Mike Bloomfield: Drinking Wine Live!!

[@jimfladwood4393]

I saw Mike Bloomfield, and Paul Butterfield play in Chicago. I was 23 years old. I’m 75 now❤ music, pretty much been my life. Anyone that ever heard Mike Bloomfield doesn’t forget ever!❤☮️👀😊

[@zorkwork3841]

Have always loved his guitar playing...very deep improves...so many levels...timeless

[@orestispitsillides]

Mike Bloomfield was a masterful guitar player and he deserves alot more respect and love.🎸

[@originalfunkyfry]

Died 40 years ago today in San Francisco CA -- he's still well remembered by all the local blues fiends, even if he's somewhat forgotten by the nation's pop fans. Love forever and peace Mike Bloomfield

[@jimfladwood4393]

Michael Bloomfield was ahead of his time. I never got the credit you deserved!😢 rest in peace, my friend.☮️

[@pena.3302]

An AMERICAN.Legend.[&,From Playing;W/-Bob.Jimi.So many ...The more one finds about Mike.The More.I Need.True Master.F the 'Industry'..❤You Man!!..😢 @Bloomsdisco'youtube.The Whole Mike B..Interveiws.😊😅😮😢❤

[@Bluze1King]

I think that Michael didn't get recognition that he deserved. Such a great guiitar player. Check out more of his playing.

[@jeffs60s]

He's been my favorite blues guitarist since 1969. He is one of my heroes.

[@oldsyphilitic]

I know what you mean but actually he did get a lot of recognition. As 15 year old living in Yorkshire I knew about him back in 1965. In many ways he was the original guitar hero, who played for Dylan on his seminal electric move. Remember that this is at the time that Clapton was playing with the Yardbirds and hadn't been named 'God'. Albums such as 'Live Adventures of' and back in 1966, Mike Bloomfield was the man. I think his health was poor and he got involved with heroin, probably as a direct consequence, and he wasn't interested in the star thing with the result that the record companies soon lost interest in him. It is a great tragedy but thankfully he has left some wonderful music.

[@johnnynbk]

orig guitar hero, that's damned right.

[@BryceDAnderson1952]

He was one of the best dope addicts!!! Guitar players like him are a dime a dozen in Chicago.

[@wiltner]

When Gibson make a $10.000 exact replica of your Les Paul guitar in your name that's recognition!

[@JavierFernandezVindaloo]

The Electric Flag performing at the Monterey Pop Festival, in 1967. The musicians in the band are: Mike Bloomfield (guitar) Harvey Brooks (bass) Nick Gravenites (vocals & percussion) Sivuca (guitar & percussion) Barry Goldberg (keyboards) Herbie Rich (keyboards & tenor sax) Mike Fonfare (keyboards) Buddy Miles (drums) Peter Strazza (tenor sax) Marcus Doubleday (trumpet) Stemzie Hunter (baritone sax)

[@Carizmojones]

What a band!

[@paulgibby6932]

@@Carizmojones Harvey Brooks was the bass player on SuperSession. Were any of those horn players on that too?

[@jimsims9422]

Let's face it! John Belusi got his Jake Blues character from Nick.

[@rebbeshort]

@@jimsims9422 It probably helped that they weighed the same, but yeah.

[@michaelgreen5206]

@@jimsims9422 Joe Cocker, too.

[@deheckler]

Harvey Brooks on Bass, Buddy Miles on drums, Nick Gravenites on vocals, Mike on the best blues guitar ever, and the horns really tore it up..THE ELECTRIC FLAG!

[@nathandodge665]

Not as good as srv

[@Jennifer-km8pe]

Imean but dat dont have shit to do wit dis yunno ​@nathandodge665

[@danielfournier735]

What? Vocals?He Talked during the Song. ​@@nathandodge665

[@GordiansKnotHere]

Bloomfield was incredible. That Les Paul... I would actually consider selling my soul to get that instrument. One of the greatest made guitars, EVER...

[@EmeraldWoodArchives]

Theres nearly no footage of Bloomfield live. It's criminal.

[@rachelgrenadier3021]

There is some. Keep looking. Butter at Newport, etc.

