C&L's Late Nite Music Club Honoring Buddy Miles
Buddy Guy, Mary Had A Little Lamb. With Buddy Miles and Jack Bruce.
Rest in Peace. WaPo:
Drummer Buddy Miles died on Tuesday night.
I don't have any personal anecdotes about him and won't claim to be anything of an expert on his entire career, but I do know that "Band of Gypsys" has always been my favorite Jimi Hendrix album and Buddy Miles is a huge reason for that. Absolutely nothing against Hendrix's Experience cohorts Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell, but the manner in which Jimi was locked in with fellow Gypsys Billy Cox (bass) and Miles on the recording of that Jan. 1, 1970 show just floors me every time I listen. All of the mind-blowing guitar heroics are still there (especially on "Machine Gun"), but Cox and Miles were able to bring out a previously unheard hard-hitting funkiness from Hendrix.
quick note to whoever's encoding video...
it sounds like your getting leakage through the sound card at some point in the processing of your video. i can hear something else in the background, possibly a phone call. it's much too faint to hear what it is but there's something there. just a heads up.
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cheers to buddy, i'm gonna go dig up band of gypsys.
Mike Smith, from Dave Clark Five also passed away. He played keys.
Dave Clark Five - Because http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMpWzibdtj8
The Dave Clark Five- Glad All Over http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay0hGz7DFPI
ok....im getting to an age where too many people i grew up on are dying....this is no fun
band of gypsies....fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nil5Oa0j83o
Catch us if you can by Dave Clark Five http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uUtjrI9m0Q
Buddy was actually a bad ass mofo. Bad druggie too - After Hendrix died, he switched to guitar in tribute to Jimi, but he was no Jimi. I remember him playing in Seattle in 81 or so at a civilized club in the Roosevelt District. A housemate of mine was the booker of the club and he had horror stories every day about Buddy causing trouble. I think it was a four night stand, but he was fired after the 2nd night. Personally, I don't think that Buddy was that good of a drummer. He was all over the place.
Dave Clark Five - Bits and Pieces http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgRVO-uG_hE
Kulczyk @ 6:
Was that 'Teddy's on Roosevelt?'
Dave Clark 5 - Do You Love Me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3NxpiSKda4
oh,no.........not Buddy Miles.sigh.
Rest In Peace Buddy,you were right. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JiIFNNQsoY
Here is Buddy with the Electric flag!
Mike Bloomfield: Drinking Wine Live!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smRXnyUWktg
In regards to the '70 show, don't forget about "Who Knows" and "Stop". Prime examples of the funkiness mentioned in the text. What a great show. One of the all-time greatest. Wish I was alive then.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQMexxDze1Y&feature=related Buddy and Jimi...
pawn@14
I was a young teenager in the early 70's.Man O Man,aside from the Viet Nam war,and Nixon......it was a great time period.Especially for Music.
I actually found the 'who knows' at the fillmore, what a track.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7187251354376874904&q=jimi+hendr...
i have a few anecdotes...i cannot, however, share them with you... he was a good cat.
I have the Bell Bottom Blues -
Eric Clapton - (Live Version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3X1uNSku-I&feature=related
band of gypsies is like a cross between smokey robinson and eric clapton only better on both counts.
So sorry to hear Buddy passed away. I had no idea!! I have some rare tracks of a jam with Jimi, Buddy, John McLaughlin, and Dave Holland that are pretty sick. I bet that lineup would have recorded with Miles Davis within year if Jimi hadn't died....what a shame.
It was the Red Rose or something like that. It was at 64th and Roosevelt, a long time ago. I heard some really bad stories about Buddy when he was in Electric Flag. Hence why he wasn't in any bands for long. He did some time in San Quentin in the mid 80's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgNYXZL2fB4 .
Duanne Allman and Eric Clapton,Derek and the Dominos.........Anyday
damn.....Duane......
Darn. A thousand years ago I tried to attend a Buddy Miles concert but only got to stay until he'd gotten just a couple songs into the show. I had to pee really, really badly and there was not one single receptacle of any kind in the ladies room that wasn't being barfed into by women with rats nest hair and wide swaths of eyeliner blacking out their faces. The most amazing mass barf-in I have ever even heard about. Had to leave the venue to find relief and they wouldn't let me back in.
I am saddened to hear the news about Buddy.
I still have my old vinyl version of his classic solo record, "Expressway to your Skull"
and don't forget he was in what may have been the 1st "supergroup" The Electric Flag. (With Michael Bloomfield).
Buddy also made that classic record with Carlos Santana, "Buddy Miles and Carlos Santana Live."
RIP Buddy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4kdMn96lyg .
Buddy Miles and Randy Hansen..."I Don't Live Today"
R.I.P. Buddy.
gn all,be well.
Buddy Miles was going to pick-up Sam Lay's mantle as Chicago's greatest blues drummer. He was playing with Buddy Guy's band. Someone put Michael Bloomfield onto him. Mike and Nick Gravenites went to see him and immediately wanted him for a new band they were forming, the Electric Flag. Now, rhythm players did not make much money from the black band leaders, but white band leaders paid everyone union scale. So, Buddy packed up his drums and moved to the bay area. Rumor has it that Buddy Guy was so pissed off, he went on a vendetta for stealing his drummer. Buddy and Michael had completely different things they wanted to do with their music.
