Still the best Guitarist ever for me, his Vibrato is definitv the Best Í´ ve ever heard in my whole Live , his playing is so soulfull and warm , he is still my Guitar Hero !. It is so so sad that he left much to early ......
Why there are no comments about Andy Fraser???? He was equally awesome to Koss, he wrote most of the best Free songs and his bass line where so revolutionary
@ryumishima44 You are right , the difference is that andy still lives and Koss is dead , i think . All of the Free Members where great Musicians , unforgetable in my opinion, for one of the Best Bands ever !
Yeah well when you saw this band they were really very good. Kossof just stood in front of the amps and felt every note. Andy Fraser just swayed from side to side in time with everything (including largish hat). What can you say about Paul Rogers - first mic stand grinder. Those were the (wonderful) days and this brings it all back.
Should not forget very tight drum timing by Simon to hang it all together.
Kossoff most underated Blues/rock guitarists ever never gets a mention in any lists but anyone who ever saw him just knew the young man was way up there,superb strong drumming bass playing which has never been bettered and a vocalist who could really chant guess i liked these guys
Always loved the bass on this tune. yah yah yah, then I stopped smokin and drinkin and it started to sound and smell like microwaved rat shit. hahaha. How foolish we are when we are young. fuckin alchies.
stripped down raw and emotional......gives me chills listening to this........no one could draw more emotion from a guitar than koss........rodgers growling on vocals Simon kirke putting every last bit of sweat into pounding the drum kit and andy frasier's bass which so sweetly compliments koss's lead guitar.........damn near the perfect band......highly underrated at the time
un très grand groupe! ça groove terrible! la basse-batterie a une fantastique assise,et le guitariste un super feeling,dommage qu'il doit parti trop vite..et le chanteur une voix noire railleuse exeptionnelle! quelle époque!pleine d'espoir et de créations!! aller,je monte dans ma machine a remonter le temps et j'y retourne!trop l'éclate! didier d'agostino batteur compositeur sur youtube .
@Marinacoeur In that case, France has missed out on a great deal. Free was the foremost British blues rock band in the 1970s, and Paul Kossoff was one of the world's greatest blues musicians.
Dans ce cas, la France a manqué beaucoup de choses. Free était le premier groupe de rock britannique blues dans les années 1970, et Paul Kossoff a été l'un des musiciens du monde le plus grand blues.
Wish I wasn't so young at the time of this concert, I would have loved to have gone. Paul Rodgers at his sexiest and the voice, something else. Paul Kossoff the fantastic guitarist that he was. Andy Fraser brilliant base player and Simon Kirke, drummer, extraordinaire.
This band is a lesson on how Less Is More. A total lesson on how to structure a song and build it up. Incredible musicians. Best drummer, vocalist, bass & by far the best feel & vibrato axe man ever KOSSOFF.RIP KOSS.
wow great band and vid! If you like this you may like us, we're a 70's classic rock band from london living in LA! check us out and let us know what you think!
From all these posts it looks like a few of us survived. The 69 fest was a very different experience. I can still bring the vibe to mind when I want to watch any video from '70
i was there , remember this set like it was yesterday. was it really 39 years ago. great music will never die . RIP paul and all the other greats that are no longer with us. :-(
F**ing Amazing number!!! Note Paul Kossoff, his nick back then was the "human fly catcher", always playing with his mouth open...One of the best blues guitarists ever, RIP.
Anyone know the name of any Free DVD's with live footage etc
Love this performance, so much soul and groove and to think that Andy Fraser was only 16/17 when this performance was recorded! His grooving is just immense. The band as a whole are so unfortunately underrated and it's a shame amazing bass, astronomical guitar work, vocals of a god and drums that slot perfectly into the groove! amazing
these brilliant guys were together such A short period..but they made music history;just bought the collection,from 2 and half years;_ Live,in different places_:fu..in amazing,just brilliant!
What class! Sitting in front of me puter on a Sunday afternoon watching Koss do what he did best. Think i might have a 'sickie' tomorrow, to much music to listen too
Love Free! For you tone monsters out there I can't remember what strings Koss used but there were some lt gauge sets available, but a common trick in late 60s was to use a Tenor Banjo A string for hi E (#1) and move all the others up on ie orig E to B, B to G, and throw out low E. Koss did play thru Hi voltage plexi Marshall lead heads and BASS cabs. Bright before OD, Dark after. Thats the tone secret, plus FINGERS and SOUL!
