RARE Colosseum Live 1969 - Valentyne Suite Part-1/2

Colosseum - Valentyne Suite
Recorded live at Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland, June 22, 1969.
Track 1 - Valentyne Suite :
)Theme one : January's Search
)Theme two : February's Valentyne
)Theme Three : Beware the Ides of March *(Incomplete)
(14:49)
Composed By Dave Greenslade and Dick Heckstall-Smith
Artists:
Dave Greenslade - Organ, Vocals
Dick Heckstall-Smith - Saxophones
James Litherland - Guitar, Vocals
Tony Reeves - Bass
Jon Hiseman - Drums
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Important historic fact about Montreux Casino which held Montreux Jazz Festival you might want to know (from Wiki):
Montreux Casino (Casino de Montreux) is a casino located in Montreux, Switzerland, on the shoreline of Lake Geneva.
Montreux Casino was built in 1881 and had modifications made to it in 1903. Throughout the twentieth century, the site played host to many great symphony orchestras and well-known conductors. By the late 1960s, jazz, blues and rock artists began to perform there.
In 1967 the Casino became the venue for the Montreux Jazz Festival, which was the brainchild of music promoter Claude Nobs. The festival was held there annually and lasted for three days. The highlights of this era were Keith Jarrett, Jack DeJohnette, Bill Evans, Nina Simone, Jan Garbarek, and Ella Fitzgerald. Originally featuring almost exclusively jazz artists, in the 1970s the festival began broadening its scope, including blues, soul, and rock artists. Some notable rock acts which performed at Montreux Casino in these years include Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Deep Purple.
In December 1971, Montreux Casino burned down during a concert by Frank Zappa, after a fan had set the venue on fire with a flare gun, reducing it to ashes. Claude Nobs saved several young people who, thinking they would be sheltered from the flames, had hidden in the casino from the blaze. A recording of the outbreak and fire announcement can be found on a Frank Zappa Bootleg album titled "Swiss Cheese / Fire" English rock group Deep Purple subsequently made Montreux famous with their song "Smoke on the Water", which tells the events of December 1971:
"We all came out to Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline / To make records with a mobile - We didn't have much time / Frank Zappa & the Mothers were at the best place around / But some stupid with a flare gun burned the place to the ground / Smoke on the water, fire in the sky"
The Casino was subsequently rebuilt, and during the interim the Montreux Jazz Festival was held in other auditoriums in Montreux, until it could return to the newly re-opened Casino in 1975. The Festival continued to be hosted there until 1993, when it moved to a larger Convention Centre located approximately one kilometre from the Casino. From 1995 through 2006, the Festival occupied both the Convention Centre and the Casino. Beginning with the 41st Festival in 2007, nightly performances of headliners were again moved mainly to the Convention Centre, although the Casino still hosts the odd one-off show.

[@mariogrechi1840]

what a time it was... 1969 -1970....the 60ies went out with a bang...

[@draganstefanovski4804]

2023 : and now, after 55 years after, with my 71 years old, still listen Valentine ... Timeless unforgetable !!! Greetings from Macedonija

[@pav689]

I have to say that Dick Heckstall Smith solo with 2 sax is so great and touching.. What great musician he was, really unforgettable.

[@walky240251]

one word: unreplaceable.

[@anoshya]

Used to get sax lessons from Dick Heckstall Smith ..great guy.. a real cat!

[@MrPhotodoc]

Bless these guys for being able to conceptualize and execute this music for generations to come. Still have my Colosseum live LP!

[@koichiumetsu1169]

Heisman is one of the best drummer in all-time, living legend

[@stephenmoore3990]

I saw this line up a month before in May 69 at the Bath Blues Festival . I watched Jons drum solo with awe . I bought Valentine Suite and another later album Both gems, On the same bill at Bath in 69 was Fleetwood Mac and Led Zep. I remember Mick Fleetwoods drum solo for all the wrong reasons. Zeppelin were sensational.

[@gordoncook5812]

What an amazing weekend that was. Incredible line up. I remember waking up to Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother in the early hours!

[@53lemac]

My favourite Colosseum song. Keep listening over and over again.

[@hooptyhee1]

You're looking at one of the great drummers of all time. I saw this group in '70, and I remember how easy Hiseman made his solos look, and I'd seen both Baker and Mitchell before, and I thought he was better than either, as great as the other two were.

