Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Opening Speech - Michael Bloomfield,
2. 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) - Al Kooper
3. I Wonder Who - Michael Bloomfield,
4. Her Holy Modal Highness - Michael Bloomfield
5. Weight - Michael Bloomfield
6. Mary Ann - Michael Bloomfield,
7. Together 'Til the End of Time - Roosevelt Gook, Al Kooper
8. That's All Right - Michael Bloomfield,
9. Green Onions - Michael Bloomfield

Disc 2:

1. Opening Speech - Al Kooper
2. Sonny Boy Williamson - Al Kooper, Carlos Santana
3. No More Lonely Nights
4. Dear Mr. Fantasy - Al Kooper
5. Don't Throw Your Love on Me So Strong - Michael Bloomfield,
6. Finale-Refugee - Michael Bloomfield,

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #52333 in Music
• Released on: 1997-03-11
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Live

Customer Reviews

Every track is amazing, but I want more
Great music, every track is great, but I want more. Two demerits to Columbia for not remastering this masterpiece and adding the full recording of I Wonder Who and other improvements. All they did on the CD transfer was copy the LP to CD! And, for 3 full nights of playing, this is a pathetic offering, a total of only 85 minutes of music on 2 CDs. Boooo!

So Where's The Rest of the Show?
I docked this one a star a) because, considering Columbia Legacy's remarkable record of unearthing completion in resurrecting its past masterworks, this set from these performers certainly deserved it, considering the reputation the Bloomfield/Kooper "Super Session" concerts had garnered; and, b) because they STILL didn't repair the premature fadeaway of "I Wonder Who," which drops down and out of earshot right in the middle of one of Mike Bloomfield's most soulful solos of the set. But you still have to love both the shimmering highs and the chutzpah which ran through the set - and chutzpah is what you need to make an instrumental version of "The Weight" which comes across as Booker T. and the M.G.s meet the T-Bones. Not to mention, speaking of Booker T. and the M.G.s, a version of "Green Onions" which comes as close as either Bloomfield or Kooper would ever come to heavy metal without cutting the lyric guts from the blues which nourished the two - with special kudos to drummer Skip Prokop, whose wide-and-deep skin tuning and attack all but beat Carmine Appice at his own game (not that THAT was all too difficult) while cutting a very weighty groove. On the other hand, "Mary Ann" is a textbook exercise in blues without slash-and-burn - Bloomfield more or less sneaks his lines out of his guitar, even when the quartet kicks up a hot boogie midway through and in the finale, with some exquisite tonal shifting; Kooper punches out his accompaniment as though a sharp soul rhythm guitarist; Prokop and bassist John Kahn kind of urge the two along with subtle rolling rhythms. And guest Elvin Bishop (on "No More Lonely Nights", on a night when Bloomfield's insomnia had got the better of him at last) fights an exquisite battle with Kooper to keep the blues groove flowing despite the deadline, not to mention turning in one of his loveliest and most gripping guitar turns. So when can we expect the complete Bloomfield/Kooper "Live Adventures" at last, like with the full turns of Steve Miller, Carlos Santana, and Bishop?

Bloomfield & Coopers Best
Since the release of this album (when I was 16 years old) I have had and lost 4 copies of the LP (all stolen at parties or otherwise perloined!).
I now have the CD and this time NO-ONE even gets to touch it!

Live Adventures is probably the very best live album of it's genre ever recorded. Bloomfield, Cooper, Bishop and the rest display an almost phsycic link in the live sessions which gives the music a flow and dynamic rarely heard in the history of live music, especially considering the alleged amount of practice prior to the event.
Having heard most of Bloomfield & Coopers work since I have to say this is a defining moment in Live Music.
This album is a must for anyone with a Blues/Jazz/ liking.
Anyone who is not transfixed by tracks like "No More Lonely Nights" & "Don't Throw Your Love On Me So Strong" should be arrested immediately by the taste police!
Buy It!