While fingers (and the brain and soul that drives them) are certainly "keystone", saying tone is mostly in the fingers is like saying cake is mostly flour. It takes years and concerted effort to discover all the variables and make them yours - speakers, cabs, cables, amps and their components, pickups, strings, picks, bridges, nuts, wood, and on and on all matter.
yeah man, but if you didn't noticed, i said I was joking =P, I know if ... e.g. kossoff played a telecaster trough a fender amp the sound would be almost toally different, but a lot of the tone is in the fingers too, watch hendrix playing with a stratocaster and what hendrix playing with an sg custom, it still sounds like him
We aren't in opposition, Porkys009, we are dancing around a larger subject namely perspective. Not only a change in guitar but even on a backstage tiny amp they are recognizable to others. However they know the difference and how it affects what we can do and how it inspires us. Fingers are obviously essential as well as the brain & nervous system that drives them. It all matters but what matters to the player who *has* those fingers et al is carefully selected tools.
Great performance that brings it all back. I was lucky enough to have been at the Isle of Wight and saw this live. Free were one of the best acts that weekend.
rimpiango quegli anni meravigliosi ke nn ho potuto vivere... quegli anni dove l'uono era libero di vivere la sua vita e esprimere le sue emozioni cn una chitarra...
Woooooow...paul rodgers has an amazing voice! Very good blues singer! I love free...great band and very well put together. I like Paul rodgers more in Free than in bad company...Great great band
They're not running around mental b/c their music, this song, and others of theirs (Alright Now) in front of 600,000 people, demanded concentration and intensity to nail it like they did. This "Mr Big", was 4 guys at their best, and each so distinct, recognizable, you know what each is doing every second. And notes, chords, riffs, that are slow enough to appreciate as rock perfection. And the tune's so great, who could ask for more? Maybe to have been there!!
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dunno not my sort of thing, can you really tell me this is more amazing than say, the clash or the libertines running round stage like mad men going mental, just not enough energy for me, but its all about taste
This is stripped down blues/rock ,Free lacking energy,you are jokeing,this band energized the audiences all over the UK in 69/70...basically some of their gigs turned into mini riots.
2nd: Early '70s... loved "Alright Now" but never knew anything about this great band, except Paul Rodgers-- "The Voice".
3rd: Isle of Wight, summer '70, 600,000, some of the best groups of all time during 5 (?) days... Free's 4 were unreal-- a perfect rock song...each were too great, even Simon, simplistically perfect.... played OUT OF THEIR MIND..Paul and Kos blasted this song !!
Asonishingly good group. The guitar solo is amazingly powerful. As far as I have heard, no one has ever played like Koss, with so much feeling, before or since.
Koss playing as if his life depended upon it-Paul Rodgers with so much soul in his voice-Andy Fraser with his slinky bass playing and Simon Kirke holding it all together-it does not get much better than this folks.
Just fantastic. What else can I say? It's Free, of course it was incredible! Such a shame that so few people know about them beyond All Right Now. Luckily for me, my dad raised me on Free (I could name the entire band when I was 9, thanks to him "schooling me" on Free)
he just made that Les Paul SCREAM. if you can play with as much feeling as Kos did, you really rock. it's not always about who can shread the fastest. that can take you places you don't want to be in music. it is all about playing with your heart and soul. and that is exactly what he did. RIP KOS!
Still the best Guitarist ever for me, his Vibrato is definitv the Best Í´ ve ever heard in my whole Live , his playing is so soulfull and warm , he is still my Guitar Hero !. It is so so sad that he left much to early ......
MrAlex0262 1 day ago in playlist Good Rockin Music
What a voice and Kossoff is just sublime here the absolute dogs!
fm8lgzw 1 month ago
has the drummer shit his pants ?
bowmaker11 1 month ago
shit, I wish there were a Humble Pie there to see
I still think it's a better show than I've seen with LZ, ever
chippy783 3 months ago
Yep
chippy783 3 months ago
de puta madre
esots locos son lo mejor k escuchado en mi vida
oswes1920 4 months ago
Why there are no comments about Andy Fraser???? He was equally awesome to Koss, he wrote most of the best Free songs and his bass line where so revolutionary
ryumishima44 6 months ago 2
@ryumishima44 You are right , the difference is that andy still lives and Koss is dead , i think . All of the Free Members where great Musicians , unforgetable in my opinion, for one of the Best Bands ever !