[@AndyMangele]

Not a lot - a documentary would be fine too!

[@sl5932]

yes, and the same can be said about Duane Allman.

[@knuteboy3778]

It's amazing how some artists avoided getting filmed when there were plenty of cameras around and their peers were getting tons of footage. Elmore James is a good example. Another is Chris Youlden era of Savoy Brown.

[@vksperr]

The fabulous Buddy Miles on drums.

[@stonehand49]

Vincent Sperrazza. the best...he could sing..chew gum...and play the crap out the drums! Amen

[@jfmax2000]

Yessir ☺💯

[@producer73]

Bloomfield is a total underrated guitarist,I remember owning a Electric Flag cassette in around 1986 grade 7,They all thought I was mad waltzing down the hall with my Sony F1 walkman listening to The Flag......NO U2 or Duran Duran here kiddies.

[@RogerSteinbrinkh2oBrother]

Wow! He's just stinging it at 1:00. What an amazing player.

[@rodney4266]

Better than Clapton for sure!

[@bold58]

Just discovered Bloomfield and Butterfield . The sound Bloomfield and Butterfield played is what I would term fast blues . I kind of like it. I'm a gospel music person but I will give credit where credit is due he was very talented.

[@nightstudios7290]

One of the greatest blues players in history: soulful, sweet, explosive, fast, deep -- he was more than technical, he felt the blues, too, whatever demons were in his white soul. RIP. Thank you to the all the youtube contributors who have discovered his musical treasure.

[@toivonencresto]

Bloomfield is my hero with Gary and BB.you said,he was advanced in Technique but had tone and tons of feel..and,same as Gary,he had The fire,The force,The explosion,but Gary was pure fury,Bloomy also a little bit elegant..and.. THAT burst...my God!

[@rebbeshort]

@@toivonencresto If that's Gary Moore you're talking about, I sure agree with that.

[@MaabudZ]

I was there!! What I wouldn't give to go back and see it again. It was the very first gig by the Flag at Monterrey Pop. They tore the house down!! There's probably archived footage of the whole gig somewhere.

[@GuitarJay]

That guitar playing is never to be equaled. The notes are emanating from the entire universe, just astounding.

[@Pwrcritter]

Lost in time..

[@602davido]

The great Mike Bloomfield!

[@andrewdenine1685]

I love when I stumble on to these old videos. One if the best musicians ever

[@phloydrix]

Eeeeeasily one of the best guitar solos I've ever heard.

[@MikhnevichNatalya]

Класс!величайшая музыка!легендарные музыканты!браво!фантастика!💓💓💓💓💓💓я вас обожаю!🌹

[@lazur1]

Mike wasn't just a great player himself, he was an inspiration for others to play their best. Buddy Miles, probably only 19 here, is playing his heart out like never before or since. Mike, only 25, leads the Flag like the old pro he actually is.

[@bobgure]

The one guitarist above all that I would have loved to have chatted with. And to see the vibrato up close! Is "Albert's Shuffle" not a masterpiece?! Totally unique, inimitable voice. Love ya Mike forever. Much love to you all!

[@paulgibby6932]

Totally agree about "Albert's Shuffle". I have listened to it about 100 times over the years. In his biography, they mention he used banjo strings on the top 2 (I think). I wonder if that's true.

[@CaptainBourbon]

Electric Flag - Drinkin' Wine This was the Electric Flag's 1st gig in Monterey 1967. Mike Bloomfield, guitar, vocals Buddy Miles, drums, vocals Barry Goldberg, keyboards Harvey Brooks, bass Nick Gravenites, vocals

[@puliciclone66]

Yeah!!! it's Buddy Miles on drums!!! What a wonderful vision!! Buddy and Mike we love you forever!!! Thanks guy....

[@mojou2]

Mike was truly amazing. And this band was amazing. Look closely... the list starts with Nick Gravenites, then Buddy Miles, and on and on... all playing in this video.

