that is how to play guitar, with feeling. That is why its better than Zappa or Vai, and will always be so. Number of notes not important, clever ideas not important, feeling : important.
If you get the Free Songs of Yesterday box set there is a remastered "full" version of this song. It's 18 minutes long, this track is the album excerpt. The box set is worth every penny just for the master version.
Somehow I got off the Beaten path of Bucket videos... and ended up here. I know BH hasn't said anything about this, but from this song, I think I can hear some Kossof influence in his playing. Awesome song.
Kossoff is God, not Eric 'Commercialized' (think of ugly collaboration with Phil "If you don't hurt me, drums, I won't hurt you, too" Collins) Clapton !!!
First time I've heard this, yes and I've being listening to Free for 35 years+. The Back Street Crawler Band album is also recommended. Can find anyone who plays with as much passion and soul as Koss. Much respect.
This video of paul brought tears to my eyes. so many happy memories came flooding back of seeing and hearing free and koss. Time away is brilliant and you can feel all the heart and soul paul puts into it. Love you bro, Meet again in the next world.
@TheJetfighter666 hey man you can get both bsc albums thats the band plays on and2nd street on cd from any good mail order shops ive got em both and put my precios vinly in the loft
@TheJetfighter666 hey man you can get both bsc albums thats the band plays on and2nd street on cd from any good mail order shops ive got em both and put my precious vinyl in the loft
Thanks for posting this, great pictures and a lot I havent seen. Paul would have been even greater had he lived longer and kept making music. Very under-rated.
I stood outside a venue along with about 4 times the number of people that it could hold waiting for Free. They announced that the band couldn't play because Koss was 'ill' which meant he was bombed out of his head somewhere. The riot was very nasty. I never got another chance to see him. Sadly.
I knew Paul when he worked at a music shop in Central London. Eric Clapton once asked Paul "How on Earth do you get that screaming finger vibrato with such heavy strings?" Koss was unique.
Thank you, Frozenfish for putting these wonderful videos up...I've enjoyed every one that you've posted.All young guitarist should listen to this track to hear what guitar playing is all about.
god where do the years go ! what a fab person and a real nice guy. there must be some big band up there in the sky with some great line up, will see it one day iam sure
yeah clean for yrs and i still have my days, that shyt is wickedly horrible i love to hate it, i think someone said you could hear it in his music, sure can its the pain and despair that makes this track so catching and unique righton Paul your missed man lol hope you found your peace
why oh why do people mess with drugs and destroy thier, usually young, lives!!!! what a horrible waste of a huge talent and an, apparently, lovely guy :-(
They dont make a prosthesis for hopelessness, emptiness and loneliness, among other things. Indivuals try to fill this void of amputated emotions with drugs. They get caught up in a viscous circle knowing all the time the Grim Reaper is just right behind them. Still this ultimate ending is better than the pain they are experiencing.
Pussycatfeathers: You're right. The irony is, alot of truly creative artists are basically very shy people. (consider Hendrix & Joplin) Drugs get them to forget their anxiety & the audience (but at a huge cost in everyway) To play creatively, with feel, one has to enter a different zone of consciousness. Some meditate, others use drugs/alcohol Hard drugs open a 'Pandoras Box' of emotional demons. It's such a shame Koss had to be a victim.
@taildragger51 Im very shy person and find it very hard to play in front of a camera much less an audience. Even when at home I worry about what my neighbors think and can only achieve that meditational state where you get almost "Abducted" from your body and have no control of anything when I play with a entire band backing me. I find that marijuana helps quite a bit with just not giving a care to what others think of me. I may be young but ive my share of pill and alcohol problems and learned.
John Martyn plays on this! You can really hear them play off each other on the full 40 minute jam which i must say is just downright fucking hauntingly beautiful.
His guitar is talking to me. This is "feeling". And all the pain he had is coming out in this incredible track. Till today there is no another one who did it like Koss. wonderful wonderful
I own his Eko acoustic, he lent it to my dad back in the day, and died of the overdose before my dad returned it.
but its still being put to use, im a singer songwriter myself (this is my music channel) and soon ill have another vid up, with most guitar recorded on it, mostly slide
I will never be able to replace the legend of the guitars original owner, but wat i can do is keep playing it and putting it to its musical use, like it was made to
CAN i put the cat amongst the pigeons here; I am a Coverdale fan and have been for twenty years and I am also a great fan of Paul Rodgers; who do you think is better (bearing in mind I am a Purple fan also) Do not want too many comments from people that do not respect either Coverdale or Gillan. Thanks
Jackie- Rodgers has to be better really - I see Rodgers influence in Coverdale and take the whitesnake song "Aint no love in the heart of the city" - its similar to "be my friend" dont you think
HEY, I LOVE your story. I knew his dad tried his best for Paul and even included him in his written works and trying to talk to kids about drugs. You really made my day with what you said. Total regards to you. Wonderful story x
His father came to my school once to put on an anti-drugs campaign using Paul's music 27 years ago. Nobody had heard of Paul Kossoff but when we left the show we did and played Free on the football pitch smoking weed, ironic really. It was an afternoon I'll never forget because we were mostly 5th formers who were starting to get into Floyd and the rest and starting to see Guns n Roses as manufactured garbage. Paul R.I.P.
