PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND "MYSTERY TRAIN" LIVE

PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND REUNION CONCERT GREEK THEATER 1978
MIKE BLOOMFIELD-SLIDE GUITAR
PAUL BUTTERFIELD-VICALS/HARMONICA
ELVIN BISHOP-GUITAR
MARK NAFTALIN-KEYBOARDS
SAM LAY-DRUMS
JELLY ROLL TROY-BASS

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Music

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• MIKE
• BLOOMFIELD
• PAUL
• BUTTERFIELD
• BLUES
• BAND
• LIVE
• NAFTALIN
• BISHOP
• LAY
• 1978

[moonrunner1972]

This is a great song, thanks for adding it. Does anyone know where I can find this version on MP3? Thanks again.

[ZINEDINE05]

it's a bootleg i stumbled across on ebay a few years ago.

[BettyByte]

Who was programming the Greek Theatre in those days? Some amazing things went down there.

[ZINEDINE05]

I believe it was Chet Helms.

[97531pqzm]

yeah!

[ZINEDINE05]

considering they hadnt played together in 12 years i think its a dam good performance too.definitely one of the highlights of this show.

[jfp718]

I want to cry when I realize that Paul and Mike are both dead. They didn't deserve such a short time here. All the really good musicians are dead from the 60's & 70's. Have been a Paul Butterfield and Mike Bloomfield fan since 1973. I was 14 listening to my older brothers records and found them. Never ever forgot them. It's been over 36 years and counting. 36 years of wonderful music. Miss you guys forever. Jean Jeanie

[Vodichka9]

This band was the most exciting band of the mid-60s! A shame that 2 enormously talented men died under similar circumstances (I think Bloomfield was gone within a year or so of this performance). Butterfield has been my favorite singer since his first album came out in 65. As for Mike Bloomfield, I think his playing on the the first 2 Butterfield Blues Band remains fresh, energetic and just great to listen to.

[DaleKingHarp]

The paul Butterfield band was one of my greatest influences in the late 60's earls 70's I love Pauls Harmonica Playing and he more or less taught me how to play Harp allthough we never met. Check out my version of Mystery Train in 82 on you tube Dale King

[SUNNYRHOADES9]

It's so sad that Michael Bloomfield left us so soon great talent same with paul butterfiel thank you for leaving us some great classic music Merry Christmas .

[theoriginalbillholt]

@Ishmael932 I entered kindergarten two weeks after Woodstock, so I was a bit young to catch these cool shows. It's great to see the passion people have for them. I kind of helped steer my nephew 'in the right direction' a few years ago, and at 21, he has a wonderful appreciation of music that preceded all of what is typical fare for the majority of his generation. He knows more about Elvis and Sinatra than I do, and he genuinely digs the old stuff -- a lot of Blues, too. Memphis was killer.

[theoriginalbillholt]

How cool is it that he introduces and invites "a friend of the band", Maria Muldauer? Plus there's Elvin Bishop, before he 'fooled around and fell in love'. I never knew much about Paul and the band. I'm just getting back into harmonica since dabbling with it as a kid, and his name comes up in talk among harp players I've heard online. Nice version of Mystery Train, but Elvis's still has something to it that can't be topped. Maybe that's at least partly because it's a studio take. Enjoy it all!

[rambleonros]

anybody got the song it all comes back?

[vfondrk]

I was there! Mosty shitty concert.

[johnnyguitarknox50]

in '66,67 four guitars were there for us. mike, eric, jimi, &jeff. i enjoyed each of them,however, mike bloomfield is where my tastes ran !at 17 his picture was in my wallet . i was happy when he got "over" his substance problems &insomnia.his playing was back in a better place !not, elvis as all time best on that song ,to me, jr.parker. somebody help me call it . pat hare or matt's older sib floyd "guitar" murphy

[Syzygy60]

never knew anything about them and I know almost everything as far as humans are concern,that includes Euclid and Plato and the Fabulous Poodles

[af4k]

Ya gotta hear Danny Gatton do this song!

[af4k]

Ya gotta hear Danny Gatton do this song!