Fooled Around and Fell In Love - Elvin Bishop | Andy & Alex FIRST TIME REACTION!

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[@andyandalex]

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[@LoopORama]

Try Me - James Brown (live at the Apollo version)

[@michaelbeasley5783]

If you haven't--"Tears of a Clown" by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. Good song.

[@davidburkett4005]

I’m a Man by the Spencer Davis Group. Original version.

[@galvinklatt5273]

Jeff Buckley - Lover, You Should’ve Come Over

[@moniphil]

“I Can Help” by Billy Swan.

[@abelincoln3287]

Mickey Thomas had some serious pipes and great vocal control. He was definitely Rated, highly rated.

[@markkenific6587]

He still kills it.

[@sealdrup]

He sang lead on Jane by Jefferson Starship. Wonderful singer.

[@JamesBond-ib9tq]

I fooled around and fell in love with this song, Lol

[@flyingburritobro68]

@@sealdrupand Find Your Way Back and others

[@pebblesanddirt]

@@sealdrup I think they just reacted to Jane very recently- i assume that’s why this one was picked - since lots of people commented about Thomas singing this one too

[@warrenfoil6851]

In my opinion this is one of the greatest guitar solos ever. Not flashy, and perfectly matches the mood of the song.

[@stpetie7686]

For me personally, this is one of those songs that simply cannot be improves upon. Awesome from start to finish.

[@arkhllraiser]

Absolutely Mickey Thomas just kills in this song. And in quite a few Starship songs as well. This song has to go in the top 100 list of anybody's greatest songs

[@chopperdeath]

This song defines and era.

[@jjalanj7318]

And all of a sudden it's 1976 I'm 13 and the AM radio is blasting.....GREAT CHOICE!

[@dennismoore3383]

This song was big for Mickey Thomas, who parleyed this into a lead role in the revamped Jefferson Starship. I believe you heard Mickey rockin' out "Jane" a couple weeks ago.

[@nineradvocate]

Midnight Special version. Midnight Special version. Midnight Special version. Midnight Special version. Cannot say this enough times. Its amazing.

[@dabig25]

That show had some GREAT Artists and performances

[@stuartalexander2657]

Don't overlook some sweet guitar work by Elvin ❤️

[@SusanHeaton]

Somebody said, "He ain't good lookin', but he sure can play!"

[@mikelair9144]

Tone!! Variation! Talking guitar! Beautiful work by Elvin Bishop

[@gcorley322]

The live version of this song is incredible! It was filmed on The Midnight Special.

[@bradconrad936]

Pure 70's S tier magic right here.

[@JaneWalters-ni7se]

This is like, my favorite son in the whole lifetime 💙 of the world 🌎 forever ❤and ever....

[@doodoo597]

❤

[@UncleRhemus1]

One of my favorite songs of all time, between Mickey's vocals in elvins guitar. Was a great time to be fifteen or sixteen years old and this song still pops in my head every once in awhile and I end up singing it all day

[@billhare]

I had a chance to work with Mickey Thomas for a few days, recording songs for a TV show he was working on in the late 1990s. I was slightly nervous just before he arrived at my studio, as I have always loved his voice and wondered what kind of attitude/ego would come with it. Turned out he was very down to earth, happy to chat about anything (no matter how mundane), interested in what others had to say (no matter who they were). The one funny quirk I noticed about him in the few days he was at my house was that he seemed to relate anything having to do with his own timeline to this very song. "Oh, that happened about 2 years before 'Fooled Around and Fell in Love'" or "I remember about a year after 'Fooled Around and Fell in Love' came out, I bought a Corvette" or something like that - the subject almost never related to the song itself, it was simply a time marker!

[@ceeceerider]

The Elvin Bishop/ Mickey Thomas factor makes this song S tier for me. I’m particularly fond of Elvin Bishop….. Travelin’ Shoes and Juke Joint Jump are worthy of a listen, even if you just listen on your own time.

[@johnfallon3525]

Unapologetically fun! Pop/rock! Real musicians, real instruments, no fakery. Can't beat that!

[@wpawson]

Their tears left me cold as a stone maybe the the best line in a song ever.

[@HRConsultant_Jeff]

Perfect guitar tone for this song solo. Genius.

[@BrendaNelson-ll4ls]

A timeless classic. Love the vocals of Mickey Thomas. ❤‍🔥

[@charlesc7950]

One of the greatest songs of all time

[@wpollock1]

I love how the piano punches through...the mix on this is so good. I had the mumps and missed this show at the Pontiac Silverdome in 1977 or so. Elvin Bishop, Bob Segar and Todd Rundgren....always mad about that.

