Black, White And Blues 1971 Documentary

[@5150show]

Danny Kirwan , the most incredible vibrato ever . Rest in peace

[@AnalogOpher]

Yes!

[@BigSky1]

And Paul Kossoff.

[@5150show]

@@BigSky1 absolutely, one of the most important guitar players ever

[@briankehew579]

And that amazing unique voice!

[@tennesseeridgerunner5992]

I love Kirwan and all those early Mac records he played on, but dadgum Kossoff is THE vibrato man. Is that a phrase?@@BigSky1

[@achilles1977]

The Fleetwood Mac footage must be from just after Peter Green left the band. Too bad he wasn’t there at this point. Would’ve loved to have had a documentary like this showing him playing with the band. He was brilliant

[@chriskroll4166]

There is tons of footage online of Peter Green with Fleetwood Mac.

[@nigelbevan8449]

​@@chriskroll4166I was just about to say the same thing.

[@achilles1977]

Yes, I’m familiar with what’s out there. I meant something with more up close and personal band interaction like this.

[@GuiitarBilly]

This seems to be from around the time they did Kiln House in 1970. Peter had officially gone though I think he came back to help with part of a tour. Kiln House is a favorite FM album, wish they could have kept that lineup with Danny, and Jeremy fronting and Christine joining as singer/songwriter/keyboardist …but it wasn’t to be. Of course it would have been great if Peter had stayed but that train had left the station.

[@lilmoe4364]

Hell yes - he was so good

[@therealbarnekkid]

Just seeing Danny Kirwan playing that vee was the whole video for me.

[@bigtone1348]

Jeremy never gets the recognition he deserves

[@perkinscrane]

Bit of a Hound IMHO. Wasn’t really interested in anything FM was playing if it wasn’t to do with him.

[@bigtone1348]

@@perkinscrane To hear Jeremy at his best, check out the Blues Jam at Chess album. Pure Elmore!

[@ledrurollins9970]

One of the best slide players.

[@billhobbs7077]

Must have been tough to follow Greenie

[@williammohan9784]

Jeremy Spencer tearing it up in his own superb way, the original Fleetwood Mac were easily among the best bands in the world at the time.

[@chriskroll4166]

I agree .

[@mnbv990]

ditto@@chriskroll4166

[@lawsonj39]

Or any time.

[@briankehew579]

Peter Green gets so much credit, but in the Kiln House era, with Chris - they were at least as good! Maybe better...

[@lawsonj39]

Christine Perfect--what a voice!

[@5150show]

Jeremy Spencer playing a Hofner , hugely influential slide guitar player. Just incredible.

[@christopherlees1134]

Champion Jack Dupree, a forgotten master.

[@KarimAferfaz]

I’m amazed by the knowledge that everyone has I feel the passion sometimes I learn more from commentary section than documentary itself UK WILL always be ahead of their time they look like smart alien in a human body I’m nobody from Morocco who is fascinated by uk culture I live her in Morocco my life is miserable because of our failure regime but the poverty won’t prevent me to Learn from you guys through KZbin and it gives me chill god bless everyone 🙏

[@StephenMerchant-up8sg]

I saw Chicken Shack on the 22nd December 1970 supporting YES. Great show from Stan and his extended guitar lead as he danced in the crowd. Looks like Yes trumped him though for me because I went out and bought The Yes Album. I got progged!!

[@uv77mc85]

Steve Howe is about as far from the blues as it gets while still being rock.

[@nestoralvarez8035]

Chiken Shack de mis bandas favoritas y Stan Webb entre mis 5 mejores guitarras!

[@63Kafka]

@@uv77mc85 Steve Howe's ultimate guitar hero is Chuck Berry, he said if he coud share a stage with anybody it would be Chuck

[@winslowredcross2835]

Danny Kirwan of Fleetwood Mac playing a Gibson Flying V!! Great Blues documentary!! Thank you for uploading this!

[@robzagar4275]

Excellent! Such a real look at this amazing music and the music I was raised on. The English got the beat. Helped saved the Blues.