[@garrettschupp5653]

Bloomfield's parents were very wealthy, extremely wealthy and socialites in chicago. Mike wanted nothing to do with that, at 14 years old he started having their limo driver sneaking him to the downtown blues joints, drop him off in the limo, he managed at 14 to get in these clubs and watch and then around 15 started playing on stage with them, limo driver would wait for him in parking lot then drive him home. that's how he became to be known as this young white kid blues guitar prodigy in Chicago area, you wouldn't believe the blues iconics he jammed with at such a young age and they respected him.

[@LastWaltz123]

Garrett Schupp goes to show race and money ain’t nothing. If you love these blues play em as you please

[@We_are_the_light]

He also camped outside muddy waters house in Chicago and waited for him to meet him and learn.. love Mike and he is by far every bit as good as the greats , just unknown.

[@ericandrews1661]

He wasn't White though. He was jew. His family were rich jews. He did however become a very good guitarist by any measure.

[@vintagepipesnightmares]

He wanted nothing of that except the limo and driver😜

[@RodCalidge]

He certainly did not turn down the $50 000 annual stipend that his parents gave him. Quite a good salary back then.

[@howlinblues]

Wow You certainaly all lucky in the USA to see these,s Musicians Live Mike Bloomfield I remeber him way back in the Late 1960,s and of course Buddy Miles on Drums he was with the Band Electric Flag and then his own Band The Changes and after that he was with The Jimi Hendrix Band ...Band Of Gypies with Jimi Hendrix Billy Cox Buddy MilesSpeakin where I was in those days was new Zealand ...You Lucky Americans you ...Dam.

[@bobgure]

This was the ONLY live footage of Bloomfield i've previously ever seen until last night's showing of "Soundstage: Blues Summit in Chicago" on PBS. You bet I became a member in order to support the station and get my own DVD of the show. Yes! Thanks for posting this!! Be well everyone.

[@wildride6349]

bobgure check out the Bloomfield Butterfield reunion at Fenway in 1971-40 minutes of Bloomfield playing probably recorded on the primal Sony cameras

[@stanmillable]

I saw Mike two times that I can remember, so now you know I'm an old gizzer. Yes and I know a little bit about guitar playing. He was one who had great tone, a master of every single note. And could he bend a note, oh yeah. He once said in an interview that he played "sweet' and yes he did. The totality of his play was what made him great. So sad he died of a drug overdose as so many others at that time.

[@Jenscool]

Live at Monterey pop Festival '67! greatest venue concert of all times imo.

[@Dogheadj]

That son a bitch! I've been playing guitar for a good 30 years, and I'm 61 years old now. Started out on accordion in 1961; traded it in for a drum kit when the Beatles came out in 1964, and finally decided in mid-life that I'd like to learn guitar. So I took myself to a pawn shop in Jacksonville, FL in 1973, and bought an Epiphone acoustic. I've always learned by ear, so I'd buy myself a few bottles of Boone's Farm on the way home every night, and sit on the couch and drink wine and fuck with the guitar, to see what worked and what didn't. I still play, but I'll never be anywhere near as good as this young, rich, Jewish guitar player who somehow really and truly got the blues. One of a kind, Michael. I love you, and may you RIP.

[@Dogheadj]

Dogheadj Oh yeah, and did I forget to say "Fuck you, Mike"? You left way too early.

[@mathewpalermo6309]

+Dogheadj you fuckhead

[@Dogheadj]

If you said that for Mike, thanks! I mean,you did get the sarcasm and irony in my post, didn't you?

[@lysergicdancing]

+Dogheadj Nope...............heehee

[@mikeokizichy]

+Dogheadj At least you'll always have the Accordion to fall back on!

[@theclarkey100]

I think Alvin Lee must've been in the audience that day - 'Goin' Home' was this performance without the horns and with different words!

[@toivonencresto]

My God.THAT tone.This is The Greatest sounding Burst ever with (after) GREENY and Knopfler's 58

[@BrockDavisson]

dont forget clapton as well

[@GlaucoAlves]

Okay guys, I know this might sound weird, but am I the only one who have noticed the guitar plectrum (pick) right after the nut on the first fret??? Check the footage on 2:19 onwards lol This makes it even more legendary! Bless ya Michael!

[@Bigbuddyandblue]

Priceless! Good catch!

[@GlaucoAlves]

Thank you sir!