[@Mynamesalexa]

Me too. Saw Ginger Twice Mitch Mitchell with Hendrix Jon Hiseman is better than both. And Keith Moon, John Bonham, Cozy Cole, Ainsley Dunbar,

[@michelhille8107]

Hiseman was the best Jazz Rock Drummer.

[@Mynamesalexa]

​@@michelhille8107Equals Billy Cobham

[@hannesstuber222]

@@michelhille8107 he considered Max Roach or Elvin Jones being better than himself.

[@Derukugi2]

Oh man, that was music. Where has all that talent gone today?

[@fucheduck]

people live in thier basements with no windows. you have to live to have talent and the spirit to use it!

[@neebinmakwah349]

Jon Hiseman...Tony Reeves bass...Dave Greenslade keyboards Dick Hecktall-Smith reeds...James Litherland guitar and vocals

[@turienlammers1739]

Amazing version of this master composition !

[@Derukugi2]

After all these years, still magnificent

[@contato53]

THIS is music!

[@gerardreitsma381]

Unbelievably beautiful. I don't forget it for ever...

[@lucianovargas6677]

Brilliant performance 👍

[@dielustigenstifel]

Two years before my birth…., what a great sound ❤, real pro musician.

[@DavisSchulz]

just awesome. this is real art. rip jon hiseman, my hero.

[@bassimgesicht]

🖤

[@andrewcutts7416]

R.I.P. Jon. This is just fantastic, I'm so glad I got to see them.

[@Shih47]

THANKS!! Wow. I was 17 and ahalf the summer of 69 and the album Valentyne Suite made me and my friends, for the first time, really listen to... some kind of... jazz.. (?)

[@patrickcostine]

What a line-up of musicians!

[@hundqvist]

This is one of the greatest progressive rock recording.. Thank you!

[@MrFellwuschel]

Great band. This is their instrumental masterpiece. Timeless.

[@markkukarjalainen2015]

My first LP, what i bought 1974. My treasure!

[@schlum27]

One of the alltime best ever musicpieces of POP. It hammers it sounds and rhythms with maximum power into the heads and hearts of the listeners.Unforgetable

[@Migo6Lino]

Saw Collosseum on theier FIRST concert after over 20 years at Freiburg ZMF, man, it was like being in a film, all the stuff we heard drifting in space when kids, they were great and found the spirit after a while. Tent was cooking... Valentine Suite as such great parts in it

[@paullai7161]

Wowser! What talent and music! Not for the faint of heart or short on attention.

[@enchization]

this is GOLD !

[@vialeonina]

Grande batterista, uno dei più bravi e completi. Talento immenso.

[@vladimirlyma4522]

i.m glad to now, that somewhone still listen that kind of music listen album live of that band

[@andyshelton4889]

This is a great band!

[@bassimgesicht]

🖤

[@XanAxDdu]

grazie per averlo caricato mai visto e live è sempre una emozione in più

[@brankozlatic8492]

Briliant band

[@CherrySlush1]

So thankful that this was recorded! Man!

[@MMOAvideos]

thank you for uploading this gem

[@tamale9010]

greenslade 凄すぎ～

[@Hunne2303]

wow...did not expect this explosion in b&w after coming from rare bird...great stuff, gonna listen to more of their work

[@paullai7161]

Rare Bird! Hadn't talked about THAT band for a while. Should dig out my vinyl...

[@samoht77]

I am so happy that there is an actual live recording with moving footage of this!!

[@bazylikolan2937]

jak 2022 roku mogą zbliżyć się do takiego poziomu kompozycji pomysłów!!!Niedorozwój artystyczny, promowanie gamoniów i mamy to co mamy.Gat.progresywnego rocka był INSPIRACYJNY! sax-zjawiskowy niepowtarzalny!

[@richardwhite3458]

There is a Finland 🇫🇮 black 🖤 metal 🤘 band with the name of Colluseum.

[@theconquerorsalahljycjjch7414]

I love those keyboard a lot

[@samoveble8309]

TIMELESS!!!

