View From The Bottom - Super Session

Produced by Bonnie Brooks. Harvey Brooks played Electric Bass on the classic 60s recording "Super Session" featuring Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield and Stephen Stills. In this edition of his "View from the Bottom," video blog, Harvey shares his memories of the session.

Video Podcast Production/Concept:
Bret Primack
http://www.jazzepk.com

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• Harvey Brooks
• Mike Bloomfield
• Nick Gravenites
• Barry Goldberg
• Buddy Miles
• Jimi Hendrix
• Janis Joplin
• Jim Morrison
• The Doors
• Bob Dylan
• Al Kooper
• Albert Grossman
• Peter Fonda
• Dennie Hopper
• Jack Nicholson
• Richie Havens
• Cass Elliot
• Grateful Dead
• Jefferson Airplane
• Eric Clapton
• Jack Bruce
• Ginger Baker
• Wilson Pickett
• Murray The K
• Billy MundiElectric Bass

[viewfromthebottom]

I had heard he drove a motorcycle into lake michegan and that was his ending but I don't really believe that. Great drummer!

[nixjag1]

Thanks from me, also. Super Session

will always be one of the greatest albums

that relatively few have heard. It's great to

hear from Harvey, but I also wonder

about the Stephen Still remark. Are we to

take it that Stills went on to be a major

chump, or did Harvey just use a bad

choice of words? As long as I've got

Super Session and A Long Time Comin'

in my cd collection, I'll be a happy man.

[viewfromthebottom]

Stephen is a fabulous singer-songwriter!

[makpjazz57]

Excellent video on the history of "Super Session," and great presentation. Great to have these mini-documentaries while the important people are still very much around and able to tell the stories. Thanks!

[recordguy4321]

Eddie Hoh and Harvey were a great rhythm section and were just as important to the overall sound as Kooper Bloomfield and Stills. Harveys tune is BEAUTIFUL. What a player.

[socrates1818]

Harvey, what was it like playing and hangin with Bloomfield. Esp the Flag days - how does he rank with all the other 'geniuses' you've worked with?

[socrates1818]

Great production of this record, who produced it?

[Jenscool]

Harv...when u got 2 go u got to go!!!

[nixjag1]

@EasyAce ... My comment wasn't meant as a slam. I bought the lp, the 8 track, and two cds. It may very well have sold a million, but I bought it in September '68 out of a K-Mart cut-out bin for $1.79. Thru the years I've had to tell people about it in an effort to get them to purchase it. What we didn't need on the last reissue were alternate cuts of two tunes. Kooper did us a disservice. Or are we to

assume there were no other cuts left to add to the cd?

[EasyAce]

@nixjag1 " . . . that relatively few have ever heard . . . ?" That album was a million-seller back in the year. And it still sells whenever a remaster is issued.

[13loomisst]

Very enjoyable. Thanks very much.

[tomthefunky]

Bloomfield split because he couldn't find any smack around. I think he took off back to Chicago just to find some.

[kevland1]

What a great find. Thanx Brooks's. My favorite album of the 60's.