Travelin' Shoes BBC 1975

[@swhabby]

I used to set up for a lot of these guys back in the day. There was more talent in one of their little fingers than all of LA today

[@michaeljamesca]

Fly and Johnny have been life long friends. R.I.P. Fly. He was a great bass player.

[@tonyd7601]

I hope young people are encouraged by this set of music. Elvin is joyful and happy...even with Hank Aarons baseball bat!

[@AndyBigDaddyWilkinson]

Who is the rhythm guitarist ...ahaha..lead as well...the guy with the hat?

[@tonyd7601]

@@AndyBigDaddyWilkinson Johnny Vernazza or Johnny V white hat Elvin in black hat. They both play leaf and rhythm.

[@KenLongTortoise]

@@AndyBigDaddyWilkinson looks and sounds like Richard Betts

[@bobgreco4194]

Excellent musician very underrated great performer

[@alanwhite9142]

Godspeed Elvin. My distinct pleasure to have shared the planet with you for nearly seventy years. Made my lifetime better.

[@TheAmpguy]

He’s still alive.

[@mpmphilpott]

I was lucky enough to see Elvin Bishop in 1977. It was on their Raisin' Hell tour. It was one of the best shows I've ever seen and I've been to tons of concerts. His band was so tight!

[@JavaJohnVideo]

saw four shows in two nights in '87. Then helped him sell his cds at a gig 10yrs back. Mickey sang too!

[@canuckowl]

Lucky you. Never saw him live being up here in Canada but I still own the double live Raisin Hell album.

[@maxvaldez6987]

I saw him in 77 too opening for Head East, what an awesome show that was.

[@ph6376]

Raisin' Hell is one of my all time favorite live albums. You're right, the band was super tight. Saw them around the same time at the Circle Star Theater in San Carlos.

[@greypilgrim6157]

Man he was lamenring

[@Tracer9GTRider8]

Simply does NOT get the recognition he deserves. He is very talented and so were his band mates. They really bring it! Juke Joint Jump is another all out jam like this one!

[@jul4099]

I’ve seen him several times in the mid 70’s, always a great concert

[@nealbecton1206]

I saw Elvin Bishop with my mom and two of her girlfriends at the Great Southeast Music Hall in Atlanta in 1979 and boy did he tear it up. Great live show!

[@dougcorder4601]

They don't have music halls anything like the Great Southeast Music Hall today. Memories!

[@johnlynch9032]

I’ve seen Elvin more than I can count. The first time was ‘73 in Iowa City at a bar during one of the best weekends I can remember. He did a 3 night run during his “Rock My Soul” tour. On Friday afternoon we wondered in for a drink and Elvin was playing along with Dickey Betts and Charlie Daniels. Just jamming on slides. All this before we headed to the Duane Allman Memorial Auditorium to see Charlie open for the ABB. Yes, it was named that because the students voted for it. Later changed back to its old name. But hey, what a 3 day run! Jo Baker was singing with them. What an incredible voice for such a small lady. A real treat. Elvin is the best small venue act you can see. Second would have to be Ronnie Baker Brooks.

[@3fsw3]

Fantastic find! Loved this song since ‘72 along with Smokin OPs! Classic Seger🌪️✊🏽💯

[@TaraLyz]

Just started listening to his music (beyond Fooled Around and Fell In Love) earlier this year. He's great!

[@TaraLyz]

Same!

[@easy56wedge]

One of my all time favorites. Period. Used to listen to Let It Flow religiously every time we partied during high school and college. Classic album and incredible guitar playing. Johnny V on guitar with Elvin was amazing! Sadly I’ve lost two of my best friends from those days, in just the last two years. At 65, those years were some of the best of my life. Thank you Elvin for creating the soundtrack.

[@Zas695]

I saw Elvin in Alaska, he was spectacular. Mickey Thomas on lead vocals, one of the best singers I've ever seen.

[@John525C]

Great playing here, I haven’t listened to him in years, another guy who is underrated as a performer!

[@wimpetervandenbergh4536]

Jo, that was the last concert I saw in the US before I split to europe.

