Return To Forever & The Headhunters - Soundstage 1974

Chick Corea & Return To Forever & Herbie Hancock & The Headhunters - Soundstage 1974 - pt.1

[@JeffGrimes-bo4cc]

These men are so great still today the way they play thier instruments so 3

[@michaelbirke6050]

We were all listening to the same old rock and roll in the early seventies. You know. AOR. You could hear the same song 6-7 times a day. Then we started fooling around with the radio dial, and low and behold, way down to the left, down in the like 83.7 or 85.9 we discovered college radio. It was like being jettisoned into a different galaxy. EXPLORATION!!!The music of Return to Forever and Herbie’s Head Hunters was like a breath of fresh air. It was so accessible. so new, so electric. It took you places Pink Floyd could never. Needless to say, some of us fell in love with this wonderful music called Jazz Fusion.🎸🎷🎹💕

[@johncowart2733]

I'm truly grateful,too be able too run across this. Man, when all this stuff started poppin, I was like 12yrs. old. Can you imagine, in one day the sound changed, basically, overnight. That's how Fusion did us, not complaining, as a matter of fact. I luv this shyt. I've been told to just let it die. No😢t gonna be able too do 🖤...

[@marc2397]

It don’t get no better. I thank God for the USA, and black Americans. It is freedom, and Democracy that created this great music!

[@SwampEye1]

Stanley Clark ... Hell ya ... so glad to have these recordings ... with picture .... thnx YT

[@andyokus5735]

Me and my roommate came home and this was on TV. Yep in 1974. Neither one of us had ever heard anything like this before. We both cracked up laughing in shock and awe. Funny in a year or two I would be composing and playing Jazz Fusion.

[@buschovski1]

Man that is awesome. I love your comment.

[@johncowart2733]

Sometimes what makes you laugh, can also make you cry. Who knew, rt. Do you still play Fusion or is it really like most think, that Fusion is dead 🖤...

[@basilshahid2905]

The undisputed champions of Jazz Funk.. The Mighty Headhunters!!!

[@rodtrues1]

Back when you went to a concert to listen,learn,hear stories in song,,,,,,,,,,,,, and chameleon may have been the funkiest thang I had heard bk in the 70’s except Sly Stone’s funk, which was a different funk,,,, but it’s all Funky if it makes ur body move to dat groove!!!!

[@moussetache1815]

@ra ra WELCOME + ILLUMINATIONS

[@johncowart2733]

I agree, there should be a memorial or something like Mount Rushmore. Ha, I can see it now. All of the greats faces in marble. They are worthy of it 🖤...

[@Critica1Bi11]

Al D was 20 when this was recorded. Stanley was 23. Lenny 24. Absolutely amazing. I love Stanley's bassgasms.

[@rodtrues1]

True musicians with passion at that age of 20 something, but now i see kids 3 and 4,, that play like they been here before,,,,,

[@pkell7315]

I saw these guys in the early 80s incredible show !

[@thesuncollective1475]

Wow what a classy line up..All Gods

[@louise_rose]

I've loved Stanley Clarke's tone and phrasing since I was like twelve years old....and still do at fifty-five.

[@louise_rose]

Stanley Clarke was a genius already on their first two albums (the eponymous one and LAAF), 21 years old and almost his first albums, already a master. I've loved his tone, phrasing, playing and improvisation skills ever since I first heard him more than forty years ago - I was around twelve years old at the time.

[@dmomcilovic9185]

A CD release with good audio of this would be awsome

[@callmemonkh9020]

JAZZ...will ALWAYS LOVE, Chick Corea. One of the Greatest Minds of the Music!

[@TheKimykali]

I miss the days of being able to buy some tickets for $25 the day before a show, and jump on the bus downtown, and see RTF or HH, who would then proceed to Blow our Minds. RIP to some of the members of those great bands no longer on this plane.

[@racerx1189]

Beautiful words. 🙏🏻❤

[@spankduncan1114]

I saw them for $7 in 74. Worth $50 easy.

[@drummaman1]

I've been searching for this video a while, I had seen it before and couldn't locate it again until tonight. Some highlights: RTF frantic live tempos, like riding a rollercoaster without the safety harness Al Dimeola 19 year old peach fuzz Stanley Clarke Alembic Brown Bass greatness Dance Mix based on "Space Circus" could've made the charts Headhunters: Bill Summers Shekere Train Bennie Maupin throwin down Paul Jackson RIP - one of the best rhythm sections, he and Mike Clark, ever Herbie Hancock and his "Magic Hands" Great show!!

