Herbie Mann Live At The Whisky A Go Go (Featuring Sonny Sharrock)

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"Hey man, this is tasty. yeah, nice & smooth. what's this track called? Oh, Philly Dog, right, right, Rufus Thomas, cool, cool. yeah, this is some tasty shit. Dig those vibes. who is that cat? Roy Ayers? cat's good. nice sax too. steve marcus? that cat is wailing, i like that sound he's getting. mmm hmmm.....HOLY SHIT, WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT DUDE DOING TO HIS GUITAR!!! SOMEONE CALL THE POLICE!!! WHAT IS THAT SHIT??!!! HOW DID THIS DRUNK GET UP ON STAGE??!! MAKE IT STOP!!!"

hahahaha!!! 1969 ruled!

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 30 September 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

It WAS a hell of a band our Herbie assembled. I have all those records with Sharrock on 'em. I even have Stone Flute, which sucks.

― Roy Williams Highlight (diamond), Thursday, 30 September 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Most Herbie x SSs have been reissued on twofers (2 albs on and fer the price of one mid-priced disc). Haven't heard em all but but so far my fave is Son and Larry Coryell buzzin' down in the shine, vines and mud of MEMPHIS UNDERGROUND. Ace session cats too. (Herbie's PUSH PUSH, with Duane Allman, out on disc with bonus track, and Herbie's unashamed bare carbogut still on cover. Push Push, butt not away from the table.)

― Don, Thursday, 30 September 2004 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never heard this shit. What's a good starter for maximized SS brain-melt akshun?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 1 October 2004 03:53 (twenty-one years ago)

is this on teh slsk?

― Sonny, Ah!!1 (Sonny A.), Friday, 1 October 2004 03:56 (twenty-one years ago)

dude has been getting a lot of ILX action lately. due.

― Sonny, Ah!!1 (Sonny A.), Friday, 1 October 2004 03:57 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, I'm trying to download everything available under HM's name on Poisoned. Some of it looks by its name like it might be a little fruity but will report duly.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 1 October 2004 04:06 (twenty-one years ago)

A *little* fruity! Ha Haaaaaaa, it gon be a lot fruity whenever Herbie takes a flute solo. But he does (generally)have good taste in musos, especially guitarists; still, most of it's pretty uneven cept for MU and PP, among the ones I've heard. Some of his later ones with Mick Taylor might be okay too.

― Don A, Friday, 1 October 2004 04:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Holy shit.

One thing I have learned from this search is that I now know what Stereolab sounds like. No one told me before that they're like Thinking Plague with a groove.

'Kay, the only thing from MU I could get was "Battle Hymn of the Republic". Do I take it there's more feedback shredding on the other tracks?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 1 October 2004 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not gonna be like one of Sonny's own; he's a distinctive ingredient, but down in the mix, in this pop-jazz thing. Can you EQ what you're downloading? Try "Chain of Fools."

― Don, Friday, 1 October 2004 04:50 (twenty-one years ago)

He does get some room to cut up on Whisky, esp. "Philly Dog," and aso on there is another(can't remember title) in which he's mostly strumming, but it's this kind of almost atonal blues groove, like when Lou Reed got rid of Quine, but was still under his influence (or under Quine's having been inflenced by *early* Lou, and Sonny too I guess)

― Don, Friday, 1 October 2004 04:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I think that either of the live ones are the best from the Herbie W/ Sonny era. There is one that is subtitled Hold On, I'm Comin' ... not sure if that is the one Scott mentioned it the thread title. Wait, let me check ...

OK, yeah, Hold On, I'm Comin' is the later one and I guess that is the full title. Live at the Whiskey is the earlier one and it's definitely the best. Memphis Underground is ok, but if I recall Sonny doesn't get much space. Windows Opened is pretty cool. Stone Flute is the one that's kinda boring and I didn't get much out of it.

Funny thing .. if you check out the cover to Roy Ayers's contemporaneous SToned Soul Picnic:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf400/f466/f46619eef61.jpg

That's Sonny directly to the right of the chick in the cowboy hat, but he doesn't play on the record. Sadly.

Scott, have you heard Steve Marcus's The Lord's Prayer? Best version of "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" ever!

― Roy Williams Highlight (diamond), Friday, 1 October 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Push Push without the 24X12" gatefold copulatin' couple is unimaginable.

― briania (briania), Friday, 1 October 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

eleven years pass...

http://www.realgonemusic.com/news/2016/1/14/herbie-mann-live-at-the-whisky-1969the-unreleased-masters-2.html

― tylerw, Friday, 22 January 2016 17:06 (ten years ago)

dope

― lute bro (brimstead), Friday, 22 January 2016 20:31 (ten years ago)

two months pass...

I was wondering about that new version. Is it all good? Is it an expansion on the lp released at the time or different takes?
Is it the best of the existing material? Supposed to be taken from 4 nights of recordings but I'm not sure what survives.
Also wondering if price might come down if I leave it a while or if it's likely to disappear. I don't know Real Gone as a label.

― Stevolende, Saturday, 9 April 2016 01:33 (ten years ago)

I think this is the same line up as the new lp, though not sure about the drummer. This is a live version of oneo fthe tracks from Memphis Underground played by the Herbie mann band of the time I assume. The line up on that studio lp is a bit di9fferent though featuring Roy Ayers, Larry Coryell and a Memphis rhythm section alongside Sonny I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLN9O03YANU

So anybody heard this new Real Gone set yet?

― Stevolende, Saturday, 9 April 2016 18:44 (ten years ago)

I've heard it. It's really good. Mann himself doesn't play on all the tracks, either.

― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Sunday, 10 April 2016 21:24 (ten years ago)

I like Memphis Underground, especially "Chain of Fools." Cool flute, with Sharrock and Coryell buzzing the bass mud (gonna get stung, fools)

― dow, Sunday, 10 April 2016 21:42 (ten years ago)

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