Had this on vinyl. The album cover had a strange cut in it which made it easy to find in the stack. Late nite in my room. Cheap dirt weed. Headphones. Ahhhh yes..........
Thanks to the uploader for this video...like so many others, hearing this music this takes me back to a specific time and place. And also to a time when live performances we so much better than their recorded counterparts. Fantastic performance of a timeless song.
Riding around the English countryside in an 69MG-B blasting it High on Lebonese red hash wondreing if my draft number (91) would be called up or they would sign the Paris Peace Accord. Thank God they signed . Too many never came back .Lakenheath High School student, circa; 1972
Memories of driving down the roads of the SFV, CA. or on the L.A. freeway and listening to my hot 57 Chevy engine and the great off the richter scale TRAFFIC."Spark of the High Heeled Boys" It twas on an 8 tract back then. Steve Windwood & Traffic you rock n rule. Jerome "Jerry" Plotnick Lake of the Woods, CA
O.K. im gonna share this with y'all. i was @ my house in nashville tennessee. steve was married to my sister, they were in town for the weekend. he gave us (my wife and i) a personal concert in our upstairs semi-private, bar.
that was the first time my wife ever heard low spark, & cant find my way home...
This takes me way back. I can remember laying in the grass at night, far away in the back yard with the speakers in the windows of our house far off, playing this loud enough that you could be far away and hear it. The moon was out and four or five of us were laying there looking at the stars and listening to this while passing a nice big bottle of wine and "other" things around. I loved the early 70s, fun and no hassles from cops way out in the country. You could do almost anything you wanted.
@Orb37 . Born in the late 50's, raised on drugs and rock and roll since 10, been to prison 4 times in my life time. I sit here smoking medical pot enjoying whats left of my life. Im not sad about any of it. And my brother John O.D. at 39 and my sister Steff at 55. She felt it was time. Bummer, those 2 brought me into a new world, where pain from my dad(their stepdad) didnt seem as bad. what a bastard he was. see you guys one day
Had this on 8 track also, taped by a friend. Actually still have it. Waiting to give it back to him! Ha Ha Ha, this is a great great song.... My favorite college song!!! University of Pittsburgh!
Nice to hear Winwood in his prime. I can't stomach that soulless, corporate pop crap he was doing in the 80's, like "Roll With It". Steve, what happened to you??
Oh my...I remember this album playing...a sunny morning in Seattle, WA, circa 1973...and the psylocybin mushrooms were just beginning to take effect........WOW. And, LOL, I went home 12? hrs later, Mom and Stepdad are watching some silly ass sitcome...1973.....
What's wrong with you, Suzy? And I tried to tell them about the low spark of high heeled boys...really, I did. Hahahahaaaa. Yeah, they figured that one out..........
listen to Michael Tsarion is the world premier conspiracy researcher/lecturer/author. Leo Zagami, Jordan Maxwell, Alexandre Dumas pere are highly informative as well. p.s. Melting Euphoria is similar to Ozric Tentacles and Gong.
so iconic !!! truly up there writing and performing..NO 21st century so called rock band can touch this..ravel..the beatles...coltrane...eight miles high...low spark... modern day composers...we're waiting....
This is a really nice video - brings up some pleasant memories of my youth. I got to see them a few times in my life. Always a good show. I saw Traffic the last time they came through Memphis in 1994 and this looks like about the same time and tour. it was a really good show. I'm glad I got to see them one more time.
Ah but I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now.
@opptynox 56 also. The experience of hearing this music when it came out, when it was the rhythm of the day & the sound of our experience, is something I would not trade to be 36 & have no idea what that was. This is seldom said, but if you consider both the rock music of the 60's through much of the 70's & the jazz of that era being created by Coltrane, Pharoah, Ornette, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, etc., it was an unprecedented outpouring of freedom, soul & expression not equaled before or since.
I am SO thankful I was at just the right age to come into this music right when I hit high school. I saw and was part of the best music that ever happened (tips his hat to Mozart and Beethoven .... the hippies of those days had it good too), and man, they don't make it like this anymore.
jammin an smokin me a skinny cant tell you how many time's ive partied to this song but can tell you this will not be the last this is one of many great song's to come out this time period happy as hell i was there to hear this years ago
kick back relax enjoy smoke one if you hav it i am
Nice when people come together in agreement ,well said all of you! Traffic will stand the test of Time! Look, it's still with all of you. Being 57 years old i have much pride in all the music in our era and it will never be duplicated!
The latter 60s and early 70s were a truly magical time for rock weren't they? Some of the greatest talent rock has ever known came out of that era...Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, etc.
great rock n roll anthem heard this first think in 75 my freshman year college been a good winwood fan since keep the young ones up on a great musisian songwriter
Traffic, Toda una institución, lastima que ya no haya grupos como este. Steve único en su genero, les recomiendo la rola, Rock and roll Stew de traffic y rainmaker.
Let's face facts: the "best" groups who came in existence since the 1990s can't even come close to this artistry.
