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  • Swwwweeeeeeeet ! (nuff said)

  • gran guitarrista rip

  • i understand why you'd call it weeping, but truly to me it sounds as if flames could be coming out of Koss's guitar..............

  • that thing gently weeps

  • the Voice

  • great musicians. experimental . searching for more. wish they were still on the go. miss it so much.

  • live at beat club ?

  • Awesome. I saw them at Stockport College in 1970.

    They had just had the hit with Alright Now but still honoured the date and the place was heaving. I can stll see them now, it left such a huge imnpression on me as a 158 year old.

  • sounds amazing. what a band.

  • PS these influenced me sooo much they are my favorite of all time.

    Please click my name and listen to my videos I wrote and dedicate to my father. Wow please check it out....click my name

  • What a beauty thanks

  • free playing this song is outtakes grom Germany ?

  • someone saw paul kossoff playing ?

  • good stuff good stuff

  • you're right! great solo! PAul was a minimalist genious! Amazing voacls also!

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  • THE BEST BAND EVER I REMEMBER SEEING THEM FIRST AT RAMBLING JACKS BLUES CLUB IN BISHOPS STORTFORD AND NEW THEY WOULD BE HUGE THEN. PAULS SINGING JUST BRINGS TEARS TO MY EYES THANK YOU FREE FOR BRINGING LIGHT TO THE WORLD.

  • Wooooahhhhh, boys, let's slow that tempo down a bit!

  • Sic to the power of awesome..................

  • Undoubtedly one of THE great rock bands of all time

  • flyvibe said it all

    I saw these guys in Detroit as a teenager at Cobo Hall

    The bill that night was Free, Jeff Beck (rough and ready era) and Stevie Wonder.

    As mindblowing as that night was, Free brought tears to my eyes, they had so much soul.

  • Back in 1970 i was 11 years old and starting to think i knew stuff. I loved this band, and thought their music was fantastic, its great to look back at this video and see i had some stuff bang on. One day my friend came back from the shops and told us he had gone into an independent record shop and asked the man if they had any "Free" records, to be gruffly told "we sell em ere", i still giggle today when I remember my friends’ youthful indignation at the man’s apparent ignorance. Oh delight!

  • @viperpreload:

    I was 13/14 in 1970 and "Allright Now" was the first 'rock' song I ever remember. Before that it was all pop through my Mum - the Beatles, Tom Jones and Shirley Bassey.

  • @professoricon:

    In 1971, at 15 I went to my first few concerts, and before the summer was out I went to my first festival - Weeley.

  • @professoricon I went to Weeley festival...used the have a band there. Drummers parents owned Weeley bakery,lol.

  • great guitar solo. but listen how the bass works with the drum!! Andy and Simon working sooo well together!

  • @zsxd55:

    They always do., not to mention the gritty vocals.

  • i know plant is the king, and yes Zepp is my all time favorite band, but my god, have u ever heard something so pure and so soulful, and so gut-wrenching as pauls singing. it humbles me, and makes me wanna break down and weep for everyone, and anything that has ever walked on this planet. god, thank u for this little bit of light in this dark exsistance.

  • Fantastic...made my day...thanks for posting.....

  • Thank You : )

  • One of his most brilliant solos on one of their less brilliant songs

  • Kossoff was the most underrated guitarist ever to live. There is no question of that in my mind. Listen to this, and then to the unreleased cut of "The Stealer" (with the explosive solo at the end that some numbskull cut off the album release of the track), and tell me I'm wrong.

  • @dudestr5552:

    You're not wrong.

  • @dudestr5552 iv just found this and i reckon u could be right this is amazing, what else should i look for?

  • @evolutionist2010 As mentioned, the one that closes out the unreleased version of "The Stealer" is nothing short of great. Also, their live cover of "Crossroads" has Paul Kossoff taking complete ownership of that song. Those are a couple examples I can think of right now.

  • @evolutionist2010:

    The Stealer - as posted by ruffdiamondz.

