Blind Faith- Do What You Like REACTION & REVIEW

[@williamosborne6866]

Sweet - you are the ONLY one to tackle this track, and I thank you profusely. I still have the vinyl (both jackets). If you want a jam, this is the one nobody should miss. I would, however, qualify that by saying the ultimate one for me is Quicksilver's "Who Do You Love Suite", recorded live at the Fillmore. The dueling guitars of Gary Duncan and John Cipollina (RIP both) are epic, and David Freiberg and Greg Elmore hold it together - it's really long (25:22): - kzbin.info/www/bejne/i5jcnpJ3iJWFm6c

[@JustJP]

Thanks William! Really appreciate it

[@wastedlife68]

We have good taste. Know and love QMS's performance of that!! And this is one of my fave tracks of Ginger.❤

[@canadianstudmuffin]

One of the best albums ever.

[@jettrink7510]

Oh my... thank you for this selection

[@jamesdignanmusic2765]

Not the album's highlight, but fun. And I always love a good workout in 5/4. Steve Winwood's vocals are often soulful. He started off in a style of music called "Northern Soul" with the Spencer Davis Group, basically the British equivalent of Blue-eyed Soul mainly from the industrial heartland of northern England. Too long on the drum solo? Yeah, it was the style of the times. You'd have trouble with the live half of Cream's "Wheels of Fire"!

[@fenderchamp8241]

This is nothing but an excuse for a improvised jam. And it works.

[@XFLexiconMatt]

You know, I started hearing this many years ago, and in my mind, I can hear 4 piece horn inversions of the main riff / chords. Thanks you sharing this reaction.

[@billhawkins1236]

Actually is much better live and I was fortunate enough to see them on their one tour in 69' at the now defunct infamous Chicago Amphitheater, next to the stockyards, the only place that you went INSIDE for a breath of fresh air.🤠🤣👍

[@shaunmccaul1695]

good for you bill

[@jamespaivapaiva4460]

See a snake, do the 'shake and bake'. Does it make you quake? Or a bat in a hat, growing old and fat? Maybe a shrike riding a bike? It's all a 'psych'. Talk the talk, walk the walk', "Do What You Like"! Just avoid the dreaded KZbin strike! Peace & Love.

[@patriciosuau9479]

Solo necesitaron un álbum para demostrar de que estaban hechos , eran muy jóvenes, pero yo más, solo 10 años y ya disfrutaba de la calidad de esta música, y aun . Con 65 años aun sin parar.

[@spazimdam]

"This is one of those tracks that you just settle into." Yes JP it just takes you in and melts you in the groove. Early long form rock, kinda psychedelic, kinda progressive, very cool. I been digging this since the 70s. I always wished they had made another album. All of the musicians went on to many other bands and projects, but never again this combination. I like the Edward G. Robinson type voice saying "yeah...yeah" in the outro. So bizarre. Good fun this was!

[@twenty3enigma]

The 5/4 rhythm is definitely Ginger's contribution.

[@MissAstorDancer]

FIRST!!! Ohhhhh, i can't wait for this!

[@MissAstorDancer]

Thank you again for doing this album!

[@yes_head]

LOL, poor Justin who just got over the pain of "Blue Condition" from Disraeli Gears and now has to endure this! 😄 The whole thing is actually Canterbury-ish (I could see the "song" section on an early Caravan album and the bass solo with the vocal on a Soft Machine record (shades of "We Did It Again")), but then... the Drum Solo of Doom.

[@Elvin_Pelvin]

I'm sorry to say I can hear what you mean but nevertheless I have to say 'how dare you?' how dare you besmirch Soft Machine? ha ha. This is pretty dire - actually it's more like that 'demo' LP Soft Machine did in 1967 (variously called Jet Propelled Photograph' and other titles). The early part just sounds to me like a Doors rip off - I guess late 60's stoner rock.

[@bobholtzmann]

One of my favorite Winwood songs has a really good cover by Brian Auger's Trinity -- "No Time To Live" (1969) from Befour (album titled after the B4 Hammond). I like it better than the original Traffic version, probably because it has a more structured backing track - the percussion really helps it along.

[@edwardthorne9875]

When you need a drum solo to do the dishes to... Still great, though. Yes, live would be the way to go. You really are a gentleman.

[@samuelmregister]

Hard to beat 1969 for cutting edge rock...well, maybe '70...or '71.

[@michaelfrank2266]

Thanks for letting me hear this album. I wanted to like this band more than I do. The 'Can't Find My Way Home' is so epic I found myself disappointed with the rest by comparison.

