Love this quote “It’s worth being older now, to have been young then.” I’m 76 years young and love that era of music, film, books and art. Fortunately there are still a few very talented artists around today. We were blessed to have over 100 of them back in the day…
Man, the late 60's and early 70's were the VERY BEST years of music.....ever! The sound, the talent, the message and the groove were beyond great. Loved being in my late teens back then!
You are so right! 74 in May, I still listen to Stevie Winwood and Robert Plant every day. Came across an RP interview recently where he mentioned first hearing 14 year old Stevie singing with the Spencer Davis Group. At the time, RP, also 14, was working part-time at Woolworth's to pay for his record habit. 💙🎶💙
This music was the backbone of the great societal change we all witnessed back then and all the way up until recently. We're gonna need another musical revival to put society back together again. Remember our times, preserve our times but be sure to embrace the younger generations and guide them as we were once guided.
I was born in 1950 so that put me through the sixties at a pretty good time to soak up some of the best music ever. I'm 73 now but still carry what I call classic rock deep within me. This is just one of the many.
I just turned 65 but got to see over 75 bands, the 3 day Sedalia Music fest(7/1974), Super Bowl of Rock in Chicago and all kinds of bands several times. You name them, I probably saw them.
We look at 'Reaction' videos of people who've never heard these songs before - And it's entertaining. This wasn't Top 40 hit, but it's one of my top 20 favorites They won't ever understand what it was like to turn on the AM radio and hear great music like The Who, or Cream, until you're tired of listening
God bless we were very blessed by the artist that were around in the days I just turned 60 this past fall. And for some of the younger they've got no clue of the music I listen to or play. But I really enjoy it because my elders truly respect the older music I play
Wow. Four talented guys who sound amazing. Not to mention they are outdoors, with basic gear and recording equipment. No computers, technology, or gimmicks here. Sounds pure and from the heart.
said in 1969 "we're goin to do a number a new number" now 2022 53 years later this song just got better its hard to believe I lived through these times... I'm so lucky to have lived in these times... thank you my sweet Lord...
The true definition of a Super Group!!! Winwood,Clapton and Ginger Baker!!They don’t make ‘em like that anymore!Long live Rock n Roll ❤And as an edit,thanks to those of you who reminded me not to forget Jack Bruce👍
@@wabitt11 Actually, its Grech, shortened from Grechko I think, and I did see him in Family and then in Traffic, but not in Blind Faith. Pity he died so young.
OMG !!! Ginger , for he was not a clouter like Bonham. Seriously, his touch is so deft and I'm sure he used calfskins:you can feel it if you've heard your dad playing calfskin drums. Mind you , when my dad was buying them there was no alternative, but they do sound 'better'.Lol
@@Patricia-pq4jq I'd dispute that, but regardless of whether it's true or not, Ginger will always be my favorite. Both guys were absolute mad men but are difficult to compare beyond that, as if they were playing different instruments entirely. Keith may have had more punch, and played drums in an intuitive way almost as if they were a melodic instrument. Maybe we call that natural talent, maybe we call it lack of training coupled with unbridled ambition. Ginger was certainly more technically proficient, and had more a more sophisticated grasp of time signatures and jazz embellishment. He was a more disciplined player. Both guys were amazing. I can think of a dozen songs where I thought to myself, "Damn, Keith Moon is amazing!" or "Damn, Ginger Baker is amazing!" However, thinking of both of them at once, I can only think of the differences, I can't think of any similarities except that they were drummers for two of my favorite bands - and two bands with little similarity, Cream and The Who. Clapton and Townsend - very different guitarists. Bruce and Entwistle - very different bass players. Baker and Moon - very different drummers.
Yes the nostalgia of being 66 and remembering the 70s is overwhelming sometimes. Like I tell the younger generation. If you weren't there then there is no explaining it. Maybe we'll feel this good in heaven.
One of the great rock songs, it will be played and covered forever. Part psychedelic, part gospel, so full of spiritual longing - Winwood was an old soul in a young body when he wrote this. I love the way his voice cracks on “near the end” - it’s a song about being on the edge, exhausted in every way; it fits the theme perfectly, despite being accidental on the day.
We just added this song to our show and that particular note is impossible for me to hit. I laughed that even 16-17 year old Steve had a problem with it ,too.
Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood, and Eric Clapton. Saw two out of three. GINGER BAKER....created a unique sound on drums....dynamic powerful action on the toms...!
Clapton looks so relaxed. It's calming to look at him. Cars and Music of the 60's and 70's will never be out done. Such style, art and talent! I'm glad we lived to see and hear it with young eyes and ears.
I don't see it like that. EC is scared to death and quite literally hiding among the equipment. This jibes with what he's been saying ever since..... this concert was rushed and he wasn't ready to gig on these tunes just yet.
This is when he started doing dope with Ginger...he's relaxed alright. And decades later he's even more relaxed mentally when he decides that saving lives with a Covid vaccine is optional....Clapton is scrod
Couldn’t agree with you anymore the music of today is a joke! Every time I turn on the radio it sounds like the same person singing male or female, the generation of today are like clones of one and other. Real music is gone for good I’m afraid.
It's funny as I just read a thread complaining about the cost of gig tickets being justified by the cost of employing and transporting the production crew, pyrotechnics, backing orchestra, lighting rigs, mixing desks, and God only knows what else! This was a FREE concert - simple stage, no mixing desk, no pyro, lights - just a few speaker stacks and outrageous talent - and 100,000+ people hearing history being made for free! I would pay double to see this than any act playing today!
