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@@BigSky1 Search for TELL MAMA- Savoy Brown at the Rainbow - Best Of Live (June 1, 1981) Here's the "Masterpiece" I saw this version of Savoy Brown when they opened for Blackfoot in '81. Talk about a night of SLIDE.
@@steveeckert8396 I thought "Tell Mama" was a hit but according to Kim's obituary, Savoy Brown never had an album in the top 40....but they were a powerful influence, ha, a real place in rock and roll history, in British blues. RIP Kenny.
@@JoaninFlorida I'm not familiar with that one but thanks for the info, I will be familiar soon! My favs are Leavin' Again and Take it Easy. If people would live by that song the world would be a lot better place! I love the blues.
Kim Simmons was a completely underrated guitar player IMHO, and Savoy Brown was a great fun jam band. Still spinning their vinyl all these years later.
On TV in that era it was rare to find an actual live performance with guitars plugged into amps really playing - no studio recording, no lip-sync, no mime. And a really great performance, too. I would love to see more of these authentic live performances by great bands from back then.
he was from Ohio, i met him in the late 70s where he picked out some local musicians and took them on the road under the Savoy Brown name .. ran into them a few year later playing in Denver.. possibly he was born in England but he did have family in the OH.
@@mac-be2me he was from England. He then moved to upstate New York where he lived with his wife until he passed away in December of 2022. I don't know if he ever lived in Ohio but he played here a few times in the last ten years. He usually stuck to the northeast and would do a European tour of a maybe a month. Wish I'd have been able to see him. I've been following his Facebook page. It's ran by a close friend of his. That's where I get my info on him from.
@@brianraynor7545 You're both wrong, Kim Simmonds was Welsh! Born in Newbridge in South Wales. Formed Savoy Brown in 1965, in London, later relocating to the USA, because they were having far more success there😎
I know they played at Case HS in Racine, Wis in '71, but I believe most of the smaller Chicago HS shows were in '72-- We saw them in the Auditorium in '71 with Long John Baldry----
Saw them at least 6 times. With Trapeze, Wishbone Ash, Deep Purple, The James Gang, and Uriah Heep. To name a few. I've had these memories for years and talked about how much I missed those days. Well, my sister had this lead glass box that she'd been keeping stubs in since the early 70's and she gave it to me. It brought back some I'd forgotten about.
Pretty Much the same here 5 or 6 times In Michigan Majic bag in Berkley or Royal Oak Music Theater!! My friends & myself wore out the Street Corner talking album 😂
One of the best bands few people seem to know of.(at least in the US) I just found a original pressing of "Jack the Toad" in a used record shop and it is fabulous!
Of course we are here. Where else would we be? We are stuck in the 60's and 70's, in a little place called, The Midnight Special. This is heaven for us!! You just do not see acts like Savoy Brown anymore.
Yes, we are still alive and so are the blues! Going to a festival next month here in Wisconsin with headliner The Blood Brothers, featuring Mike Zito. They are solid!
Savoy Brown was highly rated at our High School in the early 70's, I have many albums, such as Hell bound Train, Jack the Toad, Inside Looking Out, Raw Sienna, Street Corner Talking. I would pick, "Ride on Babe" as my favorite song but they do have so many good songs. The band I played in, during the 1980's, we covered "Endless Sleep" for example.
I saw Savoy Brown at the Magic Bag in the Detroit area in 2018. Bumped into Kim at the motel the next morning getting coffee in the lobby. . Chatted with him for 15 minutes and got his autograph and a picture. He’s a great Blues guitarist from England and one of the early British blues musicians, he lived in Upstate NY for years. Rest in peace Kim Simmonds.
@@Paul-yw8bx That's right he was Welsh, moved to London when he wa still a kid. He seems like a quintessential young British blues/rocker. Powerful guitarist.
