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on the phone in Chicago
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1941 1941
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things that helped me in learning to
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play the harmonica was that I realized
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that I could never speak
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the way any other individual
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spoke on the harmonica each has their
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own way of saying things so I just went
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ahead and got to a point of learning the
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instrument well enough that I could
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speak the way I wanted to speak which is
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really a nice thing about this
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instrument it's such a personal
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instrument it's really like a horn from
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the heart
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first day I was in Chicago
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I was walking around the neighborhood
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you know just trying to
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Chicago was a pretty big town biggest
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town I'd ever seen and and I saw a guy a
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white guy sitting on some steps in front
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of an apartment building playing guitar
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and drinking a quart of beer and he was
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playing Blues I said wow this has got to
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be my type of guy and I went over and
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started talking to him and we you know
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Butterfield he wasn't playing much
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harmonica at that time
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he played mostly guitar
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and shortly after that he took up the
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harmonica and within six months
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I use a natural genius on the instrument
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he just got way good in a short amount
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of time
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Paul seemed to start at full speed he
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would go for it
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absolutely and he had
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tremendous courage
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I mean you cannot minimize the courage
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it took
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to go into a blues club and sit in
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I'm astonished by
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itself
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I'm here at Silvio's which was an
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incredible Blues place and the home base
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of Howlin Wolf obviously it's a field
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right now
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and it's been gone so long there's a
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tree here
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it's huge
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and my father Paul Butterfield
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Barry Goldberg Charlie muscle White
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they all cut their teeth here Michael
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Bloomfield and the way they cut their
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teeth here was wolf would call these
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guys up on stage to play with them and
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and what an honor that must have been
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and really if you think standing on the
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stage with your Heroes at that time
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didn't make you go home and practice
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your instrument you got to be crazy
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this room is definitely a part of my
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father's sound
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all night long
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Hyde Park Illinois the home of the
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University of Chicago is a one and a
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half square mile neighborhood on
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Chicago's South Side until the early
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1950s Hyde Park was an almost
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exclusively White Community surrounded
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on three sides by African-American
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communities many of whose residents had
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migrated from the south
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beginning in the mid-1950s Hyde Park
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became one of Chicago's most racially
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diverse neighborhoods at a time when
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other parts of the country were
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struggling with race relations
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things weren't too cool it was way
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before
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civil rights you know
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and even though Chicago was better than
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Oklahoma was it was rough it was
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it was Hardcore segregated
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and uh
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Chicago was a little cooler but Hyde
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Park was real cool
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and in that area surrounding University
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we're 50 60 70 blues bars all with a
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band there was Blues being played by the
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best of the players and it was there in
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Hyde Park at Paul Bogger field was born
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and raised
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folklore Society was the biggest
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organization on campus it was there I
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met Paul Butterfield it was there we
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started to do a few things together I'd
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play guitar
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and he'd play harmonica we called
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ourselves Nick and Paul butter and I
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would go and play at the parties Nick
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gravenitis and uh
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we we didn't have any money we would do
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stuff like Whittle everybody got drunk
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and then go look in the freezer and
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throw a bunch of steaks in the alley and
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pick him up on a way home you know
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at a certain point the house band at the
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twist party
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became Paul and Elven and they had a
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Rhythm Section known as the Wilson
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Brothers a couple of black guys
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the band sounded good
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and it was an atypically integrated
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scene racially
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some black young people would come from
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the neighborhood to dance and nearby
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they're set a small piano
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which I would feel out and play along
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this guy named Norman dayron he had a
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tape recorder and I guess he was a
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school teacher professor at the
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University or something
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and one day he told Butterfield and
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cotton and me you guys want to hear what
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you sound like so he got us to come to
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this building that was empty it was in
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the evening at the University of Chicago
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and he set up his Walnut sack tape
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recorder
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it was me and cotton and Butterfield and
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Billy boy Arnold
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the good thing about butter was he was
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one of the few harmonica players you'll
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ever see who wasn't totally dominated by
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Little Walter their style is so
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attractive that it just stops people in
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their tracks and they can't think of any
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other way to go you know
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and Butterfield somehow he he was always
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I became aware of Butterfield one night
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he showed up at a place I was working
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with a little smoky Smothers then
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place called a blue flame
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he was on the white person in the place
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at the time hanging around wanted to get
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a chance to sit in with the band after
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he called the band back off the break
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I'm going to get this white boy up in
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that end play a little bit and everybody
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got quiet he was his white boy going to
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do
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he showed him what he could do you know
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he really showed him what he could do
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and he kept showing it
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people got some of the whites would
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start to coming in hey y'all gonna have
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that white boy back up you know the
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following week and it just went on and
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on and it kept going and never stopped
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like all Brothers we struggle we
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competed
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but we also
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theme old western movies always had to
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do with
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somebody seeking revenge for somebody
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who killed their brother
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so if anybody messed with Paul
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I was on it and the same if they messed
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with me he was on it so we were Rivals
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and yet very close
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I think I probably first met Paul I must
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have been nine perhaps because I can
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remember him I can remember walking to
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school and there he was this antic
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character on the other side of the
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street never never just walking he was
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helping or jumping or laughing and uh so
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he decided to throw some Stones across
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the street at me so that was really my
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my introduction to Paul Butterfield he
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was utterly Charming
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gorgeous looking with his blue eyes and
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his dark hair and who knew that 15 years
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later I'd become his sister-in-law he
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was for for a long time he was just
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Peter's younger brother to me her
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parents certainly provided both of us
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with every advantage in a sense
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not material things but exposure to
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music the Arts things they valued
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that we value
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so we felt we had a very privileged
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upbringing
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they grew up without a TV
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they grew up listening to classical
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music all the time my grandmother
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took uh took my dad to the symphony
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orchestra in Chicago
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and he picked out
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a cellist I believe it was that was Out
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Of Tune
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and she knew right then that he had a
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special
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Talent his brother played the clarinet
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and Paul took up flute our parents
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got him a good teacher from the uh
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Symphony and he played for a while
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Paul and I went to high school together
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at the University of Chicago laboratory
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school new high the school was wonderful
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in that it really tried to engage
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students to be able to be the ones to
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initiate the ideas it wasn't a call in
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response it wasn't a now you do this and
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the answer is that it was very much
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conversation based and lucky for Paul he
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was a good talker he could talk his way
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out of just about anything so it was a
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good place for him to be
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he was um not entirely focused student
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bring raisins to to with his lunch every
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day me throwing those all around getting
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a little trouble throw a chair out the
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window an instigator yeah
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his energy came out in his singing as
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well he was he was a member of the of
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our Jimmy shanties which was the name of
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our high school choir and he also was
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involved in various shows but again it
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wasn't that he had such a wonderful
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voice it was his energy and his
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personality that always carried it he
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brought it to the music at an intensity
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in a passion and he just worked it until
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he could do it
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and he was a leader not a leader in in a
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standard leader sense when you think of
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somebody who's you know says I will take
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charge and I will do it was more the um
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the follow me along because I'm having
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such a good time that kind of a leader
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people wanted to be by him
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After High School my brother who was
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somewhat of an athletic Star first he'd
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had a scholarship to Brown University in
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track and field
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and then he suffered an injury
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and so that was kind of out the window
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but he did get into University of
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Illinois
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but in the spring and summer before he
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would go off to University of Illinois
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he took his deep plunge
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into the blues into the harmonica
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the way Paul mastered the harmonica was
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simply to virtually play it 24 7. he
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used to go out to a peninsula on the
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lakefront in Chicago just north of 57th
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it was called Promontory Point
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I'd go and see him and I knew not to
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bother him because he would be totally
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absorbed in his playing
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so by the time he was ready to go to
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college
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he went to college let's say he went on
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a Monday
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he stayed through Thursday
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and came back to Chicago
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and hung out with his friends and was on
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the blue scene then after a while he
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would
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go on Monday and come back on Tuesday
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and then after a while he wouldn't go at
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all
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so and nobody had a clue
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that he was even in town
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I remember I took him to his first Club
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Smitty's Corners 35th Street muddy
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waterspan and we sort of hustled our way
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in the door we're both just young punks
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no ID
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and then we would hear things like the
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police would call and somebody had
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pulled a car over and there a bunch of
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unsavory characters in it including
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my brother
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and then my father who you know was a
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lawyer could go down to the station and
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get them out
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Paul takes his plunge into the blues at
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a time when folk music is enjoying a
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Renaissance among American Youth
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characterized by acoustic
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instrumentation and themes of social
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justice and led by artists like Bob
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Dylan Joan Baez Pete Seeger and many
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traditional and contemporary folk
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musicians the folk boom of the early 60s
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spawns thriving folk music scenes in
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major metropolitan areas and college
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towns throughout the U.S in Boston a
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young folk he soon to make his own
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musical Mark sets out on a journey
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across the country in search of new
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musicians and new sounds
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it was 1961 when I got to Chicago and I
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met Paul Butterfield and I was 21 and he
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was 19. he must have liked me because we
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became friends very quickly and I was
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glad of it because I didn't know anybody
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in Chicago and here I had this guy who
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was obviously a good musician taking me
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around to all these places that I never
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would have been able to see I never
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would have seen Muddy Waters at Pepper's
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lounge or Howling Wolf if Paul hadn't
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taken me there and both times we went
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there we were the only white people in
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the place yet they all knew Paul and
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they treated him just like a friend
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I got the feeling like muddy really
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liked Paul a lot and that he was glad to
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be able to teach him and show him and
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have somebody a young person
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and specifically a young white person
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who could already play great blues
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harmonica
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both Muddy Waters and I think especially
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Howling Wolf were very powerful Dynamic
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performers they they were intimidating
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in a certain way they were very strong
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and I could see that Paul had that kind
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of quality about him too even at that
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young age so that later on as he formed
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the blues band and and became well known
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that same strong quality was in Paul
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foreign
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in the early 1960s Chicago is arguably
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the urban Blues capital of the world
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by day it's the home of the renowned
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Chess Records whose roster of stars
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includes Chuck Berry Willie Dixon
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Howland Wolfe and Muddy Waters
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who always special I'd seen him numerous
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times at chess sitting in the music
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musician's waiting room
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he go up I don't know I don't know he
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was playing but they would let him come
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you know he got to know muddy he got to
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know Little Walter he got to know all
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the players
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at night the biggest names in the Blues
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perform at over a hundred clubs in the
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tough black neighborhoods on the city's
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South and West sides Paul Butterfield
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and Nick ravenitis are regulars on this
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late night circuit listening learning
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and sometimes sitting in
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Nick carries a pistol for protection
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live Blues doesn't arrive on the mostly
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white north side of Chicago until the
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summer of 1963 when a bar called Big
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John's contacts Paul about putting
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together a band to perform there four
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nights a week
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when barter first started playing Big
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John's it was when he was at a
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Crossroads in his life
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family pressure
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get a job you know get serious that's
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how that band started
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Paul knew what he wanted he wanted a
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dynamite Rhythm Section and he got the
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best Rhythm Section in Chicago howling
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Wolf's Rhythm Section with Jerome Arnold
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and Sam Lake
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what made me go with Butterfield he
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opened me 20 bucks a night and I was
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only getting seven a night with the wolf
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it was just four of us myself Jerome
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almond Butterfield and Evan Bishop
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that's the original band when I left
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wolf Jerome came with me so suddenly
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Paul Butterfield had howling Wolf's
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Rhythm Section
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instant credibility
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and the people on the North side went
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nuts not only on the North side across
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the country
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it was an idea whose time had come you
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know I think it was kind of overdue we
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were at the right place at the right
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time the big beautiful body of Music the
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blues the American Blues the black blues
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in this huge white audience that never
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to any extent met and the idea just
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caught fire
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there were all sorts of characters
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people from Second City would come in
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David Steinberg Robert Klein Ken Nordeen
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the great word Jazz hipster would be
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hustling pool in the back room there
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would be socialites coming from the near
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North Side Lakeshore Drive there would
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be robbers burglars pimps [ __ ]
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anything you can imagine under one flag
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the Blues
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thank you
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Butterfield was a legend in Chicago and
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worried about him was spreading
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and Fritz Richmond told Paul Rothschild
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Paul you ought to go see this guy and he
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goes to Chicago and he sees Butterfield
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and said to Butterfield I want to record
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you and Butterfield says okay and he
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said let's go on over to this other
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place and they go and and they see Mike
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Bloomfield playing with the Mike
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Bloomfield band
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and Paul asked The Logical question hey
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why is Mike playing with your band he
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said I've tried a number of times and I
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can't get him to do it well Rothschild
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could pretty much convince anybody if
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anything
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and he got Bloomfield to join the
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Butterfield Blues Band
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about the time that there was a
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possibility suddenly of a recording
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contract
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which was something that I don't think
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Paul or any of the other members of the
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band ever envisioned happening
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uh Paul got his draft notice the draft
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notice was really a descent so that's
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the way we reviewed it
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I think Paul just saw this as oh my God
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here I almost have it and it's being
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taken away from me
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I never Virginia McEwen it was a bar
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made at big John's
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she knew of Paul's plight and she
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offered to Mary Ball to keep him out of
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the draft
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she could very well have saved his
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career and saved his life
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though it wasn't meant as a traditional
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marriage
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they did have a son in 1965 and they
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were close but not family close although
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later Paul became very involved in
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Gabriel's life and it was important to
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both of them I think
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another thing about Paul Rothschild
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is he introduced my brother to Albert
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Grossman who was a well-known manager of
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Bob Dylan Peter Paul and Mary and Albert
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was very taken with Paul's band
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and gave them a lot of exposure here and
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then Nationwide
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and the band went into the studio
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we put them in a studio I thought it was
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pretty good and we pressed up 10 000
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copies because the Paul Butterfield
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blues band had a track on sampler number
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six and it was selling well in Chicago
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and it turned out to be Butterfield
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blues band track that was making it
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happen
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I had become a pilot I started flying
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when I was 1960 and it's now
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1964 and I have my own airplane and
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we're flying up to visit Tom Rush's aunt
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on Martha's Vineyard on a one beautiful
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Saturday afternoon and Paul Rothschild
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says
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I hate to tell you this but I've
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listened to the record again and don't
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think I got it
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at which point I put the plane into a
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shallow dive
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scaring the crap out of Rothschild and I
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said you want to tell me that again and
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he said I don't think I got it I think
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we've got to scrap the records I said
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what do you mean you don't have it he
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said I it's not as good as it could be
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well that's all you have to say to me
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all right I'll scrap them
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thank you
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foreign
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by 1965 young people are tuning in to
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music played on electric plugged in
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instruments artists with number one
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records that year include the Beatles
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The Supremes The Temptations The Beach
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Boys the birds with Mr Tambourine Man a
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Bob Dylan song and the Rolling Stones by
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the summer of 65 Dylan's electrified
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Like a Rolling Stone is on the radio
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everywhere many in the folk scene view
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this electric music as a threat to or
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even a Corruption of the authentic
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American Music they embrace
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the Newport Folk Festival had been a
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showcase for traditional folk and blues
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since its founding in 1959 and Bob Dylan
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is slated to be the headliner of Newport
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1965.
