The Headhunters - Full Concert - 05/09/75 - Winterland (OFFICIAL)
The Headhunters - Full Concert
Recorded Live: 5/9/1975 - Winterland (San Francisco, CA)
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Setlist:
0:00:00 - If You Got It, You'll Get It
0:10:59 - Daffy's Dance
0:20:08 - Slow Instrumental
0:28:42 - God Made Me Funky
Personnel:
Mike Clark - drums
Paul Jackson - bass, vocals
Bennie Maupin - saxophone, clarinet
DeWayne "Blackbyrd" McKnight - guitar, vocals
Bill Summers - percussion
Summary:
For pioneering jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, who played in the Miles Davis Quintet in the '60s, 1973's Head Hunters was a massive success and a landmark album in jazz fusion. He led his funky backing group, the Headhunters, with heavy electric synths on a record that outsold even Davis' fusion masterpiece, Bitches Brew. The Headhunters struck out on their own in the years following the album, and while Hancock is not to be heard on this 1975 live recording at San Francisco's Winterland, the group without him still brought the funk in a deep, spacey way.
The lineup here features the musicians that appeared on Hancock's follow-up to Head Hunters, 1974's Thrust, with new drummer, Mike Clark, as well as guitarist DeWayne "Blackbyrd" McKnight, whose guitar-playing would appear on Survival of the Fittest the 1975 Hancock-produced Headhunters LP that features three of this set's four songs. This show, running just under 40 minutes, came shortly after Survival's release. All the elements herein make for a deep space-funk melting of the mind: McKnight, who would also feature on Hancock's Man-Child and Flood releases later that year, contributes lead vocals and lead guitar on opener "If You Got It, You'll Get It," which quickly takes the show into heady, cerebral territory, where much of "Daffy's Dance" resides-fast with funky bass riffs and adventurous saxophone soloing. The one non-album cut is the third, untitled track, which is led by Maupin's saxophone and a simple guitar lick in a mid-tempo jam. Bass player Paul Jackson gives a spoken introduction to closer "God Made Me Funky," which also features his gruff, soulful vocal fronting the cheery strut of the instrumentation.
The Headhunters would go on to record 1977's Straight from the Gate, and later reunited in 1998 with keyboards from both Hancock and Billy Childs on Return of the Headhunters! Jackson and percussionist Bill Summers also featured in a revised Headhunters lineup for 2003's Evolution Revolution. Hancock continues to record and perform, most recently releasing River: The Joni Letters in 2007.
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Blackbird's guitar solo is the GOAT. He was channeling something from higher realms!
R.I.P. Mr. Jackson🙌
@steveball5200
3 жыл бұрын
...yea i heard that too - so sad he was a so solid RIP
God made them definitely funky.
Blackbird McKnight is The Beast , at only 17 or 18 playing the hell outta that guitar !!! Plus Bill Summers beginning on Berumbau , off the Chains !!!
RIP Paul Jackson
Funkiest band of all time, in my opinion, Paul Jackson on bass, again in my opinion, the best groover of all time......
Incredible!! Deep space Funk! RIP Paul Jackson 🙏💜
paul jackson et mike clark , mortelous !!
OH MY GOD!!!! I've been waiting about 25 years to see some live Headhunters footage!! This is just amazing! Thank you so much for uploading this I'm getting DOWN!
@Tfunkize
8 жыл бұрын
Agree- me tooo- This is some serius hot -tobago weeed mann
@TVThemeDoctor
8 жыл бұрын
Hell to the yes!!
@steveball5200
3 жыл бұрын
...only 25 lol - i aw this band in '73 only just found this 2021 lol - still got the vinyl !!!
@TVThemeDoctor
3 жыл бұрын
48 years! That's some wait!!
@TVThemeDoctor
3 жыл бұрын
So jealous that you got to see them in their prime 😊
Mike Clark is absolutely a beast
@alifarrent5249
2 жыл бұрын
Killer funky Mike
Brilliant alround! 🙏🙏🙏❤
Paul Jackson and Blackbyrd are like a fire
Just look at these brothers getting down and unity ain't nothing like it yes yes yes
Finally!!!! When I was a househusband in the early 80s, my two daughters (Alice RIP) LOVED this! Thanks so much.
So much awesome musick to be found on YT ! Blackbyrd goes all Pete Cosey/Reggie Lucas here
Nice, it's the '75 band that recorded the amazing 'Flood', a Live in Japan ' Herbie Hancock import' that is well worth paying for. It's got Dwayne Blackbird McKnight on guitar
BILL SUMMERS IS THE MAAAAAAAN!!!
Groove gets funk’n NASTY around 25:00 - groove team Mike Clark (drums-still very active in 2024), Bill Summers (still at it 2024 w/ Clark in current HEADHUNTERS lineup-check tour sched) and the incomparable Paul Jackson on bass & vocals (died in Japan 2021-RIP)
I love this! This is my dope!