Unfortunately, the music being produced today is an abomination 😖🤢 The mainstream music business has totally ruined it! It’s ALL about the political & social correctness and 💵💵!! If you don’t sell out to their process, you won’t have a chance to make it. SO many talented musicians out there never even get a chance, if they don’t conform. It’s never been more obvious that you must “sell your soul” to get any kind of recording contract, no matter how talented you are. Hopefully, things will change soon…A LOT of things
@@tommysparks2705 I'm astonished how many songs are now either not played on the radio, or have certain words replaced, bleeped, or blanked. Funnily enough, the Sex Pistols stuff is mostly OK, but classics like Pink Floyd's 'Money' have awkward gaps in them! The World has gone mad!
I feel fortunate to have been old enough to have lived through the 60's and 70's to experience the phenomenal music of that era. So many talented individuals who made so many hits without the technology we have today. Pure talent and ability. Greatest generation of musicians whose music is still on top even in 2023. That speaks volumes... Cheers...
I disagree, y'all just stopped trying to find new music....im 61 , I love this song deeply also , but theres a ton of good new music, take your blinders and ear muffs off, stop swimming in nostalgia! My God you're on CZcams , take a random search and listen, theres almost too much good music in the world to listen to! Without being herded to it like sheep, like in the 1960's when just a few big companies marketed to us and decided what we were destined to listen to.
Blind Faith was one of the first albums I ever bought. I was in love with Steve Winwood. I thought if only I could meet him, he would fall in love with me, and we'd go on tour and live happily ever after. Note--I was 16. I'm so happy to see this video and think about who I was before life happened to me, and what a great time that was.
Love how this captures the young Winwood, the breaking vocals( that would be fixed today) left raw and as it was. Our generation took it in stride, allowed and accepted it. Shame those who went on to college and politics fell away and became something unrecognizable to me. Grateful for my young years, sorry for how the world has chosen to go.
This version is better than any album version I've heard. Steve's voice is so real and raw. He is singing his heart out, and the voice cracks of a young man of just 20/21 add to the rawness. I love his voice crack at 2:03-2:06 and how his whole being is into singing. I never tire of this video. The song is one of my favorites ever too.
Sorry, I'll take a song, sung in tune, over a singer over-singing the song and losing pitch anyday. I like well done and not raw. In all fairness, since it was live, he probably couldn't hear himself over the instruments, and started yelling instead of singing.
@@someguy7805 Don't be sorry, someguy, who cares what you think? Especially when you can't even hear the singing. Put your comment as its own, not a reply.
@@CN-dl2cj Go #### yourself. Nobody cares what you think either. And I can hear him sing great, until he tries the high notes, then his voice breaks and sounds like sheeet when he's yelling. Not sorry I said it. Just sorry your wittle feewings were hurt.
@@someguy7805 🤣🤣 No wories, you didn't hurt my feelings at all! Obviously you did care about what I thought, or you wouldn't have replied in the first place. Learn to spell..it's 'little feelings'. Or are you 3? I'm done here; couldn't care less about what you think or that you over-estimate your ability to hurt feelings. Ta ta!
After Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood hadn't played this song together for over 30 years they reunited and performed this song. They took it to new heights ❤
What a precious find, both audio and video quality are quite impressive, especially for 1969, right? This has got to be the best preserved example of 'Blind Faith' performing, thanks so very much for posting.
I was blessed watching my nine year old son on stage with the band with his Les Paul Pee Wee in Yankee Lake Ohio and then in Naperville IL back in 2001...Go Beau Go!!!
Impossible not to listen to this iconic song from time to time. Steve is one of the greatest talents. And normally I don't say this easily, but yes, I think such music with so much musicality and depth is hard to find these days.
I was there. 19 yrs old, selling hash. It was a very hot day. Those summers...67, 68. 69, 70...were much hotter than they were anytime since. So much for the hoax of 'global warming.' I'd seen Cream and especially liked Ginger Baker and was interested in Blind Faith, the new so-called 'supergroup.' I remember being stuck near the back of the crowd and being disappointed. The sound system was under-powered. Couldn't hear them properly. I'd forgotten this till now. The film brought it back. Some of it. Wish I could remember more. It was an exciting, colourful time. Creative and expansive. Not like now.
I hear you buddy. I’m only 41 so I didn’t live through it. But I feel I’m like else we’re the last of the Mohicans for slot of things. However we were doing our best to replicate it. I. My area they had these festivals that would never be accepted today. It was basically a folk festival with a mega cop market. Probably more like a mega cop market with live folk entertainment. We would take my 1964 Plymouth valiant with a push button transmission to all these festivals, it was great times
Knew it was transcendental at that moment, but wasn't totally aware that it would be an eternal high..... we were all convinced that each individual in that band was beyond mortal...... together and separately they were giants that would live forever thru their musical accomplishments. Fifty plus years and still the cutting edge as tho this we're yesterday..... It's been awesome to have "lived" thru the Golden Age of Music.
Wonderful footage, they were a real super group in my youth. Great to see Clapton playing a Telecaster and not his usual Strat, Ginger Baker, surely one of the worlds a finest ever drummers looking as he did like the wrath of God and that unique voice that can only be Steve Winwood. Love it….
As great as this is, and don’t get me wrong I’m super grateful something like this exists, the camera work is frustrating. It’s done by someone who doesn’t understand what’s going on musically, which was typical for a lot of concerts filmed in the late 60s/early 70s. We see more of Ric Grech’s bass guitar and Ginger’s foot action on the kick than Clapton playing his tasty solo.
This is amazing. Blind Faith in their prime. Eric, Stevie and even Ginger look so dam young. Bless them and you for uploading this treasure. Thanks again for sharing this.
On the contrary. I think he sucks and he's constantly OVERRATED. He's full of shit and he's full of himself and he's annoying. Everything he plays makes me wonder why he did THAT🤨
I was at this Concert, 21 years old and tripping on Acid, I lived just off Kensington Church Street a short walk to the stage. What a time, I just wish I had paid more attention.