MrAlex0262 5 months ago
the definition of Raw
ripley450 6 months ago
If your going to post to youtube ...at least put the song titles in the vids
HackerGuitarist 7 months ago
凄ーい！！感動した！これぞ本物のブルースだ！！
syanutaite 8 months ago
Sheer awesomeness. RIP Koss.
squeakymonkfish 8 months ago
Raw, passion
12345l6789 9 months ago
Better than Page
chippy783 9 months ago
@chippy783 Are you nuts?
aaqaaqaaqaaqaaqaaqaa 3 months ago
koss we miss u mate
ladolcevita420 10 months ago
Wow...Very hypnotic, psychedelic! One of the best bands of the 70's
khelgar87 10 months ago 2
Awesome Music, and also nice to see how Stoned Paul Rogers was, look at his eyes at Beginning :)
MrAlex0262 10 months ago
song is Mr Big i remember it like it was yesterday. that festival was a great week. !!! :-) only 100,000 views where is everybody?
omcboamn 11 months ago
song is Mr Big i remember it like it was yesterday. that festival was a great week. !!! :-)
omcboamn 11 months ago
whats the name of the song guys?
domenicoscot 11 months ago
Yeah well when you saw this band they were really very good. Kossof just stood in front of the amps and felt every note. Andy Fraser just swayed from side to side in time with everything (including largish hat). What can you say about Paul Rogers - first mic stand grinder. Those were the (wonderful) days and this brings it all back.
Should not forget very tight drum timing by Simon to hang it all together.
Gerry60S 11 months ago
@Gerry60S I think maybe Jim Morrison was the first mic stand grinder...... But hay I enjoy watching both of them grind ;) lol
MoJo7Crow 7 months ago
Kossoff most underated Blues/rock guitarists ever never gets a mention in any lists but anyone who ever saw him just knew the young man was way up there,superb strong drumming bass playing which has never been bettered and a vocalist who could really chant guess i liked these guys
wildcatnet1 1 year ago
One of the best hard rock bands in the world, love em
Cougar1961 1 year ago
Que banda...inmensos...gracias por encontrarlos, los descubri en U.S.A. revolviendo discos LP's....crei que no se podia hacer esta musica...I LiKE...
joseluis2239 1 year ago
Always loved the bass on this tune. yah yah yah, then I stopped smokin and drinkin and it started to sound and smell like microwaved rat shit. hahaha. How foolish we are when we are young. fuckin alchies.
SCORNDOGGMELACH 1 year ago
Kossoff hammin it up. Sorry, always loved the tune but his dramatics are a little much. ha ha ha
SCORNDOGGMELACH 1 year ago
stripped down raw and emotional......gives me chills listening to this........no one could draw more emotion from a guitar than koss........rodgers growling on vocals Simon kirke putting every last bit of sweat into pounding the drum kit and andy frasier's bass which so sweetly compliments koss's lead guitar.........damn near the perfect band......highly underrated at the time
johnnyjohn58 1 year ago 2
Oh yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
welcome2myhell 1 year ago
awesome. just awesome
misspennylane909 1 year ago 3
wow this is a very underrated portion of paul rodgers career
emittscool 1 year ago
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@emittscool not at all, you must be young, lol
welcome2myhell 1 year ago
un très grand groupe! ça groove terrible! la basse-batterie a une fantastique assise,et le guitariste un super feeling,dommage qu'il doit parti trop vite..et le chanteur une voix noire railleuse exeptionnelle! quelle époque!pleine d'espoir et de créations!! aller,je monte dans ma machine a remonter le temps et j'y retourne!trop l'éclate! didier d'agostino batteur compositeur sur youtube .
dagostinoification 1 year ago 2
@dagostinoification
entièrement d'accord avec toi
groupe complètement méconnu en france
quel dommage
Marinacoeur 1 year ago
@Marinacoeur In that case, France has missed out on a great deal. Free was the foremost British blues rock band in the 1970s, and Paul Kossoff was one of the world's greatest blues musicians.
Dans ce cas, la France a manqué beaucoup de choses. Free était le premier groupe de rock britannique blues dans les années 1970, et Paul Kossoff a été l'un des musiciens du monde le plus grand blues.
