Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield - Fillmore East: The Lost Concert Tapes 12-13-68
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Artist: Al Kooper, Mike BloomfieldEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-02-01
Music Label: Sbme Special Mkts.
Soundtracks:
- Introductions
- One Way Out
- Mike Bloomfield's Introduction of Johnny Winter
- It's My Own Fault
- 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
- (Please) Tell Me Partner
- That's All Right Mama
- Together Till the End of Time
- Don't Throw Your Love on Me So Strong
- Season of the Witch
Music reviews of Fillmore East: The Lost Concert Tapes 12-13-68
Music Review: Winter's Coming Out Party; Bloomfield's Confirmation Party
Rating: 3 Stars
For Johnny Winter's coming out party---his guest turn singing and (especially) playing "It's My Own Fault," the B.B. King chestnut, at Mike Bloomfield's invitation for this Fillmore East performance, and with a pocketful of Columbia Records personnel in attendance, is nothing short of incendiary---it would have been worth the price. From this night did Winter land a then-record advance along with a Columbia Records deal, and he deserved it after all those years since mid-teenhood slogging around Texas and the Midwest/South and being dragooned into recording a bucketful of (and he'll tell you as much, too) forgettable singles.
For Mike Bloomfield, this set's unearthing after decades of storage with (seemingly) no place to go simply confirms him at the top of his game while playing in the atmosphere he liked best at the time, loose and among friends, allowed to play his blues the way he felt them, and if you're not necessarily impressed by his singing, well, you're not alone---as a singer, he was a titanic blues guitarist. And he could (and does here) turn even the least bluesy material into the blues whenever he takes his solo turns, and even when he's laying back improvising accompaniments.
All that said, Al Kooper wasn't kidding when he wrote in the booklet of this grouping's tentative rehearsals and drummer John Cresci's difficulties with the slow blues. It takes the full grouping a good while to find each other musically; this isn't exactly as well-timed as the Kooper-Bloomfield-John Kahn-Skip Prokop ensemble of "The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper." And poor Cresci, who acquits himself decently enough in the easy-rocking set opener, Sonny Boy Williamson's "One Way Out," nearly assassinates "It's My Own Fault" before Johnny Winter came forward gamely to try yanking the number back to where it belonged; by the time Cresci figures out where he's supposed to be, you can almost feel bassist Jerry Jemmott (who was about to join B.B. King for the landmark "Completely Well") wanting to wrap his bass around Cresci's neck while Winter, perhaps sensing that he's just survived a trainwreck that barely missed happening, lures Bloomfield forward for a solo and urges his mentor forth with a little quick-thinking harmonising, Bloomfield wisely declining to try playing "can you top this" with Winter and delivering a textbook exercise in blues melodiousness to which you can be sure Winter was listening very attentively.
And there are moments enough where you believe this set does belong astride the superior "Live Adventures," particularly when the gathering shifts further into blues gear---ignore Bloomfield's very modest singing and "Please Tell Me, Partner" is just plain good blues. The second true surprise is a Bloomfield-Kooper take of Donovan's "Season of the Witch" that makes you lament Bloomfield's insomnia took him out of the "Super Session" sessions in favour of Stephen Stills's noodling wah-wah for that selection. By now Jemmott has yanked Cresci completely enough into the right grooves; Kooper as usual is thinking as much like a horn section as a keyboardsman with his between giddy and professorial organ playing, and keep an ear cocked toward pianist Paul Harris, who may have been the unsung hero of the evenings for knitting the players together subtly enough.
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Description of Fillmore East: The Lost Concert Tapes 12-13-68
The complete smash album featuring Kooper, Stills and Bloomfield at Fillmore East December 13th, 1968, here reissued & remastered with liner notes by Al Kooper. Columbia/Legacy. 2003.The live attempts at recreating the seminal jam chemistry of Super Session were hit-and-miss affairs, and this one, previously unreleased, has its fair share of off-key and off-target tunes. The rhythm section is erratic, the repertoire--ranging from Simon & Garfunkel's "59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" to an Elvis-flavored "That's All Right Mama"--is a bit odd, and co-leader Al Kooper is competent but rarely inspired. Guitarist Michael Bloomfield, however, is uniformly brilliant and his graceful blues virtuosity is by itself well worth the price of admission. Bloomfield and the group are joined on B.B. King's "It's My Own Fault" by a then-unknown Johnny Winter and things get really interesting. For nearly 11 minutes Winter and Bloomfield dive deep into the blues with Winter astounding the audience with his vocals and lightning licks on a song that had long been a staple of his live shows in Texas. The remainder of the album lacks similar energy and excitement, but Bloomfield's guitar work keeps it listenable. Overall, The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield & Al Kooper, recorded several months earlier, provides a better look at the band's concert sound but it does so without Winter. --Michael Point
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