🎼🌞🌚MAUPIN🌚🌞, that Man gets the Sun & the Moon...& oh s~n~AP ✨ Blackbird is so dope...Respect, Health, & much Love always, Fox🌬💨✨🎶✨🎵✨🕶
LEGENDARY
Paul Jackson/Mike Clark. Enuf said.
@jimgroff6880
5 жыл бұрын
Correct
@curtmcgirt4207
5 жыл бұрын
Straight from Oakland baby! Legendary business. I'm still trying to find the original god make me funky. It was originally a tune made for Everett and Jones BBQ back in the day.
@freefall6696
3 жыл бұрын
Very true. What a rhythm section (as it used so quaintly to be called 😎).
Blackbird looks so young!!
@carlosarturo4816
3 жыл бұрын
I believe he had just turned 21 when this was filmed.
young blackbyrd of funkadelic on deck
Brings back memories of great days you don't have any real music today they don't even know what a note is.
LOVE!
Love it..
Aww shit ! You gotta be kidding ! Vintage Head Hunters. Daffy's Dance also. What a rare find.
Right-on mannnnn -YOU GOT IT !!
Oui oui oui oui ça existe !!!!!!!!! Merci à la vie qui nous permet d'être créatifs
OMG!
@Globalfaction
9 жыл бұрын
OGDonNinja Yo, Ninja Don. You know what's up.
Serious jam band!
Good old Winterland! Snuck in there when it was being demolished on a day the wrecking ball wasn't being used. Had to say goodbye to a place that had witnessed so much fine music like this.
Saw them at Syracuse University 1975. Sat 6 feet away.
Megaawesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maannnn this is FUNK beyond words,thanks for this man,this musicians are so great,peace and love...
God made me funky! O yeah!!
i must admit that the wow in the sound actually contributes to the character in the same way that irregular frame rates affect early motion picture.
Tremenda banda...con ese solo de viola de blackbird..!🤘🤘
This the Shit Right Here
@ 28:45 :) and added bonus i was left alone during that part as others found it tooooooooooooooooooo Funky :)
🙏🙏🙏🙏 rip Master classe Jackson
thats dope!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yup ....this is head music. The come on.
Why would anyone thumbs down this?! Get a life..
Wow - this is like an Funky version of Jimmy Hendrixxx- Fucking Great music- sorry my language!!
Mike Clark hardly got any video time, well hidden........ Great black & white video nonetheless
I must admit that I'm a bit confused by this video. I thought Herbie Hancock started "The Headhunters"? But I didn't see him anywhere. Can anybody answer this?
10mins in you can hear the point where they start to Levitate...
Jesus!!
Funky!
Drummer is destroying it.......
@abdulkareem-km9th
5 жыл бұрын
Herbie got a lot of flack for hiring a white drummer
@curtmcgirt4207
5 жыл бұрын
@@abdulkareem-km9th Yeah, but Mike Clark is from Oakland, California. He gotta lotta soul.
@bkkersey93
4 жыл бұрын
@@abdulkareem-km9th Really? Damm, that's bs man.
@oznemol
4 жыл бұрын
abdul kareem Who says Herbie took a lot of flack for hiring a white drummer?? I didn’t know fake news existed back in ‘75 when I was 21! Regardless, Thrust put that bullshit to bed pretty damn quick! Mike changed the game with Actual Proof. Hasn’t been topped since!
@rhythmfield
28 күн бұрын
@@abdulkareem-km9th fact, sad but true - and where are we now? MAGA racist cult getting WAY too close to the White House again… peace & love
Where’s Herbie Hancock?
nice berimbau
Berimbau comendo Jazz funk rock de primeira
Nobody comes close.....
A Jamiroquai set from ‘93 brought me here. How did you get here?
East Bay Fonk!
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No Herbie tho…somebody? Whassup? Herbie disbanded by then?
Does somebody know what instrument plays B Maupin for half an hour (from beginning to the thirtieth minute) ? Is it a curved soprano ?
@JS-pd7lg
3 жыл бұрын
Yes
@alifarrent5249
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@romulus_
3 жыл бұрын
it's a soprano model called the saxcello
@alifarrent5249
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much
Woodstock 1968 ?? or ?
Too damn fonky!
what happened to the guitar solo in If You Got It, You'll Get It, worst solo ever
@thuxta
3 жыл бұрын
He was listening to John mac but couldn't get the technique 😂😂
@rhythmfield
28 күн бұрын
@@thuxtaoh please. He was going for something different and pushing boundaries. It wasn’t all about precision chops back then-expression and experimentation had a moment on top before it went underground again in 1980.
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