[@soofitnsexy]

+Glauco Alves WHAT THE FUCK OK THATS SPOOKY I AM CONFUSED!!!!! WTFFFF WHY GOD WHY

[@MontyCantsin5]

+Glauco Alves: You can just about make it out slightly earlier at 1:20 as well.

[@stevetautog880]

thank you for pointing that out here is my theory,, it's not that he is super great and playing with just fingers,, no I am going to guess that he is using the pic to mute the bottom three strings,, I have never seen this done, but I am definitely going to try it,, I mean as long as you know that the solo you want to play involves only the three three top strings, then you don't have to worry about using your palm or whatever part of the hand used to mute ,, so wow this ia an amazing discovery , which. as a 61 yr old , amateur guitar player, had never heard of

[@ridovem]

I remember the singer, Nick Gravenites, tearing up some great blues guitar, hisself... a real good player. ^..^

[@RockNRollJon]

This was phenomenal . Bloomfield was one of the greats .

[@ezminj]

fantasmagorical. Lovin the jam, and diggin his mustache.

[@bradc32]

that's why bloomfield is one of the BEST

[@BLUENECK]

And I sir and am idiot. Thank you. I just got back into the Blues and somehow never heard Mike Bloomfield, PBBB, or Electric Flag 'till now. It's awesome stuff!

[@terryfenn3940]

Thanks so much for this video and music.

[@producer73]

Back in around 1986 I had this bootleg kind of cassette which read Mike Bloomfield but was really Electric Flag,It was grade 7 and I was cruising the hallways with my Sony F1 walkman grooving out with The Electric Flag along with Crimson,Airplane,Quicksilver and many others.........waiting for vinyl reissues to come out. Mike Bloomfield is a kicking guitarist.

[@hysteriastyle]

Love his craft and works with the folker Dylan....

[@mr_m_5000]

What a great player. At 2:18, you can see that he's been playing the whole song with a pick jammed in the strings around the first few frets. He must have forgot/not noticed it was there. Didn't seem to matter. Bloomfield just tears it up.

[@stickman33]

Or maybe just wanted to deaden open strings he didn't need?

[@blakewhittington4336]

He was on acid if you've ever seen the footage from this if him talking on the mic it's obvious

[@muddycreek-b2]

With Harvey slammin' those fat ones, Michael's root strings were redundant I guess. Daaamn he was good. You feel his soul speaking with every note! And every space in between.

[@SkopTeocratico]

This is one of best video on KZbin.

[@pereztube2]

One of the mightiest Les Paul wielders

[@liastalard40]

Salutations To MIKE BLOOMFIELD man that man could play the house down.

[@IMCcanTWEESTED]

Monterey Pop '67. My poor brother. He was headed for the '68 Newport Pop Festival in his 1960 Ford Falcon. Mike Bloomfield was his guitar hero and Electric Flag was appearing there too. Somewhere around San Clemente, the u-joint in his driveshaft seized and shattered blowing a 5" diameter hole in the backseat floorboard. He was lucky the shrapnel didn't kill him. Not sure if my brother ever got the chance to see Mike play live before he died in '81. He certainly owned every single album that Mike ever played on. Even "Mother Earth-Living with the Animals" with Lead Guitar Makal Blumfeld.

[@IantaylorCanuck]

Mike and Buddy, wow. Would love to see some more of this.

[@lagunaflyguy]

I grew up in a little town in Iowa and of course Mike was right, grew up grooving on the sheer genius of the Beatles.

[@Garret00074]

MIke Bloomfield..One of the absolute greatest guitar players ever... My favorite vibrato...This man was the master of vibrato...

[@pchaterji]

This just became my favourite song of all time. I watched it seven times straight! When Bloomfield plays the first note of that solo... man, it never fails to make the hair on the back of my neck to stand up. What a tone! And listen to Buddy Miles lay that funky shit down too! Awesome!

[@davidherringgo]

Singer can belt a tune .Serious pipes.