[@gabrielcervantes6852]

Great to see some footage of Savoy brown such a great band and unfortunately so little document from their early years

[@vadenk4433]

Man the flame on that burst @4:00 is unreal. That's one of the best tops on a real burst I've seen

[@mandoprince1]

I believe that is the guitar that was copied by Gibson for their limited edition "Collector's Choice Chicken Shack Burst" Les Paul model. Stan was briefly reunited with this guitar and presented with one of the replicas at an event in Las Vegas in 2018. kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5C0oKWGa9iopZIsi=lWqt-XyMkFbAmBVN

[@robcockayne]

The red tended to fade on those LP 'bursts. There was hardly any left on Peter Green's

[@Jason.King.at.your.service]

@@mandoprince1 Who has the original now?

[@mandoprince1]

@@Jason.King.at.your.service I believe it is owned by Matt Swanson. Don't really know anything about him, other than that he has a really impressive guitar collection!

[@briancoyne6700]

This was awesome! Loved seeing a young Christie McVie playing keys with Fleetwood Mac!

[@OlafProt]

Jeez Fleetwood Mac always looked so pale back then. I remember in 1990 I was working in a biker cafe in Surrey, and this blues came on and I thought maybe it was the 'Stones, and someone said no its Fleetwood Mac. I was 18, and of course said "shut up it is not". The realisation that the greatest UK blues band wasn't the 'Stones happened right there. SO good to see the master, Alexis Korner. I remember his silky voice on the radio when I was a kid. Chicken Shack were brutal. Stan fairly pulling some faces there lol this film is in the library of congress!

[@matthiaspfisterer2066]

The Champion! I saw him several times,, loved him. And he was such a smart, funny and incredibly nice old guy. He showed me my first blues licks on the piano when I was a boy. Will never forget him.

[@towhee89]

Amazed at what still pops up after all these years. Many thanks for this

[@finnmcginn9931]

Champion Jack Dupree spent 2 years in a Japanese POW camp. Hard life.

[@Wilsonrre]

Louisiana st. juniorweight champion. trained at Joe Louis' Detroit gym. he was on the card at Yankee stadium for the 2nd Louis-Schmeling fight.🥊

[@grahamgreene779]

Kiln House era Fleetwood Mac, Yes please!!! Jeremy was probably only months away from being "kidnapped" by that religious group and Danny Kirwan would only last for 2 more brilliant albums, Future Games and Bare Trees. Love all the pre Buckingham/Nicks Mac stuff.

[@robertsapin5074]

Dude said their tired of heavy rock. That didn't age well. I was born after this documentary came out and all I've listened to is heavy rock and blues my whole life.

[@Matasky2010]

More like tired of doing too many drugs and blaming it on the music lol

[@ricklatouch2263]

Saw Chicken Shack in ‘69. I think they opened for Johnny Winter - but I could be mixing recollections.

[@christopherlees1134]

Great video. It's the kind of thing that if it came on TV when I was a kid, I would have recorded it on VCR tape and tried to learn all the licks.

[@cato451]

I was a huge Chicken Shack fan back in the day.

[@danpalmer4820]

Lonesome Dave!

[@drivenmad7676]

Beautiful Les Paul

[@johannes1061]

Christine!!! Just Perfect...

[@austinroper5556]

RIP, she was so good.

[@DanielMcGrath1969]

I'm so happy to be 54 years old! Don't trust anyone under 50. Ha! Ha!

[@ALF782]

I'm 61 I trust nobody under 55

[@DanielMcGrath1969]

Very wise!

[@carolconner9216]

Great doc! Chicken Shack and all the early greats! Thanks!

[@TheDodger74]

Loved the old bluesy version of Fleetwood mac. Jack Dupree lived in Halifax for a while.

[@rockermaniarmcomunity2273]

The GREATEST MUDDY WATERS ❤❤❤

[@brianharris7243]

The brilliant Duster Bennett- gone too soon

[@carolwolf9614]

He shines out in this. I'd love to see more of him.

[@1111xyz]

All these guys played together during the summer of 71'. I saw them all and was introduced to them at The Summerthing Concerts in Boston. What a great line-up!

[@vadenk4433]

Kim Simmonds and Lonesome Dave! So cool to see these videos

[@mojojojo815]

Paul Oliver with the crazy hair piece😂

[@teiltje]

the moustache was real, I guess?