These guys did instinctively what people spent their lives trying to come close to the shadow of. True Rock has already outlasted most forms of music (Classical variations didn't last that long except as oddities).
Grunge: crap. cRap/"hip hop": crap. New Wave: crap. Punk (and variants): crap. Look upon the face of Music and know you will never best it (or even come close).
@freedumb2003 "If we were merely dealing with the law of averages, half of the events affecting our nation's well-being should be good for America. If we were dealing with mere incompetence, our leaders should occasionally make a mistake in our favor. We . . . are not dealing with coincidence or stupidity, but with planning and brilliance."
-Gary Allen, from his book None Dare Call It Conspiracy
@freedumb2003 "The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monsterous he cannot believe it exists."-J. Edgar Hoover
"We shall have World Government whether or not you like it, by conquest or consent."-James Warburg(Council on Foreign Relations)
"No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the new age unless he will take a Luciferian initiation."-David Spangler(United Nations)
@freedumb2003 This passage is from The Companions of Jehu--page 396--"You are ninnies! I have cheated all the time we've been playing, and you never found out. Those who lost can take their money back." Born and bred in the Catholic faith, Bonaparte had no preference for any dogma. When he re-established divine worship it was done as a political act, not as a religous one.
@freedumb2003 "The general public, are ignorant and meddlesome outsiders who must be put in their place. They are to be spectators of action not participants who must be regimented to abandon any ideas about controlling their own lives. Their task is to develop a philosophy of futility and to follow orders while focusing their attention on more superficial things which comprise much of fashionable consumption."
~ Walter Lippmann (Pioneer of Propaganda) (1922)
@freedumb2003 Your words speak the truth and is a shame that today, the present generation has not been able to be this creative musically. It´s all show and commercialism. Light effects but no real musical talent. Maybe some day, by listening to these great musicians like Winwood, Capaldi, Clapton, Lennon, McCaertney and so many more......they will learn.
"Winwood was 16/17 yrs. old when he wrote this. In those days, street slang for heroin was 'boy' and for cocaine was 'girl'. High heel boy refers to a mixture of heroin and coke, commonly called a speedball. The 'low spark' is a description of the physical feeling brought on by injecting the speedball. The man in the suit is the dealer, making profits on the dreams of his customers. The gun that didn't make any noise is simply a hypodermic syringe." (found this at song meanings)
Steve is Really ,playing above the bar here ,Showing some Super Piano creativiy ,Just a bit of what He's able to Deliver... God Rest Jim, But Not Forgotten..
I was turned on to this music around the age of 15. I put it in the group of great bands like Uriah Heep and Wishbone Ash, People don't seem to remember or appreciate these bands much anymore.
A couple of tokes was mellow. Today, a spark of crack is like a bullet to the brain. In the era of fusion/conceptual music, if you got it, you really got it. Today, what with the adrenilin rush needed from tattoo cosmetics and video games, your brains are too polluted to genuinely feel. Anything, probably.
I'm only 24, but I LOVE this song. I grew up on classic rock and this is just an example of how great some of the music was (and still is) back then. I personally love the fact that this video has 387 likes and 0 dislikes...love it
This was my favorite song for many years. The words, transitions, and beautiful melody is a musical trip. The "jam" .. up and coming rock musicians learned how to let it flow and improvise, something borrowed from jazz. Steve Winwood's voice and piano sound great!
Hey everybody...today is Steve Winwood's birthday. He turns 63 today. The guy was having hit records before he turned 18 in the Spencer Davis Group. Later famously sang with Traffic & Blind Faith. Excellent singer!!!
I'm 26 & still listen to the music of my parents generation, without a doubt the best damn music ever made. This music of the 60's 70's & 80's & some early 90's was on pure passion & Love for music...Now a days these fake ass artists are in it for money.
I'm 26 & still listen to the music of my parents generation, without a doubt the best damn music ever made. This music of the 60's 70's & 80's & some early 90's was on pure passion & Love for music...Now a days these fake ass artists are in it for money
Pauly, you said there was no classic rap. You didn't say there is no classic rap station). That's the charge I answered. But..why do you care anyway? You don't even like rap. So..why not just ignore it and enjoy your classic rock and all of those same tunes you've heard for a zillion times already? At this point in my life, I'm finished with that genre. I'd rather listen to nothing than to hear Slow Ride, take it easy one more time. Have you eve heard the term, Cultural Imperialism? Look it up.
Damn Stevie still has it. I was born in the mid 60s and grew up listening to my older sisters records and now I cannot believe how good the music was back then. I didn't think the music of my teens in the 80s was great but when I look back now its amazing stuff compared to what the music industry coughs up.
There already is classic rap and hip hop. I'd say 'get a clue' but you don't have to do you? There's more to the world than the Stones and Yes. And you can be stuck right there until the day you die without trying to put anything else down. I love this tune. But it ain't the only music in the world. I know that because I'm not a narrow minded suburbanite who thinks the world revolves around me.