    Also Mr Big (live 1970) from zztops003. Watch Koss lean with his back on the speakers to feel the vibes, and listen also for Andy Fraser's bass solo which emerges from the guitar solo. (the video is not the same performance as the audio)

  • @professoricon seen that vid but never noticed him leaning on the amp like that before! i found a version of crossroads live at the empire in edinburgh (crossroads empire) not the best sound quality tho. just thought id put that on incase anyones looking for live stuff..... at 29yrs old id defo give up 20yrs or so just to have been around when all this was happening. thanks professoricon. keep them coming!

  • @dudestr5552 thanks, should check out the verion of crossroads at the empire if u dont already know it.

    so iv dug out all the greeny, bloomfield, kossoff and the early clapton stuff, who else is ripping these les pauls this way i might have miseed? its like the guitars are gonna explode from the pure tone! im loving all the pointers im getting so keep those suggestions coming please...thanks in advance!

  • @evolutionist2010 Jimmy Page, of course, but Koss and Peter Green played it with more soul and more feeling.

  • @rexforth What strings did koss use, Closest Ive found out is 11's or 12's with an Unwound G? Obviously There would have been some playing around and experimenting, however there must have been a basic stup that was worked around?

  • Wel that brought tears to my eyes - such great memories. Thanks for posting

  • awesome.

  • Taken away from us waaaayy too early Koss was all of Molton gold

  • words of a prayer:paul kossoff-peter green-angus young-jimy page-jimi hendrix-jeff beck-rory gallagher-eric clapton[bluesbrakers,cream]---­----------..............

  • Brilliant!! Nice work on an awesome song!!

  • Eric Clapton (who I thought for a while had the best vibrato) asked Paul about his vibrato, and thought it was amazing (and traded guitars). Now I know why. I want to pick up my guitar right now, but I can't put down the headphones!

  • @slpplexi1969:

    I believe that he explained his vibrato by his training on the cello (or something similar).

  • @professoricon I've been a blues/rock guitar player for a quarter of a century or thereabout, and let me just put that thought of yours to rest. Vibrato on an electric guitar in the blues/rock idiom and vibrato on a cello/viola/violin aren't executed the same. In case of the latter group of instruments, you shake the finger along the length of the string, while on the guitar, it is done across the fretboard. He may have listened to cello players, but the technique ain't the same.

  • @Innerspace100:

    I don't doubt that you are correct, but I'm just repeating what I read he had said in an interview.

    I do know for certain from my own personal experience playing squash, football and cricket that training techniques are transferable between disciplines.

  • @Innerspace100:

    BTW, PK was classically trained.

  • @slpplexi1969:

    I loved the way he would lean his back on his speaker (watch the clip from 6:09 - 6:36). It would vibrate through his very soul, which explained how he got such feeling into his playing.

  • @slpplexi1969

    you should check out Robin Trower and Peter Green's guitar playing.

  • @PremiumRyan I know, they are both awesome too

  • @PremiumRyan Yep Koss, Trower and Pete Green .. AND Danny Kirwen .. the 4 most evocative and potent vibratos ever.

  • @vintagereproguitarra I love Kirwan. Him and Green complimented each other so well. Early FM was amazing and Danny all too often gets missed in discussions like this. Thanks for bringing him up.

  • alot like led zeppellin

    

  • Could this be the best Kosoff guitar solo ever released? Unbelievable restraint and lead up to the climax! If only to be one of the lucky ones to see them back in the day...

  • @jehosh5577:

    I sure think it could. 

    I also like the solo on 'Woman' but it's much faster, heavier and shorter.

  • Awesome!The original smokes but this version smokes it, every member of the band was in the zone!

  • This song grabs my soul and rips it out in the best way possible.

  • 40 years from now they wont be talking about any music from the first decade, most of it is awful marketing drivin crap, they will talk about Free and watch reruns of MASH and have no idea what a Bieber is

  • Smoke another! It couldn't hurt anything now!!!! 

  • Often imitated never duplicated.nobody can touch these guys..

  • why did my generation kill music... hopefully one day music will be good again but ill continue listenin to the classics until then

  • @professoricon i dont think so

  • @professoricon I agree, generations generate their own opinions about what is "good music". That's what "Classics" are, parents telling their kids about the music they listened to. If you take the time to submerge yourself in music, you will find gems like this. I'm 30 and love all music regardless of a point in time, and I mean any genre. You just have to have perspective in what you are listening to and in the long run you will enjoy any track that has been recorded.