@@steffanhoffmann8937: Survivor with a capital S. The dope didn't kill me, the booze didn't kill me, the Cigarettes didn't kill me, gave everything up over 30 years ago,but Im not giving up Coffee and lovely females for anybody.
What a trip. I was born in 1971. My current residential street name is Kensington Court and my previous address was Church Street. Long live good music and great connections!
@@allemander: Going from High St Ken up Kensington Church street there is a curve and a small street on the Left side and thats where I lived, in a crash pad, 1969.
One of the most evocative rock songs ever. Someone played it on The Voice last week more than 50 years after this performance and it still puts lumps in my throat.
When they played this on the voice, tears started running down my 71 year old eyes. So many memories of that time and many friends now gone. Fantastic song then and fantastic now. I'm now playing my 60's music again. The album's have been sitting in closet way too long!!!
What a great time that must have been to be alive. Wish I could take a time machine and go back to be there for this. So thankful for this footage. Stevie Winwood is such a beautiful human being. An international treasure.
A rocking live version of the softer album track. Phenomenal song and the talent is a cut above. Ginger Baker's drumming (spoken from a drummer) is unique... a blend of sophistication meets tribal rawness. Man those tom toms!
Ginger’s playing on this is TERRIBLE, what are you smoking? 😂 He’s literally killed the sublime groove of the album version. Totally over-playing and in places literally playing “whatever”. Amazing talent but total egomaniac approach to playing in a band…..this is not Cream, these are not freeform extended blues jams, these are well-crafted songs that require the players to serve the song, not themselves. I still wonder what on Earth Winwood was thinking getting him in the band, he was absolutely the wrong guy for the job…..
Been watching this video for a few years now. 14 when this was filmed. I didn’t see this until 50 years after.. but this period 1969 to 1976 remains fixed in my mind as one of Hope, confusion, great highs and a lot of conflict. I miss that feeling of experiencing anything was possible
Love the music from this period. I was born in ‘66 and discovered Blind Faith for my self in high school in the eighties. Borrowed the LP from a guy in Spanish class. Still get goose bumps from this song. Thank you.
The greatest ability these people showed was that they loved to show their feelings though a guitar and made the guitar away to break barriers with humans with music and made great
Hey y'all it's me Jeff Yoder the ol'broke down scooter tramp (exbiker),and for me an Vietnam 🇻🇳 Era veteran the music 🎶 of the late 60s and early 70s was therapy for unwanted feelings about how it felt to be treated for answering Uncle Sam's call like I had been raised and taught was my duty and then to be treated so much differently than veterans of generations before mine (and since mine) and today I listen to that same music 🎶 to remember how well the music 🎶 allowed me to escape those feelings then and how it has helped me to to "escape " the hurt feelings throughout the last 50years
I was a one year old. I still would have crawled to hitch a ride if I knew how to do it. 😁 Mom always said I was born 10 years too late but this music has stayed with me for the next 52 years of my life ✌🏻👍🏻👶😁💯 and the next 50 years!
I was 4, and in the early 70's, my baby sitters would play music like this, love this song,,,although I remember asking my mom how come their cigarettes smell so much different then theirs!!!!!!! lol
That naked young girl was Steve Windwood's 13 year old sister. I've got the same album. I bought it in England because the cover was banned in the US, it was declared pornographic.
@@paulgeorgejr3273 The model was actually 11-year-old Mariora Goschen, whose older sister was approached in the London Underground by the photographer, Bob Seidemann, who created the cover art. Not related to any of the band members.
I remembered I was at the North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague in 2003, and I saw him practically standing next to me performing. And I saw not many people recognized him. I was very surprised, cause I always thougt this guy´s a legend. And there he was, not even on a podium. A very strange encounter...
Being 72 years on my life's journey makes me appreciate all the music, the experiences, the brotherhood of mankind that permeated the zeitgeist of the late sixties and early seventies. Peace,love and rock&roll !!!
@@ArchieFatcackie Yeah but it was a brilliant 6 months. Just because they couldn't get along doesn't mean they weren't a great band. Their eponymous album is still one of the best of the era - classic in all respects. Egos were too big to last.
@@ShaunHensley Grow up bonny lad just because you don’t agree with my opinion. I actually owned that album but it was no great shakes and they agreed as they disbanded after 6 months. Like I say, the project failed history tells you that.
Music was so amazing back then....at the time, we took it for granted since there was so much talent every where. Some great shows: James Taylor, The James Gang and The Who - 5 bucks. Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, John McLaughlin and The Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Raspberries, Roxy Music, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Poco, Yes, Larry Coryell, Weather Report, Chick Corea and Return to Forever, Todd Rundgren, Judy Collins, John Mayall and The Bluesbreakers, Uriah Heep, Kiss with The New York Dolls, It's a Beautiful Day with The Allman Brothers, Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett, Albert King, Robert Jr. Lockwood, Grand Funk Railroad, Bruce Springsteen, Leon Russell, Devo, Joni Mitchell, Jethro Tull, Genesis with Peter Gabriel and many more....❤
I still have this album. I play it occasionally. It takes me back to simpler times. You can tell all your favorite albums. They are all scratched up from wasted people bumping into the stereo.
There is no doubt this was the greatest era of music of all time. I’m 42, I was born a few decades too late. Kinda makes me sad I didn’t get to witness the greatness unfold. But grateful I lived in an era that these guys are in.
There's more talent on that stage in 1969 than there is in the entire music industry today. I was 14 years old in 69; what great times and better music.
Is anyone else still listening to this in 2024?
Yes
This is my all-time favorite song and I am slowly collecting every version of it that exists!
Off course..
Yup! it's on my playlist along with Traffic.
