The Paul Butterfield Blues Band at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, including the current smooth jazz artist, saxophonist David Sanborn, whose role on this song seems to be that of providing two-part harmony with the trumpet. Here is their version of “Driftin’ Blues”…
And from the Where Are They Now Department, David Sanborn several decades later, in a tribute to fellow Monterey Pop Festival performer Otis Redding, with a classy version of “Try a Little Tenderness” (sorry, embedding it disabled, so you’ll have to click here instead.
Jerry Miller, one of the founding members of Moby Grape, one of the groups headlining the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, makes his home in his native Pacific Northwest, occasionally performing in the area.
Rolling Stone magazine listed him on the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, assigning him a #69 ranking. This writer has had a chance to see him perform on numerous occasions. He is quite personable and is very well liked in the area.
Here is a live outdoor performance at Meeker Days in Puyallup, WA, from 2006…
Curley Cooke, originally from Wisconsin, was a member of the Steve Miller Band (then called the Steve Miller Blues Band?) at the time of the Monterey Pop Festival. They performed on the second day.
Curley has some fascinating stories to tell about those times. This writer has also enjoyed comparing notes with him about life in the Upper Midwest in the 1960s.
Like Jerry Miller, he now makes his home in the Pacific Northwest and is also very personable and well liked.
I’m sure if a gifted writer were to interview these two, as well as some of the other great musicians who now reside in the NW, it could result in a great book, capturing the essence of a very special time in our country’s history.
Here is a performance by Curley & friends from 2008 in Seattle…
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Those 43 years seem to have flown by, although thankfully time has not diminished my capacity to remember them.
Great collection of music, posted tonight by the dfh`s.
I don`t know how to embed YouTube, otherwise I`d have added something.
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, including the current smooth jazz artist, saxophonist David Sanborn, whose role on this song seems to be that of providing two-part harmony with the trumpet. Here is their version of “Driftin’ Blues”…
And from the Where Are They Now Department, David Sanborn several decades later, in a tribute to fellow Monterey Pop Festival performer Otis Redding, with a classy version of “Try a Little Tenderness” (sorry, embedding it disabled, so you’ll have to click here instead.
Jerry Miller, one of the founding members of Moby Grape, one of the groups headlining the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, makes his home in his native Pacific Northwest, occasionally performing in the area.
Rolling Stone magazine listed him on the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, assigning him a #69 ranking. This writer has had a chance to see him perform on numerous occasions. He is quite personable and is very well liked in the area.
Here is a live outdoor performance at Meeker Days in Puyallup, WA, from 2006…
Curley Cooke, originally from Wisconsin, was a member of the Steve Miller Band (then called the Steve Miller Blues Band?) at the time of the Monterey Pop Festival. They performed on the second day.
Curley has some fascinating stories to tell about those times. This writer has also enjoyed comparing notes with him about life in the Upper Midwest in the 1960s.
Like Jerry Miller, he now makes his home in the Pacific Northwest and is also very personable and well liked.
I’m sure if a gifted writer were to interview these two, as well as some of the other great musicians who now reside in the NW, it could result in a great book, capturing the essence of a very special time in our country’s history.
Here is a performance by Curley & friends from 2008 in Seattle…