Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Driftin' Blues (Monterey 1967)

[@baldassaredegenes]

the harmonica solo. the fender rhodes. the guitarist's hair. the guy playing trumpet and smoking a cig at the same time. the sunglasses. the girls. the blues. everything in this video is so awesome i almost fainted.

[@erasmusomnius]

elvin bishop on guitar

[@taylorpelletier89]

Probably the best blues live performance of the 60’s on YT. Butterfield Blues Band is what got me into this style of blues and contributes hugely to my love of harmonica and desire to play. Along with Alan ‘Blind Owl’ Wilson and Canned Heat. Also, can’t forget Sonny Boy Williamson and his live album with Clapton, Yardbirds and the Animals.

[@johnjeffery6638]

Yep. My thoughts ecactly.

[@johnjeffery6638]

@@erasmusomnius He fooled around an feel in love..(with the blues)

[@violetflame23]

Baldassaredegenes - your post sounded like a line from a Donald Fagen song.

[@olly8]

Paul Butterfield knew how to make that harmonica Sang' ❤ Love watching the crowd dig his sounds. Paul was THE BEST!!

[@bobh2581]

Don't know where this took me but I want to go back.

[@timbiglow9676]

I saw this very performance on my 14th birthday… thanks mom.

[@DannyPanza]

Butterfield puts his entire soul in that solo.

[@andydunn5673]

A lesson for us all , maybe

[@BLUESMANRONCHICAGO]

Without Paul, I might not have ever picked up the harp, but now that I am turning 66 today, it marks 50 years since I first picked one up. RIP Paul

[@taylorpelletier89]

I picked it up roughly at the same age as you. Although much younger (32) but it’s my favorite of the couple different instruments I can play. Happy belated birthday lol

[@johnjeffery6638]

Thats cool.

[@classicsciencefictionhorro1665]

In the 60's I played harp to Paul and this song especially. And I used TONY GLOVER'S BOOK TO START. I wore out albums listening to this song over and over, playing with it.

[@stevenpeters6909]

Mike Bloomfield applauding offstage at the end was the perfect.

[@fantasypgatour]

Yep that made me smile too.

[@craigtarre7369]

Me three...​@@fantasypgatour

[@craigtarre7369]

​@@fantasypgatour.....Butter, Bishop, and Bloomfield.....don't get much better than those three.

[@fantasypgatour]

@@craigtarre7369 East West is my favourite blues album ever.

[@OM10PYE]

@@fantasypgatour Work Song is *chef's kiss*

[@ireneruthfox]

Butterfield had it all........The voice, that harp tone. Muddy Waters said he was the 2nd best harp player next to Little Walter.

[@dupreeblues4744]

he was a classically trained musician who jumped to blues

[@paulgibby6932]

Don't forget Junior Wells

[@taylorpelletier89]

Alan Wilson from Canned Heat would like a word... haha he and Butterfield brought that instrument front and center to the 60’s flower generation. Thanks to them I fell in love with it... ok it was originally Young and Dylan, but then the blues took my soul. Back to my original point though - I think Wilson personally had the better tone, but Butterfield seemed to have more raw anger and improvisation to his solos.

[@Steven-zg5bq]

Walter was no match 4 Paul my friend!

[@vicktor440]

@@paulgibby6932 ..Junior rocked saw him several times in the Chicago area.Paul Butterflied to was favorite of mine.

[@duelenigma7732]

I was 15 when the amazing band was making quality blues . Now 72 and loving blues , playing blues and have this band to thank for my beginning of a life long appreciation of the genre .

[@duelenigma7732]

72 two , I'm sure I saw them in a red velvet seat theatre in Ottawa that year . What a great band leader .

[@bobareeniobobareenio2935]

Those were the days ~ ~ ~

[@kdarko88]

Congratulations to the Paul Butterfield Blues Band on their induction into the 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! Well deserved!

[@mikeervin3147]

Kevin Krasnow they were way above that,the rock and roll hall of fame is a joke

[@velygritte2701]

the rock n roll hall of fame is a joke. every half decent musician/band is in there.

