Just found this! Fuckin Robbie!!! I can't sit still, I'm so excited! I don't care who sat behind that kit, they were never this good without Robbie. With R.M. and without are two entirely different bands.The former was in a class of their own.
@@EricAnthem As a long time AWB fan, I am so sorry to burst your bubble. That man behind the kit IS NOT Robbie. This was actually taped Feb 22, 1975 (I know the title says '74, it's wrong) Robbie passed Sept 23, 1974. That guy was a fill in until they settled on Steve Ferrone. I have a VERY rare tape of the album "Live at the Paris Theater" recorded before Robbie passed...that recording shows just how POWERFUL Robbie was! They do an 18 min version of Put It Where You Want IT and Robbie KILLS IT!!! Never heard anything like that in my life.
@georgeobrientheroninrealto2693 the excitement of thinking such a high quality recording of robbie had turned up, blinded me to what is now an obvious absence of robbie's soul in the performance. oh well...
Back in '74 my older brother bought the first AWB album on 8-Track. I thought it was a joke. I mean, come on, a band calling themselves "The Average White Band"? But when that tape starting playing I was all done. I could not believe how good that tape was. And I mean every single track. Been an AWB fan ever since.
Don Kirschner described Labelle as "Josephine Baker meets the space age." I've also read "high priestesses of orgiastic rock" and "black feminist rock and soul group." All true.
Burton Cummings has the best voice ever! This was the last year with band.."The Guess Who". He & the original band is from Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada...He moved on to a solo career in 1975! His best songs & voice was from 1969 - 1980.
This so cool. They're reading some of this crap. And given the opportunity to improvise. This is as jazzed as it gets. They're just great musicians and singers.
I'm still searching for the Drummer's name who played with the AWB on that Concert - it's not Robbie Mc Intosh for sure -- Does someone have an idea who it could be ???? Thanks from Switzerland.
i have edited my original comment due to the reply below stating this isn't Robbie. Thank you for pointing out what should have been obvious. ☹️ Other than being white and a mild face/hair resemblance evidence is non-Robbie. No Robbie shoulders, the unsophisticated performance (compare to top of pops video), 5 piece kit... wishful thinking lead me astray.
I can't stand Troiano (guitar) his character sucks. He tried to change The Guess Who band. Burton Cummings has been the leader and voice of that band since 1965. So glad Burton went solo in 1975.🎹🎶🇨🇦
True. And that apparently is why Burton called it quits. The instrumental the band played here should not have been done on that show. It is a prime example of what bothered Burton (though with him as the band leader why didn't he nix the idea?). I liked the Guess Who and and liked Troiano in his own bands. But when he (and singer Roy Kenner, both previously in Mandala and also Bush) joined the James Gang, that band ended up sounding a lot like their previous band, Bush (no relation to the British band of the same name). Troiano (RIP) and Kenner were both really good, but their musical identities were so strong that they dominated whatever they were involved with. Indeed, the James Gang fired him (but not Kenner) because of incompatibility. And the Guess Who should have done the same thing. Here are Troiano and Kenner in Bush. Drummer Whitey Glann and bassist Prakash John went on to Lou Reed and Alice Cooper. Whitey was also the drummer with the upturned bass drums in Bette Midler's movie 'The Rose'. Both, like Troiano and Kenner, were great. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jfDNnfnncoI.html
@@beyondonethousand Dom Troiano was a great player, having first gain notoriety when he took Robbie Robertson's place with Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks when the lads in that band joined Bob Dylan and became The Band. If you're a guitarist, dig the solo from this, which is from Troiano's debut solo album back in the very early 70s. The rest of the players - drummer Whitey Glann, bassist Prakash John, and backing vocalist Roy Kenner (typically a lead vocalist) - were from Troiano's previous bands Mandala and Bush (not the British one)> ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2CEcl2gb2Ek.html