@Dennisdread Dennis, as a long hall truck driver, I can tell you THERE IS NO CLASSIC RAP STATIONS IN AMERICA, none... d dd. If there was my wife would have found them, thank God she hasn't-cause she wont. And if you have a station where you are at it's a very low watt station... LONG LIVE CLASSIC ROCK AND ROLL!!!
@cindyraymon "If you love this music, you can't be old. Inside this groove and the like is the secret elixir of youth. That's what they we're all on about with this music. The Childe within juxtaposed against the Dark Machine which only hypnotizes us into compliance with ideas like Sameness and growing old. No matter how Oooold you are your still just a baby in the eyes of the universe. Sure the body eventually goes but your spirit, your perspective, your awe of it all, Will set you free.
@devilsmark My shoulder aches, my snowblower is on the fritz, I just lost a filling, and Stephanie, (well I will not go to that place here.) I ended up here today and found the salve that will no doubt sooth this old rocker for a time. Thank God, (or whatever) for the music. The music saved me more than a few times and it helps me from giving in and giving up. I have to believe that the music saved me from that year that Uncle Sam sent me for a vacation when I should have been at Woodstock.
Thanks for sharing this. Stevie Winwood is such a talented keyboardist and singer. It's amazing that he joined the Spencer Davis Group when he was 14.
Does anyone know where this video was filmed and when?
@gtmtnbiker Don't know where,but it's from a '94 reunion tour titled "One last Great Traffic Jam". There is a compilation DVD of the tour and among others contains John Barleycorn, Dear Mr. Fantasy, Feelin Allright, 40,000 Headmen & many other killer classics. Highly recommend.
Always loved this excellent tune, I remember Traffic, with Chris Wood, Jim Capaldi, Dave Mason and of course, Stevie Winwood... Thank you ,Thank you...
now this is music at its best and it still holds up to this generation There nothing out there to compare to Traffic ,I'm so happy that I grew up in this age of music.
one of the very best songs by a extremely geat band thaat i have been digging for almost 40 years now. Just damn great music!!!! i have never been able to forget this song and where i was when i first heard it.
Amazing composition! I remember hearing this as a kid. Not too many songs can I stand that last 10 minutes like this one. Timeless stuff right here. Kinda reminds me of some Steely Dan stuff.
Simply awesome !!! That's what I call real good music !!! Saw Steve Winwood a few days ago in Vienna doing that song, and since then I can't stop listening to the old traffic classics :)))
I don't care what anyone sez, The people who grew up to this type of music had the best music ever made. The bands from the 60's to the late 80's heard it all. This shit they play these days is a joke. Long live the memory of real rock!
@ProChat1 My friend, I totally agree. I went to high school in the 70s. I got totally high in the 80s. I grew up in the 90s and in the 00s I totally realized that pop music sucks. We need a new, new wave.
@ProChat1 lol.....your a loser then clearly you've never seen widespread panic....there cover of this song blows these chumps out of the water..... most shit from the 60's to the 80's is garbage with the exception of the dead and hendrix in my opinion.
I totally agree. I'm 52 years old and have always had an open mind about music of all types but this surpasses them all. I think it does so because it was new, raw and done for the pure love of the art. If I had a time machine this would be its fuel.
The best thing about this song is that it gives you wisdom. Let me explain. "The man in suit just bought a new car from the profits he made on your dreams." Be careful, the money whores will take advantage of you!
One of my top ten all time favorites. I can listen to it forever. Such talent and composition doesn't exist anymore. Where and when is this video from?
Jim Capaldi was ALL IN...
colefd 1 day ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Traffic
Had this on vinyl. The album cover had a strange cut in it which made it easy to find in the stack. Late nite in my room. Cheap dirt weed. Headphones. Ahhhh yes..........
mcaste58 1 week ago
Back in the 70's this song went great with Hawaiian and Miller beer.
robertbanks59 1 week ago
Thanks to the uploader for this video...like so many others, hearing this music this takes me back to a specific time and place. And also to a time when live performances we so much better than their recorded counterparts. Fantastic performance of a timeless song.
tphinsf 1 week ago
Riding around the English countryside in an 69MG-B blasting it High on Lebonese red hash wondreing if my draft number (91) would be called up or they would sign the Paris Peace Accord. Thank God they signed . Too many never came back .Lakenheath High School student, circa; 1972
thetomstricker 2 weeks ago
All I can say: This is my all time favorite song!!!! Traffic rocks hard. WInwood is an f'ing genius and the band mates filled in perfectly!
IHaveABrainofMyOwn 2 weeks ago
Memories of driving down the roads of the SFV, CA. or on the L.A. freeway and listening to my hot 57 Chevy engine and the great off the richter scale TRAFFIC."Spark of the High Heeled Boys" It twas on an 8 tract back then. Steve Windwood & Traffic you rock n rule. Jerome "Jerry" Plotnick Lake of the Woods, CA
jeromedoc4u 3 weeks ago
spectacular performance.
astraia1x 3 weeks ago
Timeless...
init4mojo 1 month ago
O.K. im gonna share this with y'all. i was @ my house in nashville tennessee. steve was married to my sister, they were in town for the weekend. he gave us (my wife and i) a personal concert in our upstairs semi-private, bar.
that was the first time my wife ever heard low spark, & cant find my way home...
imbueto 1 month ago
This is my favorite song by Traffic, and at the time it was produced, I was in love with Jim Capaldi. Thank you for downloading it.