ASVPChrisB 1 year ago
@ASVPChrisB - How true...
TantalumsDad 1 year ago
love the basson this song
PATKED1 1 year ago
am listening to this for two days in a row. when i hear that drum beat in the beginning, i automatically start nodding back and forth.. sooo good
pbsclair 1 year ago
one of the most underrated bands of there time
JazzBass420 1 year ago 2
Jesus what a vibrato. Teach me once more Kossoff. Tell to all the "rockstars" we have today what guitar was made for.
kanetinha1 1 year ago 2
COOL SONG!
moimoiac 1 year ago
For me watching this shows what a farce glastonbury has become when kids spend their hard earned watching rolf harris...
affectionatepunch 1 year ago
An addictive vibrato! Truly a master. RIP Paul Kossoff.
Ziyadh14 1 year ago
all of the hairs on my body just stood up
littleman1242 1 year ago 3
Wish I wasn't so young at the time of this concert, I would have loved to have gone. Paul Rodgers at his sexiest and the voice, something else. Paul Kossoff the fantastic guitarist that he was. Andy Fraser brilliant base player and Simon Kirke, drummer, extraordinaire.
therambler100 1 year ago 2
Face melting solo there. Fab stuff. And check Rodgers' hips! Love it.
brimirocks 1 year ago
Musicality and control...less really is more. Fab.
groovei 1 year ago 3
THAT is a fucking guitar solo face
GlassPike 1 year ago 5
I was there in 1970,& at their first gig in Liverpool at the Poly by the Mersey Tunnel!
OPTIMISTICBLUE 1 year ago
@OPTIMISTICBLUE first gig, you lucky SOB!!!!
jkoff76 1 year ago
What dizzylizzy said. A real lesson in slow groove too. What restraint and great feel !!
bass7string7 1 year ago
This band is a lesson on how Less Is More. A total lesson on how to structure a song and build it up. Incredible musicians. Best drummer, vocalist, bass & by far the best feel & vibrato axe man ever KOSSOFF.RIP KOSS.
itsdizzylizzy 1 year ago 5
no prima donna band with agents, managers, attorneys and riders
ripley450 1 year ago 2
This is without a doubt one of the best bands of all time. This performance leaves me speechless every time I listen to it
johnnyjohn58 1 year ago 3
How'd you like to play after these dudes. Andy Fraser rules!
ThePsychedelicRanger 1 year ago 2
just one word AMAZING
sawatdee123 2 years ago 3
Guitarist Paul Kossoff....A GIANT!!
freekoss 2 years ago 19
@freekoss compared to hendrix he was a mosquito
kinggambitabc 1 year ago
@kinggambitabc true of just about anyone, genius.
welcome2myhell 1 year ago
Fantastic! Vintage Paul Rodgers, wonderful vocals!
twitards247 2 years ago
Rough as old boots.
Just how we like it .......
mailbox827 2 years ago
Simon Kirke is my idol.
yanzi420 2 years ago
WHAT IS THIS SONG CALLED?!
expiredgoose 2 years ago
Mr. Big
steelyman08 2 years ago
Imagine great grooves coming from a small four piece Hayman drum kit and its drummer Simon Kirke.
crlaw75 2 years ago
wow great band and vid! If you like this you may like us, we're a 70's classic rock band from london living in LA! check us out and let us know what you think!
PurpleMelonMusic 2 years ago
From all these posts it looks like a few of us survived. The 69 fest was a very different experience. I can still bring the vibe to mind when I want to watch any video from '70
claytonave 2 years ago 2
i was there , remember this set like it was yesterday. was it really 39 years ago. great music will never die . RIP paul and all the other greats that are no longer with us. :-(
omcboamn 2 years ago 2
I was there too - just 15 years old -fanastic 5 days
Msnando09 2 years ago
whats the name of this song?
4529044 2 years ago
Mr. Big
molodoilp 2 years ago
Great bass line, love the solo.
OjpJacques 2 years ago
I was somewhere in the crowd. Crazy days !
KingslandKen 2 years ago
awesome footage. check out pauls work with Bad Company.. also a great blues band
gg0u613d 2 years ago
Director Murray Lerner keeps 175hr of rare and previously unreleased footage from the 1970 Isle of wight festival. WE WANT MORE!!!