[@finnmcginn9931]

Multipurpose, also used to dust his vinyl.

[@teiltje]

@@finnmcginn9931 🤣😂😅

[@BackToTheBlues]

Nice to see a bit of footage (and interview clips) of Duster Bennett, there's very little around! It was also nice that the narration has been pulled right back in the mix. It's always amused me that when a documentary is made about music they talk over the subject.

[@normanmcmullen7276]

I saw Duster open for Argent in Toronto, wicked good. Bought his album in NYC

[@francoisebeylie2923]

Thank you. Subtitles would have been so helpful...

[@cschmidt-c4n]

Love it, wow. What a find. The early fleetwood mac footage is great, and so champion dupree, muddy waters, pete townshend.

[@BertrandLaurenceMusic]

Everybody must read The Blues Really Mezz Mezrow's amazing auto bio. One of Keith Richards, favorite book. Thank you again fo the tip Keith

[@johnmitchelljr]

Thanks for sharing. Really good video some rare stuff with really fine artists.

[@stephenbudd3771]

I shall share this with Mike Vernon, I’m sure he’ll be delighted to see this again after 53 years !

[@PixelProlo]

Thanks for sharing ✨🎨👨‍🎨👍🏻🍉❤️✨

[@pickupsbypeteaflynn]

Stan Webb, so under the radar

[@whatevershebrings]

Thanks for this obscure relic. I think my personal highlights are Chicken Shack 'Gypsy Woman' live excerpt, Savoy Brown rehearsing, and Fleetwood Mac running down a working version of 'Station Man'.

[@NickRatnieks]

"Less is more" is an important concept as the opening guitar playing from Stan Webb demonstrates.

[@BackToTheBlues]

To adapt an old John Lewis stores marketing phrase, never knowingly underplayed!

[@robertthompson6302]

Stan Webb is much more influential than people will ever know

[@towhee89]

What song are they playing ?

[@jbperson]

Yes! "Holes riddled with music".

[@rjlchristie]

I take that as sarcasm.

[@andrewarthurmatthews6685]

Is that the legendary Stan Webb of Chicken Shack fame ?

[@michaeldonaghey]

Sure is.

[@robcockayne]

A great video; particularly enjoyed the rare Shack, Duster Campion Jack & Jeremy Spencer bits.

[@jogischulz2576]

Big Thanks, great docu !

[@IvesMarcelin]

Bon documentaire et très bon film

[@tedfurlo2268]

Thanks for this post. Well Done.

[@philfrank9226]

Shortly after Greeny left, while Kiln House.

[@davidfogarty2220]

'The Fleetwood Mac Chicken Shack John Mayall Can't Fail Blues..' Woke up this morning and my agent was standing in my room, Woke up this morning and my agent and a man from Blue Horizon records and Mike and Richard Vernon were all standing in my room, They said you better learn some blues son, because there's gonna be a boom. A great big boom, daddy... I got the Fleetwood Mac Chicken Shack John Mayall can't fail blues, I got the Fleetwood Mac Chicken Shack John Mayall can't fail blues I got the Fleetwood Mac Chicken Shack John Mayall can't fail blues From the deep, deep south of the river Thames, Bottleneck guitar is the latest trend, Gonna earn more money than I can spend, I got the blues... I got the Fleetwood Mac Chicken Shack John Mayall can't fail blues I got the Fleetwood Mac Chicken Shack John Mayall can't fail blues I got the Fleetwood Mac Chicken Shack John Mayall can't fail blues I got the Jethro Tull bellyful Savoy Brown reach me down blues I got the Jethro Tull bellyful Savoy Brown reach me down blues I got the Jethro Tull bellyful Savoy Brown reach me down blues I'm gonna pick that cotton and do my thing, Don't know the chords and I just can't sing But there's lots of noise and the drums don't swing, I got the blues..... I got the blues, the Jethro Tull bellyful blues I got the Fleetwood Mac Chicken Shack John Mayall can't fail blues I got the Fleetwood Mac Chicken Shack John Mayall can't fail blues Got money by the spoonful, Got money by the handful, Got money by the roomful, Got money by the bankful, I'm with Blue Horizon records everything is gonna be alright...