My response 7 mins ago was for you!! Brill. Please even try to believe in Paul Rodgers from Free/Bad Co/Queen - now he is ace in my eyes.............. Absolute hero although people say there is noone like Freddy. Well Sorry - Paul No2 is Class,,,,,,,,,,, What do you think?
Hi Jackie. True story that, in a beautiful summer in the early eightees. It's like yesterday with the sun on our backs and Pauls music blaring in the background. My daughter lives in Penny Lane in Liverpool and all you get is tourists, taking photos's by the Penny Lane road sign. It was a special time for music.
Can anyone play the guitar like this, with this feeling? His touch is unreal. He really is connected to the instrument - lost in music, in another world - wish I was there. T
very haunting melody....reminds me of my days in front of my bright blue padded kustom amp I had 6' tall and screamin tones from those black widow speakers.
good lord, I'm 20 years old, and I love the rich music heritage of the brittish and american blues, this guy, who is a new name to me, is reminiscent of Jeff Beck and Led Zeppelin. Why don't they play this guy on classic rock stations? Good lord. As good as they come, this man.
Great tune from a guitarist who truly played from the heart.There was a song he recorded with BSC entitled 'Jason Blue' that I would love to hear again. If anybody has posted or knows of someone who has, please let me know it would be greatly appreciated. RIP Paul.
The Back street crawler album is one of my old vinyl collection that I really miss. This has so much feel, as a guitarist my real feel for soulful bends came from Kossoff. Great to hear this again. Kossoff was a shooting star indeed and a great loss when he left us.
Yes a great piece indeed which Koss edited from the 30+ minute version (which is even better) and included on his LP much to the amazement of John Martyn. The full version can be heard on the Free box/booklet set. Ah man if only he couldv'e got the help needed to clean himself up and survive as so many lesser talents have done. I still think that perm his GF gave him looks pretty silly.
Yes a great guitarist, I was also at Newcastle City Hall that night.Sas them 18 times and got to speeak to Paul Kossoff at Dunelm University, he was a pleasure to speak to him and he gave me 5mins of his time to answer my questions.Terry Slesser from the N East was the singer and has a club called The Office in South Shields, he will tell you about Paul
When lucid Koss was one of the most original guitarists in the world. Unfortunately he was into the mandies and latterly other chemical substances in such a big way that this and the hangers on got the better of him and he paid the ultimate price. What a waste of talent. The poor guy was so out of it when I saw Free at Newcastle City Hall in 1973 that he couldn't even play and two bouncer-types pulled him off the stage. Brown Ale was blamed later but you knew it was something much stronger.
Hmmm. In that case I'm not sure. I have the 2 disc one now, and it says time away was taken from it - it's 38:19 I'm not sure, I just presumed as it said.
when you listen to the raw and real stuff of earlier days it puts in perspective what they do today. equipment + technical gadgets = not good music by far.
Absolutely beautiful. This guy exposing his heart and soul for all to hear/feel. One of the best and most underrated guitarists of all time. The rotating leslie speaker adds a lot to the feel of this. Stunning!
My father shared a flight back from NZ years ago with Pauls father as they were both at the world conference on religion that year. I wanted to share that memory for Pauls fans, as my father and David spoke at length about Pauls addiction and how it had affected his family. Well I wont bang on about it as there isnt the space here to do that. But suffice to say he came from a background of total love and it seems to me that regardless of your upbringing all drugs do is ruin talent totally
i think that is total rubbish, drugs dont ruin talent, ABUSE of drugs ruins talent, careful and respectful useage is stimulating at times, koss was in the middle of a herion fueled nightmare at this point... herion is evil... but to say ALL drugs ruin talent is just stupid
The depth of emotion is fathomless. Paul's finger vibrato (inspired by Freddie King & Peter Green) was beyond belief! Listen to another funky instrumental of Paul's called "Just For The Box". (it's on a 1975 UK album/CD called "The Best Of FREE")
Does anybody know what year Les Paul that is? It is definately 50's with the thin binding in the cutaway. It sounds so damn good!!!!! Paul was a genious.
