The Electric Flag ~ Groovin Is Easy

[SweetJaneofGoth]

Like my grandpap says - "I give this song a grade of C"

[ocnarfeara]

Thanks for uploading this song. Added to my fav. I have a copy of this recording I found in the web years ago but the sound quality is poor. Your audio copy is excelent. I only missed the credits to Mama Cass on the background vocals:) Mike Bloomfield was her favorite blues guitar player.She commented on a Rolling Stone interview she was thinking in inviting Mike to join a band she was putting together for her solo career debut at Caeser's Palace.I'm not sure if that ever happened.

[Fladavenue]

Check out Mama Cass at the end.

[NoRosesForMe]

@Fladavenue I think she sings some back up throughout the song.. But yea...shes awesome as ever...doesnt matter what she sings hehe! I love her. She was really amazing. Thank you for listening. PEACE & best to ya. ♥ xx

[czech698]

gatopfuelsaver

[leopoldomarcialochoa]

please post it the lyrics

[Lengo67]

BUDDY MILES WAS IN THIS BAND?? I didn't know that. Well, now I do. Thanks for this info!

You oughtta check out Buddy Miles' "Drum Thing". Is super! This man can play!

[timinsaneous]

Bloomfield was a fantastic and giving musician. He and those like him are very hard to come by this day and age. God Bless his memory and the music he helped create through his endeavors.

[Adler315]

Saw The Electric Flag at the Trauma on Arch Street when I was just a kid in high school [my first experience seeing a great American band at that level of professionalism, and I was as pure as the driven snow]: Mike Bloomfield, Buddy Miles, Harvey Brooks, Nick Gravenites, Peter Strazza, Barry Goldberg, Stemzie Hunter, Herbie Rich, Marcus Doubleday, et al.: the full enchilada. Stood 4 feet from Mike, my tongue hanging out of my head, as he made that Les Paul scream. Good God . . .

[jasiyahsmama]

There are no words grand enough to express how much I appreciate this band and the Long Time Comin' Album. I am 57 years old and had a garage band in which we played "Groovin' is Easy' as well as "Killin' Floor" and may more. ahhh! what memories!

[dbrinkm1]

I was in college when these guys released this album and being a trumpet player, had to buy it. Great sounds with chicago roots migrating west to form a frisco band.:long live the electrtic flag !

[rtvguy]

Mike Bloomfied was a truly great musician and he should be appreciated not just for his music, but for the groups he got off the ground. He also started Blood, Sweat and Tears. Thanks, I needed the lift.

[leegenix]

@rtvguy

After they broke up, Buddy Miles formed The Buddy Miles Express. After that, the Loading Zone, which later was the foundation for Tower Of Power. Both Bloomfield and Nick Gravenites discovered new talent. NIck discovered Janis Joplin. Wrote the song, "Get Together" for the Youngbloods. I miss Mike. My brother got to sit in with him a few months before he died. He said Bloomfield was a genius and had an easy layback personality. I learned music training from this album. RIP Michael B.

[1tomtrumpet]

the electric flag was the greatest american music band that ever was!!

and thets my opion!! just listin to the music! It's the best!!

[Fladavenue]

8 million whoa 8 thousand views?

[buriedverydeep]

thanks God in time of bad luck and desperation we got Electric Flag Canned Heat and other very very good stuff that make us feel better

[revbil]

ThreeRosesForYou!!!

thank you....

[NoRosesForMe]

@revbil Awwww youre so welcome ande thank YOU too!

[Bluesdirections]

Thank you for posting this. I had this album back in the early Seventies and played it to death. I loved this song. My younger brother is a dead ringer for Buddy Miles.

[NoRosesForMe]

@Bluesdirections youre very welcome ! So glad you enjoy it. ...and your brother sounds like a really cool fella. Peace and best to you.

[donnajsmolak]

the best version. wow miss this group.

