thanks, I whish I could of been there as well as Woodstock 69; too young, but I've had a crappy enough life that I would exchange it for being 20 years older if I could of been part of the music scenes then as a performer.
So we're just gonna pretend that Ginger didn't drop a stick at 5:54 and not lose track of the groove in the slightest. They don't make 'em like that anymore. Rest easy, legend.
how about some mad props to Rick Grech. I think it would be pretty intimidating to play bass in a band with Clapton, Baker, and Winwood. but he didn't just hold his own. he exceled
ledzeppelin27 no he wasn't intimidate, Clapton told him to come with them because he was from the same circle of musicians and was truly respected for his work with Family, he could play bass as well as violin, Ric was a very good musician
Today was my dad's funeral. And I had to look this song up because my mom said she heard music playing in the house this morning... She found my dad's old stereo in the basement playing this song ♥️. Never heard this song or this band before. I'll have to borrow this CD Dad. Thanks for continuing to share more good music with me.
I can’t be the only 15 year old that wants music like this back…… it’s hard to believe that people consume themselves with modern day computer junk instead of masterpieces like this. So sad 😞 My friends look at me like I’m crazy when I play this, wish I was alive then. This was the first song I ever listened to when I was in pre school my dad showed me this, along with Hendrix and The Who, I remember the first feeling I had listening to this and all along the watchtower, god it’s amazing, a shame few people my age know it as well
It's people like you that give me hope that one day people will finally get sick of all the pre-programmed, mass dancer, auto-tuned, vapid & pointless corporate drivel-pop that gets shoved down their ears. Thanks Charlie!
Lovely sentiment Charlie. Don't forget, music comes back when people like you go get the keyboard or guitar and learn to play as these guys did. Best of luck with that - you are the future of this type of music.
50+ years from my senior year in high school - - if it hadn't been for the Vietnam War, we would've listened to concerts and danced our way across the stage to get our diplomas. What an era. Musicians stretched from London to San Francisco. Incredible!
I saw them live at the Chicago Amphitheater, and they were great. The crowd was so loud during Baker's solo, you couldn't hear anything. The biggest thrill was looking off to the side of the stage and seeing Ginger Baker's drum cases piled up. On the bass drum cases, painted in huge letters, it said "CREAM."
Nice quality transfer. You don't often see film from 1969 look this good. A seminal year for all sorts of things. Concerts like this. The first Moon landing. Me leaving school and moving to London! Fun times.
I think there’s an unwritten rule among cameramen and film editors that whenever a badass guitar solo is happening they’ll point the camera elsewhere...amirite?...
Bro..truest thing ever! In nearly every vintage video of a performance, the cameraman is always filming the bassist or drummer or anyone else other than the guitarist when playing a solo!
Here's a thought, THIS IS A FILM NOT A VIDEO! The film cameras, of which there look to be 4, have a maximum of 10 minutes of film. The sound is being recorded in a mobile unit on a multitrack tape machine. The Director, CANNOT SEE WHAT THE CAMERAS ARE SHOOTING! There are at least two points where I can see that the film runs out and the editor cuts as late as is possible. In those days, film was not edited on a computer like it is now. It had to be synchronised with the sound and then cut and spliced. If the cameramen had not heard the song before, they would not know where to point. When you get into the cutting room you have to work with what you are given. BTW I am a retired editor, and I am sck and tire of this ignorant bullshit. Your comment is insulting, ignorant and stupid. Consider yourself schooled!
@@sadiqmohamed681 touched a nerve did we? oh we are so schooled by your kindness and wisdom. please always write in all caps so the whole world can benefit from your insights and experience...
@@thomaswilliams373 Here's another thing to consider. The cameraman is paying attention to the image, not the music. When I was in college I shot college hoops. I had no idea what was actually happening in the game because I was focused getting shots right.
I still get a kick out of the little public announcement, "Please come up and collect him. He's probably still telling the story "Did I ever tell you about the time me mum and dad lost me at a Blind Faith concert? It took them three days before they remembered where they lost me!
I love Blind Faith, what a true Super Group, I was so young, 14 in 1969 & I loved Blind Faith so much. Still one of my favorite albums of all time!! Stevie Winwood never ceases to amaze me, what a prodigy!!!