[@TC-dw6wg]

Even non RNR people are in there! JOKE

[@KittyGrizGriz]

Took Way Too Long

[@bobswabski3590]

1965 I was turned on to Paul Butterfield, my whole appreciation for the blues began..57 yrs later I'm still loving, Chicago,Delta and all blues .. thanks Paul..RIP

[@bradgriffith4231]

This is what I was listening to in my 8 track car stereo with 2--12 inch pseakers out of my Fender Twin Reverb amp in 1967! F*ck a bunch of "Yummy Yummy Yummy I Got Love In My Tummy bullsh!t that my H.S. classmates were listening to!!!!

[@pena.3302]

All respect..One.imagines Muddy Lil Walter.H.Wolf.Chicago.man.1day..🌏💥👌👍🥝

[@curleyteeth]

One of the greatest harp players of all time and bluesman.His timing was impeccable.

[@oldbeatpete]

... and so hard to believe that he faded so fast in the public's mind!?!

[@GraachAhim]

Not only the music was better back in the day. The audience itself was another kind. No cell-phones, no selfies, just enjoying the music and the moment. High on anything or not, does that matter? Things will never be like that again.

[@johnjeffery6638]

SPOT ON.

[@holmesellis2644]

God help me I was there. Seems like yesterday.

[@danielcorey8934]

Can you tell us a little about what it was like? What did the air feel like and what smells where in it?

[@pabloalvez915]

Seriously?

[@roadrunner7218]

Maybe God helped you be there and the memory is still alive.

[@lybardhoppe6961]

I was there too. I was a naive 16 year old. A girl I was in love with from high school made it there too - but let herself get picked up by a band member from "Love". Then it was freezing cold at night and another girl I knew was there and we were both freezing. She finally asked a guy with a sleeping bag if she could sleep with him. I had to sleep on a cold football field with just a serape. Definitely developed an appreciation for the blues. Smoked a lot of dope there though. Got to hear Hendrix and plenty of other greats.

[@alanmunson6752]

God you we're there..lucky you got to hear this Blues great artist.

[@larryaustman8023]

Paul Butterfield his a man with blues in his soul-----and soul has no colour in the man. He is proof that there is no need for a discussion of colour or race when it comes to baring your soul. Blues is Blues and Soul is Soul-----

[@jazzypaul75]

this comment leaves out that Butterfield grew up on the south side, had an integrated band when that was still a taboo thing...Butterfield talked the talk and walked the walk. Denying race had/has a factor (especially in the 60's in Chicago) is a polyanna comment at best, and a downright destructive one at worst. If anything, Butterfield's band is proof that racism only really ends when we all actively work together to end it. Because when you put in the work, you get beautiful stuff like THIS.

[@TC-dw6wg]

Race only plays a role in the mind of an immature adult in 2021! To think otherwise is to be part of the problem and you will never reach harmony. To think race doesn’t exist in ALL PEOPLE is extremely Pollyanna and very immature. People now love to “play the victim role” and if you can’t see that your eyes, heart and mind are closed.

[@taylorpelletier89]

@@jazzypaul75 disagree. Racism ends when we stop identifying as Caucasian, African American, Latino, Asian and Native American. Labels only cause division and hurt us in the long run. TPTB love using our ‘race’ to keep us divided. Don’t see color, see humans.

[@LPJack02]

RIP and long live Paul Butterfield (December 17, 1942 - May 4, 1987), aged 44 You will always be remembered as a legend.

[@Randaman09]

There is nothing better than this! For real :D Paul Butterfield was a beast.

[@zenzen1916]

Miss you Paul...left your three sons and me way too soon💔🎶Not by choice, ugly world

[@erasmusomnius]

The Who, Hendrix, Otis Redding and Janis get all the Monterey kudos from the media------and they deserve it-----but good God this band should get mentioned too.

[@SuperAnimelover100]

portlandjohn8 Agreed !

[@Tamim299]

First great rock concert I was ever at was at Carleton College. We thought we were getting Jefferson Airplane but instead it was going to be this band we’d never heard of. Some Paul Butterfield guy. Me’n’my friends were SO disappointed-until the first chords. And then oh my God-Butterfield began to blow that harp.

[@lulsouthside6669]

@@Tamim299 sounds badasss !! You lucky son of a bihhh haha

[@taylorpelletier89]

Don’t forget Canned Heat and their boogie music.