What i love so much about the music of this era is the musicians were committed and talented- played and wrote great tunes and looked SO COOL at the same time! How blessed were we to grew up when this music was 'new' and original. Saw Savoy Brown many times over the years and always was a joy to see the live Kim Simmonds was one of the great live guitarists and even got to meet Tony Stevens at a blues fest- Super nice fellows on and off stage as well.
If you look at the album cover opened up it says Raw Sienna and other Shades of Brown. Excellent album. Love Chris Youlden's voice. To bad he left the band to go solo I believe
❤ This is by far the Best Version of this Song. I LOVE it when a Song is played Live by a Band. Shocking Blue's Live Performance of Venus is AWESOME 💯😎!!! R. I. P. Mariska, a Beautiful, Talented Singer, Gone but NEVER FORGOTTEN ❤❤❤
Before Savoy Brown, he had been in Chicken Shack, along with Stan Webb, Andy Sylvester and Dave Bidwell. All of them ended up in Savoy Brown at some point! In fact, Paul, Andy and Dave were all in Savoy brown at the same time😎
I had the fortune of getting into the albums of Savoy Brown at the 70’s, my favorite: A step further, wowww how heavy they were, Chris Youlden voice, just groove blues and boogie! Also a great strange song…Train to nowhere, woowww blew my mind, I don’t recognize this rythym really what it is, country blues? Well another trip with Hellbound train and a lot more. Then broke up and I found that everybody except Kim Simmons formed Foghat a heavy boogie, rock, blues band with a lot of power and hits…Lonesome Dave beacame really awesome, rhythm heavy guitar with Berry riffs…and a great slide player…gave a lot for years…Foghat with full stadium. I saw them at backstage at LA, they played inside the dressing room to warm up before the show, we could listen them outside the dressing room like if we were at a party garage band…I saw in the middle 70’s Savoy Brown with Kim Simmons, great English blues at sunset Blvd. The ladies loved his long blonde hair. Love this English musicians.❤🎉
Midnight Special just keeps giving us amazing gems. I had heard of Savoy Brown and knew of them in a limited fashion, but I was hardly born at that point, so I'm learning through these fantastic performances. On the flip side I get amazing performances from songs I already know and love by the Cars, Genesis and others. Just keep it up, never stop!
I inherited the whole midnight special collection. On DVD. All the great episodes. So much great musical talent that played The midnight special with the wolfman Jack and so on
Raw Sienna knocked me out! A Step Further knocked me out. Youlden was such a great singer. His solo efforts were not SB sound but showed another side of him. I loved Savoy Brown’s early stuff too…Shakedown, Getting To The Point, Blue Matter…All led up to several cohesive albums that rocked! Still love ‘em!
Saw them on the "JACK THE TOAD" tour at the Hollywood Palladium, they brought Roger, Tone and Lonesome Dave out for a three-song mini-OLD Savoy Brown set, just awesome! Such a fine band, Kim, what can you say, anybody who knows, KNOWS how great he was, he made that FLYING V scream!
Not sure why this showed up on my feed, but it sure brought a tear to my eye! Didn't get into Savoy Brown until the mid 80's, but then I've always been kinda slow.😀
Thank You for your service from a 68 yr old guy born in Kodiak, Alaska. Have my dad's 35mm slides from the USCG cutter he was a communications officer and the 1st "amateur radio" operator to broadcast from the Arctic circle off a military vessel.
Coming Down Your Way by Savoy Brown is my favorite rock and roll song of all time. I'm 66 and I'm still waiting for one that tops it. FABULOUS guitar riffs from this band.