RIP Ginger Baker! I was 18 and just graduated from High School in 1969 when the Blind Faith Album was released. What a huge blessing to grow up during this explosion of musical creativity. I'm just overwhelmed by the talent I've been exposed to during this time period. You really had to be there to appreciate fully the different bands as they came onto the scene one by one. WOW!!! I wouldn't have wanted to live in any other time period. One of my greatest joys is still learning some of the great guitar licks/songs of this time period just to, in some small way, carry on their creativity.
yes, you were lucky. I was a teen in the early 80s, so I just missed the psychedelic era unfortunately. there began to be a sad loss of the roots of rock n roll then.
@@donalddrysdale246 I too am a member of a high school class of 1969 and I totally echo what you say except as a drummer I tried so hard to emulate Ginger's melodies.
The balls and talent of those 4, enormous crowds on top of them, nowhere to hide, off their faces as well. No laptops, earphones, miming just sheer talent. And some people have the cheek to call the likes of kanye west a musician. What happened to the world?
What a voice Steve has and Ginger dropping a stick and not missing a beat, and Clapton didn't look engaged considering he was famous after Cream, still didn't miss a beat. People have to realize this was a new band, they had not rehearsed a lot together so it's not the slick tightness but still a notch above us mortals. RIP Ginger.
I am 4o years old. I have always loved older songs through my step dad introducing me.. that was 50’s and earlier music. But now I’m discovering my own music and for some reason I’m drawn to the year of 1969. This must have been an awesome year for music! So many new artists I háve discovered...and some of the younger years of the ones i know. Anyway just sharing 1969 what a year for music! Keep rockin!
I’m 67.. and I gotta tell ya.. I didn’t know how lucky we were back then.. but looking back, I can tell you that it was MYSTICAL… !! The scent of patchouli and pot and suede… the visions from the LSD… and SO MANY concerts of music that no one had ever dreamed of.. until then… We were blessed..!
Blind Faith was much Steve Winwood's band as it was anyone's. Winwood, maybe the most gifted child prodigy in rock history, remains under-commented-on.
sportspenguin one of the best singers in rock history. He veered into a highly accessible pop groove in the 80s. Why not? Guy has four sons. May as well make a couple of bucks.
@@MB-rv9dx corporations were running the show in the 60’s. What happened was it was a fertile time and the people holding the purse strings had begun to realize the $$ teenagers had to spend. To say there isn’t good music today shows your ears are closed.
Because people are superficial and vacuous. They want bells and whistles and a show. They don't have the mental capacity to think of the music. They are too busy moaning about their pronouns. 🤭😆🦘
I have never heard another drummer who so thoroughly and magically integrates head-heart-hands & feet in their playing - his quadridextrous approach is unmatched; Ginger Baker was a genre unto himself - Thank you so much Ginger for bringing all this joy to the world ! - If you listeners don’t have them, GB's “Going Back Home” and “Falling Off the Roof”, and "Coward of the County" are great albums, also be sure to listen to "Middle Passage" and "Material Live in Japan" and "Why" - 60 years as a recording musician!
LuckyLucy I can't argue with either statements, in the 90s I was stuck in the 60s , although I was introduced to grunge early. upon reflection, the 90s were as important as the 60s in which both decades were followed collectively by crap, except for a handful of amazing bands in the 70s and 2000s . it's very funny cuz punk became big and rap as well, based on attitude and threats. both types of music using the " we don't know how to play music but we'll try it anyway" attitude. Now we just have to rinse and repeat and maybe we'll have music back again
My cousin Dougie say'd 90's Seattle grundge and garage rock was 'like way totally better' that the l;late 1960's early 1970's Beatles, Stones, Led Zep, Deep, Purple, Cream etc. but grandady say hell to the fuck no son!
Mr. Baker you inspired so many drummers including myself. We have been so thankful you blessed us with your gift. You helped shape the music we heard then & now.
Me too! I saw them in Philadelphia at the Spectrum on July 16, 1969. My very first concert. I was 13. My grandfather drove me on a Wednesday night. He had been a big band drummer in the 30s. After I played Ginger's "Toad" for him, that was all it took. Ginger got a standing ovation that night. And I was forever changed.
Unique voice - but is it pleasant to listen to? It makes me cringe hearing him strain to hit all those high notes. Maybe if he sang in a lower range he might be better off....
I'm ALWAYS blown away by Steve's voice each time I hear this. And yeah, Clapton, Ginger, and Ric G are all amazing, too, esp Eric. Poor Ric Grech, he's gotta be like WTF? am I doing with THESE guys?!? God, how did I get here?!? Give me just a few more minutes before I keel over flat on my face!
they hired Rick because he had the chops---something like Cream was a phenomenal thing that has never happened often, but it's Cream, like any other pro musicians that will tell you they got to how they did by playing with whoever they could---always find things or people that challenge yourself to get better.