[@jfmax2000]

Yessir.. Just Awesome ☺☺😎💯💯 And The One and Only Buddy Back There Steering The Ship ☺☺😎👊💯💯

[@CuttingEdgetools]

Bloomfield immersed himself in traditional Blues of the Old Masters. As shown here. His Licks were no joke. Unlike most players. Mike mixed lightning speed with a cadre of interesting variations of blues jazz variants. Saw Buddy miles in the early 70s. RIP Brothers❤️🇺🇸

[@MrPeterNeedham]

Electric Flag was classic Mike Bloomfield, along with Paul Butterfield's first 2 LPs After 45 years, this still sounds fantastic and IMHO beats most music played live or on the radio these days...

[@nixjag1]

It's a cliche' but the blues is a feeling, and Bloomfield had that feeling. Who the hell cares how technically proficient someone is? Clapton is certainly proficient but boring as hell. Listen to "Stop", "Albert's Shuffle", "I've Got A Mind To Give Up Living", "Texas", "I Wonder Who" and so many others. That's feeling, that's the blues, that's Michael Bloomfield. Thank's so much for posting the clip.

[@andersonb2b]

Mike is the definition of sheer awesomeness!

[@monroebill]

Your so right. Excellent guitarist and it seams everyone wanted to jam with him. He was on many albums.

[@EnragedSlash]

Of course he could :) truly a blues master in feeling!

[@prb335]

His passion and intensity are unmatched...God bless you, Bloomers! He's a huge reason those '59 LP flametops have now reached $300k, but this proves that it's the man not the machine that matters...It's all in the soul, and all these guys had it! Buddy just tears it up, too!

[@We_are_the_light]

Bloomfield didn't get the respect he deserved because he wouldn't dance the record company dance. He saw through the bullshit of the industry. He's a god to me for that. The best ever.

[@bianchikat]

god just discovered these live versions..and now I will be dissatisfied with my 'long time coming 'cd which is one of my faves.. they were fantasic live...

[@myztico369]

Buddy Miles kickin out the jams on those drums and bloomfield singing his blues classic!

[@stevemiller1203]

Never got to see Mike live, he was and still is one of the best. Hendrix is great, but for the blues it's Mike Bloomfield.

[@frankdardano3182]

Nothing new to anyone , but for being born rich, Mike had more than his share of problems,starting with executives and agents that took advantage of the fact that most musicians are more interested in music then money. I blame them, and good time friends, that screwed him over, he was so kind, and gentle, and used the word groovy every sentence. We used to love that about him. To listen to Mike, somehow, you tap into his soul. No one sounds like him. He reminds me of Bonimasa, but different phrasing.

[@jamesmessina417]

That solo. So fluid. Mikey b. Is king

[@cymbula]

Mike Bloomfield, just about the only white guy who got the drop on electric blues without putting fins, whitewalls, sun visors and a paint job on it. Every note a tear drop.

[@jamiemcmillan6742]

This song is describing where I live.

[@steppene]

This guitarplayer and Electric Flag really knows how to rock! This version rocks like mad!!!!

[@easguitar]

I have fond memories of hearing the first "Paul butterfield blues band" album at a friends house in 66 or 67.I fell out hearing Bloomfield`s incindiary blues playing-intense vibrato, microtonal string bending and passionate virtuosity. After the second album when Bloomfield switched to a Gibson Les Paul, the price of that guitar went through the roof. (Clapton`s use of a Les Paul on the first John Mayall album didnt hurt,either!)

[@LPJack02]

RIP Mike Bloomfield (July 28, 1943 - February 15, 1981), aged 37 And RIP Buddy Miles (September 5, 1947 - February 26, 2008), aged 60 You both will always be remembered as legends.

[@thomasplatt6743]

That guitar solo is unreal!

[@thebleedingjeans]

That was bad ass. I just watched it 3 times in a row.

[@jonnybeck6723]

He's what got me started and Keeps me Moo-vin... over 60...

[@calvinking8586]

Jonny Beck I know huh, I’m 66 and I’m still amazed at what a great musician Michael was.

[@ralphmunn1685]

The Electric Flag deserves top billing among American bands of the day, along with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band!

[@GarySchipper1]

My favorite guitarist of all time.