Believe this album was recorded with Koss using a Strat. Perhaps someone can confirm but it does seem to have that rather raw Hendrix sound on part of the album
frozenfish91; Yes, it was a 1970s Fender Stratocaster that he used for this one. He was going through a "Hendrix Tribute" phase at this time. I was once in the music shop where Paul worked and Paul was serving Jimi. I recall Paul standing in awe as Jimi tried some stock Strats. Must've been around 1967 around Charing Cross Road.
PA28140; Koss had loads of Les Pauls.(many Customs)I think the one in the pic was from '58 or '59. I don't know how he held them because they were HEAVY and he used very heavy "Rotosound" strings. (heavier than SRV even). We didn't have much choice of light strings back in the 60s/70s.
Paul also had quite small hands.(he was only about 5' 5" maybe even less)
Just found this and with 19 March not far off very thought provoking. Reading the comments is sad and I agree with most, but listen to the Guy's playing and it will make you smile. Sometimes sad but always powerful and a really unique sound that few have come close to.
For Koss afficionado's I commend the book Heavy Load by David Clayton and for aural treat the original extended studio version of The Stealer released on a CD compilation a year or two back. What a solo!!
If anybody would like to hear koss when he was with "Black Cat Bones" blues band;there's about a 10 min blues solo of him play.Rememer he was only about 15/16yrs old at the time, not said because it,s poor but for the best reason.Go paul kossoff on goolge,click black cat bones,click 13 min song. Also a fitting write up from there dummer about his time with paul.Simon Kirke also drumed with Koss in the band I presume at a later date.Enjoy.
Every time I hear that song, I almost tear up. What an absolute shame. What a waste. No one did it better. I am out of things to say...I let the music do the talking. I miss you Koss..
ozzyzoe; Yes, this tune reminds me of when i picked up "The Melody Maker" in May 1976 and the front cover said Paul had died. Do you know, i will NEVER forget that day! We were expecting him to live on. (Strangely enough just saw Pauls dad, the superb actor David Kossoff, in a film called "Indiscreet").
David was a marvelous father did everything to help his son.
As far as i know really well. I dont want to say too much but i believe she's a happy normal young woman who recently married. I did meet her once when i was young. I remember her being a sweet kid
p6ulo; Was that Paul's girlfriend Sandhe Givens? (later known as Sandhe Chard). I just found the clip from the "Melody Maker" and i was wrong to say "May" ..it was March 19th 1976. That was the day Koss died. So my memory is definitely failing.
when listening to Kossofs music, one can hear, feel that there are bits of his soul embedded into those notes... fantastic
H0spitaller 2 weeks ago
Thanks for putting this up. Some guitarists need a thousand notes to say something, and then there's Paul Kossoff. He can make so few mean so much
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bennynewton38 1 month ago
that is how to play guitar, with feeling. That is why its better than Zappa or Vai, and will always be so. Number of notes not important, clever ideas not important, feeling : important.
Jlipnicki 1 month ago
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PLEASE EVERYONE CHECK OUT A COUPLE OF MY GUITAR VIDS! IM A YOUNG BLUES ROCK GUITARIST AND I REALLY WANT YOUR FEEDBACK!!! CHEERS!!!
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1conorrocks 2 months ago
E' la sua semplicità che me lo ha fatto diventare un idolo
nion8n81 5 months ago
Great vid, and song, thanks for posting this
garyprein 9 months ago
Free was his life, He didn't really start getting real bad into drugs until they broke up. sad
jonjon96336 1 year ago 2
kossoff u are a gd in my eyes. suck hes not alive. when is the next grates gutirs going to come around ?=/
forthemusice 1 year ago
very few musicians can literally bring tears to your eyes but koss can do it every time rip man i miss tou every day
boog560 1 year ago
He makes the guitar come alive, sounds likes it's crying, another great guitarist to die young, so much talent, what a waste.
ColinPRS 1 year ago
What beautiful expression! A song with no words to get in the way of what he's telling you with his guitar. Peace : )
suprflawd 1 year ago
The guitar is great, some kind of envelope filter treatment, or is it just a Wah set to an 'in-between' position..
GalaxyHorse 1 year ago
@GalaxyHorse Flanger I reckon...just try it...play this song yourself through a retro flanger and it sends shivers down your spine...
TimWalker 1 year ago
@TimWalker
Leslie speakers I believe, which he got into when he put his guitar through Rabbit's kit during the KKTR sessions.
000Angus000 1 year ago
BEST FEEL & VIBRATO PLAYER I EVER HEARD. THIS GUYS AMAZING!!! HOPE HE HAD A TISSUE AS EVEN THE GUITARS WET FROM TEARS
itsdizzylizzy 1 year ago
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clikityclak 1 year ago
Love You & Miss you Brother,,RIP,,Huge Hug,,
Mesaman44 1 year ago
He was great. I knew someone just like him and he followed him.