[@jcsolomon6470]

❤ FunkY FusioN,JazZy!Workin witcha GoT,nah!With these Set of CatS!Love All this Prog JazZy,with Ceativity!I saw Stanley Clarke,in 88 at a Small Hilton club,in the San Francisco,area!Out of the 2 times Stanley,stepped out into the Audience,1 of those times,was jammin out right in Front of my face,literally!Nevere forget That!JcsxTake care Fans!

[@MrBlackbass59]

I love to hear REAL musicians playing real music! I cut my musical “teeth” in this era as a bass player. I don’t want to hear computer loops that pass for “music” today! I remember me and a handful of musicians from my high school going to a concert at San Diego State in the late 70’s. It was Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock with two grand pianos facing each other and NOTHING MORE! It was an amazing show!

[@johncowart2733]

Imagine that or should I say, Dig that. To catch Chick(rest)& Herbie at the same set. Screw the Lotto... Ha 🖤...

[@DIGITALVHS]

Something about the VHS tracking interruptions and audio quality on this video makes it better

[@torocruz1192]

Sounds like an old tv show. I feel it 👍🏽

[@HHGary]

Oh man, from the title I thought it was going to be the Headhunters and RTF jamming together...

[@JustforFun-ki6fk]

I saw R. T. F. And Herbie in the early 80s incredible both shows !

[@torinowens6103]

All the Musicians on stage are Music Masters. Damn they are Awesome! 1love

[@4tuneagent]

Incredible.. @ 13:57 is why Al DiMeola is one of the most underrated and exceptional guitarists of All Time! And Stanley Clarke, Lenny White and Chick Corea are unbelievably amazing as well..

[@danamaguire4285]

I wouldn't say Al Di Meola is underrated. Who underrates him?

[@4tuneagent]

@@danamaguire4285 He should be listed in the Top 100 guitarists of All Time, but I do not believe he is.. Certainly well known and highly regarded in the Jazz Fusion world, but not nearly as noticed in the Mainstream music category..

[@cmartin2636]

He's one of my top 10!

[@mattizchilled4041]

Man its such a great worth to just express it to an unknown attentive crowd

[@fusionfan6883]

Geniuses one and all, but I wonder how many people appreciate how important the incredible Paul Jackson was to Herbie's funk sound?!

[@spankduncan1114]

He also contributed greatly along with Lenny White to the group Azteca. A year plus before this show.

[@petercallaway3376]

Legendary! 🎹🎸🥁🎻🎼🎶🔊🎷🎺🪕👍🏽👀👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏾👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏼

[@inflames2112]

What sets real musicians apart from today's. They did it for the love of music. Not greed :)

[@J3unG]

Nope. These guys wanted to make a living playing music. Jazz don't pay, bro. This is the best they could do.

[@johnmc3862]

@@J3unGlol!

[@spankduncan1114]

​@J3unG They all made a living playing the music they wanted to play.

[@lencampa9049]

Glad I came across this R.T.F and HEADHUNTERS. UNBELIEVABLE that they have a video on this.luv to have a video on THIS. RTF was so tuned in to one a other while playing . on the other side headhunters the best of that sound funk. soul.jazz.spacey.music.everyone a star in there own right best 2 groups from that era.

[@babaana]

This just came up in my feed, my god, thank you. Long time heroes of mine, masters, magicians. Wondrous stuff. xxx

[@MrMjp58]

RTF were spectacular in all departments. For me they were the most successful of all the fusion acts (jazz-rock as we called it back then), in compositional terms.

[@andyokus5735]

Did you ever hear David Sancious ' albums?

[@Tfunkize]

Herbie H. & Headhunters were exstreme HOT back in the 70-80 and an enspiration to all musician over all the world - Thanks Headhunters

[@sandiegojody]

This is incredible!

[@spankduncan1114]

Saw this version of RTF in 74 in Eugene OR. Lenny White drove the band that night just like he does in this recording.

[@kenbshorter4494]

Mike Clark. My favorite drummer!😊

[@dyrldouglas2087]

My senior yr of HS in INDY, it was a paradigm shift.

[@grennglant]

when i was 19 i preferred the RTF set. now that i'm 60 i love the headhunters portion so much more ;)

[@felipenicholls6434]

A total musical Gem 💎 !!! Thank you 🙏

[@terenharris6814]

Good vibes and sound

[@ThriceHermes]

Rush - Vital Signs at 13:18! hahaha! Recognized it in a fraction of a second. Whoever recorded this on VHS had some excellent taste, but needed more blanks!

[@matthewhartman6377]

Haha, same

[@tab89]

Haha damn, good call. Honestly I’d probably tape over rush for this, but that would be a really hard choice to make

[@ТамараЦибирева-ы2т]

Басист просто обалденный! Круто! Спасибо.