[@sup393]

He's still out touring good as ever

[@tbam994]

I enjoyed his show in a small venue in NYC ....a daytime show......we started imbibing earlier than usual for this very good performer

[@arthurwild5734]

@@sup393 Yes! 2022… I will be seeing him Friday, September 30, in Ojai, California! With Charlie Musselwhite! They will be in Beverly Hills, I believe September 22…

[@3fsw3]

Was in Saigon in "75 when some of my buddies turned me on to Elvin Bishop (and a whole lot more). When I got back to the world, i bought Let It Flow and then every EB album after that. Never saw him live but played the mess outta his records!

[@josephsaah2613]

Amazing Phil Aaberg on keys!

[@JS-kz9xl]

I saw ELvin in 1978 In a tiny club in Connecticut on the border to Rhode Island, with one of mny best freinds coming up who has been gone 7 years 2022, loved the show Oh Yeah !!

[@ewconway]

I saw Elvin Bishop as 2nd bill to Rush at San Bernardino Orange Show in 1980. Awesome concert! 👍

[@jettechdonatkins]

Great song by Elvin Bishop.First time I saw Elvin was in 1976 in Tulsa,Oklahoma,he was great.

[@johnnybk20]

Elvin had his mother come out on stage and introduced her. And the Marshall Tucker Band & Elvin Bishop Band jam on the last song of the night. To bad I can't post pictures here I would post my ticket stub. @The Tulsa Assembly Center🥳

[@energyasylum997]

Elvin is STILL WITH US!! 🙏🏾❤️👌🏽

[@jlgiii4749]

One of my all time Favorites - Elvin Bishop!

[@AmadeuCarvalho-ug7hn]

This man makes the music happier 💐💐✌️

[@Oldhatz]

I had nearly forgotten these guys! Fun, fantastic music!

[@robt5818]

I am a musician myself and this is great on so many levels: the playing and especially the fun that the guys are having!

[@briano.5746]

This is the first time I've seen this since 1975 , I was 11 years old. I've always loved this tune! It's been stuck in my head since then. This is only the second time I've heard the damned tune!!! 🐉💀👽🎸🎶🎵🧠🌌

[@akgobears]

Being from the Bay Area, seen so many great bands that made this their main home....Two bands ive seen more than 30 times apiece and least through about 10 or more variations each, Jefferson Airplane/Starship, and Elivn Bishop....Elvin in the Three B's with Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield...Elvin Bishop group with Jo Baker....Kewl stuff for those that remember...

[@itisfine4now]

I saw Elvin Bishop in Gainesville, FL in the eighties. That was the most fun I ever had at a concert. What a show!

[@joepierce1672]

My brother Mike and I would see him at this bar in San Francisco. What a great person. There was never a big crowd (' cause it wasn't real big room) . Between sets he'd sit down and have a beer with you. When ever I hear Elvin, I think of Mike.

[@greypilgrim6157]

What a great performance. At first listen, I thought it was a bit clunky, but it just gets better and better every time I listen to it. And Shit, I thought that was Dickie Betts on second guitar at first. But it’s Johnny Vernazza. The guy is great. And of course Elvin is great. But the secret weapon is that drummer. He is phenomenal gonna have to go look him up.

[@robertferguson533]

This came on the radio yesterday. Haven’t heard it in 40 years but I still had it memorized. Forgot how good it was

[@greypilgrim6157]

@@robertferguson533 yes, sir, it is the kind of song that just gets in your head and doesn’t leave. And not just one for the song the whole thing is catchy. It’s so much fun and comes off so easy I’m a way thst you almost forget just how complex a lot of the playing is. Just an inspired piece of music.

[@robertferguson533]

@@greypilgrim6157 Classic

[@MrNategriffin]

i'd love to see him again in one of those guitar crossroads events. way underrated guitar player.

