Love the nod to TOP! A college roommate brought home East Bay Grease. Enough said!! I still go see them, and they are still really good!! Go see them, folks!!
@TRamone012 ай бұрын
Cheap Thrills is one of my favorite albums. As much as I hate to say, she probably needed to go solo. She was just too talented. But, as they say, it is what it is. Thanks for the Sly coverage.
@marksaleski98902 ай бұрын
Tower of Power! Oh man, I love putting on that live album. The horns are just _snappin_ on "What Is Hip?"!!
@brianlehman7102 ай бұрын
Love Herb Caen. I have a typed, signed note from him from when I got an item into his column (Analog typewriter, that is). There was nothing more importantly required with one's coffee than his column every morning.
@JamesKing-go2cq2 ай бұрын
Klaus Voorman’s Santana cover is awesome. How much friggin’ talent could Hamburg Germany hold in 1962?
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
The first Santana album was not by Klaus It’s by Lee Conklin.
@Boatzerama2 ай бұрын
Love Santana’s first album.
@luytondriman62362 ай бұрын
Hi Mazzy, I loved the 'Funk' video and was especially pleased when you showed Cold Blood, I love this band, and they had an excellent drummer; also love thee early Pointer Sisters stuff, right up to the 'Energy' album, produced by Peter Asher, where they did a great version of Steely Dan's 'dirty work' and others. Vol 2 is calling !!
@7and12inchvinyl2 ай бұрын
Excellent Santana Janis joplins tower power. Who could ask for more. Oh yeah, you had more oh great.
@user-ru4sw1pg3s2 ай бұрын
What a great set of records! Ahh, my youth. There's an old movie house in downtown Monterey, that I caught, Top as the self-titled came out. Also, earlier, saw Taj with The Sons of Chaplain, Elvin Bishop and Doobies around the Captain and Me. After years off, they are doing it there again. Any Boz is great music. Thanks so much!
@spectrum_archives2 ай бұрын
Pointer Sisters - "Yes We Can Can".... a MASSIVE TUNE!
@Norman-bone132 ай бұрын
Santana was a monumental debut imo. Loved Sly and Tower of Power. 🎶😎
@rocky-o2 ай бұрын
man..i had a gigantic poster of sly and the family stone on my wall back in the day.. listened to 'hot fun in the summertime' like it was my soundtrack...tower of power 'what is hip'..another classic..pointer sisters 'yes we can can'..and janis..what needs to be said..great stuff.. and for your store..i'm waiting for you to make a coffee mug that says 'there's always room', a quote you once said about the idea of having too many records..i'd buy it... be well my friend.. peace always..rocky
@garycornell64332 ай бұрын
Great video Mazzy! I am definitely in agreement that Sons of Champlin were a hot San Francisco band!
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
No doubt!✌🏼
@rickhager32882 ай бұрын
Got thei first two Cold Blood LP's. Never saw that third one, First Taste of Sin. Hmmmm,. wiill have to search that out. Boz is one of the coolest dudes on our little planet... Peace Out.
@Russell.S2 ай бұрын
“Frisco”, wow you went there. Talked to a dude who said he was from Frisco. It was Frisco this, Frisco that. I almost chastised him but turns out he meant Frisco, Colorado. I know, cool story bro. When I was there, it was San Fran, maybe still is. Love those Cold Blood albums.
@chrisnicol16442 ай бұрын
Mas... I got that Santana album on CD... The second disc is their complete Woodstock set... Fantastic...!
@chrisnicol16442 ай бұрын
Mas... Sony has been releasing 5-pack bundles of these classics, only on CD, so far... I bought the 5-pack of Foghat, Sly and The Family Stone and Blood Sweat and Tears. All for under $35.00, and remastered... Only flaw...? A little thin on the liner notes...
@C90C60C302 ай бұрын
Amazing knowledge. Keep ‘em coming mate.