[@genekersten7165]

Best guitar solo in a 4 minute song by Elvin.

[@robertelee63]

Has anyone mentioned how good Mickey Thomas is on lead vocals? Someone already has... Oh OK. He'll go on to be the lead vocalist for Starship, helping Grace Slick find her comeback voice.

[@brotherbob3569]

A+ thru & thru. Elvin can play anything . Blues Rock Funk Jazz. Listen to Juke Joint Jump. Southern funk at it's finest.

[@kevinmauch5622]

Check out some of Elvin's work with The Paul Butterfield Blues Band. He and Mike Bloomfield provided a double guitar attack that was unsurpassed when the album East-West was released in 1966. It's timeless stuff that still sounds great today.

[@jimd7260]

Don't think the know anything about Bloomfield. Way past time they found out.

[@kevinmauch5622]

F@@jimd7260 For real.

[@thaddaeusjohn]

YES. PB3 is such a great band. And the title track to that album is one of my all-time favorite tunes.

[@DavidFlores-or8yi]

Don't forget the debut LP. It's more blues based than East West but top notch. The Doors steal Shake Your Money Maker for Break on Through guitar parts

[@MagravatorMag]

"Elvin Bishop sittin' on a bail of hay. He aint' good looking but he sure can play!" ~ Charlie Daniels Band, "The South's Gonna Do It Again". 👈Next tune? I got to see Bishop in 1989. He played for about 3 hours in a tiny venue near Lake Tahoe. We had a blast! Also, he played with the Allman Brothers for a while. In fact, I believe he was with them at Filmore East. I was only 10 when that album came out so I could be wrong on that one.

[@kimberlee9858]

Mickey, One of my favorite vocalists ❤

[@gesundheit602]

@andyandalex The vocals are done by Mickey Thomas and the drummer is Donny Baldwin, who both later joined Jefferson Starship. Elvin Bishop wrote this song and played guitar. He was signed to Capricorn Records out of Macon, Ga (my hometown) along with other artists like The Allman Brothers, The Marshall Tucker Band, Wet Willie, The Charlie Daniel’s Band, Stillwater, and many others.

[@Sharkman1963]

This song is absolute perfection in every respect.

[@darrylchase3688]

The lead singer here, Mickey Thomas, is also the voice of Jefferson Starship.

[@mikewallace8333]

Little bit of trivia… Elvin Bishop went to high school in Tulsa with David Gates (from Bread) and Leon Russel! Some serious musical talent floating around those halls back in the day.

[@randogirl-3]

Central or Will Rogers?

[@mikewallace8333]

@@randogirl-3Rogers

[@allrightnow3653]

I miss Leon Russell so much

[@glass2467]

That's Elvin Bishop bringing the Legit Blues lines on the guitar. He has a ton of history - original member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and inducted into Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, and so much more.

[@thecocktailoasis1849]

The live Midnight Special version is epic.

[@marylewis9732]

I agree

[@deantait8326]

Exactly my thought but glad they covered the song ….

[@samanthanickson6478]

yes, mickey’s eyes were noticeably wandering during the performance. the female background singer was a bit distracting... 😏

[@EW-ty6qw]

Absolutely epic

[@lilamuzik3385]

Should of done the video.

[@robynmatheson7687]

Thank goodness you did the long album version!! The radio play version is all cut up. This is one of my all time favorite songs.

[@deborahtaylor3617]

Loved both Andy & Alex’s faces during the first lyrics

[@steve9199]

Elvin Bishop plays guitar almost like a vocalist uses their voice.

[@SRGots]

This is one of the first songs I can remember hearing as a wee one and I still love it all these years later.

[@asphaltcowboy7567]

Fabulous voice.. especially live

[@broncodeviltexas]

Personal Top 100 song for me. Mickey Thomas is one of the great rock vocalists. 😎👍

[@noracora3962]

Oh yes! Amazing Elvin Bishop. Fooled around and fell in love with song.

[@aroe3896]

just in case no on else has pointed this out. Elvin learned the electric blues playing in Chicago starting in the early 1960's. He was a founding member of the groundbreaking Paul Butterfield Blues Band before going out on his own and moving to SF in the late 60s. That's paying some dues before his mid 70s breakthrough on Capricorn Records and this outstanding hit song

[@charlesallison146]

The best southern rocker that you never heard of ....