[@sup393]

He still tours

[@bigl6322]

I don’t know about underrated. I’ve been a guitar player for 30 years and I don’t know anybody who doesn’t think he’s a guitar icon. I’ve been digging his shit since the 70’s so he’s just foundational man…

[@bobgreco4194]

Elvin could play with the best of them and has!❤

[@tonyd7601]

He's like 80 and can still play with the best of them

[@theislander-sj1kq]

Let's not forget the he out the Butterfield Blues Band. The integrated band of 1964.

[@brettrtrophyhunter]

Elvin is Awesome ! Great fun music and is always funny !

[@halcyon289]

This is absolutely brilliant from start to finish .

[@stephenhayes8793]

Got me dancing..doing the chicken wing like Elvin..oh, yeah!

[@johnlowry7768]

He was and still is a big inspiration of my GUITAR PLAYING

[@mhfunkalicioius]

Bishop loves his Red Dog, his Gibson ES-345 guitar. He traded his Telecaster for Louis Myers Gibson when playing with the Butterfield Blues Band. He still plays it today and even devoted the album title "Red Dog Speaks" to it.

[@johnflynn5523]

Thanks for posting. Big production that I understand was a special NYE show at the Oakland Paramount. Pure pop!

[@tonyd7601]

I just took it off the internet and posted it. I loved this politically incorrect song from one of the most talented bands of the last 50 years.

[@tonyd7601]

I forgot how good it was!

[@59mannix]

This might be his best song 🏁great guitars

[@Bella-tk5mq]

I seen Elvin Bishop in 1978 at the New Haven Coliseum he opened up first Oyster and Rod Stewart closed the show

[@howardthomas7010]

Thanks i was wondering. He looks like him especially with the Les Paul. Anyway great song. Many thanks.

[@rockinredneck57]

Elvin cut his musical teeth in the mid 60s in Chicago with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band learning his chops from the great Mike Bloomfield.

[@darrelllatham6086]

Slick and well smooth from such a hay wagon lookin bunch, AWESOME!

[@8weight]

Saw EB and MTB at The Music Inn, Lenox Ma. in 1975. EB & MTB kicked ass. Both bands jammed at the end and the concert ran long. Tanglewood, a Classical music venue was literally just up the road. Tanglewood was having an evening concert and called down to say they could hear the Rock music. Music Inn pulled the plug on EB & MTB but the drummers kept at it for about 20 minutes until they plugged them back in. It was a hell of a show.

[@maryharris5633]

I saw these together the same year, must have been the same tour, at William & Mary Hall.

[@joedibert645]

One of my favorites

[@rabaile1]

I've ALWAYS loved Elvin Bishop. He/they were the opening band when I saw them (twice), and I can't even remember who followed them - ha!

[@marjorieanderson8626]

Elvin Bishop was raised in Tulsa after the age of 10. Segregated but not all white. Perhaps Elvin's previous hometown in Iowa was what you were referring to. What is amazing is that Elvin, Leon Russell and David Gates (Bread) were all in the same Tulsa high school at the same time.

[@joebalczo7411]

I wish he and Maria Muldar would get back together for a jazzy blues album!

[@tonyd7601]

I am not familiar with it but I'm huge on Mr Bishop.

[@georgejordan5611]

Elvin had one of the best groove bass players..Michael "Fly" Brooks!

[@TheHonudiver]

The one and only Johnny "V" Vernaza on guitar and backing vocals!

[@bigl6322]

Thank you, I was gonna ask who that skinny ass cowboy spanking the Les Paul was… makes me think of Dickey betts, but co I knew it wasn’t…

[@mrjbkap]

All this time I thought it was Dickie Betts. I see that Johnny V. is from the city my father went to HS in. Daly City. And I loved Party Till the Cows Come Home. Thanks for correcting I'm a little red faced now.

[@tonyd7601]

No worries. All great guitarist look alike

[@kuzineddy2989]

Saw him at the Wave Waikiki 1982? What a show.

[@richardprice7755]

Saw him in Vancouver B C in the late eighties on the same bill as Buddy Guy at the Town Pump

[@brentgeller3489]

I saw the in the mid 1970's in Central Park, along with The Charlie Daniels Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd. It's hard to believe that the tickes were only $5.00. Pretty good deal,eh?

