J.B.Lenoir in Chicago - 1964 - original 16mm color

[barkwoodrecords]

Thank you for posting this. For that era, you and your wife must been unusually open and generous spirits. J.B. surely recognized this. What a great experience you had to have worked with him (and to have enjoyed him entertaining in your living room.) Its a shame that he didn't live longer with greater acclaim for his talent.

[frg8888]

Great footage. Is that a Kay guitar?

[daviemcf]

Fantastic footage!!

[GOLDBAND45]

Great voice and great storyteller.Knockout stuff J.B.!!

Never forgotten !

[chuckdee121]

This was very nice!

[thawthepast]

super

[bananlodor]

Yes, such as in a performance he did at the "Saints and Sinners" (a women's social club) party in Chicago where he appeared in his zebra striped tailcoat with his 15 foot cord which let him move about the floor with his guitar and microphone. Another time, filling in for Howlin' Wolf at Sylvio's in his chartreuse tuxedo, S.S.

[BLacKCatB0ne]

I would have given anything to see JB perform, it must have been a real show. He was a great talent no doubt. Thanks for posting this video.

[SmurfBorder]

hooo yearrr =)

[Marcrap]

Thanks you so much for sharing this great video.

[daddystovepipe]

Wonderful piece of history, thanks for sharing.

[JVCOSIN]

Thanks for postin this vid. I think that it is an important blues history file. Please don´t let it loose. Great.

[bananlodor]

The person, Steve Seaberg, who answers these comments is not the same as the person in the profile. I am 78.

[bananlodor]

The mic may have been in the camera, I can't remember. The next year for the b/w film the mic stodd on the coffee table in front of the performers and is visible in most of the shots, therefore better sound than in the 1964 film. All sound was optically recorded on the film. The sound track in Wim Wenders enhanced version can be seen on the right side of the screen.

[scrumpymanjack]

Thank you SO much for posting this, and for making it in the first place. So very very cool of you. Five stars.

[streetgeezer]

Underbart, tack!

[LucasDeckmyn]

wow that's indeed a great testimony of the blues roots

[bananlodor]

I own the original film. it is the one we made in 1965 in Chicago, parts of which were used by Wim Wenders in his Soul of a Man. See other parts of the original black and white from the following year in whicj I play with JB and my wife translates into swedish. Steve Seaberg

[jimihendrix1967]

I looked at your profile and your age seems like 48. How can you play with JB if you are 4 years old in 1965. You must be at least 60 or more.

[bananlodor]

Yes, we thought it was important to show the original with the original optical sound track. You can see the track itself on the right side of the DVD picture, included by Wenders as a kind of tribute to the original sound that actually wasn't that bad. Yes, to see and hear the original is a good experience and takes you back to J.B. and the moment itself. It was an adventure for all of us!

[opidacul]

thanks man, this is incredible, I always wonderd how the original sound was, not with the soundtrack added by guy who did the dvd....

[xyrius]

thx for posting this miracle

[choblues]

great! thank you. from japan

[bananlodor]

Yes!

[Baddoggone]

Loce it, great post of a legend.

[Baddoggone]

Sorry for the typo. I love it, thanks for the vid.

[snorrevonflake]

thanks for posting this, i was not happy to see this with added soundtrack on the dvd.

(how did you get that original recording?)

[bananlodor]

It is our film! My wife and I and Marshall Matson made it in 1964 in Chicago. Parts of it were later used by Wim Wenders in his film The Soul of a Man in the PBS Blues Series. Wenders thought the original sound track wasn't of good quality so he used the sound from another recording J.B. had made. The original optical sound tracj can be seen on the right of the DVD version.

Steve Seaberg, Atlanta 2009

[aleccullen]

How did you mic. it?