Wow! What a great find. My concert lighting company worked with them a lot in the 70s and I was fortunate enough to be the lighting designer for many Seatrain shows. They were one of my favorite bands. Unfortunately, poor record production and record company promotion never managed to capture the quality of their live shows. Great band, good people. So glad to stumble across this video.
A fan since 1971. Hitching back from Eastern Long Island, who should pull over and give me a ride into the city? Yeah, Richard Greene. What a great guy. Best hitch of my life. Talked music for 2 hours while listening to the Allman Brothers.
"thumbing" - I would guess a lost art and nearly an impossibility. Was my mode of transportation in 70 - 71 and some of 72 - Saw Seatrain in college - times blur - either the spring of 70 or 71 - what a show - and the locomotive on the bass drum - that night it came to life - for those who might know - URI - The Order of the Toad
Seatrain is underrated considering they are one of the best bands of the 70's. I absolutely love this band and have listened to them regularly throughout the years.
I was fortunate enough to see them about 4 X's in the 70's..... Incredible band, wonderful songs.... I wore those LP's out too.. too much fun.... I was around 16.....
Saw them many times in the early 1970s. They were regulars in New England at the time. Superstar lineup and a fabulous melding of talents. Had never seen a film of one of their performances before this. Boy, did this bring back memories! Thanks for posting this.
Thanks so much for posting. Loved Seatrain..........I saw them at Bucknell University in 1971; nobody knew who they were, but they brought the house down. Richard Greene a staggering talent.
Seatrain were the first band I ever saw live as a kid. They were supporting Traffic in Liverpool UK promoting Marblehead Messenger. I was the only person in the audience who had come to see Seatrain. Loved them still do. Just a pity there isn't more material from them. Thanks for posting this. Their music and playing still stands up.
I too have listened to Seatrain since 1970. This is the first time I have seen a live performance. This is wonderful. I love the extended versions of their songs that I just heard. I loved watching them on stage and performing live. This was a rare group of true musicians that worked together as a team to bring their music to the public. After all these years, now I feel fulfilled to have finally heard and see Seatrain in a live setting.
DAMN! I have been a Sea Train fan since I heard their 1st album - late 1971. I have it on CD, now, and I play it regularly. Finding this here was a serendipitous marvel! - I have many such marvels on RU-vid!
Thank you, thank you! I've been wanting to see these guys again for 50 years. Saw them live twice and could never get enough. So good to see all the enthusiastic comments here, too. Badfinger opened for these guys the 1st time I saw them.
So cool seeing this band perform the material here from what I believe is their 2nd release. I just snagged a copy at a Mission thrift in New Mexico while on my way to Yellowstone this Summer. It was a whole $0.50, but I gave the woman behind the counter a whole dollar. Worth much more, excellent record and it completes their catalog for me as I already owned the last release titled Seatrain on WB, already had their 1st (2 copies, a promo and a stock copy) and a shrink wrapped copy of Marbleheaded Messenger. Wish I could have seen them back in the day! This video was a wonderful find for me this evening and thank you Ake Erkisson!!!!!!!!!!!!
I saw this concert on danish TV i 71. Wonderful to see again. Their records are some of my dearest. Creative, original music and super musicianship, swinging live as always, not least that fantastic fiddler.
Saw them in 1970 at the Oakland Coliseum as the opening act for Blood, Sweat, and Tears. Richard Greene blew the roof off the coliseum with his electric fiddle. Been a fan ever since!
That would have been interesting if Kooper were still w/ BS&T. He tended to burn bridges -- Steve Katz & Kooper were not on good terms after BS&T (or even during their time together). If anyone doesn't understand this, Steve Katz, Andy Kulberg (on bass w/ Seatrain), and Al Kooper were in The Blues Project together. Kulberg's electric flute playing was literally mind-blowing, in the same great way Richard Greene's electric fiddle was.