[motownmaniax]

Early explorations like this, marrying jazzy horns and rock, were fantastic and paved the way for all that came afterward. Bands like Blood, Sweat, and Tears and Chicago perfected it, but these were the pioneers. ♥♫♥

[bradlove79]

How in the hell did this not become a hit?This is an instant classic!!

[mrbag60]

This rocks out with soul and then having Mama Cass add her vocals at the end puts the icing on the cake.

[vintagevehicle]

... when I played this ALBUM, I was the coolest "Head" around. If ya don't kno what I mean, ya were'nt there!

[marctwang]

it was Mama Cass on backing vocals ... not bragging or anything, but I worked with Barry Goldberg (keys for Electric Flag) in the mid 1990's and he told me that Cass dropped by the session and sang on the record.

[LouPop13]

@marctwang I never heard that Mama Cass story, but I DO know that the chorus at the end ('doesn't have to be...') was sung by the girls who also had a killer all-girl band called the Ace of Cups. They never did any studio recordings of their songs, but someone finally released a CD of some of their live stuff recently...

[roby62gtr]

Very great song and tons of feeling.

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[leegenix]

Mr. Noroses..or, Miss..I wasn't sure of your gender, but I have a request.

Can you upload another track, " Can't Stop Overlovin You", sung by Buddy Miles. It was their only hit from that album..

Please, pretty please..?..

*begs*

[leegenix]

Hey Jenscool. That was Cass Elliot singing backing vocals on that? WOW..

Two bands changed my life when I was a kid, The Yardbirds and the Electric Flag. .Girl, we got to talk...

LEE..

[pepsipoptarts]

As a big fan of he Butterfield Blues Band I bought this album the first day it came out just to see what Bloomfield was up to. This was my favorite on the album and it sounds even better today.

[lanceroapacheanzures]

Esta entrada de la balada es simplemente hermosa Gracias Electric Flagh

[NoRosesForMe]

You are very welcome friend! Gracias!!

So glad you like this. Best to you!

[yidan1244]

Great song and a very underrated band. Remember playing this on vinyl that I still have. My older brother bought it and the other San Fran bands. Classic stuff, thanks for posting

[NoRosesForMe]

Hey thanks! And youre so welcome!

I had the tape when i was younger....i wore it OUT! Couldnt stop listenin to it. Ahh memories....

[franklmac]

Anne Stromberg?? Thanks, Jenscool.

[franklmac]

Yes, that is Mama Cass helping out on this cut. From what I understand Mama Cass worked at the Fickle Pickle as a waitress when Michael ran the blues venue as a young man. Apparently, they had known each other for years. This bit of info has not been verified. Anyone out there know for sure??

[Jenscool]

Good ole Mama Cass, singin'!

[NoRosesForMe]

Um...are u tryin to be a smart-ass? Its not Mama Cass singin here. Its Nick Gravenites.

Oh well. Thanks for the views!!!!

[Jenscool]

the chorus, she wasn't credited for it, but thats her, believe me! NO BS!

[franklmac]

Does anyone know who the model is that was used for the front cover? I've always been curious about who she is.

[9496tull]

i like it

[NoRosesForMe]

Thank you kindly but....your Mama Cass comment confused the fuck outta me haha! *hiccup*

Im on the gin today and .......if you know somethin I should know about this song please let me know haha!...but I like Mama Cass. She was cool.

[janisperla]

GREAT!!!! 5*, :))))

[NoRosesForMe]

Muchas Gracias!! =))))

[irishthankgod]

they were great , not like the shite of today , C

[NoRosesForMe]

Thanks so much Cathy! Yes this was an excellent band. Love em. ....and YES..seems like nothin but crap around these days. =)))

[rocsthedog]

listening with the headphones on, loving that tamborine

[NoRosesForMe]

hehe cool! prolly the best tamborine ever! xD

[NoRosesForMe]

oh and thanks a bunch for listening btw! =)))