EKLIPZENTERTAINMENT 1 year ago
If you get the Free Songs of Yesterday box set there is a remastered "full" version of this song. It's 18 minutes long, this track is the album excerpt. The box set is worth every penny just for the master version.
GreenLightAtlanta 1 year ago
Somehow I got off the Beaten path of Bucket videos... and ended up here. I know BH hasn't said anything about this, but from this song, I think I can hear some Kossof influence in his playing. Awesome song.
42pvan 1 year ago
@42pvan i have just been listening to the too many humans BH download and I thought I must let the peeps there listen to this
cleveroonie 1 year ago
Kossoff is God, not Eric 'Commercialized' (think of ugly collaboration with Phil "If you don't hurt me, drums, I won't hurt you, too" Collins) Clapton !!!
WingerRattDokken 1 year ago
Just heard this again for the first time since high school, Some 40 years ago. Still haunting and eerie. Love it.!!!
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still brings a tear to my eye to hear this lets hope koss and ronnie van zant are tearing it up in heaven when i get there
boog560 1 year ago
still brings a tear to my eye to hear this lets hope koss and ronnie van zant are tearing it up in haeven when i get there
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boog560 1 year ago
First time I've heard this, yes and I've being listening to Free for 35 years+. The Back Street Crawler Band album is also recommended. Can find anyone who plays with as much passion and soul as Koss. Much respect.
QVXS77 1 year ago
fabulous
MOUTHFULOGRASS 1 year ago
@MOUTHFULOGRASS Le mot est faible bordel ..
seb180692 1 year ago
@MOUTHFULOGRASS speed guitar merchants..watch...listen... and learn!!
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rockonbaz 1 year ago
This video of paul brought tears to my eyes. so many happy memories came flooding back of seeing and hearing free and koss. Time away is brilliant and you can feel all the heart and soul paul puts into it. Love you bro, Meet again in the next world.
dukeofreisgill 1 year ago
This is my all time favourite track - they can play this when they stick me in the cold, cold ground..................
MrVulch 1 year ago
a great guitarest
guwapoakotalaga 1 year ago
Thanks! Excellent music here.
BCRSIX 1 year ago
Can any body post" Rock and Roll Junkie" OR "All the girls are crazy" from the first Back Street Crawler album. NOT the solo album [what's playing]
TheJetfighter666 1 year ago
@TheJetfighter666 hey man you can get both bsc albums thats the band plays on and2nd street on cd from any good mail order shops ive got em both and put my precios vinly in the loft
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@TheJetfighter666 hey man you can get both bsc albums thats the band plays on and2nd street on cd from any good mail order shops ive got em both and put my precious vinyl in the loft
boog560 1 year ago
Koss was without question one of the all time great 'feel' players, sad to think he was only 25 when he left .
bitchschtick 1 year ago
his father lived in my street passed away a few years back.
sillybananaz 1 year ago
Thanks for posting this, great pictures and a lot I havent seen. Paul would have been even greater had he lived longer and kept making music. Very under-rated.
TheLowerider 1 year ago
thats a mean and strange guitar
mystro810 1 year ago
It`s great, great music . I love it. Tank`s Koss for playing so brilliand.
Andreagear4 1 year ago
I stood outside a venue along with about 4 times the number of people that it could hold waiting for Free. They announced that the band couldn't play because Koss was 'ill' which meant he was bombed out of his head somewhere. The riot was very nasty. I never got another chance to see him. Sadly.
purpleplexi 2 years ago
Great job with the slideshow / video clip montage.
TheSanityInspector 2 years ago 4
thanks for this video
videomaxic 2 years ago 4
The Best
phillipdavidhowells 2 years ago 3
Love you Koss
RIP bro
xJayWalkerx 2 years ago 3
He, along with Jimmy McCullough, is the Great Lost Guitarist of the 70s.
TheSanityInspector 2 years ago
i think paul kossoff is one of the best guitarists of all time, i couldnt compare those 2 guitarists. Paul is much more superior i think.
ASpanishguy 2 years ago
I knew Paul when he worked at a music shop in Central London. Eric Clapton once asked Paul "How on Earth do you get that screaming finger vibrato with such heavy strings?" Koss was unique.
taildragger51 2 years ago
Thank you, Frozenfish for putting these wonderful videos up...I've enjoyed every one that you've posted.All young guitarist should listen to this track to hear what guitar playing is all about.
petalwing026 2 years ago
god where do the years go ! what a fab person and a real nice guy. there must be some big band up there in the sky with some great line up, will see it one day iam sure
babsant123 2 years ago
what a wonderful man and a wonderful musician. What a shame.....
ozzyzoe 2 years ago
if you like Kossoff, check out Rory Gallagher
both were criminally underrated and amazing
tvrulesnation 2 years ago
this is like he was leaving us something to remember him by.Every ounce of emotion he had went into this track.Sadly missed.