[@johnjeffery6638]

WORD.

[@hot_coldman]

I feel real cheated that i was born so late (1989) and missed out on all that great music. Man, you just feel this song deep down in your bones...

[@judilee1475]

Probably hard to believe but some of us loved them back in the 60s. And we werent wrong

[@FriedEggsWithChips]

God, what a find! This is what KZbin is really for!

[@whocares1694]

Bloomfield said : "He's the baddest cat around."

[@rosedavila3547]

PAUL RIP HELLA HARP PLAYER

[@tokengimp]

I met Paul shortly before he died. Another 60's musician lost to drugs. It just took him longer. Arguably the best white harp blues player ever.

[@davidechiappetta]

I wish I had a time machine

[@Gioagla]

You re not alone mate ... :)

[@bluesatbirth]

Yes and when that space leads to DYNAMICS you know the band is smokin'--had the pleasure to sit in with these guys back in the 60's--still in touch with Elvin, Phil and David today. One of the most under rated and great bands--sad Paul and Mike are gone--TRUE ICONS !

[@drumsleuth]

I can not believe this is live the level of musicianship is top notch and the sound recording is excellent.

[@johnjeffery6638]

Hey, IT'S the AGE of AQUIRIUS!!

[@llee8325]

Especially for that day and time.

[@colterino]

Such a early groovy scene. Life is good back then

[@BLUESMANRONCHICAGO]

this man is the resaon i started playing harmonica 40 years ago and am still playing, his style is so unique, making the harp cry and sing, i constantly think of him every time i'm on stage with my band and i thank god i am still able to play, almost died two years ago, and each day i'm here i dedicate my playing to paul

[@paulmartin39]

Fabulous performance from Paul Butterfield, and band. One of my favourite harp players, ever.

[@IanSinclair11021949]

Intensity - Mr Butterfield brings it. It took me years to mature enough musically to appreciate the depth of his artistry - especially some of his later work. It stands the test of time.

[@mrjohn1964]

This band has the power to rip my spine out. Paul Butterfield - vocals, harmonica Elvin Bishop - guitar Mark Naftalin - keyboards Bugsy Maugh - bass, Phil Wilson - drums Gene Dinwiddie - tenor sax David Sanborn - alto sax Keith Johnson - trumpet

[@KenWright-fo5mv]

Sorry but I think that is Mike Bloomfield on the guitar

[@amygraham6671]

@@KenWright-fo5mv ELVIN BISHOP!

[@nicko6710]

@@KenWright-fo5mv Mike Bloomfield is at 4:31 watching and clapping side stage.He was in The Electric Flag at this time.

[@deancarlsen3178]

@@KenWright-fo5mv You think wrong....

[@rockinblue978]

Mike Bloomfield - amazing guitarist. Hendrix, Dylan and Clapton all loved him.

[@mitchgawlik1175]

Shame he wasn't playing with the Butterfield band. Elvin Bishop did a righteous job, though.

[@KittyGrizGriz]

@@mitchgawlik1175 love Elvin B., TTown man

[@mitchgawlik1175]

@@KittyGrizGriz I do also. I only wish he'd think back to his days with Butterfield and lighten up on his good 'ol' country boy routine. Elvin, whether he may like it or not, has, along with Charlie Musselwhite, become one of the grand standard bearers for classic blues.

[@KittyGrizGriz]

@@mitchgawlik1175 loved his jamming with George Thorogood & the Destroyers. One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer.

[@mitchgawlik1175]

@@KittyGrizGriz Dig Bishop here with the Allmans. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oIuukIRoZphgd9E

[@terryrutherford2114]

1967? The year I was born. I'm 54 as of today. The Blues transcends. Wow, sounds so good...

[@jimlance583]

You're a youngin,' Terry. I graduated from High.School in '67.

[@ozbluesman]

The guitarist is Elvin Bishop. It's his guitar as Bloomfield played a Les Paul.

[@felipesants8936]

GREAT BAND

[@Wonka275]

2:53 the great Mark Naftalin behind the Fender Rhodes. Friggin' Awesome!

