Free - The Stealer (Live in Croydon 1970) 

Well put, a great band for all the above reasons.

Amen to that brother!

and he did it all with SO MUCH DAMN STEEZE...Look at that drip! He looks like he was inserted digitally after the fact. Dude is just too pretty compared with the rest of the band. Absolutely amazing he was so young but played so well and so mature.

RONNIE VAN ZANT and Gary ROSSINGTON !!!SAID IT ALL THIS BANDS COOKING !!!!RED HOT !!!!😁The BEST g

Koz knew exactly what to play. Guy was in his own class

Andy play that bass boy love it.🎶🎶🎶🎸🎸🎸🎸

close to 53 years for me !!

1971 I lived in London with my 17 yr old girlfriend. I was 19. Fire and Water was in our collection. Great music. Went well with trips and hash!!

Me too, was a Fairfield Hall in 1970 as a 17 year old when they recorded some tracks for ‘Free Live’. An incredible evening. They still make the hairs stand up on the back of my neck when listening through headphones very loud 👍

64 now but still listen to Free n Hendrix like other people go to church. Then after that for penance I put on the Feelgoods, then a silly Beatles song, then when making dinner I find The Bonzo Dog Doodah Band a fine background sound for chopping veg etc. Otis Spann will be pissed off that I didn't mention him..

@@grg1953 300 years for me.

Come together in the morning is awesome.

Andy Fraser was definitely the most underrated bass player ever.

my bad...I got mixed up a bit,,,,,,but I did mean Andy Fraser,,,,he was one bad ass bass player at the ripe old age of 16 when this came out,,,he may have been 17...

@@rgbrin Yep , Andy joined Free at 15 . AFTER already having played with John Mayall ! Just unheard of . Bloody legend of a bassist. And he is not underrated to those who rock. Rock In Paradise Mr Big xx

Estoy de acuerdo con el primer comentario sobre Andy Fraser fué un hombre muy guapo y talentoso

He was superb !

Purely**magical** ! 💕💯

🎸unique

Kossoff was the shit Dave, what you think about Trapeze Medusa.

THEY STOLE THE SHOW !!!!😁g

Those grunts and groans are.....can I just say **HOT** ?!?! 🥰😜

Ken paul Entwistle , I apologize in advance if I have you wrongly pegged but I saw your sir name and Ill let the embarrassment fly if Im mistaken . your name stuck out like beacon , 7 year old post , but perhaps you may someday see this . ,1st stupid question Im sure , Was your Dad John Entwistle ? Greatest rock bassist of all time (IMHO) I just wanted to tell you and Im not in any way bragging but I think this could deserve some bragging rights if I were to boast . The very last time John Entwistle performed or sat foot on a stage waas with our band here in Las Vegas that saturday night before he passed . ,We just played a couple of blues tunes I think and 3 straight shuffles In the middle of the 1st song he leaned into my ear and told me something that I busted a rib and my only good Testicle laughing so hard I slobbered all over my guitar neck like a rabid hound and snot shot from my nose ....LOL . I could add more but that have to be for your ears only .... He truly was one funny S O B. We hung until 10:30 that morning drunker than shit That Vegas sun can be a MF'r walking out of a dark club at at !0-11 am Honestly I never was a BIG Who Fan but after that night I became one of the biggest the years since have been a wake up call to the actual greatness of all in that band Ok so I had my head up my ass for 40 years but its finally been removed .. . REST IN PEACE John Entwistle

I'm Going to be the one dorky SOB if I've mistaken you for his son but WTF ..if your balls aint out and swangin The reason I stopped by to begin with F R E E ! Koss was a bad Mofo and a vibrato that equals BB 's I can remember where I was , what i was doing ,and when I first heard " the Stealer " ,14 years old .We dont get much music piped into to the swamps and piney woods of Louisiana back in them days . But that song was the heaviest my ears had heard up to that point for sure .That big late night AM radio station out of Chicago WLS " I forgot ...??? it was rare but if the stars aligned and the weather was right and tuned the dial ever so slowly back n forth we sometimes got a taste of what the rest of the world was diggin .Bla Bla Woof Woof

Well said, couldn't agree more.

Free Live, the best live album ever!!!

Kirk

@@bigfrank1010 spelled: Kirke

What can I say.i am a 68 year man.and ever time I hear.FREE.i just want to smoke a joint.and be happy

@@perrymitchell7591 Yep, me too !

Talk about tone, he had it!

When free finished it killed Koss

Thanks for such an amazing and honest appraisal. Before my time to see any of the three bans live, and it warms my heart to know that Free were the best live band than DP or Zeppelin. I'm guessing you saw them all in their prime.

Just.....a great comment, thanks.

😳👏👏👏

CHRIST !!!!thats SAYING SOMETHING !!!Amen Bro g

What year?

Sounds like Stealer to me.....

@@harleyspringer7034 He means that on the video they are playing 'Mr. Big'. They did not perform 'The Stealer' on that Granada programme.

the video is from stockholm

I presume that you mean the song ('The Stealer') is live from Stockholm? I am fairly certain the video (of them playing 'Mr Big') is from Granada Television in Manchester.

@@portcullis5622 the pictures are from stockholm.. According to some full lenght upload here on youtube.. Well i may be wrong but..

His dark burst, acquired in a trade with Eric Clapton.

@@thirdday07 Thanks, I wasn't aware of that. It is one of the best looking Les Paul Standards that I have ever seen.

Thanks, I cut the footage from other tracks so it is better than a photo montage. Check out the extended studio version of the stealer, best solo ever from koss.

one of the? THE

Search The Stealer extended solo. It's another minute extra of kossoff gold.

The drugs probably made them what they were, they really do open you're mind. The music was out of this world and so where they.

BLOODY DRUGS 😣g

Mott the hoopoe blew them off stage coming on first they had everyone dancing in the isles l listened to this in the bar they were boring lacked presence and presentation.

Saw free for first time in 1969 at "mothers" in Erdington b'ham, place was 1/2- 3/4 full, could see then how raw and powerful they, caught them a few times in the 70s at same gig and just got tighter, then just when i thought they were kings, a three piece called Trapeze played there in July 1970,playing all the Medusa stuff, they tilted the axis a bit and blew the place to bits!! No joke 😮👍😁

This band don't get the recognition they deserve. World class lyrics and bass playing. Perhaps blues rock wasn't commercial enough but it sounds fantastic.

The footage is from Granada television in England

Theres something I must get off my chest....FUCK FACEBOOK AND ITS CENSORSHIP OF FREE EXPRESSION

Amen

Paul Kossoff got to be one the best guitar player of all time and died so young

BANG ON Mate 😀g