[@SonicProfessor_a.k.a._T._Andra]

Elvin Bishop is, actually, a hard-core blues player. He was, not only, briefly, PARTNERED with but in the same class as: Mike Bloomfield. (A '60s blues-rock legend.) Bloomfield AND Bishop got their start in the (also legendary): Paul Butterfield Blues Band. (Bloomfield went on to create/join: The, short-lived, Electric Flag; play with Bob Dylan (Bloomfield is the guitarist on: Highway 61 Revisited) and, then, a solo career [as; Mike Bloomfield AND as the Mike Bloomfield Band, as well]). Sadly, Mike departed the earth in 1981. Paul Butterfield was a highly respected blues harp player and blues vocalist. Bishop worked with Paul Butterfield and, later, with Al Kooper, as well. ...but (somewhat obviously) "Fooled Around And Fell In Love" is his [Elvin's] biggest hit and most far-reaching, well-recognized song. The "secret" to the track (which many, many casual, 'average' listeners -and, even, causal fans- had ZERO idea of, for decades) is that: a, basically, 'unknown' -at that time (outside of the industry itself, I mean)!- background vocalist was asked by Elvin to do the lead vocals on this song. That man is: Mickey Thomas. Yep: the same cat who sings "Jane" for Jefferson Starship! 😛😛 (In fact he GOT THAT gig because Kantner-or someone🤷-heard "Fooled Around And Fell In Love" !!!!🤘🤘). Comparably to, let's say...🤔: Michael McDonald 🤷[who was a, dedicated, studio, 'harmonies and backing vocals "guy" ' -...prior to Tom Johnston getting ill and McDonald being asked to take up some lead parts for the Doobie Brothers.] (for e.g.).... --This is one of those, legendary, beloved, '70s "one-hit-wonders" (by a musician & writer who was, & is, unequivocally!!!; MORE than that!), which is, also, additionally, relevant and important, due to where the guy who was asked to sing lead went, afterwards. --The rest of this album, however, is "a blues record," essentially. -Or (at the VERY least!) "blues-flavored-pop-rock" "stuff." ...

[@jeffreywickens3379]

Yeah, the unpredictable timing of the lead guitar is so impressive. Notes don't come when you expect them, but the guitarist is on another level far above my mind.

[@LaserRanger15]

Tremendous, powerful voice and a great song

[@melaniebrown4660]

Your faces while listening to this are priceless lol. Their performance of this live on The Midnight Special is definitely worth checking out!

[@treasurechristie39]

OMG! This reminds me of slow dancing in Jr. high. Such good memories.

[@LoisChisholm]

This song puts me in a Time Machine, every single time. I love every beat and measure of this song.

[@t.d.cartee2717]

Excellent voice and superb song! 🎵

[@donnas2482]

This song will always take me back to Friday nights in 8th grade, couples skate at Skateland with my first boyfriend. Memories are wonderful things!

[@stephenjester9238]

What Skateland? Could it possibly be, Northridge Valley Skateland?

[@romancturner]

Perfect! The DJ: this is a couples skate ONLY! And......snowball.

[@masisney6118]

Skateland in Tulsa, Elvins home town?

[@sweetjunegirl]

Skating and listening to great music back in the day was so awesome!!

[@kitschmygrits4836]

Yeah, memories like yours are wonderful unless like me, you got your hair cut really short (thanks to Janet from Three's Company) and when the slow skate song "Key Largo" starts playing, a girl comes up and asks you to slow skate. I can't even hear that song without the memory of me yelling at that little girl, "I'm not a boy!" and her yelling back, "I'm sorry!" as she ran off. Good times lol!

[@davidguest7]

a true anthem song of the mid 70s. glad you guys had a chance to experience it. 😁

[@actuariallurker9650]

The lead vocalist is the same guy - Mickey Thomas- who sang Jane from Starship

[@dougclark7077]

Thank you for reviewing this song. The "single" version leaves out an entire verse and a good portion of Elvin"s guitar solo. So happy that you went with the full version. This came out when I was finishing up my senior year of high school. An A for me.

[@slidezone9056]

"Whatcha' Gonna Do" and "Love Will Find A Way"; both by the group Pablo Cruise.

[@michaelktm6061]

Elvin Bishop Live! Raisin' Hell is an incredible album.

[@jimcox8148]

This song brings back memories from my bar days. A club I used to go to had live music. One band played this song then would have audience members come up to sing the chorus. Most people were fair and a few pretty bad. But there were a few that were great and I can still remember them 48 years later.