@williamcardina892 ай бұрын
You might have left San Francisco but SF never left you RIP Orlando Cepeda
@TheDigitalGramophone2 ай бұрын
No Jefferson Airplane? 🤠
@robfrith2 ай бұрын
Great SF band, but funky?
@tonyschmee2 ай бұрын
The bay hasn't stopped bringing the funk! Especially here in the East Bay. So much great music over the last several decades. I believe you were in SF in the 90s, so perhaps he remember the whole acid jazz scene with the hub sort of being the elbow room in the mission where you lived. Great boy all stars, junk, etc.. That was a very vibrant scene with so many great acts sprouting out of it. Great labels too! Thanks for shining a little light on a sometime underappreciated part of the Bay Area music history! Oh, and thanks for clarifying for the "Uninformed" folks out there about the use of "Frisco" or even "San Fran" lol… Love it!
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
I lived in SF from my birth through 2013. Yeah still lots of great soul and funk all around. ✌🏼
@melleese93802 ай бұрын
Hi Massey. Greetings from West Yorkshire UK. Just thought Id send you a message to say how much I enjoy your videos, which appear on a near daily basis. I enjoy them not just for your musical knowledge, but also your presentation style. Keep up the good work. Just watched your video on Funky music from San Francisco Bay Area (not Fresco, as you point out). Just wanted to point out that there was no mention of the cult soul singer Darondo whom I believe came from the Bay Area. He released numerous singles including Didn't I, and the album Let My People Go which I have ?. Best Wishes. Mel Leese. Huddersfield uk
@VincentBautista3652 ай бұрын
Some super sweet selections! You've inspired my Funky Funk today! Loving the channel...
@richardlay96632 ай бұрын
Both Mic Gillette and Skip Mesquite played for Tower of Power and Cold Blood. Also, there was a Bay Area release “Lights Out” with Voco, where they paired Tower of Power with Lydia Pense and Raul Maute (keyboardist for Cold Blood) for several cuts. Also had TOP with Dusty Street adding in the “vocal” for Cleo’s Back. Weren’t both Cold Blood & Sons of Champlin originally Marin County bands? Great video and synopsis of Bay Area soul. I sat in with a band that opened for early Sly & Family Stone. They were off the chart!
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
I think Cold Blood East Sons Marin. 🤷🏻♂️
@fatback22 ай бұрын
Fun vid. I might add the Betty Davis album that had a whole host of Bay Area funksters on it and the Herbie Hancock Chameleon and Thrust albums. You've got me wanting to check out some Cold Blood now.
@onsenkuma19792 ай бұрын
Nice selection Mazzy. I've got to go back and listen to Cold Blood again. 'Kozmic Blues' sounded like Janis Joplin in thrall to Otis Redding, and she certainly would have been blown away by his performance at the Monterey Pop Festival th year before. I especially like the title track and 'Maybe' on this one...
@rundoetx2 ай бұрын
Ok. I know that Ballin' Jack were from Seattle, relocated to Los Angeles, BUT, they played San Francisco a lot and should be in anyones "funky" collection.
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
I could on and on
@stuartmorris98552 ай бұрын
Mazzy, I just love your videos. Apart from the two pointer sisters albums I have all the others and listen to them frequently. San Francisco was such a hotbed of creativity from '65 to the early 70s. Amazing music. I am now off to investigate the 2 pointer sister albums.
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
Thanks for listening ✌🏼
@91pastor2 ай бұрын
I think that Boz Scaggs LP is from 1976, the 1974 original had a white cover with a photo of Boz in swimming trunks walking out of the water.
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
Yes. I showed both in my recent Boz Scaggs feature. 🎸
@fidelios_frequency2 ай бұрын
Nice selection of albums that I’m not familiar with to add to my listening list. Thanks Mazzy! ✌🏻
@alexluksich61592 ай бұрын
A San Franciscan band that recorded some material at Golden State Recorders in 1969 was Gold - a mix of some rock but also Santana influenced material with some soul & funk moves as well - there is a reissue of these songs on vinyl
@photogcw2 ай бұрын
We need more white (Jewish and non Jewish) guys talking about funk music on KZbin.