Oh yeah, man. Killer version!
Love this quote “It’s worth being older now, to have been young then.” I’m 76 years young and love that era of music, film, books and art. Fortunately there are still a few very talented artists around today. We were blessed to have over 100 of them back in the day…
Você é da mesma idade do Steve Winwood.
Steve Winwood may be the most underrated musician in rock n roll history.
Eric knows Steve is brilliant...:-)
Not by his peers... Jimi would beg to differ... 🙂
I was thinking the same thing two days ago
Wanted to send it to a friend
He is by far the most underrated
He's always been great.
Steve W. will be Touring with The Doobie Brothers in 20 US cities later this year.
Ill listen to blind faith till i die. 71 yo rocking
Same here. Rock On!!!
Man, the late 60's and early 70's were the VERY BEST years of music.....ever! The sound, the talent, the message and the groove were beyond great. Loved being in my late teens back then!
There was a group conscience everywhere then channeled through music like this.
Me too!
You are so right! 74 in May, I still listen to Stevie Winwood and Robert Plant every day. Came across an RP interview recently where he mentioned first hearing 14 year old Stevie singing with the Spencer Davis Group. At the time, RP, also 14, was working part-time at Woolworth's to pay for his record habit. 💙🎶💙
This music was the backbone of the great societal change we all witnessed back then and all the way up until recently. We're gonna need another musical revival to put society back together again. Remember our times, preserve our times but be sure to embrace the younger generations and guide them as we were once guided.
Late 1760s and early 1770s? I agree.
How is this stage not collapsing underneath the weight of all this talent.
It really is insane
Atlas is bearing the weight on his shoulders.
Lag bolts
It's because they were "enlightened"... 😂
Pretty little comment 💕
I was born in 1950 so that put me through the sixties at a pretty good time to soak up some of the best music ever. I'm 73 now but still carry what I call classic rock deep within me. This is just one of the many.
We lived in the best years of music.. im 67
It's worth being older now, to have been young then.
I just turned 65 but got to see over 75 bands, the 3 day Sedalia Music fest(7/1974), Super Bowl of Rock in Chicago and all kinds of bands several times. You name them, I probably saw them.
68 here...
We look at 'Reaction' videos of people who've never heard these songs before - And it's entertaining.
This wasn't Top 40 hit, but it's one of my top 20 favorites
They won't ever understand what it was like to turn on the AM radio and hear great music like The Who, or Cream, until you're tired of listening
Yep! I’m 68.. so lucky to be around during the greatest era of music!
54 years old. I’m 71 I lived at a great time with great music.
God bless we were very blessed by the artist that were around in the days I just turned 60 this past fall. And for some of the younger they've got no clue of the music I listen to or play. But I really enjoy it because my elders truly respect the older music I play
You had to be musicians back then .
Yes, that’s true. I am 70 years old now. Because of such music I started playing guitar over 55 years ago. Stay healthy!
Anyone else watch it 3 times in a row and come back the next day and do it again?
Yep. I' m here again.
I’m on 6 straight now
That’s because it is held in the past.
Thinking about it but probably 🤔 not. Gonna head over to Dear Mr. Fantasy now me thinks
ABSOLUTELY ☮️✌️🤩
Wow. Four talented guys who sound amazing. Not to mention they are outdoors, with basic gear and recording equipment. No computers, technology, or gimmicks here. Sounds pure and from the heart.
And people are just enjoying themselves, their friends, and the music without being on their phones and watching the music thru their phones.
...imagine these folks hearing what has become a classic for the first time..
said in 1969 "we're goin to do a number a new number" now 2022 53 years later this song just got better its hard to believe I lived through these times... I'm so lucky to have lived in these times... thank you my sweet Lord...
Nice to see Clapton with a cool Telecaster .
Welcome home brother !
The true definition of a Super Group!!!
Winwood,Clapton and Ginger Baker!!They don’t make ‘em like that anymore!Long live Rock n Roll ❤And as an edit,thanks to those of you who reminded me not to forget Jack Bruce👍
The only time you ever heard of a bass player named Rick Gretch from a group called Family.
@@wabitt11 Actually, its Grech, shortened from Grechko I think, and I did see him in Family and then in Traffic, but not in Blind Faith. Pity he died so young.
@@donvanvliet9477 Good to know. Thank you!
@@wabitt11 No problem sir! Keep on rockin'! (as we used to say 55 years ago)
You forgot to mention the incredible playing by Ric Grech, who played with Family, Traffic, and Blind Faith.
I'm a singer, guitarist. Clapton and Winwood are absolute idols to me. All I could do through this whole video was watch Ginger in absolute amazement!
OMG !!! Ginger , for he was not a clouter like Bonham.
Seriously, his touch is so deft and I'm sure he used calfskins:you can feel it if you've heard your dad playing calfskin drums.
Mind you , when my dad was buying them there was no alternative, but they do sound 'better'.Lol
More than once I've said "Bonham my ass..." Ginger Baker will be my favorite drummer until I die.
EVH. Is king sir.
..no one comes close.
@NSPIREGuru Keith moon had more talent in one finger....
@@Patricia-pq4jq I'd dispute that, but regardless of whether it's true or not, Ginger will always be my favorite. Both guys were absolute mad men but are difficult to compare beyond that, as if they were playing different instruments entirely. Keith may have had more punch, and played drums in an intuitive way almost as if they were a melodic instrument. Maybe we call that natural talent, maybe we call it lack of training coupled with unbridled ambition. Ginger was certainly more technically proficient, and had more a more sophisticated grasp of time signatures and jazz embellishment. He was a more disciplined player. Both guys were amazing. I can think of a dozen songs where I thought to myself, "Damn, Keith Moon is amazing!" or "Damn, Ginger Baker is amazing!" However, thinking of both of them at once, I can only think of the differences, I can't think of any similarities except that they were drummers for two of my favorite bands - and two bands with little similarity, Cream and The Who. Clapton and Townsend - very different guitarists. Bruce and Entwistle - very different bass players. Baker and Moon - very different drummers.