[@RSturtleness]

A true banger from back when. My comment, though, is to to you gents. Have perused several other reaction sites any you are by far the best. Love the fact that you still don’t interrupt a song in progress. Also you give super feedback on the instrumental/musical aspects of each song. Very refreshing to get a musician’s reaction. Thanks and keep on rockin!

[@mongo4384]

Great song.Solid A

[@daviddragavon7555]

Traveling shoes, Elvin Bishop. He does the vocals himself on this. I believe he recorded a version of "mean ol' walking blues" with Paul Butterfield (Harmonica)

[@steveandme63]

Charlie Daniel's salutes his guitar abilities in his song The Souths Gonna Do It Again... "Elvin Bishop sittin' on a bale of hay He ain't good lookin', but he sure can play.."

[@deannajones3849]

Love this one! I've been patiently waiting for this! I would love it , if a guy sang this to me! I wouldn't be mad! It's a compliment.

[@jtcolo43]

I hope you put 2 and 2 together and realized that was Mickey Thomas of Jefferson Sharship’s “Jane”. I think you guys just recently covered it. Huge thanks again

[@peterstilla8733]

Mickey Thomas on vocals, Elvin Bishop on guitar. You heard Mickey a couple of weeks ago with Jefferson Starship. Great song.

[@clintpot8521]

I love the bassline. This song pops into my head randomly from time to time and its always entertaining!

[@sandipage1471]

Mr.Elvin Bishop..a superb guitarist .and Mickey Thomas whom was a vocalist in the group Jefferson Airplane / Starship ..ofcourse does the vocals in this epic tune is such a match made in musical pairing paradise ..😂love this old tune many memories..

[@edcastillo9342]

Elvin Bishop is the guitarist. That's Mickey Thomas on lead vocals here. He went on to be the lead vocalist for the Jefferson Starship after Marty Balin left...

[@DropAnchor1978]

Never heard this unedited version. Great, Great Great!!!

[@donevans2299]

When Elvin Bishop played guitar for Paul Butterfields blues band they called him Pigboy Crabshaw

[@StevenMichals0812]

Elvin is one of the great country outlaws.

[@pebblehilllane]

When it comes to Elvin Bishop, the Charlie Daniels Band song "The South's Gonna Do It Again" summed him up perfectly, and not many words were needed to do it. "Elvin Bishop sittin' on a bale of hay He ain't good lookin', but he sure can play."

[@bld9696]

Mickey Thomas, from Cairo GA, was the singer in a band called Lords of London while attending Valdosta State University. A friend of mine, Bob Hutchinson, was the bass player in that band. Imagine hearing that voice in some little bar in Georgia!!!! Mickey soon left school to further his music career. I think he made the right choice.

[@everett8610]

I'm 60 and you guys are young and young is fun! As it should be! I wouldn't want to be young today as far as music is concerned. For example you guys aren't going to hear something like Disco, 60's 70's 80's and maybe 90's rock for the first time as the entire world looks AT SOMETHING NEW. There is nothing new to be done. I agree with Gene Simmons who says "no new bands or solo music artists icons are coming again EVER." Thats a bold statement but when I was your age everybody listened to pretty much everything to some degree because you had to turn the radio dial to find your station and you heard the others as you went up and down the dial. But new music isn't what makes life worth living by any means but just thought Id drop my thoughts. Thanks and I do like you guys channel.

[@dabig25]

Midnight Special FTW

[@topgazza]

Just wonderful stuff. I have no words to describe the swaying that comes with this song and melody. Brilliant, just brilliant

[@dianegoldeneye7207]

This song never gets old. I was a teen when it played. The vocals, Mickey Thomas hit hard. Of course at the time I fooled around and fell in love. The love is still there’s today. Young love and he’s the father of my daughter. Still friends 50 years later. 😳 yikes where did the time go. Make your dreams happen while you’re young guys. It really does go by fast. I woke last night to the 🎶sound of thunder How far off I sat and wondered? Started hummin' a song from 1962 Ain't it funny how the night moves? When you just don't seem to have as much to lose Strange how the night moves With autumn closin' in 🎶 Thanks Bob

[@privatename123]

It’s wonderful that with expanded health spans and a more accepting society, one can pursue their dreams at nearly any age. It’s just that the dreams change.