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
Agree 😎
@spectrum_archives2 ай бұрын
Great video! Santana, Sly Stone,.... That Sons Of Champlin sleeve looks reallly cool. Never heard of the band.
@sycamoreflynn2 ай бұрын
How about a mention of the passing of the wonderful Kinky Friedman.
@fredericmorris29312 ай бұрын
As Carmen McRae memorably ad libbed (Live at Sugar Hill), “what the squares call Frisco”.
@rixvspinner2 ай бұрын
Sly's There's A Riot Going On is as funky as it gets. Then, Stevie Wonder's All Day Sucker
@VinylLatte2 ай бұрын
A lot of great picks! Thanks for putting it together!
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
My pleasure!
@shaunmaloney54152 ай бұрын
Your new camera makes you look older maz 😎🇬🇧
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
I am old. I don’t have a new camera. I’m using the cinematic mode in my iPhone which limits depth of field and blurs everything not centered in the frame. So that and the light source shows me at my age 😎🤠
@Norman-bone132 ай бұрын
I’m looking old now too in current pictures, but it’s my age, not camera. I’ve earned every wrinkle! 🎶👍🏼😎
@oldmonkey12 ай бұрын
I'm very happy you gave Cold Blood some love. They are one of the great San Francisco bands, but sadly they are nearly forgotten. I try to rectify that whenever possible. (Sons of Every Name Variation too, but I dig Cold Blood more.)
@nerdsreselling2 ай бұрын
Bay always at each other. Outsiders saying SF is dead and local media saying SF is back. Pinnacle being the Ben Again /Skrillex concert. Always the yin and yang here in the Bay.
@AlanKPet2 ай бұрын
Cool video. I’m getting used to you using “Frisco”, but it still raises the hair on my neck…. I would like to add Kathi McDonald to your list. Insane Asylum features a ton of San Francisco musicians and is funky.
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
Live the McDonald album. Had forgotten about it
@user-ki1yc4vx2s2 ай бұрын
I love 1st Santana album. I like Family Stone but don't like 'Riot.'
@user-mv5bu2kk8b2 ай бұрын
Thanks for reminding me of the tsstier things
@Niels1332 ай бұрын
Chicago 7 is very nice.
@paavoviuhko72502 ай бұрын
thanks for your love of San Fran, I appreciate your hatred of tourists. I am the same way. What has concerned me is your refusal to talk about Big Brother. Their talent is perhaps not up to the highest levels but they were sort of a garage band that I love. I have always wanted to get music from them before Janis. That is almost difficult to do. I love the personalities of these guys. They were all part of the flavor of San Francisco of those days for those who lived far away. You have to understand that San Francisco was a dream for people around the world in those days.
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
I love Big Brother and have included them in other videos. A funk video is not really the place for them.
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
And I love tourists ✌🏼😎
@paavoviuhko72502 ай бұрын
@@mazzysmusic Yes but your refusal to allow outsiders to use the term Frisco is not very friendly. You want some sort of exclusionary status for those who really belong which translates to me as "fuck off tourists". Believe me I will never be visiting San Fran. I don't deny that I use the same terms for the bush visitors who are just tourists where I live, so I play the same game, but my San Fran is the forest. God bless you. I still love you.
@GarySchermesser2 ай бұрын
You forgot the best bar band of the bay area The Hoodoo Rythum Devils
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
Oh yeah ✌🏼
@ronster582 ай бұрын
Frisco’s a “funky” crime riddin dump now innit?
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
Actually not at all. There are a couple of sketchy hoods like almost every big city, but it is still the most beautiful city in America.
@ronster582 ай бұрын
@@mazzysmusic What a smashing response. It really grabbed me.
@ronster582 ай бұрын
There is a sign at the Louis Vuitton store in downtown San Francisco that says “Stolen Goods Must Remain Under $950.”