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Joe Boyd is the production manager of
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the festival and attends a meeting where
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board member Peter Yarrow makes a
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last-minute appeal to make room on the
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schedule for one more Act
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at this meeting Peter Yarrow got up on
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his soapbox and he made a speech about
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the Butterfield band that this is what's
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happening right now this is the most
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important band in America today
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and yarrow's argument was that with Sam
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and Jerome that this was the Revival
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meeting the authentic
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this is where the Folk Festival has to
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be in order to be relevant this is the
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summer of 1965. we can't live forever in
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the past this is no longer The Province
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just of the folkies
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oh
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laughs
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so out on stage on this little flat
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platform comes Paul Butterfield on
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harmonica of course the amazing Michael
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Bloomfield on guitar Elven Bishop sort
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of undergirding everything with Just
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Killer rhythm guitar Sam Leon drums and
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Jerome Arnold on bass they just blew our
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little folky Minds right right off the
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charts there's photos somewhere of us
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experiencing and reacting to this really
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raw really vital Chicago blues sound
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just full of power and energy and we
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just loved it
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I'm probably eight feet away from
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Butterfield's Fender amplifier
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and he starts in a mellow Down Easy
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and I'm like the guy from the Maxell
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commercial because I'm in front of
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Butters amp and my scarf is like this
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and I go oh look at that you know and
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and we went electric the next day our
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jug bands
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everybody
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in that time in the 60s anyone who was
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at a Folk Festival already was for
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integration and him playing in that
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integrated band was a statement that
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we're all in this together and we all
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love this music and we're all going to
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hang out together and we're getting rid
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of segregation and you just better get
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used to it
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wait wait time the first time I saw Paul
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was at Newport 1965 at the workshop
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where Alan Lomax introduced the band in
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some very demeaning way and I know Lomax
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was already muttering and grumbling
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about that because he he wasn't very
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positive about them and he had you know
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Robert Pete Williams and Sun house and a
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really great lineup of acoustic black
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blues musicians and he did not
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like the idea a of drums at Newport
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and B of white people playing blues
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music
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and finally he says okay you've seen the
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real thing
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now here's some kids from Chicago going
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to come and try
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to play the blues
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with the help of these amplifiers all
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the select all these electric amplifiers
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at which point Grossman
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is so pissed off he jumps on Alan Lomax
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and these two
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like
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panda bears and personality but grizzly
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bears and physique start rolling in the
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dirt Together full fisticuffs well the
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band was playing throwing roundhouse
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punches at each other and then they were
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wrestling each other and then they were
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rolling around in the dirt
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and you know it was lamentable and it
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was funny dust flying and these two you
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know
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Bears or
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scuffling and that that really felt good
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because that's what a manager ought to
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do
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in the middle of all of this of course
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was the fact that we've been told by
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Grossman that morning
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that Dylan was going to play with the
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Butterfield Rhythm Section Sam Jerome
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and Bloomfield
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and Goldberg and Cooper Saturday night
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we rehearsed all night
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could only get three songs in that time
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period And So the plan was that we were
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going to go up and play the three songs
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because that's all we knew
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it was a mixed reaction from the
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audience and a lot of people said they
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were Woos you know but there were also
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chairs too there were people that did
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get it but most of the booze came from
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the uh the folkies you know who felt
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betrayed you know that Bob had betrayed
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them and and they sort of had a sense
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that their movement that the folk
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movement was on its way out as well
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the funny thing is that he wasn't booed
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off stage that was the ridiculous part
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of it there was maybe two rows of people
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in this entire concert which is packed
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that were booing because they didn't
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want to hear him do electric music they
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want to hear him do nothing but folk
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music
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this whole purist thing that was going
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on at that time I mean you know nobody
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got upset when Muddy Waters plugged in
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his guitar it's just a false barrier
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that people who think they know about
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this stuff feel they have to pontificate
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about it was the Natural Evolution of of
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of of of the earlier blues and it was
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absolutely as valid as anything else
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the Butterfield Band came up to play the
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club 47 right after Newport and at that
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time we charged a dollar at the door you
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could squeeze 110 20 people into that
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place
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people like Tom Rush are the quest can
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Joke Man to those people they would fill
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that place and they would get 75 so I
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think we were going to pay Paul's band a
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hundred dollars a night three hundred
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dollars for three nights this was Mike
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Bloomfield Elvin Bishop the whole band
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went down
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21 years later of course the volume was
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pretty loud not by maybe today's
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standards but by that time standard the
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Butterfield band had a lot of punch
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this band was hitting on all cylinders
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and we'd never had anything like it in
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that room I was a manager and I had a
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little tiny office
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and he'd come back into my office and we
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had an absolute policy and it was a real
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policy too no smoking of dope in this
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place can't have it there's no alcohol
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there was no dope he'd want to have a
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drink you could go across the street
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there was a bar and we just couldn't
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have it because if we if we get closed
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down
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we just couldn't have it Paul come back
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into my office and he closed the door
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and said hey man I just I just have to
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have something before I go on I said no
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Paul we can't do it he was just like a
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cat that wouldn't let you go you know
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just whining and
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at you you know and I finally caved in
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you know I okay a couple of Puffs that's
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it
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[Music]
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I played a night with them at the cafe
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Gogo
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on the sidelines as I used to do at the
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twist parties gazing at the kneecaps of
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the band or lower
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and then not long after that I went to
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this session and then Paul inducted me
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into the band
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[Music]
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it was after that first record Albert
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Grossman came and gave us each a
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thousand dollar bill
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tremendously impressive
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Paul's band that first album that really
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took off that opened the market up a lot
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to a lot of young white kids who hadn't
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really heard the blues because once you