  • @professoricon I agree, generations create their own opinions about what is "good music". That's what "Classics" are. It is parents telling their kids about the music they listened to. If we take the time to submerge ourselves in any piece of music, you will find gems like this. I'm 30 and love all music regardless of a point in time, and I mean ANY genre. You just have to have perspective in what you are listening to and in the long run you will enjoy any track that has been recorded.

  • @professoricon BITE YOUR LIP!

  • @Jackle61:

    Note the smiley face.

  • @ThePowerslave94 Your generation didn't kill it, the promoters and major labels did. They dictate who gets the push and the breaks and the air time. There are a lot of talented rock and blues bands out there. They just need something like their own talent shows to get the exposure. As long as people like Satriani are being influenced by the like of led Zeppelin the good stuff will always exist. Check out the ages and the numbers still going to see the old bands. keep the faith.

  • @ThePowerslave94 There is a lot of different music going than what the channels pump in the air. It is just matter of taking time and some effort to get past the formulated stuff which automatically takes up Madonna or Lady GaGa no matter what sort of stuff they come up with. I have found a lot of stuff by reading reviews on music magazines, just going to record shops and asking questions.

  • @ThePowerslave94

    Listen to the Black Keys and Kontroband (only found on Myspace or Itunes) man, blues rock is still alive

  • @Bucketheadhead no as alive as it should be... also i found a band called graveyard which is pretty amazing (for a new band)

  • @ThePowerslave94

    thats easy, because young people are very impressionable and haven't developed a taste in music. people with discerning taste in music aren't as profitable to companies because they know what they like and aren't influenced by advertisement. thus they only advertise music geared to young people. MTV was born

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  • @ThePowerslave94 " (some) young people are very impressionable and haven't (yet) developed a taste in music. people with discerning taste in music ... aren't influenced by advertisement. thus they only advertise music geared to young people." My comment wasn't a slight to you, and in my opinion my point is valid.

  • love this 

  • damn the more I listen to this, the more it scratches my soul, too damn fine

  • my first concert - 3 band on one bill.

    Steppenwolf, Ten Years After & Free

    1970

    in Chicago

  • @NetworkES335:

    I got to see Ten Years After and Bad Company, but sadly never saw Free.

    More recently I saw Paul Rodgers solo band in Manchester.

  • @NetworkES335 steppenwolf and free in one concert! You lucky bastard lol jk

  • I'm glad about that !

  • would love to see koss playin the harp for god in heaven...bet he's got his arms wrapped around paul right now, dont worry people koss is in safe hands....

  • This was great, thanks for posting!!

  • it still makes my spine tingle

  • PK is GOD

  • PK equals economy. He starts with the thought he only has a given number of notes to use in a solo and milks each one of them. If only the shredders that followed him understood that Alvin Lee was just a movie star in the right place at the right time. One Note from PK . Clapton missed the boat while boarding the bullet train.

  • This song sounds like pot

  • Very similar style to Led Zeppelin

  • the solo still sends a shiver through me

  • How much soul does paul put into that guitar.

  • Queen are gay as fuck and should have packed in when Mercury withered away with the gay plague.

  • @peroduanippa Wrong.. Freddie was gay. And so what. He probably wouldn't of been interested in you and your little warty arse hole.

  • The great Paul Rogers, I don't know why he joined that faggot gay group Queen, money I guess!

  • WOW, awesome......

  • free..feel the feelin people!

  • What in the name of the good lord is this.. OH MY GOD... its been a really really long time since i was blown away.. i am imploding

  • @getlostidiot1:

    What is it?

    The best blues singer born (ever), and a guitarist copied by Clapton and Page.

  • There is so much feeling in this song. And the kids listening to shit like Korn....

  • i grew up with this band they truly were a band of genius' if there's any better i ain't heard them 3:55 so sweet , 5: 15 so powerful thanx for posting

  • ...been hoping someone can upload the brilliant ballad "Muddy Water" by Free, am sure all will agree its one hell of an all time great!