See my other posts above if you want to know about Claption's distinct tonal sound on that Blind Faith album when doing electric guitar. In Clapton's hyrbrid guitar it is the body and pickups of that Tele makes the difference, but that Strat neck a lot more room and comfort....I presume. Cause eventually Clapton just adopts STtrat as his main electric guitar.
I heard this song playing at an auditorium just before a Alice Cooper concert in the early 70s. It always stayed in my head and it was many years later that I heard it all the way through, and found out who it was.
I clearly didn't seem to belong in the early 1980s as a teen; got ridiculed a lot for looking like a hippie/stoner. I couldn't understand why there was so many guys around that seem to of forgot what civil rights was about, and they seemed to of become what the 'Nam generations' parents were, except for my high school friends in which was because I got booted right out of my suburb.
To Arch Stanton and others, be sure and get Ginger Baker’s recordings “Middle Passage”, “Unseen Rain”, “Live in Japan” (with Material), “Coming Back Home” & “Falling off the Roof” (with Frisell and Haden), “Coward of the County” (with DJQO & James Carter), and “Sunrise on the Sufferbus” (with Masters of Reality) - his paradoxical genius on full display
Absolutely a ton of talent on that stage.. True artist performers song writers... Steve Winwood's incredible voice and keyboards and Eric playing that telecaster like an ace ginger, pounding away in total cadence..
Kickin bass on this, I love it. I keep coming back to the individual posts of this concert. The different songs keep playing back in my head. I think I've listened to at least two of them each day of this concerts, since I discovered it on tube. Simply amazing music, with a sound that will never be duplicated. It's only canned in this recording, Thank God!
this is so good and shows more of the real concert,.more power \!!!! you have no idea how much I love it, thankyou to the folk way back then who downloaded with the primitive gear they had this was 1970and no mobile phones etc etc !!!!
I was actually sitting in the park waiting for the Stones, it was our last day in London (on a tour, I was 19). We sure didn't realize what we were hearing but loved it. Unfortunately, we had to catch a boat for France and after spending the better part of 6 hours there, we left before the Stones came on. It was a concert honoring Brian Jones who had just died.
When my girlfriend asked if I had chance would I go back in time or forwards I just talk about the music of this era and the answer is made pretty clear!!
Great performance of phenom band that burned too bright too fast. Amazingly clear recording considering the equipment available at the time. Love seeing all those old Shure 546 Unidyne III mics spread around the stage. Got one in my basement from that era and it's still a fantastic mic.
I love Blind Faith too..1969 was 17years.. and now 70....we get together old,but the music...and songs stay ever.. so good too, Steve Winwood and John Barleycorn must die..and so on.. good Artist and it was specially time. For all:Peace..Love..&Luck
It's sucks that Blind Faith never got as much recognition than they should. Especially this self-debute album. It was a yellow cover that would put me to sleep when I couldnt.
This riff is so good, and the whole song, I loooooooooove it. It so nice seeing people just listening to music 😊 no filming just the music. And the music is unbelievable good. Steves voice and Eriics playing, yes. Thank you for this video.
Just goes to show Clapton played just about every guitar at one time or another. Didn't realize he used to play a Fender Telecaster during this period. Nobody ever talks about that...
Yeah and I'd never heard this gig until today--it really is pretty damn good and he sounds great on that Tele (with a Strat neck) through a Marshall. I had seen some pictures of the gig and knew about the Tele body but you're right, nobody ever mentions it.
Recordando el debut del primer Supergrupo de la historia del rock “Blind Faith” (pueden haber existido antes la unión de músicos virtuosos pero después de la creación de esa banda se empezó a usar este término por la prensa) que fue el conglomerado de 04 grandes de la música en su mejor momento: Eric Clapton (guitarras ex Cream), Ginger Baker (batería ex Cream), Steve Winwood (teclados, guitarra y voz ex Traffic) y Ric Grech (bajo ex Family). Aparecieron a lo grande ante cerca de más de 100,000 espectadores en un concierto gratuito en Hyde Park llevado a cabo en junio de1969, luego aparece su único lp, su única gira y antes de empezar los 70s se disuelve la banda. Aquí un testimonio de su grandeza:
WINWOOD CLAPTON BAKER WHAT A LIVING COMBINATION....WOW....IS WHAT IS CALLED BLIND FAITH HAD TO CRY TODAY I GOT THE VINYL FROM WAY BACK....1969 STILL GOOD TODAY LIVING LEGEND GOOD MUSIC NEVER DIES.. ....
