The Graham Bond Organization - Hoochie Coochie Man

[theseventhprotocol]

Super band ! Cheers

[petertfogarty]

How did you find this?????

I attended this Jazz and Blues Festival in Richmond and camped in the grounds. I still have the Programme-Ray Charles along with the Rolling Stones and Arthur Brown appeared-do you have any more??

[blackandtanful]

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[hooptyhee1]

Didn't Bruce use a 6-string bass occasionally with Cream, or at least on his early solo work?

[Lemsterspurs]

Great video - remember themat the Cooks Ferry Inn on the north circular roadin the sixties. Long John Baldry used to sit in as well .

[SAHBfan]

WOW! Absolutely priceless clip!

Where did you find this?

Fantastic...

[mr115zombies115]

omggg im related to the lead singer!!!!

[MacMic333]

This was one of the best bands of all time for musicianship and fire.Unbeatable REAL R&B before the term was stolen.

[RadioLaPrincess]

Thanks for uploading. I never met him, but Graham Bond was a cousin of mine (something like first cousin once removed). I didn't really know his music until I started searching for it.

[blindbill99]

Watching this video brings back memories of standing in the crowded, hot, sweaty atmosphere of Klooks Kleek above the Railway Hotel West Hampstead listening to Graham playing this number. Those were the days, awesome

[jimothy60]

The Bass VI was meant to be a bass with two extra strings. Baritone guitars are meant to be tuned to C, B or A. For E tuning, I don't think you can put Bass VI gauge strings (.024 - .084 and bigger) on the average baritone guitar without some major modifications, plus it would need to be at least 30" scale (like the Bass VI) for enough string tension. So basically, they are two different beasts.

[yankeelawdog]

I can really hear the future sound of Ginger Baker's Air Force.

Interesting rendition and video.

[brilliantos]

@livelaughnadia Just researched it now and you are absolutely right. I was fooled

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[wjwmorrow]

Absolutely brilliant classic clip. Thanks for sharing...

[Xaffax]

Actually The fender VI isn't a bass and it isn't a guitar. Leo Fender thought the world needed a new instrument half guitar half bass guitar... and... well after the success of the bass guitar he had no reason to doubt his wisdom. However it just became a cult item only used now and then. Like here.

A baritone guitar it's called these days and it's probably more popular now that it ever was before.

[jimothy60]

@Xaffax Baritone guitars are tuned down (from standard guitar tuning) to C, B, or A, whereas the Bass VI is tuned down one octave (E), just like a regular bass.

[Xaffax]

@jimothy60 Well Actually the Bass VI was a baritone guitar. And that's how it was envisioned by Leo Fender. The problems with it at the time where the strings, and that's why it didn't do too well. How you tune it is of course up to the user. You can tune a guitar down to C too. But like all bass guitars are a variation on the Fender precision Bass all Baritone guitars are a variation on the Bass VI.

Check "American Guitars" by Tom Wheeler on it.

[brilliantos]

Seeing Jack Bruce play "bass" on a six string electric guitar is pretty intense for its time...go Jack!!!

[fastnbulbouss]

Fabulous stuff....., took forever to get the smallest bits of info on bands in those days, and then to find the LPs was just magical....

Thanks for posting this .....

[Jmurray5150]

Being weaned on Cream, Zep, Hendrix, the Stones & the Who on from when I was only 10 in '77 (one of the 1st LPs I ever bought being Zep's double live LP in '76 making way for Van Halen in '78!), it's just amazing to hear what great voices Bond, Mayall and Marriott had!! They owned!

It's also crazy to think basically only Rod Stewart broke out solo in the US in the mid to late 70's when those 3 still shoulda been right there!!, what a loss ...

[tourismtiger]

he's gone a be a 'strollin' bone'!! (this at the time the rolling stones thought they were coooool) This looks like the original Marquee Club in Wardour Street Soho London

[KOOLEO329]

These guys were the Koolest. I saw them play at the Flamingo in Soho on the same bill with Georgie Fame and the Steve Laine Combo. That whole showbill was fanrastic..those were the good old days of UK R&B.

[gamoonbat]

Graham Bond sold his soul to the devil. He plays pretty dang good.

[boogieste]

One of my favourite live bands at the time (63-66). So much power. Great to see them again - and thanks ! Once saw Bond (pre Cream), John Mayall (with EC) and Georgie Fame on the same New Year's Eve bill at Eel Pie Island - Happy days!

[12347771]

Hi. A question if I may. This clip iimplies that they had just a one song set. Was that procedure at Richmond?

Thanks from N. Florida

[boogieste]

Hi N,

No normally two sets in those days - probably two hours polus of music - with an interval band in the middle. Same procedure at Crawdaddy, Eel Pie, Flamingo, Klooks Kleek - and most of the live music London Clubs. I remember a GBO album - although I no longer seem to have it!

[12347771]

Thanks. I have 'GBO Live at Klooks Kleek

10/27/64 aka 'Person to Person' Blues.

