Fillmore East: The Lost Concert Tapes 12-13-68

Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield - Fillmore East: The Lost Concert Tapes 12-13-68

Fillmore East: The Lost Concert Tapes 12-13-68
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Artist: Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-04-08
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
  1. Introductions
  2. One Way Out
  3. Mike Bloomfield's Introduction of Johnny Winter
  4. It's My Own Fault
  5. 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
  6. (Please) Tell Me Partner
  7. That's All Right Mama
  8. Together Till the End of Time
  9. Don't Throw Your Love on Me So Strong
  10. Season of the Witch

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Free Music Review: Excellent Concert Tape!
Hit: 5 Stars

Al Kooper and Mike Bloomfield are two individuals that took very different paths in life. Kooper played the organ, piano and vocals and is still producing excellent music today. Bloomfield was an extremely gifted guitarist that dedicated excessive time to drugs and alcohol and who died at the young age of 37 as a result. Kooper, however, will not let the world forget about his friend and the musical contribution that he made during his short life. In addition to this release, Kooper is currently working at a Bloomfield anthology.

This disc features tunes originally recorded at the Fillmore East in December of 1968. The tapes laid unplayed in Columbia's vaults and were thought to be missing until Kooper rediscovered them in 1999 while sorting through material for the box set "Rare & Well Done". Now, after baking the tapes in an oven to prevent oxidation, digitally debuzzing the ground hums, clicks and audio aberrations and some careful editing, Bloomfield releases this lost recording 33 years after they were originally recorded.

The recording opens with an introduction and then a guitar drenched version of "One Way Out" with quivering Bloomfield vocals. Bloomfield then introduces an unsigned Johnny Winter who plays an extended version of B.B. King's "It's My Own Fault". After hearing Winter's blistering guitar solo on this tune, it's no wonder that Columbia executives were falling all over themselves to sign him the next morning.

Winter's solo is followed by Bloomfield's rendition of Paul Simon's "Feelin' Groovy", and Bloomfield's own slow Chicago blues number "Please Tell Me Partner" and a superbly covered version of Albert King's "Don't Throw Your Love On Me So Strong" which is the only track which truly highlights Kooper's talent on the organ and piano.

The lone soft spot on the disc is probably "Together Till The End Of Time" but considering the high quality of the remainder of the disc, it's a flaw that can easily be overlooked.

Fillmore East: The Lost Concert Tapes 12-13-68 Poster

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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