 жыл бұрын

@@AFaceintheCrowd01 Peter Greene was great untill that bad acid trip .

@dominiquepaul6877

Жыл бұрын

@@AFaceintheCrowd01 Bloomfield, Peter Green and please listen to Stan Webb Chicken shack

Man they sure put out some great blues music back then Good ol Mike Bluemfield and company.

What a song! The solo is amazing!

Saw him live at the Fillmore West back in the day might have even been to this show not sure saw him more than once. He just touched my soul he had the "magic". Miss him lived in San Francisco when the news came of his passing sad day.

Brilliant and solid ! Unique. Certainly the best !

I still need to thank my pops for gifting me this record when I was 7 years old on Valentines Day coming back from a business trip. I graduated from kiddie music (which I'd already started to do) but went full on into the guitar world and never looked back.

nobody and i mean nobody will ever play like this guy sad is that we all loose when they are gone

This and that Sweet Little Angel/Jelly Jelly medley from Live at the Old Waldorf are as good as any blues recordings ever.

Not in the Top 10 but TOP 5 Blues i have ever heard . Great ......

Old school’60’s guitar tone needs no distortion pedals.

played it over and over when it came out, thanx you tube I'm listening now.

Why am I just discovering this man all I can say is wow

@FanOblues51

Жыл бұрын

So glad you found Mike Bloomfield. I found him in high school & I'm now 71 years old.

Mike Bloomfield continues to entrance me every time I hear him play. I never saw him in person. I'm an amateur drummer , not a guitar player. I was lucky to live in SF from 05 to 10, and I played with a bassist who once hung with Bloomfield. I can't talk about tone or phrasing like a guitarist can. Bloomfield was a seeker, a lover of the music, and he cut his teeth on the South Side with Muddy, the Wolf and Spann. He will never be forgotten. He moves me todo los dias.

@chauntzu

3 ай бұрын

Another drummer that appreciated what Bloomfield brought to the music! Nice to know other drummers could really hear Mike's beauty as a player.

This track features some of the best blues playing I have ever heard, the perfect fusion of feeling and technique. The master.

@AdiosMoFo

2 жыл бұрын

Thank T-Bone

@mccurryburg

9 ай бұрын

the timing & the tone

magique !! amour aux étoiles !! merci mike !!respects éternels !

Literally cut my blues teeth listening to Mike Bloomfield.

Chicago Slow Blues... the Best👍😎

Currently have my epiphone Sheraton II out. Trying to mimic some of these licks. This guy cannot be replicated. This is from the soul. I feel bad for even trying to do this but it’s a start. No one could ever compare!! Bloomfield for life!!

@Jonathan-L

3 жыл бұрын

So true what you say ... I doubt that anyone will sound like Mike Bloomfield.

@SDPickups

Жыл бұрын

Michael used 13 gauge strings. That and Twin Reverb with JBL speakers. Its not possible to get that sound from any modern Gibson Les Pauls, because they are nothing like the original Les Pauls. His riffs are very simple and can be learned with practice. In fact, he is a good artist to learn from because his note choices are simple and predictable. He learned from the black blues Masters, all the really good white blues players did the same thing.

@user-xl4wo9gf8z

Жыл бұрын

Never feel bad for trying. Trying is what makes a Bodhisattva.

I can remember when Michael would visit my home in Vermont and jam in the living room...my heart broke when I got that phone call in 1984.

@dominickarruzzo197

4 жыл бұрын

You got called 3 years after he died?

@billcyr3932

4 жыл бұрын

Dominick Arruzzo I’m 69 and not always remember exact dates. Thanks for re-energizing my brain.

@dominickarruzzo197

4 жыл бұрын

@@billcyr3932 I know what you mean. I'm right behind you.

@billcyr3932

4 жыл бұрын

Dominick Arruzzo at 69 years young my memory isn’t that good when it comes to dates. Thanx for the correction.

what a night - Bloomfield was out there - eyes closed - every once in a while he would open his eyes and check things out then close them again and just kill it sooooo sweet the sound - god i miss him !

