Eric Burdon - Then and Now

                        Eric Victor Burdon (born 11 May 1941) is an English singer and songwriter. He was previously the lead vocalist of the R&B and rock band the Animals and the funk band He is regarded as one of the British Invasion's most distinctive singers with his deep, powerful blues-rock voice. Burdon is also known for his intense stage performances

                                                     New Musical Expres 1965    

                  "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" is a song written by Bennie Benjamin, Gloria Caldwell and Sol Marcus for the singer/pianist Nina Simone, who first recorded it in 1964. "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" has been recorded or performed by many artists, and is widely known by the 1965 blues rock hit recording from The Animals.                                   

                                                                       When i was Young

                                                   Stage On Sixth (Austin, TX) 3/16/2013

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Eric Burdon & War - Paris 1971

Eric Burdon - vocals Lonnie Jordan - organ/piano/percussion Charles Miller - flute/sax/percussion Howard Scott - guitar Lee Oskar - harmonica B.B Dickerson - bass (Papa) Dee Allen - congas/percussion Harold Brown - drums/percussion

 Mother Eart

Eric Burdon and War began playing live shows to audiences throughout Southern California before entering into the studio to record their debut album Eric Burdon Declares "War". The album's best known track, "Spill the Wine", was a hit and launched the band's career.

 

 The Can,t Away our Music feat Sharone Scot

 Eric Burdon and War toured extensively across Europe and the United States. The subtitle of a 1970 review in the New Musical Express of their first UK gig in London's Hyde Park read: "Burdon and War: Best Live Band We've Ever Seen".^[14] Their show at Ronnie Scott's Club in London on September 16, 1970, is historically notable for being the last public performance for Jimi Hendrix,who joined them onstage for the last 35 minutes of Burdon and War's second set; a day later he was dead.

 Bare Black Ride
 A second Eric Burdon and War album, a two-disc set titled The Black-Man's Burdon was released in 1970. During the subsequent tour, Burdon collapsed on the stage during a concert, caused by an asthma attack, and the band continued the tour without him before Burdon left the band in the middle of its European tour. They finished the tour without him and returned to record their first album as War

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 https://arthurfromholland.blogspot.com/2010/10/eric-burdon-war.html

 

Eric Burdon & War with hostess Della Reese - Btight Light,Big city

 Eric Burdon & War performing ' 'Bright Lights, Big City' (with Della),  The Della Reese Show circa 1969.

Eric Burdon/Della Reese - zang.Harold Brown - drums,(Papa) Dee Allen - congas,B.B Dickerson - basgitaar,Charles Miller - sax/fluit,Lee Oskar - mondharmonica,Howard Scott - gitaar
 

Eric Burdon - Love Is For All Time

.                                                   Song written By Danny Everitt and Terry Wilson..

                                                       Love Is For All Time 

Eric Burdon - vocals Red Young - piano/synthesisers Skip Van Winkle - B3 organ Don Evans - guitar Terry Wilson - bass Dennis Edwards - drums

                               

                   Recorded between 1982 and 1984, Los Angeles, London and Berlin.
"No More War" recorded in 1991 and re-recorded and mixed in 2007 at Parachute Studio.

Eric Burdon & The New Animals - Monterey/ Paint It Black (Berlin 1968)

Eric Burdon - Vocals ,Barry Jenkins - drums,Vic Briggs -Guitar, John Weider -Guitar/violin
,Danny McUlloch - Bas.

                 Monterey/Paint It Black

                                         Eric Burdon - Vocals

                                                    Barry Jenkins -drums

                                                        Vic Briggs -guitar.