  • I first heard FREE on a 1970 TV music video show called "The Now Explosion". That two to three hour video program was way ahead of it's time. I became a huge Free fan when I heard "All Right Now". It became a huge AM radio hit. But in the months that followed I wondered why I did not hear any more of their songs on the radio.  After buying their albums, I discovered that Free did not sing many fast party music which may have limited their SUPER STAR chances. But their songs were great !

  • @fairnorth:

    I first heard Free as a 14 year-old in 1970 on the Christmas edition of TOTP singing "All Right Now". It was the first ever 'rock' song that I was conscious that I liked. Before that I was really only conscious of music through my Mum's Shirley Bassey and Ton Jones records (I loved 'Delilah'), and of course the Beatles. I remember me and a bunch of my mates with tennis rackets pretending to be the Beatles strumming away to 'She Loves You', when I must have been 7 or 8.

  • @professoricon:

    @fairnorth:

    After that Christmas edition of TOTP I got into Hendrix and Led Zeppelin and Status Quo, but never heard Free again until I saw them play 'My Brother Jake', again on TOTP I think it was. I thought at the time 'this is a pretty ordinary song made great by a fantastic singer'.

  • @fairnorth:

    After that Christmas edition of TOTP I got into Hendrix and Led Zeppelin and Status Quo, but never heard Free again until I saw them play 'My Brother Jake', again on TOTP I think it was. I thought at the time 'this is a pretty ordinary song made great by a fantastic singer'.

  • @fairnorth:

    Then I had an epiphany when it occurred to me that this was the same band that did "All Right Now", but they sounded completely different and it took me a few minutes to work it out and recognise them as the same band. I then went out and bought "The Free Story" and was totally blown away.

  • @fairnorth:

    It wasn't The Hunter or The Stealer or Fire & Water that impressed me, but the ambience of the blues songs like Heavy Load and Mourning Sad Morning and Sail On. 

  • Fabulous tune, especially the part between 0:00 and 9:06 !!!

  • AWESOME job!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • If you dont know FREE then you would have miss out on probably the best blues band ever.

  • it grabs your soul and it takes you away

    Kossof gave a few years of his live just in this one....

  • ya. i heard alright now on the radio an thats how i found them. an ya. bad company is real popular

  • damn. y havnt i ever heard of this band

  • @Rokhead00:

    They lived in the shadow of Cream and Led Zeppelin.  I am certain that you will have heard some of their music. Their best known song is "Alright Now" which is the most played song on the radio (ever, anywhere). The singer and the drummer went on to form Bad Company. The singer has also played in the Firm (with Jimmy Page), and more recently with Queen in the absence of Freddie.

  • @professoricon Yes, and unfortunately drugs took their toll as well. They effectively drew Paul Kossoff out of the band causing him to collapse onstage and the inability to participate recording.

  • @Rokhead00 U must be really young if u haven`t heard of this great band

  • @theodorus45 15. i kno all classic rock bands. just not this one

  • Easily one of the best white written blues. In other word, Kossof has THE blues, he knows how to express it. He's one of the greatest.

  • Smoke da pipe! Stop and smell da flowers dude!

  • Polskich użytkowników YT, poszukujących więcej wiedzy o Free, zapraszam: cogra.pl/index.php/szacun/dlac­zego-tak-bardzo-kocham-free-or­todoksyjny-glos-drugi/

  • isto é puro rockn roll..........grupo fantastico com mais puro samgue na veia .Na bateria Simon K.,na guitarra P.Kossoff,no vocal P.Rodgers eeeeeeeeeee Andy Frazer no baixo mais bem mandado que ja vi até hoje tudo isso junto vira um HEMOCENTRO

  • @javastreetrock:

    veja meus outros vídeos, e deixar uma classificação

  • I really love it! :)

  • Wow ! First time I've heard this track. No wonder Koss was so revered by the best guitarists i the world.

    If only he were still here today to continue leading the way.

    RIP Koss

  • Great great solo!!

  • now there's a solo with pure soul, it don't get harder felt than that.....

  • @rakmond:

    Without question you are right. 

  • @rakmond

    Man, this sends shivers along my spine.

    Creepy but beautiful

  • I just LOVE this Band!

