Traffic - Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys - Live 72 (Full Song) 

It's worth being older now, to have been young then.

This was during a time when musicians were true musicians. Nothing today can remotely compare.

69 years old in 2024 and still listening to this 52 years after I first heard it.

It’s Worth Being 70 And Listening To This! ❤

I worked at a record store in the mid-nineties. I played this song in the store, and a lady came and thanked me. I’ll always remember that. The power of music reaches many 😊

I wonder how many of us are sitting here on a Saturday night enjoying this!

Can you imagine music like this being created these days? To everything there is a season, but what a fantastic season it was when Traffic recorded this.

I am required to watch this once a week for my mental health. 🙂

When Traffic came out with this song I was 23 years old, recently graduated from college, had a good job, and few really nice girl friends, and listening to some REALLY good music...all before piss testing. Life was good. I’m 70 years old now, recently retired from a very good job and career, been married to the same wonderful woman for 42 years, still listing to some REALLY good music....and no piss tests! Life is STILL good!

This was one of my sister’s favorite albums. When she came down with profound early onset dementia, I would play it for her and she would wake … comforted by having something she knew. Steve Winwood is an amazing musician and songwriter.

And to think I took that music for granted as a kid in the 70s. We were so spoiled by the quality of music produced back then. And remember when you could call your local radio station and request a song?

Remember like it was yesterday....71 yrs young

I'm 84 years old -- caught TRAFFIC in Phoenix, 1974 -- This jam has been a fave of my Wife and I since the day we heard it !! Burn some INDICA and kick back -- Listen for the spark --- 😁

OMG Just in the past few years I have gotten back into Traffic. I was 17 in 1972. They are still amazing Bought the album Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys recently and I am addicted. We were lucky, had the best music, the best weed, it was the best of times. Listened to it endlessly in college in MI. Wish I could go back for a week. Best music ever. Good times. Not the crazy world we have now. I feel sorry for my grown children. Love y'all

What a great version. Clear, Clean, and Crisp. Stevie Winwood is such an underrated talent. INCREDIBLE. ❤❤❤

Simply put, there's no substitute for the 70's. Glad to have been a part of them. Great memories.

Before computer generated music, there was real live music like this masterpiece.

I’m 68 and remember the 70s, the fiends, the music…we’re lucky to have lived through the best of times

It’s good to know that I’m not alone listening to this music. . Lots of folks here in their 70’s. I’m 71 and can’t stop listening to Traffic, Blind Faith, The Dead, Cream, Pink Floyd…

When music was worth your time and real talent was on display

Real musicians playing real instruments, live, with no auto tune,,,,, what a great time to be alive.

When you went to see bands like Traffic, you went for the music, not the theatrical crap you get now. These bands could play for hours - and sometimes did - without worrying about whether the fans were getting bored because nobody's dancing. Traffic were one of the greatest bands that ever graced a stage or made a record.

Steve Winwood has got to be one of the most creative and gifted musicians in the business

I was a senior in college. I’m glad I was young and on this earth for this incredible music. I’m glad I lived when I did.

MASTERPIECE!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Who is listening here? 😷

First heard this song in 1971 on late night FM in Boston. Was blown away instantly and now at almost 73 years old, I still listen to this song at least once per day. Just to get my daily Traffic Fix. Very few songs have the staying power of Low spark! Thank so very much Traffic for this gem !!!

This song is under rated. It should be up there with the top 5 of all time. A true masterpiece!

This is, was and always will be a masterpiece!

I saw this tour. I was 17 at the time and I was front and center that night. I'm 66 now and still recovering.

Stevie Winwood has one of the most incredible voices of the rock era. It’s amazing to track his progression from The Spencer Davis Group.

Winwood 's piano alternatively melodic, hypnotic, then forceful, almost percussive. Delivered effortlessly. Along with his haunting voice. What a talent. Super tight drummer holds things together. And the sax. An early 70's masterpiece. This song has intrigued me since I was a kid in the 80s. Love this live version. Traffic was so rarely recorded live we are lucky to have this

Better times , by far better music, better society !

Unfortunately music such as this was a special gift at a special time, time that has left us and never to return....

The 100% definition of jazz-rock fusion. Much more brilliant than we can comprehend...

Thank God someone had the sense to properly record this with video and audio excellence!

Amazing that he was in 3 iconic groups; SDG, Blind Faith and Traffic. Followed by a good solo career.

When musicians were actually allowed to do their own thing and create aural masterpieces. Experiencing a concert by them was a total trip without the acid. For those of us who lived through that era, it was a priceless experience.