[@dee_seejay]

One of the things I really liked about the new rock bands who came through in the late 70s & early 80s was that they very deliberately _didn't_ play blues, eg Television from NYC, who played anything _but._ Likewise for example Wire here in the UK. Some of the post-punk groups were probably more free jazz influenced if anything. Not that I'm against white people playing blues at all, it's everywhere, but I'll always prefer a King Crimson to a Fleetwood Mac or a Free. Even with Led Zep I much prefer an _Achilles Last Stand_ to a _Lemon Song._

[@julianwoodcock4309]

No white artist can come anywhere near Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, BB King, Howling Wolf or Big Mama Thornton.

[@GenX...MCMLXV]

Yeah! You tell em!!! If you believe yourself, that's all that counts FDS@@julianwoodcock4309

[@kts68]

A gem. Thanks for uploading.

[@carolwolf9614]

Oh wow. Just wow. Thank you :)

[@Jason-cm6uh]

Thanks for posting this.! VERY COOL!

[@finnmcginn9931]

This is excellect, thank you.

[@ConcezioPellegrini]

EXCELLENT Video. Subscribed

[@thomashumphrey7395]

You can see why Christine Perfect (McVie) went on to uber-fame with Fleetwood Mac..

[@geoffreyhattersley9186]

Chicken shack. Christine Perfect

[@simonlaing7646]

Pure Gold amazing time piece Unfortunately this captures the demise of this era as the heavy blues rock period was well on the way by 1971, Jeremy Spencer leaves in Mac not long after this was filmed and Danny Kirwan follows in 1972. 'Who's next' comes out in '71 and arena rock is born the next time blues goes mainstream is with the arrival of SRV.

[@smwrbd]

I guess you missed Johnny Winter.

[@simonlaing7646]

No one can forget Johnny Winter, but he was already established having exploded onto the post Cream scene in early 1969 along with the likes of Mountain, Taste and Free. By 1972 he had teamed up with Rick Derringer and was following a more Rock based sound which fitted in well with the arena rock period along with Humble Pie and Canned Heat. Thinking about it now I did overlook ZZ Top whose first 3 albums could be considered to be the link between Winter and SRV ? and Rory Gallagher who always kept it 'earthy' but he was never really mainstream. But by '73 everything was a lot heavier , Free had gone and morphed into Bad Co. as did Chicken Shack into Savoy Brown.

[@youngandrew66]

How cool does everyone look in this film!?

[@dirtlevel]

The “blues expert” haircut is hilarious

[@janattaaya]

I read this comment just as he appeared 😂​@@dirtlevel

[@ALF782]

​@@dirtlevelpost beatlemania fail

[@user-ln1qw2vh2d]

Isn't that Peter Sellers?

[@keithbemrose3876]

Goodness me! This takes me back to the High Wycombe Blues Loft of the late sixties. I saw most of the performers shown in this video (plus Jo Anne Kelly, John Dummer’s Blues Band, Steamhammer and Bakerloo Line and other British Blues bands). The most impressive artists without a doubt were Champion Jack Dupree and Howlin’ Wolf. I saw Howlin’ Wolf twice, once with a supporting band and once solo and he was quite stunning both times. We spoke to him at the interval and he was a charming man, no hint of the curmudgeon he was supposed to be like. Mike Raven was quite wrong, the ‘Blues Boom’ only lasted a couple of years and many bands playing Blues, joined the ranks of the Progressives or began playing Heavy Rock. Incidentally, Fleetwood Mac at 31.03 sound more like Little Feat. I also agree with Pete Townsend, I have been a semi pro. musician for over 50 years and the curse of open mic. nights is the Blues Jam. They are popular, because everyone can play a Blues chord progression and most musicians want an opportunity to play extended solos. Anyway, end of rant.

[@helmutsecke3529]

The Mac's gaff looked a right tip alright.

[@nestoralvarez8035]

Que bandas de blues habia en Inglaterra por favor! Extraño su musica! Buen documental.

[@larryn2682]

Christine Perfect McVie!