SuperMcabral 1 month ago
eargasm:)
tibndin 1 month ago
This takes me way back. I can remember laying in the grass at night, far away in the back yard with the speakers in the windows of our house far off, playing this loud enough that you could be far away and hear it. The moon was out and four or five of us were laying there looking at the stars and listening to this while passing a nice big bottle of wine and "other" things around. I loved the early 70s, fun and no hassles from cops way out in the country. You could do almost anything you wanted.
artistkeith3 1 month ago 2
Steve Winwood.. ENDLESS TALENT!!
Karaokejr 2 months ago
Isn't it amazing, those of you who lived through this, how we took it all for granted back then!
Orb37 2 months ago in playlist a 2
@Orb37 . Born in the late 50's, raised on drugs and rock and roll since 10, been to prison 4 times in my life time. I sit here smoking medical pot enjoying whats left of my life. Im not sad about any of it. And my brother John O.D. at 39 and my sister Steff at 55. She felt it was time. Bummer, those 2 brought me into a new world, where pain from my dad(their stepdad) didnt seem as bad. what a bastard he was. see you guys one day
rbreton59 2 months ago
Had this on 8 track also, taped by a friend. Actually still have it. Waiting to give it back to him! Ha Ha Ha, this is a great great song.... My favorite college song!!! University of Pittsburgh!
mariadpinto 2 months ago
Still rocks its so many years later!
grandrapids 2 months ago
This should be the OWS PROTEST SONG!
They were decades ahead of themselves!
Orb37 2 months ago
I love this...play it all of the time
markgab 3 months ago
when did this concert happen?
roaringwaterbay 3 months ago
Saw Winwood in the 80's when he was on his own. Enjoyed every minute of the show. He and Traffic such a great combination of talent.
doghousemine 3 months ago
I haven't heard this in years good version reminds me of being stoned
cammingchevy 3 months ago 2
love this live version (most cuts rarely as good as studio)
robin56 3 months ago
There's nothing now out there like this..........NOTHING. Great tune. Everyone has a memory. Awesome. Love it.
UltraRareBreed 3 months ago
Nice to hear Winwood in his prime. I can't stomach that soulless, corporate pop crap he was doing in the 80's, like "Roll With It". Steve, what happened to you??
lennonzappa71 3 months ago
Poetry. Art. Talent. A true Masterpiece...
bearmassaro 3 months ago
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garylibra 3 months ago
Oh my...I remember this album playing...a sunny morning in Seattle, WA, circa 1973...and the psylocybin mushrooms were just beginning to take effect........WOW. And, LOL, I went home 12? hrs later, Mom and Stepdad are watching some silly ass sitcome...1973.....
What's wrong with you, Suzy? And I tried to tell them about the low spark of high heeled boys...really, I did. Hahahahaaaa. Yeah, they figured that one out..........
suzys11 3 months ago 2
listen to Michael Tsarion is the world premier conspiracy researcher/lecturer/author. Leo Zagami, Jordan Maxwell, Alexandre Dumas pere are highly informative as well. p.s. Melting Euphoria is similar to Ozric Tentacles and Gong.
augustmaquet 3 months ago
so iconic !!! truly up there writing and performing..NO 21st century so called rock band can touch this..ravel..the beatles...coltrane...eight miles high...low spark... modern day composers...we're waiting....
LanceHelmut 4 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Traffic
damn that is sexy
pduro830305 4 months ago
did anyone think that was as fucking amazing as anything u have ever seen? jesus.
flyvibe71 4 months ago
My parents had this album, always liked this song.
chrishirschfeld 4 months ago
hell i had this one must be one of the great ones
69thelegman 4 months ago
I loved Traffic. I still love Traffic. This is one of my favorite piano, drum and sax entourage I've ever heard.
SuperMcabral 4 months ago
Best era to live friends
58lechef 4 months ago
This is a really nice video - brings up some pleasant memories of my youth. I got to see them a few times in my life. Always a good show. I saw Traffic the last time they came through Memphis in 1994 and this looks like about the same time and tour. it was a really good show. I'm glad I got to see them one more time.
Ah but I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now.