Sound is perfectly awful but the playing smokes and never lets up. Great Sonny Terry riffing on "Traintime" Bruce channels Sonny Boy with "First Time I met The Blues" Ginger pulls an amazing solo on'Early In The Morning' too. Shortly after this record  he tried to kill Jack (?) One track is Graham yuking it up with the mc Dick Jordan. Great document in my book. Must've been great to have been in the locale.

[boogieste]

It was great to be in the locale - and we took it for granted. Graham's rendition of Hoochie Coochie Man influenced me more than Muddy Waters - especially the shout intro he used to do. Other great bands doing the circuit at the time included Georgie Fame, Zoot Money, The Tridents (with Geoff Beck on guitar), Artwoods (both Keef Hartley and John Lord were members) and mny fave - Long John Baldry and the Hoochie Coochie Men - Rod Stewart used to do a couple of numbers with John

[12347771]

Can only imagine. I did see Keef w Mayall's big band (w Blue Mitchell) at The Univ of Florida back in '73 I think it was. Mayall wouldn't talk to the crowd. Had to send Hartley to the mic to tell everybody to please sit down else they'd close the show down. Someone ought to write a book. Thanks

[Wilthomer66]

@12347771

This is from one of the two episodes of the U.S. Tv show "Shindig" for a special two part installation "Shindig Goes To London" where they filmed it exclusively @ the 1965 National Jazz and Blues Festival along w/ The who, The Manfreds, Georgie Fame, steampacket, Moody Blues, The Animals etc.

[12347771]

This clip also made it on to the 'Shindig' TV show. 'Shindig Goes To London' in the USA. Aired Nov.65 some months after the Festival. I meant Baker's Air Force (sp)..............93

[12347771]

Go to Ginger Aaker's Air Force "12 Gates To The City " to See Graham on lead vocal and organ A thrilling performance

a must must see.....................93

[janeythebrit]

oohh..THANK you for posting this up..i thought i'd NEVER see it again. this performance is SO HOT . They were a DAMN fine band ....one of the best outta London mid-60's . they shouldve been BIGGER . and they always say they didnt make it cos they weren't pretty-boys...well , women , open ur eyes , Jack was SO fine !

[tomthefunky]

Funny you say that. That's not Townshend but The Who played this show.

[alastairjr40]

I think I saw Pete Townsend in the audience.

[hugatag]

Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce together here this is 2 years before Ginger started Cream and brought in Clapton, however Clapton convinced Ginger to bring Jack Bruce along or he was not going to join Cream. Man O man

[Krzyszczynski]

A band born out of their time, alas. As one commentator remarked: "they had everything going for them, except physical beauty" .... and that, regrettably, was virtually all that mattered in the era (1963-65) when they were performing at their best.

[TampaRed]

What? The Rolling Stones were an ugly bunch. The Beatles were no cover models either.

[driftingaway1962]

Graham Bond was certainly not as ugly as Mick Jagger--and a much better singer, for that matter.

[Krzyszczynski]

In making that comment I was, rather unwisely, quoting unattributed from another source (which I now forget). I think what the original writer really meant was that the Organisation's members didn't fit what at that time were the popular notions of how a pop star (no rock stars, then) should look. Jagger & Co did fit within those norms, regardless of whether they could be considered good-looking by any formal standard. (To my mind they couldn't, with the possible exception of Brian Jones.)

[tonylast47]

Who gives a damn what they looked like. The musicianship is brilliant. Some of the most exciting players around at that time. And they all went on to better things, apart from Graham Bond himself who sadly committed suicide.

[formula602]

I don't usually like this song...but this was bad ass!

[RareTurd]

Saw Bond acouple of times at the Farx in Potters Bar in 1970, firts time was billed as just "Graham Bond" the second tim as "Holy Magic" Brilliant act, its a pity he let the "magic" take too much of a hold on his life, for my money a more gifted organist than Keith Emerson or Rick Wakemen

[alvisthecar]

Brilliant! Used to watch him in 1963/64 around west London.

[PKPurvis]

Hell! In total awe...

[Wilthomer66]

I'd heard this existed, great to FINALLY see it! Cheers for posting!

[monty70]

To bad you cant hear the bass that good. Jack's playing is so powerful and this was one of the best bands he was ever in along with Tony Williams Lifetime. (don't need to mention the other)

[fishdeschois]

An undeservedly forgotten band, thanks for posting. :-)

[raybede]

Thank you so much for putting this up.

It is a remarkable bit of footage. His concerts, especially with this band were fantastic.

Thanks again

[PassionatePerSuit]

It is beyond fantastic to find this clip here.

[topgonads]

This is fantastic bit of footage, thanks for putting it up. To see GB playing keys and sax at the same time is great.

[phs9452]

wow that was incredible ive never seen this either thank you thank you so much

[JackBruceInMyHeart]

omg!! thanks a lot for post this, Ive never see a performance live of the GBO so cool!! Jack,Graham,Dick,Ginger!!:D