Lost Ginger Baker in 2019..R.I.P. ,and no doubt by now HE has found his way home.
Fucking love that guy!! Ginger is in the top one (1)!
Wow! So much beauty, talent and youth....I had to cry with my 70 years remembering these times. Thank you!
Yes the nostalgia of being 66 and remembering the 70s is overwhelming sometimes. Like I tell the younger generation. If you weren't there then there is no explaining it. Maybe we'll feel this good in heaven.
One of the great rock songs, it will be played and covered forever. Part psychedelic, part gospel, so full of spiritual longing - Winwood was an old soul in a young body when he wrote this.
I love the way his voice cracks on “near the end” - it’s a song about being on the edge, exhausted in every way; it fits the theme perfectly, despite being accidental on the day.
We just added this song to our show and that particular note is impossible for me to hit. I laughed that even 16-17 year old Steve had a problem with it ,too.
Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood, and Eric Clapton. Saw two out of three. GINGER BAKER....created a unique sound on drums....dynamic powerful action on the toms...!
Winwood has always been an old soul
Clapton looks so relaxed. It's calming to look at him. Cars and Music of the 60's and 70's will never be out done. Such style, art and talent! I'm glad we lived to see and hear it with young eyes and ears.
Yeah, just wish I could remember it better! 😂😂
'50's cars had the most style. '60's is in second. '50's fashion was the best, too.
I don't see it like that. EC is scared to death and quite literally hiding among the equipment. This jibes with what he's been saying ever since..... this concert was rushed and he wasn't ready to gig on these tunes just yet.
@@aaarauz1 yea , but he evolved , Jack Bruce , moved him to the person he turned out to be.
This is when he started doing dope with Ginger...he's relaxed alright. And decades later he's even more relaxed mentally when he decides that saving lives with a Covid vaccine is optional....Clapton is scrod
This is 54 years old! I can't believe it.
A perfect illustration of how today's music simply cannot compare.
Couldn’t agree with you anymore the music of today is a joke! Every time I turn on the radio it sounds like the same person singing male or female, the generation of today are like clones of one and other. Real music is gone for good I’m afraid.
It's funny as I just read a thread complaining about the cost of gig tickets being justified by the cost of employing and transporting the production crew, pyrotechnics, backing orchestra, lighting rigs, mixing desks, and God only knows what else!
This was a FREE concert - simple stage, no mixing desk, no pyro, lights - just a few speaker stacks and outrageous talent - and 100,000+ people hearing history being made for free!
I would pay double to see this than any act playing today!
Unfortunately, the music being produced today is an abomination 😖🤢 The mainstream music business has totally ruined it! It’s ALL about the political & social correctness and 💵💵!! If you don’t sell out to their process, you won’t have a chance to make it. SO many talented musicians out there never even get a chance, if they don’t conform. It’s never been more obvious that you must “sell your soul” to get any kind of recording contract, no matter how talented you are. Hopefully, things will change soon…A LOT of things
Amen!
@@tommysparks2705 I'm astonished how many songs are now either not played on the radio, or have certain words replaced, bleeped, or blanked. Funnily enough, the Sex Pistols stuff is mostly OK, but classics like Pink Floyd's 'Money' have awkward gaps in them! The World has gone mad!
I feel fortunate to have been old enough to have lived through the 60's and 70's to experience the phenomenal music of that era. So many talented individuals who made so many hits without the technology we have today. Pure talent and ability. Greatest generation of musicians whose music is still on top even in 2023. That speaks volumes... Cheers...
Today’s music,
Is not music!
It’s noise pollution.
I’m 74 years now and my grandchildren love
my old records😊
54 years later and still better than any music of today!!!!
You are a liar.
There isn't any 'music of today'. It's just electronic noise.
I'm from Atlanta Texas.
My brother was with Henley in high school.
Roscoe Beck many more from our little area.
There are thousands of better current bands you fool.
I disagree, y'all just stopped trying to find new music....im 61 , I love this song deeply also , but theres a ton of good new music, take your blinders and ear muffs off, stop swimming in nostalgia! My God you're on CZcams , take a random search and listen, theres almost too much good music in the world to listen to! Without being herded to it like sheep, like in the 1960's when just a few big companies marketed to us and decided what we were destined to listen to.
I find such comfort in Steve Windwoods incredible voice !!
Me Too
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I always thought he sang great ! Stevie Winwood 2024 !
I always liked him. Traffic was a great band, too.
and steve WINWOODS voice is pretty good too
It’s like Ginger doesn’t just hear the music but is one with it, as a fellow percussionist it’s such a remarkable thing to witness!
He and Mooney had the same mother!🤣
I can see that. I am sure his style cannot be taught!
Yeah right on I agree
Yeah , ginga baker , was my favorite drummer back then , and I loved blind faith, I built a soup box derby car , and named it Blind Faith !
Dubai and about 5 million other percussionists all agree.
Blind Faith was one of the first albums I ever bought. I was in love with Steve Winwood. I thought if only I could meet him, he would fall in love with me, and we'd go on tour and live happily ever after. Note--I was 16. I'm so happy to see this video and think about who I was before life happened to me, and what a great time that was.
Love how this captures the young Winwood, the breaking vocals( that would be fixed today) left raw and as it was. Our generation took it in stride, allowed and accepted it. Shame those who went on to college and politics fell away and became something unrecognizable to me. Grateful for my young years, sorry for how the world has chosen to go.