1957andrew1957 2 years ago 2
ar leastt i no it wasnt drugs that killed him
rockstar0337 2 years ago
u wud never think he would take drugs but most big stars do coz they hav so much ..life gets boring... man ur missed
rockstar0337 2 years ago
Some song like this one?
PEShero 2 years ago
Brilliant. Thank You. Nice to pause and read the clips too.
kingofthedeep 2 years ago 2
R.I.P. Paul another needless death wioth heroin
dontfitinnobox 2 years ago
that shit is nasty! my uncle died of it when I was little, man introduced me to the wonderful world of playing music, I'll never forget that!
metalburger2 2 years ago
yeah clean for yrs and i still have my days, that shyt is wickedly horrible i love to hate it, i think someone said you could hear it in his music, sure can its the pain and despair that makes this track so catching and unique righton Paul your missed man lol hope you found your peace
dontfitinnobox 2 years ago
why oh why do people mess with drugs and destroy thier, usually young, lives!!!! what a horrible waste of a huge talent and an, apparently, lovely guy :-(
Pussycatfeathers 2 years ago
They dont make a prosthesis for hopelessness, emptiness and loneliness, among other things. Indivuals try to fill this void of amputated emotions with drugs. They get caught up in a viscous circle knowing all the time the Grim Reaper is just right behind them. Still this ultimate ending is better than the pain they are experiencing.
AstralPlane1951 2 years ago
very well put
TheBassfresh 2 years ago
Pussycatfeathers: You're right. The irony is, alot of truly creative artists are basically very shy people. (consider Hendrix & Joplin) Drugs get them to forget their anxiety & the audience (but at a huge cost in everyway) To play creatively, with feel, one has to enter a different zone of consciousness. Some meditate, others use drugs/alcohol Hard drugs open a 'Pandoras Box' of emotional demons. It's such a shame Koss had to be a victim.
taildragger51 2 years ago 23
@taildragger51 Im very shy person and find it very hard to play in front of a camera much less an audience. Even when at home I worry about what my neighbors think and can only achieve that meditational state where you get almost "Abducted" from your body and have no control of anything when I play with a entire band backing me. I find that marijuana helps quite a bit with just not giving a care to what others think of me. I may be young but ive my share of pill and alcohol problems and learned.
hendrix950 1 year ago
@taildragger51 nice tribute, my favorite song,thanks.
Okpolosi 2 months ago
John Martyn plays on this! You can really hear them play off each other on the full 40 minute jam which i must say is just downright fucking hauntingly beautiful.
beelzebozos 2 years ago 4
where can you find the full jam?
claptonhendrix1 2 years ago
You can find it on the deluxe edition back street crawler album, i heard it on spotify which is a free music site
beelzebozos 2 years ago
@claptonhendrix1 -- Another source: "Songs of Yesterday," Free, 5 CD set contains the full 18-minute version.
theREALonekev 2 years ago
His guitar is talking to me. This is "feeling". And all the pain he had is coming out in this incredible track. Till today there is no another one who did it like Koss. wonderful wonderful
Wm050555 2 years ago 3
this is beautiful, reminds me of Maggot Brain by Funkadelic
deadluckyjay 2 years ago
I thought the same thing.
beelzebozos 2 years ago
YES, it sure does!
fanofprotopic 2 years ago
i love it!
guwapoakotalaga 2 years ago
Amazing guitar player! one of my favorites along with Blackmore and Gilmour...
cico70 2 years ago
I own his Eko acoustic, he lent it to my dad back in the day, and died of the overdose before my dad returned it.
but its still being put to use, im a singer songwriter myself (this is my music channel) and soon ill have another vid up, with most guitar recorded on it, mostly slide
I will never be able to replace the legend of the guitars original owner, but wat i can do is keep playing it and putting it to its musical use, like it was made to
Its what paul would have wanted
R.I.P mate
StephenFiorentini 2 years ago
Andys comment for the future,listen love and be happy
andrew12bahx 2 years ago
CAN i put the cat amongst the pigeons here; I am a Coverdale fan and have been for twenty years and I am also a great fan of Paul Rodgers; who do you think is better (bearing in mind I am a Purple fan also) Do not want too many comments from people that do not respect either Coverdale or Gillan. Thanks
JackieSGuard 3 years ago
David Coverdale is a "Poor Mans" Robert Plant..........no more no less. I prefer Glen Hughs in Deep Purple over Coverdale.