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heard Paul you wanted to hear the other
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guys muddy and wolf and you got easily
734
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pulled into it
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foreign
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[Music]
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[Laughter]
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[Music]
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came from a wealthy family and one of
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his uncles had a pawn shop and I used to
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not have any money so I'd get my guitar
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as cheap as I could I go to the pawn
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shop
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and I went to one on Clark Street one
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time and it was kind of smart ass
746
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looking kid behind the counter you know
747
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and I said can I see that guitar
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he hands to me and I start playing My
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Little Blues Licks a few of them you
750
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know he said you like Blues
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I said yeah he said give me that thing
752
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he starts playing rings around the world
753
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you know he's playing all these fancy
754
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licks and stuff I said oh wow that's
755
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great you know he'd get in your face and
756
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he'd just be spitting on you while he
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was talking and stuff you know he's he
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he was just uh
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tremendously active mind and uh
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really intense about everything he did
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not just the plan everything
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Michael was always intimidated by Paul
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his personality was so strong and you
764
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really couldn't get you know underneath
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Paul and get to know him well you know
766
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he really didn't let people in that much
767
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just his presence alone was a tough guy
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black leather jacket a Beer Drinker he
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was a complete man or the real deal
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see I had never worked with Paul for a
771
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long time because I never figured we'd
772
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get along personality wise you know
773
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because Paul is a very very hard guy
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period just a hard individual he's very
775
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rock hard inside his body and everything
776
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he has completely taken that harmonica
777
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and reworked it in my opinion
778
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Butterfield is the finest the finest
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blues harmonica player in the world and
780
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this is the first gig I've ever worked
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with Paul and I tell you man you hear
782
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this band after this two-month tour
783
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there won't be a blues band in the
784
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history of the world that's going to
785
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come near this band
786
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I met Bloomfield on Highway 61 sessions
787
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for uh Dylan and he told me as we got
788
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friendly that he was in Paul's band and
789
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that was one of the reasons why he
790
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didn't want a tour with Dylan so he
791
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could stay in Paul's band he said you
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make all kinds of money and you know
793
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being cover of Newsweek he said but I
794
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just want to play the blues
795
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says and I'm having a great time doing
796
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it in this band
797
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you turned down Bob Dylan to play with
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Butterfield it's about as good as you
799
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can get
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Paul would appear in New York City
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usually at a club called Cafe a go go we
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would always get there early and we
803
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would sit like right in the front row
804
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and we'd do that night after night show
805
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after show we just played you know that
806
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was it I think that that's probably when
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he was complete you know is when he was
808
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up there eyes closed
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flow on that perfect note
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[Music]
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and there's that Soul there that is
812
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pouring out of everything everything
813
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that Paul did it's not about how good or
814
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how not good or technique or this the
815
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thing that to me makes Paul different is
816
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there's always this edge of Soul that's
817
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always happening no matter whether he's
818
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singing or playing
819
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and another thing you know Paul played
820
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the harmonica upside down a lot of
821
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people didn't know that you know where
822
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instead of the low notes on the left
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they were on the right
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Paul did it different that band was the
825
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most powerful band I've ever heard
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[Music]
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I played another extended engagement it
828
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was in a place called The Unicorn and
829
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this was in Boston
830
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Sam got sick
831
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and that's when you got Billy Davenport
832
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and he was quite logically as a black
833
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man concerned about what he was going to
834
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confront as he traveled America and he
835
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told me
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that Paul said to him
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for you can't go we won't go
838
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but he was proud of it and he it meant
839
00:38:12,180 --> 00:38:13,619
something to him that he got that
840
00:38:13,619 --> 00:38:15,720
guarantee and it says something about
841
00:38:15,720 --> 00:38:17,520
Paul
842
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:23,339
[Music]
843
00:38:23,339 --> 00:38:25,500
there was a climate in the band a
844
00:38:25,500 --> 00:38:27,540
musical climate that was now opening up
845
00:38:27,540 --> 00:38:29,640
musicians were taking on some of the
846
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:31,440
attributes of jazz musicians and play
847
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:34,460
more extended things and experimenting
848
00:38:34,460 --> 00:38:42,949
[Music]
849
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:49,200
in 1966 America is a cauldron of social
850
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:51,359
and political change fueled in large
851
00:38:51,359 --> 00:38:53,940
part by the music of the times the
852
00:38:53,940 --> 00:38:55,680
Butterfield Blues band's sprawling
853
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:58,380
tapestry of an LP called East West with
854
00:38:58,380 --> 00:39:00,240
its combination of Electric Blues and
855
00:39:00,240 --> 00:39:02,520
psychedelic Rock puts the band at the
856
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:05,040
Forefront of the music scene clocking in
857
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,740
at a nearly unprecedented 13 minutes the
858
00:39:07,740 --> 00:39:09,320
title track is a pioneering
859
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:12,119
cross-cultural Opus near mythical
860
00:39:12,119 --> 00:39:13,859
accounts of live performances of
861
00:39:13,859 --> 00:39:16,020
East-West lasting over 40 minutes and
862
00:39:16,020 --> 00:39:18,540
leaving fans transfixed reverberate
863
00:39:18,540 --> 00:39:20,579
throughout the international rock music
864
00:39:20,579 --> 00:39:23,060
community
865
00:39:24,660 --> 00:39:27,540
they started doing East-West and and
866
00:39:27,540 --> 00:39:29,700
messing with different modes to play and
867
00:39:29,700 --> 00:39:31,859
so that it sounds more Middle Eastern or
868
00:39:31,859 --> 00:39:33,420
something like that you know the fact
869
00:39:33,420 --> 00:39:35,460
that he wasn't satisfied just to be one
870
00:39:35,460 --> 00:39:37,079
of the world's best blues hard players
871
00:39:37,079 --> 00:39:39,540
you know he didn't lock himself in a box
872
00:39:39,540 --> 00:39:42,510
he just kept taking it further
873
00:39:42,510 --> 00:39:49,560
[Music]
874
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:51,780
Bloomfield used to do a fire eating
875
00:39:51,780 --> 00:39:53,820
routine he'd do that he'd get one of
876
00:39:53,820 --> 00:39:55,200
these things like uh
877
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:57,180
looks like the Mallet you play The
878
00:39:57,180 --> 00:39:59,400
Kettle drum with you know they squirt
879
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:01,740
lighter fluid on it light it up spread
880
00:40:01,740 --> 00:40:03,300
his legs out and that Groove would be
881
00:40:03,300 --> 00:40:05,640
going you know behind him and he'd lean
882
00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:08,099
way back and eat fire and those old
883
00:40:08,099 --> 00:40:09,900
Stoned Out hippies would just lose their
884
00:40:09,900 --> 00:40:12,360
minds
885
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:24,000
[Music]
886
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:26,339
so here we are in Chicago at the Museum
887
00:40:26,339 --> 00:40:28,500
of Science and Industry
888
00:40:28,500 --> 00:40:31,980
this is the photo shot of my father's
889
00:40:31,980 --> 00:40:36,300
iconic album this is the cover of the
890
00:40:36,300 --> 00:40:39,540
second album East West you had Jerome
891
00:40:39,540 --> 00:40:42,960
Arnold Elvin Bishop Mark naphtalin Billy
892
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:46,200
Davenport Michael Bloomfield and Paul
893
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:47,400
Butterfield
894
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:50,040
this is a museum this is a really really
895
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:53,040
odd place for a cover of a blues album
896
00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:56,280
Maybe the fact that they actually got up
897
00:40:56,280 --> 00:41:00,060
here and took these photos here uh is
898
00:41:00,060 --> 00:41:02,339
expressing that band as someone who
899
00:41:02,339 --> 00:41:04,859
means business and saying hey baby we're
900
00:41:04,859 --> 00:41:06,720
not what you think we are
901
00:41:06,720 --> 00:41:09,900
oh I mean the authenticity was just
902
00:41:09,900 --> 00:41:11,880
astonishing and playing through that
903
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:14,400
amplifier and the tonality and the
904
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:16,140
choices that he made were so
905
00:41:16,140 --> 00:41:18,119
unconventional and so you know
906
00:41:18,119 --> 00:41:20,880
Innovative I think that Paul was an
907
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:22,680
incredible creative spirit and always
908
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:24,480
kept stretching you know I mean as deep
909
00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:26,220
as he would go into the roots he was
910
00:41:26,220 --> 00:41:28,260
always pushing the envelope of what
911
00:41:28,260 --> 00:41:30,599
Blues could be greater Ranger put
912
00:41:30,599 --> 00:41:32,700
together an incredible band those guys
913
00:41:32,700 --> 00:41:34,200
wouldn't play with him if he wasn't that
914
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:35,160
badass
915
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:36,960
I had lots and lots of Hard players
916
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:39,359
sitting with me and nobody could blow
917
00:41:39,359 --> 00:41:42,000
like butter and I loved his singing as
918
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:43,680
much as I loved his heart plan
919
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:46,440
you know he's cute too as us girls like
920
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:47,940
to call him
921
00:41:47,940 --> 00:41:50,579
Butterfield was very funny and had a
922