[@joshuaasolomon]

Most interesting to me was the clip of Fleetwood Mac recording Station Man, interspersed with Pete Townshend saying that Fleetwood Mac's music deserved its own category, despite its similarity with Blues. At Mick Fleetwood's tribute to Peter Green a few years ago, Pete demonstrated how he modified Station Man to create Won't Get Fooled Again.

[@philb1649]

Station Man is a Danny Kirwan song

[@Jason.King.at.your.service]

Paddy Pimblett playing the flying V.

[@pena.3302]

COLOUR.FOOTAGE=FILM.OF MUDDY+LIL.WALTER..!!!Meant to find..this.all.true seekers of the goats..r.i.p.//p.green.❤😢

[@user-ln1qw2vh2d]

Great bottom end on these tracks! Maybe not using a high pass filter for everything is a good idea.

[@ianbircumshaw828]

its a shame we didn't see more jeremy, Danny and Christine in the mac

[@rodeggleton1969]

Only contemporary footage I’ve seen of the great savoy brown. Think alexis was talking about another band. Savoy never made a bad album. A couple of average ones,yes.

[@paullevine1813]

Poor Alexis was so far off the mark with his take on Kim Simmons & all the versions of Savoy Brown i lost my respect for him , For the life of me i can't think of one LP they did i would be stupid enough to call sad & boring as hell . He'e so far off the mark it's pathetic . So how on earth did Kim become one of the best players on the planet ,well i know he was but Alexis has no clue & for one guy totally immersed in the scene he really has no clue & he was never that good a player to call others that were clearly better is sad. Why Pete Townsend is in this is a mystery as Blues was not his thing & at the time when all this was happening for the makers of this to not even mention Paul Kossoff or Peter Green or Mick Taylor is a mystery hell even Gary Moore & Rory Gallagher were not mentioned . Very one sided look at the blues in Europe & though it was great to see Danny K in this there is way to much missing & what on earth did the Brits have to influence Blues cats from the States ? They never needed help just a larger audience & in those days that was not easy . Having seen Kim & several later versions of Savoy Brown i for one will miss his great playing & his sense of humor. At least we got see some genuine Bluesmen that never needed to copy themselves. or anyone else. Thank you Jack !!!

[@chriskroll4166]

Dangerous release some great footage of Savoy Brown when they were on the midnight special from the Jack the Toad album . They do coming your way and tell mama . Plus there is some great footage online of Savoy when they were at the Fillmore with Chris Young vocal but it's silent so they double song in but at least you could see Chris w savoy .

[@robertthompson6302]

AK feels he needs to be a critic in his interview. AK is very important in the British Blues scene for reasons beyond the actual music… He was a facilitator and a lover of the blues; a bit like John M in that he brought people together. In this doc he seems to need to be critical, which might just be his personality. More of a historian and a fan than a real groundbreaking player… But he’s in almost every story told why and when bands formed in the early British blues scene, so he’s very important in that way I’m sure.

[@hiriam58]

Chris Youlden not Young

[@TheGravygun]

You done stole it from us and spit it right back great job

[@-Pol-]

Loving Chicken Shack's "Elaborate and expensive amplifying equipment that is moved from gig to gig" These days there's an app for that !

[@jean-claudearsenault224]

yes the Afro American Blues has chords, but the chords (1-4 or1-4-5) come from the influence of Celtic song. Remember Bluesmen were Songsters first. The use of one chord is present in the Delta Blues. However Piedmont Blues has different chord structures. Influenced by Ragtime swing.

[@NoelRayland]

I get it that the originators aren't getting the props (or compensation) they deserve, but tbh, growing up, although I could recognize and appreciate Robert Johnson's genius, I most definitely preferred hearing Cream's version of "Crossroads."

[@geoffreyhattersley9186]

Chicken shack. Stan Webb.

[@Emmetgriffin9]

❤❤❤

[@63Kafka]

This is fascinating, a lot of the Black american artists couldn't play in front of a racially mixed audience at home in the U.S. I'm not suggesting that Britain was a racial Utopia, bt the british white kids got into the blues because they would provide the backing bands to the American artists when they toured the UK. Ella Fitzgerald said Germany was her favourite country to play, and the best audience anywhere...who would of thought it!

[@mcampbell5158]

Go to 17:37 if you want to hear what the blues is all about.

