'NEW' FREE Footage From October 1969

Well, FAS reader Alessando Borri has done it again! In his bloodhound search to find missing concert dates and information about our favourite band he's actually turned up some completely unknown footage! On October 9, 1969 Free played in Essen at the 'Pop & Blues Festival' with lots of other bands. A full audio recording of the Free set has been around for a while but it appears some of the show was filmed too and below you'll find a link that takes you to the WDR (German TV) website that has posted TV coverage from the show.

The Free footage is in the second section which has the header;

'Hier und Heute' vom 14. Oktober 1969 | Rockpalast | 28.03.2016 | 09:52 Min. | WDR 

below it. Free appears from 00.00.45 through 00.01.06 directly after The Nice. Despite the dialogue overlay it appears the footage also has VERY good sound underneath. Is there any more.... who knows, but its fantastic to see Kossoff nailing that Hunter ending and check out Fraser breaking a string!!

There's also snipets of Colosseum, Spooky Tooth, Deep Purple (Ian Paice), Fleetwood Mac (w/Green) and others. Fabulous stuff. Its just a shame its not longer!!

Essen Pop & Blues Festival - October 1969

Kossoff : The Band Plays On - Leicester. November 3rd, 2017

So, you didn't make the 'Band Plays On' show at The Musician in Leicester on Friday (November 3rd). I did mention it here on October 27th. Its a shame you weren't there.

On Thursday evening both Simon Kossoff and JP James arrived at Castle FAS to sign the Ltd. Edition books (70). We settled in and had that all sorted out by Friday afternoon, had a visit from Steve Clarke (who recently did all the guitar tech reviews of Kossoff's Les Paul's) and then made our way over to support John, Terry and the band. Awful traffic but wholly worthwhile.

Had you been there you could have had a chat with J.P. James, author of  'Paul Kossoff: All Right Now. The Guitars, The Gear, The Music'. You could have had a chat with myself or Simon Kossoff, Paul's brother. And you could have seen a really great couple of sets from the band that featured 'Blue Soul', 'Raging River', 'Leaves In The Wind' and 'Molten Gold' among others. Terry Slesser was on great form and John Buckton wailed away. Furthermore you missed the chance to see Paul's original Isle Of Wight stripped '59 Les Paul. Yup the very one he used at the Beat Club and on TOTP's. NOT a copy. The owner kindly lent it to us for John to play during the evening and it sounded MAGNIFICENT!! It was enjoyed for the whole show but for two songs, when John broke a string just before the end of the first set. Fantastic to see and hear it in such capable hands.

Those who were there... great night wasn't it. We drank beer, we listened to great 'live' music, we took lots of photographs and we talked a lot after the show. I had a grand time. Thanks to all who came to the gig said 'hello'.

Photographs from the gig © Russell Airey.

Paul Kossoff - Warren Haynes - JP James

Got Mule?

You should have. The new album 'Revolution Come... Revolution Go' is the best for a while and highly recommended by the FAS. Get the deluxe 2CD or HiRes 88k/24bit version from HDTracks for maximum Mule.

Still out on tour and following the great 'Revolution Is Free' Halloween show in Amsterdam (see below) Mule played 'I'll Be Creepin' again in Hamburg on November 2nd. Hopefully FREE songs will be popping up on the setlist in the future. Will they play some FREE stuff in the UK? Well only time will tell I guess but it would be a shame if they didn't !

In the meantime what does a young Mule do when he has some 'spare' time. Well Warren Haynes is a serious music head. Talking to him you soon realise he knows his stuff and his knowledge is as deep as it is wide. So in his case he reads his copy of the J.P. James book 'Paul Kossoff: All Right Now. The Guitars, The Gear, The Music' of course!! 

Do you have yours yet?

Photograph © Tony Lewis.

Hamburg.

Gov't Mule Play FREE set in Amsterdam

"Its hard to be Paul Kossoff AND Paul Rodgers at the same time"

Warren Haynes.

Gov't Mule

Paradiso, Amsterdam

Special Halloween Show

October 31, 2017

'The Revolution is FREE'

Set 1:

Trane

Eternity's Breath

(Mahavishnu Orchestra cover) (> 'St. Stephen' jam >)

Banks of the Deep End

Rocking Horse

Pressure Under Fire*

The Man I Want to Be

Kind of Bird*

Set 2 (Halloween 'FREE' set):

Fire and Water*

Ride on a Pony

The Stealer

I'll Be Creepin'*

Oh I Wept*

Mr. Big

Little Bit of Love

Woman

Songs of Yesterday

My Brother Jake

Be My Friend*

Walk in My Shadow

I'm a Mover

Mouthful of Grass*

All Right Now*

Encore: (With Bernie Marsden)

Heartbreaker*

The Hunter*

Don't Say You Love Me

Wishing Well

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Be My Friend

Oh I Wept

Shot by Gerrit Jan van Pelt

I'll be Creepin'

Shot by Satorifosale

Currently up on Youtube*

As 02/11/17