jimmy@scgvaxd.UUCP (Jim Raisanen) (11/05/85)
I was lucky enough to see the CDB at the Greek Theatre in LA last Friday night!! The whole band was excellent and from the songs they played, their new album should be a good buy! Anyway, to those Angelenos (and others who are familiar with it) who missed (I guess that means in the neighborhood of 10 million or so) Cheech Marin came out with the warm-up band for their last song and did an extremely fun version of "Born in East LA"!!! Hillarious!! One question did come out of the concert though: The first band called themselves Al Kooper (sp?) and the Re-kooperators. Is this the same Al Kooper as the one who did "Year of the Cat" and "Time Passages"? (If the `famous' Al Kooper actually did those two songs!) This guy resembled him but his voice was not the same, or so I thought. "And if the commies don't believe it, they can all go straight to hell...God Bless America again!" JR
floyd@brl-tgr.ARPA (Floyd C. Wofford ) (11/07/85)
>One question did come out of the concert though: The first band >called themselves Al Kooper (sp?) and the Re-kooperators. Is this >the same Al Kooper as the one who did "Year of the Cat" and "Time >Passages"? (If the `famous' Al Kooper actually did those two songs!) >This guy resembled him but his voice was not the same, or so I >thought. >JR Al Stewart was the fellow who did those songs and albums in question. Al Kooper (if it is the same one) was in a band in the 60's called the Blue's Project. They resembled the Paul Butterfield Blues Band in style and material. After that band Al formed a band named Blood, Sweat and Tears. He was only on for the first album, their popularity really began on the second. He was part of the studio band for Bob Dylan, especially during the Blonde on Blonde time period. One of his most popular ventures was a two album series for Columbia records. One was studio and the other live. The studio lp featured he, Mike Bloomfield and Stephen Stills and was called Super Session (I think). The live versions was called Live Sessions and was without Stills. There was some interesting stuff there if not great. He did a few solo albums and at least one collaboration with Shuggie Otis (guitarist son of Johnny Otis of Willie and the Hand Jive fame). The parallel with Mike Bloomfield is interesting. Bloomfield came from Butterfield's band. Upon its demise he founded a band named the Electric Flag with Harvey Brooks and Billy Miles and a few others. Its format was quite similar to Blood, Sweat & Tears. Bloomfield was also part of the Dylan band. In the seventies he went to Woodstock to live. He died a few years ago. His last years saw him putting out solo records and instructional material. Bloomfield in my book was one of the tastiest white blues/power guitarists of the late sixties. I preferred his output to Kooper's but neither was a slouch. Good to hear the oldies are still in there. floyd@brl.arpa
sint@ihlpl.UUCP (Marguerite Czajka) (11/07/85)
> > One question did come out of the concert though: The first band > called themselves Al Kooper (sp?) and the Re-kooperators. Is this > the same Al Kooper as the one who did "Year of the Cat" and "Time > Passages"? (If the `famous' Al Kooper actually did those two songs!) > This guy resembled him but his voice was not the same, or so I > thought. > Al Stewart did those two songs.