David Kossoff on Paul Kossoff Part 1

[@raypestrapur2897]

David Kossoff is an absolute class act and beautiful father. RIP Paul and David Kossoff

[@stevejones466]

I went to Whitefield school in the 60s with Paul, a really nice guy, he was bullied but held his own and got me out of detention. A truly great musician ❤️

[@MsDormy]

Wow - how amazing to have such memories of Paul… I was 10 in 1976 - it was the hottest summer of my memory, and I didn’t hear of Paul till I fell in love with his music 10 years later. He seemed a very sensitive soul.

[@stevenbultman7811]

As a child in America as a musician, it went the same way. I got good at playing the guitar and fist fighting. My Les Paul is about 3 feet from me.

[@edwardlacorte6357]

What a Beautiful Way to Honor His Beloved Son! Paul Brought So much Joy to so many! God Bless Paul and David.

[@RG-5834]

A lovely tribute to his gifted son Paul. David himself was a very talented actor. RIP Paul and David.

[@joshuahymer15]

My musical and guitar hero. Don’t know where but my life would not be in the same place it is now if not for hearing this Man and his Les Paul. Rest easy and long live the KOSS.

[@anthonyrogers5651]

Had the privilige of seeing him play live from about 10 feet away ,thinking i would learn all his Free set ,,think again ,he was amazing ,Free still the best live band ive ever seen RIP Paul and Andy

[@AFaceintheCrowd01]

David Kossoff was a good man and great actor and I’m so glad this one-man tribute to his late son that hides nothing is available again.

[@JohnGauld]

A father’s love. Absolute.

[@chrisdowell4268]

So absolute that in some cases it crushes and kills the spirit of the child.

[@royteseo6386]

I've bee in love with Koss's guitar play ever since I was a teen. I was heart broken when I heard about his passing. I truly admire for his father's devotion for his talented son, Paul.

[@paulhynes6566]

I really feel for this guy, a real loving father. Sad and very courageous, his son obviously meant the world to him x

[@hyland1984]

Koss would have been 70 yesterday. A spiritually gifted musician. Back listening to him after several years. Don't know why now, but I'm sober a few years & his playing is taking on a completely different emotional feeling. David was a father who was immensely proud of his son. Thank you father & son.

[@johnpereira7118]

A fan forever free

[@keithf_]

A talented father talking about a talented son. Wonderful. Thanks for uploading.

[@allymayful]

What a devoted dad - obviously very involved in his Childs development, character and contentment. What a tragedy for him to loose his son at such a young age.

[@chrisdowell4268]

David was a strict Victorian. Paul blossomed in the 60's. They were doomed to clash. David once wrote to Andy Fraser "you killed my son". No, it was more likely David himself smothered the life out of his son.,,

[@davidlalremruata]

He played in a language his generation understood. Lovely🎸👍❤️

[@willdenham]

His playing was so pure and wholesome. Every note is so concise and just right, like it had been etched there all along, with no loss of spontaneity.

[@RobRhodesMusic]

Thank you for posting this. My wife contacted the family some years ago, to try and find this, but they weren't able to help. I just found it and funnily enough, you posted it on my birthday last year! Once again, thank you for uploading it, it brought me to tears.

[@willdenham]

Pauls playing and style really meant a lot to me as a beginning guitarist. I felt a real kinship with his no frills playing style and the rawness of Free. Paul and Free still mean just as much to me and my bandmates today. We modelled our playing on that template.

[@davidlalremruata]

Hard to believe but this is my first time hearing about Paul Kossoff. I came here from a Hard Rock channel in which John 5 played Kossoff's Les Paul Junior n to be honest n though I know it sounds cliche, I was blown away! I searched for Kossoff n found one album of his, listened a bit n kept searching. Thus, here I am. This is the kind of father we all need. I'm not even halfway through the vdo but there has already been several points of personal identification points. Thank you.

[@mechanicalturk5202]

phenomenal guitarist and so young.

[@davidlalremruata]

I always find the intro of All Right Now very, very special n only now am I learning about the person who played it! I'm so blessed ❤️

[@treasurehunteruk9718]

I love the intro to Wishing Well. It is never mentioned here, but I think it is a much better song. Just never gets played.

[@willbuckley54]

I remember seeing him at a one off show with his father called 'A funny kind of evening with David Kossoff' at Fairfield Halls in Croydon. He was seated at one side of the stage and played something on an electric guitar which amazed me at the time. Must have been around 1964 or 5.

[@Tinatime532]

Thanks for sharing this Kevin 😉 such a loss to the family and music fans Worldwide... loved him ... thanks David for letting us in on family memories ... very grateful to you ❤️ 🌟🕊🌟🥰🎸🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶

[@davidlalremruata]

As a recovering addict of heroin, I can so understand the parts about the drug usages n the losses, the heartaches, the disappointments, the promises unattained, the losses. May the music live on..forever!

[@MsDormy]

Indeed; and may Koss’s beautiful soul live forever in the love of Our Dear Lord.