  • brilliant just brilliant!!

  • I know not every performance is captured, but has anyone heard of any video of this live version? This version is so heavy I would love to see the performance.

  • @Tsalmaveth:

    There is no live video for this performance.

    There is a great DVD available called "Free Forever", which contains all of the known videos of Free, and includes some special features and interviews, but unfortunately nothing for 'Moonshine'. Well worth buying.

  • Das könnte nur Koss selbst nochmal so gut zaubern. Keiner kann es so brilliant wie er. Ich habe jedes mal Gänsehaut pur ,egal was er spielt.

    We miss you Koss, so much.

  • @Andreagear4:

    gut gesagt

  • Too bad another major musical talent was taken by drugs. Imagine what Koss would've accomplished had he lived much, much longer? Such a waste.

  • Que genial...falta un saxo  sexo...

  • 4:33 to 5:30 is pure guitar brilliance! I dont play guitar but my ears have never heard anything so beautiful.

  • No - surely it must be from 3:50 to 7:15.

  • @turboplazz

    I know exactly where you are coming from on this one. I had the same thoughts. It is the simplicity, eloquence of those riffs, without overpowering/jamming, yet the emotion of Koss' delivery makes the package just P.E.R.F.E.C.T. . Like a japanese arrangement "beauty through simplicity".

  • this band are PERFECT

  • Your description is perfect.

  • damn,listen to the snap in Kirke's snare drum-that is so damn good-I wish I could get my snare to stay in tune that long.....I agree Kossoff is on fire withthis one,plus my other fav Kossoff did was Don't say you love me.Utterly breathtaking.

  • Koss is on fire on this one. Can't beat it.

  • Man, what vibrato he's getting. And whammy bar geeks take note--it's with his fretting hand.

  • the mans on fire, if you turn this song down while hes soloing, uve commited a mortal sin

  • Well said. And whammy bar geeks also note.. That is was just Paul Kossoff and a Gibson and a Marshall valve amp. without effects

  • Right. Koss had such a great touch, used celver voicings, and always played for the song, which are characteristics largely lost and undervalued by many modern guitarists who think that excessive distortion, volume, tapping, and sweep arpeggios are valid substitutes for musicianship. (look at all the guitar wankers on YouTube for an example). Back to Koss - he was wonderful and left way too soon.

  • @bowiemott Free were kings of subtlety and economy. They were masters of the sublime. Especially Kossoff, the right amount of vibrato at the perfect moment, the buildup and release of tension just where it was needed. They were all capable of knocking you over with a feather. As the founder of Island records said, "They were like the most powerful unit, like four people, in a sense as if they were standing facing north, east, south and west with their backs to each other as a force"

  • @TheSanityInspector whammy bar geeks lol

  • @TheSanityInspector

    Hendrix and Clapton said Kossoff's vibrato was the best they ever heard

  • Blue Soul is a fantastic album...I have it on vinyl...which has a lovely gatefold cover...and a brilliant collection of songs

    I think this is one of the songs Free played the first time they rehearsed/jammed...

  • That's one thing I miss about the analog lp era, gatefold album covers.

  • Just checked good old Ebay. The album is called "Kossoff: Blue Soul". Do a search for it. Cheap as anything, and worth a million bucks. Get it before I do!

  • This is one of the few songs Free played that Koss wrote. This makes it one of his best Free solos, because he's not playing someone else's song. We hear what was going through his head when he wrote it.

    I think this version appeared on another album called Crossroads before the Free Live reissue. I used to have it years ago. It also had that long version of Crossroads and a stack of obscure, excellent sessions featuring Koss on other people's songs, like Jim Capaldi.

  • this is simply amazing music

  • thnx for posting prof. sheer magic.

  • great ! pretty trippy :), old school

  • @smilingeuterpe ..this is so old school it should be new school............

  • @johnnyjohn58 Amen bro :)

  • jesus h. corbet that's a good solo.

  • It Sure is ...

  • This is so much sexier than the Tons of Sobs recording. How I wish I could have seen them live *sigh*

  • It really is so much better. Raw and sexy, like PR :)

  • Oh man, listen to PR's voice from about 1.33 to 1.50. Unreal!