Traffic - The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys

[TheFishMiester]

That whole damn album is good !

[elfhearse]

Great memories to this classic....saw them at the Spectrum in Philly, 1974 IIRC. Their 8-track's got lots of air time in my 67 Bug 8.)

[unclemort1960]

was`nt this song about mott the hoople?

[zanny55]

if ever there was A SONG years ahead of its time THIS IS IT bankers and money men should be made to it every day . better still get it released and play every day on the radio tv etc

[bossou5555]

LOL

the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams.

[KirkSandall]

Damn. How could you cut that off in the middle of Wood's solo? Boooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

[dac10012]

@KirkSandall I just upped the full version on my channel. There was a 10 minute limitation on YouTube until recently. The link is above or go back to my home page and you'll find it. Enjoy!

[PHAEDRIDER]

people who know me know how much i hate "flutes and saxamaphones in rock and there are precious few times when they are acceptable" this is one of those times..

[futbllwmn]

Wish youtube had a "love" button.......

[rcatbgv]

Thanks rayjr for the solid info about the band!

[rcatbgv]

Definitely NOT Jim gordon on drums. He looks nothing like the drummer on the video. I'd go with Roger Hawkins. In any case, the drummer rocks hard. and is musical too.

[andanusk]

Ear 1972

[Carsurgeon]

Hi Roxanne!!! :)

[magenta124]

@Carsurgeon thanks for this! Love seeing SW with Chris Wood - what a loss in Chris Wood!  One of my favorite songs!

[ml1968lf]

Delicious .

[nov20five]

Pure genuis...

[tallpaul881]

This song, kicks ASS. Good, 40 years ago, good today.

[MDLOP8]

Definitely Roger Hawkins on drums. Jim Gordon? No way.

[todwest]

Am I the only one to wonder where this wonderful, high-resolution footage came from?

'Wow,' is all I can say.

[deepsnapper]

1st convention center show Feb 73 @ TCCC . I forget who they were fronting for I was blown away so much with Winwood & Ginger Baker on drums & the sax player. We were 2nd row looking @ Winwood. Long time before "Higher Love" lol

[highhats11]

If I'm not mistaken this drummer isn't Jim Capaldi or Roger Hawkins. I'm pretty sure it's Jim Gordon. The guy that got even more famous for flipping out and chopping up his mother with an axe. Weird but true ! I guess sex, drugs, and being a rock star was more than he could handle.

[tomthefunky]

@highhats11: Trust me, it's Roger Hawkins. I'm a huge fan of him and his band. I know his whole life story. Are you a drummer? Listen to "Land Of A Thousand Dances" by Wilson Pickett. That's Roger Hawkins on drums. One of the greatest drum breaks in history.

[worldennds2012]

@highhats11 Gordon played on 'welcome to the canteen' & the album this came from, but he left at the end of '71

[barb96712]

I was there at this concert, it was epic. Hard to believe someone got this footage-thanks

[artiep24]

God this is great... What more can I say??

[ginharlm]

Saw this tour at Ford Auditorium, then home of the Detroit Symphony, aka NOT a sports stadium. Rebop was Poetry in Motion...unforgettable

[MikeRes52]

almost 40 yrs. never get sick of this song, great live version

[attila350]

@MikeRes52 - your right-we were once children playing with toys

[mikeyrambles]

You all will never get this much LSD in your system.

[mnmrun4it]

CLASSIC! Nothing else to say about it.

[ggforeigner]

... would you ask for something like another chance ... a groove that has stood the test of time ... ethereal ....

[73egp]

@ggforeigner Fantastic quality from the 70's even. timeless, also Spirit, Blind Faith, Thanks for the grear archive.

[MetallicBill]

I only got the cassette of the album not long ago, but my interest in them was re-sparked with Woodstock 1994, where Steve said they had missed the first one, and making up for that

[jeflar56]

Thanks for posting this! So cool that in the era of guitar gods Traffic sounds so good without the presence of a lot of guitar. I know - Dave Mason was the guitarist - but he didn't stand out as much as others of the day.

[MetallicBill]

@jeflar56 guitar is great, make no mistake, but this is a band that's groove heavy, and jamming, where you can use all manner of musical instrument. This song is so good because of it's melody and chorus, very easily stands the test of time

[rayjr62]

@jeflar56 If this concert was recorded in early 1972, Dave Mason had already left the group by then. Rick Gretch is credited on the LP as having played both bass and guitar, but I don't see him here on stage (the bass player is definitely not Rick Gretch).

[tomthefunky]

@rayjr62: The bassist here is David Hood. He and the drummer you see here (Roger Hawkins) are the rythym section for the legendary Muscle Shoals Band. There isn't enough room on this thread to list how many smash hits they played on. It's mind- boggling. They were hired by Traffic just for this tour.

[highhats11]

@tomthefunky 

[skatestacker]

@jeflar56 what? Dave Mason does ahhhhhh........ two tickets to paradise thoiugh,right?

[Booable22]

Thank you..:)

[s0undch4ser]

...And the man in the suit has just bought a new car

From the profit he's made on your dreams

But today you just read that the man was shot dead

By a gun that didn't make any noise

But it wasn't the bullet that laid him to rest was

The low spark of high-heeled boys...

[perfectsky5]

never thought i meet someone who liked steve winwood as much as i did ... Awesome set of videos you got - thanks. All of them are perfect.... if you see something that looks like a star....it might come from the empty pages guiding your vision to heaven to roll right stones

[martykate]

I love Steve Winwood and Traffic, but god he wore the ugliest shirts! Very much liked the rest of him--still do.Oh and did I forget to mention just how great this band was?

[slowride503]

Pure talent.

[xxxwillxxxnazgullxxx]

capaldi  y cia. fenomenos

[PatBALEX]

This is when music was real!! People today, learned from people back then....

[cHUCHo458]

Did I listen to this song about some several thousand times? NOOOOOOOOO!

It was a few more thousand times more!

I saw Traffic at the Capital Centre, Maryland in 1974, there will be no times like the 60's and the 70's, sorry kids, look back to where music came from and the 60's and 70's is where it';s at!

Roberto, College Park, Maryland

[rayjr62]

Agreed. I feel sorry for this younger generation that wasn't born then. They missed out on a magical time. . . and as Lakers Baskeball coach Phil Jackson once said, "If you remember the 60s, then you WEREN'T THERE"

[init4mojo]

Love this song, thanks for the great sound upload!8)

[oqueefe83]

What a great Song!! My father got me into this band Perfect song to sit and just Chill out to.

[panheaddan1]

go give him a big thank u hug, see he aint as bad as u thought huh ? haha

[Starrdustwoman]

This is GREAT!

Peace xx

[longrockwoman]

Wow, what a treat to find this!! Seems like you're a pretty huge Steve Winwood fan. I'm trying to remember...didn't Dave Mason play with Traffic at some point? I used to have most of his stuff on vinyl. Thanks for posting, I get to see Winwood with Clapton in Denver, can hardly wait 'til June.

[baia61]

Splendidi Traffic,...altri tempi