[@brentgeller3489]

If I could post without so many typos, that would be phenomenal.

[@HammyTechnoid]

Ol' Elvin looks like he just fell off the moonshine truck LOL Great Showman...

[@bobatkins9162]

Just found this classic on Southern Rock BBC4,never heard of them,will have to here more!

[@tonyd7601]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@bobatkins9162]

Anthony Danes certainly did,just don't hear music like that anymore!

[@allenkennedy6748]

The set looks suspiciously like Midnight Special.

[@bobatkins9162]

@@allenkennedy6748 This is from ' The Old Grey Whistle Test' , English BBC2 Television Show from the 70's and 80's, Many thanks for your comment.

[@acebrogden3805]

Still rockin to this in 2021

[@dasteelerfan1]

Elvin is an awesome picker

[@Klurpaderp]

I wish he would come to the UK!!

[@jramirez3889]

The Master At Work.

[@paullevine1813]

Johnny V & Elvin just clicked whenever they played & what a band to back them up , True Southern Rock at it peak. We can thank The Allmans for starting up a genera they were not really part of till way after Duane & Berry as that band was Blues Rock & Soul on top of being the best of the best.

[@BlueSardinia75]

Oh Yeah!!! Amazing Elvin!

[@garywoz953]

Johnny V rocks

[@andyinoregon]

Johnny V doing his best Dickey Betts' impersonation with that hat.

[@paddydaddyo]

andyinoregon He’s a smaller version. Call him “Dinky Betts.”

[@spicystick]

Does the audience have a pulse?

[@skyvankurin6578]

isaw elvin bishop at southampton college in 75 i talked after the show with him he said take me to the nearest bar we went to the madd hatter in the hamptons great musician song writer great voice and can THE BOY CAN PLAY GUITAR most of ALL GOOD PERSON

[@tonyd7601]

Sky VanKurin not surprised.

[@davidbrinton5132]

the les paul guitar is " johnny b" a little sawed off chunk , try "juke joint jump" ,same band . best friends since kids and played together a bunch and raised hell in napa and all over then wrote songs about all the fun they had .totally cool guys .elvin created a lot of the funk sound before anyone new what funk was ; that came later .

[@davidbrinton5132]

opps , typo :johnny "v" vernazza

[@scotsman6712]

Youre very lucky to have that memory!

[@lyndaruth]

Hi Johnny V! from Lynda (Garcia) Ruth

[@neub4321]

Great song. One day I'll find a 1970s-1980s video recording of it that has clearer audio.

[@beefheart67]

Saw EB with Slade 1976

[@karenjorden2347]

This video and song made me like him

[@JerryHall-ot9jh]

Hi karen

[@rockclimber3045]

Great song he played this on a Crag road speedway

[@craigthibodaux]

Harmony like the brothers

[@LDM662]

I'm 61 and still dig Elvin

[@boelander]

This version seems to be a little hectic. I like it a touch slower.

[@tonyd7601]

I think it's perfect.

[@pauljmn9135]

saw him at the cabooze

[@MickfromHooe]

Elvin Bishop Band

[@baird5776mullet]

Saw them do this in Pensacola Fla when a riot broke out,they were playing canned music and someone threw a Pepsi Bottle that hit Bishop's guitar,he jumped offstage into the crowd to fight and 2 Escambia county deputy's threw his ass right back up on stage.

[@lastnamefirst4035]

Too funny...but then it was fla

[@parkerfoster8347]

Hard to believe one of the best live jam bands would pretend to play to a recording, but I guess it could happen.

[@mpmphilpott]

Parker Foster-what are you talking about. They're not pretending to play. That's live for sure.

[@baird5776mullet]

@@mpmphilpott They were in Pensacola in 1975 along with the Ozark Mtn Daredevils, both bands were playing canned and that's what pissed everyone off, can you read?

[@mpmphilpott]

@kenny baird Take it easy big fella.

[@paulworden3832]

The audience are either frozen in admiration or don’t know a kickin’ tune when they hear one

[@JavaJohnVideo]

this show is CLEARLY from THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL in Hollywood America! lol

[@Bella-tk5mq]

I have all Elvin Bishop on Vinyl

[@groverbaker6404]

Ah yeah!!

