I was 20 when I first heard this. I went out and spent my last few dollars on the album. Chris Youlden was the most heartful blues singer. I'm nearly 75 now, and it is still on my playlist.
6 months ago I have gone for the job in maldives innamaadhoo island there coffee house name good coffee owner doesn't give a shit about my salary I left my job and planning to go back to my home town Nepal I was liking the intro of I quit my job and I ain't got no money bang on Only 27 year old haha
RIP Kim , One of the best players modern Rock has seen & heard. Before there was Savoy Brown & after there was still Savoy Brown . We will miss Kim dearly & what an influence he was.
I'm 66. Miss the Grande and the Eastown. A great quote is this - "The only thing new to you is the history you're not aware of." We can appreciate this quote more the older we get>
I turned 16 in 1970. I missed the Grande's best days but went there many times. Did you happen to be at the Cream show where the audience helped Cream load their truck so they could catch their flight? When I was in Jr High there was a radio station, not ABX, that the Grande people always listened to. People used their "monikers" such as Raven, Golden One, etc. I did see the Five at the Grande a few times. Was at their last show there on a New Years Eve. Maybe 500 people there. @@TheVirgilSamms
A favorite track of my friends and I back in the 60s/early 70s. Kim may be from Wales but he's been living here in "upstate" New York for years. And he's a painter!
Most underated band as far as what they delivered. Simmons, Lonesome Dave, Rodger Earl. Chris Youlden was the best singer for all the albums 'cept for "Inside Looking out." I would have given a kingdom to see them in the 70s
Thanks for posting. The combo of Youlden and Simmons reminds me why, along with Fleetwood Mac, Savoy Br was one of my two favourite bands besides Cream and the Stones in the early 70's. Both had distinctive sounds and were genuinely stirring.
"Wouldn't it be a real drag if we were all the same? " Saw them, they were second bill, with the Grease Band opening, and The Faces headlining, at Cal Expo in Sacramento. Billed as "A Night of British Rock", with a huge Union Jack in background. 9th grader in 1970. Four of us had a hit of mescaline each, small water pipe and bag O weed. Ahh...the old days
Evidently the mescaline wasn't too overwhelming, as you appear to be here now to tell of the adventure. Motivated my thinking in high school when Vietnam and racism were severe issues.... love, peace, brotherhood, consciousness
No for us mescaline or acid was just a portal, for me anyways, to let my mental journey follow wherever the guitar player took it to. Just cause we took them didn't make us any less altruistic. I grew up in a military home. My dad served 25 years in Air Force. Retiring in 1967. I was still active in social issues. @@WaylandRustyRoberts
Earl, Stevens and lonesome Dave Peverett went on to form Foghat in 1970. The early Foghat albums were excellent. Thanks for sharing I never realized these 3 were in Savoy Brown - good stuff
Saw them twice, once in Lowell and once at Northeastern college in Boston in late 60's or early 70's one of my all time favorite groups! Memories are tough to pin down!
This song is the Story of My Life. It was on a sampler called Blues power that I bought back in 1971. I never really truly wanted to work for Xerox or the Dallas Morning News or IBM or all those other jobs that paid less than $100 a day. From the age of 10 all I really wanted to do with my life was to be a f****** hard rock drummer. I'm 62 now which means I wasted my life just to keep a roof over my head and try to be secure. I am hoping in my last few years that 50 years worth of trying finally mold my life into something that I can be proud of. And you can bet your ass it wasn't supposed to be the short-haired route. Howdy from Dallas Texas
Thanks guys ! When your feeling like the last Dinosaur in this lost world with the lack of culture and meaningless music. ( Aside from the virus ...politricks..and endless other crap)...it's feels good to have these times and music to still relate to. And knowing there's you all still out there... Yeah hasn't been alot of fun to grow up and search after mon ey-- without doing anything sustainingly beneficial. Or even keep any to do what you want to... The soundtrack of a generation of promise... what happened ?
i always loved this tune...i learned how to play it on guitar and piano. what's beautiful is it's available here. thank you to you...what's sad is that there are so few of us interested in the old british blues scene. it's a small group of appreciative efficianados that make up this world of good taste. (sorry chahlie, stahkist wants tunas that taste good) ah, so be it.
andrew lowther don't forget the debt we owe to british blues. In Amerika blues was almost on the ropes. Rock, MoTown, disco, etc. Were commanding the day and a blues man just couldn,t make a living...or get a gig! A lot of the greats Muddy for example survived by going to europe.
Started w Savoy Brown collecting vinyl & first concerts were Savoy Brown & then Foghat, saw them multiple times, up there w Dylan Santana Frampton, later on Kim Simmons played the I-90 NY State Thruway circuit from Boston thru NY to Cleveland & back, just like many old Black Bluesmen did & called it home cuz NYC was too expensive, not all that long ago.
I guess I better put my two cents in since I’m 77 now. I went on a date with him, with Kim, Approximately 1990. But I had a boyfriend so I had to blow him off. He said do you know who Savoy Brown is? I said of course I do, train to nowhere is one of my favorites. He tried to get a limousine but got a taxi instead. The amazing part is shortly after he died he contacted me from the other side because I am clairaudient. He said you were the one that got away. I said I’m sorry that happened. He said it’s OK because I was kind of a jerk back in those days. He came up to me at the Soho club in Santa Barbara my hometown that’s how it started, so I didn’t know who he was at first till he told me. I still love train to nowhere!
some know their life's mission - purpose - direction , if I may , early enough to accomplish a certain greatness . . . Kim and his growing cast of musicmakers achieved that . . . and we shall be the eternal beneficiaries of their genius
Great photo collage! It is wild that Rodger Earl, drummer here, is the lone FOGHAT survivor, and is still tours occasionally - It's only been 48 years since he, Tony Stevens, and Lonesome Dave Peverett left Savoy Brown, to form Foghat !
Sang the chorus of this song to a Major while standing for a command inspection during my National Guard tour in 1971. Needless to say I spent the rest of the weekend scrubbing pots and pans in the kitchen of the Armory.
Rocky Athas and the late Larry Samford do a kick ass version of this too! Great Post...never knew of this and I'm embarrassed to say that I have always heard of Savoy Brown....but I am really in to his music big time now. Beats all the other bullshit RAP and Synchronized shit that seems to have infected our up and coming generation! I'm 60 and fortunately lived through the times when music expressed talent and most artists did just that rather than succumb to creating (If you want to call it that) the bubble gum crap in today's world!
It's now Summer of 2021 and IMO this will remain a most relevant lyric for centuries as it has from the beginning. Our civilization is built on individuality and tolerance. Let's prosper by not forgetting that. btw, awesome band and collection.
My first band did 'Street Corner Talking'. Saw them at the legendary El Mocambo in Toronto, where one side of a Rolling Stones double live album was recorded, submitted an entry for the contest to attend a "surprise' performance by the Stones, right after Keith's smack bust, didn't win, sadly. SRV also recorded a live performance broadcast at least on local TV, still widely viewed, or excerpts of, on YT. We got kicked out for smoking dope at our table, lol.