Trying to figure out who was on Bass. L@@KS like Jack Bruce. Anyone know ???
I agree. Always keep the faith. They cant take that away from us.
@@dagoneit426271 Ric Grech
Cream was Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker & clapton
His breaking vocals, I call soul. This is my favorite version of this song. It’s real.
@@stevejeffrey11RIP JACK BRUCE
I was at this show - lived in London that summer, and saw virtually every show that happened in London
You saw The Rolling Stones at Hyde Park too? Same Summer! BLESS YOU!👍
Sure did...Stones in the afternoon then to Albert Hall for the Who.
This version is better than any album version I've heard. Steve's voice is so real and raw. He is singing his heart out, and the voice cracks of a young man of just 20/21 add to the rawness. I love his voice crack at 2:03-2:06 and how his whole being is into singing. I never tire of this video. The song is one of my favorites ever too.
Sorry, I'll take a song, sung in tune, over a singer over-singing the song and losing pitch anyday. I like well done and not raw.
In all fairness, since it was live, he probably couldn't hear himself over the instruments, and started yelling instead of singing.
@@someguy7805
Don't be sorry, someguy, who cares what you think? Especially when you can't even hear the singing. Put your comment as its own, not a reply.
@@CN-dl2cj
Go #### yourself. Nobody cares what you think either. And I can hear him sing great, until he tries the high notes, then his voice breaks and sounds like sheeet when he's yelling. Not sorry I said it. Just sorry your wittle feewings were hurt.
Joy…
It’s just sublime.
@@someguy7805
🤣🤣 No wories, you didn't hurt my feelings at all! Obviously you did care about what I thought, or you wouldn't have replied in the first place. Learn to spell..it's 'little feelings'. Or are you 3?
I'm done here; couldn't care less about what you think or that you over-estimate your ability to hurt feelings. Ta ta!
After Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood hadn't played this song together for over 30 years they reunited and performed this song. They took it to new heights ❤
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It's 2023...... I'm still jamming to this song !
Steve Windwood.....a voice of multiple generations.
Fucking guy crushes it.
"Spirit is something that no one destroys " ~ Steve Winwood ✌❤🌷🌷🎶✊
low spark...
He seems a beautiful soul.
His face is angelic.
Jim Capaldi
We're all just spirits encased in bodies... George Harrison
What a precious find, both audio and video quality are quite impressive, especially for 1969, right? This has got to be the best preserved example of 'Blind Faith' performing, thanks so very much for posting.
You tube saves me from deep despair. I think that it's the best part of the Internet.
Me Too!
Never did find my way home
Fell in love with this track at 13. Still feel the same passion for this song at 67………wow, what a time to be a teenager, so much amazing music! 🇦🇺❤️
63 here and LOVING THIS! 🙂
I love these old videos. The audience probably has no idea they are listening to rock legends playing a rock classic!
They do. unlike today that's why for the most part they sat down and shut the fuck up.
Everybody was feeling it,
Great music,
True
"I wish there was a way to know you're in the good ol days before you've actually left them"😢
I was blessed watching my nine year old son on stage with the band with his Les Paul Pee Wee in Yankee Lake Ohio and then in Naperville IL back in 2001...Go Beau Go!!!
Amazing. It will never happen again. So lucky to grow up with real music. When it had soul and feeling. Best ever
Steve Winwood makes everything better, even Clapton and Baker
He really does
Lol. True
No other voice like Steve Winwood!!!
2024...drummers are the backbone of a band, just don't get the recognition they deserve
Amazing that Steve Winwood is only 19 years old there.
14 years old.
he's 21 at that point , being born in 1948 pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Winwood
It’s amazing that he’s only 19 when he’s 21
He'd just turned 21 in fact.
This and Traffic's Low Spark transport me back to the time, complete with all the feelings, memories, sights, sounds, and thoughts of my early 20s.
Impossible not to listen to this iconic song from time to time. Steve is one of the greatest talents. And normally I don't say this easily, but yes, I think such music with so much musicality and depth is hard to find these days.
I was there. 19 yrs old, selling hash. It was a very hot day. Those summers...67, 68. 69, 70...were much hotter than they were anytime since. So much for the hoax of 'global warming.' I'd seen Cream and especially liked Ginger Baker and was interested in Blind Faith, the new so-called 'supergroup.' I remember being stuck near the back of the crowd and being disappointed. The sound system was under-powered. Couldn't hear them properly. I'd forgotten this till now. The film brought it back. Some of it. Wish I could remember more. It was an exciting, colourful time. Creative and expansive. Not like now.
Hoax of global warming😂
I hear you buddy. I’m only 41 so I didn’t live through it. But I feel I’m like else we’re the last of the Mohicans for slot of things. However we were doing our best to replicate it. I. My area they had these festivals that would never be accepted today. It was basically a folk festival with a mega cop market. Probably more like a mega cop market with live folk entertainment. We would take my 1964 Plymouth valiant with a push button transmission to all these festivals, it was great times
Beautiful young men singing impossibly wonderful songs. I miss it.
Silence when introducing the song... and It's still one of my favorite tunes 54 years later.
54
I agree, I am 62. This song is timeless. Best wishes to you.
Blind Faith are quickly mentioned in a Woodstock interview as a “heavy group.”
This song has withstood the test of time. Still love every version of it.❤
Same here. It's a 'stop you in your tracks' song. No wonder it's had so many covers.
Was fortunate to live through this era Greatest rock in history
Knew it was transcendental at that moment, but wasn't totally aware that it would be an eternal high..... we were all convinced that each individual in that band was beyond mortal...... together and separately they were giants that would live forever thru their musical accomplishments. Fifty plus years and still the cutting edge as tho this we're yesterday.....
