Mike Bloomfield Interview with Bob Simmons (1979)
Back in 1979, Bob Simmons interviewed Mike Bloomfield for a program on a local San Francisco radio station. In this program, Mike talked about working with Bob Dylan on his first electric album, Highway 61. He also describes coming to San Francisco in the mid-60's with the Butterfield Band, and the music scene at the time the 'Summer of Love' was taking off. He discussed the beginnings of the Electric Flag and what it was like to play at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967.
About Mike Bloomfield
Born on July 28, 1943, in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Died on February 15, 1981 in San Francisco, California, by drug overdose. Already at a young age Bloomfield knew and played with many of Chicago's blues legends, even before he achieved his own fame, He was one of the primary influences on the mid-to-late 1960s revival of classic Chicago and other styles of blues music. In 2003 Bloomfield was ranked at number 22 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists Of All Time. Unlike contemporaries such ...
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