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Post by 1955nyyfan on Jul 29, 2024 12:11:50 GMT -5
Anyone ever listen to Al Kooper and Mike Bloomfield's "Super Session" album? There's some great stuff on that release, including a great cover of Donavan's "Season of Witch" along a mixture of other covers and some originals. Stephen Stills had to come in and help finish the project because Bloomfield was going through some issues and just left and never came back. I've read a quote by Dylan in which he says Bloomfield was the best guitar player he ever worked with. |
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Post by 1955nyyfan on Jul 29, 2024 12:35:33 GMT -5
Janis was an acquired taste that I never acquired. Probably in a minority here, but was also not a big fan of Hendrix. Recogonized the talent, just didn't care for his music. Remember Bobby Gentry "Ode to Billy Joe" ? I recalled many wondering what exactly was thrown off the Tallahatchie Bridge.  |
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Post by pippsheadache on Jul 29, 2024 12:37:51 GMT -5
That’s great 55. What a story. Kooper obviously had some stones to push his way on there. I didn't realize that was also him on "Just Like A Woman." It wasn't Kooper on organ on Simon & Garfunkle's "I Am A Rock", but they definitely tried to recreate the sound. Bob, part of that similarity may be because Tom Wilson was the producer of both songs and I am guessing at the same studio and perhaps the same Hammond organ. The organist on "I Am A Rock" was Wrecking Crew stalwart Larry Knechtel, an insanely talented musician. He also did the memorable piano work on "Bridge Over Troubled Water." Knechtel later joined Bread, for whom he played lead guitar. One of his better-known solos for them was, appropriately enough, "Guitar Man." |
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Post by pippsheadache on Jul 29, 2024 12:46:40 GMT -5
Anyone ever listen to Al Kooper and Mike Bloomfield's "Super Session" album? There's some great stuff on that release, including a great cover of Donavan's "Season of Witch" along a mixture of other covers and some originals. Stephen Stills had to come in and help finish the project because Bloomfield was going through some issues and just left and never came back. Wow Chi, this is another one from before you were born. That album was very popular for a brief period and then seemed to disappear. Bloomfield had really established a great reputation with two standout bands, Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Electric Flag, two of the most talented fusion bands of the 60s. I think Kooper, Butterfield and Stills were all between bands at the time, so they decided to make a classic album just to pass the time. I'm guessing you are familiar with Butterfield's band. Man were they good. Definitely an important part of changing the direction of popular music. |
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Post by chiyankee on Jul 29, 2024 13:11:28 GMT -5
Anyone ever listen to Al Kooper and Mike Bloomfield's "Super Session" album? There's some great stuff on that release, including a great cover of Donavan's "Season of Witch" along a mixture of other covers and some originals. Stephen Stills had to come in and help finish the project because Bloomfield was going through some issues and just left and never came back. Wow Chi, this is another one from before you were born. That album was very popular for a brief period and then seemed to disappear. Bloomfield had really established a great reputation with two standout bands, Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Electric Flag, two of the most talented fusion bands of the 60s. I think Kooper, Butterfield and Stills were all between bands at the time, so they decided to make a classic album just to pass the time. I'm guessing you are familiar with Butterfield's band. Man were they good. Definitely an important part of changing the direction of popular music. I can thank Spotify for that! There's still a lot of music out there to discover. I am familiar with the Paul Butterfield Band, they were a Chicago based group. Elvin Bishop was also part of their gang. Some of his 70's stuff is worth a listen and no, I'm not talking about "Fooled Around and Fell in Love".  By the way, the Super Session album was remastered for CD and released with some extra songs on it. It still sounds great after 55 years. |
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Post by 1955nyyfan on Jul 29, 2024 13:24:32 GMT -5