[@ORagnar]

You faded out with Bob Seger. Nice artistic touch. 3

[@scottingram7634]

So glad you didn't do the radio edit of this song. My girlfriend back in high school said he got it backwards...you're supposed to fall in love and then fool around. Anyway, this song was as big as everyone here has said it was back in the 70s. Elvin is one kickass blues guitarist. He was part of the Capricorn Records brotherhood of musicians who would play at each other's shows and on each other's albums. He would sit in with Charlie Daniels, Allmans, Marshall Tucker, all those great southern bands. Next for Elvin I'd suggest "Travelin' Shoes", and for a fun song that will make you laugh give "Fishin' " a listen. Elvin has a great sense of humor that comes through in his music.

[@bigbow62]

You must checkout the live version of this song its amazing !

[@rayeckert242]

I would have preferred an A+, but I was there as a teenager when it dropped. It was righteous then as now.

[@m.y.o.b.724]

A staple on all oldies stations and for good reason. ❤

[@kharmee0178]

❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 excellent vocals

[@tonymusolino2369]

Caught the Jefferson Starship “Jane” reaction video recently. Awesome job guys, MickeyThomas sure can “croon a tune”. A+ 😎

[@jeffreypowell1656]

You did not mention the singer. Incredibly fine vocal. What the hell, boys?

[@johnmoonitz2968]

One of my favorite song from my earliest memory!!

[@78r0ckarolla]

According to Thomas ,Elvin had the song kicking around for some time and when the album was recorded ,Bill Symczyk(the LP’s producer)asked for another track to complete the picture,so Thomas suggested this one.But Bishop was supposed to sing it ,and as it was not suited for his voice ,Thomas ended up nailing the part .

[@UFOS4]

Instantly put into the 'Wayback Machine" when I hear this. Dated a guy back then who insisted that "Traveling Shoes" by Elvin Bishop was the best song ever.

[@generic53]

Andy's turning into a real hippy freak.

[@Lisa-pl6gv]

Love this pretty blues song.

[@joebarrera9741]

A classic song ...awsome vocals

[@kathysmith8119]

Elvin Bishop wrote Fooled Around and Fell in Love, but didn't like his voice for it so he had back up singer Mickey Thomas sing it. I 100% agree with the comments about watching the Midnight Special version. One of my all time favorite songs. Just happens to be the exact story of my musician husband and myself, 45 years ago. 💕 Doesn't bother me st all, he choose me.😉

[@humphreygruntwhistle3946]

Glad you listened to the album version of this song. The solo on the single was edited to a fraction of what you hear on this one.

[@deecee5399]

A song to contemplate...Carly Simon, That's The Way I Always Heard It Should Be. Amazing singer songwriter.

[@zephead64]

Funny that you should mention the solo.. the 7 inch single not only cut the entire 2nd vocal verse, it also did edit the guitar solo. YET, it was still a banger 👌👍😊😊

[@NoNotMe0000]

He makes his guitar sing!

[@vernonbolinger9488]

I have always loved this song, especially the guitar solo.

[@michaelescareno7048]

Ha! My first concert in 1970. Elvin Bishop Group opened for Santana!!

[@edwardbarrett453]

Lol. I saw him do this and many more in a bar/concert venue in Olympia Washington In 1981. What a great night

[@ckwhitehead1]

Great song from the 70's!

[@Jessica_Roth]

As I said on your "Jane" reaction, Mickey Thomas was Elvin's back-up singer, but Elvin thought this suited Mickey more, so they flipped for this song. And, not much later, when Jefferson Starship lost both their lead singers (Grace Slick needed to get sober, Marty Balin was sick of touring and Grace and everything), they thought of Mickey and he ended up with #1 hits and millions of records sold. And so it all worked out well. You may recall that Aynsley Dunbar was playing drums on "Jane". A few years later he left Jefferson Starship and they replaced him with Donny Baldwin, who is the drummer on this one. (Nowadays, Baldwin is drumming for a revived Quicksilver Messenger Service, with David Freiberg, who played keys and bass in Jefferson Starship and had been in QMS before that. Of course, you haven't hit Quicksilver Messenger Service yet, even though I talked them up before. So, again…give a listen to "What About Me?" and you will *not* regret it.)

[@susancampbell6981]

Never gets old. Love listening to Mickey Thomas sing.

[@mikefetterman6782]

You may remember Elvin Bishop from the band WILD CHERRY, the guitarist here is the singer of the song "Play that funky music white boy"

[@mikefetterman6782]

My guitar teacher would call this type of guitar solo a 'sax solo on the guitar" .

[@vanessalore9942]

I’d forgotten how great this song was. Reminds me so much of that time my husband and I were dating