00:41:50,579 --> 00:41:52,619
very dry sense of humor and it kind of
923
00:41:52,619 --> 00:41:55,020
was smart ass wise-ass sense of humor
924
00:41:55,020 --> 00:41:57,960
too I remember remarking on Sam Lay's
925
00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:00,839
shoes which were kind of metallic and
926
00:42:00,839 --> 00:42:03,119
they were kind of like had little glass
927
00:42:03,119 --> 00:42:05,339
crystals in the shoes and Paul said
928
00:42:05,339 --> 00:42:07,800
don't get too close to him he uses those
929
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:10,200
to just put his his foot and look up
930
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:12,740
your skirt
931
00:42:12,740 --> 00:42:15,359
and I don't know if it was true but I
932
00:42:15,359 --> 00:42:19,260
believed Paul at the time oh
933
00:42:19,260 --> 00:42:21,540
oh butter could be a little bit of a
934
00:42:21,540 --> 00:42:23,880
dirty dog from time to time and
935
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:25,680
Rothschild had some kind of legal
936
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:27,960
troubles involving uh weed which is
937
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:30,060
pretty serious in those days you know
938
00:42:30,060 --> 00:42:32,520
and we're doing a session in New York
939
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:33,359
City
940
00:42:33,359 --> 00:42:35,280
and everybody took off for lunch and
941
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:36,540
went out to get something to eat and
942
00:42:36,540 --> 00:42:37,859
Rothschild stayed there and he was
943
00:42:37,859 --> 00:42:40,140
fooling with the tapes you know and the
944
00:42:40,140 --> 00:42:41,880
faders and he was at the console and
945
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:43,740
everything drinking a milkshake
946
00:42:43,740 --> 00:42:45,720
and Butterfield came back and knocked
947
00:42:45,720 --> 00:42:48,480
real loud on the doors at police
948
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:51,060
a Rothschild freaked out and Spilled his
949
00:42:51,060 --> 00:42:54,350
milkshake in the console
950
00:42:54,350 --> 00:42:57,530
[Music]
951
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:01,440
I will say I'm very proud
952
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:04,260
as the owner of the famous
953
00:43:04,260 --> 00:43:05,940
Golden Bear
954
00:43:05,940 --> 00:43:09,480
woke up this morning I looked round for
955
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:10,560
my shoes
956
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:14,520
in August of 1966 I booked them only for
957
00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:18,480
one week but they stayed for two and I
958
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:20,339
enjoy it very much
959
00:43:20,339 --> 00:43:24,660
that was 20 Souls 350 people
960
00:43:24,660 --> 00:43:29,040
and still the place was parked this is
961
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:32,099
unbelievable George yeah he was cool
962
00:43:32,099 --> 00:43:35,339
George a Greek guy I used to go fishing
963
00:43:35,339 --> 00:43:37,619
at that Pier across the street from the
964
00:43:37,619 --> 00:43:40,440
Golden Bear and bring it back and George
965
00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:43,020
would cook it in the pizza oven you know
966
00:43:43,020 --> 00:43:46,440
we fought by their feet I had
967
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:49,200
the perfect opening up
968
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:54,200
the comedian Steve Martin
969
00:43:54,860 --> 00:43:59,520
[Music]
970
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:03,839
so I went to day with my
971
00:44:03,839 --> 00:44:06,060
one of my college roommates we were
972
00:44:06,060 --> 00:44:07,560
going up the stairs to their apartment
973
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:09,599
and Paul was coming down the stairs with
974
00:44:09,599 --> 00:44:11,520
a laundry basket
975
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:14,400
and we sort of met on the staircase and
976
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:15,900
then sort of moved back down to the
977
00:44:15,900 --> 00:44:18,060
sidewalk and we just started talking and
978
00:44:18,060 --> 00:44:21,000
talking and talking and talking and he
979
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:24,000
had a new album he wanted me to hear and
980
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:26,760
so he went and put it on and it was the
981
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:28,800
Beatles well he kept playing me the song
982
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:31,619
called got to get you into my life
983
00:44:31,619 --> 00:44:35,099
sorry it was a hint
984
00:44:35,099 --> 00:44:38,579
I just had turned 21. he was only 23.
985
00:44:38,579 --> 00:44:40,440
because I was on the road with them for
986
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:42,839
probably three years like
987
00:44:42,839 --> 00:44:44,220
people would say how long is your tour
988
00:44:44,220 --> 00:44:46,740
and I go I don't know it's been going on
989
00:44:46,740 --> 00:44:50,040
for 340 days I mean we used to look at a
990
00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:52,619
match box in the drawer of the hotel to
991
00:44:52,619 --> 00:44:54,599
see where we were
992
00:44:54,599 --> 00:44:57,300
it was like going from box to box to box
993
00:44:57,300 --> 00:44:58,920
you're in an airplane you're in a car
994
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:00,359
you're in a hotel you're at the gig
995
00:45:00,359 --> 00:45:02,040
you're at the hotel you're in a car
996
00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:03,599
you're in an airplane you're in a train
997
00:45:03,599 --> 00:45:06,599
you're just living in a box in a box in
998
00:45:06,599 --> 00:45:08,280
a box in a box in a box and you're just
999
00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:09,720
so disorienting you don't even know
1000
00:45:09,720 --> 00:45:11,460
where you are and these guys are just
1001
00:45:11,460 --> 00:45:14,040
working working hard every single day
1002
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:17,040
foreign
1003
00:45:18,780 --> 00:45:21,180
Kathy and Paul and the band spent all of
1004
00:45:21,180 --> 00:45:24,000
1966 on the road playing at colleges
1005
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:27,119
clubs and concert Halls the band has a
1006
00:45:27,119 --> 00:45:29,099
huge following in San Francisco thanks
1007
00:45:29,099 --> 00:45:31,200
to concert promoter and impresario Bill
1008
00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:33,240
Graham who books them into multiple
1009
00:45:33,240 --> 00:45:35,220
venues during each visit
1010
00:45:35,220 --> 00:45:37,440
and Graham's growing friendships with
1011
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:39,359
Paul and Michael Bloomfield would bring
1012
00:45:39,359 --> 00:45:42,900
additional benefits when Michael and
1013
00:45:42,900 --> 00:45:45,920
Paul left Chicago went to San Francisco
1014
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:49,260
they had recommended to Bill Graham to
1015
00:45:49,260 --> 00:45:51,480
get artists like Howling Wolf and muddy
1016
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:54,359
and Little Walter James Cotton to come
1017
00:45:54,359 --> 00:45:57,960
to California so that even opened a
1018
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:00,440
greater audience for all these artists
1019
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:02,819
that gave the blues artists an
1020
00:46:02,819 --> 00:46:04,500
opportunity to play someplace besides
1021
00:46:04,500 --> 00:46:06,060
clubs
1022
00:46:06,060 --> 00:46:09,500
better paying gigs
1023
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:16,260
Paul was really heartbroken when Michael
1024
00:46:16,260 --> 00:46:18,180
left
1025
00:46:18,180 --> 00:46:20,339
Paul was like no we've got a good thing
1026
00:46:20,339 --> 00:46:22,560
going let's keep up with this you know
1027
00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:24,660
this is really a great combo
1028
00:46:24,660 --> 00:46:26,220
so it was hard
1029
00:46:26,220 --> 00:46:28,260
I got to play more lead
1030
00:46:28,260 --> 00:46:31,500
I liked that and I was I was I'd say
1031
00:46:31,500 --> 00:46:33,240
quite a bit more ready than I would have
1032
00:46:33,240 --> 00:46:37,579
been you know at the beginning
1033
00:46:37,930 --> 00:46:41,870
[Music]
1034
00:46:42,060 --> 00:46:44,720
foreign
1035
00:46:44,860 --> 00:46:54,000
[Music]
1036
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:56,520
Paul played a great set
1037
00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:58,200
at Monterey
1038
00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:01,980
that was sort of his big debut of hordes
1039
00:47:01,980 --> 00:47:04,859
and he had good horn players
1040
00:47:04,859 --> 00:47:08,520
Gene Dunwoody the tenor player and Keith
1041
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:11,880
Johnson the trumpet player came in
1042
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:15,420
and Bugsy mom came in
1043
00:47:15,420 --> 00:47:31,010
[Music]
1044
00:47:31,010 --> 00:47:35,730
[Applause]
1045
00:47:35,730 --> 00:47:39,409
[Music]
1046
00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:44,280
summer of 67 my wife and I and young
1047
00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:47,520
baby went out to San Francisco never
1048
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:49,740
been west of the Mississippi I run into
1049
00:47:49,740 --> 00:47:51,599
Phillip Wilson my friend a drummer
1050
00:47:51,599 --> 00:47:54,180
totally by accident on the street I go
1051
00:47:54,180 --> 00:47:55,740
Phillip what what are you what are you
1052
00:47:55,740 --> 00:47:57,660
doing here and he said well I just
1053
00:47:57,660 --> 00:47:59,400
joined this band The Butterfield blues
1054
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:01,079
band he said well we're playing at the
1055
00:48:01,079 --> 00:48:01,920
Fillmore
1056
00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:04,200
so come on now it's right I came down I
1057
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:06,119
heard the band play met the guys in the
1058
00:48:06,119 --> 00:48:09,540
band went went the next night
1059
00:48:09,540 --> 00:48:11,880
and uh Philip said hey man we're going
1060
00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:13,410
down to La we're going to make a record
1061
00:48:13,410 --> 00:48:21,599
[Music]
1062
00:48:21,599 --> 00:48:24,540
basically hitchhike to Hollywood got to
1063
00:48:24,540 --> 00:48:27,420
the Sandy koufax's Tropicana Hotel you
1064
00:48:27,420 --> 00:48:28,800
know I'm hanging out in the studio and
1065
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:31,079
Paul says hey man where's your horn I
1066
00:48:31,079 --> 00:48:33,119
said well it's back at the hotel he said
1067
00:48:33,119 --> 00:48:34,380
why don't you go get it and maybe you
1068
00:48:34,380 --> 00:48:37,380
can play a little bit so I'm like holy
1069
00:48:37,380 --> 00:48:38,579
[ __ ]
1070
00:48:38,579 --> 00:48:41,579
I sit in Paul likes the sound of it I
1071
00:48:41,579 --> 00:48:42,690
was in Show Business
1072
00:48:42,690 --> 00:48:49,900
[Music]
1073
00:48:52,300 --> 00:49:01,980
[Music]
1074
00:49:01,980 --> 00:49:03,960
and life people move on
1075
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:06,780
everybody's band changes that's just
1076
00:49:06,780 --> 00:49:09,119
part of being in a band
1077
00:49:09,119 --> 00:49:10,680
New Life
1078
00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:13,680
it was all Peaceable no hard feelings
1079
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:15,960
between anybody butter didn't want me to
1080
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:18,060
leave but I did because
1081
00:49:18,060 --> 00:49:21,420
you play one or two songs you know the
1082
00:49:21,420 --> 00:49:25,440
the Dynamics of band getting along is
1083
00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:28,079
you got to give everybody a little piece
1084
00:49:28,079 --> 00:49:30,300
of the action you know so you get to do
1085
00:49:30,300 --> 00:49:32,099
one or two songs a night that are really
1086
00:49:32,099 --> 00:49:34,740
close to your heart you know
1087
00:49:34,740 --> 00:49:36,780
and then the idea starts working on you
1088
00:49:36,780 --> 00:49:38,880
what if I got to do all songs that are
1089
00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:41,520
real close to my heart you know and it
1090
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:43,380
works and it works and it works and
1091
00:49:43,380 --> 00:49:46,319
after a while the desire to do that
1092
00:49:46,319 --> 00:49:48,599
overcomes the fear of leaving and there
1093
00:49:48,599 --> 00:49:50,140
you go
1094
00:49:50,140 --> 00:50:02,680
[Music]
1095
00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:03,910
[Applause]
1096
00:50:03,910 --> 00:50:08,080
[Music]
1097
00:50:13,020 --> 00:50:16,020
foreign
1098
00:50:16,090 --> 00:50:18,230
[Applause]
1099
00:50:18,230 --> 00:50:44,510
[Music]
1100
00:50:44,819 --> 00:50:47,819
the sound was ferocious
1101
00:50:47,819 --> 00:50:50,040
I mean I I have
1102
00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:52,980
never before or after
1103
00:50:52,980 --> 00:50:56,579
sound like that ever he was a force of
1104
00:50:56,579 --> 00:50:59,220
nature on that instrument everybody else
1105
00:50:59,220 --> 00:51:01,440
sounded just kind of timid it's almost
1106
00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:05,400
like a snarl he had he just went for it
1107
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:08,460
you know and I think that was
1108
00:51:08,460 --> 00:51:12,420
really inspiring to me as a player it
1109
00:51:12,420 --> 00:51:15,540
was my introduction to the idea that
1110
00:51:15,540 --> 00:51:17,520
it's better to reach for something and
1111
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:20,760
miss it than just to hold back and play
1112
00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:23,240
it safe
1113
00:51:25,110 --> 00:51:27,300
[Music]
1114
00:51:27,300 --> 00:51:29,579
I am
1115
00:51:29,579 --> 00:51:31,260
Paul Butterfield never played the same
1116
00:51:31,260 --> 00:51:33,180
thing twice nor did the band play the
1117
00:51:33,180 --> 00:51:35,579
same way twice the whole thing about
1118
00:51:35,579 --> 00:51:37,740
playing for the moment is that you could
1119
00:51:37,740 --> 00:51:40,559
do the same song a million times and a
1120
00:51:40,559 --> 00:51:41,940
million times it's going to be different
1121
00:51:41,940 --> 00:51:44,220
because you're not being generic about
1122
00:51:44,220 --> 00:51:46,980
it that's what makes an artist an artist
1123
00:51:46,980 --> 00:51:52,140
he lived breathed ate and spoke music
1124
00:51:52,140 --> 00:51:54,000
I mean English was really his second
1125
00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:56,760
language music was his first language
1126
00:51:56,760 --> 00:52:01,260
and so that's how he communicated with
1127
00:52:01,260 --> 00:52:03,559
the world
1128
00:52:05,040 --> 00:52:08,240
all aboard
1129
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:11,420
Fathers and Sons
1130
00:52:11,420 --> 00:52:14,819
1969. we decided to do half of it in the
1131
00:52:14,819 --> 00:52:17,940
studio three days of studio and then
1132
00:52:17,940 --> 00:52:20,579