Wow Chi, this is another one from before you were born. That album was very popular for a brief period and then seemed to disappear. Bloomfield had really established a great reputation with two standout bands, Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Electric Flag, two of the most talented fusion bands of the 60s. I think Kooper, Butterfield and Stills were all between bands at the time, so they decided to make a classic album just to pass the time. I'm guessing you are familiar with Butterfield's band. Man were they good. Definitely an important part of changing the direction of popular music. I can thank Spotify for that! There's still a lot of music out there to discover. I am familiar with the Paul Butterfield Band, they were a Chicago based group. Elvin Bishop was also part of their gang. Some of his 70's stuff is worth a listen and no, I'm not talking about "Fooled Around and Fell in Love". By the way, the Super Session album was remastered for CD and released with some extra songs on it. It still sounds great after 55 years. |
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Post by chiyankee on Jul 29, 2024 13:29:27 GMT -5
I can thank Spotify for that! There's still a lot of music out there to discover. I am familiar with the Paul Butterfield Band, they were a Chicago based group. Elvin Bishop was also part of their gang. Some of his 70's stuff is worth a listen and no, I'm not talking about "Fooled Around and Fell in Love". By the way, the Super Session album was remastered for CD and released with some extra songs on it. It still sounds great after 55 years. Thanks, I'll have to check this out when I'm not at work. I'm a big fan of Santana. |
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Post by azbob643 on Jul 29, 2024 13:35:47 GMT -5
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Post by fwclipper51 on Jul 29, 2024 14:29:51 GMT -5
I have a question for those of you of a certain vintage who were from the NYC area. I was cleaning out some boxes a few days ago and found a long-forgotten ticket to a concert I went to on June 9 1967 at a place called the Action House. It was in Island Park NY on Long Island. Do any of you remember that place? The featured performers were The Blues Project (anybody remember them?) whose lead singer was Al Kooper. Shortly after that he left to form Blood, Sweat and Tears along with fellow Project member Steven Katz. Kooper was replaced as lead singer for BS&T after one album by the very different David Clayton Thomas, with whom the band had the vast majority of its success. But I thought Kooper did good work for them and they had some minor hits with "I Can't Quit Her" and "Without Her." He's also the guy playing organ on Bob Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone." I looked up the Action House on-line and see it was allegedly a mob-connected place (say it ain't so) and the guy who ran it was manager of Vanilla Fudge, which had a late-60s psychedelic hit covering The Supremes' "Keep Me Hangin' On." Also a young Billy Joel played there when he was a long-haired guy playing with The Hassles. On the bill with The Blues Project was Eric and the Smoke Ponies. Not to be confused with Linda Ronstadt's Stone Ponys who were out at the same time. I know it's a long-shot, but I was curious if any of you remember this place. For what it's worth it was a great show with a few fights out in the parking lot thrown in for no extra charge. I was big Al Kooper fan since the days of The Blues Project. Also, I remember another band called "Sea Train" that came out of The Blues Project group. The 1st Blood, Sweat and Tears album is still one of favorite 1960's albums. I was so disappointed when Kooper left the band and going to England, I couldn't stand David Clayton Thomas as the new lead singer. Also I do remember the Hassles with Billy Joel, being played on WNEW-FM., in fact I have their 1st album. |
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Post by inger on Jul 29, 2024 15:02:31 GMT -5
I have a question for those of you of a certain vintage who were from the NYC area. I was cleaning out some boxes a few days ago and found a long-forgotten ticket to a concert I went to on June 9 1967 at a place called the Action House. It was in Island Park NY on Long Island. Do any of you remember that place? The featured performers were The Blues Project (anybody remember them?) whose lead singer was Al Kooper. Shortly after that he left to form Blood, Sweat and Tears along with fellow Project member Steven Katz. Kooper was replaced as lead singer for BS&T after one album by the very different David Clayton Thomas, with whom the band had the vast majority of its success. But I thought Kooper did good work for them and they had some minor hits with "I Can't Quit Her" and "Without Her." He's also the guy playing organ on Bob Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone." I looked up the Action House on-line and see it was allegedly a mob-connected place (say it ain't so) and the guy who ran it was manager of Vanilla Fudge, which had a late-60s psychedelic hit covering The Supremes' "Keep Me