RedStarHaifa 2 years ago 3
F**ing Amazing number!!! Note Paul Kossoff, his nick back then was the "human fly catcher", always playing with his mouth open...One of the best blues guitarists ever, RIP.
RedStarHaifa 2 years ago 2
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groovei 2 years ago
This sounds better live...how many bands today can say the same? Can't ever duplicate Paul's voice!
petalwing026 2 years ago 3
i think we're better live!
PurpleMelonMusic 2 years ago
one word: no!
underdogbitesyou 2 years ago
i was writing to PurpleMelonMusic ^^
underdogbitesyou 2 years ago
1:34 my god, paul.
7upIsLove 2 years ago
RIP Koss
magslyfarnham1 2 years ago 21
just great performance-from I. of Wight.
cannot get tired listening FREE;bought there CD-best of _LIVE_..Kuuntelemisen arvoinen bändi-vain muutama vuosi ja -74 jälkeen hajosivat,harmi!
timris 2 years ago 2
these cats don't need no straplocks!
ROCK!
GMD
gearmanndude 2 years ago
what does that mean, exactly?
jessaamur 2 years ago
lol im feelin you bro
hknuddv 2 years ago
HOLY EFFIN ^%^$&#
ripley450 2 years ago 2
Is PAUL KOSSOFF,not story but SOUNDDDDD
mebloke69 3 years ago
Yup, thats what makes all the good ones great.
kingofthedeep 3 years ago
Anyone know the name of any Free DVD's with live footage etc
Love this performance, so much soul and groove and to think that Andy Fraser was only 16/17 when this performance was recorded! His grooving is just immense. The band as a whole are so unfortunately underrated and it's a shame amazing bass, astronomical guitar work, vocals of a god and drums that slot perfectly into the groove! amazing
jakb87 3 years ago
no he was more like 18-19 here
IceCreamAllTheTime 3 years ago
its called "free forever" its on universal- island records. you can search it on google. i got mine from an english company with a lot of great vids.
mj99a 2 years ago
wow what a guitar face!. lol. too bad he died so soon
AdrienGuitarPlayer 3 years ago
these brilliant guys were together such A short period..but they made music history;just bought the collection,from 2 and half years;_ Live,in different places_:fu..in amazing,just brilliant!
timris 3 years ago
Koss has probably the most seamless vibrato of any guitarist ive heard. Brilliant
squirehendrix 3 years ago 4
Kossoff is god.
Lichtz 3 years ago
This shit grooves so hard! Such an underrated band!! But god damn guitar face!! Ha.
SpaceRitual 3 years ago 2
What class! Sitting in front of me puter on a Sunday afternoon watching Koss do what he did best. Think i might have a 'sickie' tomorrow, to much music to listen too
Bryjake10 3 years ago 3
I see true beauty in Simon Kirke's subdued approach...
pomonaqueen 3 years ago 2
a shiny liney pound for anyone who posts a video of fraser's bass solo, every video i've ever seen the camera cuts away when he plays it
Lowven020 3 years ago
You may have already seen it but the version of Mr Big posted on here by frozenfish91 shows Andy Fraser's solo - shame about the hat.......
sjpeckham 3 years ago
Love Free! For you tone monsters out there I can't remember what strings Koss used but there were some lt gauge sets available, but a common trick in late 60s was to use a Tenor Banjo A string for hi E (#1) and move all the others up on ie orig E to B, B to G, and throw out low E. Koss did play thru Hi voltage plexi Marshall lead heads and BASS cabs. Bright before OD, Dark after. Thats the tone secret, plus FINGERS and SOUL!
enorbet2 3 years ago 2
the tones is just in the fingers, you lier !!