[@NihilQuest]

I was listening to BBC Radio play from the 50's (sci-fi Journey into Space) and casually checked one of the actors who I thought was pretty cool - it was this guy. I was stunned to learn he was a father of Paul Kossoff, because Free is one of my favorite bands since the early 90's (when I was a teenager). That was such a weird thing to discover. Two different spheres of my interests, both existing well before my time, suddenly collided.

[@TooSkinnyKenny]

God it must be painful to lose that way, Mr Kossoff sure has my sympathy.

[@Estoverax]

He came and did this session at my school and he was incredible, I was really moved, particularly when he enacted his son’s death, it really stayed with me

[@saanzacs]

God bless you David Kossoff

[@JT-sr2pl]

Every child deserves these people and opportunities offered to them.

[@pjfdourley4998]

Its always sad and ironic when you see the real feelings a father has for his son; i say ironic because Paul always stressed a difficult relationship with his father however he was so young at the time, he was just going through the motions of adulthood, little did he know how much his father adored him. Same can be said of Jim morrison's dad, an interview with him also showed a loving Dad, they just lost each other along the way of finding themselves

[@jimmyrecce8787]

I started playing the guitar at the age of 11...one of my first albums I ever heard was Free...fire and water...from that day in 1975 I was obsessed with the playing of this man named Paul Kossoff...his sparseness and note selection was so beautiful.....sure miss your genius Paul...😏😏😏

[@stickyfinger100]

David is an actor and loved his son ...He is portraying Paul his youngest sons life and death , Think about it , How hard must this be for the father.... Its about the harm drugs and alcohol can do to someone who were born into a world of innocence.. David was trying to get a message across the best and only way he knew how.

[@colingregson1960]

Many thanks for uploading. His playing on Be My Friend (Free -studio version) is stunning.

[@dankowalski6925]

Yes it is. All the live versions I’ve heard are so so good

[@BunyanaRed1958]

Best player of a Les Paul ever.

[@LeRoiDelaRue]

My favourite guitarist in my teens Poor lad died a week or so before we were due to see him with Crawler Still his vibrato and soul move me

[@hanknotchinaski8222]

2:06 That face! It didn't change that much did it? Then again when you die so young... Glad we had him for a while

[@gill8779]

Thank you so much for uploading these videos.

[@adrianbeaumont6745]

PK his flame went out too soon. Such a talent who was very venerable to to the things that can harm you. Bless him I salute you guitar hero 😔❤

[@elvis_cehany8887]

Thank you for the amazing upload wonderful timeless show

[@stewartw.9151]

I remember the one time I saw Free live. That was at the Seaburn Hotel, near Sunderland in the North-East of England where they appeared at the ballroom attached to the hotel. They were quite well known in the NE but not to me at that time. They were not yet famous I guess, as I do not recall their performance at all in any detail and I would have I think, if they had sung All Right Now as it has been one of my favourite rock songs for many years since first hearing it. David Kossof I also recall - in the 1970s IIRC, he used to sometimes deliver the epilogue on TV when the channel shut down. I always thought he was a rabbi or something like that and never knew then that he was the father of Paul Kossof.

[@paulrogers1536]

Incredible feel and tone

[@davidhaswell1074]

I saw him several times in Scarborough in the mid to late 60's sensational but sad. Even propped against a Marshall amp barely able to stand he could play his guitar impeccably.

[@frankdiaz5877]

what love of a son we loved him to rip paul

[@piplee1439]

You can see where his posture with guitar came from - his classical training. Unique among rock guitarists

[@TJspaceman]

This show came to my school sometime in the early 90s

[@kylefellows2513]

Brilliant musician gone way too early God bless .

[@davidlalremruata]

Finger Memory! That makes so much sense to me🎸🎵👍

[@greenmanalishi6963]

Kossoff and Danny kirwin had the best vibrato

[@marcokitt.2328]

CHILLS !!!!!!!

[@davidlalremruata]

A Les Paul with mountains of Marshall. That is just about as Rock n Roll as it gets!

[@andrewarthurmatthews6685]

Excellent video

[@brianmorecombe2726]

The original great 70s guitar rocker and great guitarist

[@markorollo.]

you learn something every day, im a fan of the tv series lovejoy, i can't remember the episode but there is one where there is a character that is, shall we say, a sandwich short of a picnic, one of my favourite episodes, and ive just found out it was David, Pauls Dad!!, playing that character. im surprised i didnt already know....

[@bluesparkle788]

Feel so sorry there is no french subtitles (english didn't work properly)😕 I was a great fan of Koss. Requiescat in pace Paul & his father

[@willdenham]

It's interesting, the stuff about him pushing things to the limit, fastest horse, highest dive. EVH had the same temperament. Fastest cars, loudest amps, turn it all the way up, etc.

[@mohankrishnasamy1456]

You are a legend. Free shows it

[@TheeRocker]

One original, Paul Kossoff... Blood Clot's are something we are all very familiar with these last 3 years.

[@davidlalremruata]

Alexis Kroner must have been a really great adviser. If only there is someone like him for everyone of us guitar lovers.