                                                       John Weider - guitar/violin

                                             Danny McCulloch - bass

                              
Eric Burdon & The New Animals (1966-1969)
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Eric Burdon & The Animals - When I Was Young

173 Greatest Hits (skypilot)

Eric Burdon & The New Animals(1966-1969)

                                

The Animals, one of the most successful R&B-based groups of the British Invasion, broke up in 1966. It was then that singer Eric Burdon released a single as a solo artist - "Help Me Girl" got to #14 in the UK and #29 in the US. He then moved to America, accompanied by Animals drummer Barry Jenkins, and recorded an album which ended up being released as Eric Burdon & The Animals, accompanied by Jenkins and a number of session musicians. It saw him move away from the gritty R&B that The Animals had been known for, and into more of a general pop sound. It was notable for featuring three songs by Randy Newman, who had yet to record his own debut album - "Mama Told Me Not To Come", "I Think It's Gonna Rain Today" and "Wait Till Next Year". The former in particular would later become very well known after Three Dog Night had a #1 hit with it in 1970.
                                                             ERIC IS HERE

                                           Help Me ,Girl(album Eric is Here)

Despite being billed as Eric Burdon & The Animals, Eric Is Here was in reality a solo album. It was actually only released in the US, and was barely noticed. However shortly afterwards Burdon and Jenkins put together a new band to carry on The Animals' name, though their music was to take a radical change towards psychedelia as they emersed themselves in the American counter-culture

 After the US-only Eric Is Here, which was essentially a Burdon solo album, they set about forming a new group to carry on The Animals name. They were joined by Vic Briggs (guitar/keyboards), John Weider (guitar/violin) and Danny McCulloch (bass), and became known as Eric Burdon & The Animals (sometimes referred to as The New Animals). Settling in California during the Summer Of Love, and no doubt fuelled by his first LSD experience, Burdon led this group into strange new psychedelic territories that had little at all in common with the R&B styled sound of the original British group.

WIND OF CHANGE

                                          
                                          Good Times (album Wind of Change)

 Eric Burdon - vocals ,Vic Briggs - guitar ,piano,John Weider - guitar,violin. Danny McCulloch - bass,Barry Jenkins - drums.

                             

Their first release was the single "When I Was Young", which did well in the US and made it to #15. The band then got the chance to play at the Monterey Pop Festival. Their first album together came out later that year. Winds Of Change was definitely a very strange record, the sort of thing that would (and did) divide fans of the original group. With unusually sparse instrumental arrangements, atmospheric sound effects and just as much spoken word as singing, it was a clear statement of Burdon's new direction and dedication to the hippie counter-culture.

                             

Among all the 'experimental' numbers were a few more conventional songs, including a great cover of The Rolling Stones' "Paint It Black". Two surprisingly gentle songs were released as singles - "Good Times" got to #20 back in the UK, and "San Franciscan Nights" made it to #7, also reaching #9 in the US (actually the highest charting single for The Animals in the US since "House Of The Rising Sun" back in 1964).
              
                            

Eric Burdon & The Animals had played at the Monterey Pop Festival back in the summer of 1967, and this became the subject of their next single after their pschedelic debut Winds Of Change. Compared to the strange experimental psychedelia of that album, "Monterey" was very much a rock song, a catchy number which recounted the band's experience at the festival, complete with driving beat and sitar. The lyrics referenced many of the other acts in typical Eric Burdon style - "The Byrds and the Airplane did fly / Ravi Shankar's music made me cry". It got to #15 in the US (its release in the the UK was delayed almost a year, and then it did not chart).

                                                     THE TWAIN SHALL MEET

                                           Closer To the Truth (album The Twain Shall Meet)
 Eric Burdon - vocals ,Vic Briggs - guitar ,piano,John Weider - guitar,violin. Danny McCulloch - bass,Barry Jenkins - drums.

Their next album came out in 1968. The Twain Shall Meet was a much more focused album than Winds Of Change, and saw the band developing into a seriously good psychedelic rock group, with an ambitious blend of mood pieces and rockers. It featured another hit single - the anti-war anthem "Sky Pilot" got to #14.