@cathsalazar9930

3 жыл бұрын

Me too!..............💜

This was Chicago 'gold'!

Bob Dylan said he's the best guitar player he ever heard. "Only the good die young" dates back to Greece, circa 445 BC, and was a hit song for Billy Joel but rings so true when looking at guitar players. Bloomfield, Hendrix, Duane Allman, Randy Rhoades, Hillel Slovak, Jeff Buckley, Brian Jones, Buddy Holly, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Danny Gatton all left us too soon. But Jimi is jamming with some serious talent in the next life.

His voice is an instrument

I sat with him at the bar in the ambassador hotel. We had a beer, and were there to see b.b King & Bobby bland, a night to remember !!.

Bloomfield had more Soul than the 10 best Shredders..

@VBForbes

7 жыл бұрын

He could shred when required He took Johnny Winter to school on the 1968 Filmore lost live album "It's My Own Fault"

@chriscurtis8344

6 жыл бұрын

Yes Paul. Waaay more soul.

@TedBurke

4 жыл бұрын

@@VBForbes More likely they schooled each other in equal measure. Introducing Johnny at the Fillmore East, Bloomfield said that Winter was "..the BADDEST motherfucker...this cat can PLAY..." It's all right here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/eoqBlbybh5WrXZs.html

@elegantlywasted4580

3 жыл бұрын

Feeling it, it's unbelievable. Thanks Mike

Now I know where my blues have been all my life.

Magnificent Maestro Blooms again!

What an intro!

Some of the best blues I've ever heard

mike bloomfield...the best there ever was...

@randalmcmurphy1893

7 жыл бұрын

he surely was. truly spoken.

@VBForbes

7 жыл бұрын

me too

@randalmcmurphy1893

7 жыл бұрын

Bloomers was the best. Listen to allof his stuff and he could do what anyone else could but he was a gentleman and never sought to upstage or get the better of anyone else. an all found good person

@tjaardtenhove8930

6 жыл бұрын

It's not his technique, it's straight from the heart, nothing can beat that.

@petegilgan4058

6 жыл бұрын

A great blues player - but not as great as the young Peter Green...

never enough, never... this GEM+++ ! !

Michael was one of the most inventive electric blues guitarists ever.

I bought this album, when it first came out at a Tower record store in San Francisco. When I got home, and played it, there was no doubt that this was Bloomfield at his finest.. I love that they kept in the fall start on It Takes Time. The band missed the downbeat. Many of the cuts can also be found on Nick Gravenites album, My Labors.

@blusmahn

2 жыл бұрын

................and a few more on Blues at the Fillmore !

@aliensporebomb

Жыл бұрын

Plus, this reissue was good but the Japanese mini LP sleeve versions has the full versions of all of this (with the false start on "It Takes Time") as well as more of the banter between tunes from the musicians. And extra tracks. Same goes for the Nick Gravenites "My Labors" - extra tracks, mini LP sleeve. It's weird, I must have bought this record half a dozen times now but I keep looking for more material from that magic night - they were ALL firing on all cylinders that evening.

love the slow blues

Go Mike - you sure knew the blues!

The Blues Man gave his Soul to the Blues no one can mscht it 🎸

Who hasn't felt that

I picked up this album second-hand in '72, and this track in particular blew me away completely. Mike's blues tone was, and still is, unsurpassed by any of the greats .. and that's saying something. But what makes this track such a gem is the way it builds at the beginning and grabs you by the throat until it finally lets go at 8.45. Then Mike smooths everything out with some of the sweetest, most sensitive and tasty choruses humanly possible, before finally handing back to NG for the vocal finale. I've heard lots of Mike's stuff, and this is without a doubt the very best. Absolutely sublime throughout. So sad he had to leave us when he did.

@larrygeetar9309

5 жыл бұрын

He was his own worst enemy. Paul Butterfiled and Bloomfield had the greatest combi- nation of vocal / harp / and guitar playing ever, in my opinion. And they're both gone, due to their own demons. Such a shame.

