DEDICATE TO PAUL KOSSOFF From "HIGHWAY" Love this very very much!!! Vocals：PAUL RODGERS Electric Guitar：PAUL KOSSOFF Electric Bass：ANDY FRASER Drums：SIMON KIRKE
So soulful, organic, honest and pure, and all of them between 18 and 20 years of age when this was performed and recorded. Doesn't get any better than this, folks -- 4 young guys writing all of their own songs and performing them live with no gimmicks, no live monitors, no fancy light/stage shows. Just to reitererate, Free were using amateur equipment here with no live monitors in front of around 600, 000 people . . . WOW! Can you imagine any young band doing this now? Don't think so. GR8 band!
Gorgeous song. Gorgeous times. So organic, live and real. No gimmicks, pedals, front monitors . . . nothing. Just raw talent. And, of course, Paul Rodgers at the centre with his masterful vocals.
Just to share a thing. 1968 was the first time I heard this band's sound emanating and loud from someone's house as I was walking the neighborhood. I stopped and heard the music of FREE. I was 14 then. Straight. Go straight. 🎭
Kosoff's guitar gives me goosebumps, and Paul Rodgers voice has as much soul as Otis Redding or Wilson Pickett, The bass and drums are a solid unit tighter than granite
Hard to disagree When you hear the sh1te that kids today think is talented thank god for Paul Rodgers and his merry band of musicians . By a mile the best Free song
All feel brother from Rodgers vocals, to Fraser's bass lines to Kossoff pure emotion in every note and Simon Kirke on drums. No gimmicks, no auto tune, nor even monitors just pure talent and true ability. What more can I say. Today's music is shit. These guys are barely in their 20s. Andy Fraser was 16 when they cut the first album, Kossoff 17 and Kirke and Rodgers 20. Hard to believe they were that good at such a young age!! Imagine what they could have done 10 years down the road??? A shame what happened to Koss!! A tremendous loss to the music world!!! Huj
They had such a clever gimmick: just get the best singer, then add the best guitarist, bassist and drummer. Seems like it worked. It helped that the audience weren't interfering, they were actually listening. Band sets the mood, everybody shares it. Beautiful!
Best ever blues guitarist. Sad loss, poor lost soul in the drugs hell. Wouldn't it have been great if he had survived. Saw the band in the '70s.....awesome!!!
I had a colleage from London. Back in the day as a teen she was a huge fan of Free and would always see them life in the London club scene . Such a pity how Paul Kossofs life ended so tragically at such an early age. His Father David Kossoff, a well known British movie actor, would travel the schools afterwards warning the young people of the dangers of drug abuse
As a seventy ear old man this still hits all my senses, just like the first time I heard it, what a great band. his music was raw and at its best. Before this gig very few knew their music, just so great to hear this live music again.
Me too, since I was 11 years old. Yeah, I wanted him as my husband without even knowing what he looked like. Just by what he sounded like. Then I met him on Daytona Beach during the '86 Firm tour when I was 24. He is the sweetest man on earth, I think. Only hours later he talked about meeting me over the local radio and said "hey to the lady I just met on the beach, and now she and I are friends and she knows who she is." I was so honored to be called friends by him. And over the radio too. I did almost die right there and go to heaven. I was really was on cloud nine. ❤️
@@AbleBodied I'm so jealous. I used to play their albums over and over. I even got to see them in concert a few times. He has music running right through his body. I still listen even now. It must have been Love. Lol 😍❤️
Totally agree without doubt the best band this country has ever had When koss played you knew the feel he had just by his facial expression I was at isle of white in 1970 grew up listing to Jimi Hendrix since I was 14 amazing time Good luck
Thinking back 50 years, this record stood out to me as having a great lyric, (which you could attribute to a brother you are concerned about), superb piano (Andy Fraser) harmonising with Paul Rogers vocal. I also like Paul Kossoff guitar, and the strings accompaniment.
Love this song, one of my favourites from my favourite band! Never get tired of listening to it! Free are legends!! have an old cassette with this live performance on it, I listen to it when cruising in my mopar muscle car. Takes me back to the good times when I first got the car back in the road!
Hearing this makes me sad of how popular music has deteriorated so much since then. Nothing is played or written with soul or feeling anymore, no emotion, no uniqueness, everything is over-produced and bland and all sounds the same. No one has desire to play actual real instruments, they'd rather let a computer do it all for them so they don't have to. And what's worse is they don't even have to have a great voice due to auto-tune. No this music, the music of Free and incredible groups like them, are lost to the sands of time. Thank goodness we have RU-vid so we can relive the golden era of music, when talented young musicians were making history and moving millions across the world instead of "dropping beats" and "sampling" someone else's work to call their own as they do today.
You are so right, but thank God that those musicians gave us timeless music which we can revisit forever and no matter how many times we hear we still feel the same strong emotions.
My Favourite song of All time by anyone paul rodgers' voice on this is astonishing & uncanny guitar from Koss wonderful performance song&performance pebstill brings tears to my eyes & I'm 61 😢but I adoreethis song so much other vocalist don't get close not Plant but he was very very good Chris stapletonhas a lot of soul I like him lot too but even he comes nowhere close to this simply wonderful ❤️
This is just the purest form of rock ever !!! No effects, just raw talent, feeling, soul and controlled power. It just makes you want to come in your pants.
Look at the drum kit. Awesome what rhythm he gets out of it and look at behind which massive drum sets they are sitting now and are not that much better. :D Also an awesome bass player. Most important parts in a band: A flawless rhythm section. Simon Kirke and Andy Frasier.
It's just an all time great performance. Rodgers voice he's singing so within himself, but with wonderful control, mood, emotion, style. Everything.Everything. His hair is annoying him with that breeze blowing it in his face - but what a mane. Good to see Clapton in the background taking photos. LOL.!!
@@americangirl7595 Free had a WAY stronger songwriting potential than Bad Company and - yeah - that Paul Kossoff´s guitar :-)… Bad Co made some great songs (Rock Steady, Deal Witch the Preacher) but is (at least for me) too "easygoing" and "vanilla" at some moments (...you know what I mean). Free was soulful, deep and rough at the same time which is awesome. Not accidentaly the best Bad Co songs are those that are the most Free-like...
