The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Fillmore West FM 1966-1969

wow... not sure where to start. I heard all of this live originally and to herar it again... my first ever alblum was Paul Butterfield.. first Fillmore show included Paul Butterfield Blues Band... mix and such on this is not the best... but to hear the band and the raw beginings... Michael Bloomfield was a rare super star... a long forgotten treasure... you wanna know what it was like at the Filmore in the late 60's... here you go. Thanks so much for this!!!

line up of dreams!!!i like !!

Outstanding guitar play on Willow Tree! Outstanding all the way through.

nice live　高田純次です。へっへっへっへっ😁

Thanks so much for posting. I failed to see the PBBB when they still had Bloomfield, but saw them the summer of 1967 at the Fillmore when Bishop had re-stepped into the lead guitar role. I saw Bloomfield with the Electric Flag later that year. IMO, the playing of Bloomfield in 1966 made him one of the best, if not the best guitar player in the world, while Butterfield was a monster on harp and an underrated vocalist. For those just discovering this incredible band, here is some rock history for you: when they played the Fillmore (and these recordings were at the Fillmore, not the Fillmore West) and the Avalon Ballroom, the other pro guitar players in the Bay Area came to see what the buzz was about. Guys like Garcia, Jorma, and others acknowledged that they needed to up their game once they saw Bloomfield. And, the Bay Area bands realized that they needed to practice more and harder as while the audiences like to dance and groove to their music, the PBBB brought a new level of tightness and musical accomplishment to the scene. So, Bloomfield launched the careers of many guitar players by inspiring them, but less known is that the whole band help to raise the bar for a lot of bands. Long Live the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.

With Clapton and Hendrix , Bloomfield is the other great original guitarist of Rock , doubtless. Sadly, Paul Butterfield let him go and we lost one of the best line up in Rock and Blues music: Naftalin, Butterfield,Bishop, Bloomfield, Davenport, Arnold.

Caught a few Black Magic Woman riffs in East West. Great albums, thanks for the upload.

Woooooooowwwww

A staple of hip sixties music. These guys help set the mood for the
Summer of Love, San Francisco 1967. We drank wine from a jug that may have been tampered with.

Great show, and great Blues Players in first order Míster Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield 🎹 band, guitar The legends 🎸

Butter's "The Sky is Cryin'" here just burns it all up -- to the crossroads between heaven and hell.

Thankyou so much for this treasure

Sometimes I wish I'd come into this world just a couple years earlier.

I had the best crib music

Thanks for posting this - just great raw, emotional performances! Bloomfield and Green are re-inspiring me to play with a lot more feeling - wish I had discovered them earlier!

So relaxing and at the same time exicting tunes and vibes from some of the best musicians ever.. Period.
Thank you so very much this upload. THANKS ;-)

If anyone cares about the rock history part of this, the songs with Bloomfield in 1966 were recorded at the Fillmore Ballroom on Geary Street, not Fillmore West which opened in 1968. Bill Graham used the old Fillmore and Winterland Ballrooms, then closed the Fillmore and opened the former Carousel Ballroom at Market and Van Ness and renamed it Fillmore West. He called it "West" because he had opened the Fillmore East venue. Fillmore West closed in 1971 and Winterland closed in 1978 as huge venues like the Oakland Coliseum (both the indoor and outdoor venues) were now the way business was happening. The old Fillmore as it was known re-opened in the mid-1980's and then was nearly totally restored in 1991 and is still in use today.

Disc 1-9 is actually Mother-in-law Blues (Junior Parker).

I could have been there … 😉

For globs sake why can't you all just enjoy the music instead of worrying about "who was the greatest" guitar player, vocalist. Who the eff cares. Jeezes Breezes.

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Bloomfied took all those guys to school. "A bunch of Folkies that picked up an electric guitar a year ago.
He called the local players dogshit. Ralph Gleason, and Jann wenner took exception to this, and Ralph Gleason printed an article "Stop The Shuck Micheal Bloomfield. "The shuck was the really about the unproffessionalism of the S.F. Players
A coupe of years later, a band called C.T.A. , from Chicago, I might add landed in L.A, and blew everyone away with thertight professionalism.

Blues is the way for me. There is so many Blues bands I can't listen to enough in my lifetime. I loved seeing super bands live n loud close up. I play my vinyl records loud to shake my house, brain, body n soul.

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good stuff by some great players during a period of immense great works by a lot of very talented individuals, of whom some died way too young

Paul and Mike..Better than Mick and Keith once again when it came to young white guys playing the blues in the mid 60s. The only thing I can remember that came close was The Blues Breakers first 2 albums. First one with Eric Clapton, and than with Peter Green..And the first few Fleetwood Mac albums, again with Peter Green..all 66/67...The Butterfield Blues Band had the edge though, because Paul Butterfield sang better. And nobody in history ever played the blues quite like Mike Bloomfield, before or since...frankny64yroldwhitekid rockfan That's just me of course. I may be wrong.

They don’t make bands this good anymore

Who knew⁉️
I didn't.
This band is great, and I'm from SF.

As part of Bill Graham's WC circuit, PBBB came to Seattle as well. I saw them at the Eagles Auditorium or at Emil Sicks Stadium

Рок н ролл это зажигательно и весело во все времена, а блюз полный флакон балдежа.!!!!!. Спасибо.