@albertbruin4384

5 жыл бұрын

What did you expect them to die from? Hoping and feeling too much? They internalized the pain of the "underclass" beginning with field hollers of masters and slaves. Jews wear their pain on the inside while Aframs wear it on the outside. Guilt??? White Man's burden? "You are a better man than I, Gunga Din". Let's get real!!

@albertbruin4384

2 жыл бұрын

Blues on the Westside was written as they lived it. Epic. Love it. Best friend went down when I was 17. Stole a couple watermelons, chased by Deputy, car rolled, ejected, the end. RIP Butch. 🕊️

@jaredwren9304

2 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more. Mike had min/maxxed his tone by the time he went from the Tele for the Burst. There is a reason he was recognized by all the legends. Sublime. Transcendent. Eternal. Simple. Complex. Human. Major, Minor. The Blues.

@lostchord702

2 жыл бұрын

@@albertbruin4384 So well said !

Listening to MB on a Sunday morning. We have an economic disaster, a pandemic, civil unrest, and a tropical storm coming. I'm sitting on my porch, drinking beer at 9:00 a.m. listening to Mike, and the approaching storm. Why the hell not? Can't go nowhere 'cause my truck died yesterday. Thanks, Mike. It's all good.

@bobjones9600

4 жыл бұрын

How's the dog? And the wife?

@livingadreamlife1428

3 жыл бұрын

You have the ingredients of a country song there

@georgerodda4405

3 жыл бұрын

Loved Broomfield electric flag east west first amplified recording many firsts luv ❤ him him and the cat's are jamming on the big stage

@frankdardano3182

8 ай бұрын

Tone?! This is what most people mean when they talk BLOOMFILD.HE IS CONSTANTLY CHANGING HIS TOGGLE SWITCH.THE SUPER SESSIONS ALBUM HE REALLY MADE HIS ICONIC BLOOMFIELD SOUND.INSTANTLY RECOGNIZABLE.SWEET,CUTTING,CLEAR TONE.AS A FORMER RETIRED GUITARIST, I UNDERSTAND HOW DIFFICULT IT IS TO IMPROVISE WITH SLOW BLUES. THERE IS NO PLACE TO HIDE..BLOOMFIELD IS THE MASTER OF PLAYING THE BLUES.CLAPTON CALLED HIM A SOUL BROTHER,DYLAN SAID BEST HE EVER PLAYED WITH. I OFTEN WONDER HOW VAN HALEN WOULD HAVE PLAYED BLUES,WITHOUT TAP TRICKS A WALL OF AMPS,PEDALS ETC.THE ONLY THING A MODERN GUITAR Player does is imitate old links then get bored,because they know it's not authentic.then slow blues is something that they are not into.bloomfield forgot more links than most players learn.He died at 37!!!

It's like he's holding your heart

THE REAL KING OF BLUES! NOT ANYONE LIKE BLOOMFIELD IN THE BLUES GUITAR!

@andreborges2881

7 жыл бұрын

Peter Green.

@pinballeric

5 жыл бұрын

André Borges is

@fredt5396

3 жыл бұрын

Mayby Duane Allman

@frankdardano3182

8 ай бұрын

Bloomfield has forgot more than most players will ever learn.damn he is good and you just can't getting any cleaner. No pedals,no nothing! He just plugged in the Amp straight like 1949.listen to the endless stream of notes,effortlessly being fired at you, or the breath taking beautifull slow blues that showed the world this is how its done.RIP mike,and thanks!

❤️❤️❤️это блюз!потрясающий блюз!❤️

so sweet I could listen to Bloomy all day long and still not get enough

@mikebloomfirld66

10 жыл бұрын

bloomy could rip the paint off of a wall with that tone...

@ESD2814GLC

9 жыл бұрын

metalmike66 Today's players are generally frightened of that upper mid lower treble howl that Bloomfield and a few others used to devastating effect. I love it myself.