Yes, it is!!! Kim was about 23 in this video, playing his patented "Greenie"--- We also saw Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac at the Aragon "Brawlroom" in 1970---
@@KittyGrizGriz It was the 1950s humbucker pickups that were so desired by various guitar players for their unique sound-- Kim Simmonds Greeny was newer, but I don't recall the model year-----
I saw Savoy Brown 3 times, including the first time on this tour with this band, they were great and had the place going crazy with Hellbound Train a huge hilight. Then saw the the Boogie Brothers tour with Kim and 2 other lead guitarists, each with a 100+ foot guitar cord so they could walk down the main isle, blasting away, fantastic opener for Deep Purple. Lastly saw a new Savoy Brown band but same old Kim in 2001, they started with Poor Girl and never let up, great show. You can see that tour on You Tube. Sorry to hear he passed not too long ago, he was one of the underappreciated greats and should be in the RR HoF (or shame). RIP and Rock On! 🎵🎸🎤🎶
At that time Kim was playing with the great Miller Anderson who among being a super guitarist he pretty much produced & directed that album & what a fine pair he & Kim were when all those awesome fingers were flying .. We miss Kim & Dave & Paul & now Savoy Brown.
I’ve been lucky enough to see Savoy Brown so many times, I still have this album. They were so great, I had these friends who were in a band called The Alley Cats & they played Savoy Brown covers all the time, even for my 16th Birthday Bash!
Love Savoy Brown. Kim Simmonds was always incendiary. I saw them at Winterland in San Francisco in 1969. Opening for Janis Joplin. Tell Mamma. Oh, yeah baby.
I believe this is the first time I’ve seen a Gibson LP played upside down. Also Dave Lonesome Preverett was a talent player. I really dug his work with Foghat.
@@curtisphilumalee1447 Yep might as well ditch the pick guard. That isn't Dave, he didn't play lefty and had already gone off to Foghat anyway. Kind of looks like him tho.
I knew Dave didn’t play left handed. I was thinking Dave was playing that Gold Top. It sure looks like him. Did he move on to Foghat by this time ? I did start following Foghat until their Fool for the City album came out.
I wish this version of the band featuring Jackie Lynton on vocals had released at least one more album. But record sales were slipping and Simmonds broke the band up and formed Boogie Brothers (w/ Miller Anderson and Stan Webb). Only for the record label to release them as Savoy Brown (lasted one album and tour). RIP Paul Raymond and Kim Simmonds.
That's such an underrated record. Too bad there's no footage of the Dave Walker lineup. I know there's one live show I had from 1974...the cover is the bad thing about Boogie Bros it's terrible
Saw both versions of Savoy Brown you just noted, man, those were the days! For $5.00 a show, first with Mountain then next they opened for Deep Purple. LOL!
YES!!! I saw that same bill in Honolulu in March of ‘72. But not quite the original FMac. No Peter Green or Jeremy Spencer. Danny Kirwan, Mick Fleetwood and John and Christine McVie and Bob.Welch were the version that year. All 3 bands were excellent. Most of what was once a band called Chicken Shack was on that stage-2 or 3 members of Savoy Brown and Christine McVie were all in that group.
Saw Them with 2 Hell's Angels Buds of Mine,, I had Just Gotten off Of A Fishing Trip of Two Weeks, I Wanted To Spend Money An Potty, I Asked Them if They Wanted To See This Band,, Hell Yeah they Said...I Had 3 Tickets for Front Row, Standing Up....F## ckin was Totally Awesome...Think my Buds are Dead Now😢
I'm told they were just fantastic live in the early days. I believe Kim Simmonds died recently but had a long career after Savoy Brown. There's a good recording of him at "Darrell's House" on YT.
Foghat was my 1st concert in 1974, but I wish I could have seen the band they originally came from first. Looking In was a solid album, particularly the songs Leavin' Again and Take It Easy. And that album cover! I'll never forget lookin at it when I was trippin in the 70s. Yikes!
Great clip featuring the amazing talent that is Jackie Lynton. Jackie is still rocking these days fronting his iwn superb band. Keep on rockin' Jackie 🙏
Saw them in Toronto at the Rockpile in the late 60s, it was so hot and Chris Youldin was wearing a long fur coat and everyone was yelling for him to take it off. What a great show, some members went on to form Foghat.🎉❤