Michael always avoided the limelight and the fame. Buddy was just beginning his career. He wanted all of it. Buddy gives Michael credit for making him the musician he was to become.
I still keep the CD of the Fillmore show in my car. Machine Gun is the new national anthem for Iraq, complete with the guitar screaming, as if you were hearing the wails of the victims of our latest imperialist endeavor.
My other permanent CD in the car is the Santana collaboration from Diamond Head. The acoustics were terrible, but I cannot help myself. I wish they would re release that album with the echoes off the crater edited out. It really rocked.
"This is for all the soldiers fighting in Chicago and Milwaukee, oh yes and all the soldiers fighting in Vietnam."
Take a lesson people.
RIP Buddy. You and Jimi are jammin' once more. Now you can hit those high notes again.
To Sheryl I am sorry to hear that Buddy has passed on. Those jam sessions we had in Kens garage were the best here in Dallas. Buddy was a true mucian and showman. Take care Love always, Jerry P.
In 1979 or so Buddy walked out of a jewelry store in San Anselmo ca wearing an expensive bracelet he refused to return or pay. He was a thug at times. As for the Band of Gypsys being better than teh Jimi Hendrix Experience, bullshit.
Sorry you were 86'ed for #1 99 @ 25.
RIP Buddy Miles. Chgo blues still makes me homesick. Peace all.
I've read that Band of Gypsies was named in honor of Django Reinhart:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEzsPGHsi90&feature=related
Jimi Hendrix with Mitch Mitchell and Billy Cox was the most Vicious line-up ever!
Billy Cox and Jimi were always locked into each other...and with Mitch on drums...wow.
I only have one complaint about Buddy Miles (and apparently Jimi did too); that was his incessant scat singiing and stream of consciousness singing throughout the whole Band of Gypsies gigs. I could only listen to Machine Gun because it has the least of Buddy's yapping.
however, let it be said that Buddy knew how to throw down a groove....say, is that Jack Bruce on Bass?
yes, yes it is...perhaps I should read below the picture window.
..He played the shit out of the drumskins !
'Machine Gun' was/is STILL off the charts in my mind! I'll never forget hearing it for the first time during Nam...........blew me away.....................
Sorry to differ but...
Axis Bold As Love is way better.
I have a friend who was recording engineer on what I believe was Buddy's last project, here about four or five years ago. I never met him, but since this friend was also producer of my CD, I heard plenty of stories. It was an honor to have Buddy in and around the Dallas area these last few years.
Eric
"Sorry to differ but…
Axis Bold As Love is way better."
Hendrix definitely made some better (produced) albums than Band of Gypsies, and Axis was certainly one of them. I just cant' get into Axis as smoothly unless I'm tripping.
Why didn't you post something from his work with the California Raisins? Those cats could wail.
41 - OK, let's compromise. How 'bout Electric Ladyland?
But really, Little Wing, Castles Made of Sand, Bold as Love...only bad song on the album is the only song Noel Redding ever put on a Hendrix disc - Little Miss Strange. Of course that blowhard ended his days saying Hendrix sucked. When I go to England, I'm gonna drink me several pints of ale so I can piss on his grave real solemn like and all.
kindness @ 43:
I agree that Axis was Jimi's finest hour. There's a lot to be said for tight songwriting. "Experimental" too often serves as a synonym for "unfocused." (Although I also love Ladyland.)
I used to run the Fillmore East box office way back when. THE best night ever at the Fillmore was when the Buddy Miles Express was playing and, out of nowhere, Hendrix walked up to the stage and joined them. It was COSMIC!
43 - Sounds good to me. I would never get into a flame war over such great music. It's all good!
BTW, for the trivia buffs, do you know what the slow speaking dialogue is in the song "Third Stone From the Sun", from "Are You Experienced"?
46 - I believe they are simply playing the intro to the track and the communication between the kinky machine and starbase (I'm not listening to it, so I'm trying to remember what the mothership was called).
46 Che’s Lounge
"Starfleet to scoutship, please give your position, Over.
I'm in orbit around the third planet from the star called
the sun. Over.
You mean its the earth? Over.
Positive. It is known to have some form of intelligent
species. Over.
I think we should take a look.
Strange beautiful grass of green,
With your majestic silver seas
Your mysterious mountains I wish to see closer
May I land my kinky machine
Strange beautiful grass of green,
With your majestic silver seas
Your mysterious mountains I wish to see closer
May I land my kinky machine
Although your world wonders me,
With your majestic and superior cackling hen
Your people I do not understand,
So to you I shall put an end
And you'll
Never hear
Surf music again
Secret
Oh, secret
Oh
Shhhh... "
Well I was told by someone a long time ago, and we listened. If you play the original album at 78 rpm's, it is indeed some radio communication. We thought maybe it was two soldiers using a radio.
I'm rather dismayed by most of these posts looking at Buddy only through the prism of his work with Hendrix. As far as Buddy singing scat, if you don't like what Buddy did you don't know scat. One of the most powerful performances was on his live album and was called "The Segment". Putting that on with a good audio set-up is jawdropping. Buddy also did a great job on remakes of tunes like no other. Listening to his version of "Down by the River" performed live is a take way beyond where Neil Young lived. 300 pounds of shaking soul.
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