Traffic - Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys Pt 1

Classic rock performance live at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in 1972. I have the entire DVD but this song still stands out after all these years. I wonder how many of you know who (or what) Winwood is refering to in this song?

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• traffic
• winwood
• low
• spark
• of
• high
• heeled
• boys

[boatman1953]

Thanks for all the nice replies. I wonder if you folks know that YouTube vids are downloadable. Since I can't post a link you'll have to google the term "youtube downloader". It's free and it converts the flv files to avi. I usually use a third party software (magic video converter) to change the avi files to mpeg. Check it out.

[6superb9]

God......where else can you find tons of old videos like this...but YouTube. I have a newfound respect for this site since I have found so many long lost musical memories! I can spend hours watching /hearing videos from the 60's 70's '80's. This place is turning into a music video archive!!!

[boatman1953]

@6superb9 I thought I'd never see some of the vids again from my younger days. YouTube is great and the vids are downloadable. See my post above.

[chrisart7]

I always thought the instrumental finale of the Beatles' song "Magical Mystery Tour" sounding very similar to this tune, particularly at the 3:20 mark in this video. Such would make an interesting segue.

Jim Capaldi and actor Michael J. Pollard were on holidays in Morocco, and Pollard wrote the phrase "the low spark of high heeled boys" in Capaldi's journal, signifying the intensity (low spark) of an angry young man; the high heels only refer to hippie era fashion.

[boatman1953]

@chrisart7 I've read the same thing somewhere.

[RKR1919]

I love music, it makes me feel good. No one really knows what the lyrics mean except for the person(s) who wrote them. We all have are own perception of what it means. If you think of just one part of the song, such as "If you had just a minute to breath, and they granted you one final wish, would ask for something like another chance? To me, this is what the song is all about;another way to change what happens in our lives!I would wish to God he wouldn't have taken my son, but taken me instead.

[zorrogash]

GET DOWN <<REBOP..!!

[marcfedak]

Awesome atmospheric groove. I love the octave bass line and sympathetic drums. And of course Steve Winwood's bluesy piano playing and singing.

[lexo30]

@busterbone If passing a urine test was a prerequisite for being allowed to record, most of jazz between 1918 and 1980 or so would never have been recorded at all.

[Macabeem1]

Great, but so blows it cuts off:(

[BARBIEUNCOVERED]

When we hit "play" to this song back at Auburn in '74, the ladies were definitely in the house. Excellent relaxing sensual mood music. Those girls didn't stand a chance of keeping their panties on thanks to Winwood and company. lol Never gave a shit what the song was about back then. Interesting to consider now, though. Thanks for the video!