Earth, Wind & Fire - Runnin' - Live in Essen 1979

Earth, Wind & Fire - Runnin' - Live at the Grugahalle in Essen 1979. Tour Of The World.
-Earth, Wind & Fire (1979):
Maurice White - vocals, drums, kalimba
Verdine White - bass
Philip Bailey - vocals, congas, percussion
Larry Dunn - keyboards
Al McKay - guitars, percussion (1973-80)
Johnny Graham - guitars, percussion
Roland Bautista - guitar (1981-83)
Andrew Woolfolk - saxophones, flute, percussion
Ralph Johnson - drums (1974-80), vocals, percussion (1981-83)
Fred White - drums (1975-87)
-The Phenix Horns (1974-1983):
Michael Harris - trumpet, flugelhorn
Rahmlee Michael Davies - trumpet, flugelhorn
Louis Satterfield - trombone
Don Myrick - saxophones
Elmar Brown - trumpet (1979)

[@barbararouwendal8708]

My heart goes wild, this is the best band ever. EVERRR!!!

[@dhahransdadwoods5193]

Rest in heaven Fred White. EWF forever and a day.

[@galenhubbard8784]

I saw this live back in the day.The percussion breakdown was epic.Everyone had a fantastic solo👈🏽

[@charlesswain7708]

The greatest band that ever existed!!

[@cliftonsledge4347]

Yes they are

[@ryandhall]

What I wouldn't give to have been able to see these cats play live in their prime! This is radioactive it's so hot!

[@barryirvin2417]

I saw them for the first time in 1976 . I saw them 3 more times with Maurice touring. . Their glory years were 1975 to 1982 . Without Maurice I saw them 3 more times . They were much better with him than without him . Phenomenal in concert .

[@crsounddoctor4937]

The best band of all time...Hands down!!!

[@janellarogers1117]

THAT PART!!!!

[@barriazacabezas]

Sigues vigente Maurice..... tus ganas de hacer bailar y degustar el mejor ritmo.... Y su banda...... E. W. F.

[@markjackson4285]

Dam straight!

[@laryanryan9170]

They were the GOATS before anyone was ever called GOATS.

[@patriceadelemua2366]

I agree !!!!

[@sevinatenine4444]

THIS WAS 21 MINUTES OF PURE MAGIC FROM THE BEST BAND EVER,EARTH,WIND AND FIRE.

[@gregbateman9680]

I was actually at this concert in ‘79 in Essen Germany. I was stationed in the U.S Army in Aschaffenburg about 3 hrs away from Essen. I couldn’t believe when I saw on a base bulletin board EWF was coming to Germany and anyone interested in going could sign up. We all went to Essen on a luxurious German motor coach …. What an awesome way to experience my favorite group at that time! Thanks EWF for a great gift to a then homesick 20 year old!

[@rickharris1709]

The late great Louis Satterfield was a beast!! Trombone,percussion & bass man he was great.

[@DerrickMiller-ig8qs]

Ewf is the best band to ever play,Ewf was a band light years away.i haven't seen a band that comes close rip Maurice white

[@leongayle941]

Absolute!! No questions or doubts.. "Best Band On The Planet!!"

[@gregoryholliday2197]

Runnin" was their most underrated Afro-Cuban hit Maurice White is a great visionary bro.!

[@andrejackson8270]

Have you heard the remixes 👍💯🔥

[@amazing50000]

The song won a Grammy for Best Instrumental Track of 1977.

[@standaman1963]

All n All is my favorite album by EWF.

[@megabugginout]

Afro-Brazilian...sorry to be that guy....

[@misterb7070]

Nothing beats the energy of a EW&F concert [1975-1980]

[@RoninAliNowOn]

Add 1981 in there, too.

[@RaZEltacho79]

I was born in 1979 and this is my favorite band of all times, really blessed to growed up with this music🙏🏻

[@djl906]

@@RoninAliNowOn I agree Ronin, I was blessed to see them here in detroit In 1981 for the Raise tour which was my first concert at 10 years old thanks to aunt taking me, I never forgot that show even to this day at age 51 it is still one of the best shows I have ever seen. RIP Fred White.

