Super Session - Really - Bloomfield - Kooper - Stills

[Pietruss]

I'm begining to think that white guys can play the blues...

[KIDAmnesiacBends]

@Pietruss

well, mike grew up watching BB King

[LesbianVampireLover]

Yeah and just think, Bloomfield and Kooper (plus bassist Harvey Brooks) played with Dylan on the Highway 61 Revisited album, usually considered one of the top several rock albums of all-time. We had this baby in constant rotation back in the day.

[christheman593]

This song is the reason it was called a Super session. I wish Bloomfield could stay around longer, so he could make more soulful blues for us....Thanks Mike and Al

P.S. If you check this video also check 'blues for nothing' from the same album

[1969alias]

You're absolutley correct that it was'nt live as in "on stage" but was recorded live in the studio in one take. As far as the meth statement, it was methedrine...and there were even t/shirts back then that said "SPEED KILLS,DON'T METH AROUND!. And Steve Stills collapsed during the session.

[NYVOLVO]

Mike B was a fantastic bluesman, expressing deeply his voice, -yes, he is "really" singing -, through his Les Paul. I been listening regularly to his playing since this album came out in the late -60.

[1969alias]

Steve Stills collapsed during this live show, from meth exaustion, and was hospitalized, but this is still the best live blues recording of that era.

[johngoo343]

@1969alias yeah but super session was not a live album

[nstedman007]

@1969alias dude meth wasnt even being produced then.. meth exhaustion? maybe amphetamine (uppers) exhaustion or cocaine or something.

[jonbass64]

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[alibaba20111]

So true Mike Bloomfield must have had a black soul the way he played blues the way it was meant to be played Still love the old Electric Flag stuff too

[larebear2k]

I've been listening to this album since it came out. And everytime I listen to this tune I'm still amazed. When Bloomfield comes back in after Kooper's solo with that simple cliche, it's absolutely perfect. His attack, tone, everything. Rips my heart out everytime.

[evanfrmheaven]

@larebear2k mine too!

[feldspar9]

bloomfield's guitar work here is so perfect.

my favorite blues riffs. beyond description.

[undunboater]

Another late night....can't shut these guys off.....

[borntrippin]

Bloomfield is great, anybody ever listen to Roy Buchanan!

[19thSFGA]

WOW You guys get to hear a tune like this and thats what you fucking talk about .I feel sorry for you.

[48clapton]

Thanks! find out THE BLUES!

[wnorcott]

That's it. No other guitarist touches Mike Bloomfield or even comes close.

[kato1kalin]

I didnt know guitar strings could do that, haha.

[senorMitch]

This is so good, but doesn't Mike's finger slip at 4:32

[Fruscianteistheman]

@senorMitch

You listened to pure epic power for 5:26 and you fret a single second of excellence.

Also, his finger didn't slip, his pick hit an open string by accident.

[evanfrmheaven]

@Fruscianteistheman I agree with you.

[bencantona]

@senorMitch Its the blues.... Notes like that are whats its all about.... But its a trademark bloomfield open note... Listen to Stop..... A few of these notes in the solos... Also jimmy page uses open notes mid solo.... Similar style blues player... Influences ? ?

[tutolanz]

la mejor era del rock y el blues , era de los grandes ,

[donnyoh]

All these year later, every note of "Child is Father To Man" still lives in me. Another great album by these cats.

[bodieangels]

Hey Dirk, Were you in SF in '68 at the Fillmore West also? Was the Best Year Ever... Met Albert King and all the Greats.

[wbcred]

Quite possibly one of the greatest blues albums ever recorded - remember it from those hazy college days ... play on ...

[qz3bmz]

This is such great stuff; I think this is how it was meant to be done. So good for so many reasons. Just makes ya feel so good for so long

Thanks so much for posting Sir Henry

[MoorelandSt]

Fantastic! Just read that Sundazed is going to re-release the album as an LP.

[DirkJefferson]

This song and album cover sold a lot of Pauls to the first rock generation:

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Within 3 months in 1968, the Paul went from being a guitar nobody had heard of, to being the one everybody HAD to have. Cos of this album and cover photo.

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Also, most players who weren't already lead players by this date, learned to play blues from this album, (including Carlos Santana by self-admission)

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I was there.

[villarrealray]

One of the best concerts I went to when they played with Lee Michaels and Chambers Bros. Talk about everybody getting totally fu*&%ked up that night in San Bernardino's Swing

[DirkJefferson]

In '74 I went to see he Harvey Brooks Band at a dive in Norwalk, Ct; recognized Brooks as bassist from Super Session & Electric Flag.

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Talked during break. Told him I came to see a legend. H pointed to the lone black singer and said, "There's your legend, Lester Chambers"

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Asked H if he knew Vaughan Quimby, a sax player who'd played with Bloomfield. (I'd tested Vaughan by playing him a Bloomfield lick taught me by my guitar teacher. VQ knew it)

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My guitar teacher was John Scofield.

[jwos06]

This is great, my dad just told me about this and he was right!!!!

[plattform5163]

Thanks for sharing great blues!!!

[captainbeyond1]

This is the best shit, thanks for putting this up.Ain't nothing like the old stuff...YEAAAAAA!