The Electric Flag - A Long Time Comin'
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Free Music Notes for A Long Time Comin'
Free Music Review: Absolute Desert Island Disc
Hit: 5 Stars
If you want to see my slightly over the top review read the comment I left for the 1 1star review. Otherwise my title says all that you need to knowFree Music Review: SAVE YOUR MONEY
Hit: 1 Stars
DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND SAVE YOUR MONEY. THIS BAND WAS BUILT UP AS THE BIGGEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED AND THEY FELL FLAT ON THEIR STONED FACES.CUT FROM THE SAME CLOTH AS THOSE OTHER SCAG JUNKIES, BIG BROTHER AND THE HOLDING COMPANY, THEY SELF DESTRUCTED DUE TO TWO REASONS: 1.) HEROIN AND 2.) THEY COULD'NT WRITE SONGS TO SAVE THEIR LIFE. SOME OF THE TRACKS HERE ARE NO BETTER THAN THE STRAWBERRY ALARM CLOCK WITH HORNS. SO OUT OF DATE AS TO BE FUNNY. AND..SORRY TO SAY...MIKE BLOOMFIELD IS AN OVERRATED GUITARIST. EVEN BACK THEN HE WAS NOWHERE NEAR ERIC OR JIMI AND THE PRESS KEPT PUSHING HIM IN YOUR FACE AS AN EQUAL. YOU KNOW, GOOD IS GOOD AND BAD IS BAD AND THIS IS JUST BAD. (AND ON TOP OF THAT, YOU GOT BUDDY MILES, DO I HAVE TO SAY ANY MORE????) Free Music Review: One of the great 1960"s Rock/blues albums.
Hit: 5 Stars
A lost treasure. It's hard to see this album's impact 40 years after it's release, but Bloomfield, Myles and the rest created a sound that was the distilled essence of the musical times. The song selection was great and the playing and singing were inspired. Free Music Review: one of the greatest 60s blues albums
Hit: 5 Stars
We loved the Electric Flag from having worn out a copy of "The Trip" soundtrack the year before, and already loving Bloomfield from the first 2 Butterfields (both phenomenal). So we were ready to love "A Long Time Comin'" and it was all that! I've literally listened to this album more than 100 times and some tracks still are in heavy rotation: Bloomfield's tours de force "Killin Floor" and "Wine" and one of his masterpieces, the 9-minute "Another Country", which is very much an anthem for those times and 1968 in particular.
When we discussed who were the greatest guitarists at that time, which we did quite often, Mike Bloomfield was at or near the top with Hendrix, Jorma, Clapton, Melton vs. Cippolina, Peter Green, Kim Simmonds, Jerry, Townsend, with Neil and Page coming up. Bloomfield still astounds as much or more than all those guys, electifies here as well as three tracks on "The Trip"-- "Practice Music", the mindblowing "Fine Jung Thing." and "Gettin' Hard", which isn't on the CD version, All electric guitar and/or blues afficianados must hear these tracks.
That said, the whole large ensemble that was Electric Flag were as virtuosic as they were unique. Bloomfield, vocalist Nick Gravenites, drummer/vocalist Buddy Miles, keyboardist Barry Goldberg, and bassist Harvey Brooks all wrote great blues material, with a 5 piece horn section to die for, their vision of Electric Flag was a jazz-blues fusion unequalled before or since.
Just buy it and pass it around!
Free Music Review: Great music---poor sound
Hit: 3 Stars
The sound issue is due to an issue that existed from the first pressing of the LP. The sound was thin and trebley---without dimension. There was a number of Columbia records that came out about the same time that sounded similar. My theory is that the Master tape wasn't mixed right, or it was mixed for radio play--because the single off the album sounded better on the radio than it did on my home stereo. This is an album that needs to be "restored"--a re-mix or a re-eq is not going to be enough. There is some great music on this album. It needs to be saved and done justice.