Hangin' On." Also a young Billy Joel played there when he was a long-haired guy playing with The Hassles. On the bill with The Blues Project was Eric and the Smoke Ponies. Not to be confused with Linda Ronstadt's Stone Ponys who were out at the same time. I know it's a long-shot, but I was curious if any of you remember this place. For what it's worth it was a great show with a few fights out in the parking lot thrown in for no extra charge. I was big Al Kooper fan since the days of The Blues Project. Also, I remember another band called "Sea Train" that came out of The Blues Project group. The 1st Blood, Sweat and Tears album is still one of favorite 1960's albums. I was so disappointed when Kooper left the band and going to England, I couldn't stand David Clayton Thomas as the new lead singer. Also I do remember the Hassles with Billy Joel, being played on WNEW-FM., in fact I have their 1st album. I’ve got a Hassles album on CD… |
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Post by chiyankee on Jul 29, 2024 15:09:05 GMT -5
I was big Al Kooper fan since the days of The Blues Project. Also, I remember another band called "Sea Train" that came out of The Blues Project group. The 1st Blood, Sweat and Tears album is still one of favorite 1960's albums. I was so disappointed when Kooper left the band and going to England, I couldn't stand David Clayton Thomas as the new lead singer. Also I do remember the Hassles with Billy Joel, being played on WNEW-FM., in fact I have their 1st album. I’ve got a Hassles album on CD… I have a Billy Joel Box set called My Lives that has a couple Hassles songs on it. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Jul 29, 2024 16:41:47 GMT -5
I have a question for those of you of a certain vintage who were from the NYC area. I was cleaning out some boxes a few days ago and found a long-forgotten ticket to a concert I went to on June 9 1967 at a place called the Action House. It was in Island Park NY on Long Island. Do any of you remember that place? The featured performers were The Blues Project (anybody remember them?) whose lead singer was Al Kooper. Shortly after that he left to form Blood, Sweat and Tears along with fellow Project member Steven Katz. Kooper was replaced as lead singer for BS&T after one album by the very different David Clayton Thomas, with whom the band had the vast majority of its success. But I thought Kooper did good work for them and they had some minor hits with "I Can't Quit Her" and "Without Her." He's also the guy playing organ on Bob Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone." I looked up the Action House on-line and see it was allegedly a mob-connected place (say it ain't so) and the guy who ran it was manager of Vanilla Fudge, which had a late-60s psychedelic hit covering The Supremes' "Keep Me Hangin' On." Also a young Billy Joel played there when he was a long-haired guy playing with The Hassles. On the bill with The Blues Project was Eric and the Smoke Ponies. Not to be confused with Linda Ronstadt's Stone Ponys who were out at the same time. I know it's a long-shot, but I was curious if any of you remember this place. For what it's worth it was a great show with a few fights out in the parking lot thrown in for no extra charge. I was big Al Kooper fan since the days of The Blues Project. Also, I remember another band called "Sea Train" that came out of The Blues Project group. The 1st Blood, Sweat and Tears album is still one of favorite 1960's albums. I was so disappointed when Kooper left the band and going to England, I couldn't stand David Clayton Thomas as the new lead singer. Also I do remember the Hassles with Billy Joel, being played on WNEW-FM., in fact I have their 1st album. Bravo Clipper. Like you I greatly preferred the Kooper version of BS&T although the public obviously disagreed. That "Child Is Father To The Man" was outstanding. The great Motown singer Brenda Holloway did the original version of "You Made Me So Very Happy" and I preferred that to DCT's version. Yeah, I liked Seatrain too. "Thirteen Questions" got a lot of airplay. |
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Post by bumper on Jul 29, 2024 17:10:08 GMT -5
Anyone ever listen to Al Kooper and Mike Bloomfield's "Super Session" album? There's some great stuff on that release, including a great cover of Donavan's "Season of Witch" along a mixture of other covers and some originals. Stephen Stills had to come in and help finish the project because Bloomfield was going through some issues and just left and never came back. I've read a quote by Dylan in which he says Bloomfield was the best guitar player he ever worked with. bloomfield was my first real influence as a guitar player. wore out those 1st two butterfield records w bloomfield. to me he's at the top of the heap of that generation of guitarists. liked him better than clapton. and the super session album is great. |