[@jeanlouisvilleret8246]

quel cadeau de voir ces images de concert! c'est le top du top entre RTF et Chick (RIP) puis Headhunters et Herbie , musique essentielle, incontournable! je les adore .

[@FusionHowie]

Incredible!

[@KurtI2525]

They’re having so much fun!

[@songwriting101]

The last track Chameleon by Herbie with his original HeadHunters band is sick!

[@tobemartin3343]

This is godamn adventure

[@CANALROBBY]

Merci :-) excellent document vidéo ! L'âge d'or du Jazz Rock, vraiment génial de voir Al Di Meola si jeune et l'attitude très sobre de Lenny White alors qu'ils fait des trucs géniaux. Dommage pour le son pas terrible mais vraiment cool à voir.

[@inflames2112]

All amazing folk. ❤

[@chriss7957]

Thank you very much for posting this video.. two of my favorite bands growing up and still today!

[@yassveena]

This morning while making breakfast i didn't realize that beside this video another tab with vid of h. hancock-concert started playing. Surprising sound-experience. :D

[@bobbylinning2348]

Now this is truly awesome!!!!!!

[@scotteagles4864]

Oh god, this is so awesome. Thank you!

[@samsochet7436]

Vulcan Worlds just plain rules....

[@rawdonwaller]

Bought the album as an 18 year old in 1993. Vulcan Worlds knocked my socks of.

[@richardshansky3040]

The call-and-response solo riffs show how tight they are as a band.

[@san-panico]

Lawd gosh, the musicianship...

[@Heffsta02]

god I love Lenny

[@spankduncan1114]

No shit...poppin' fluid on the drums.

[@Blackstone_1111]

Thank You For Posting This!! I Really Appreciate It!!

[@jivadaya6439]

L E N N Y !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

[@giac7baci]

this is the most amazing this ever and herbie at the end with the magic white noise hands haha he's too far out!

[@epersonmusic]

Saxophonist Bennie Maupin is wearing Chick's clothes! Lol

[@SixTenVisuals]

How lucky was that audience? 2 titans of rhythm in the same show??

[@paxwallace8324]

Yeah I watched this on tv in 74 at 14. I was however, already awear of Chicks deeper more serious work with Roy Haynes and Mirislov Vitus in 68 "Now He Sings Now he Sobs". I was also becoming more awear of the 2nd Miles Davis Acoustic Quintet with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock like from 63 to 66. But these Synths were the new thing so that was fun but..I guess for me I was awear that both had been involved in heavier jazz earlier.

[@simonespanu7768]

Hancock and Corea were equals, IMO. No need to compare. And sure, put Al and Stanley on stage just for fun. Jesus! 🙏

[@markodardanis5667]

Groove.. Bam!

[@SKYZTHELIMIT514]

And DRUM AND BASS WAS BORN!!!!!

[@dizzygee87]

Methinks Herb was listening to Zappa here

[@spankduncan1114]

Dummy up...

[@johng.4711]

Robots make love to this music.

[@pimvanharten6935]

what pedals is Chick using ? I see a Mutron III envelope filter during the soundcheck (you can see him reaching over to where the Mutron is now hidden at 20.05). but what is the other box seated in sight on the left of the clavinet ? it is connected to the Rhodes... the Rhodes sounds like it might have a ring modulator, which would be a set up of the Rhodes we would expect from Chick. but which ring modulator is this ? see the sound check and 19.30..

[@LloydMajor]

Real cool!

[@jasonhedgecock8743]

Herbie Hancock vein melter.. chameleon.. so good

[@paxwallacejazz]

I think Sound Stage wasn't PBS can you imagine that ! anyway 74 I was 14 in the Jazz Band in school in Charlotte NC . Bill Hanna was our Band Director and we the kids where all listening to Chick and Herbie and Weather Report and Jan Hammer . Keith Jarrett I was only just starting to get to know way back in 74 .

[@richardshansky3040]

Hey! I was also in the jazz band in high school in 1974. We would skip regular classes and go to the band-room and listen to Miles Davis, RTF, Weather Report, Keith Jarrett, Herbie Hancock, Frank Zappa…anything innovative and interesting. Those were good ole days.

[@taggmanibanez]

This is about the time where jazzers went from total badasses, to super dorks, and have been there ever since, with a couple exceptions of course.

[@spankduncan1114]

I know what you mean. I saw these guys live in 74 and they all had those plastic pocket liners filled with all kinds of colored pens. Between songs they were writing out quantum physics equations and creaming in their polyester pants. It was one of the lamest most disgusting things I ever saw in my life.

[@rembeadgc]

A lot of this music was probably too rapid and virtuosic for most of the audience to even know what they just heard.