[@PhilMoskowitz]

@@RoninAliNowOn The Raise tour was okay. If it weren't for the HBO version of it I doubt if I would have remembered much of it. The I AM tour was out of this world.

[@RoninAliNowOn]

@@PhilMoskowitz Even with LET'S GROOVE?

[@san-panico]

Just came back to this for another smile inducing, and foot tapping experience! Man, E, W & F were such an incredible group of men!

[@chiquitalove9944]

ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS VERDINE WHITE OWNS THE BASS GUITAR THRONE !!! HE PLAYS THE HELL OUT OF THAT THING- HES MAKING THE GUITAR CRY !!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😂❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😎

[@wandawright6051]

EWF my group of all times the best concerts the best musicians and live performances they never disappointed in the studio or live❤️❤️❤️

[@JMrealgamer]

I love how Maurice gives them all their time to jam out! This is amazing! I wish I could have seen them perform this live. This is the next best thing though. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@xerman100]

Dutch tribute band The Chicago Funk took part in a likeminded TV-contest earlier this year. They won a co-headlining slot with an Elvis-interpretator during three sold out shows before starting their own tour. Don't know if this is part of their repertoire.

[@JMrealgamer]

@@xerman100 interesting. I’ll look that up! Thank you!

[@nikidavis1475]

God BLESS you all for posting such a MASTERPIECE!! Priceless footage and priceless soundtrack, especially with Frederick Eugene "Freddie" White and his gorgeous drum solo near the end of the track. May he rest in POWER! ✊🏾❤!! And my condolences to his brother Verdine White and family who have just lost yet another brother...too soon. 🙏🏾❤

[@countdracula7235]

Oh my god....I had no idea about this live track. Its is F’in DOPE ! The solos and the percussion of Maurice, Rahmlee. , Don, Larry & Bailey !!

[@merchantsmithimages]

Only the true fans know about this Grammy winning masterpiece.

[@bernardolorenzoarriazacabe97]

Ese dominio de manos en la batería te dan los méritos para merecer el 1er. Lugar... Grande Maurice White. Leyenda....

[@roderickthompson2292]

There will never be another E,W&F or any other band that can come close, I am grateful for the opportunity to meet them after a show in San Antonio.

[@ronniedurham7180]

This is one of my favorite songs from Earth Wind &Fire🔥 ......I used to play this song in a marching band!!!!

[@xerman100]

Stand out track among other highlights. Bought the cd-reissue with the demo-version.

[@gadgetguroo]

I was at this show when I was stationed in Germany.❤

[@asonou]

And the concert was on TV in Germany on the WDR Channel, a public TV in west Germany, can you imagine the shock 🫨😱🔥

[@EWFMW]

EWF forever🙏☀️⭐️💫💥💥 Greatest band of all time🙏 Thank you EWF🙏

[@Teletubbie257]

Their musical craftsmanship is unbelievable

[@derekgreen4584]

JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED ! SENT FROM GOD, HIMSELF ! ! ! SEEN THEM TWICE ! ONLY THE BEST ! REST IN PERFECT LOVE AND PEACE BROTHER MERICE ! LOVE U TOO !

[@andrewcharley1893]

Andrew Woolfolk tenor sax legendary solo!!!!!

[@lj3musicjulien855]

That is not Mr. Andrew Woolfolk on the tenor sax solo. That's Mr. Don Myrick. He also played on the original track of this song ," Runnin."😢

[@oneluv72]

Maurice White say nomore!! Class by themselves!!! 🌍🌎🌄

[@sarahpovey6368]

Fantastic,brilliant,EARTH,WIND,FIRE in my soul ❤️

[@adalee8065]

Brilliant 👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾

[@headedsomewhere]

Never seen this clip before, thanks for posting it. EWF fan 4 life

[@saj8]

The G.O.A.T. band.