( just joking heheh, but it's partially true xD )
Porkys009 3 years ago
While fingers (and the brain and soul that drives them) are certainly "keystone", saying tone is mostly in the fingers is like saying cake is mostly flour. It takes years and concerted effort to discover all the variables and make them yours - speakers, cabs, cables, amps and their components, pickups, strings, picks, bridges, nuts, wood, and on and on all matter.
enorbet2 3 years ago
yeah man, but if you didn't noticed, i said I was joking =P, I know if ... e.g. kossoff played a telecaster trough a fender amp the sound would be almost toally different, but a lot of the tone is in the fingers too, watch hendrix playing with a stratocaster and what hendrix playing with an sg custom, it still sounds like him
Porkys009 3 years ago
We aren't in opposition, Porkys009, we are dancing around a larger subject namely perspective. Not only a change in guitar but even on a backstage tiny amp they are recognizable to others. However they know the difference and how it affects what we can do and how it inspires us. Fingers are obviously essential as well as the brain & nervous system that drives them. It all matters but what matters to the player who *has* those fingers et al is carefully selected tools.
enorbet2 3 years ago
is not at woodstock here?:|
0746539989 3 years ago
this is real music from the soul
AlexGronstad 3 years ago
whats this song name?
materialradioactivo 3 years ago
name of the song is "Mr. Big".
underwearx 3 years ago
Mr. Big
gamoonbat 3 years ago
Great performance that brings it all back. I was lucky enough to have been at the Isle of Wight and saw this live. Free were one of the best acts that weekend.
moonheaver 3 years ago
Im 14 and i love free. not many bands like it. I wish i was alive to see these bands live. Bands today do not compare to free.
tekism2008 3 years ago 2
I completely agree. I've just turned 15.
alexanderpage4 3 years ago
hey im 15 also and youre 100% right
i cant stand the bands today
they all think they know music but all they do is turn up the distortion and scream
i would kill to have been alive during when these performances
guitarshredda2 3 years ago 2
I'm 14 too and I couldn't agree more. There just aren't bands like this anymore. I was born in the wrong decade.
aftguitar94 3 years ago 5
dude im with u man...im 14 and music sucks today...everyone says im born in the wrong time period...how true
guitarplaya786 3 years ago 3
Great footage and great post!
jimbosity002 3 years ago
I've watched this sooooooooo many times,wish I had of been at this gig.
TheWholigans 3 years ago
love that tone kossof has!!
guitarshredda2 3 years ago 4
Also, Jason Lee in Almost Famous looked a lot like Free-era Paul Rodgers.
BigAndo21 3 years ago
It's a shame that so many amazing bands from the late sixties and early seventies broke up and formed shittier ones.
2 Prime Examples:
Free - Bad Company
Savoy Brown - Foghat
BigAndo21 3 years ago 2
God Pauls voice is phenomanal,still is
umjustefra 3 years ago 2
Supreme!
sparkioboi 3 years ago
my dad's favourite band r.i.p kossoff
pieboy278 3 years ago
Free was the epitome of old souls in young bodies. Almost makes you believe in reincarnation.
SabuPtolemy 3 years ago 4
Dan Auerbach is another one.
BigAndo21 3 years ago
Paul Rodgers Has the best voice in rock. period.
theblueglue 3 years ago 3
I think free are really underatted as a band on the whole. Yeah, people know all right now, but people dont know fire and water, wishing well etc.
Free rock!
gibsonledzeppelin 3 years ago 2
They are my FAVOURITE band!
Rock on!
E421UGE 3 years ago 2
Really good playing!
gopmattc 3 years ago
what gauge strings did koss use? does anyone know?
PaulRodgers2 3 years ago
That slow groove that Simon and Andy laid down is just pure soul for Paul and Paul to paint on.
jitblues 3 years ago
wowa, these vibratos at 2:49 and the whole solo blew my brain of my head....
leonderprofi44 3 years ago 2
Best live band ever...
mlarison85 3 years ago 2
There's more feeling in that solo than in all the "rock" music released over the plast few years.
mahonmic 3 years ago 2
Lovely stuff
adamfruitcake 3 years ago 3
camera people never can figure out a bass solo....
crawdad1 3 years ago 5
rimpiango quegli anni meravigliosi ke nn ho potuto vivere... quegli anni dove l'uono era libero di vivere la sua vita e esprimere le sue emozioni cn una chitarra...
uvanakorgana 3 years ago 4
gov't mule does this one good too...not nearly as good as free
trintdaddylandis 3 years ago 3
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It's just amazing!!!
maoven 3 years ago 4
that just blew me away !
dunc16v 3 years ago 7
The most underrated bass player ever, the one and only ANDY FRASER.
8bungles 4 years ago 12
Fantastic........
Who is Mr Big ?