It's been awesome to have "lived" thru the Golden Age of Music.
Well put brother 🎉
Wonderful footage, they were a real super group in my youth. Great to see Clapton playing a Telecaster and not his usual Strat, Ginger Baker, surely one of the worlds a finest ever drummers looking as he did like the wrath of God and that unique voice that can only be Steve Winwood. Love it….
…like the wrath of God made me laugh
You realize that this Telecaster had a Stratocaster neck, right?
As great as this is, and don’t get me wrong I’m super grateful something like this exists, the camera work is frustrating. It’s done by someone who doesn’t understand what’s going on musically, which was typical for a lot of concerts filmed in the late 60s/early 70s. We see more of Ric Grech’s bass guitar and Ginger’s foot action on the kick than Clapton playing his tasty solo.
Clapton played a Gibson SG with Cream.
@@bluesky6361 How is that relevant? Do you think the shape of the headstock makes the guitar?
Nobody kept time like Ginger Baker man 👌
I was 12yrs, living in Motown when this was then. Now 67 still living here and near. "Let love be"
This is amazing. Blind Faith in their prime. Eric, Stevie and even Ginger look so dam young. Bless them and you for uploading this treasure.
Thanks again for sharing this.
I think Blind Faith was always in their prime since they were only around as band for less than a year.
@@awboat good point.
Rick Gretch was there too.
@@awboat That was my first thought when I read David's comment.
@@KaiserBlade Poor soul. Only lived for a little more than 43 years.
Ginger Baker- somehow despite all the recognition and plaudits for me he still remains underrated. His talent is that huge!
I don't think he is underrated. Many of us consider him the greatest drummer of all time!
Incredible musician. Modesty kept him from being a drumming icon. Can't blame him.
THAT MAD MR. BAKER !!
On the contrary. I think he sucks and he's constantly OVERRATED. He's full of shit and he's full of himself and he's annoying. Everything he plays makes me wonder why he did THAT🤨
I think that I exaggerated when I said the greatest drummer of all-time. That would have to be Neil Peart of Rush IMHO.
I was there, my 1st concert, i was 13, my older brother took me, started my life of love of music,
Yep and Cheers From Texas in 2023 born in 1976... Happy Birthday 75th Birthday Steve Winwood...
I was at this Concert, 21 years old and tripping on Acid, I lived just off Kensington Church Street a short walk to the stage.
What a time, I just wish I had paid more attention.
You're still here to tell the tale mate!
You're a survivor 🙌
@@steffanhoffmann8937: Survivor with a capital S. The dope didn't kill me, the booze didn't kill me, the Cigarettes didn't kill me, gave everything up over 30 years ago,but Im not giving up Coffee and lovely females for anybody.
What a trip.
I was born in 1971.
My current residential street name is Kensington Court and my previous address was Church Street.
Long live good music and great connections!
@@allemander: Going from High St Ken up Kensington Church street there is a curve and a small street on the Left side and thats where I lived, in a crash pad, 1969.
@@abw48
I’m a lifetime Georgia USA resident, 51 years, so I’m not familiar with those areas you mentioned but I appreciate your message. ✌🏼
One of my favorite songs
What a treat to see Blind Faith perform it live. 😎👍
Thanks
One of the most evocative rock songs ever. Someone played it on The Voice last week more than 50 years after this performance and it still puts lumps in my throat.
When they played this on the voice, tears started running down my 71 year old eyes. So many memories of that time and many friends now gone. Fantastic song then and fantastic now. I'm now playing my 60's music again. The album's have been sitting in closet way too long!!!
my eyes moisten at the purity of this.
What a time to be alive, awake and aware.
Woke
Yes. Watching that crowd, the reaction. Those were halcyon days! A moment in time that can never be replicated.
@@megadave1197 😆I see what you did there.
Unless you happened to have been Brian Jones.
Put this on my list when I invent my time machine
😂see ya there
What a great time that must have been to be alive. Wish I could take a time machine and go back to be there for this. So thankful for this footage. Stevie Winwood is such a beautiful human being. An international treasure.
You absolute right sir,an international treasure indeed
I Was in high school,and i had that "Blind Faith" album. wish i still had it.
I was born right after that generation, 1965
A rocking live version of the softer album track. Phenomenal song and the talent is a cut above. Ginger Baker's drumming (spoken from a drummer) is unique... a blend of sophistication meets tribal rawness. Man those tom toms!
Clapton and Ginger baker are locked together, a very tight groove, and Baker plays lead on drums. Love it..!
Baker is linking up runs admittedly,like a great Tubman would!
I miss those days.
Ginger’s playing on this is TERRIBLE, what are you smoking? 😂 He’s literally killed the sublime groove of the album version. Totally over-playing and in places literally playing “whatever”. Amazing talent but total egomaniac approach to playing in a band…..this is not Cream, these are not freeform extended blues jams, these are well-crafted songs that require the players to serve the song, not themselves. I still wonder what on Earth Winwood was thinking getting him in the band, he was absolutely the wrong guy for the job…..
@@blahzay_ I agree with you; his playing is in contrast with the character of the song.
Another supergroup.
I can't believe how much I love Ginger's work on this!!
no cow bell respect
It's like one long solo.
There's Ginger. And everyone else.
Man ! In my opinition Ginger Backer was the greatest of all drummers.
Been watching this video for a few years now. 14 when this was filmed. I didn’t see this until 50 years after.. but this period 1969 to 1976 remains fixed in my mind as one of Hope, confusion, great highs and a lot of conflict.
I miss that feeling of experiencing anything was possible
Soooo takes me back. Look at all the talent on that stage. Love these old videos!
We were there. Pretty much perfect. Short-lived band but a classic song.