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 The New Animals were expand to a six-piece with the arrival of keyboard player Zoot Money (previously of Zoot Money's Big Roll Band, and Dantalian's Chariot) in time for the their third album, where he was credited as George Bruno. Not much time had passed since their last album, but things changed quite dramatically with Every One Of Us, though it could be argued that not many people noticed. Eric Burdon seemingly abandoned 1967-style hippy psychedelia almost as quickly as he had wholeheartedly adopted it, instead aligning himself with the poor and the down-trodden for a semi-concept album. It turned out to be a somewhat melancholy, moody collection of songs, with jazzy and folky arrangements in place of tripped-out acid rock (though there was one heavy rocker included). Though as always with Burdon's late 60s work, there had to be something strange to throw things off, and here it was the inclusion of two lengthy dialogue recordings, as if he had run amok with a dictaphone and been allowed to include his results on the album due to the lack of new material. It sabotages an otherwise potentially perfect album, and one that would have been seen as a much more serious affair than its two predecessors - the songs the dialogues are attached to are perhaps the best on the album

.                                                         EVERY ONE OF US

                                           White Houses (album Every One Of Us)

 Eric Burdon - vocals ,Vic Briggs - guitar ,piano,John Weider - guitar,violin. Danny McCulloch - bass,Barry Jenkins - drums.Zoot Moony - hammond organ,piano,vocals

Elsewhere there was a bluesy rendition of the folk song "St James Infirmary", and the single "White Houses" which got to a modest #67 in the US. The album itself barely charted, and wasn't actually released in the UK, so remains one of their least known. As an album it is obviously flawed, but there are some moments of really brilliant music to be found within.

                        
Everyday i have the Blues (Berlin 1968)

Following the arrival of keyboard player Zoot Money, bassist Danny McCulloch left The Animals. Guitarist Vic Briggs was also replaced by Andy Summers, who had been with Money in British psychedelic group Dantalian's Chariot. This new lineup (Eric Burdon, Money, Summers, John Weider and Barry Jenkins) thus had no bassist - Money handled it in the studio, and on stage it was passed around between guitarists Summers and Weider.

They released a new album in 1968, the group's third from that year. Love Is was a double album, and consisted almost entirely of covers. Songs in a variety of styles were given big, ambitious re-inventions, several nearing ten minutes in length - Ike & Tina Turner's "River Deep, Mountain High", Sly & The Family Stone's "I'm An Animal", Johnny Cash's "Ring Of Fire", Traffic's "Coloured Rain", The Bee Gees' "To Love Somebody" and Albert King's "As The Years Go Passing By". There was also an excellent original song from Burdon, and a twenty-minute medley of two Dantalian's Chariot numbers written by Summers and Money. The album's sound was big and powerful, and the result was surely the masterpiece of the latter-day Animals. It even generated one final minor hit, as "Ring Of Fire" got to #35 in the UK.

                                                                      LOVE IS

                                          Colored Rain (album Love Is)great guitar solo Andy Summers.

However it proved to be the end of the road for the band, as they broke up shortly afterwards. Eric Burdon went on to join forces with Californian funk band War, and John Weider joined progressive rock group Family (replacing Ric Grech). Zoot Money continued to work in both music and film, and Andy Summers of course went on to fame as guitarist for The Police.

 

 The story of Eric Burdon I found on the blog below, along with more beautiful music.I am very happy with it, Thanks Arthur

 http://stuckinthepast08.blogspot.nl/

More Eric Burdon on my blog...

The Animals

 http://arthurfromholland.blogspot.nl/2011/01/animals.html

Eric Burdon & War(Germany)

http://arthurfromholland.blogspot.nl/2012/03/eric-burdon-war-archive-footage-from.html

Eric Burdon - One more coffee for the road.

http://arthurfromholland.blogspot.nl/2010/11/eric-burdon-one-more-cup-of-coffee-for.html

Eric Burdon & War (Denmark)

 http://arthurfromholland.blogspot.nl/2010/10/eric-burdon-war.html

Eric Burdon, Alvin Lee, Rick Wakeman's House Band at GasTank

 Gastank was an English television show that aired between 1982–1983 on Channel 4. Hosted by Rick Wakeman and Tony Ashton the show featured a mix of interviews with 1970s musicians and impromptu performances where the guest artist would join Rick and Tony with their house band in playing re-arranged versions of their classic songs, or entirely new pieces created for the show.
This evening ,Eric Burdon!!