[@Invisibility-Guy_Perfect_World]

There was Super Session and Live Adventures His work on East West was almost unknown! Nobody knew he electrified Dylan. So he showed up late or not at all. Andd finally never again. We have these and studio recordings to groove with, man.

[@ronbo11]

This it The Electric Flag unless I'm mistaken Buddy Miles was a big, bada$$ drummer and Nick Gravenites was a pretty good singer too. Bloomfield is awesome! Thanks for sharing.

[@dieter6219]

Michael Leaves us speechless

[@jameswalser8823]

Such a treat to see Mike play, I don’t know who is Playing the drums but he’s beating the hell out of them !!!

[@tunafang]

Buddy Miles!

[@peterlacombe2132]

Buddy miles would later go on to work with Jimmy Hendrix in band of gypsies

[@andrewz4537]

He's playing a Les Paul here but a Telecaster on "Overloving You," the same set. I know cause I was there. I'm an acoustic guitar player. I was wondering if the Les Paul has more sustain or more sharp tone... I know I don't know the electric guitar lingo. Can anyone explain this to me? I was a big Bloomfield fan in those days (still am) even chatted with him briefly at a gig at the Fillmore with the Electric Flag, Steve Miller (blues band at that time), and Charlie Musselwhite. We were both blown away by the whole thing.

[@minorsnow5306]

The les Paul has more of a mid range sustain. A thick kind of sound..ala bb king...Telecaster has that sharp "ice pick" clank sound.

[@olgarhodes1648]

RIP Mike Bloomfield.😎👊✨♥️🎶🎸

[@CatDad6392]

Not one single drug was consumed Monterey Pop! Lol I couldn’t resist!😂😂😂

[@specter1001]

bloomfield has the best sound

[@stroonZe1]

Man I just love M Bloomfield. what a cool guy that the world lost too soon

[@yobyob9369]

Bloomfield so special

[@williamgeorge2433]

Like the work witb Mike ans Barry Goldberg.

[@TyrannosaurusAddie]

Mike Bloomfield was the king. No shit.

[@SkopTeocratico]

I love this song too much.

[@AP-ui7oi]

The godfather of all guitar heros!

[@TitiJackys]

good musician ... heroïne ... 38 years ...

[@treeguyable]

I enjoyed being a roadie for Mike in San Francisco and Lake Tahoe, at 15 yrs old it was a thrill, and I got to drink beer!!!

[@shasta5468]

Cool! I got to meet him when I was about 14. My friend's sister was Bloomfield's girlfriend. He had a cool old Victorian house in Mill Valley with the dining room lined floor to ceiling with albums. He was a nice guy, but serious about his music. He and Nick Gravenites locked themselves in the upstairs music room, writing songs on guitar and piano half the night. There's not much video to be found of him. Gravenites went on to replace Janis Joplin in Big Brother & the Holding Co. and put out some amazing solo stuff. He's still performing.

[@David-xf5hn]

Harvey Brooks and Buddy Miles for a rhythm section. Can't beat that. Put Bloomfield, in the Les Paul phase of his career in front, and just enjoy The Electric Flag.

[@felixrockss]

This guitar is just ... AMAZINGLY SICK!!! A DREAM GUITAR !! THE NUMBER ONE COLLECTABLE VINTAGE GUITAR 400 000 $ !!!

[@IMCcanTWEESTED]

Are you talking one of the 643 original '59 Les Paul sunbursts? Or the actual one that MB played? Seems like the highest price I've seen for one of the original 643 bursts was $50K.

[@cosmos34]

Bloomfield makes it look too easy! Love this.

[@BarbButler]

That is so intereting...& amazing...thanks so much for posting.

[@namaste91]

what a show! Summer is coming...

[@theloniouscoltrane3778]

Mike Bloomfield left us too soon. 1981 at the age of 37. Heard the news after a local gig with my HS band. Sad news. MB is an American guitar hero.

[@randyclementelopezcarrasco2106]

heeyyy great video, great memories

[@sexsibill]

THIS IS VERY CRAZY! I LOVE IT

[@thecrue777]

the note he hits @ 59sec is the greatest note ive ever heard on guitar.

[@SHEMAMAN]

Buddy on drums. yay. amazing footage here.