Evelyn2ish 4 months ago
The only reason to like being 56.... is music like this.
opptynox 4 months ago
@opptynox 56 also. The experience of hearing this music when it came out, when it was the rhythm of the day & the sound of our experience, is something I would not trade to be 36 & have no idea what that was. This is seldom said, but if you consider both the rock music of the 60's through much of the 70's & the jazz of that era being created by Coltrane, Pharoah, Ornette, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, etc., it was an unprecedented outpouring of freedom, soul & expression not equaled before or since.
longtimegone55 4 months ago
I am SO thankful I was at just the right age to come into this music right when I hit high school. I saw and was part of the best music that ever happened (tips his hat to Mozart and Beethoven .... the hippies of those days had it good too), and man, they don't make it like this anymore.
dmstk8d 4 months ago
NOW THISSSSSSSSSSS IS WHAT REAL MUSIC ISS !!!!
laloca771 4 months ago
Alright, quit hogging all the hash, man. And go buy some more Doritos.
jerseytarzan2 4 months ago
jammin an smokin me a skinny cant tell you how many time's ive partied to this song but can tell you this will not be the last this is one of many great song's to come out this time period happy as hell i was there to hear this years ago
kick back relax enjoy smoke one if you hav it i am
oneeyedoldfatman 4 months ago
Nice when people come together in agreement ,well said all of you! Traffic will stand the test of Time! Look, it's still with all of you. Being 57 years old i have much pride in all the music in our era and it will never be duplicated!
greenwalt1954 4 months ago 3
I'd need a whole page to describe this...so I'll just say EXTREMELY EXCELLENT!
gudatine 4 months ago 2
fantastico, sempre e comunque.
diegoamos 5 months ago
Can't understand why everyone cannot see the mastery of this........
faradyeva 5 months ago 2
The latter 60s and early 70s were a truly magical time for rock weren't they? Some of the greatest talent rock has ever known came out of that era...Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, etc.
baarbear 5 months ago 2
Those darned plastic cups.
FlashYes1 5 months ago
Ultimate Awesome~
bjbhappy 5 months ago
@devilsmark right on. well said. sure has proven true in this life over and over
and traffic has had a significant part providing beauty, insight, and inspiration.
guyglowmore1 5 months ago
Fine, isn´t it?
mrjohn1964 5 months ago 2
I'm Re-borned when I listen to this song.... Amen.
ILOVESU2 5 months ago
great rock n roll anthem heard this first think in 75 my freshman year college been a good winwood fan since keep the young ones up on a great musisian songwriter
cutty25 6 months ago
If you just had a minute to breathe, and they granted you one final wish; would you ask for something like another chance?
MayadaJeffery 6 months ago
Gotta love this song. Puts a smile on my face!
panicfan86 6 months ago
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Peace 2 All!
menopausalguitarist 6 months ago
the elder statesman of rythme and blues, steve winwood.....one of the greatest, and my personal favorites, artist of all time....
johnnahodil 6 months ago
@johnnahodil ditto here John,... one of my fav's and I'm a Drummer,.... just plain f'n awesome!!!!
zephead2002 6 months ago
Had this on an 8-track player!! Long enough for several doobies ...
drak1956 6 months ago 8
@drak1956 ohhh yeah it was,.... 3 doobies at least!!!!
zephead2002 6 months ago
Badassery squared.
xHolyCrapx 6 months ago
Traffic, Toda una institución, lastima que ya no haya grupos como este. Steve único en su genero, les recomiendo la rola, Rock and roll Stew de traffic y rainmaker.
dionimike 7 months ago
Let's face facts: the "best" groups who came in existence since the 1990s can't even come close to this artistry.
These guys did instinctively what people spent their lives trying to come close to the shadow of. True Rock has already outlasted most forms of music (Classical variations didn't last that long except as oddities).
Grunge: crap. cRap/"hip hop": crap. New Wave: crap. Punk (and variants): crap. Look upon the face of Music and know you will never best it (or even come close).
freedumb2003 7 months ago 25
@freedumb2003 Yep, you sure got that right. You had to have talent to make it in the sixties and into the seventies. That is why it lives on and on.
triathlongeek 4 months ago
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@freedumb2003 "If we were merely dealing with the law of averages, half of the events affecting our nation's well-being should be good for America. If we were dealing with mere incompetence, our leaders should occasionally make a mistake in our favor. We . . . are not dealing with coincidence or stupidity, but with planning and brilliance."
-Gary Allen, from his book None Dare Call It Conspiracy
augustmaquet 3 months ago
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@freedumb2003 "The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monsterous he cannot believe it exists."-J. Edgar Hoover
"We shall have World Government whether or not you like it, by conquest or consent."-James Warburg(Council on Foreign Relations)
"No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the new age unless he will take a Luciferian initiation."-David Spangler(United Nations)
augustmaquet 3 months ago
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@freedumb2003 This passage is from The Companions of Jehu--page 396--"You are ninnies! I have cheated all the time we've been playing, and you never found out. Those who lost can take their money back." Born and bred in the Catholic faith, Bonaparte had no preference for any dogma. When he re-established divine worship it was done as a political act, not as a religous one.
augustmaquet 3 months ago
@freedumb2003 "The general public, are ignorant and meddlesome outsiders who must be put in their place. They are to be spectators of action not participants who must be regimented to abandon any ideas about controlling their own lives. Their task is to develop a philosophy of futility and to follow orders while focusing their attention on more superficial things which comprise much of fashionable consumption."
