Colin Hodgkinson

[jsilence418]

Jeeziz i love this!! never get tired of hearing him!

[KOLSARNIT]

GR8 4 CHILLIN

[martinjp1958]

What a talented musician. Great voice, playing, ideas, compositions, vision. He has a Lot going for him.

[gb5uq]

First thing I ever recorded on my new rented !! VHS recorder back in the 80's. Played it till the tape finally wore out. Just hope they release it on DVD. Has to be one of the finest Colin and Alexis (et al) sessions ever to make it to TV. They used to have real music on TV back then..

[elvispreseli]

"Back Door" by Back Door blew away Miles and the Jazz world when it was released in the States. Stunning stuff!

[MrMudclub]

I know Stanley Clarke is a big fan of Colins ,and some people say he ripped a few licks from Colin, but thats just music.

[Wolfsonian]

The first gig I ever went to was Alexis Korner and Colin Hodgkinson in Leigh in around 1980 or 1981. Superb!

[louixinthestreet]

It was years and years ago. I too wrecked the tape. What about the chunky drummer?? Line the track or whatever it's called was my favourite from Colin. King BEE BEE was the one that made me laugh the most. Anyone know where I can get a copy of that show on dvd?

[KOLSARNIT]

lining track was on a series called alternative voices and was with alexis korner.

[lexo30]

Great player. Saw him on late night telly years ago with Alexis Korner and was blown away as a novice bass player. In fact I chucked the bass soon after and took up the guitar. Glad to hear that he's still playing.

[bangform]

me and my mates saw that and recorded it to video but wore the video out it was a great concert

[KOLSARNIT]

CAGGY HANDED AS WELL!!

[RockJunkie94]

Played with this guy on a blues night. He is just immense

[jsilence418]

You hear him now gec, it's no waste!! now you are saved !!

[GecSword]

Holy Jesus Christ why on earth haven't I heard of this guy until now? Goddamnit, 18 years of my life wasted :P

[KOLSARNIT]

him and alexis korrer

[Flegsxxx]

One off the hardest thonks in music buissnes: play e-bass and sing!!!!

he is one off the best player ever!!!

[nadflah]

Working as a music journalist in 1973, I can remember a review stating that Colin Hodgkinson was "the man the Fender bass had been waiting for...for twenty years". Of course Hodgkinson was and IS a fantastic virtuoso bass player, and this was years before Victor Wooten appeared on the scene. Thank you so MUCH for posting this cool memory from Camden :-)

[libertatus]

Fantastic! Thanks for this video!

[dg4848]

The one and only Bomber, Cheers, owd lad!

[joepoeta]

SLIDING DELTA!!!!!

[alembicbassguy]

One of the greatest and most underated bassists of all time!

Amazing chops. Where is Colin now?

[steviebmob]

still playing the local scene here in cabridgeshire from time to time....

[lowfreq65]

Wow , FUCKEN AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­

[djerac0]

Go DELMONTS!!!

Go Fabulous Hofner Blue Notes!!!

[MADMART777]

i remember this with alexis absolutley fab

[STILLAVRIL1]

Astonishing.

I remember hearing the BBC broadcast of this gig and he did 'Diving Duck'.

I play bass, but his gets a thorough seeing to every time the poor thing comes out of the case.

Thanks very much.

[graham211]

He used to play on Sunday evenings in the 70's in a pub on Church Street Peterborough with Lloyd Watson on lead and a drummer (maybe the Back Door drummer ?). He did not like to be complimented on his playing but everyone did because he was just so incredible. Then he joined Whitesnake or some such metal band. Happy memories of a great talent.

[graham211]

He used to play on Sunday evenings in the 70's in a pub on Church Street Peterborough with Lloyd Watson on lead and a drummer (maybe the Back Door drummer ?). He did not like to be complimented on his playing but everyone did because he was just so incredible. Then he joined Whitesnake or some such metal band. Happy memories of a great talent.

[richardmca]

I put Colin and Back Door on at my college when I was a student in the 70s. They didn't bother soundchecking and turned up about 2 minutes before they were due to go on. I had 800 pissed students bellowing for entertainment and they'd never heard of the band. Colin saunters on, sits down and starts playing a solo!! For a few seconds I thought they would start throwing bottles, but suddenly you could hear a pin drop: he had them riveted. Great, spellbinding talent.

[gte2000]

Also no-ne has commented on what a great voice Colin has!!