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Post by bumper on Jul 29, 2024 17:33:43 GMT -5
I have a question for those of you of a certain vintage who were from the NYC area. I was cleaning out some boxes a few days ago and found a long-forgotten ticket to a concert I went to on June 9 1967 at a place called the Action House. It was in Island Park NY on Long Island. Do any of you remember that place? The featured performers were The Blues Project (anybody remember them?) whose lead singer was Al Kooper. Shortly after that he left to form Blood, Sweat and Tears along with fellow Project member Steven Katz. Kooper was replaced as lead singer for BS&T after one album by the very different David Clayton Thomas, with whom the band had the vast majority of its success. But I thought Kooper did good work for them and they had some minor hits with "I Can't Quit Her" and "Without Her." He's also the guy playing organ on Bob Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone." I looked up the Action House on-line and see it was allegedly a mob-connected place (say it ain't so) and the guy who ran it was manager of Vanilla Fudge, which had a late-60s psychedelic hit covering The Supremes' "Keep Me Hangin' On." Also a young Billy Joel played there when he was a long-haired guy playing with The Hassles. On the bill with The Blues Project was Eric and the Smoke Ponies. Not to be confused with Linda Ronstadt's Stone Ponys who were out at the same time. I know it's a long-shot, but I was curious if any of you remember this place. For what it's worth it was a great show with a few fights out in the parking lot thrown in for no extra charge. I was big Al Kooper fan since the days of The Blues Project. Also, I remember another band called "Sea Train" that came out of The Blues Project group. The 1st Blood, Sweat and Tears album is still one of favorite 1960's albums. I was so disappointed when Kooper left the band and going to England, I couldn't stand David Clayton Thomas as the new lead singer. Also I do remember the Hassles with Billy Joel, being played on WNEW-FM., in fact I have their 1st album. ha, saw the blues project w al kooper a number of times back in 1966 into '67. even helped set up their equipment on stage at a concert in central park in '66. met kooper and the bass player andy kulberg. remember the lead guitarist danny kalb jamming backstage w john sebastian. they were on an amazing record together called "the blues project" that opened many doors for me. the blues project had a great but short run and were darlings of greenwich village playing the cafe au go go all the time.
wow you guys are taking me back. both the blues project and butterfield were seminal bands in my musical development. actually some of my bands did a bunch of blues project songs - wake me shake me, i can't keep from crying, you go i'll go, steve's song. i still perform their version of donovan's beautiful "catch the wind".
and yeah remember sea train. of course kooper was great in b,s & t.
as for for action house - remember it but never saw anything there. at that point as a kid from jersey it was easier for me to go the village than long island.
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Post by bumper on Jul 29, 2024 17:42:38 GMT -5
Wow Chi, this is another one from before you were born. That album was very popular for a brief period and then seemed to disappear. Bloomfield had really established a great reputation with two standout bands, Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Electric Flag, two of the most talented fusion bands of the 60s. I think Kooper, Butterfield and Stills were all between bands at the time, so they decided to make a classic album just to pass the time. I'm guessing you are familiar with Butterfield's band. Man were they good. Definitely an important part of changing the direction of popular music. I can thank Spotify for that! There's still a lot of music out there to discover. I am familiar with the Paul Butterfield Band, they were a Chicago based group. Elvin Bishop was also part of their gang. Some of his 70's stuff is worth a listen and no, I'm not talking about "Fooled Around and Fell in Love". By the way, the Super Session album was remastered for CD and released with some extra songs on it. It still sounds great after 55 years. saw bishop & bloomfield w butterfield performing the east west album. mind blowing. after bloomfield left butter. became practically an elvin bishop "groupie" - bought a red gibson similar to his. even had my mom paint a tshirt like the one he's wearing on the pigboy crabshaw album cover. always thought "pigboy crabshaw" referred to elvin. he could make that guitar groan ... |
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