Hughes from Trapeze fame.
AstralPlane1951 2 years ago 2
Jackie- Rodgers has to be better really - I see Rodgers influence in Coverdale and take the whitesnake song "Aint no love in the heart of the city" - its similar to "be my friend" dont you think
cleveroonie 2 years ago
@cleveroonie good call
barbelll1 2 years ago
HEY, I LOVE your story. I knew his dad tried his best for Paul and even included him in his written works and trying to talk to kids about drugs. You really made my day with what you said. Total regards to you. Wonderful story x
JackieSGuard 3 years ago
Paul Kossoff he sounds his own...
sleepingbdb 3 years ago
Paul Kossoff so underrated and so alone. You can hear his pain crying from his guitarR.I.P.
AstralPlane1951 3 years ago 13
im 15 been loving free for bout 4 years... i love kossof. this song makes me cry
eunsworth77 3 years ago 2
sweet music
What has happend with thie music nowadays :( ...almost each day I pray for a 60's - 70's revival.
xJayWalkerx 3 years ago
You are all right! What a miss and what a legend. At least he is with his father; the man who believed in him..............
JackieSGuard 3 years ago
His father came to my school once to put on an anti-drugs campaign using Paul's music 27 years ago. Nobody had heard of Paul Kossoff but when we left the show we did and played Free on the football pitch smoking weed, ironic really. It was an afternoon I'll never forget because we were mostly 5th formers who were starting to get into Floyd and the rest and starting to see Guns n Roses as manufactured garbage. Paul R.I.P.
polaris31270 3 years ago
My response 7 mins ago was for you!! Brill. Please even try to believe in Paul Rodgers from Free/Bad Co/Queen - now he is ace in my eyes.............. Absolute hero although people say there is noone like Freddy. Well Sorry - Paul No2 is Class,,,,,,,,,,, What do you think?
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Hi Jackie. True story that, in a beautiful summer in the early eightees. It's like yesterday with the sun on our backs and Pauls music blaring in the background. My daughter lives in Penny Lane in Liverpool and all you get is tourists, taking photos's by the Penny Lane road sign. It was a special time for music.
polaris31270 2 years ago
Can anyone play the guitar like this, with this feeling? His touch is unreal. He really is connected to the instrument - lost in music, in another world - wish I was there. T
clearta 3 years ago 2
I haven't heard anyone on play like Kossoff!
FENDIN10 3 years ago 2
Listen carefully to Angus Young
flogbag 2 years ago
very haunting melody....reminds me of my days in front of my bright blue padded kustom amp I had 6' tall and screamin tones from those black widow speakers.
kentsteel 3 years ago
Thank you. Very well put together. I found it very moving.
bonnielad7 3 years ago
One of those great guitarists with heart n soul,RIP,your music lives on,blues'n rock'nroll forever!!!!!!!!!!!
chrisufromaut 3 years ago 5
good lord, I'm 20 years old, and I love the rich music heritage of the brittish and american blues, this guy, who is a new name to me, is reminiscent of Jeff Beck and Led Zeppelin. Why don't they play this guy on classic rock stations? Good lord. As good as they come, this man.
BradRIPNowell 3 years ago 4
they do.. but they'll normally only play 'all right now' lol which doesn't credit kossoff very much i agree!!
thepoetinmyheart15 3 years ago
dont forget Mr big
xpacev2 3 years ago
Load your Ipod with these Free songs; you won't hear them much if at all anymore on classic rock stations. Sadly so.
spencer51418 3 years ago
Ah, the late, great Paul Kossoff. Great talent and a great loss as this track demonstrates.
Luvaduk 3 years ago 3
You would think he was from the Deep south.....
129805643 3 years ago
There's an 18 minute version of this on the "Songs of Yesterday" box set. So few notes, so much feel. More feel than anyone. Superb !!!
WelshVegan 3 years ago
Great tune from a guitarist who truly played from the heart.There was a song he recorded with BSC entitled 'Jason Blue' that I would love to hear again. If anybody has posted or knows of someone who has, please let me know it would be greatly appreciated. RIP Paul.
OldSongsRGr8t 3 years ago
FANTASTICO!!!