that live concert the concert was great
1133
00:52:20,579 --> 00:52:22,500
it was in this just restored classical
1134
00:52:22,500 --> 00:52:25,440
music hall in Chicago the Chicago
1135
00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:28,800
Auditorium this was a chance to feature
1136
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:30,599
the great Muddy Waters
1137
00:52:30,599 --> 00:52:33,359
and it was a way to pay them back
1138
00:52:33,359 --> 00:52:35,520
we thought it was our duty
1139
00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:39,359
our job to make sure that we paid back
1140
00:52:39,359 --> 00:52:41,940
what we learned from these guys
1141
00:52:41,940 --> 00:52:44,280
that's what that Fathers and Sons was
1142
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:46,859
all about being homage to Moody
1143
00:52:46,859 --> 00:52:48,780
saying you're the father we're the sons
1144
00:52:48,780 --> 00:52:51,960
you treated us good dad
1145
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:55,859
was Paul's mentor and guide and he was
1146
00:52:55,859 --> 00:52:57,839
like a second dad to him
1147
00:52:57,839 --> 00:53:01,319
musically you brought him up
1148
00:53:01,319 --> 00:53:03,720
the concert was great it was rocking and
1149
00:53:03,720 --> 00:53:05,579
jumping it was really that first people
1150
00:53:05,579 --> 00:53:08,640
from Big John's it was all those those
1151
00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:10,559
thousands of people who over the months
1152
00:53:10,559 --> 00:53:12,540
and years had gone to Big John's they
1153
00:53:12,540 --> 00:53:14,400
were at that concert man every single
1154
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:16,440
one of them was at that concert you know
1155
00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:19,380
the blues guys just loved this influx of
1156
00:53:19,380 --> 00:53:21,300
the White Market buying it the white
1157
00:53:21,300 --> 00:53:24,620
kids playing it the blues was moving on
1158
00:53:24,620 --> 00:53:31,720
[Music]
1159
00:53:32,780 --> 00:53:35,880
everybody's radar was up in that band
1160
00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:37,800
everybody was listening to everybody
1161
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:38,940
else
1162
00:53:38,940 --> 00:53:41,400
it wasn't planned it was like everyone
1163
00:53:41,400 --> 00:53:44,339
was channeling this creative force and
1164
00:53:44,339 --> 00:53:46,980
Butterfield was the guy you know he was
1165
00:53:46,980 --> 00:53:49,800
the guy that set the tone you know he
1166
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:51,900
was like we're going for it because
1167
00:53:51,900 --> 00:53:54,000
that's where he came from he came from
1168
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:56,160
south side of Chicago where it was about
1169
00:53:56,160 --> 00:53:58,920
I'll kick your ass every time he stepped
1170
00:53:58,920 --> 00:54:00,900
up the microphone he played like it was
1171
00:54:00,900 --> 00:54:03,000
the last time he was ever going to play
1172
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:06,300
he was a real blues guy you know he
1173
00:54:06,300 --> 00:54:08,339
meant it every time come on I mean if
1174
00:54:08,339 --> 00:54:11,040
you listen to his playing it's just pure
1175
00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:12,839
you know you wonder how does a guy get
1176
00:54:12,839 --> 00:54:15,180
that out of a little Marine band
1177
00:54:15,180 --> 00:54:16,980
harmonica you know I mean that's special
1178
00:54:16,980 --> 00:54:18,000
stuff
1179
00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:19,920
the horn parts were put together by just
1180
00:54:19,920 --> 00:54:22,260
sitting down and playing that band got
1181
00:54:22,260 --> 00:54:24,300
to the point when one person played a
1182
00:54:24,300 --> 00:54:26,160
part that was good all the other parts
1183
00:54:26,160 --> 00:54:28,500
fell into place immediately it was kind
1184
00:54:28,500 --> 00:54:30,839
of a magical band who was magical that
1185
00:54:30,839 --> 00:54:32,880
band was one of the first if not the
1186
00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:35,160
first mixed band where it was true
1187
00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:37,140
equality in that band there was no
1188
00:54:37,140 --> 00:54:40,079
racial anything we ended up in
1189
00:54:40,079 --> 00:54:42,000
situations that were in parts of the
1190
00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:43,200
country for instance when we were
1191
00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:45,480
Touring that didn't see it like that you
1192
00:54:45,480 --> 00:54:47,520
know like blacks are not accepted
1193
00:54:47,520 --> 00:54:49,680
everywhere and to see a mixed ban
1194
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:51,960
especially guys with long hair and
1195
00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:54,540
hanging with black guys we were really a
1196
00:54:54,540 --> 00:54:56,640
threat they looked at us like Communists
1197
00:54:56,640 --> 00:54:59,099
there were some near physical
1198
00:54:59,099 --> 00:55:01,079
confrontations with Butterfield because
1199
00:55:01,079 --> 00:55:02,760
he would get in people's face you know
1200
00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:04,380
they would vibe us or they'd make a
1201
00:55:04,380 --> 00:55:07,140
comment you know like uh [ __ ] and all
1202
00:55:07,140 --> 00:55:09,000
that and he would get right in their
1203
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:10,680
face and say [ __ ] let's go
1204
00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:12,839
outside right now come on let's go you
1205
00:55:12,839 --> 00:55:15,119
know and so you know we had to kind of
1206
00:55:15,119 --> 00:55:17,339
drag him out of a few places you know
1207
00:55:17,339 --> 00:55:19,500
where where it was like that so he
1208
00:55:19,500 --> 00:55:22,020
really stood up for what he believed in
1209
00:55:22,020 --> 00:55:25,619
he had gifts he had brilliant beautiful
1210
00:55:25,619 --> 00:55:28,260
gifts and and because of those gifts he
1211
00:55:28,260 --> 00:55:30,900
changed the world for many people
1212
00:55:30,900 --> 00:55:33,540
helping to bring that Blues out to the
1213
00:55:33,540 --> 00:55:35,940
rest of the world when the African
1214
00:55:35,940 --> 00:55:37,619
Americans weren't able to do that it
1215
00:55:37,619 --> 00:55:39,300
wasn't a welcoming
1216
00:55:39,300 --> 00:55:40,920
place
1217
00:55:40,920 --> 00:55:43,200
I thought I don't give a damn you played
1218
00:55:43,200 --> 00:55:45,599
right I don't care what color you have a
1219
00:55:45,599 --> 00:55:47,700
pink stripe running down down back if
1220
00:55:47,700 --> 00:55:49,079
you want to yeah
1221
00:55:49,079 --> 00:55:52,260
I am bragging on our on us but I didn't
1222
00:55:52,260 --> 00:55:54,960
see nobody else was better and we
1223
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:56,860
happened to be black and white
1224
00:55:56,860 --> 00:56:04,079
[Music]
1225
00:56:04,079 --> 00:56:06,059
most people don't realize that Woodstock
1226
00:56:06,059 --> 00:56:07,680
started as an artist colony in about
1227
00:56:07,680 --> 00:56:10,200
1903 and
1228
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:13,260
um it was established as a utopian arts
1229
00:56:13,260 --> 00:56:15,440
and crafts Community but around the
1230
00:56:15,440 --> 00:56:19,079
1960s is when it kind of came into its
1231
00:56:19,079 --> 00:56:21,420
own before the actual big Woodstock
1232
00:56:21,420 --> 00:56:23,359
festival that everybody knows about
1233
00:56:23,359 --> 00:56:25,920
petiero had a family house here and
1234
00:56:25,920 --> 00:56:28,380
through him Albert Grossman came with
1235
00:56:28,380 --> 00:56:31,380
his stable of artists so of course Peter
1236
00:56:31,380 --> 00:56:34,380
Paul and Mary and later Bob Dylan and
1237
00:56:34,380 --> 00:56:36,119
Paul of course was one of those people
1238
00:56:36,119 --> 00:56:38,880
that came along with Albert
1239
00:56:38,880 --> 00:56:40,980
sometimes it felt like someone just
1240
00:56:40,980 --> 00:56:43,920
dropped some kind of pill and watered it
1241
00:56:43,920 --> 00:56:44,640
and
1242
00:56:44,640 --> 00:56:46,800
you know a different Woodstock popped up
1243
00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:49,619
overnight seemingly you know and it was
1244
00:56:49,619 --> 00:56:52,020
very exciting especially for someone
1245
00:56:52,020 --> 00:56:54,900
like myself who's young and loving music
1246
00:56:54,900 --> 00:56:57,180
and all of a sudden you know there's
1247
00:56:57,180 --> 00:56:59,339
head shops there's leather shops you
1248
00:56:59,339 --> 00:57:01,079
know no more electric stores now it's
1249
00:57:01,079 --> 00:57:04,380
the the leather shop you know the
1250
00:57:04,380 --> 00:57:06,980
Practical kind of went out the window
1251
00:57:06,980 --> 00:57:09,660
and the Magical
1252
00:57:09,660 --> 00:57:10,980
came in
1253
00:57:10,980 --> 00:57:12,839
and one of the people writing that
1254
00:57:12,839 --> 00:57:14,760
artistic and musical way was Paul
1255
00:57:14,760 --> 00:57:17,300
Butterfield
1256
00:57:25,859 --> 00:57:28,079
Paul bought a house up the road from my
1257
00:57:28,079 --> 00:57:30,240
folks at a little Farmhouse and a barn
1258
00:57:30,240 --> 00:57:33,480
Paul was well known as a Blues musician
1259
00:57:33,480 --> 00:57:36,000
but he didn't have any affect about him
1260
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:37,859
ever he fit in well with the local
1261
00:57:37,859 --> 00:57:40,740
people he was our neighbor
1262
00:57:40,740 --> 00:57:42,839
and it was a true neighbor we had
1263
00:57:42,839 --> 00:57:45,420
barbecues we had them for brunch and
1264
00:57:45,420 --> 00:57:47,880
breakfast we went to his place he was a
1265
00:57:47,880 --> 00:57:49,260
great cook by the way
1266
00:57:49,260 --> 00:57:52,079
he made a barbecue ribs with a mustard
1267
00:57:52,079 --> 00:57:53,819
sauce that was out in his world he told
1268
00:57:53,819 --> 00:57:55,619
me someday he would give me the recipe
1269
00:57:55,619 --> 00:57:56,940
he never did
1270
00:57:56,940 --> 00:57:59,280
I worked at night now when he saw my
1271
00:57:59,280 --> 00:58:00,540
light on
1272
00:58:00,540 --> 00:58:03,180
he would pull in the driveway and I gave
1273
00:58:03,180 --> 00:58:05,640
him the nickname The Moth because of
1274
00:58:05,640 --> 00:58:09,119
that and as a result he would come in we
1275
00:58:09,119 --> 00:58:11,880
had to stand up upright piano at the
1276
00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:14,099
time and he'd start playing right away
1277
00:58:14,099 --> 00:58:16,140
and I'd get some commemorative form his
1278
00:58:16,140 --> 00:58:19,559
favorite tequila and we'd have a little
1279
00:58:19,559 --> 00:58:21,960
midnight not midnight two three o'clock
1280
00:58:21,960 --> 00:58:24,480
in the morning session Paul came in with
1281
00:58:24,480 --> 00:58:26,940
his uh a big horn band with Dave Sanborn
1282
00:58:26,940 --> 00:58:29,579
Gene did witty uh Phillip Wilson I
1283
00:58:29,579 --> 00:58:31,740
believe on drums and there was a time
1284
00:58:31,740 --> 00:58:33,720
when Paul and that band played at the
1285
00:58:33,720 --> 00:58:36,180
cafe espresso and Woodstock on Wednesday
1286
00:58:36,180 --> 00:58:37,920
nights they sort of like did it like a
1287
00:58:37,920 --> 00:58:40,630
rehearsal it was just phenomenal
1288
00:58:40,630 --> 00:58:53,929
[Music]
1289
00:58:54,079 --> 00:58:57,180
Paul had an idyllic life in bearsville
1290
00:58:57,180 --> 00:59:00,240
in the early 70s he was a successful
1291
00:59:00,240 --> 00:59:03,359
performer a successful band a successful
1292
00:59:03,359 --> 00:59:05,579
record and everything was looking up for
1293
00:59:05,579 --> 00:59:08,579
him he had a beautiful wife Kathy and
1294
00:59:08,579 --> 00:59:10,980
they had a beautiful child Lee and he
1295
00:59:10,980 --> 00:59:13,559
was another happy bouncing blonde baby
1296
00:59:13,559 --> 00:59:18,000
boy and he had Albert the own Bears film
1297
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:21,960
he found Paula's property
1298
00:59:21,960 --> 00:59:25,680
he had a beautiful Barn Old Red Barn was
1299
00:59:25,680 --> 00:59:27,599
painted beautifully
1300
00:59:27,599 --> 00:59:29,760
where I took those pictures of him
1301
00:59:29,760 --> 00:59:33,540
mowing along they belong took a lot of
1302
00:59:33,540 --> 00:59:36,359
work you know this is the American dream
1303
00:59:36,359 --> 00:59:39,000
and I've never seen him happier
1304
00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:41,940
the whole situation was very nice
1305
00:59:41,940 --> 00:59:43,799
you know when we lived in Woodstock we
1306
00:59:43,799 --> 00:59:46,619
had horses we had dogs we had cats we
1307
00:59:46,619 --> 00:59:48,780
had all this stuff we had an organic
1308
00:59:48,780 --> 00:59:50,940
farm we had
1309
00:59:50,940 --> 00:59:52,920
we had so many tomatoes we'd stand at
1310
00:59:52,920 --> 00:59:54,660
the back door and throw them out after I
1311
00:59:54,660 --> 00:59:56,280
made ketchup and tomato sauce and
1312
00:59:56,280 --> 00:59:58,260
everything else I could think of we had
1313
00:59:58,260 --> 01:00:00,540
11 and a half acres and a stream that
1314
01:00:00,540 --> 01:00:03,059
ran through our property you know these
1315
01:00:03,059 --> 01:00:06,119
beautiful horses we had this raccoon she
1316
01:00:06,119 --> 01:00:08,040
used to like lie in her back and Pull
1317
01:00:08,040 --> 01:00:10,140
and scratch her tummy and play with her
1318
01:00:10,140 --> 01:00:11,900
and everything was like an art project
1319
01:00:11,900 --> 01:00:14,400
you know one of the best memories that I
1320
01:00:14,400 --> 01:00:17,940
have of Paul is when he came to do a
1321
01:00:17,940 --> 01:00:19,920
session with us at the bearsville
1322
01:00:19,920 --> 01:00:22,319
studios when we put together this group
1323
01:00:22,319 --> 01:00:23,700
called The Woodstock mountains review
1324
01:00:23,700 --> 01:00:25,799
and he came up was the middle of a
1325
01:00:25,799 --> 01:00:28,140
snowstorm and he walked in and he went
1326
01:00:28,140 --> 01:00:30,720
into the studio at bearsville with John
1327
01:00:30,720 --> 01:00:33,420
Sebastian and the two of them pulled out
1328
01:00:33,420 --> 01:00:36,440
their harmonicas and it is the most
1329
01:00:36,440 --> 01:00:39,839
beyond belief version of Amazing Grace
1330
01:00:39,839 --> 01:00:42,839
with just the two of them as a harmonica
1331
01:00:42,839 --> 01:00:44,880
duet and I don't know if they had ever
1332
01:00:44,880 --> 01:00:46,920
played it together before but it was so
1333
01:00:46,920 --> 01:00:48,900
perfect and we were all sitting there
1334
01:00:48,900 --> 01:00:52,559
just completely open mouth and silenced
1335
01:00:52,559 --> 01:00:55,980
by this incredible thing and then it was
1336
01:00:55,980 --> 01:00:56,819
over
1337
01:00:56,819 --> 01:00:58,500
Paul got in his Jeep and went back down
1338
01:00:58,500 --> 01:00:59,750
the mountain
1339
01:00:59,750 --> 01:01:07,500
[Music]
1340
01:01:07,500 --> 01:01:10,500
foreign
1341
01:01:16,640 --> 01:01:19,079
Paul was one of the more what I call
1342
01:01:19,079 --> 01:01:21,900
generous musicians to play with he would
1343
01:01:21,900 --> 01:01:24,180
do a solo but he would also set you up
1344
01:01:24,180 --> 01:01:26,940
it was just like come on let's play you
1345
01:01:26,940 --> 01:01:29,880
know let's have a conversation together
1346
01:01:29,880 --> 01:01:34,619
it was Paul that first encouraged me to
1347
01:01:34,619 --> 01:01:37,619
let my Blues voice out and he would just
1348
01:01:37,619 --> 01:01:39,599