[@kennethwalker7768]

The Baddest Group in the world.... No band has raised up since EW&F; to take us to higher levels.

[@EarthWindandFirepower0990]

A WAS GONNA SAY HOW SAD THAT THERE ARE ONLY 4010 VIEWS SO FAR ON THIS AWESOME VIDEO FROM MY FAVORITE MUSICAL ACT EVER.BUT THEN I THOUGHT US 4000 PLUS ARE SO BLESSED TO HAVE SEEN THIS CLIP,SO WE'RE THE ONES WITH GREAT TASTE IN MUSIC.

[@lgziabeher]

Right on

[@patriceadelemua2366]

One of my Favorite Bands !!! Thank you for sharing

[@tonywhite2567]

I love it the magical person that fire unlike any group I've ever seen

[@paololeonetti]

Oh mio Dio! Assurdi, allucinanti! Energia allo stato puro.

[@merchantsmithimages]

Don Louis Maurice Andrew Roland Freddie Rest Easy, Brothers.

[@ericrobinson1789]

Mannnn, this performance was lit 🔥!

[@williamisenberger1073]

Another amazing thing about seeing them live (I saw them in 79 and 81),they would take songs and extend them out like this. I saw them do Reasons, which included a percussion break and a trombone solo by Lewis Satterfield, great musicians

[@benjaminmitchell5345]

Incomparably great

[@apmatematica7]

GRAN ESPECTÁCULO, GRACIAS POR COMPARTIR EL VIDEO.

[@unique74muzik]

Thank You!!! 🔥

[@MsWildberry1]

EWF are just great. No doubt 💯.

[@larryjackson499]

Solid-no doubt the timing is on time.from E.W.F back in the days.

[@anthonymann3413]

The music of our time nothing better than EWF

[@andrejackson8270]

The baddest MF BAND ASSEMBLED🖖 WHO YOU KNOW BETTER? I'LL WAIT!

[@walterjenkins4536]

Parliament/Funkadelic

[@andrejackson8270]

@@walterjenkins4536 a close second! BUT I AINT MAD AT YA💯

[@michaeldean9338]

RIP, Reece, Louis 'lulu' Satterfield, and the great Don Myrick, (what a waste of talent...I'm still pissed)....1/27/23, update: R.I.P. Andy Woolfolk and Fred White. (much love, fellas, and endless thank you s.)

[@isiahbethel5956]

Music for music lovers

[@gman5573]

No Words !🙏❤

[@mrwalker862]

Powerful!

[@derekgreen4584]

EXCELLENT TIMING ! RYTHUM !

[@gregoryholliday4972]

That's hit crazy how Philip Bailey just flat out morphed & Shapeshifted

[@chantellerogers4736]

This was when Earth Wind and Fire ruled the World

[@harryrodriguez-coll4040]

Amazing solo by Rahmlee Michael Davies. Again, Michael Harris was not on this tour.

[@MsValanton]

Verdine is great and so is his percussive brother on drums

[@derekgreen4584]

EVEN HOLY ? ! ! RIGHTEOUS EVEN !

[@danjackson5989]

RIP Fred White.

[@WilliamBrown-vl2hl]

Sounds good listening 10-4-2022.

[@gregoryholliday4972]

Many people fans included commit the graverror of thinking that this band was just talented 😍 ohh no these we're very,very, very incomprehensibly and extraordinarily"Gifted beyond anything one could ever hope to fathom let alone"imagine" and they all possessed an uncanny" ESP"@mongsthemselvesimililar to the R&B/SouL Group "$Witch"but Maurice White sethe standard being a Consummate and accomplished Metaphysician & Egyptologist of which he no-doubt incorporated into the band's and group's philosophy little did we know they we're practicing an ancient vibratory magic and science of sound harmonics that's long lost in today's socalled Music!👁️🤟🤲☪️

[@RolandStone32]

Larry is too cool

[@josevillagrana571]

I remember when I was at the record store in the early 70s I saw EWF 8 track tape didn't them but when I opened the package and put the tape in my 8 track stereo I was blown away 😳 never stopped loving them since rip Maurice white Fred white 😢 missing you

[@michaelh2791]

RIP Fred white

[@deannaysmith3989]

6 people are deaf.