~ Walter Lippmann (Pioneer of Propaganda) (1922)
augustmaquet 3 months ago
@freedumb2003 Your words speak the truth and is a shame that today, the present generation has not been able to be this creative musically. It´s all show and commercialism. Light effects but no real musical talent. Maybe some day, by listening to these great musicians like Winwood, Capaldi, Clapton, Lennon, McCaertney and so many more......they will learn.
cupas51 2 months ago
@freedumb2003 Everyone needs to read what this man wrote. They are Words of Wisdom.
01circusboy 3 weeks ago
This song always reminds me of a long heroin trance.
pretorious700 7 months ago
Just wonderful ... replay .. thank you Stu R :)
gayecrispin 7 months ago
nice ! です.
maidoodesu 7 months ago
"Winwood was 16/17 yrs. old when he wrote this. In those days, street slang for heroin was 'boy' and for cocaine was 'girl'. High heel boy refers to a mixture of heroin and coke, commonly called a speedball. The 'low spark' is a description of the physical feeling brought on by injecting the speedball. The man in the suit is the dealer, making profits on the dreams of his customers. The gun that didn't make any noise is simply a hypodermic syringe." (found this at song meanings)
ModernSaxDotCom 7 months ago 2
Steve is Really ,playing above the bar here ,Showing some Super Piano creativiy ,Just a bit of what He's able to Deliver... God Rest Jim, But Not Forgotten..
DYNODRUM 7 months ago
lots of cars, and a few houses too, but now he's dead, oh well, at least he dressed well
buzzzzz69yyy 7 months ago
I was turned on to this music around the age of 15. I put it in the group of great bands like Uriah Heep and Wishbone Ash, People don't seem to remember or appreciate these bands much anymore.
janejane271 7 months ago
A couple of tokes was mellow. Today, a spark of crack is like a bullet to the brain. In the era of fusion/conceptual music, if you got it, you really got it. Today, what with the adrenilin rush needed from tattoo cosmetics and video games, your brains are too polluted to genuinely feel. Anything, probably.
TheRetrowax 7 months ago
I'm only 24, but I LOVE this song. I grew up on classic rock and this is just an example of how great some of the music was (and still is) back then. I personally love the fact that this video has 387 likes and 0 dislikes...love it
thedeprivedwriter 7 months ago
pep0le who knock this music just miss out but with thier mind set the only thing i can say is the would needs more dishwashers
bmoore591 7 months ago
Great song.
bluez4u2 7 months ago
Man, those were the days! I'd go back to this in a hot NY minute!! Loved it at 19 still do at 59!! Smokin' !!!!!!
Jymmisparkz 8 months ago 2
This was my favorite song for many years. The words, transitions, and beautiful melody is a musical trip. The "jam" .. up and coming rock musicians learned how to let it flow and improvise, something borrowed from jazz. Steve Winwood's voice and piano sound great!
MartinTaylorOlson 8 months ago
Hey everybody...today is Steve Winwood's birthday. He turns 63 today. The guy was having hit records before he turned 18 in the Spencer Davis Group. Later famously sang with Traffic & Blind Faith. Excellent singer!!!
stuntmanmikelives 8 months ago
KILLER!
chef4cook 8 months ago
ahhhh Real Music
AXISOFHENDRIX 8 months ago
You can get 'high' while listening this song, without even having to smoke a thing!
Chia6160 9 months ago
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You can get 'high' while listening this song, without even having to smoke a thing!
Chia6160 9 months ago
You can get 'high' while listening this song, without even having to smoke a thing!
Chia6160 9 months ago
If you can't play it live, its not music.
OdeToTristan 9 months ago 2
thanks, i just danced all over my kitchen
fragileindustries 9 months ago
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I'm 26 & still listen to the music of my parents generation, without a doubt the best damn music ever made. This music of the 60's 70's & 80's & some early 90's was on pure passion & Love for music...Now a days these fake ass artists are in it for money.
PureEXCELLANCE 9 months ago
I'm 26 & still listen to the music of my parents generation, without a doubt the best damn music ever made. This music of the 60's 70's & 80's & some early 90's was on pure passion & Love for music...Now a days these fake ass artists are in it for money
PureEXCELLANCE 9 months ago
long live "Rock".....
fredsikyta 9 months ago
The best ever....
zoharbl 9 months ago
Pauly, you said there was no classic rap. You didn't say there is no classic rap station). That's the charge I answered. But..why do you care anyway? You don't even like rap. So..why not just ignore it and enjoy your classic rock and all of those same tunes you've heard for a zillion times already? At this point in my life, I'm finished with that genre. I'd rather listen to nothing than to hear Slow Ride, take it easy one more time. Have you eve heard the term, Cultural Imperialism? Look it up.