Trying To Get Back To You

 Eric Victor Burdon (born 11 May 1941) is an English singer-songwriter and actor. He was previously the vocalist of rock band the Animals and funk band War. He is regarded as one of the British Invasion's most distinctive singers with his deep, powerful blues-rock voice. He is also known for his aggressive stage performances.


Rock & Roll Medly/Be-Bob Alula
Alvin Lee (born Graham Anthony Barnes; 19 December 1944 – 6 March 2013) was an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known as the lead vocalist and lead guitarist of the blues rock band Ten Years After.
 
 Heat Attack
Richard Christopher Wakeman (born 18 May 1949) is an English keyboardist, songwriter, producer, television and radio presenter, and author. He is best known for being in the progressive rock band Yes across five tenures between 1971 and 2004 and for his solo albums released in the 1970s

Eric Burdon - Wait

Eric Burdon and The Animals - 'Hey Gyp' (Woburn Abbey, UK, August 1967)

                        

Eric Burdon and The Animals perform 'Hey Gyp' at the Festival of the Flower Children, Woburn Abbey, UK, August 1967.  Eric Burdon (vocals) John Weider (guitar) Vic Briggs (guitar) Danny McCulloch (bass) Barry Jenkins (drums)

 

Hey Gyp

"Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness)" is a song by Donovan. It is an altered version of the song "Can I Do It For You" by Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe McCoy. The name "Gyp" refers to his friend Gyp Mills. It has been covered by Eric Burdon and The Animals and The Soul Survivors (as the B-side to their hit "Expressway to Your Heart"). It has also been covered by The Belfast Gypsies, Keith Shields, Santa Esmeralda, the Truth, and The Astro Zombies.

The Animals cover was released in December 1966 on their album Animalism. After the reformed band Eric Burdon & The Animals performed it on their live shows, it was released as a single under the name of the new band.

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Eric Burdon & The New Animals - Paint It Black/Monterey

                            
                                                                     ERIC BURDON

                                                                     

                                                                       Vic Briggs
                         Danny McCulloch (bass) - Barry Jenkins (drums)- John Weider (guitar/violin)

   Paint It Black

"Paint It Black" (originally released as "Paint It, Black") is a song by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and first released as a single on 6 May 1966. It was later included as the opening track to the US version of their 1966 album, Aftermath.

 Eric Burdon covered it on the 1967 Eric Burdon & The Animals debut album, Winds of Change.

 Monterey

Eric Burdon and the Animals performed at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival at the peak of the Summer of Love; they followed Johnny Rivers onstage and were introduced by Chet Helms. In his book, Monterey Pop, Joel Selvin wrote that, at the festival, "Burdon did nothing short of reinvent himself in front of the audience."

 The song "Monterey" was subsequently written in tribute to the group's experiences at the festival, and proved to be one of the new band's biggest hits. The lyrics describe the atmosphere of the festival and some of the notable musicians who played, including The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Ravi Shankar, The Who, Hugh Masekela, The Grateful Dead, and Jimi Hendrix, as "young gods" with music "born of love" and "religion was being born." The band described a scene at which "children danced night and day", and "even the cops grooved with us." "His Majesty Prince Jones" referred to Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, who was an MC at the event. Before the ending of the song, Burdon quoted the Byrds song "Renaissance Fair": "I think that Maybe I'm Dreamin'".

Eric Burdon - One More Cup Of Coffee For The Road (RockPalast 21-04-1976)

      Eric Burdon -  One More Cup Of Coffee For The Road(Dylan

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    The Band: Eric Burdon - voc,Mike Carr - keyboards,Robert Ahwai - guitar,Bobby Gien - dr.


