More proof, if any was still needed, that YouTube is the highest achievement of Western Civilization:
Here's an ultra-rare and very high quality genuine live video of the Lower East Side's finest band, The Blues Project doing their signature gospel-derived raveup "Wake Me Shake Me."
How rare is it? Well, until this showed up on YouTube, the only place you could see it was in the subterranean archive/vault of the Museum of Radio and Television in Manhattan.
Incidentally, it's a document of the short-lived version of the Project with one John-John McDuffy filling in for the then recently departed Al Kooper. It was taped for a one-off TV special on NYC's Metromedia affiliate station in the summer of '67. The host was club owner (and later manager of Rick Derringer and Johnny Winter) Steve Paul, who's Scene venue was at the time the heppest joint in town and the location of many legendary jam sessions, including the one -- and this is documented -- where a drunken Jim Morrison blew Jimi Hendrix in mid-guitar solo.
Good times!
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Very cool. Is that Steve Katz on the far left?
Thanks, Simels, for one of my fave BP tunes -- and as you know, their version is rivaled only by that of the mighty Myddle Class with Charlie Larkey!
and as you know, their version is rivaled only by that of the mighty Myddle Class with Charlie Larkey!
Why no, I hadn't heard...
:-)
Gardner--
Yeah, that's Katz on the left.
I just read in my local (NJ) paper that Katz, Danny Kalb(the guy in the middle) and Stefan Grossman are playing an area club his weekend as an accoustic blues trio.
Good for them....
I like the voice-over intro with the echt NY accent. Good blues too--why didn't Howlin' Wolf think of strobe lights and go-go dancers?
--Space
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