The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper

     Recorded live at Bill Grahams Filmore,s Auditorium,San Fransisco.Sept 26/27/28 1968

                                    Remembering Mike Bloomfield

                                  July 28, 1943 – February 15, 1981

1. "Opening Speech" (Mike Bloomfield) 

                    "One-two..Uh, listen here now, here's what...here's where it's at, this is the thing of this gig and here's...I'll tell ya 'bout it now. Uh, awhile ago my friend Alan Kooper called me on the phone and said "Let's make this gig, an LP in Los Angeles, and we'll jam together and we'll see what will happen. .            

                                          I Wonder Who (R.Charles) vocals Mike Bloomfield

..... now we played once togheter once on the LP session,that was the one time and the whe practiced togheter three days,the four of us ,thats John Khan on drums ,and Skip Prokop on bass,and Alan and i jammed  with John e few times,never with Skip.But i want you to now like this i the true of where we,re playing See!!Now you knowwhere it,s at. OK (LP inlay)
Mike Bloomfield
September 26, 1968

                        Don,t Throw Your Love On Me So Strong (Albert King) vocals Mike Bloomfield

Michael makes his singing debut on this album.The highlight of this coming out is Albert King,s song "Don,t Throw Your Love On Me So Strong" where he displays consummates homage to the traditional guitar/voice trade offs.A lesson in prhasing and understanding....
Al Kooper

                                                John Kahn (drums)

                                                   Skip Prokop(bass)

The audience,as Michael promised was warm and exquisite and they are just a part of this album as we are.I hope you enjoy this one and a half houre of free,ssoaring music.Michael and i believe it is some of our best playing to date.
Al Kooper

Remembering Mike Bloomfield, who died February 15, 1981 at 37.

Mike Bloomfield & Friends - Blues on a Westside (Filmore West 1969) by Aart Van Hoften on Mixcloud

Michael Bloomfield - Gonna Need Somebody On My Bond

 

Michael Bloomfield (1943-1981), an American musician, guitarist, and composer, born in Chicago, Illinois, became one of the first popular music superstars of the 1960's to earn his reputation entirely on his instrumental prowess. Respected for his fluid guitar playing, Bloomfield, who knew and played with many of Chicago's blues legends even before he achieved his own fame, was one of the primary influences on the mid-to-late 1960's revival of classic Chicago and other styles of blues music. In 2003 he was also also ranked at number 22 on Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".

"You'll Need Somebody on Your Bond" (later titled "You're Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond") is a gospel song that is attributed to both tradition and to gospel blues musician Blind Willie Johnson. Johnson first recorded the song in December 1930, although Delta blues musician Charley Patton recorded a similar "You're Gonna Need Somebody When You Die" in October 1929. Over the years, several other musicians have recorded renditions of the song.

On February 15, 1981, Michael Bloomfield’s body was discovered in a parked car on a San Francisco side street. The 37-year-old Jewish blues guitar player, one of the most influential of the 1960s, was dead of a drug overdose. The body lay, unrecognized, in the morgue for days.

Mike Bloomfield & Friends - Fillmore West 1969

                                           It’s About Time

Live at the Fillmore West (Opening act for Chuck Berry). February 1, 1969.

 Lineup:
Mike Bloomfield - guitar, vocals
Nick Gravenites - guitar, vocals
Mark Naftalin - piano
Ira Kamin - organ
John Kahn - bass
Cornelius “Snooky” Flowers - baritone sax
Gerald Oshita - baritone sax
John Wilmeth - trumpet
Noel Jewkes - tenor sax
Dino Andino - congas
Bob Jones - drums

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The Rolling Stone Intervieuw with Mike Bloomfield
 http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-rolling-stone-interview-mike-bloomfield-part-1-19680406?page=4

                       Michael Bernard "Mike" Bloomfield (July 28, 1943 – February 15, 1981)