And not a single guitar to be seen. That, in and of itself is a massive accomplishment. I say this AS a guitarist. This is a powerfully good composition, executed by astoundingly good musicians.

Classic. Can't be duplicated. Don't make 'em like this anymore.

This was my intro into rock n roll, 1972. Been a lifelong fan since. Thanks boys, well done.

I was lucky enough to have lived during the absolute best era of music and all of my kids love all of it as well. Thank you to all of the gifted musicians like Steve Winwood for sharing your magic.😃❤️

This song is a work of art. 🎼

"If I gave you everything that I owned, and asked for nothing in return, would you do the same for me?, as I would for you, or take me for a ride, and strip me of everything, including my pride, but spirit is something you can not destroy ......."

Our music then was so progressive and unique. Steve was and is still a musical genius. This song is timeless.

I feel privileged to have been in late teens and early twenties when this music was available along with first Areosmith album, Alman Brothers , Lynard Skynyrd, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, David Bowie, and so many other diverse bands and awesome music!!!!

1973 , a bong, my best mate and traffic, doesn't get any better than that

I don't know how I've managed to hold on to my LOW SPARKS LP, for 50 years. ❤

Baby boomers have the best music. The era from 1964 to 1980 was the golden era of popular music!

The 60's and 70's when musical genius ruled the world.

One of the greatest musicians of all time. Steve Winwood.

You were 23, I was 13. But what's really cray cray is Steve Winwood was only 19, and we can still listen to him play all his masterpieces from those days and these

Steve Winwood❤️Wow. The saxophone was spectacular

What's really amazing about this is that Steve Winwood is all of 24, and had already amassed an amazing career at that point.

The sax takes this song from good to extraordinary.

I was driving to Kansas City in '76 and picked up some hitchhikers while playing KY 102 and this song came on - older guy was raving about Traffic and I had no idea but this song's been a fav ever since

All the memories this song has in it, of the 70s, when music was the best and the ladies were to

After not hearing this song for the past 45 years, it takes me right back to where I was hearing it for the first time. Can feel the heat of the Mediterranean Saharan sun, the breeze of the shade, the smell of hashish & the laughter of the long lost, but never forgotten friends. What a time!

Just to add my opinion. I graduated from H.S. on '73 - my friends & I were so into this type of performance. Don't mean to sound like an asshole... back then we went to a performance with no seats, closed our eyes and just moved to the hypnotic sounds, as one. That got lost somewhere, along with ticket prices and the very thing this song represents.

I'm honored to have been in the audience when the Higher Love video was filmed.

Still remember when I heard this the first time in a dorm room at college. Absolutely blew my mind and it felt like nothing I had ever heard. All these years later it sounds new and exciting.

I have no idea how anyone could vote this down....This is frigging amazing and so so sweet to watch and listen to

This song has a feel of it just “casually unfolding” as it progresses. A lick added here, a little soloing there, while everyone gets to play the parts they know they have to play. Enjoying that ride.

It's at the top of my daily song list. Headphones, cigar, coffee. I bet people think a 73 year old listens to other music

Stevie Winwood is incredible.

Steve Winwood had it goin’ on then and he’s still got it goin’ on now. What a talent!

as i grow older and peer back on my life with all of the heartbreaks and disappointments that were a part of it, it is music, music like this that relieves the pain.

A true trip to the past when music had a point to it. Such a loss for all mankind.

That sax gilded this beautiful lily supremely. Always tickled my nerve endings. Best song ever.

I remember hearing the line, "If you had just a minute to breathe and they granted you one final wish Would you ask for something like another chance?" when I was only ten years old and even then a chill went down my spine. I wondered then, as I wonder now, is there even such a thing as a final wish? Or better yet, another chance?

A set of headphones and the sounds of these incredible instrumentalists will get me thru all the Covid insanity!

have been listening to traffic since 1966 im now 70 and enjoy this

This is my favourite Traffic song. They were the personification of not just Rock, but Jazz Rock Fusion!!! Absolutely fabulous!!!

I'm in my early 30s and was introduced to Traffic by my dad when I was about 12. This remains one of my favorite songs of all time. However, I really feel the cynical current in this comment section that "the kids these days don't make good music like this" is bullshit. I am a musician and know lots of other talented musicians. There is tons of great music being created and played today. Have you heard of Charlie Hunter or Badbadnotgood or Radiohead or Kamasi Washington or any number of other awesome, talented artists? The same father who showed me Traffic is, at 69 years old, still excitedly sending me new artists he hears. Don't get caught in the trap of nostalgia--there is always something fresh to live for.