Your breath is sweet
Your eyes are like two jewels in the sky
Your back is straight, your hair is smooth
On the pillow where you lie

I don't sense affection
No gratitude or love
Your loyalty is not to me
But to the stars above

One more cup of coffee for the road
One more cup of coffee 'fore I go
To the valley below

Your daddy, he's an outlaw
A wanderer by trade
He'll teach you how to pick and choose
And how to throw the blade

He oversees his kingdom
No stranger dare intrude
His voice, it trembles as he calls
For another plate of food

One more cup of coffee for the road
One more cup of coffee 'fore I go
To the valley below

One more cup of coffee for the road
One more cup of coffee 'fore I go
To the valley below

Your sister sees the future
Like your mama and yourself
You've never learned to read or write
There's no books upon your shelf

Your pleasure knows no limits
Your voice is like a lark
But your heart is like an ocean
Mysterious and dark

One more cup of coffee for the road
One more cup of coffee 'fore I go
To the valley below

One more cup of coffee for the road
One more cup of coffee 'fore I go
To the valley below
Oh, to the valley below

Eric Burdon & War - Tobacco Road

                                  where?when? i have no idea.... but i love that perfomance........

                  "Tobacco Road" is a song written and first recorded by John D. Loudermilk in 1960 that was a hit for The Nashville Teens in 1964 and has since become a standard across several musical genres.

 War: Papa Dee Allen (conga, bongos), Howard Brown (drums), Eric Burdon (vocals), B. B. Dickerson (bass), Lonnie Jordan (organ, piano), Charles Miller (sax, some flute), Lee Oskar (harmonica), Howard Scott (guitar).

More Eric Burdon

 When i was young
http://arthurfromholland.blogspot.nl/2016/07/eric-burdon-animals-when-i-was-young.html

Roadrunner
 http://arthurfromholland.blogspot.nl/2015/10/eric-burdon-new-animals-roadrunner.html

Love is all around
http://arthurfromholland.blogspot.nl/2015/07/eric-burdon-war-love-is-all-around.html

Monterey/Paint It Black
http://arthurfromholland.blogspot.nl/2015/02/eric-burdon-new-animals-monterey-paint.html

Love like yours
http://arthurfromholland.blogspot.nl/2015/01/eric-burdon-new-animals-love-like-yours.html

Evey day i have the blues
http://arthurfromholland.blogspot.nl/2014/11/eric-burdon-new-animals-everyday-i-have.html

 Mother Earth
http://arthurfromholland.blogspot.nl/2014/09/eric-burdon-war-mother-earth-live-paris.html

 Archief
 http://arthurfromholland.blogspot.nl/2012/03/eric-burdon-war-archive-footage-from.html

Eric Burdon & The Animals - When I Was Young (1967)

Their first release was the single "When I Was Young", which did well in the US and made it to #15. The band then got the chance to play at the Monterey Pop Festival. Their first album together came out later that year. Winds Of Change was definitely a very strange record, the sort of thing that would (and did) divide fans of the original group. With unusually sparse instrumental arrangements, atmospheric sound effects and just as much spoken word as singing, it was a clear statement of Burdon's new direction and dedication to the hippie counter-culture.


 Eric Burdon - vocals ,Vic Briggs - guitar ,piano,John Weider - guitar,violin. Danny McCulloch - bass,Barry Jenkins - drums.

 Eric burdon & The New Animals
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Eric Burdon & The New Animals - Roadrunner

               Eric Burdon & The Animals, a live performance of 'Roadrunner', Germany, 1967.