tell me don't worry about sounding
1349
01:01:39,599 --> 01:01:43,440
pretty or like singing Fancy Blues Licks
1350
01:01:43,440 --> 01:01:46,920
or anything just let your voice out and
1351
01:01:46,920 --> 01:01:49,559
so that was so encouraging I I to this
1352
01:01:49,559 --> 01:01:52,859
day I I have him to thank because now
1353
01:01:52,859 --> 01:01:55,559
many years later I have a blues voice
1354
01:01:55,559 --> 01:01:57,780
and can that's how I've always wanted to
1355
01:01:57,780 --> 01:01:59,880
express myself and he was the first
1356
01:01:59,880 --> 01:02:02,099
person to give me permission and
1357
01:02:02,099 --> 01:02:05,400
encouragement to do that
1358
01:02:05,400 --> 01:02:08,400
foreign
1359
01:02:08,640 --> 01:02:11,960
Paul was always a historian as well as
1360
01:02:11,960 --> 01:02:16,380
just a straight musician he revered the
1361
01:02:16,380 --> 01:02:18,420
people who came before him and that he
1362
01:02:18,420 --> 01:02:20,700
learned from Paul talked about the
1363
01:02:20,700 --> 01:02:23,280
harmonica players that he loved on a
1364
01:02:23,280 --> 01:02:25,319
series of instructional cassettes that
1365
01:02:25,319 --> 01:02:28,500
we made now on CDs hi this is Paul
1366
01:02:28,500 --> 01:02:29,880
Butterfield
1367
01:02:29,880 --> 01:02:32,339
I'd like to help bring some new insights
1368
01:02:32,339 --> 01:02:34,440
into the harmonica if I could
1369
01:02:34,440 --> 01:02:37,380
those notes can be used in so many
1370
01:02:37,380 --> 01:02:38,760
different ways in so many different
1371
01:02:38,760 --> 01:02:40,980
colors they're just beautiful colors to
1372
01:02:40,980 --> 01:02:43,400
that instrument
1373
01:02:44,000 --> 01:02:46,740
I thought it would be a nice idea to
1374
01:02:46,740 --> 01:02:49,020
talk about some of the influences on my
1375
01:02:49,020 --> 01:02:51,720
plane people that I heard in Chicago
1376
01:02:51,720 --> 01:02:54,180
growing up one thing that they all had
1377
01:02:54,180 --> 01:02:56,819
in common there was a certain urgency to
1378
01:02:56,819 --> 01:02:57,900
their playing
1379
01:02:57,900 --> 01:03:00,720
there was a certain tension to the way
1380
01:03:00,720 --> 01:03:02,940
they played the notes some more than
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01:03:02,940 --> 01:03:06,780
others Junior Parker was very relaxed in
1382
01:03:06,780 --> 01:03:08,420
his plane he sort of played like
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01:03:08,420 --> 01:03:14,190
[Music]
1384
01:03:19,200 --> 01:03:21,119
whereas Sonny Boy Williams had a very
1385
01:03:21,119 --> 01:03:24,059
Stark kind of hard way of saying things
1386
01:03:24,059 --> 01:03:27,020
on the harmonica
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01:03:27,610 --> 01:03:31,550
[Music]
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01:03:31,680 --> 01:03:34,920
Little Walter was very fluid kind of
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01:03:34,920 --> 01:03:37,140
lines and
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01:03:37,140 --> 01:03:39,380
foreign
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01:03:42,110 --> 01:03:46,280
[Music]
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01:03:46,280 --> 01:03:48,900
to this day that we were able to capture
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01:03:48,900 --> 01:03:51,900
that because I think it's Unique to have
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01:03:51,900 --> 01:03:54,780
some a record like that of his
1395
01:03:54,780 --> 01:03:57,140
musical thinking and his musical
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01:03:57,140 --> 01:04:01,380
experience for the learning player
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[Music]
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01:04:12,799 --> 01:04:16,200
he influenced you know a zillion people
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01:04:16,200 --> 01:04:18,480
on harmonica certainly
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01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:20,940
and that wasn't enough then he was such
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01:04:20,940 --> 01:04:23,520
a great singer every time he sang you
1402
01:04:23,520 --> 01:04:25,380
could hear coming out of his soul every
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01:04:25,380 --> 01:04:26,220
song
1404
01:04:26,220 --> 01:04:28,140
you know I could never tell if he was
1405
01:04:28,140 --> 01:04:29,940
feeling good one day or feeling bad one
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01:04:29,940 --> 01:04:32,160
day he just played from his soul every
1407
01:04:32,160 --> 01:04:36,119
time Paul had this incredible power in
1408
01:04:36,119 --> 01:04:38,760
his voice and it was kind of that Irish
1409
01:04:38,760 --> 01:04:40,619
Tenor thing you know he had sort of an
1410
01:04:40,619 --> 01:04:43,859
Irish Tenor voice but there was some
1411
01:04:43,859 --> 01:04:46,260
kind of force behind it that came from
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01:04:46,260 --> 01:04:48,599
some other place one of the songs we
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01:04:48,599 --> 01:04:50,400
sang was play on
1414
01:04:50,400 --> 01:04:54,599
and it rocked it was he's just so great
1415
01:04:54,599 --> 01:04:58,200
you know it's just a so Soulful and he
1416
01:04:58,200 --> 01:05:00,839
can give you the blues and he can give
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01:05:00,839 --> 01:05:03,240
you a rock and roll he can give you the
1418
01:05:03,240 --> 01:05:05,579
soul you know really I thought he was
1419
01:05:05,579 --> 01:05:06,420
black
1420
01:05:06,420 --> 01:05:08,400
some of the little infections that he
1421
01:05:08,400 --> 01:05:10,500
does sounds like Jimi Hendrix and then
1422
01:05:10,500 --> 01:05:13,200
when he when he go there you know long
1423
01:05:13,200 --> 01:05:16,140
that's that's Ray Charles You know it's
1424
01:05:16,140 --> 01:05:18,780
very Soulful makes you want to move you
1425
01:05:18,780 --> 01:05:22,640
know he sounds great and looks great
1426
01:05:22,640 --> 01:05:25,559
thank you
1427
01:05:25,559 --> 01:05:28,020
sometimes I just feel like smiling as
1428
01:05:28,020 --> 01:05:30,000
Paul's seventh and final album on
1429
01:05:30,000 --> 01:05:32,760
Elektra with its main focus on the doors
1430
01:05:32,760 --> 01:05:34,619
and other more commercially successful
1431
01:05:34,619 --> 01:05:37,559
artists the label drops Paul
1432
01:05:37,559 --> 01:05:39,960
Jim Rooney now in Woodstock managing
1433
01:05:39,960 --> 01:05:42,359
bearsville Studios has a small office
1434
01:05:42,359 --> 01:05:45,540
upstairs in the bearsville complex
1435
01:05:45,540 --> 01:05:47,640
so I was up there one day and Paul came
1436
01:05:47,640 --> 01:05:50,940
in and he was on the phone to this guy
1437
01:05:50,940 --> 01:05:53,880
Joe Baskin at holiday travel booked all
1438
01:05:53,880 --> 01:05:56,640
of our travel anybody through Albert's
1439
01:05:56,640 --> 01:05:59,700
groups it was working every weekend with
1440
01:05:59,700 --> 01:06:01,980
that band I think Friday Saturday Sunday
1441
01:06:01,980 --> 01:06:03,900
three three dates a week and then they
1442
01:06:03,900 --> 01:06:05,520
come home and they'd be home during the
1443
01:06:05,520 --> 01:06:08,099
week which was a nice way to live so he
1444
01:06:08,099 --> 01:06:09,299
was looking for the tickets hadn't
1445
01:06:09,299 --> 01:06:11,220
gotten the tickets for the weekend
1446
01:06:11,220 --> 01:06:13,020
and he says what do you mean they
1447
01:06:13,020 --> 01:06:15,000
haven't been paid and the bills hadn't
1448
01:06:15,000 --> 01:06:17,880
been paid for a good long while I
1449
01:06:17,880 --> 01:06:20,339
Believe by this point Janice Joplin had
1450
01:06:20,339 --> 01:06:21,420
died
1451
01:06:21,420 --> 01:06:24,119
and it seems to me that the wind went
1452
01:06:24,119 --> 01:06:27,059
out of Albert sales a bit and the next
1453
01:06:27,059 --> 01:06:29,339
thing I know the Butterfield band is
1454
01:06:29,339 --> 01:06:30,780
dissolved
1455
01:06:30,780 --> 01:06:34,859
and it happened really fast
1456
01:06:34,859 --> 01:06:38,240
and that's a huge blow
1457
01:06:38,240 --> 01:06:40,980
and I never heard him say any bad word
1458
01:06:40,980 --> 01:06:43,380
about Albert they were good friends
1459
01:06:43,380 --> 01:06:46,079
in my own mind
1460
01:06:46,079 --> 01:06:48,599
I just don't think Paul ever recovered
1461
01:06:48,599 --> 01:06:51,020
from that
1462
01:06:53,660 --> 01:06:59,420
[Music]
1463
01:06:59,420 --> 01:07:02,700
standing by the highway
1464
01:07:02,700 --> 01:07:05,039
Paul's career is in limbo
1465
01:07:05,039 --> 01:07:07,200
Albert Grossman offers him a recording
1466
01:07:07,200 --> 01:07:09,059
contract with his Label bearsville
1467
01:07:09,059 --> 01:07:11,039
records which has just signed a
1468
01:07:11,039 --> 01:07:12,539
distribution agreement with Warner
1469
01:07:12,539 --> 01:07:13,559
Brothers
1470
01:07:13,559 --> 01:07:15,839
with no other offers on the table and
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01:07:15,839 --> 01:07:17,520
with bearsville's new state-of-the-art
1472
01:07:17,520 --> 01:07:19,319
recording studios less than three miles
1473
01:07:19,319 --> 01:07:22,160
from his house Paul accepts
1474
01:07:22,160 --> 01:07:26,039
1972 I think it was Albert's idea to
1475
01:07:26,039 --> 01:07:28,260
here's Paul you know or maybe in between
1476
01:07:28,260 --> 01:07:29,819
bands wondering what he's going to do
1477
01:07:29,819 --> 01:07:31,559
he's got this contract
1478
01:07:31,559 --> 01:07:34,440
Albert got a little Amos what a gorgeous
1479
01:07:34,440 --> 01:07:36,660
sound Amos had so now you got the three
1480
01:07:36,660 --> 01:07:37,559
of us
1481
01:07:37,559 --> 01:07:41,880
then in comes this guy Ronnie Baron the
1482
01:07:41,880 --> 01:07:43,619
guy was a character
1483
01:07:43,619 --> 01:07:46,799
had this great funky energy which Paul
1484
01:07:46,799 --> 01:07:49,440
made our own hybrid of that kind of
1485
01:07:49,440 --> 01:07:50,400
sound
1486
01:07:50,400 --> 01:07:53,280
and it worked perfectly
1487
01:07:53,280 --> 01:07:55,799
I think we got Topher next Christopher
1488
01:07:55,799 --> 01:07:59,580
Parker in came Bill rich and it was over
1489
01:07:59,580 --> 01:08:04,920
[Music]
1490
01:08:04,920 --> 01:08:06,180
I remember in the beginning we were
1491
01:08:06,180 --> 01:08:07,859
looking for drummers and bass players
1492
01:08:07,859 --> 01:08:10,140
and stuff for better days and he checked
1493
01:08:10,140 --> 01:08:12,660
bands down sometimes he'd sit in
1494
01:08:12,660 --> 01:08:15,420
and it wouldn't matter what band was
1495
01:08:15,420 --> 01:08:16,739
playing
1496
01:08:16,739 --> 01:08:19,380
whether it be at that joint or anywhere
1497
01:08:19,380 --> 01:08:22,859
else if he sat in and they were grooving
1498
01:08:22,859 --> 01:08:25,799
as soon as he played three notes
1499
01:08:25,799 --> 01:08:28,679
the groove was way better
1500
01:08:28,679 --> 01:08:31,400
that was his magic he just
1501
01:08:31,400 --> 01:08:34,819
and you're in
1502
01:08:37,440 --> 01:08:39,719
we made one very good album with that
1503
01:08:39,719 --> 01:08:42,120
band very proud of it two and a half
1504
01:08:42,120 --> 01:08:43,259
years
1505
01:08:43,259 --> 01:08:45,960
I think we had a quick burnout I don't
1506
01:08:45,960 --> 01:08:48,080
know how it happens you know you hear
1507
01:08:48,080 --> 01:08:50,640
stories about the Eagles and stuff and
1508
01:08:50,640 --> 01:08:52,500
then they they have a meeting and they
1509
01:08:52,500 --> 01:08:54,839
pull it all together and they all go
1510
01:08:54,839 --> 01:08:56,460
straight
1511
01:08:56,460 --> 01:08:57,839
you know
1512
01:08:57,839 --> 01:09:01,199
and they put somebody in a rehab and
1513
01:09:01,199 --> 01:09:03,420
then they go on for another 10 years you
1514
01:09:03,420 --> 01:09:06,120
know it didn't happen to us
1515
01:09:06,120 --> 01:09:09,060
in general the times were definitely a
1516
01:09:09,060 --> 01:09:12,060
changing and all the benign pot smoking
1517
01:09:12,060 --> 01:09:14,819
that we've done in the in the 60s and
1518
01:09:14,819 --> 01:09:19,020
early 70s was giving way to harder stuff
1519
01:09:19,020 --> 01:09:21,480
and people were now getting turned on to
1520
01:09:21,480 --> 01:09:24,299
Coke and using a lot of it and and I
1521
01:09:24,299 --> 01:09:27,239
remember that Jeffrey and Paul I just
1522
01:09:27,239 --> 01:09:30,000
saw them really kind of living out there
1523
01:09:30,000 --> 01:09:34,199
Macho rock star dreams uh and you know
1524
01:09:34,199 --> 01:09:37,080
playing the part by doing extra levels
1525
01:09:37,080 --> 01:09:40,080
of drug taking and drinking and it just
1526
01:09:40,080 --> 01:09:43,620
escalated and escalated and uh and then
1527
01:09:43,620 --> 01:09:46,080
you know started having kind of a darker
1528
01:09:46,080 --> 01:09:47,760
and darker side after a while
1529
01:09:47,760 --> 01:09:53,900
[Music]
1530
01:09:53,900 --> 01:09:56,699
Kathy must have been a calming Force for
1531
01:09:56,699 --> 01:09:57,900
Paul
1532
01:09:57,900 --> 01:10:01,560
you know we were partying so hard
1533
01:10:01,560 --> 01:10:04,020
and she was probably extremely uh
1534
01:10:04,020 --> 01:10:06,179
forgiving of
1535
01:10:06,179 --> 01:10:08,760
the Boogie Woogie you know
1536
01:10:08,760 --> 01:10:11,940
because we'd roll in from
1537
01:10:11,940 --> 01:10:14,400
closing all the bars and that was that
1538
01:10:14,400 --> 01:10:16,080
wasn't the end of the night at all you
1539
01:10:16,080 --> 01:10:18,060
know there's many Dawns were coming you
1540
01:10:18,060 --> 01:10:19,320
know
1541
01:10:19,320 --> 01:10:21,719
and there was one morning where he burst
1542
01:10:21,719 --> 01:10:25,679
into tears about how much he loved Kathy
1543
01:10:25,679 --> 01:10:27,780
to me it meant
1544
01:10:27,780 --> 01:10:30,900
that he felt bad about something you
1545
01:10:30,900 --> 01:10:33,900
know like he wasn't being as good a
1546
01:10:33,900 --> 01:10:37,440
man for her as he could have been but uh
1547
01:10:37,440 --> 01:10:38,640
I don't think anybody could ever
1548
01:10:38,640 --> 01:10:40,500
consider thinking about Paul sitting
1549
01:10:40,500 --> 01:10:43,679
there bawling weeping you know and I
1550
01:10:43,679 --> 01:10:45,000
probably just said hey let's have
1551
01:10:45,000 --> 01:10:46,920
another drink
1552
01:10:46,920 --> 01:10:49,199
Paul's first two bearsville releases
1553
01:10:49,199 --> 01:10:52,860
with better days in 1973. sell well and
1554
01:10:52,860 --> 01:10:55,500
receive favorable reviews the band is
1555
01:10:55,500 --> 01:10:57,659
constantly on the road but they break up
1556
01:10:57,659 --> 01:10:59,760
in 1974.
1557
01:10:59,760 --> 01:11:02,400
Paul uses the downtime to catch up on
1558
01:11:02,400 --> 01:11:04,320
requests for his Services as a session
1559
01:11:04,320 --> 01:11:07,199
player and guests on albums by Bonnie
1560
01:11:07,199 --> 01:11:08,350
Raitt and others
1561
01:11:08,350 --> 01:11:11,820
[Music]
1562
01:11:11,820 --> 01:11:14,100
he's invited to be a musical guest at
1563
01:11:14,100 --> 01:11:16,560
The Last Waltz a concert advertised as
1564
01:11:16,560 --> 01:11:19,199
the band's farewell appearance held at
1565
01:11:19,199 --> 01:11:20,880
Bill Graham's winterland in San
1566
01:11:20,880 --> 01:11:24,600
Francisco on Thanksgiving 1976 featuring
1567
01:11:24,600 --> 01:11:27,780
Bob Dylan Joni Mitchell Neil Young Eric
1568
01:11:27,780 --> 01:11:30,900
Clapton Ron Wood and Paul's old friend
1569
01:11:30,900 --> 01:11:33,300
Muddy Waters the event is filmed by
1570
01:11:33,300 --> 01:11:35,520
director Martin Scorsese and released as
1571
01:11:35,520 --> 01:11:38,040
a documentary in 1978.