[TheBassPlayer10]

true! i had no idea he was such a great singer!

[gte2000]

I saw Hodge with the reformed Back Door a couple of times back in the 80's and was blown away! Offstage he is such a nice, unassuming, modest guy and gets genuinely embarassed if you compliment him! He should be mentioned in the same sentence as Stanley and Jaco. It makes you realise that genius can go unrecognised.

[jayboy5uk]

Worked at a blues club in the midlands and had the pleasure of having colin on stage , played sanfransisco bay solo and sang it as well , my god how talented is this man

[yugynugy]

I saw this on ITV back in the early 80's around Christmas on my b&w tv but missed the start, however I slammed a video on the recorder and it's now one of my most prized possessions. There's a few solos by Colin and Alexis is great too. I keep meaning to burn it to DVD but the rest is just as good, I'll try to get some of it done now I have a HDD recorder and upload it for your joy and delight! BTW it has the ads from the time with Slade in one of them - it's really funny to look back on!

[bluescruise]

I've got a 50 minute movie of this gig(minus the adverts) which went out under the title of 'Individual Voices'. Managed to rescue it just in time from an old video tape, the quality aint great but its classic piece of musical history, and features Colin in amazing form (probably one of the most underrated players ever). Ya never know some kind soul may release the show on dvd, if it still exists....fingers crossed eh ?

[KOLSARNIT]

@bluescruise my tape of this is so worn! alexis and colin were great!

[ALtrent1000]

I remember seeing this when it first aired in the UK. I thought both Colin and Alexis were great. Nice to see this again after so long. Hopefully someone will post the rest of the gig.

I saw Whitesnake at the Glasgow Apollo but Colin wasn't playing with them at the time.

Class act.

AL

USA

[KenGrew]

Fantastic. Many thanks for posting this. I saw Back Door in the 70's & was amazed by his playing, even tho Im not a big blues fan. Last year I managed to buy a copy of The Bottom Line. As a previous reviewer said, its great fun. Brilliant playing. There used to be rumours that Colin & Stanley Clarke were arguing that the other one of them was the best player. Anyway, I cant understand why he isn't an international superstar, 'cos he rates with the best.

[RustyMary06]

Great. I enjoyed a couple of concerts of Alexis&Colin about this time and the clip brought back good memories.

There was definitely a lot of interest and I suppose, another 'Blues revival' in the UK that was very strong in the early eighties. Liverpool promoted and enjoyed a lot of good Jazz&Blues bands at the time and the city had there own fantastic bands like Juke and Supercharge (check out the posts).

Cheers

[jsilence418]

Holy Fuck!! my new Hero !!! thanks for this incredible post!

[dg4848]

Nice one always, Bomber. Thanks.DG.

[Midinutking]

I have 4 Back Door LP's! Treasured stuff. Check Colin out on Back Door stuff.

[dragonfry]

Anyone able to make any attempt at tabbing this let me know...

[dutchwife]

Please, please, please...more of this! Stunning, hugely underrated or maybe unknown, should be way more major. Wish the Beasties had credited his sample a bit more....

[arcureo]

I've got his solo CD, "bottom line", and it's really fun to listen to! Not to mention inspirational...

;-)

[lunabert]

I'm lovin' it......great stuff!

[Buckwh3atTZA]

thats brutal!!! ok i gots to find some back door songs!

[casimer]

Legend, he's up there with Marcus, Victor, Jaco and Stanley and Jamerson.

[bassjack99]

I live down the road from this guy :D

[urbanfox93]

What's happened to Colin? He was indeed in Back Door. I saw them at Ronnie Scott's years ago with the amazing Ron Asprey on sax - with just a drummer they blew a storm. Check out their 70's albums. Great mix of blues & Jazz. Colin's about the only rythmn bass player I know!

[fenman55]

Colin is alive and well. Every year he plays a one off gig at the Nene Valley Railway near Peterborough called Steaming Blues with Zoot Money and Millar Anderson. Its well worth checking out, but the tickets are always in short supply ita a good real ale bar as well!

[mashamorgan]

Colin is a relation of mine from down Yorkshire way. Strangely we're all left handed except he's good. He played for Back Door i think. Acknowledged as one of the first bass player to use chords in his work. He's a legend !!

[Crazykiwi2]

F*cking fantastic virtuoso blues bass!! I can't think of a better example. Oh Colin, why have you remained so unrecognised for so long?