The Electric Flag ~ Groovin Is Easy

Song 2 from the album "A Long Time Comin" (1968) Nick Gravenites vocals, guitar
Mike Bloomfield guitar, vocals
Buddy Miles drums, vocals
Barry Goldberg keyboards
Harvey Brooks bass
Nick Gravenites vocals, guitar

others: Herbie Rich - organ, baritone saxophone, guitar, vocals
Michael Fonfara - Keyboards
Marcus Doubleday - trumpet
Peter Strazza - tenor saxophone
Stemsy Hunter - alto saxophone

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Electric
• Flag
• blues
• soul

[Fladavenue]

Check out Mama Cass at the end.

[NoRosesForMe]

@Fladavenue I think she sings some back up throughout the song.. But yea...shes awesome as ever...doesnt matter what she sings hehe! I love her. She was really amazing. Thank you for listening. PEACE & best to ya. ♥ xx

[revbil]

ThreeRosesForYou!!!

thank you....

[NoRosesForMe]

@revbil Awwww youre so welcome ande thank YOU too!

[Bluesdirections]

Thank you for posting this. I had this album back in the early Seventies and played it to death. I loved this song. My younger brother is a dead ringer for Buddy Miles.

[NoRosesForMe]

@Bluesdirections youre very welcome ! So glad you enjoy it. ...and your brother sounds like a really cool fella. Peace and best to you.

[roby62gtr]

Very great song and tons of feeling.

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[yidan1244]

Great song and a very underrated band. Remember playing this on vinyl that I still have. My older brother bought it and the other San Fran bands. Classic stuff, thanks for posting

[SweetJaneofGoth]

Like my grandpap says - "I give this song a grade of C"

[ocnarfeara]

Thanks for uploading this song. Added to my fav. I have a copy of this recording I found in the web years ago but the sound quality is poor. Your audio copy is excelent. I only missed the credits to Mama Cass on the background vocals:) Mike Bloomfield was her favorite blues guitar player.She commented on a Rolling Stone interview she was thinking in inviting Mike to join a band she was putting together for her solo career debut at Caeser's Palace.I'm not sure if that ever happened.

[czech698]

gatopfuelsaver

[leopoldomarcialochoa]

please post it the lyrics

[Lengo67]

BUDDY MILES WAS IN THIS BAND?? I didn't know that. Well, now I do. Thanks for this info!

You oughtta check out Buddy Miles' "Drum Thing". Is super! This man can play!

[timinsaneous]

Bloomfield was a fantastic and giving musician. He and those like him are very hard to come by this day and age. God Bless his memory and the music he helped create through his endeavors.

[leegenix]

@rtvguy

After they broke up, Buddy Miles formed The Buddy Miles Express. After that, the Loading Zone, which later was the foundation for Tower Of Power. Both Bloomfield and Nick Gravenites discovered new talent. NIck discovered Janis Joplin. Wrote the song, "Get Together" for the Youngbloods. I miss Mike. My brother got to sit in with him a few months before he died. He said Bloomfield was a genius and had an easy layback personality. I learned music training from this album. RIP Michael B.

[Adler315]

Saw The Electric Flag at the Trauma on Arch Street when I was just a kid in high school [my first experience seeing a great American band at that level of professionalism, and I was as pure as the driven snow]: Mike Bloomfield, Buddy Miles, Harvey Brooks, Nick Gravenites, Peter Strazza, Barry Goldberg, Stemzie Hunter, Herbie Rich, Marcus Doubleday, et al.: the full enchilada. Stood 4 feet from Mike, my tongue hanging out of my head, as he made that Les Paul scream. Good God . . .