[@prajnachan333]

Who made this? Can't it be remixed? I don't understand how you can have music playing loud with the narrator talking in the background barely audible. No one's paying attention apparently.

[@SpenceCurry]

Kirwan the third wheel but what a wheel.

[@thomasfisher5742]

A very YOUNG CHRISTINE MCVIE,,,,,Did she know then what a fantastic music life lay ahead for her

[@gamoonbat]

She was Perfect then!

[@thomasfisher5742]

@@gamoonbat perfect in music ...perfect by name..lol

[@ediblehorse]

What is the band that Mike Vernon was recording at the end?

[@wildbill2122]

the CLOWN at 2:51, Paul Oliver(?) ,Idk who he is, but he is wearing thee most ridiculous looking wig/toupe I hav ever seen, NO DOUBT !!!

[@pdd60absorbed12]

Thought it was a beret at first. Gotta be a practical joke (?)

[@DanielMcGrath1969]

I'm proud to be an American!

[@jeffreypaulross9767]

YAWN 💤💤💤💤 So what?

[@DanielMcGrath1969]

Tongue in cheek-beer in hand...

[@DanielMcGrath1969]

Just so you know my top 50 bands ever are all British! I just thank God they're not singing in German! You're welcome world!

[@mickyoung1910]

@@DanielMcGrath1969 Touche/

[@bristolfashion4421]

A lot of them are like that… they did so many of all that, with many types of similar efforts. we saw all this and went with stuff at the time and many other things too. that's how it was - and quite often still is to be frank. The stuff of the common man with limited outlets and anxious thoughts of cash, pain and history, I imagine - oh yes

[@dirtyd7931]

How does that guy accomplish such a swinging 70s bowl cut. He thinks he knows everything.

[@gartherasmus8992]

Watching this IS the blues for sure. Ffs even the Rolling Stones band name comes from Muddy Waters… now there’s a metaphor

[@luisguedes7590]

Chrstine Mc Vie was perfect.

[@tomhaskett5161]

Stan Webbs star-patterned T shirt was very fahionable in 1970 to 71

[@daveduffy2823]

There is quite a difference between the Black blues players and the English. I guess it’s when one feels the pain and the other tries to.

[@christopherlees1134]

Frankly, the white guys did it better for the most part.

[@mathiasriff]

Black blues ever had another kind of feeling.

[@davedillon1372]

Bob Welch needed to be put in the way he did Danny Kirwan. Poor guy. Danny Kirwan and the MAC era of his deserve a Boxed Set of His or it's own. Black Hick , Blue Ridge Mtn are the same basically. In The Pines by either. Most Black slayers aren't welcome to their own places.

[@RobbyByrne]

Bob is on record stating he was very nervous and never comfortable hanging around Danny from the get go. Never meaning to I suppose, he just did. Many fans think Danny's issues were all self inflicted. No doubt, Danny had his demons, but Welch was included in his list of.

[@geoffreyhattersley9186]

Useless quote at the start “ Now returning to the blacks going full circle”. It never left black musicians!!!

[@nickmannion3879]

Ok I get using Chicken Shack as the white/British example...but using footage from when they had morphed into a hard blues/rock band a million miles away from their first 4 straight blues albums....is a bit strange!

[@simonconnell7256]

The film is of a very narrow slivver of time around 1970/71 . So it's only a tiny glimpse of what was happening. I think!!

[@danieleyre8913]

Very sad seeing Danny Kirwan knowing how he was sliding into mental illness.

[@p83otfan]

On a scale of 1-10, this video was a 5

[@mathiasriff]

???

[@smwrbd]

Thanks for sharing. My day is complete.

[@simonconnell7256]

It's good because it's not what is usually shown.

[@Matasky2010]

Alexis Korner sure was an opinionated fellow, he doesn't hesitate to criticise.. 'on a bad night (Fleetwood Mac's music) is the most dreadful bore you've ever heard in your life'...'they've (Savoy Brown) made some absolutely diabolical records...really atrocious'....interesting.

[@geoffreyhattersley9186]

Quite irreverent comments about Savoy Brown. They were a Fabulous blues group!

[@toddbell1748]

Still are

[@oatmeal813]

This video is lacking in close-up's