[@stevenrowitt6563]

Smoking hot southern blues rock.

[@woody95124]

good darn music!

[@lastnamefirst4035]

TURN IT DOWN IN THERE!

[@Voots7]

Elvin Bishop sittin on a bale of hay, he ain't good looking but he sure can play.. cdb

[@davideason6169]

An honorary southerner? The guy was raised in Oklahoma. That's southern enough.

[@charleswest9181]

Totally agree.

[@kamuelalee]

Oklahoma, why that's the beach...but close enough. Such a fantastic musician!

[@MrJC7071]

If you think Oklahoma is The South, it says a LOT about your education, or lack of it! I mean, is "South Philly" or "South Buffalo" the South? LOL!

[@lastnamefirst4035]

@@MrJC7071 Oklahoma is the south

[@scrapeyhawkins5299]

The guy was born in Glendale California ......

[@gaguy2160]

Elvin is a legend. I will take three guys from okie, and take on 5 or 6 guys from Texas. Elvin, jj cale and leon russell. My money goes on the Okies

[@jimschroeder8462]

Oh yeah !

[@lyndaruth]

Also hello to Don, Elvin Fly Brooks and Mickey

[@rockmusichistorylesson7401]

Young guitarists take note you're looking at one of the best.Find out more about Elvin www.rockmusichistorylesson.com

[@greypilgrim6157]

Boy he was lamenting back in 1975 some sort of not-so-positive change in the treatment that men are receiving from women. I wonder what he thinks about it now? How you like ‘dem apples now, boy? 🥵

[@beverly5886]

Saw him in 1975....Lord, he was cute!

[@recsec]

Was that Glen Hardin on piano??

[@tonyd7601]

He doesn't look like the picture of Glen Hardin to me. I found the name Bob Welsn not Welch in my Google search. Hopefully some one in the audience will be kind enough to enlighten us.

[@jonjrosen]

What is the name of the skinny guitar player?

[@tonyd7601]

Johnny Vernazza or Johnny V

[@jonjrosen]

@@tonyd7601 thank you

[@bjrnespeseth8515]

tight : D

[@scottshand8559]

So is that Dicky Betts and Chuck Levell?

[@tonyd7601]

Elvin Bishop - vocals, lead guitar; Fly Brooks - bass; Bill Slais - keyboards; Johnny Vernazza - guitar; Donny Baldwin - drums, vocals; Reni Slais - backing vocals; Mickey Thomas - vocals

[@mbogucci1]

@@tonyd7601 Yeah, I am pretty certain that's Phil Aaberg on piano. I don't see Mickey in this clip. Or Reni. All that said, this is a fucking fantastic vid.

[@tonyd7601]

@@mbogucci1 i just cut and pasted something off Google. Thanks for the info.

[@tonyd7601]

The guy in the hat is Johnny V.

[@bassboyify]

Is that Dickie Betts accompanying him ??

[@tonyd7601]

Larry Slavens it's Johnny Vernazza. Mr Betts did play on some of Bishops albums.

[@bassboyify]

Thanks ...it looked a lot like him though

[@robertmantell1700]

@@bassboyify I asked the same thing in my head and found your question while looking for the answer. I really thought it was Dicky too!!

[@notimewarp]

Dickey played on the studio version... Johnny plays his part here almost note for note...

[@MrPhotodoc]

The beat is irresistible and the zombie audience is sitting on their hands. Haha!

[@Ycodexp]

Isn’t that lettering used on The Midnight Special?

[@tonyd7601]

Yeah I thought this was from the Midnight Special program.

[@Walt97Jr]

why the fuck was the crowd so quiet ??????!!!!!!

[@davidcudlip6587]

Adam Sandler rockin the blues! How cool is that?

[@royhendrickiii7798]

Might be the venue......

[@menachembenegon7264]

If this was run on BBCs Old Grey Whistle Test, it is a recycled clip from NBCs Midnight Special.