[@aaarauz1]

Alexis had a hand in the start of the Stones, John Mayall and other. the dude was the grandpappy of the British blues.

[@noelduggan72]

Good Stuff!!!!

[@wk1810]

15:06 "the music they made was raw, and hard, and that was what was wanted" I wonder if the father struggled to accept his son's choice in career.

[@piplee1439]

Whether it was written in the 60s or not? Alright Now is the anthem of the 70s for moi.

[@THEJOEDAVISBAND]

cool video

[@frankvyvyan]

Anyone know the name of the classical piece at 6:54? Thanks.

[@kevinnorth9927]

Romance de Amour

[@frankvyvyan]

@@kevinnorth9927 cheers man!

[@daveyjohn1000]

I knew David in the late seventies, and admired his anti drug work.

[@bobjary9382]

The musical clips show what a talent Paul had.. And what an amazing singer Rodgers is. His Dad? I have a very different opinion of him

[@jimmypage9283]

?

[@MsDormy]

I’m sorry I can’t see how one could form a bad opinion of this devoted father….. how many fathers would embrace such understanding of the evil world which killed his son, in order to save other young lives? For me this presentation is a beautiful testimony of a true father. May God bless them both. 🙏❤️

[@twomindz79]

Where is part 2?

[@malcolmbenson6368]

I love paul, who died of grief. Hendrix died of alcohol and self neglect.

[@dankowalski6925]

Not true. Not cool to dog Jimi. He was a beautiful soul too

[@СергейМакаров-в4к]

Батя , почему же ты его не удержал?!?! Ты виноват !!!

[@Olegstuff21986]

Да, а они кстати русские евреи. Паша Косов, однако.

[@BigSky1]

He tried to intervene.

[@328ChaunceyStreet]

What year was this filmed?

[@BigSky1]

Circa 1980

[@2011vipe]

So sad

[@davidlalremruata]

I'm getting very curious about the name Kossoff, it sounds Russian but I'm seeing a very British societal background here.

[@mojojojojuniper6122]

Its jewish

[@BigSky1]

Russian Jewish. Kossoff is the abbreviated or Anglicised surname.

[@edslaven9893]

Sucssefull too young and badly managed by Island the best rock singer ever and the potentially no best guitarist ever .Had the privelage to meet and speak to Rodgers after one of his gigs.

[@elshadbagirow9537]

a great musician, he is no worse than Blackmore or Page

[@davidhill5684]

It's a pity Hendrix's death is so often reported as being due to drugs, when it's pretty clear now that he was actually murdered. Assassinated might be more accurate.

[@grantkuff3533]

Just let the man rip

[@user-ky6vw5up9m]

Tell The Police

[@carygson]

Kossoff says “killed by drugs”. I think that’s a fair comment.

[@rubyredall2145]

I remember my bro saying re Hendrick's death "You don t top yourself when you ve got a fortune s worth of gigs lined up, he was rubbed out".

[@piplee1439]

Doesn't David look like Trotsky? Paul looked like his Dad, too. If a guitarist can be said to have had soul, or perhaps bared it, that player was Paul Kossoff. A fear of vaccination? He knew.......

[@piplee1439]

@Private Bronstein remember

[@piplee1439]

@Private how odd that while you reply on given, I listen to Benjamin Freedman’s 61 Hotel speech🥸

[@piplee1439]

@Private do you believe in (((bots)))

[@davidbroadley126]

You and me with jim capaldi and koss a fantastic track I hate drugs taking this great talent at 25 Paul's from a jewish family did his dad flee the nazis

[@robertcarli1969]

Yes he's honoring and paying tribute to his son , although it seems obvious that he's seeking fame for himself.

[@allymayful]

He was famous long before his boy died!!!!! This has nothing to do with fame!!!! Its to do with coping with grief - also a way of letting the world know how proud he was of his boy, and keeping his boys story alive - and most importantly using the story to educate school aged youth.

[@maxgrim1672]

I do not like it ! I think it's a shame that a father staged himself here at the expense of his deceased son! It seems to use Paul's death for its stages!

[@stevejones466]

Have you got children?

[@maxgrim1672]

@@stevejones466 sure ! i´m Grandpa !

[@danielwhite7380]

Shame that's ridiculous his dad was an actor celebrity in his own right. He did this as catharsis never taking money just spreading the word about his prodigious child and the dangers of drug abuse.

[@noneya2066]

Can’t help but feel that his Dad is milking it off his dead son. In fact, I find this grotesque. Not watching anymore.

[@bobjary9382]

You are not alone. Its bare exploitation and I think makes such a bad attempt at warning young people about the very real dangers of drugs it borders on irresponsibility

[@kevinnorth9927]

David Kossoff was a prominent actor in his own right , he had nothing to gain by doing this regarding his own career , its an honest account of his sons life which must have been cathartic for him .

[@noneya2066]

Kevin North fair enough - but his wife is shit at guitar. I jest.

[@personanongrata1308]

Same, gave me the creeps.

[@jeffreystevens5137]

David Kossoff was a great storyteller in his own right. He also wanted to warn others about the dangers of drugs.