Eric Burdon - vocals,Barry Jenkins - drums,
John Weider - guitar,Vic Briggs - guitar,Danny McCulloch - bass

Eric Burdon & War - Love is all Around

                            Eric Burdon & War - TV-Byen, Gladsaxe, Denmark 1971-01-22

                     Love is all Around

Eric Burdon : vocals, percussion , Lee Oskar : harmonica ,BB Dickenson : bass
Charles Miller : tenor sax ,Harold Brown : drums ,Papa D : conga ,Lonnie Jordan : keyboard
Howard Scott : guitar

Eric Burdon & The (new) Animals - A Love Like Yours (1967)

Eric Burdon presenteert zijn nieuwe band in het muziekprogramma Beat- Club van Radio Bremen.De band bestaat uit oudgediende Barry Jenkins op drums,De gitaristen Vic Briggs en John Weider en bassist Danny McCulloch.Tevens een mooi tijdsbeeld uit de sixties,behalve de muziek ook de kleding en de manier van dansen.

A love like yours (don't come knocking everyday)Geschreven door Holland-Dozier-Holland. Het is een nummer dat Martha & The Vandellas in 1963 uitbrachten op de B-kant van hun single Heat wave. Het nummer verscheen hetzelfde jaar op hun album Come and Get these memories. Het nummer werd in de loop van de jaren telkens weer opnieuw opgenomen, zoals door Manfred Mann (album My little red book of winners!, 1965), Dusty Springfield (album It begins again, 1978), The Cats (album Live, 1984) en Anny Schilder (album Anny en ik, 2007). Ook bracht Kim Weston het in 1966 nogmaals uit, op de B-kant van haar single Helpless, toen zij verder was gegaan als solozangeres




 Ike & Tina Turner waren in 1966 de enigen die het nummer op een A-kant van een single uitbrachten. In Nederland stond het nummer één week op nummer 38 in de Top 40 en verscheen het verder op hun album River deep – Mountain high. Het belandde niet in de Billboard Top 100, maar wel in de Britse top, waar het een nummer 16-notering behaalde.

Eric Burdon & The New Animals - Everyday I Have The Blues (1968)

Eric Burdon -vocals,Barry Jenkins - drums,John Weider - guitar,violin, Danny McCulloch - bass,Vick Briggs - guitar

"Every Day I Have the Blues" is a blues song that has been performed in a variety of styles. An early version of the song is attributed to Pinetop Sparks and his brother Milton or Marion. It was first performed in the taverns of St. Louis by the Sparks brothers and was recorded July 28, 1935 by Pinetop with Henry Townsend on guitar. The song is a twelve-bar blues that features Pinetop's piano and falsetto vocal. The opening verse includes the line "Every day, every day I have the blues". After a reworking of the song by Memphis Slim in 1949, it became a blues standard with renditions recorded by numerous artists.[5] Four different versions of "Every Day I Have the Blues" have reached the Top Ten of the Billboard R&B chart and two—one by the Count Basie Orchestra with Joe Williams and one by B.B. King—have received Grammy Hall of Fame Awards.

Eric Burdon & War - Mother Earth (Live, Paris 1971)

Eric Burdon - vocals
Lonnie Jordan - organ/piano/percussion
Charles Miller - flute/sax/percussion
Howard Scott - guitar
Lee Oskar - harmonica
B. B Dickerson - bass
(Papa) Dee Allen - bongos/congas/percussion
Harold Brown - drums/percussion

Eric Burdon & War - Archive footage from German TV(1970)

Wat was het toch een prachtige combinatie,blueszanger Eric Burdon samen met de funkband War.Helaas nooit live in aktie gezien,maar gelukkig zijn er nog prachtige opnames overgebleven zoals onderstaande beelden laten zien.Ik vind ze prachtig ,dus natuurlijk op mijn blog.


Tobacco Road
Eric Burdon - vocals
Lonnie Jordan - organ/piano/percussion
Charles Miller - flute/sax/percussion
Howard Scott - guitar
Lee Oskar - harmonica
B. B Dickerson - bass
(Papa) Dee Allen - bongos/congas/percussion
Harold Brown - drums/percussion ---


Bare Back Ride


Paint It Black


Spill The Wine