@jimfiscus12482 ай бұрын
About Janis,I know cheap thrills was recorded in the studio but what about the Big Brother material on Joplin in concert? The songs are so much stronger than Big Brother 1968 at the Carousel and live at Winterland 68? To me you would never know that they are the same group?
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
Agree. Still they’re not funky 😎
@greenalishi2222 ай бұрын
Dude, stop talkin' about the city. 'Ya got no clue. Saw Herb Caen play drums at the Saloon in a tux. Santana was the funk all the way through. Funky Folsom. Lydia Pense and Cold Blood. Pure funk. See 'em now. Even after her heart attack. Killlllssss. Sly, Larry Graham. Define funk. James, Sly, George 'n Misssy. 4 corners of funk Larry Grahams stuff is so good. All of it. Tower of Power n Cold Blood just battle of the bands. Funkyyy. Best Cold Blood is the live one! Funk was just in the air. Ohio was another hub. Like here. But it was everywhere. Then became disco. Read the book Funk. By Ricky Vincent. Then you'll get it
@vinylrichie0072 ай бұрын
People from Frisco are so sensitive.
@revkarl2 ай бұрын
Yeah, not like those noble souls from "The Armpit of California."
@DyinSid2 ай бұрын
@@revkarlApparently they are not only sensitive but also elitist. Not everyone can afford to live in Frisco.
@BBlooger2 ай бұрын
I'm guessing Otis Redding gets a pass, heading for the Frisco Bay.
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
Love Dock. But his Bay Are tenure was about a minute. Still I should have should that album.
@brucybabyy73552 ай бұрын
can i say San Fransiskey ?
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
Yes 😎
@franksmusic28802 ай бұрын
Tower of Power is the best and funkiest you showed and they’re from Oakland. The Pointer Sisters album outside of the opening track is more like a Manhattan Transfer album with scat vocals which I detest. When it comes to come funk, the east coast rules. ✊🏻
@user-mv5bu2kk8b2 ай бұрын
The city
@user-mv5bu2kk8b2 ай бұрын
Never that other word. N e v e r
@birdy1numnum2 ай бұрын
*Frisco?!* I only thought out of City folks called it that. 🤦🏽
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
Did you watch ?
@birdy1numnum2 ай бұрын
@@mazzysmusicI did. Uh, I was also surprised to not see Betty Davis.
@kingofallmediums21232 ай бұрын
You forgot the funkiest band-though not from San Francisco- GRAND FUNK! 😮😮😮😮😮😊😊😊😊😊
@Norman-bone132 ай бұрын
While I like Grand Funk, it is about funky albums by Bay Area bands. Grand Funk Railroad’s first album seemed like it blew up on charts about the same time is Led Zeppelin’s debut album. Grand Funk’s music helped me get through the Army! 🎶👍🏼😎
@user-mv5bu2kk8b2 ай бұрын
You need an pkonoki
@user-mv5bu2kk8b2 ай бұрын
Zircus
@peterkowalsky25342 ай бұрын
Don't say Frisco. Only. Otis could sing it .
@user-mv5bu2kk8b2 ай бұрын
To see ee of power and s l y
@paavoviuhko72502 ай бұрын
I read some extremely perceptive commentary by a feminist social critic who said that Janis would have been smarter to have remained with Big Brother instead of seeking faming with the destructive corporate fantasies of material success which you seem to gloat on.
@kingofallmediums21232 ай бұрын
I’ve been to San Francisco twice. Really nice city until the bolsheviks took over! 😲 😲 😲 😲 😲 😂😂 😂😂😂
@darkspar722 ай бұрын
Anyone who chooses to diss San Francisco with that kind of jargon needs to stop typing, take few deep breaths and do a little research. San Francisco is one of the most American cities in America.
@kingofallmediums21232 ай бұрын
@@darkspar72 bunch of left-leaning maggots that also ruined NYC! 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆
@markevans79692 ай бұрын
That was a good post. Another band with a funky horn section is The Loading Zone. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Loading_Zone
@AlanKPet2 ай бұрын
Absolutely, saw them at the Family Dog on the Great Highway!