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Mike Bloomfield was to a certain extent the American Eric Clapton – a skinny white kid whose grasp of the blues feeling and technique suggested a deep emotional connection with the form.
Mike Bloomfield was to a certain extent the American Eric Clapton – a skinny white kid whose grasp of the blues feeling and technique suggested a deep emotional connection with the form.
give the drummer some. r.i.p. Buddy Miles Memorial posts seem to come in pairs. Two years ago I did a Ray Baretto memorial piece on the heals of Dilla tribute . Then Billy Preston died less than two weeks after we lost Desmond Dekker . And late last summer Max Roach passed within a week or so of Hilly Kristal's death (then Joe Zawinul died just a few weeks after that). And it's happened again. Teo...
Best known as the drummer with Band of Gypsys, the short-lived group put together by Jimi Hendrix at the end of 1969, Buddy Miles contributed two compositions – "We Gotta Live Together" and "Them Changes" – to the eponymous live album they released in 1970.
From buddymiles.com : George Allen "Buddy" Miles passed away late last night in Austin, Texas after a long fight with congestive heart disease. Born in Omaha in 1947, Buddy was a child prodigy, initially playing drums with his father George,Sr .'s band The Bebops . His nickname – given to him by his aunt - came from his tremendous love for his idol, Buddy Rich (they once played on stage together)....
It was after one such gig in Brooklyn in 1967 that he was approached by the guitarist Mike Bloomfield, who had just left the Butterfield Blues Band. Bloomfield explained his vision to form a new kind of group that played what he called “American music” , fusing blues, jazz, rock, soul, gospel and even country. With Barry Goldberg on keyboards, Harvey Brooks on bass and singer Nick Gravenites completing...
Buddy Miles looking BAAAADAAAASSSSSS! “ Listen - Buddy Miles - Dreams - MP3″ “ Listen - Buddy Miles - Down By the River - MP3″ “ Listen - Ramsey Lewis - Them Changes - MP3″ Greetings all. I come to a little early with my end of the week post as the bearer of sad news. The great drummer/vocalist/songwriter Buddy Miles has passed away at the age of 60. I don't know if there was something ominous in...
Drummer Buddy Miles, who played with Jimi Hendrix in his short-lived group, Band of Gypsys, died at his home in Austin, Texas Tuesday, his publicist said.
Buddy Miles looking BAAAADAAAASSSSSS! “Listen - Buddy Miles - Dreams - MP3″ “Listen - Buddy Miles - Down By the River - MP3″ “Listen - Ramsey Lewis - Them Changes - MP3″ Greetings all. Greetings all. I come to a little early with my end of the week post as the bearer of sad news. The great drummer/vocalist/songwriter [...]
Sorry about the Tolstoy copy and paste.He was very influnetial, and anybody that can keep company with John McLaughlin, is pretty amazing.==============================Buddy Miles Biography:Best known as the drummer in Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys, Buddy Miles also had a lengthy solo career that drew from rock, blues, soul, and funk in varying combinations. Born George Miles in Omaha, NE, on September...
Under the general category of what might have been, I offer a clip from the debut performance of the Electric Flag at the 1967 Monterey Popr Festival. The group grew out of another fanstastic band that died too soon, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. The Flag was the project of lead guitarist Mike Bloomfield who brought along singer Nick Gravenites. The original cast(with Bloomfield who was one of the...
It's not even summer yet and I've already begun to tire of mention of the term "Summer of Love". The early adopters of the counterculture movement seemed to have decided that the folks that invaded Haight-Asbury, in the words of the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir on CBS News, "just didn't get it." But I'll admit that there's one thing that largely endured: the music. Here's a list of all the bands that played...