[@anxietasangustia9980]

FOSFENISMO: Ogni fene è un intermediario fisiologico tra il senso fisico al quale corrisponde e un senso spirituale equivalente che, una volta risvegliato, dà luogo alla percezione di energie, di avvenimenti o di universi intangibili, ovvero non percettibili dai sensi fisici. Il sistema fenico, quando è stimolato, provoca la percezione dei piani spirituali, ciò che le tradizioni chiamano «aldilà», «mondi invisibili» o «piani sottili». Il sistema fenico è costituito da: • Il fosfene, che corrisponde al senso della vista. • L'acufene, che è l'equivalente interno del senso dell'udito. • Il gustatofene, fene del senso del gusto. • L'olfattofene, fene del senso dell'olfatto. • Il pneumofene, fene della respirazione. • L'osteofene, legato alla vibrazione della struttura ossea e tendinea. • Lo statofene o girofene, fene del senso dell'equilibrio. • Il miofene, fene dell'attività muscolare. • Il tattofene, che corrisponde al senso del tatto. • La percezione soggettiva del tempo

[@klnine]

Greenslade was a god, sorely underated

[@Mynamesalexa]

He said Jon Hiseman was better than Ginger Baker

[@dontommaso2760]

@@Mynamesalexa I have never seen Ginger Baker live but I have seen Jon Hiseman twice (in 2000 and in 2004) and he was incredible. The only drummer that I have ever seen in concert that left a similar impression was Billy Cobham.

[@MothershipOracle]

an amazing workout here! colosseum have always been a band including some of the very best musicians,....colosseum 2 took it one stage further, but their early stuff is quite incredible too! this is mr. greenslade"s piece to a large degree......stupendous!

[@jaimesorli2436]

amazing, superband, drumgod

[@hendrix2918]

MUSIC,,, top level .....

[@user-so8jh7zk1z]

Спасибо!

[@saschalorch2445]

WOW!!!

[@stetrak1967]

Masterpiece!

[@robertocosta2181]

Meravigliosa musica,che non ha tempo.

[@anxietasangustia9980]

FOSFENISMO: Ogni fene è un intermediario fisiologico tra il senso fisico al quale corrisponde e un senso spirituale equivalente che, una volta risvegliato, dà luogo alla percezione di energie, di avvenimenti o di universi intangibili, ovvero non percettibili dai sensi fisici. Il sistema fenico, quando è stimolato, provoca la percezione dei piani spirituali, ciò che le tradizioni chiamano «aldilà», «mondi invisibili» o «piani sottili». Il sistema fenico è costituito da: • Il fosfene, che corrisponde al senso della vista. • L'acufene, che è l'equivalente interno del senso dell'udito. • Il gustatofene, fene del senso del gusto. • L'olfattofene, fene del senso dell'olfatto. • Il pneumofene, fene della respirazione. • L'osteofene, legato alla vibrazione della struttura ossea e tendinea. • Lo statofene o girofene, fene del senso dell'equilibrio. • Il miofene, fene dell'attività muscolare. • Il tattofene, che corrisponde al senso del tatto. • La percezione soggettiva del tempo

[@gwr8133]

RIP Jon.

[@lesliemountain1335]

Thank you!

[@pav689]

Wow great energy, that's really amazing document ..

[@neilturner6865]

Timeless music

[@zekeman5285]

Awesome

[@gunvaldmkilli9131]

many yers ago in my youth Hiseman, cobham and Palmer were gods ....theyv still are!

[@enryclaptone1668]

Al Piper di Roma.... indimenticabili i Colosseum ma anche quegli anni!

[@dieterpelz1971]

Timeless, alive - always new.

[@brucenichols9153]

Magnificent

[@beardyfreak]

Awesome!

[@timkjazz]

Awesome band, wish there was more music from them out here in the public domain.

[@crossraoads]

There is a channel called Beat Club on KZbin where you can see the their performance in German television in 1970 - A real high quality program! kzbin.info/www/bejne/iV6TqYB4oqyKldU

[@anniepiant6332]

groupe majeur dans l'influence qu'il a suscité envers la pop rock jazz des années 70

[@luisantoniozr5509]

Amazing...

[@udomatthiasdrums5322]

still love it!!

[@cesarindf1]

Fabulosa pieza, de lo mejor de Colosseum, el tiempo no pasa...

[@licatanerazzurra]

meravigliosi

[@enchization]

they were so young witn no fear whatsoever !

[@sliderpunk]

Brilliant

[@tomtrana3449]

"January's Search" . Dave Greenslade celebrated his 80th birthday on January 18, 2023!

[@andythomas706]

Saw this band at an all-niter at The Lyceum back in the day. Quite something. 10 minutes into his drum solo I realized he'd yet to use his sticks. Up to that point it had all been feet! Hiseman was a proper musician and an astonishing drummer!