[@dyrldouglas2087]

2 Maestros & all star side men. I have those tunes today.

[@mitsushiro]

great .

[@dhmtbr2551]

Lenny & Mike 😮 🙌🏻

[@buschovski1]

What the hell? Ive never heard Return to Forever. I didnt even know these kings had a band together. Im a fool

[@spankduncan1114]

No...not a fool. You've found a wonderful surprise.

[@ТамараЦибирева-ы2т]

Здорово!

[@stoyanfurdzhev]

Hi!

[@chico1510]

Just okay after mind beening exploded

[@thesuncollective1475]

No one can touch Herbie

[@pablofichaje]

16:38 bass solo by Mr Clarke

[@KingPinniped]

Drives me nuts that their edit cuts out everything except 1:30 of Herbie & Chick's intro duet. Andd just as bad, they put the narrator's speech over the jam and mixed his voice louder than the music. Terrible, purposeless/tasteless post-production choices.

[@ExecutionSommaire]

Yeah haha, it reminds me of a live from the Pat Metheny Group where they chose to cut between every song to insert a short interview of each musician. Ironically, at some point Pat says something like "we try to make the performance into one long song" ... And the post-prod carefully broke down the performance into individual, isolated pieces :D

[@rodtrues1]

KingPinniped , narrator knew nothing about JAZZ,,,, he Read that,,,, sounds like Walter Cronkite maybe,,,, but jams were from the 70’s, good stuff,,,,best music time, cause I lived it,,,,,,,,,,,

[@dave_manley]

@KingPinniped I watched this when it was originally broadcast on WTTW in Chicago. The program 'Soundstage' aired weekly similar to Austin City Limits (which wasn't on the air yet). IIRC the narrator is just the guy that did all the voice work on WTTW which was the local PBS channel. The video cuts off after 42 minutes, a PBS production without commercials would have had more than 42 minutes of air time. I've got to wonder if there's a missing segment at the end that featured the Chick/Herbie duet.

[@gregedenfield1080]

wow

[@renebachmann9190]

Were have I known you before

[@Daisy-yq1gi]

Perfect

[@ralphups7782]

nice though, there are some new dudes in the ranks , like thunder cat et al who are coming to let you listen to what they got to. me way down the scale to with one hit wonders if i am lucky. (-:

[@RC_Cola2020]

21:08 the lick

[@J3unG]

Is there a restored and remastered version of this?

[@MichaelCarter-rf3zw]

Joe's Zabana Who let the weather report

[@dondonaldth]

Le meilleur au minimoog

[@automediaam712]

Mike Clarke's left hand is ridiculous

[@Rayquesto]

15:35 pacman sound

[@Eberponton]

[@larrymaccollum6419]

Mahavishnu Weather report Headhunters RTF Tony Williams Miles should be proud😅

[@Deebomofo]

Please!, Don't Try This At Home!,Kids!

[@simonespanu7768]

At 14:25 begins the insanity! 😱

[@ralphups7782]

i would like a clearer video, i am sure in the youtube world there is a nurd like i am , but his speciality is re-mastering . i am guessing as long as he/she leaves the nod to this original video by this youtuber there should n't be any beeves to fight over i am guessing.? 👈👺👀👀👍

[@roberto.r.3721]

vital signs intro (rush) at 13:17

[@blahblahoink]

Smoking hot!

[@dizzygee87]

My Jah what universe is this from at all???!!!

[@scotty6124]

Not sure its possible for Herbie to be any cooler in this video.

[@MichaelCarter-rf3zw]

Joseph ana

[@user-hb4cj3do5o]

paul jakson ？is he Bass

[@thomasjordan3241]

Paul is the bass player with Herbie, yes!

[@LouiePlaysDrums]

Paul Jackson sadly passed away recently. May he rest in peace.

[@thomasjordan3241]

Just wanted to add this: sadly Paul Jackson just died here late winter 2021. Respect and R.I.P. Paul.

[@petercallaway3376]

Who’s playing the drums? 🥁👀Steve Gadd?🥁👀

[@pkell7315]

Lenny white !

[@petercallaway3376]

@@pkell7315 haha 😂 Joke right? Drummer is Caucasian.

[@6strngbass]

Mike Clark

[@spankduncan1114]

White with Chick, Clark with Herbie.

[@thefieldpiece]

17:42 everybody do the Herbie!

[@thedrakenet]

you do realize that is Chic Corea and not Herbie?

[@thefieldpiece]

@@thedrakenet No, no I did not 😂

[@kensoshibata]

スタンリー・クラークが今日現在（2023.08.01）まで全く成長進歩していないの草

[@spankduncan1114]

How tall is he now?