Chase "Open Up Wide" LIVE Japan 1972

"Open Up Wide" Chase-Live in Japan (2nd album Enea band) Trumpets: Bill Chase, Ted Piercefield, Allen Ware, Jerry Van Blair. Rythm section: Phil Porter (B3 organ), Gary Smith (drums), Dennis Keith Johnson (bass), Angel Sout (guitar).

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Music

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• Open
• Up
• Wide
• Japan
• 1972

[DennisKeithExp]

@cranbone06: Sorry, I don't have a clean copy of the Tonight Show perfromance. Ireall with I had the video!

[RubberJohnnyTheGreat]

Uploaded on my birthday... Hell yeah

[luridplanet]

THe bass part is pretty wild - good job

[chasefreak]

@WhatTheFlyinFudge As Chase is my all time fav; I must agree, however when MF was younger in the 1950-1961 time frame, b4 drugs and other things took ahold of him, he DID have amazing tone and control like what Chase had in the '70's, in fact the MF of that time is the MF that inspired Chase and you can hear a definate "closeness" though Bill had a bit more edge and "spin" on his sound. Bill was more musical than MF b/c not only did he play but wrote & arranged as well. 1 of a kind!

[WhatTheFlyinFudge]

Bill Chase had way better control, tone quality, and musicality than Maynard ever pretended to have. His solos fucking totally kicked ass.

He was a true artist, not a panderer to high school music programs.

[chasefreak]

@cranbone06 Sadly the video of the Tonight Show is lost forver. I do have an audio copy as well as the first 1/2 of the show at the Whiskey A Go-Go that same night. 8-9-71

[cranbone06]

Hey Dennis; it's been awhile since I've tried to find CHASE vids. There should be more! Thanks so much for this.

Question for you; you guys played the Tonight Show around this time and if memory serves, you played Open Up Wide right into Get It On. I seem to recall that you guys were extra burnin' that night (maybe 'cause Doc and the Tonight Show Orchestra were "just over there"?). Anyway, might you have it? It'd be great to see it.

Thanks for everything.

[urbantiki]

Dennis, this is wonderful of you to post all this. You can only guess at how many people your bass playing, along with Bill and the crew influenced in the past 40 years. The band was so obviously talented beyond mere mortals, but being able to watch these videos and see everyone work in such brilliant fashion just boggles the mind.

THANK YOU once again. You don't know what it means to those of us that would have given anything to be there and experience it.

[plastiqueadapte]

I know there are many talented trumpet players out there but to me Bill and Maynard are the " double high C's " of them all !

[chasefreak]

I have a cleaner copy. One day I might put up all the tunes from this beyond amazing concert. Note Bill's use of alternate fingerings in the opening statements, he had such control of his chops he could manipulate pitches using all kinds of weird valve combinations. He could hold a high G and then press all 3 valves down and lip up and down on the pitch. I've never seen anyone else do that.