[@Mynamesalexa]

He's better than Ginger Baker or John Bonham isn't he?

[@clanranald]

Yes me too, and went to Mothers in Erdington (Brum) a few times to see them too. Saw so many bands at the Lyceum- East of Eden, King Crimson, Savoy Brown, Ten Years After, Jethro Tull......

[@SteveSparx]

excellent~pure

[@juanantonioolcina9891]

Gran banda

[@hadywellbie2368]

A brilliant Jazz Nudge

[@ildiscorpions]

What a great music ever!

LOVE IT ! :)

[@natred1]

saw em live in munich 1970

[@SuperColtra]

R.I.P. John Hiseman (born June 1944-died June 2018), the groups drummer.

[@mariogrechi1840]

Shit.... The guys from my age are all going...

[@giulianopanciroli6354]

fantastici.

[@anxietasangustia9980]

FOSFENISMO: Ogni fene è un intermediario fisiologico tra il senso fisico al quale corrisponde e un senso spirituale equivalente che, una volta risvegliato, dà luogo alla percezione di energie, di avvenimenti o di universi intangibili, ovvero non percettibili dai sensi fisici. Il sistema fenico, quando è stimolato, provoca la percezione dei piani spirituali, ciò che le tradizioni chiamano «aldilà», «mondi invisibili» o «piani sottili». Il sistema fenico è costituito da: • Il fosfene, che corrisponde al senso della vista. • L'acufene, che è l'equivalente interno del senso dell'udito. • Il gustatofene, fene del senso del gusto. • L'olfattofene, fene del senso dell'olfatto. • Il pneumofene, fene della respirazione. • L'osteofene, legato alla vibrazione della struttura ossea e tendinea. • Lo statofene o girofene, fene del senso dell'equilibrio. • Il miofene, fene dell'attività muscolare. • Il tattofene, che corrisponde al senso del tatto. • La percezione soggettiva del tempo

[@andrewroberts5824]

50 years ago, it seems just like yesterday.

[@mariogrechi1840]

Too many good bands at that time... Many from the UK ...Short -lived, but... .

[@lovewavesdriftingforever]

((((( BRILLIANT ))))) 👍🏻👍🏻😀

[@antoninocalandrino2911]

Grandi li ho visti al Brancaccio anni 70

[@noissian1]

perfekt...

[@heeenryk]

thX

[@fulviomerendi6493]

bravissimi!

[@shemanic1]

great band I have followed for years, have several vinyl albums, listen to Tempest, John Hiseman's follow on band

[@puttebangbang]

A bit unfair on todays musik using Fustin Bieber for comparison. I mean, in 1969 you could also listen to Donny Osmond.. every era has it's great music and its crap music.

[@DavidTurk2SirEel]

Dope! Moody Bluesish!

[@user-pl6eh1br1i]

最高‼

[@antoniobarbetti2813]

Wow

[@evets1968]

Back in the time when everyone went thru Hiwatt and Marshall.Awesome footage!

[@clanranald]

... and WEM

[@lucianocatarin9176]

Bach floating around

[@bassimgesicht]

🖤😌🖤

[@ferencpfilf8679]

Kimagasló /outstanding /!!!

[@williejones2139]

Read Colosseum nice and enchanting not bad at all carry on my brother.

[@adrianocapecchi2384]

consiglio a chiunque di ascoltare l'intero CD o LP. Un'opera straordinaria...

[@tomrott5333]

8:40 And than it starts! watch the second part....it's even better!!! IT'S A FUCKIN' KILLER!!!

[@jiyujizai]

🙂❣️💛

[@NeilThompson30]

@theachtungtree - it's hard to say - as I said - I love both bands - I think the most consistent is Colosseum because Purple did have a lot of fillers on their albums as well as classics - whereas Colosseum didn't do fillers - plus I was the one that bought the Colosseum records when I was a kid - and my older brother bought the Purple ones - I played both sides of the Walking in the park single to death when I was a kid - all the best.

[@spartanx5806]

just recently got into colosseum.....i like obscure bands i never heard of ..and they blew me away!! love this band...i really liked the singer guitarist that sang walking in the park!! what is his name and what became of him??

[@TheStewman27]

Chris Farlowe

[@tuddler]

When you discover music whilst laid ill in bed and it's still good or even more magnificent when you're better ⚕️