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Mike Bloomfield

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Posted on August 31, 2015 at 08:44:15
Hornlover
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 These posts about great bands that used to play around the bay area had me thinking of all the great music I have seen and heard back in those days, and I remembered seeing Mike Bloomfield a handful of times in the mid to late 70's playing in smallish clubs in the south bay. He was very talented, and a very nice guy. You could sit at a table only feet from the musicians. He used a small Fender TV front tweed amp then, and miked it through the club system. Alas, found dead in his car from an overdose. Such a waste...

 

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RE: Mike Bloomfield, posted on August 31, 2015 at 10:00:34
mkuller
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 ...one of my favorites is "Super Session".

And he had some great blues albums.

 

The first blast of MB's axe, posted on August 31, 2015 at 12:25:37
LWR
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 when Butterfield's Blues Band hit San Francisco's psychedelic music scene in late 1965 (I'm pretty sure) and went straight into Born in Chicago my skin became chicken skin and my hair stood on end and wiggled. It was one of the most electrifying things I had ever heard/seen. Bloomfield & Elvin Bishop trading hot runs and echoing one another, Paul just killing us with his harp and Mark Naftalin on organ, holy smokes, it stunned SF and the city pulled the band to it's chest and made them their own...
Sadly heroin took Mike & Paul (age 44)
Elvin & Mark still in the Bay area and making people's asses shake...
Saw a jam session once with Mike & Steve Stills that Super Session evolved later on from...one of those spontaneous late night events that just sort of came about, I cannot remember where it was or who else was there that night/morning, but it was enough to make you a believer...

 

RE: Mike Bloomfield, posted on August 31, 2015 at 14:54:33
Fat Point Jack
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 Saturday afternoon, I finally unloaded the bag of music video's at the beach house and when I got to the Joe Cocker,"Mad Dogs and Englishmen", I said to the wife that the record was so much better. She asked where I got the record, I said that I recorded it from a friend's collection. I then added that I also got the Super Session with Stills from him. I then said that it completed the Super Session collection. I got the "Live" one from the Columbia Record Club many years ago and the Shruggy Otis one from her. She said it wasn't mine. it must have been Leland's.

A bad way to go.

All 3 will be featured in the house in the coming days.

 

The Electric Flag!!!, posted on August 31, 2015 at 15:10:31
dwill123
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RE: Mike Bloomfield & the Electric Flag, posted on September 2, 2015 at 05:29:41
magicsam
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 I remember my friends and I seeing the Flag at the Trauma(great club) in Philly in the late 60's. Mike B. and the show were superb! Great sounding horn section. Buddy told me that night that he was looking to put together a more funky band which I guess was the Express.

 

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