Dennisdread 9 months ago
Damn Stevie still has it. I was born in the mid 60s and grew up listening to my older sisters records and now I cannot believe how good the music was back then. I didn't think the music of my teens in the 80s was great but when I look back now its amazing stuff compared to what the music industry coughs up.
epistte 10 months ago
the piano makes me smile and cry.. and all of the instruments and talent!!! wowow
rburgert2 10 months ago
...they call it Classic Rock for damn good reason, there will never be a classic hip hop or rap station, thank God...
paulypoo66 11 months ago 2
@paulypoo66
There already is classic rap and hip hop. I'd say 'get a clue' but you don't have to do you? There's more to the world than the Stones and Yes. And you can be stuck right there until the day you die without trying to put anything else down. I love this tune. But it ain't the only music in the world. I know that because I'm not a narrow minded suburbanite who thinks the world revolves around me.
Dennisdread 10 months ago
@Dennisdread Dennis, as a long hall truck driver, I can tell you THERE IS NO CLASSIC RAP STATIONS IN AMERICA, none... d dd. If there was my wife would have found them, thank God she hasn't-cause she wont. And if you have a station where you are at it's a very low watt station... LONG LIVE CLASSIC ROCK AND ROLL!!!
paulypoo66 9 months ago
Bad Ass!
CaptainTrips57 11 months ago
Excellent music to soothe the soul after a stressful day Regards from Tampico Mexico
Excelente musica para descansar el alma despues de un dia estresante.
dionimike 11 months ago
Is there any music today that compares to this? I think not!
majorfathead 1 year ago 2
Remembering Jim today: 2 August 1944 – 28 January 2005
rocktenniscat 1 year ago
This is music man, timeless, the guy is the Mozart of our time.
rcpubtree 1 year ago
Why is it, whenever I hear this song, I want to light one up! (back in the day...)
RobPaul96 1 year ago
This song is an icon of TRAFFIC excellent ¡¡¡¡¡ thanks for dowload this video.
dionimike 1 year ago
God I'm so old, and I still love this music
cindyraymon 1 year ago 3
@cindyraymon lol ....
whiteorchid02 1 year ago
@cindyraymon "If you love this music, you can't be old. Inside this groove and the like is the secret elixir of youth. That's what they we're all on about with this music. The Childe within juxtaposed against the Dark Machine which only hypnotizes us into compliance with ideas like Sameness and growing old. No matter how Oooold you are your still just a baby in the eyes of the universe. Sure the body eventually goes but your spirit, your perspective, your awe of it all, Will set you free.
devilsmark 1 year ago 30
@devilsmark My shoulder aches, my snowblower is on the fritz, I just lost a filling, and Stephanie, (well I will not go to that place here.) I ended up here today and found the salve that will no doubt sooth this old rocker for a time. Thank God, (or whatever) for the music. The music saved me more than a few times and it helps me from giving in and giving up. I have to believe that the music saved me from that year that Uncle Sam sent me for a vacation when I should have been at Woodstock.
454something 11 months ago
@devilsmark Very poetic. This is still a killer groove. Which is why I like it. Mellow, psychedelic. A few bong tokes.
jcell051 5 months ago
@devilsmark yeah baby, what u said!!
jwafterours 5 months ago
AWSOME!!!!!!! GREAT SAX SOLO. GREAT STEVE WINDWOOD VOICE
suckkysuckky 1 year ago 2
AWSOME!!!!!!!
suckkysuckky 1 year ago
awesome, Steve Winwood still producing amazing music today, new album 9 lives, excellent
waxeye55 1 year ago
did they edit out Chris Wood's solo???? booooo! hisssss!
yoursaxman 1 year ago
@yoursaxman This was after Chris died. Randall Bramblett plays sax on this tour.
maconsounds 1 year ago
No guitar- and still they rock!
yoursaxman 1 year ago
First time i listen this song... and i loved it, is perfect and sexy! :)
yiyomendez 1 year ago
Sublime perfection of music...
cindyrellawaiting 1 year ago
Esta cancion es lo maximo del rock de los 70's, un genio stevie winwood.
dionimike 1 year ago
I could think of at least twenty movies that this should have been a part of. Sopranos too.
dpman72 1 year ago
Thanks for sharing this. Stevie Winwood is such a talented keyboardist and singer. It's amazing that he joined the Spencer Davis Group when he was 14.
Does anyone know where this video was filmed and when?
gtmtnbiker 1 year ago
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SNOTSLINGER49 1 year ago
@gtmtnbiker Don't know where,but it's from a '94 reunion tour titled "One last Great Traffic Jam". There is a compilation DVD of the tour and among others contains John Barleycorn, Dear Mr. Fantasy, Feelin Allright, 40,000 Headmen & many other killer classics. Highly recommend.
SNOTSLINGER49 1 year ago
They're a legend
balzerbarn 1 year ago
Always loved this excellent tune, I remember Traffic, with Chris Wood, Jim Capaldi, Dave Mason and of course, Stevie Winwood... Thank you ,Thank you...
danzbmw 1 year ago
Just amazing! I was truly blessed to have been born in 1957 and grow up when music like this came forth.
kountryrocks 1 year ago
THIS is good music-- today??? shit mostly...