@VBForbes

7 жыл бұрын

me too!

@johanenmaayalos3096

4 жыл бұрын

Emile Dalkey :

@andysimpson6595

2 жыл бұрын

@@mikebloomfirld66 NOTHING LIKE A LES PAUL PUMPED A FENDER TWIN REVERB BEING PLAYED BY MIKE BLOOMFIELD - T U R N I T U P !

Great art comes out of pain. On this one, I feel the pain and I hear blues greatness.

Love hearing my old friend Taj sing the blues.

@teamlotus13

Ай бұрын

That’s Nick Gravenites singing here. Taj sang on a couple other songs from the sames shows

It's like having a curl-up-on-the-couch cry. If you felt down and needed to let out all the "she-done-me-really-bad-and-I can't-pull-out" gut wrench, well then - if you had a guitar, this is what you'd be trying to play. Just beautiful.....

In my personal opinion MB has been the greatest "white" blues guitarist that ever walked this planet. Just unique.

@petegilgan6217

4 жыл бұрын

The second greatest - after Peter Green.

@TedBurke

4 жыл бұрын

@@petegilgan6217 Third greatest. Johnny Winter,Mike Bloomfield, Peter Green. In that order

@G8GT364CI

4 жыл бұрын

@@TedBurke Nope Mike was the best.

@areirving

4 жыл бұрын

Mike was the best. White, black, or green.

@jackbecker8355

4 жыл бұрын

He influenced many, but only old school guitarists know who he was... saw him at a strip club in SF, early '70s....sad, he looked worn out..

play me some BLUES, MIKE, man you had that feeling. RIP.

MASTERPIECE...absolutely magnificent!

The best electric blues player ever…even to this day.

Bravo.

Absolutely wonderful! A masterpiece. Great singing by Nick Gravenites as well. Genius at work, dear God. And the horn section is right on.

@jimallen8

Жыл бұрын

Any idea who the horn players were?

@thetangleedgelegacysoffici3348

Жыл бұрын

@@jimallen8 Snooky Flowers - baritone sax, Noel Jewkes - Tenor sax, John Wilmeth - trumpet,

GreatcMusic ❤

Smokin', 'nuff said.

How sweet it is.

Bloomfield = Blues that simple

NY in the 60,s Now everyone is running around so fast they missed this low down dirty blues tune...Slow down ya,all ..

I'm 22 and have been emerging myself with as much of the blues as possible man I wish I woulda found Mike sooner💙

@davidseriff711

4 жыл бұрын

Check out a guy named Chris Cain.

@shadowplay2801

2 жыл бұрын

Rory Gallagher

Saw Bloomfield Memorial Day weekend 1970 Fillmore West, recently returned from Maui. Wow! Didn't need no Wowie. Mike provided that!

Outstanding !!!

I saw him play several times at Fillmore West with Paul Butterfield in the late 60's. To get another fix on Mike, you could try listening to his soundtrack of The Trip which he played with his band The Electric Flag. It's outstanding and gives you an idea of a much larger range of guitar playing and style than you typically hear from him.

@kathleengrimes1816

2 жыл бұрын

I have The Trip soundtrack. I love it too !!!

@ericswenson322

2 жыл бұрын

I think I was there also..ha!

@billw1266

Жыл бұрын

Great soundtrack. Forgot all about it. Thanks!

This is a thing of beauty!

That face says it all. My god Bloomfield, you will never be forgotten. His power through music will always thrive on and influence others. From his head, to his heart, to his hands.

No one is better than the other , everyone gave their true art in the blues world.

takes me back to my army days when I was away , and the band played on. Mike

Michael 🎸🔥☮️✌️👏... de Argentina 🇦🇷 2020

SO SMOOTH and RELAXING hits the Mind Body and Soul Mike Bloomfield is So Amazing 🖤💙

Best slow blues ever

Breathtaking

Such brilliant playing....

@GeorgeManney

10 жыл бұрын

Fab!!! Be well my friend.

Damn, that boy could play!