[@gaiaeternal5131]

Totally agree, Michael. Can't Find My Way Home is a absolute stand-out.

[@gaiaeternal5131]

Hi JP. Dave from London. It's like a Long Train Runnin'. If you're driving in the American mid-West and see the railroad barrier coming down, you know you're in for a long wait! Those trains are about a mile long and travel at a snail's pace. This is the musical equivalent. A very self-indulgent 15 minutes. The song is OK, Steve's singing is great as usual, and doesn't that groove sound like Take Five? Steve's solo sounds strange, like a Stylophone (compare that with his solo on Traffic's Every Mother's Son which is just sublime). I think Eric could solo like that in his sleep. The less said about the bass and drum solos, the better. Can't Find My Way Home is an absolute stand-out on this album, where it seems they ran out of material.

[@michaelcapewell4811]

Oh gawwwwdddd 😵‍💫😖

[@samuelmregister]

Could've used some judicious trimming, but still a great, underappreciated track. Some of Clapton's best, most fluid work.

[@pentagrammaton6793]

It's ok but it's Clapton, so I always nod off a bit.

[@MisterWondrous]

No way they weren't wasted during this exuberant celebration. Like a lot of Winwood's songs, parts go through my head quite regularly. This album is distinctly tied to my early tastes of the larger, groovier world. First hearing with headphones. Way groovier. The drones of lyric mirrored Hare Krishna hypnochant in some wise. The avant-garde ending was a foot shoved in the doorhole of progressive experimentalism. (Jimi 3:16)

[@twenty3enigma]

doorhole?

[@gingerbaker_toad696]

Baker was there... so at least one of them was wasted

[@MisterWondrous]

@@twenty3enigma I'm a wordjones. The next James Joyce and/or Millard Fillmore.

[@gingerbaker_toad696]

Also i am pretty sure Baker wrote it :) Listen to the Do what you like version from Ginger Baker's Airforce, thats the best one 🤟👹❤

[@MisterWondrous]

@@gingerbaker_toad696 It is one I love playing on drums.

[@maruad7577]

Ah yes, the obligatory drum solo. In this era, every serious band needed a long song with an extended drum solo (blame Iron Butterfly), Even the Guess Who had their Doors inspired (IMO) "Friends of Mine" though in latter years they did long versions of "American Woman" instead. These became tedious after awhile.

[@pentagrammaton6793]

I've always said that drum solos over about 30 seconds tend to be pointless rubbish...I guess that's the issue with allowing a non-musical instrument some space to mess about in.

[@michaelwoods9005]

I don't usually like Drum solos, and I hate 'Toad', but this one is pretty cool, and kinda hypnotic with the "do what you like" chant looping in the background🙂

[@shaunmccaul1695]

I loved ginger baker but no fan of the "drum solo" track. it sounds fine the first listen but soon you start to skip over it.

[@dagnabbit6187]

Did you get a look at that LP cover ? Looks like there was serious hygiene issues going on ! Peee uuuu !

[@HippoYnYGlaw]

The drum solo was very interesting. The sound resonated. The vocal refrain tiresome. The end much better than the beginning. Winwood's voice strains too much when compared to his eighties drawl,which is as cool as a cucumber. JP have you ever yelled mid-song , " I'm Bored!" or even at the end. Just say it. I'm Bored. We won't mind. You could even turn it off early. DWYL. Imagine if everyone did it. Great drum solo. Sounded deep. 1st time listen . Still wouldn't listen again. Arc of a Diver. Oh Yes Please. Spanish Dancer oh ueah! diolch

[@jfergs.3302]

Yeahhh... not great this one. Poor start, and I didn't like any of the vocals, partic the sussuration of 'do what you like' over the partially interesting instrumental break section. But even the promising instrumental bit soon fell apart starting with the lacklustre bass riffing, then leading to the tedious drum solo... so passe. For me, weakest track on the album.

[@pentagrammaton6793]

I've never been much of a Clapton fan, and I always felt he was in the right place, right time. Steve Winwood I'm indifferent too, especially as a singer, so...meh, this record can pass me by again tbh. The drum solo just wrecks this track, and it never recovers.

[@jfergs.3302]

@@pentagrammaton6793 i like eric, but re this, I think the bass got their first in the ruination stakes

[@frugalseverin2282]

This is my least favorite track on the album, I was never into drum solos. They had more material that could have made the album such as 'Sleeping in the Ground'. Here's the faster version from the "Crossroads" box set but there's a slower version as well. kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJ6ZnaGNhZJmaLM