Imagine how talented at 17 wind wood had to be for Clapton and ginger baker to leave cream ! Take the back stage . Just amazing music !
Love the music from this period. I was born in ‘66 and discovered Blind Faith for my self in high school in the eighties. Borrowed the LP from a guy in Spanish class. Still get goose bumps from this song. Thank you.
The greatest ability these people showed was that they loved to show their feelings though a guitar and made the guitar away to break barriers with humans with music and made great
i remember 3 of us, driving down, from Manchester to see this Concert. Brilliant'. I would have been about 21. what great memories. !!
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i was 13 for this and it started my love for Blind Faith
We had no idea that it would never be this good ever again.
The amount of talent on that one stage...
Hey y'all it's me Jeff Yoder the ol'broke down scooter tramp (exbiker),and for me an Vietnam 🇻🇳 Era veteran the music 🎶 of the late 60s and early 70s was therapy for unwanted feelings about how it felt to be treated for answering Uncle Sam's call like I had been raised and taught was my duty and then to be treated so much differently than veterans of generations before mine (and since mine) and today I listen to that same music 🎶 to remember how well the music 🎶 allowed me to escape those feelings then and how it has helped me to to "escape " the hurt feelings throughout the last 50years
I was a one year old. I still would have crawled to hitch a ride if I knew how to do it. 😁 Mom always said I was born 10 years too late but this music has stayed with me for the next 52 years of my life ✌🏻👍🏻👶😁💯 and the next 50 years!
I was 4, and in the early 70's, my baby sitters would play music like this, love this song,,,although I remember asking my mom how come their cigarettes smell so much different then theirs!!!!!!! lol
so many of us been there, I grew up in the SF bay area late 60s & 70s can't explain how cool that was. if you were there you all know !
Ginger Baker is as always killing it on the drums
My favorite song of all time. I still have the Blind Faith LP I bought in Spain, in 1969, with the naked young girl on the cover.
That naked young girl was Steve Windwood's 13 year old sister. I've got the same album. I bought it in England because the cover was banned in the US, it was declared pornographic.
@@paulgeorgejr3273 The model was actually 11-year-old Mariora Goschen, whose older sister was approached in the London Underground by the photographer, Bob Seidemann, who created the cover art. Not related to any of the band members.
I'm going to have this played at my wake. Hey, I survived the 60's, I earned the right.
So happy someone got this concert footage. What a gem!
i grew up in this era, it was so amazing, an experience that stays with you. when your lost and alone, its all you got...
Steve Winwood, the best musician Britainn has produced inn my lifetime and I'm 70.
I remembered I was at the North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague in 2003, and I saw him practically standing next to me performing. And I saw not many people recognized him. I was very surprised, cause I always thougt this guy´s a legend. And there he was, not even on a podium. A very strange encounter...
Being 72 years on my life's journey makes me appreciate all the music, the experiences, the brotherhood of mankind that permeated the zeitgeist of the late sixties and early seventies. Peace,love and rock&roll !!!
At 71 I'm right behind you Susan. Those were magic days indeed. We'll never see the like again; weren't we lucky!
Soon to become one of the greatest bands in the history of rock & roll.
They all became legends.
They were a failure and lasted 6 months.
@@ArchieFatcackie
Yeah but it was a brilliant 6 months.
Just because they couldn't get along doesn't mean they weren't a great band.
Their eponymous album is still one of the best of the era - classic in all respects.
Egos were too big to last.
@@ArchieFatcackie You’re a failure
@@ShaunHensley
Grow up bonny lad just because you don’t agree with my opinion.
I actually owned that album but it was no great shakes and they agreed as they disbanded after 6 months.
Like I say, the project failed history tells you that.
@@ArchieFatcackie Their music is being enjoyed over 50 years later. Nope, you are for sure the failure
I wasn’t even alive but listened to Rock N Roll my whole life, look how young these iconic stars were ❤
I was four years old 😊
Music was so amazing back then....at the time, we took it for granted since there was so much talent every where. Some great shows: James Taylor, The James Gang and The Who - 5 bucks. Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, John McLaughlin and The Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Raspberries, Roxy Music, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Poco, Yes, Larry Coryell, Weather Report, Chick Corea and Return to Forever, Todd Rundgren, Judy Collins, John Mayall and The Bluesbreakers, Uriah Heep, Kiss with The New York Dolls, It's a Beautiful Day with The Allman Brothers, Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett, Albert King, Robert Jr. Lockwood, Grand Funk Railroad, Bruce Springsteen, Leon Russell, Devo, Joni Mitchell, Jethro Tull, Genesis with Peter Gabriel and many more....❤
Music has a way of connecting us all...no matter what age we are.
True...but I think we're losing it.
God--he's 17 years old...amazing talent!
In 1969, Steve was 21 (born May 12, 1948) 😌
@@valeriefouchey4201 I was thinking Gimme Some Lovin which he wrote when he was 17, still a genius....Thanks
I still have this album. I play it occasionally. It takes me back to simpler times. You can tell all your favorite albums. They are all scratched up from wasted people bumping into the stereo.
You speak the truth...the best records get played alot and see more scratches.
Remembered this again as I was watching 3 body problem series
Amazing song!
There is no doubt this was the greatest era of music of all time. I’m 42, I was born a few decades too late. Kinda makes me sad I didn’t get to witness the greatness unfold. But grateful I lived in an era that these guys are in.
I just love Eric's early sounding guitar playing and of course Ginger's drumming
Damn......Ginger's drum timing was phenomenal.
He knew EXACTLY where the pocket was when he played....and it SHOWED.🥁
He was the drum man!
Everybody that knows great music. This is gold. First time ever played to the public and look at all the talent.
There's more talent on that stage in 1969 than there is in the entire music industry today. I was 14 years old in 69; what great times and better music.