41xapeco 3 years ago
was on the way to see B S Crawler when mates car broke down.Never got there to see him. Koss died shortly after,What a great loss
rib563 3 years ago
its very difficult to play with such feel. Only other person I know plays with so much feel in rock music would be David Gilmour
vibhutesagar 3 years ago 6
Peter Green
buskerbuoy 3 years ago 6
Steve Rothery
Monocus 3 years ago
The Back street crawler album is one of my old vinyl collection that I really miss. This has so much feel, as a guitarist my real feel for soulful bends came from Kossoff. Great to hear this again. Kossoff was a shooting star indeed and a great loss when he left us.
gr1moire2112 3 years ago 3
haunting so much feeling and soul..paul my friend....where ever you are miss you!!
cornholio1962 3 years ago 2
WE MISS HIM
detekteideutschland 3 years ago 3
One of the best blues guitarists to come out of Britain, a real feel player, what a waste of talent when we lost him.
alfrmo63 3 years ago 16
Yes a great piece indeed which Koss edited from the 30+ minute version (which is even better) and included on his LP much to the amazement of John Martyn. The full version can be heard on the Free box/booklet set. Ah man if only he couldv'e got the help needed to clean himself up and survive as so many lesser talents have done. I still think that perm his GF gave him looks pretty silly.
lolzordz666 3 years ago 2
Yes a great guitarist, I was also at Newcastle City Hall that night.Sas them 18 times and got to speeak to Paul Kossoff at Dunelm University, he was a pleasure to speak to him and he gave me 5mins of his time to answer my questions.Terry Slesser from the N East was the singer and has a club called The Office in South Shields, he will tell you about Paul
johnfshodan 3 years ago 2
When lucid Koss was one of the most original guitarists in the world. Unfortunately he was into the mandies and latterly other chemical substances in such a big way that this and the hangers on got the better of him and he paid the ultimate price. What a waste of talent. The poor guy was so out of it when I saw Free at Newcastle City Hall in 1973 that he couldn't even play and two bouncer-types pulled him off the stage. Brown Ale was blamed later but you knew it was something much stronger.
lolzordz666 3 years ago 3
I love this piece very much - many thanks for putting it up here!
THe 38 minute jam that this is taken from is now available on CD - I must hear it sometime, though this piece is so full of emotion!
XGirl1993 3 years ago
I thought it was from a 17-18 minute jam, ie the one on the Back Street Crawler solo album...?
Rogerson85 3 years ago
Hmmm. In that case I'm not sure. I have the 2 disc one now, and it says time away was taken from it - it's 38:19 I'm not sure, I just presumed as it said.
XGirl1993 3 years ago
he had a truly original sound and I love the fact that he was impressive without ever being flashy.
HenryFussy 3 years ago 5
when you listen to the raw and real stuff of earlier days it puts in perspective what they do today. equipment + technical gadgets = not good music by far.
Smoothways 3 years ago 2
Well said :)
XGirl1993 3 years ago
Absolutely beautiful. This guy exposing his heart and soul for all to hear/feel. One of the best and most underrated guitarists of all time. The rotating leslie speaker adds a lot to the feel of this. Stunning!
daveyboots 3 years ago 6
dave murray of iron maiden is a fan and his guitar playing is inspired from this guitarist and others of course
matthieu71 3 years ago
Dave Murray´s got Koss´strat. They used to hang out together
Bronzecaster67 2 years ago
one of the best guitarists, ever...
Laughincow 3 years ago 4
love ya koss, RIP
lovatt51 3 years ago 6
fuck, this has so much soul and emotion, it's beautiful.
illuminati20 3 years ago 6
My father shared a flight back from NZ years ago with Pauls father as they were both at the world conference on religion that year. I wanted to share that memory for Pauls fans, as my father and David spoke at length about Pauls addiction and how it had affected his family. Well I wont bang on about it as there isnt the space here to do that. But suffice to say he came from a background of total love and it seems to me that regardless of your upbringing all drugs do is ruin talent totally
manicstreetsi 3 years ago 3
amen it sucks all the talent we have lost due to an addiction one of these days hopefully people will learn
furby1964 3 years ago
i think that is total rubbish, drugs dont ruin talent, ABUSE of drugs ruins talent, careful and respectful useage is stimulating at times, koss was in the middle of a herion fueled nightmare at this point... herion is evil... but to say ALL drugs ruin talent is just stupid
anycolouryouwant 3 years ago
Sad day but great tune. Nobody can repeat it with that feeling I suppose. Simply Koss at his best!!!
freebeckett 3 years ago 2
cheers for this video! i love koss, this is so typically him, really organic and flowing. his notes are unreal!
thanks for sharing, its made my day!
mikeassballs 3 years ago 3
Fascinating thread, and great vid
skaboosh 3 years ago
great video..thanks for sharing!!!
Paul had such a style.
shakey64 3 years ago 2
KOSS = King Of Six Strings
aldroyen 3 years ago
AMEN RIP KOSS
zosoandbadcompanyman 3 years ago 3
this really is beautifully done.....haunting , moving ....
janeythebrit 3 years ago
Yeah, this tune always brings me to tears!