1572
01:11:38,040 --> 01:11:40,440
I remember how proud he was of that I
1573
01:11:40,440 --> 01:11:42,780
could have shown you the the old Last
1574
01:11:42,780 --> 01:11:46,140
Waltz record and he said to Lee love
1575
01:11:46,140 --> 01:11:48,120
Daddy you know and wrote me I remember
1576
01:11:48,120 --> 01:11:50,340
him just being so proud
1577
01:11:50,340 --> 01:11:53,219
of that record you know I mean what a
1578
01:11:53,219 --> 01:11:56,880
great lineup right it's just unreal
1579
01:11:56,880 --> 01:12:00,239
Paul used to appear quite regularly with
1580
01:12:00,239 --> 01:12:03,420
Levon Helm and the rco All-Stars and
1581
01:12:03,420 --> 01:12:06,179
that was just a floating party of
1582
01:12:06,179 --> 01:12:07,850
amazing musicians
1583
01:12:07,850 --> 01:12:14,489
[Music]
1584
01:12:14,699 --> 01:12:16,880
foreign
1585
01:12:20,370 --> 01:12:46,860
[Music]
1586
01:12:46,860 --> 01:12:49,810
thank you foreign
1587
01:12:49,810 --> 01:12:54,679
[Music]
1588
01:12:54,679 --> 01:12:58,380
band was really a monster combination
1589
01:12:58,380 --> 01:13:00,659
and the shows that I saw and the ones
1590
01:13:00,659 --> 01:13:03,060
that we had to play with you know what I
1591
01:13:03,060 --> 01:13:05,520
wasn't a musician that wasn't wrapped
1592
01:13:05,520 --> 01:13:08,450
attention at the side of the stage
1593
01:13:08,450 --> 01:13:19,810
[Music]
1594
01:13:20,219 --> 01:13:23,179
foreign
1595
01:13:29,940 --> 01:13:32,159
totally unique voices on their
1596
01:13:32,159 --> 01:13:34,260
instruments and just as people and their
1597
01:13:34,260 --> 01:13:35,760
personalities they sparked each other
1598
01:13:35,760 --> 01:13:38,280
really well they just had the stuff you
1599
01:13:38,280 --> 01:13:40,340
know
1600
01:13:45,320 --> 01:13:50,270
[Music]
1601
01:13:54,120 --> 01:13:57,060
I know Paul as time went on with his
1602
01:13:57,060 --> 01:13:59,640
contract with bearsville records became
1603
01:13:59,640 --> 01:14:02,100
unhappy with the promotion that
1604
01:14:02,100 --> 01:14:04,860
bearsville was doing Albert was very
1605
01:14:04,860 --> 01:14:06,960
involved in building his restaurants and
1606
01:14:06,960 --> 01:14:09,840
the bearsville complex and Paul felt
1607
01:14:09,840 --> 01:14:12,480
that he was affected by that it was
1608
01:14:12,480 --> 01:14:13,980
difficult for Paul because he was all
1609
01:14:13,980 --> 01:14:16,520
about music
1610
01:14:17,040 --> 01:14:21,179
there was he didn't have that
1611
01:14:21,179 --> 01:14:23,340
political instinct
1612
01:14:23,340 --> 01:14:25,440
his decline took place over a long
1613
01:14:25,440 --> 01:14:27,300
period of time and it was very difficult
1614
01:14:27,300 --> 01:14:31,080
to see our relationship had become
1615
01:14:31,080 --> 01:14:34,199
somewhat distant just because
1616
01:14:34,199 --> 01:14:36,840
I lived in one place more or less and he
1617
01:14:36,840 --> 01:14:38,940
lived in lots of places
1618
01:14:38,940 --> 01:14:41,640
and he would call me
1619
01:14:41,640 --> 01:14:42,659
um
1620
01:14:42,659 --> 01:14:44,460
often at two or three o'clock in the
1621
01:14:44,460 --> 01:14:45,719
morning
1622
01:14:45,719 --> 01:14:47,040
and
1623
01:14:47,040 --> 01:14:48,540
in terms of his phone calls how
1624
01:14:48,540 --> 01:14:50,520
distressed he seemed
1625
01:14:50,520 --> 01:14:53,159
that was an important part of
1626
01:14:53,159 --> 01:14:56,159
of my knowing I mean I knew he was
1627
01:14:56,159 --> 01:14:58,500
having some difficulties but
1628
01:14:58,500 --> 01:15:00,780
so phone calls would say okay
1629
01:15:00,780 --> 01:15:03,840
I'm doing better now or okay I'm doing
1630
01:15:03,840 --> 01:15:04,980
worse now
1631
01:15:04,980 --> 01:15:08,219
after we had Lee we kind of settled down
1632
01:15:08,219 --> 01:15:10,560
more I mean Paul would still go on the
1633
01:15:10,560 --> 01:15:12,179
road and it was even it was harder for
1634
01:15:12,179 --> 01:15:13,199
him then
1635
01:15:13,199 --> 01:15:15,540
it was fragmenting
1636
01:15:15,540 --> 01:15:17,340
that's when he started getting really
1637
01:15:17,340 --> 01:15:19,140
kind of fragmented
1638
01:15:19,140 --> 01:15:22,920
it was uh heartbreaking you know
1639
01:15:22,920 --> 01:15:24,600
they were madly in love with one another
1640
01:15:24,600 --> 01:15:27,179
I was a young kid
1641
01:15:27,179 --> 01:15:31,860
people didn't have the same awareness of
1642
01:15:31,860 --> 01:15:34,739
how dangerous drugs and alcohol can be
1643
01:15:34,739 --> 01:15:37,199
and how they can completely
1644
01:15:37,199 --> 01:15:40,260
twist someone's mind and their
1645
01:15:40,260 --> 01:15:43,400
priorities and
1646
01:15:43,800 --> 01:15:47,340
you know where to go to get some help
1647
01:15:47,340 --> 01:15:50,699
with this how do we work it out and
1648
01:15:50,699 --> 01:15:52,980
there's no question in my mind that she
1649
01:15:52,980 --> 01:15:56,040
was worried my dad was not an abusive
1650
01:15:56,040 --> 01:15:57,060
person
1651
01:15:57,060 --> 01:16:00,900
he didn't hurt people he wasn't that
1652
01:16:00,900 --> 01:16:02,580
kind of scary
1653
01:16:02,580 --> 01:16:04,020
but
1654
01:16:04,020 --> 01:16:06,960
he was surrounded by as many Yes Men as
1655
01:16:06,960 --> 01:16:09,120
he felt like being surrounded by at any
1656
01:16:09,120 --> 01:16:11,659
given time
1657
01:16:12,480 --> 01:16:16,199
you know there were people wanting to
1658
01:16:16,199 --> 01:16:19,140
give him things just because they wanted
1659
01:16:19,140 --> 01:16:21,179
to hang out with him and I was a little
1660
01:16:21,179 --> 01:16:24,840
kid and that's lonely and hard to deal
1661
01:16:24,840 --> 01:16:26,640
with especially if you're raising a
1662
01:16:26,640 --> 01:16:28,679
child and your husband's on the road all
1663
01:16:28,679 --> 01:16:30,540
the time I mean I my heart goes out to
1664
01:16:30,540 --> 01:16:32,280
her you know and what she must have felt
1665
01:16:32,280 --> 01:16:35,460
I think it was around 76 that she
1666
01:16:35,460 --> 01:16:39,179
decided to be she had to leave Woodstock
1667
01:16:39,179 --> 01:16:43,920
pack the car up and we drove out west
1668
01:16:43,920 --> 01:16:46,620
um not long after that
1669
01:16:46,620 --> 01:16:49,860
my dad came to you know try to mend
1670
01:16:49,860 --> 01:16:52,320
things and
1671
01:16:52,320 --> 01:16:56,159
he would come out and and stay for
1672
01:16:56,159 --> 01:16:59,159
periods of time it is hard for me to
1673
01:16:59,159 --> 01:17:01,080
think about that time in my life because
1674
01:17:01,080 --> 01:17:04,140
when you're asking your parent to be
1675
01:17:04,140 --> 01:17:07,380
there for you and there
1676
01:17:07,380 --> 01:17:10,699
you know in another place all together
1677
01:17:10,699 --> 01:17:14,520
that's you know that's tough you know he
1678
01:17:14,520 --> 01:17:16,920
was still struggling and he'd known
1679
01:17:16,920 --> 01:17:19,860
nothing but the road since he was young
1680
01:17:19,860 --> 01:17:22,320
and I think he felt a bit lost
1681
01:17:22,320 --> 01:17:25,140
and he was still deeply in love and you
1682
01:17:25,140 --> 01:17:27,060
know he I know he I know how much he
1683
01:17:27,060 --> 01:17:31,500
loved me and we talked all the time but
1684
01:17:31,500 --> 01:17:32,880
you know
1685
01:17:32,880 --> 01:17:34,739
he would make promises that he couldn't
1686
01:17:34,739 --> 01:17:37,140
keep and that kept breaking my heart and
1687
01:17:37,140 --> 01:17:38,760
you know to make light of it my mom
1688
01:17:38,760 --> 01:17:42,000
would say oh yeah you know it's not that
1689
01:17:42,000 --> 01:17:44,040
your dad you know means to be late it's
1690
01:17:44,040 --> 01:17:46,080
it's Paul Butterfield time you know oh
1691
01:17:46,080 --> 01:17:48,239
okay what you know the tour manager
1692
01:17:48,239 --> 01:17:52,199
changed it from March now to June and
1693
01:17:52,199 --> 01:17:54,360
that's being late you know you don't
1694
01:17:54,360 --> 01:17:56,640
bother to call and say I'm not going to
1695
01:17:56,640 --> 01:17:58,199
be out there until this time you know
1696
01:17:58,199 --> 01:17:59,880
but
1697
01:17:59,880 --> 01:18:01,080
um
1698
01:18:01,080 --> 01:18:03,659
I learned to really cherish the times
1699
01:18:03,659 --> 01:18:05,940
that I get to go crash with him at the
1700
01:18:05,940 --> 01:18:07,800
in a hotel room and get up in the
1701
01:18:07,800 --> 01:18:09,780
morning and eat cold pizza and hang out
1702
01:18:09,780 --> 01:18:11,520
at the sound checks and go on Small
1703
01:18:11,520 --> 01:18:12,840
tours with him
1704
01:18:12,840 --> 01:18:16,800
and um you know but it was also really
1705
01:18:16,800 --> 01:18:19,219
tough
1706
01:18:21,239 --> 01:18:24,120
in 1980 Paul is living in the Woodstock
1707
01:18:24,120 --> 01:18:25,920
house with his girlfriend musician
1708
01:18:25,920 --> 01:18:28,500
Elizabeth baraclaw and collapses while
1709
01:18:28,500 --> 01:18:30,420
recording his north south album in
1710
01:18:30,420 --> 01:18:31,380
Memphis
1711
01:18:31,380 --> 01:18:34,320
he's diagnosed with peritonitis a
1712
01:18:34,320 --> 01:18:36,179
painful inflammation of the inner lining
1713
01:18:36,179 --> 01:18:38,280
of the abdomen typically caused by a
1714
01:18:38,280 --> 01:18:39,900
bacterial infection
1715
01:18:39,900 --> 01:18:42,000
the condition is aggravated by Paul's
1716
01:18:42,000 --> 01:18:44,280
heavy drinking use of cocaine and heroin
1717
01:18:44,280 --> 01:18:45,900
and poor diet
1718
01:18:45,900 --> 01:18:47,580
he receives treatment for the rest of
1719
01:18:47,580 --> 01:18:49,960
his life including multiple surgeries
1720
01:18:49,960 --> 01:18:51,719
[Music]
1721
01:18:51,719 --> 01:18:53,940
Jerry Lee Lewis
1722
01:18:53,940 --> 01:18:56,760
was diagnosed with peritonitis before
1723
01:18:56,760 --> 01:18:59,699
Paul was anyway he he was seen to be
1724
01:18:59,699 --> 01:19:01,920
wearing it as a badge of honor
1725
01:19:01,920 --> 01:19:04,080
he was indominable he wasn't going to be
1726
01:19:04,080 --> 01:19:06,719
slowed down by this at all which is why
1727
01:19:06,719 --> 01:19:09,239
for the really end of his career that I
1728
01:19:09,239 --> 01:19:10,860
could begin to see signs that things
1729
01:19:10,860 --> 01:19:13,860
were taking him down and his lack of
1730
01:19:13,860 --> 01:19:16,020
awareness I think that was more
1731
01:19:16,020 --> 01:19:17,380
heartbreaking than anything
1732
01:19:17,380 --> 01:19:18,540
[Music]
1733
01:19:18,540 --> 01:19:21,719
Christmas it was the early 80s he was an
1734
01:19:21,719 --> 01:19:24,300
emergency room at Kingston hospital is
1735
01:19:24,300 --> 01:19:27,900
his insides had dissolved
1736
01:19:27,900 --> 01:19:30,480
and Neil just about died
1737
01:19:30,480 --> 01:19:34,440
and I made a point of coming up here in
1738
01:19:34,440 --> 01:19:35,880
January
1739
01:19:35,880 --> 01:19:38,580
Kathy was gone by this point he was with
1740
01:19:38,580 --> 01:19:41,580
Elizabeth bear Clough
1741
01:19:41,580 --> 01:19:43,860
the house was like
1742
01:19:43,860 --> 01:19:45,600
empty
1743
01:19:45,600 --> 01:19:49,679
and I went over to see him
1744
01:19:49,679 --> 01:19:52,980
and by God wasn't he ate it again
1745
01:19:52,980 --> 01:19:56,880
and I said I so I was so pissed off
1746
01:19:56,880 --> 01:19:58,080
I said
1747
01:19:58,080 --> 01:20:00,179
I came up here I thought you were gonna
1748
01:20:00,179 --> 01:20:01,260
die
1749
01:20:01,260 --> 01:20:03,659
I said
1750
01:20:03,659 --> 01:20:07,320
I said I just can't believe this
1751
01:20:07,320 --> 01:20:10,320
you know I just can't believe it
1752
01:20:10,320 --> 01:20:13,020
and he did the whole cute thing you know
1753
01:20:13,020 --> 01:20:15,120
oh hey man it's just I'm not you know
1754
01:20:15,120 --> 01:20:17,100
it's just a little
1755
01:20:17,100 --> 01:20:19,620
taste you know
1756
01:20:19,620 --> 01:20:23,880
Alice kill me wow
1757
01:20:23,880 --> 01:20:26,400
Paul sells the Woodstock house the last
1758
01:20:26,400 --> 01:20:28,080
remaining symbol of his hard-earned
1759
01:20:28,080 --> 01:20:31,199
success in late 1981 and moves to New
1760
01:20:31,199 --> 01:20:32,100
York City
1761
01:20:32,100 --> 01:20:34,020
while he still plays the occasional gig
1762
01:20:34,020 --> 01:20:36,300
he has no record contract and very
1763
01:20:36,300 --> 01:20:38,640
little money with the popularity of
1764
01:20:38,640 --> 01:20:41,219
disco and other musical genres the 80s
1765
01:20:41,219 --> 01:20:43,380
is a tough time to be a blues musician
1766
01:20:43,380 --> 01:20:45,780
he spends much of his time hustling
1767
01:20:45,780 --> 01:20:49,380
money for Booze cocaine and heroin he
1768
01:20:49,380 --> 01:20:51,179
stays with friends when he can but he's
1769
01:20:51,179 --> 01:20:52,739
running out of friends
1770
01:20:52,739 --> 01:20:55,080
then opportunity arrives from an
1771
01:20:55,080 --> 01:20:56,760
unexpected Source when New York
1772
01:20:56,760 --> 01:20:59,219
investment banker Ray Godfrey offers to
1773