[@kevinpaige5746]

Louis Satterfield playing bass live for this song. I knew before the camera showed, "there's no way that's Verdine playing." It wasn't. It make me wonder if Louis didn't play all the studio stuff? He sure sounds like "the guy on the records".

[@kevingimmemusic]

You know.. that's been widely rumored. I tend to believe it. Verdine said that Satterfield taught him about the funky stuff. I truly believe that Verdine was a big part of the show and pantomiming a lot of bass "playing." I've never heard a solo by him that ever wowed me. Ever. But it takes nothing away from the legend.

[@mykalimba]

So, are you implying that Louis played everything, and Verdine's only talent was showmanship? Don't gaslight us, bro. If that's the case, who's playing bass when Louis is on the trombone?

[@kevinpaige5746]

@@mykalimba Which part of "Studio" made you think I was talking about the live show? Gas light? I suppose that you believe all the E, W & F members were singing all the background vocals on the records as well? Nope, just Maurice and Phillip. Maurice didn't care who played the parts, it was all about the final result. For anyone to question "who played what" on an E, W & F record, is a perfectly legitimate wonder.

[@mykalimba]

@@kevinpaige5746 This bizarre scenario -- where Louis plays the bass in studio for all of the recordings and Verdine is relegated to perform only at live shows -- is gaslighting. The whole "It make (sic) me wonder..." lead in is the same nonsense that Fox News uses to gaslight its viewers, and your assertion is completely unfounded. It is well documented that when Verdine joined the group -- not long after leaving the Chicago Conservatory of Music, where he learned classical bass -- Louis took him under his wing and taught him how to play electric bass. So it stands to reason that Verdine's sound would be similar to Louis', and vice versa. It should be no surprise that a student's technique is very much like that of the instructor. "I suppose that you believe all ... were singing..." From gaslighting to straw man? Nope, I don't believe that for an instant, as much as that might disappoint you. I understand that 99% of all vocals were Maurice, Philip (only one "L", not two), and -- for completeness -- Jessica Cleaves, Sherry Scott, Don Whitehead & Wade Flemons. Other band members are often credited as backing vocalists, and a number of other artists (e.g. various members of The Emotions) have performed in lead and backing vocalist roles.

[@kevinpaige5746]

@@mykalimba Wow, how much dysfunction is in a person who has to point out a typo in an attempt to make themselves look like the superior fan? Really, what's your deal?

[@dianewinters8628]

Far out

[@antoniojackson7934]

Ba ba ba ba ya🎵

[@bernardolorenzoarriazacabe97]

Ronald mirryck con su saxo..

[@michaelredd4642]

Fred!!!!!!Where's your shirt man!!!

[@quanna8088]

I don't remember Fred White ever wearing shirts during their live shows.

[@rockndisco3874]

1:47 🥁 🔥

[@andreahouse5017]

PURE EWF ENERGY!!!!

[@ProudBM19]

I Hear Some Sun Ra Influence As Well?

[@MsValanton]

I wonder how old the members are now. I'm 67yrs old

[@xerman100]

The remaining members of the classic line-up are in their seventies.

[@darryloatneal5258]

do u have the hole show

[@michaeldean9338]

@@FunkSoulBluesJazzRockPop Thanks very much for this, Darryl.

[@barriazacabezas]

Biiiien.... Fredd.... Tus manos..... Benditas....

[@MrToninobest]

vorrei sapere chi sono quelle 2 bestie che hanno messo "non mi piace"!!!!

[@karencoleman6442]

Yes l agree Earth Wind & Fire is the best band in the universe!

[@barriazacabezas]

Exquisito el ritmo larry.....