The depth of emotion is fathomless. Paul's finger vibrato (inspired by Freddie King & Peter Green) was beyond belief! Listen to another funky instrumental of Paul's called "Just For The Box". (it's on a 1975 UK album/CD called "The Best Of FREE")
taildragger51 3 years ago
Does anybody know what year Les Paul that is? It is definately 50's with the thin binding in the cutaway. It sounds so damn good!!!!! Paul was a genious.
PA28140 4 years ago
Believe this album was recorded with Koss using a Strat. Perhaps someone can confirm but it does seem to have that rather raw Hendrix sound on part of the album
frozenfish91 4 years ago
I think he played an original '59, if i'm not mistaken. This song does sound like a strat, though.
mahonmic 3 years ago
frozenfish91; Yes, it was a 1970s Fender Stratocaster that he used for this one. He was going through a "Hendrix Tribute" phase at this time. I was once in the music shop where Paul worked and Paul was serving Jimi. I recall Paul standing in awe as Jimi tried some stock Strats. Must've been around 1967 around Charing Cross Road.
Wow, what memories!
taildragger51 3 years ago
PA28140; Koss had loads of Les Pauls.(many Customs)I think the one in the pic was from '58 or '59. I don't know how he held them because they were HEAVY and he used very heavy "Rotosound" strings. (heavier than SRV even). We didn't have much choice of light strings back in the 60s/70s.
Paul also had quite small hands.(he was only about 5' 5" maybe even less)
taildragger51 3 years ago
From the video, those were 59 Les Paul Standards (single front binding). Paul K had at least 2 59 Standards
mrp356b 2 years ago
God bless you Paul.
sfishg 4 years ago
Just found this and with 19 March not far off very thought provoking. Reading the comments is sad and I agree with most, but listen to the Guy's playing and it will make you smile. Sometimes sad but always powerful and a really unique sound that few have come close to.
For Koss afficionado's I commend the book Heavy Load by David Clayton and for aural treat the original extended studio version of The Stealer released on a CD compilation a year or two back. What a solo!!
rgsbikerman 4 years ago
Oh Gawd, almost more than I can stand. Magnificent.
fishnose1 4 years ago
This gives me shivers. This is coming from deep, deep down.
spencer51418 4 years ago
i have tuseday morning with gramrye
OldOx 4 years ago
If anybody would like to hear koss when he was with "Black Cat Bones" blues band;there's about a 10 min blues solo of him play.Rememer he was only about 15/16yrs old at the time, not said because it,s poor but for the best reason.Go paul kossoff on goolge,click black cat bones,click 13 min song. Also a fitting write up from there dummer about his time with paul.Simon Kirke also drumed with Koss in the band I presume at a later date.Enjoy.
sfishg 4 years ago
oi you seem to forget Kossoff and Gramrye
nothing was put on tape but i do have some stuff from on cassette
OldOx 4 years ago
do you have tuesday morning
gbxy1 4 years ago
yes I have but rather long to place on the tube
frozenfish91 4 years ago
..really moving..thanks for the beautiful thing you've done...music from the heart....
godz60illa 4 years ago
best axe playing in the world
cornholio1962 4 years ago
play it again sam come back PLS
jugoponos 4 years ago
oh man thats cool just wind it down a few notches have a beer or 3 just listen to the vibe wow!!
bigcoolviking 4 years ago
Every time I hear that song, I almost tear up. What an absolute shame. What a waste. No one did it better. I am out of things to say...I let the music do the talking. I miss you Koss..
ozzyzoe 4 years ago
ozzyzoe; Yes, this tune reminds me of when i picked up "The Melody Maker" in May 1976 and the front cover said Paul had died. Do you know, i will NEVER forget that day! We were expecting him to live on. (Strangely enough just saw Pauls dad, the superb actor David Kossoff, in a film called "Indiscreet").
David was a marvelous father did everything to help his son.
taildragger51 3 years ago
My father's ex fiancee had Paul's child shortly before he died. I love this music and it will always be special
p6ulo 3 years ago
How is the child? And how has life been for the child?
ozzyzoe 3 years ago
As far as i know really well. I dont want to say too much but i believe she's a happy normal young woman who recently married. I did meet her once when i was young. I remember her being a sweet kid
p6ulo 3 years ago
p6ulo; Was that Paul's girlfriend Sandhe Givens? (later known as Sandhe Chard). I just found the clip from the "Melody Maker" and i was wrong to say "May" ..it was March 19th 1976. That was the day Koss died. So my memory is definitely failing.
taildragger51 3 years ago