The Blues Project - Flute Thing

The Blues Project play Flute Thing

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[macfatty]

I'm curious when this was recorded. I thought Steve Katz left the band at the same time as Al Kooper to form BS&T. If memory serves me correctly, Andy Kuhlberg later joined Seatrain and would play this in concert.

[soundslike1967]

It's from a DVD 'The Steve Paul Scene, New York, September 1967'. Also has 'Wake Me Shake Me' & 'Steve's Song' on it. A quick search took me to a page which says "VIDEO SESSION: September 4, 1967 Steve Paul's The Scene TV show (Al Kooper not in this, so probably recorded between May - June 1967)". The same page shows that Al Kooper was replaced by John Duffy May 1967 to July 1967 and returned August 1967 to September 1967 before leaving again to form BS&T.

[soundslike1967]

The web page is chromeoxide . com / bluesp

[luviananna]

I got the album "Projections" in early '67, what an underrated band! Couldn't fit Flute Thing in a 3 minute time frame I guess.

[NevrSURRENDER]

First time I saw them on TV was some classical show trying to attract younger audiences to classical music. I think it was Leonard Bernstein hosting. It also featured the New York Rock and Roll Ensemble and The Nice (playing Dylan's Country Pie, so it had to be '69 or later.)

[tobywinter1]

Wow. How great it would be without the narraction.

[TimBirkenholz]

@calypsobomber hippies ftw

[pgrabar]

@ParhelicTriangle - A lot of times it's more than snippets. Where would the samplers be without the original music they were "sampling"?

[ParhelicTriangle]

@pgrabar Sampling is about recontextualising snippets of sound and goes back to at least the days of musique concrete and splicing of reel to reel tape in the 1940s and 1950s.

[pgrabar]

@djmadmaxwallace - Sampled meaning swiped.

[lbrand122]

This song is from the album Projections and Al Kooper was still a member of the group. In this live version he is not present.

[Weatherman66]

The first time I heard the Blues Project was in 1967. A friend from New Orleans turned me on to them. There was no genre that described their music at that time... they were what we.... that is, the group of musicians I knew called 'non commercial'; it was done for art's sake in that it was definitely not main stream. I knew then that they were 20 years ahead of their time. Looking back it was more like they were 40 years ahead of their time. Smooth jazz? Cool jazz? They arrived 40 years early.

[kburty]

The Bach and Rock show on WNET was amazing. Haven't seen any youtube postings to date. As a 15-yr old guitar player, it totally changed my direction from playing pop tunes to really trying to dig into the music. Been at it ever since! Thank you guys!