Greatshorts 1 year ago
One of the greatest 10 minutes of minutes of music, ever!
ertman110 1 year ago 2
a true classic !
patasche1 1 year ago
friggin awesome song
sundance4400 1 year ago
Best song... EVER!!
Pupstermum 1 year ago
now this is music at its best and it still holds up to this generation There nothing out there to compare to Traffic ,I'm so happy that I grew up in this age of music.
motormouth5751 1 year ago
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kristadarla 1 year ago
Love this - it was always one of my favorite songs and favorite bands.
Glofern 1 year ago
....and he originally recorded this at 17 years old,truly a genius!
rick10is 1 year ago
Steve Winwood...none better in Rock
annoyingu4fun 1 year ago
That is a saxophone right there
ReaLizZe7 1 year ago
I love Dave Mason and Jim Capaldi, was lucky enough to catch them together, what a great show...
Anni722 1 year ago
One among the best compositions of the era.
WebMichi 1 year ago
I first heard this when I was 18 (I'm now 53) and it threw me into a trance...incomparable!!!
ernieernie 1 year ago 37
@ernieernie yeah me tooo and I'm 48,.... great vibe here,... none better
zephead2002 6 months ago
one of the very best songs by a extremely geat band thaat i have been digging for almost 40 years now. Just damn great music!!!! i have never been able to forget this song and where i was when i first heard it.
cdm2581 1 year ago
one of the very best songs by a extremely geat band thaat i have been digging for almost 40 years now. Just damn great music!!!!
cdm2581 1 year ago
one of the very best songs by a extremely geat band thaat i have been digging for almost 40 years now.
cdm2581 1 year ago
Amazing composition! I remember hearing this as a kid. Not too many songs can I stand that last 10 minutes like this one. Timeless stuff right here. Kinda reminds me of some Steely Dan stuff.
peakrider74 1 year ago
ay igor take a few of these asperin ,call me in the morning ha ha
chuckewhitt 1 year ago
Simply awesome !!! That's what I call real good music !!! Saw Steve Winwood a few days ago in Vienna doing that song, and since then I can't stop listening to the old traffic classics :)))
kunstspione 1 year ago
wow oldies..haha
newfieblur 1 year ago
I don't care what anyone sez, The people who grew up to this type of music had the best music ever made. The bands from the 60's to the late 80's heard it all. This shit they play these days is a joke. Long live the memory of real rock!
ProChat1 1 year ago 59
@ProChat1 couldn't agree more !!!!
HauteMama84 1 year ago
@ProChat1 My friend, I totally agree. I went to high school in the 70s. I got totally high in the 80s. I grew up in the 90s and in the 00s I totally realized that pop music sucks. We need a new, new wave.
drobertfoster 1 year ago 2
@ProChat1 Amen Brother, Amen......
shaserv 11 months ago
@ProChat1 I agree. Who can come up with riffs like these anymore?
aggressor1573 11 months ago
@ProChat1 lol.....your a loser then clearly you've never seen widespread panic....there cover of this song blows these chumps out of the water..... most shit from the 60's to the 80's is garbage with the exception of the dead and hendrix in my opinion.
Mattyp1414 9 months ago
@ProChat1 You're right man, the good rock is done.
flaco046 8 months ago
@ProChat1
I totally agree. I'm 52 years old and have always had an open mind about music of all types but this surpasses them all. I think it does so because it was new, raw and done for the pure love of the art. If I had a time machine this would be its fuel.
dschwartzful 7 months ago 3
This is music ladies and gentleman. Lets be thankful at least we can scape to youtube and enjoy this music anytime they have crappy new music on TV.
gulfmar 1 year ago 4
@gulfmar Sounds like your looking in all the wrong places.
playschools 1 year ago
Such a wicked band !
Stevie Winwood rocks !
tonto4848 1 year ago 2
unreal...awesome...daaaaaaaamn
ssunshine808waikiki 1 year ago
Traffic - lead by Steve Winwood playing piano. Also Dave Mason and Jim Capaldi. Classic!
mnmrun4it 1 year ago
sick!
IgorDimitrienko 1 year ago
The best thing about this song is that it gives you wisdom. Let me explain. "The man in suit just bought a new car from the profits he made on your dreams." Be careful, the money whores will take advantage of you!
pal756 1 year ago 3
Listening to Wes Montgomery's "A day In The Life" and noticed the similarities to this song. Both songs are greatness!!
cmanceaux 1 year ago
One of my top ten all time favorites. I can listen to it forever. Such talent and composition doesn't exist anymore. Where and when is this video from?
cindyrellawaiting 1 year ago
Don't know who they are...but I like what I hear.
o0oLeighAnneo0o 1 year ago
Under exposed genius. Agree with bluestreakbuck.
ava610 1 year ago
Just Damn!!!!!!!!!!!
glen1720 1 year ago
This song is awesome, especially through my Bose speakers!
bradchaz 1 year ago
Absolutely effin fabulous. Then and now.
LittleWing53 1 year ago
Would ask for something like another chance?
joethepainter90 1 year ago