MMMMMMmmmmmm Its their 'supplier' I reckon
bigcoolviking 4 years ago 6
Woooooow...paul rodgers has an amazing voice! Very good blues singer! I love free...great band and very well put together. I like Paul rodgers more in Free than in bad company...Great great band
rocker70sman 4 years ago 5
quel son !!!
oclero 4 years ago 2
Perfection
FreudsC4t 4 years ago 3
They're not running around mental b/c their music, this song, and others of theirs (Alright Now) in front of 600,000 people, demanded concentration and intensity to nail it like they did. This "Mr Big", was 4 guys at their best, and each so distinct, recognizable, you know what each is doing every second. And notes, chords, riffs, that are slow enough to appreciate as rock perfection. And the tune's so great, who could ask for more? Maybe to have been there!!
sbourg55 4 years ago 6
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dunno not my sort of thing, can you really tell me this is more amazing than say, the clash or the libertines running round stage like mad men going mental, just not enough energy for me, but its all about taste
joelfc2005 4 years ago
This is stripped down blues/rock ,Free lacking energy,you are jokeing,this band energized the audiences all over the UK in 69/70...basically some of their gigs turned into mini riots.
benbeck1 4 years ago 2
lol joe u got 5 thumbsdown:P kurt btw
terminalninja 3 years ago
Wonderful. Pure heaven.
chooseyourblues 4 years ago 2
1st: HUGE thanks to RCRAV for this classic!
2nd: Early '70s... loved "Alright Now" but never knew anything about this great band, except Paul Rodgers-- "The Voice".
3rd: Isle of Wight, summer '70, 600,000, some of the best groups of all time during 5 (?) days... Free's 4 were unreal-- a perfect rock song...each were too great, even Simon, simplistically perfect.... played OUT OF THEIR MIND..Paul and Kos blasted this song !!
sbourg55 4 years ago 2
omg thank you for posting i love this song
iskorokotoy6 4 years ago
HARDCORE!
mailbox827 4 years ago 2
Kossof plays on fucking telephone wires, such a thick tone from those heavy strings.
firefly87 4 years ago 3
I wonder if NASA new about this solo,because Koss actually puts the notes into orbit.Pure emotion!
benbeck1 4 years ago 14
Best comment on Youtube !!!
rikkisixx81 4 years ago 3
i'll second that
timnlol 4 years ago 3
Listen to that voice.....brilliant...but totally stones. What a waste of a voice... Yes the base is awesome..too.
jacquiep2 4 years ago
Wow...just wow...
mlarison85 4 years ago
Kossoff. legend. that's real pain & emotion
timnlol 4 years ago 4
superb
stratocaster539 4 years ago 2
One of the best kosoff solos ever!!!! THe real fuckin deal.
thinkingevil 4 years ago 5
real fucking deal indeed
gavhenrad 4 years ago
They were pretty clean hahahahaha... love this band !!!
rikkisixx81 4 years ago
Asonishingly good group. The guitar solo is amazingly powerful. As far as I have heard, no one has ever played like Koss, with so much feeling, before or since.
Patfaki 4 years ago 5
Koss was King
Billykid514 4 years ago
jack daniels and coke with this on very fuckin loud is unbeatable! who agrees?
mykmufc 4 years ago
Don't you just wish you were standing at the front of that sea of people watching the best blues/rock band this country has ever produced!
freeforalltime 4 years ago
Koss playing as if his life depended upon it-Paul Rodgers with so much soul in his voice-Andy Fraser with his slinky bass playing and Simon Kirke holding it all together-it does not get much better than this folks.
Tayplupe 4 years ago 2
Completely unique band. Koss is bad ass!!!
pegleyjr 4 years ago
Just fantastic. What else can I say? It's Free, of course it was incredible! Such a shame that so few people know about them beyond All Right Now. Luckily for me, my dad raised me on Free (I could name the entire band when I was 9, thanks to him "schooling me" on Free)
beenova 4 years ago
in all honesty this song is about the bass, its brilliant. maybe not difficult, but that doesnt matter, its fantastic
jamesthebruff 4 years ago
+1. incomparable taste.
talpajam 4 years ago
agreed. the bass really makes this song.
kenner116 4 years ago
he just made that Les Paul SCREAM. if you can play with as much feeling as Kos did, you really rock. it's not always about who can shread the fastest. that can take you places you don't want to be in music. it is all about playing with your heart and soul. and that is exactly what he did. RIP KOS!
Ayanami55 4 years ago 2