Thank you so much for this. I first saw Bloomfield with the Butterfield band (Jerome Arnold on bass) and it changed my musical life. I was at Monterrey when the schedule listed The Michael Bloomfield Blues Band and everyone wondered who was this Electric Flag, just about up til the time that they came on. Then the Flag played a lot in Los Angeles over the next year and I saw them at every chance I had. So, your reminiscing is food for my soul. For me, Bloomfield was the best. Thank you.
Hi Derek, J Cregg here, the drummer that played two shows a the Phoenix Theater in Petaluma w Michael opening up for Elvin Bishop in front around a thousand people? roughly late seventies?. You are "filling me in" with your story(s) on a few experiences I personally had with you and him which helped to begin a rather lengthy side line career for me drumming the Blues and other authentic roots music in many different bands over the years that I now have numerous recordings and photos of today and look back on it all as some of my most happiest times because I HAD A JOB! and TO DO that was wholesome, legitimate, made part of something greater than myself which taught me humility, and I ACTUAlLY LIKED DOING!! a big deal for me and many of us back then, there, even more so today! Keep it up! And Also! Great to see your face again after all this time with all everybody, or anybody especially any budding musicians had to go through in order to sustain even the most meager type of living at such a young age in Marin County at that time! Great to see you are still in a happy mood with a smile on your face again. Hats off to you!! BTW There is one band photo( Dimensions in front of the Civic center in San Rafael , w the great Tommy Banks, Archie Williams, Raymond Victor, Brian Pierce , Bruce Gapinski, the other horn player escapes me, me and you in it. One of of my most prized possessions now displayed on the Music room wall with a host of other photos & posters of the bands I played in and gigs I played dating all the way back to the mid late sixties in Sausalito and Marin City in my outbuilding ( Music Room) @ my country house I purchased with hard earned long saved money in Southern Oregon region of the Applegate Valley.. Huey's brother but keep it to yourself. HaHaHa LoL Just kidding, We see each other at Hollidays and water fowl season out at his Ranch in Western Mt. each year and get along just fine but I have to admit the decrease in his popularity is settling in just fine. Be Well. Peace Out (-: Jeff
I was the manager for Chicago Blues Power for the last few months of Michael's life, and continued for years after he passed. Boz Scaggs sat in with CBP at The Saloon in San Francisco 4 or 5 times after Bloomfield's passing czcams.com/video/89Or1V0jRLU/video.html
Thank you so much for this. I first saw Bloomfield with the Butterfield band (Jerome Arnold on bass) and it changed my musical life. I was at Monterrey when the schedule listed The Michael Bloomfield Blues Band and everyone wondered who was this Electric Flag, just about up til the time that they came on. Then the Flag played a lot in Los Angeles over the next year and I saw them at every chance I had. So, your reminiscing is food for my soul. For me, Bloomfield was the best. Thank you.
Hi Derek, J Cregg here, the drummer that played two shows a the Phoenix Theater in Petaluma w Michael opening up for Elvin Bishop in front around a thousand people? roughly late seventies?. You are "filling me in" with your story(s) on a few experiences I personally had with you and him which helped to begin a rather lengthy side line career for me drumming the Blues and other authentic roots music in many different bands over the years that I now have numerous recordings and photos of today and look back on it all as some of my most happiest times because I HAD A JOB! and TO DO that was wholesome, legitimate, made part of something greater than myself which taught me humility, and I ACTUAlLY LIKED DOING!! a big deal for me and many of us back then, there, even more so today! Keep it up! And Also! Great to see your face again after all this time with all everybody, or anybody especially any budding musicians had to go through in order to sustain even the most meager type of living at such a young age in Marin County at that time! Great to see you are still in a happy mood with a smile on your face again. Hats off to you!! BTW There is one band photo( Dimensions in front of the Civic center in San Rafael , w the great Tommy Banks, Archie Williams, Raymond Victor, Brian Pierce , Bruce Gapinski, the other horn player escapes me, me and you in it. One of of my most prized possessions now displayed on the Music room wall with a host of other photos & posters of the bands I played in and gigs I played dating all the way back to the mid late sixties in Sausalito and Marin City in my outbuilding ( Music Room) @ my country house I purchased with hard earned long saved money in Southern Oregon region of the Applegate Valley.. Huey's brother but keep it to yourself. HaHaHa LoL Just kidding, We see each other at Hollidays and water fowl season out at his Ranch in Western Mt. each year and get along just fine but I have to admit the decrease in his popularity is settling in just fine. Be Well. Peace Out (-: Jeff
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You are such a good talker. Very intresting.
I was the manager for Chicago Blues Power for the last few months of Michael's life, and continued for years after he passed. Boz Scaggs sat in with CBP at The Saloon in San Francisco 4 or 5 times after Bloomfield's passing czcams.com/video/89Or1V0jRLU/video.html