12/7/2023 0 Comments Lyrics: freedom rider trafficThere were simply few places to exhibit them theatrically. Full concert films were expensive to mount back then and very rarely green-lighted. Except for a few pop shows in the US, Britain, plus The Beat Club in Germany and POP2 in France, many groups would have fallen through the cracks of moving documentation altogether. Nor, when you get right down to it-considering the amount of gigging they did-did the Grateful Dead. Even David Bowie didn’t accumulate all that much concert footage during his prime years as a performer. There are only two sync-sound documents of the Velvet Underground. I’m not aware, for instance, of an entire Allman Brothers concert film, and I’ve never seen more than a handful of clips of Frank Zappa and the original Mothers of Invention that capture what I always imagined their shows must’ve been like. Some of the greatest groups of the 60s and 70s are woefully under-documented on film. Of course, he had been playing professionally since his early teens, along with brother Muff Winwood in various bands and was the lead singer of the Spencer Davis Group when he was but fifteen, but Traffic’s sound was especially sophisticated coming from someone so young. It’s remarkable to consider that Steve Winwood was not yet even 19 years old when he formed Traffic and they recorded Mr.
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