[@ramonsanchez2429]

Great Master of the Harmonic , Mr Paul Butterfield 🎹🎸🎸🥁🎷

[@nataliezementbeisser1492]

young beautiful ladys that enjoy blues.. what a time..

[@timturk]

Not gonna find too many out there that could play the harmonica like Paul Butterfield.

[@GregParker]

Mighty fine Paul Butterfield performance,here !! (Note ; he plays harp 'up side down')

[@JRobertGoldner]

Greg Parker Never knew dat

[@tootz1950]

Greg Parker He was left-handed.

[@GregParker]

tootz1950 Hi Tootz. Left & right handed players normally hold low notes to left,,like piano.I think upside down indicates self taught

[@tootz1950]

Greg Parker Ah, okay. Thanks.

[@curleyteeth]

+Greg Parker I have played harp most of my life Greg and its hard enough playing it the right way up.Jim.liverpool.

[@williambird7724]

Man! Butterfield can sure play that harmonica...

[@ptong226]

all I can say is WOW! when butterfield breaks into the harmonica its like time stands still.......

[@bwustinbweem]

Fuckin legend! up there with all the blues greats this mans voice has so much soul and then comes in the harp.. totally awesome music

[@stevemurdock7540]

In those times there were men like Butterfield, Bloomfield, Hendrix, and so on... Now what is there? Not much, a little flicker every now and then, but nothin that keeps on with its quality... I play over two hours every day on my axe and hit the harp in between, mark my words, I'll be damn good one day. Wait and see... But it's because I listen to guys like this, and I'll always remember them.

[@buddyollie180]

Steve Murdock who are you? u in a band or something?

[@russellesimonetta3835]

Robben ford is a mitherfuccka

[@razzledcroaker3678]

Don't forget Elvin Bishop, he's the one playing here, as Bloomfield had already left the band by this point.

[@obbor4]

@@razzledcroaker3678 That was Bloomfield clapping near the end of the song (at 4:29.) He was on the bill playing with Electric Flag.

[@starmania909]

your sure not lookin too hard there are epic performers out there like the nighthawks only 50 years doin it and tony holiday new but HOT!

[@JeffStudley]

Damn, whole lotta blues going on here!

[@JumpinJohnny0]

Whole lotta talent on that stage.

[@gabrielaescobedo4378]

OMG !! Speechless !!!

[@tonyahrrold5gmail]

Hello, how are you doing? I’m Tony Ahrrold, Hope you are having a great day?

[@tinawilliams1834]

Paul's harmonica solo... Nothing else gets me this high and so.... floaty... 💖😔

[@tiffsaver]

He had the most beautiful TONE to his harp playing, and his lead guitarist Elvin Bishop was one the greats of the period.

[@charleydrumm]

1967 and STILL being played by the best blues artists today. just wonderful..

[@fransborrenbergen9435]

I still miss you Paul

[@carloseugeniocarlos4287]

the blues fillde the air! Paul was a fantastic harmonica player!

[@BLUESMANRONCHICAGO]

Paul was my biggest influence in learning the harmonica, from the time I picked it up in 69 til today, when I still do at least one song each night in his memory, sometimes it's Born in Chicago, sometimes this one, or One More Heartache. I am keeping the blues and his memory alive every time I perform, whether it be in Chicago, Milwaukee, or even a tiny club in between, It's the music that matters!!!

[@mannysun4235]

I was there. Hehe

[@maxwellsands9004]

Butter was fantastic amazing band. Brian Jones and Mike Bloomfield also loving the music. Fanfuckintastic!!!!!!!!!!!!’

[@folkrockm14]

nobody will ever play the blues harp or sing the blues like paulie man!he can really groove

[@davidhandelman5131]

What a great voice! So sad he is gone...Paul Butterfield was the first blues artist I followed when I was 17 in 1967.

[@tootz1950]

So, so fantastic. We were all so stoned in those days, concerts were a little more laid back. He sounds the same here in '67 as he did two weeks before his death.

[@johndenison7930]

First time I took acid

[@tonyreina432]

Saw these guys 50 years ago, local college opened their new performing arts center,four days of blues. A ticket for all four days, was TEN BUCKS. BB KING, MUDDY WATERS, TEN YEARS AFTER, and on and on.