01:20:59,219 --> 01:21:02,179
finance a new album
1774
01:21:04,430 --> 01:21:12,300
[Music]
1775
01:21:12,300 --> 01:21:14,760
[Applause]
1776
01:21:14,760 --> 01:21:16,800
it was almost like a dream
1777
01:21:16,800 --> 01:21:19,560
that there he was in The Gramercy hotel
1778
01:21:19,560 --> 01:21:20,820
where I was living there was Paul
1779
01:21:20,820 --> 01:21:22,380
Butterfield
1780
01:21:22,380 --> 01:21:26,940
he was checking in and he stayed for a
1781
01:21:26,940 --> 01:21:28,620
good many months
1782
01:21:28,620 --> 01:21:30,960
he had a lot of demons as we all know
1783
01:21:30,960 --> 01:21:33,659
one of them was he couldn't eat at just
1784
01:21:33,659 --> 01:21:35,940
anything shooting items were off his
1785
01:21:35,940 --> 01:21:38,340
diet but he couldn't help himself
1786
01:21:38,340 --> 01:21:41,880
he loved and would shovel in the worst
1787
01:21:41,880 --> 01:21:44,400
fried peppers and he couldn't get enough
1788
01:21:44,400 --> 01:21:48,120
of them and I said to myself man that is
1789
01:21:48,120 --> 01:21:51,239
living the blues he he's he lives the
1790
01:21:51,239 --> 01:21:53,219
Blues by totally
1791
01:21:53,219 --> 01:21:55,500
putting himself through that on purpose
1792
01:21:55,500 --> 01:21:56,940
you know I think
1793
01:21:56,940 --> 01:21:58,739
you know whatever Muddy Waters would
1794
01:21:58,739 --> 01:22:00,179
have however he would have written it
1795
01:22:00,179 --> 01:22:01,199
Paul
1796
01:22:01,199 --> 01:22:04,320
lived it that much we knew he went off
1797
01:22:04,320 --> 01:22:08,040
into the cosmos and into Eastern scales
1798
01:22:08,040 --> 01:22:11,820
and experimental music but never lost
1799
01:22:11,820 --> 01:22:15,250
the soul of a Chicago blues Man
1800
01:22:15,250 --> 01:22:16,920
[Music]
1801
01:22:16,920 --> 01:22:18,500
Caress Me Baby
1802
01:22:18,500 --> 01:22:22,920
[Music]
1803
01:22:22,920 --> 01:22:27,200
like the wind caress the tree
1804
01:22:27,200 --> 01:22:31,940
[Music]
1805
01:22:31,940 --> 01:22:37,739
I want you to love love me baby
1806
01:22:37,739 --> 01:22:41,910
like a cool soft Summer Breeze
1807
01:22:41,910 --> 01:22:44,480
[Music]
1808
01:22:44,480 --> 01:22:47,520
when Albert Grossman passed away on on
1809
01:22:47,520 --> 01:22:50,580
Super Bowl Sunday 1986 it was a
1810
01:22:50,580 --> 01:22:52,980
devastating day for those musicians and
1811
01:22:52,980 --> 01:22:55,980
I know Paul was felt the same way no
1812
01:22:55,980 --> 01:22:57,960
matter what the music business was like
1813
01:22:57,960 --> 01:22:59,699
at the time Albert had been like a
1814
01:22:59,699 --> 01:23:02,100
father to those musicians and they were
1815
01:23:02,100 --> 01:23:05,179
deeply affected
1816
01:23:05,600 --> 01:23:09,960
in 1986 Paul moves to Los Angeles not
1817
01:23:09,960 --> 01:23:11,820
far from Kathy and Lee
1818
01:23:11,820 --> 01:23:13,860
while in constant pain from his
1819
01:23:13,860 --> 01:23:16,620
peritonitis he makes serious attempts to
1820
01:23:16,620 --> 01:23:18,480
conquer his alcohol and drug dependency
1821
01:23:18,480 --> 01:23:22,140
and regain control of his life rehab
1822
01:23:22,140 --> 01:23:23,820
stents are only intermittently
1823
01:23:23,820 --> 01:23:26,340
successful but he continues to perform
1824
01:23:26,340 --> 01:23:29,520
and on stage he always Rises to the
1825
01:23:29,520 --> 01:23:30,659
occasion
1826
01:23:30,659 --> 01:23:32,600
it was April 15th
1827
01:23:32,600 --> 01:23:36,060
1987 Paul went to Los Angeles to play on
1828
01:23:36,060 --> 01:23:38,219
a BB King special with Eric Clapton
1829
01:23:38,219 --> 01:23:42,000
Stevie Ray Vaughan Albert King
1830
01:23:42,000 --> 01:23:43,739
um Phil Collins
1831
01:23:43,739 --> 01:23:47,520
and Paul was not in good shape and his
1832
01:23:47,520 --> 01:23:50,340
alcoholism was worse and worse
1833
01:23:50,340 --> 01:23:52,800
and yet he stole the show
1834
01:23:52,800 --> 01:24:15,300
[Music]
1835
01:24:15,300 --> 01:24:16,680
[Applause]
1836
01:24:16,680 --> 01:24:26,540
[Music]
1837
01:24:26,540 --> 01:24:30,679
look at the tears
1838
01:24:34,510 --> 01:24:38,109
[Music]
1839
01:24:47,390 --> 01:24:49,980
[Music]
1840
01:24:49,980 --> 01:24:53,100
he was just himself he was a real man
1841
01:24:53,100 --> 01:24:55,500
he was one of the leaders in the
1842
01:24:55,500 --> 01:24:56,880
harmonica business
1843
01:24:56,880 --> 01:25:00,000
but Paul was a young man so it's left to
1844
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:02,159
you being a whole lot of others to keep
1845
01:25:02,159 --> 01:25:04,380
it going we would be treating him fast
1846
01:25:04,380 --> 01:25:06,050
we did
1847
01:25:06,050 --> 01:25:19,560
[Music]
1848
01:25:19,560 --> 01:25:21,420
after post-production it came out after
1849
01:25:21,420 --> 01:25:23,219
Paul died which was only less than a
1850
01:25:23,219 --> 01:25:25,320
month later and they posthumously
1851
01:25:25,320 --> 01:25:27,360
dedicated that show to him
1852
01:25:27,360 --> 01:25:29,580
he came to Woodstock after that because
1853
01:25:29,580 --> 01:25:31,800
he was going to get together with Rick
1854
01:25:31,800 --> 01:25:34,440
for those shows in Woodstock and a
1855
01:25:34,440 --> 01:25:36,719
little bit of a tour there and Rick
1856
01:25:36,719 --> 01:25:39,179
certainly had his own issues and he was
1857
01:25:39,179 --> 01:25:41,640
on those last shows with Paul including
1858
01:25:41,640 --> 01:25:44,340
the last show at uh graffitis a
1859
01:25:44,340 --> 01:25:45,450
nightclub in Pittsburgh
1860
01:25:45,450 --> 01:25:50,909
[Music]
1861
01:25:51,260 --> 01:25:54,350
[Applause]
1862
01:25:55,140 --> 01:25:57,540
the morning after that show
1863
01:25:57,540 --> 01:26:01,560
I got a call from Rick at the hotel and
1864
01:26:01,560 --> 01:26:03,480
he told me the ambulance had come and
1865
01:26:03,480 --> 01:26:07,560
picked up Paul and he was unconscious at
1866
01:26:07,560 --> 01:26:08,760
the hotel room
1867
01:26:08,760 --> 01:26:10,560
and Paul got admitted to the hospital
1868
01:26:10,560 --> 01:26:12,420
there in Pittsburgh
1869
01:26:12,420 --> 01:26:14,460
they were concerned about him enough to
1870
01:26:14,460 --> 01:26:16,739
hold him in the state of Pennsylvania at
1871
01:26:16,739 --> 01:26:19,380
the hospital and then he checked out and
1872
01:26:19,380 --> 01:26:21,840
went to Hollywood and he passed away I
1873
01:26:21,840 --> 01:26:24,420
believe it was May 4th only about a week
1874
01:26:24,420 --> 01:26:25,500
later
1875
01:26:25,500 --> 01:26:28,320
I mean he was the love of my life and
1876
01:26:28,320 --> 01:26:30,840
even though I had a lot of trouble with
1877
01:26:30,840 --> 01:26:32,940
some of the things that were going on
1878
01:26:32,940 --> 01:26:36,080
I loved him dearly
1879
01:26:36,080 --> 01:26:38,280
and he loved me
1880
01:26:38,280 --> 01:26:39,600
and
1881
01:26:39,600 --> 01:26:42,659
we had a very
1882
01:26:42,659 --> 01:26:47,120
private and very close Bond
1883
01:26:47,520 --> 01:26:48,420
um
1884
01:26:48,420 --> 01:26:52,580
yeah I was very very sad to lose him
1885
01:26:52,940 --> 01:26:57,239
I've done a lot of wrong things
1886
01:26:57,239 --> 01:27:00,920
in my life
1887
01:27:03,139 --> 01:27:05,760
that's all right
1888
01:27:05,760 --> 01:27:07,060
foreign
1889
01:27:07,060 --> 01:27:18,739
[Music]
1890
01:27:18,739 --> 01:27:23,040
and I've done a lot of wrong things
1891
01:27:23,040 --> 01:27:26,239
sure that was right
1892
01:27:26,510 --> 01:27:28,620
[Music]
1893
01:27:28,620 --> 01:27:31,880
right that's all right too
1894
01:27:32,710 --> 01:27:34,560
[Music]
1895
01:27:34,560 --> 01:27:38,219
I had fun
1896
01:27:38,219 --> 01:27:41,219
foreign
1897
01:27:42,070 --> 01:27:46,840
[Music]
1898
01:27:55,699 --> 01:27:59,100
just to come and keep
1899
01:27:59,100 --> 01:28:02,000
me company
1900
01:28:02,350 --> 01:28:05,999
[Music]
1901
01:28:07,580 --> 01:28:11,840
and when I get low
1902
01:28:13,340 --> 01:28:16,380
I know right where to go
1903
01:28:16,380 --> 01:28:19,760
[Music]
1904
01:28:19,760 --> 01:28:22,739
someone's that came
1905
01:28:22,739 --> 01:28:26,760
good care everybody
1906
01:28:26,760 --> 01:28:28,020
[Music]
1907
01:28:28,020 --> 01:28:30,860
he died the same
1908
01:28:30,860 --> 01:28:34,260
ages I am right now you know
1909
01:28:34,260 --> 01:28:38,219
and I feel young I feel like my life is
1910
01:28:38,219 --> 01:28:40,920
just starting I've got
1911
01:28:40,920 --> 01:28:43,739
such a beautiful family and so much love
1912
01:28:43,739 --> 01:28:46,260
to give and so much to offer
1913
01:28:46,260 --> 01:28:50,340
and I can't possibly imagine
1914
01:28:50,340 --> 01:28:53,820
my life ending now
1915
01:28:53,820 --> 01:28:56,400
Paul didn't happen to fit into some view
1916
01:28:56,400 --> 01:28:58,980
of where the Zeitgeist was at at that
1917
01:28:58,980 --> 01:29:02,040
particular point you know
1918
01:29:02,040 --> 01:29:04,980
and sometimes you just gotta lay low you
1919
01:29:04,980 --> 01:29:07,020
just gotta wait and then the world makes
1920
01:29:07,020 --> 01:29:09,600
a couple more turns and all of a sudden
1921
01:29:09,600 --> 01:29:12,719
you're in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
1922
01:29:12,719 --> 01:29:16,440
my own experience with Blues men is that
1923
01:29:16,440 --> 01:29:18,840
something some energy inside of them I
1924
01:29:18,840 --> 01:29:20,460
don't want to use the word pain maybe
1925
01:29:20,460 --> 01:29:23,760
it's Joy something has to come out and
1926
01:29:23,760 --> 01:29:26,460
they discover Blues as they're out with
1927
01:29:26,460 --> 01:29:28,739
boy Paul was definitely one of those
1928
01:29:28,739 --> 01:29:31,320
guys that you put that harp to his lips
1929
01:29:31,320 --> 01:29:35,120
man and something from his soul
1930
01:29:39,900 --> 01:29:42,900
foreign
1931
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1932
01:29:52,159 --> 01:29:53,780
foreign
1933
01:29:53,780 --> 01:29:56,580
I had the honor to be one of the
1934
01:29:56,580 --> 01:29:58,860
speakers at Paul's memorial service here
1935
01:29:58,860 --> 01:30:01,500
in Woodstock and among the things I said
1936
01:30:01,500 --> 01:30:04,320
was this which I think sums up my
1937
01:30:04,320 --> 01:30:06,179
feeling about Paul
1938
01:30:06,179 --> 01:30:08,040
and I'll read this to you
1939
01:30:08,040 --> 01:30:10,080
Paul used to say that he played only one
1940
01:30:10,080 --> 01:30:13,800
note but he really knew how to play it
1941
01:30:13,800 --> 01:30:15,300
maybe that's a little bit of an
1942
01:30:15,300 --> 01:30:17,699
oversimplification
1943
01:30:17,699 --> 01:30:19,380
but when he got in front of a microphone
1944
01:30:19,380 --> 01:30:21,540
with a harmonic in his hand he was
1945
01:30:21,540 --> 01:30:23,280
transformed
1946
01:30:23,280 --> 01:30:25,380
everything else was stripped away the
1947
01:30:25,380 --> 01:30:27,960
walls came down and raw feelings came
1948
01:30:27,960 --> 01:30:28,800
out
1949
01:30:28,800 --> 01:30:31,500
Underneath It All That's where his true
1950
01:30:31,500 --> 01:30:34,380
Talent was and his ability to play that
1951
01:30:34,380 --> 01:30:37,199
note with so much heart that it couldn't
1952
01:30:37,199 --> 01:30:39,960
miss going right to the heart of anyone
1953
01:30:39,960 --> 01:30:42,679
who listened
1954
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1955
01:30:57,179 --> 01:31:02,520
and just to come and keep me company
1956
01:31:02,520 --> 01:31:04,260
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1957
01:31:04,260 --> 01:31:07,159
foreign
1958
01:31:11,080 --> 01:31:16,520
[Music]
1959
01:31:19,070 --> 01:31:27,229
[Music]
1960
01:31:29,290 --> 01:31:32,590
[Music]
1961
01:31:33,020 --> 01:31:35,350
of me
1962
01:31:35,350 --> 01:31:48,920
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1963
01:31:48,920 --> 01:32:04,670
[Applause]
1964
01:32:07,720 --> 01:32:15,249
[Music]
1965
01:32:17,720 --> 01:32:23,480
[Music]
1966
01:32:23,480 --> 01:32:26,960
can I go there too
1967
01:32:26,960 --> 01:32:29,600
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1968
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there's one thing I will follow you I'd
1969
01:32:34,500 --> 01:32:39,360
rather die and live without you merry
1970
01:32:39,360 --> 01:32:43,440
merry where are you going
1971
01:32:43,440 --> 01:32:46,440
foreign
1972
01:32:47,750 --> 01:33:14,249
[Music]
1973
01:33:18,420 --> 01:33:21,420
foreign
1974
01:33:39,450 --> 01:33:55,860
[Music]
1975
01:33:55,860 --> 01:33:58,070
It's Not Over
1976
01:33:58,070 --> 01:34:01,760
[Music]
1977
01:34:01,760 --> 01:34:05,960
wherever you go child
1978
01:34:07,490 --> 01:34:09,800
[Music]
1979
01:34:09,800 --> 01:34:14,760
until I win your love again
1980
01:34:14,760 --> 01:34:20,179
stand beside you welcome to this
1981
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[Music]
1982
01:34:38,460 --> 01:34:40,940
foreign
1983
01:34:41,660 --> 01:34:45,699
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