Electric Flag
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The Electric Flag, formed in 1967, were a blues rock group led by guitarist Mike Bloomfield. Bloomfield formed Electric Flag after his stint with The Butterfield Blues Band. Although their mix of blues rock with psychedelia never achieved a great deal of commercial success, their earliest album had a significant influence on rock music.
The group was contemporaneous with the earliest formation of Blood Sweat and Tears with Al Kooper. By 1969, the Flag had broken up and Kooper left BS&T, leading to the Super Session album with Kooper, Bloomfield and Stephen Stills. Bloomfield and Kooper also toured together, while drummer and vocalist Buddy Miles played in Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys. Richie Havens also contributed on their first album "Electric Flag."
The Electric Flag song "Flash, Bam, Pow" appears in the bridge sequence of the movie Easy Rider (1969), with Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson.
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[edit] Band members
- Mike Bloomfield - Guitars
- Buddy Miles - Drums, Vocals
- Barry Goldberg - Keyboards
- Harvey Brooks - Bass Guitar
- Nick Gravenites - Vocals
- Paul Beaver - Synthesizer
- Marcus Doubleday - Trumpet, flugelhorn
- Bobby Notkoff - Violin
- Peter Strazza - Saxophone
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[edit] Soundtracks
- The Trip (1967 soundtrack)
[edit] Albums
- A Long Time Comin' (1968)
- The Electric Flag: An American Music Band (1968)
- The Band Kept Playing (1974)
- Groovin' Is Easy (1983)
- Old Glory: Best of the Electric Flag (1995) Columbia Legacy
- The Electric Flag: Live (2000)
- I Found Out (2000)
- Funk Grooves (2003)
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