MIKE BLOOMFIELD SUPER SESSION 180GRAM LIMITED EDITION & ELECTRIC FLAG Sealed LPs

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Mike Bloomfield - Al Kooper - Steven Stills - SUPER SESSION OUT OF PRINT 180 GRAM CS 9701 AND ELECTRIC FLAG - COLUMBIA RECORDS LAST OUT OF PRINT PRESSINGCS 9597

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The nicest thing you can do for your stylus and your ears. The ultimate record -- the way music was meant to be heard   

To understand this SUPER SESSION, you must understand that Mike Bloomfield was the premiere guitarist in the United States in the late sixties.

When Eric Clapton and Cream came to the United States, the only person who really impressed them was Mike Bloomfield (who was playing lead guitar for the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.

Al Kooper, who created The Blues Project and established Blood, Sweat & Tears with their debut album,CHILD IS FATHER TO THE MAN, and also was the main contributer to Bob Dylan’s classic album, BLONDE ON BLONDE and was one of the best producers in the business.

Steven Stills was inbetween playing with The Buffalo Sprinfield and was just in the evolution of starting Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. SUPER SESSION has Mike Bloomfield ripping on his Gibson guitar laying down some of the most instrumentals you have ever heard with Al Kooper. On the second side with Al Kooper, Steven Stills does an eleven-minute rendition of “Season Of The Witch” which will blow you away.

As the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) had done a year earlier, Super Session (1968) initially ushered in several new phases in rock & roll's concurrent transformation. In the space of mere months, the soundscape of rock shifted radically from two- and three-minute danceable pop songs to comparatively longer works with more attention to technical and musical subtleties. Enter the unlikely all-star triumvirate of Al Kooper (piano/organ/ondioline/vocals/guitars), Mike Bloomfield (guitar), and Stephen Stills (guitar) — all of whom were concurrently "on hiatus" from their most recent engagements. Kooper had just split after masterminding the definitive and groundbreaking Child Is Father of the Man (1968) version of Blood, Sweat & Tears.

Bloomfield was fresh from a brief stint with the likewise brass-driven Electric Flag, while Stills was late of Buffalo Springfield and still a few weeks away from a more or less full-time commitment to David Crosby and Graham Nash. Although the trio never actually performed together, the long-player was notable for idiosyncratically featuring one side led by the team of Kooper/Bloomfield and the other by Kooper/Stills. The band is ably fleshed out with the powerful rhythm section of Harvey Brooks (bass) and Eddie Hoh (drums) as well as Barry Goldberg (electric piano) on "Albert's Shuffle" and "Stop." The heavy Chicago blues contingency of Bloomfield, Brooks, and Goldberg provide a perfect outlet for the three Kooper/Bloomfield originals — the first of which commences the project with the languid and groovy "Albert's Shuffle."

The guitarist's thin tone cascades with empathetic fluidity over the propelling rhythms. Kooper's frisky organ solo alternately bops and scats along as he nudges the melody forward. The same can be said of the funky interpretation of "Stop," which had originally been a minor R&B hit for Howard Tate. Curtis Mayfield's "Man's Temptation" is given a brass-fuelled soulful reading that might have worked equally well as a Blood, Sweat & Tears cover. At over nine minutes in spin time, "His Holy Modal Majesty" is a fun trippy waltz and includes one of the most extended jams on the Kooper/Bloomfield side. The track also features the distinct hurdy-gurdy and Eastern-influenced sound of Kooper's small electric keyboard-manipulated ondioline, which has a slightly atonal and reedy timbre much like that of John Coltrane's tenor sax.

Because of some physical health issues, Bloomfield was unable to complete the recording sessions and Kooper contacted Stills. Immediately his decidedly West Coast sound — which alternated from a chiming Rickenbacker intonation to a faux pedal steel — can be heard on the upbeat version of Bob Dylan's "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry." One of the album's highlights is the churning and scintillating cover of "Season of the Witch." There is an undeniable synergy between Kooper and Stills, whose energies seems to aurally drive the other into providing some inspired interaction. Updating the blues standard "You Don't Love Me" allows Stills to sport some heavily amplified and distorted licks, which come off sounding like Jimi Hendrix. This is one of those albums that seems to get better with age and that gets the full reissue treatment every time a new audio format comes out. This is a super session indeed.

1. Albert's Shuffle      
2. Stop      
3. Man's Temptation      
4. His Holy Modal Majesty      
5. Really      
6. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry      
7. Season Of The Witch      
8. You Don't Love Me      
9. Harvey's Tune 

ELECTRIC FLAG - A LONG TIME COMIN’ - The nicest thing you can do for your stylus and your ears. The ultimate record -- the way music was meant to be heard and this is mymusicfix's one of last out of print copy forever.

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This Analog pressing sounds tremendous and shows that the Original Master Tapes are still in pristine condition! Without a doubt ELECTRIC FLAG was one of the most talented bands ever assembled in pop music. Mike Bloomfield’s statement that “Electric Flag is an American Band, American music -is not necessarily music directly from America.

 I think of it the music you hear in the air, on the air, and in the streets -- Blues, Soul, Country, Rock, Religious, Traffic, Crowds, Street Noise and Field Sounds -- the sounds of people and silence.” The music here is extremely tight -- the horn section revolutionized rock music (aka Blood Sweat & Tears, Chicago) and Bloomfield’s heartfelt playing is admired by the likes of Clapton, Mick Taylor and Peter Green.

Any one song on this album is worth the price of admission and though, many of the Band’s members - Harvey Brooks - Barry Goldberg - Buddy Miles - Nick Gravenites - Richie Havens - all went on to solo careers, this is a moment in time...A LONG TIME COMIN’... that will not be duplicated because the music captures the energy of the American City within its grooves like no other album. The energy and the range of the songs still will blow you away

This would make a tremendous “GIFT” for any true Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper or Steven Stills fan.

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