[@peonwarrior]

best line up ever

[@KittyGrizGriz]

So very Jelly!! You were lucky! Have seen BB 👑.

[@67rml]

The resolution is amazing from that long ago. But it's 1967 light - the Holy Year of Music!!! I was 16/17. Someday, somehow I will go there again.

[@donkeyshot8472]

this is professional 16mm celluloid film footage, made for inclusion in d.a. pennebaker`s documentary of the festival, and then left off the final cut: no wonder then, that "the resolution is amazing from that long ago"... :-)

[@fossilmatic]

Yeah, funny thing about the sun... it carries a bit more information than a series of 1s and 0s. Ya gotta love film.... warm, sensitive to depth of field and requiring actually skilled hands to use it.

[@contactkeithstack]

It's interesting, my mom was born in '53 and I feel like being 17 years old in '67 vs 14 years old is huge. By the time she was 18 it was '71 and the wave had crashed. Coltrane, Janis, Hendrix dead, Beatles broken up, Nixon president. She never caught that moment like someone just 3-5 years younger really could have.

[@stevefuegner1876]

@@donkeyshot8472 n. K ..

[@Cooper1575]

Oh how well I remember Paul Butterfield....and His Blues Band...It was when I was 16 years old, and the fast track was ALL the Live and Free Concerts....I seen Paul at the Wheaton County Fairgrounds...in Wheaton, IL....He was TOP Billing...the Ides of March opened for him....AND there was nothing but 2 GREAT HOURS...of HIM playing and singing....AND me FEELING....his music throb throughout MY WHOLE BODY....NEVER will there be another Paul Butterfield....

[@bobforbes3614]

i loved playing the blues with Mark Naftlin the key board player on this video. bob forbes bass player, peace

[@JamesFolkers]

Hey Bob - you are a lucky man to have been a part of this!!

[@2manycatsforadime]

60s what a grand time to be alive and enjoying all the wonderful music, vibes and people.

[@lewisdalven1802]

I had the pleasure of hearing this band on several occasions in 1969-1970 in NYC. Their musicianship, soulfulness, and mastery of dynamics really shine on this cut. Pigboy Crabshaw (Elvin Bishop) was given a chance to shine and made the most of it, and Butter's voice was developing into a more supple instrument. And I love the distant-miked harp! You can really hear his tone. I like this much better than most of his later recordings, except Better Days...that was a beaut.

[@BLUESMANRONCHICAGO]

Saw him in Chicago in 1971, awesome band and Paul's harp playing style was very unique, one that I use when playing. he was quite an inspiration

[@KittyGrizGriz]

Wow, you were so lucky to experience them live…jelly! Have never heard of Elvin Bishop being called this before…lol. Between that and “Pigpen”, makes me wonder how these strange nicknames originated…hmmm?

[@avpro51]

@@KittyGrizGriz well, when Bloomfield joined the band, Bishop had been the lead, and only, guitarist. When Bloomfield left, Elvin resumed…hence “The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw”. He was a country boy from Oklahoma I think.

[@katabatic222]

Personally, I can easily understand how Pennebaker's film helped kick start the summer of love. Whilst with material like this to work with he almost couldn't miss, he really did capture the moment. Blistering blues-soul from the PBBB with added horns, a newly acquired Elvin Bishop (after the great Mike Bloomfield left, sadly) and groundbreaking audio and visual techniques at a seminal music festival. It's my kind of art...

[@johnjeffery6638]

Hey glad you approve😁

[@jmansford100]

There's Bloomfield applauding at the end 🙂 And, yeah, wonderful film maker. He gave a visual presentation to the sound and the feeling.

[@rothcam2]

One of my favourites growing up. Miss you and the harp Mr. Butterfield.

[@bertolando]

what a sound....what a voice....superb.

[@Bluesgerd47]

He was a real genius on the harp, and his voice came right out of his heart. Long gone, but never forgotten.

[@captainhowdy8885]

I always come back to this video. This always inspires the shit out of me.

[@tomdewildekinney7023]

Butterfield defined the instrument for me. Sharpened me up and got me ready for the old "ultra violence" hidden inside. Showed me how to connect that powerful little monster between your body and the microphone and uleash it upon on an unsuspecting world.