One of the most beautiful songs in rock history.

I was a 22 year young Puerto Rican Hippie in NYC when this piece was recorded and got to admit I don’t believe I ever heard this until now. Somehow this one went under the radar I guess most of us with our LSD burnt out brains were too busy listening to The Iron Butterfly, The Stones, Hendrix, Joplin, WAR, Mandrill, Santana, Creedence, Sly, Aretha, James Brown, Joe Cocker, Jackie Wilson, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Cream, Grateful Dead, Temptations, The Supremes, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Chambers Brothers, Sam Cooke, Hall and Oates, The Righteous Brothers etc to have noticed “Traffic” but at age 74 I guess I got lucky to have discovered these guys who were a different kind of animal with a very soulful jazzy sound and that Sax player was really feeling that thing.

The 70's & 80's had the best music. Even though I do not want to be my age, I can't imagine living through any other decades. These were the BEST ever & I'm so glad I got to experience them both

Man. Chris Wood bringing it home on the sax..................Soulful.

here's the deal: a lot of musicians in this era started young--they learned instruments and sang in choirs as kids. They learned MUSIC. It was in the broader culture. Then kids went to shows and heard bands like traffic and didn't know that this was JAZZ-influenced. We just absorbed the eclectic experience of the vast talents out there. This is not 4/4 rock n roll. So many bands threw in jazz, classical, folk, country, etc. Culture is in the body--you cannot explain it or synthesize it.

50 years ago and I still love that song

I saw them on this tour, back in the day when you could smoke in the arenas, The song is still mind blowing and thiids performance is outstanding. RIP Chris Wood, Jim Capaldi, Rebop Kwaku Baah, and Roger Hawkins. David Hood and Hawkins were part of the Muscle Shoals rhythm section

After seeing a few clips of the American Music Awards the other night, one can only wonder what the hell happened to the musical brilliance we grew up with. It all seems to have ended up one bad nightmare.......'mglad tohave had this in my life

We were Young once or a Few TiMes . I arrived into Eugene, Oregon early 1970's my older brother turned me On to playing in the TRAFFIC+! Thank You ALL.

Stevie Winwood is unbelievably talented. This is my all-time favorite song and video. My Traffic album is warped but I Love this song forever.

I was thirteen in 72, and thanks to my three older brothers I had access to this album, and used my dust cover to clean the seeds out of my four finger oz that cost me 20 while jamin

I'm still playing this on my keyboard 50 years later. I'm still not Steve Winwood.

Chris Wood was the unsung hero of this band. He is amazing here.

I would sneak out at midnight with my brother and burn one in 1973. Then listen to this song at 2:00 am .I miss those days and my brother.

Classic 70’s sound.. Stevie Winwood has so much talent & wisdom. The musicians in this band were differently top notch! Love ❤it!

Roger Hawkins is the man on drums here...whole band brilliant! Roger was also the house drummer at Muscle Shoals Studios forever.

I love how tight the drum set and congas are.

So love Traffic! I grew up with their music! And still listen to them today, June 2024.

Steve Winwood is a musical genius!

in the barracks in DaNang listening to traffic on my reel to reel, rocking to the beat doesn't get much better far the time!

When you've seen the rock, funk, soul and jazz bands from that time, LIVE, it's hard to get excited about today's music.

Nothing compares to the 70’s when it comes to music and good times!!

Have become fascinated by Chris Wood's contribution. So many Traffic songs owe their uniqueness to the flute or sax parts.

Something about that song . . . Steve Winwood has a way of lightly tapping, then pounding on the piano keys to get the effect he wants, underrated.

Traffic remains one of the very best bands of all time. A perfect combo of rock, jazz, lyrical elegance and high musicianship. Loved it back in the day, still love it now. Thanks for this great jam!!

Totally awesome song from my youth, the 1970's, when music was everything. What a pleasure to see this old performance of Traffic, it's my favourite of their songs!!!! Thanks for posting!!!!

Of all the good songs of that period, probably the most shocking single line to me is that "we were children once, playing with toys" . When i first hear it, gave me chills and that heat in the back of the neck/head, that happens when you see, listen or understands somenthing that completely blows your mind. All that strange and ugly and bad and sad and tired journey brought me to who i am today, it's kinda hard to grasp the memories and the simple notion that, not too long ago, i really was a kid, just playing.