Saw them in Boston a few times back in the day. Some of the best concerts I ever attended. Still have and play them on vinyl. Peter Rowan and Richard Greene were at the top of their game with Seatrain. And the late Andy Kulberg is still one of the most underrated bass players ever.
I first heard these guys in 1970 never could find out much about them though we sure had fun listening to them back then sure would like to see some more concert footage
Well put, Mike! I had their first album on vinyl - heard it late 1971, and the band blew me apart. I now have the album on CD, and I play it regularly.
AWEsome music! Love it! Thanks for uploading this! I'm here because of a reference by George Clinton of Parliament Funkadelic on one of their albums. So of course, I had to look them up. This is great songcraft and consummate musicianship! I think if they had come out around 1975, or 1976 then the would have been more popularly accepted . But they were just ahead of their time...as is usually the way it is for 'genius'...
... 1st heard Seatrains Marblehead Messenger way back in 1971. I was only 19, and I somehow managed to dodge the draught and didn't go to Veitnam. Very lucky me. George Martin has produced this wonderful band and thought that they had the ability to equal the Beatles.
I was fortunate enough to see them live back in 69 I think. Maybe 70. Those years are kind of a blur. Absolutely fantastic!!! One of the best shows ever. They opened for the Beach Boys, who were really bad that night. We walked out of the BB's as we had just seen a great band and wanted that memory to stick! It has. Loved the violin. Right up there with Papa John Creach!
Made me laugh. I saw Andy Kulberg w/ the Blues Project open for Simon & Garfunkle at Brandeis in 1965. Electric Flute Thing absolutely brought the house down (Roy Blumenfeld, drummer, joined Andy in Sea Train). So after that amazing set, out comes S & G, with Paul on acoustic guitar, no band. A whole lot of people walked out. My brother (he was a student at Brandeis) and I stayed, and glad we did. S & G were great, but man, when the Blues Project had it going, they were awesome. Hearing Andy say in this interview he's not fond of very loud music is ironic to me. Never saw Sea Train, to my regret. Bought their albums.
Would you be interested in two sets I have on CD. The gig was at the Troubadour on Santa Monica Blvd in late May, 1971, so this lineup. I was at the show as a 9 year old and would look up at the balcony and see the reels of tape spinning, capturing the gig. Perhaps you would want to upload them here…?
(Dusts off comments) Ahem... I'll have you all know that I have taken it upon myself to instill in my son of 8 an appreciation of music.... thank you, Sir Ake of the Erikssson's, Herald of Seatrain, Bard of Enlightenment... No, seriously, thanks bro.
Did any of you buy the album at Hal's in Los Altos like I did? Good ol' Hals. Great to see this video. I've only known Seatrain from the one album, which I only recently sold via eBay.
Bought my 1st Seatrain album at the Bitburg AFB BX. Albums were only $1.50 to $2.50. At that price, if the cover caught my attention I bought it. (The thinner but better glossy European covers) It was the album with 🎵”Song of Job” on it.
Richard quit Seatrain after their Whiskey a Go Go gig in early August 1972. They then signed with Warner Bros and made a flop record called “Watch”. After that Richard himself signed a contract with Warner Bros with a band called Richard Greene and the Zone. During that time, Richard and Joe Boyd produced an album called Muleskinner featuring Peter Rowan, Bill Keith, David Grisman, Clarence White and for the life of me I cannot remember who played Bass and Drums. First time a Drummer played Bluegrass music. Cheers!
... and NOW, spread right out and make way for the barefoot girls in long skirts to stomp and sweep through the room and just watch the dust fly right the front door!!!
Not as good as their 1st album(1969). "Outwear the hills" on the 1st album was a classy production. The remake on the later album sounded like a band practicing in a garage.When they reformed the band in the later albums (1970-1972) the production quality was gone. They just sounded like a band performing live in the studio. Also, they went country....yuk.
@@jeffgaumond4250 Spoken like a true AM top 40 radio listener that never listened to underground FM radio in 1968, 1969 and 1970! My heart goes out to you for what you missed.