[@ronnyrono782]

Here was the great Paul Butterfield blues band and then there was everybody else

[@mitchgawlik1175]

Look at all the beautiful people. This is one extremely tight performance and the soundman for this film was an ace. Butterfield was otherworldly, damn near any blues tune he covered he made his own.

[@Sabbatius527]

4:24 - Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones stiff still in the audience :)

[@mikestugats]

What an amazing talent. Drugs suck!

[@SteveEcksteinDouglasDrive]

CAUGHT THE BAND IN MANHATTAN'S FILLMORE EAST, GREENWICH VILLAGE LONG AGO. FABULOUS LIVE ACT.

[@kjmcwig6882]

If you had a time machine, Monterey or Woodstock? For me, things never got better than this actually quite small festival. Musicians performed for free!!

[@FernandoGomez-hh9jm]

¡ GREAT GREAT performance by the greatest blues band of the 60's and 70's ! in the ICONIC MONTERREY FESTIVAL !

[@ikust007]

Such an Harmo! Love it .

[@TheDivayenta]

..........and I was there, right in that audience! so lucky!

[@Nancysinatrafan]

Paul was and still be one of the great white boy of the blues, blue eyed blues and pure blues¡¡¡¡¡¡ We miss you Paul . . .

[@domtoto1]

Still one of my favorites , seen him a few times , even at Woodstock

[@bluesatbirth]

Totally agree--music from this band does what it should--reaches your soul--NO NEED FOR DRUGS--THE MUSIC IS THAT !

[@WeAreNotAmused]

You can add drugs if you want to this music doesn't overtly promote the use of drugs but they are probably not hanging up any "no drugs" signs up Round the gig I mean this is 60's counterculture yo . So .... The natural inference is ......

[@hot_coldman]

You can feel this song deep down in your bones. Man, this is good stuff...

[@dimnicolaou3340]

The young boy laying in his mother hug at the start of the video , probably was the only one person that was not stoned in the audience.

[@olly8]

Contact high???😮

[@josky852]

Goddamn. Canned Heat, Mike Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield, Elvin Bishop, AND Jimi Hendrix- at the same festival?! I don't know what else to say.

[@ericclock8056]

That was just magical. Such talent and timing.

[@rockincoltsify]

Man, it's hard to believe this was 45 years ago. The Blues is still alive and kickin' today.

[@bernardbaker6803]

Superb in all respects. Really gets down and dirty at 3:25 onwards. Was almost in tears by the end...

[@johnwescott9008]

There is no better blues than this.

[@dmoore0079]

That man had full respect from all the great bluesmen of the day, and that performance alone would be enough to explain why.

[@TheRealTomWendel]

Elvin on the stage and Mike watching from the wings!

[@markJaggi]

People just don't know. I hope his legacy lasts as long as his influence. He was a miracle.

[@SuperAnimelover100]

Oh my God , I spotted the Late Great Brian Jones !!!!!! 4:24 , love it !!!!

[@bendream544]

Yeah hanging out with Nico the only person from the Velvet Underground camp to move in the peace and love camp.

[@humanbeing2009]

Thank God this was recorded and filmed. Outstanding!

[@kingofallmediums2123]

I love seeing the less popular performances from Monterey! 😊😊😊😊😊😊 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯

[@Enak12345]

Yep, that's a keeper! I learned a lot of harp styling from Paul B. And it's very refreshing to see my generation looking young and cool.

[@hilmarwensorra1215]

In very loving memory of Mr. Paul Butterfield (1942 - 1987 R.I.P. Gone but NOT forgotten).

[@truckerkevthepaidtourist]

Trumpet player smokin literally

[@TheSchmidty63]

Keith Johnson

[@bluesatbirth]

Yes--I had the pleasure of jammin', drinkin' beers and eatin' pretzels with these guys. Butterfield--the epitome of a harp player--unlike so many of the new guys--vocals--PURE SOUL-PURE EMOTION--Bishop-Bloomfield--Naftalin-Sanborn-Dinwiddie--Johnson--all superb players--DYNAMICS--the players and bands of today don't have a clue--Shredder guitar crap--there is absolutely no EMOTION like these guys put forth. SUCH AN UNDER-RATED BAND !